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The First Art Newspaper on the Net Established in 1996 Friday, January 3, 2025 A rare 1,700 year old oil lamp found in Jerusalem Researchers Michael Chernin and Benjamin Storchan examining the oil lamp. JERUSALEM.- A rare ceramic oil lamp from the Late Roman period, decorated with depictions of the Temple menorah, incense shovel and lulav (date palm branch used in Jewish ritual), was recently uncovered during an Israel Antiquities Authority archaeological dig near the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. This unique find, which, judging by the soot marks on its nozzle, was used for lighting about 1,700 years ago, provides a fascinating glimpse into Jewish cultural and religious life during this period. ... More The Best Photos of the Day Philippe Parreno. Voices. Exhibition view Haus der Kunst München, 2025. Photo: Andrea Rossetti Italy returns 101 ancient artifacts to Mexico Amazônia: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado on view at the National Museum of Singapore Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza presents an exhibition of works by Peter Halley The artifacts were meticulously recovered from multiple Italian cities, including Rome, Perugia, Udine, Ancona, and Cosenza. Photo: INAH. MEXICO CITY.- In a heartening display of international cooperation, the Italian government has officially returned 101 archaeological artifacts to Mexico, marking a significant milestone in the ongoing cultural partnership between the two nations. The restitution ceremony took place at the Mexican Embassy in Rome and was spearheaded by María Teresa Mercado Pérez, Mexico's Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs. Accompanying Mercado Pérez were representatives from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the Mexican Foreign Ministry, highlighting the event's importance. The ceremony was attended by Carlos García de Alba, Mexico’s Ambassador to Italy, Giorgio Silli, Italy’s Deputy Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Francesco Gargaro, General Commander of the Carabinieri Corps responsible ... More Through the landscape photos, visitors are able to admire the natural wonders and phenomena unique to the Amazon rainforest. SINGAPORE.- The awe-inspiring beauty and untamed majesty of the Amazon comes to life in Amazônia, an extraordinary photographic odyssey by internationally acclaimed Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. This travelling exhibition transports visitors into the heart of one of the world’s greatest ecosystems. Held a decade after Salgado’s first showing at the National Museum, Genesis (2014), Amazônia continues conversations on the important topic of environmental conservation through this major new body of work, which is a culmination of his decades-long engagement with the Amazon region. Chung May Khuen, Director of the National Museum of Singapore, said, “The National Museum is proud to bring to Singapore the latest internationally acclaimed exhibition of works by Sebastião Salgado. The Amazon is deeply connected to the world’s climate and affects all of us, even in ... More Peter Hallery. MADRID.- In the context of its exhibition programme focused on the Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting an exhibition on Peter Halley (born New York, 1953), one of the classic figures of contemporary painting. This is the first retrospective devoted to Halley in Spain since the one organised by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 1992, in this case encompassing the artist's entire career from 1985 to 2024. The selection of twenty paintings from public and private Spanish collections has been made by the artist himself, who has also designed the installation. The exhibition has been organised with the collaboration of the City Council of Palma and Casal Solleric, where it will be seen in the spring of 2025. Peter Halley’s appearance on the art scene at the beginning of the 1980s signalled a departure from the tradition of 20th-century abstract-geometric art – dominated until then by idealist and ... More Recently discovered uniform goes on display at The National Maritime Museum 9.1 million visitors attended the CaixaForum centres and the CosmoCaixa Science Museum in 2024 Luisa Baldhuber creates a multi-sensory, site-specific installation for Haus der Kunst Historians and experts previously had no idea that the uniform and accompanying archival documents existed. GREENWICH.- The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich has acquired a rare and very special uniform and manuscript from the descendants of a former Naval Midshipman called Charles Hare. Hare was a teenage prisoner in Napoleonic France who successfully escaped by disguising himself as an officer in the French Imperial Customs Service (Les Douanes). This never seen before uniform is on display in the Nelson, Navy, Nation gallery at the National Maritime Museum. Historians and experts previously had no idea that the uniform and accompanying archival documents existed. For generations, these extraordinary artefacts were the treasured possessions of Hare’s descendants, until the family decided to offer them to the National Maritime Museum, allowing their ancestor’s remarkable story to be shared with the world. They had taken excellent care of the uniform, which remains in good condition despite its age. Now, following conservation treatment from the team ... More Giant playing cards at the exhibition The Worlds of Alice. Dreaming of Wonderland.© David Campos. "la Caixa" Foundation. MADRID.- This Thursday, the ”la Caixa” Foundation took stock of the attendance at its centres and its cultural and scientific exhibitions during 2024. A total of 4,455,555 visitors filled the CaixaForum centres in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza, Palma, Girona, Tarragona and Lleida, as well as the CosmoCaixa Science Museum in Barcelona; and 4,654,550 visited the travelling exhibitions promoted by the ”la Caixa” Foundation in more than 80 cities across Spain this past year. The CosmoCaixa Science Museum in Barcelona is the centre that received the highest number of visits, with more than 1,181,600. The second most visited was CaixaForum Madrid, with 947,642 visitors during the whole of 2024. As part of its social commitment, the ”la Caixa” Foundation points out that close to 135.000 visitors to the CaixaForum network of centres and CosmoCaixa were people in vulnerable situations, referred through the organisation’s own social programmes as ... More Luisa Baldhuber. Haus der Kunst München, 2024. Photo: Maximilian Geuter. MUNICH.- The artist Luisa Baldhuber (b. 1994, Munich) has created a multi-sensory, site-specific installation for the Staff Entrance at the rear of Haus der Kunst. Afterglow envelops us in the colours of a perpetually repeating sunrise and sunset. It takes up the minimalist style of the Light and Space Movement, which strongly inspired Baldhuber’s artistic work and ideas surrounding the design of the neighbouring English Garden. By integrating the illusion of a natural phenomenon into a given location through paint and light, the artist questions the original architecture of Haus der Kunst and aims to sensitise our consciousness to the things we see and, based on this, think we know. Luisa Baldhuber enables a form of embodied experience, which unfolds over the duration of the viewing. The colour planes suggest an optical expansion of the space, reminiscent of a landscape, horizon or sky. Through the changing atmospheric colour moods created by the interplay of light and wall ... More Reykjavík Art Museum exhibits 'Erró: 1001 Nights' Museum Kunst der Westküste announces dynamic exhibition program for 2025 One of the highest graded examples of Michael Jordan's true rookie card to be offered at Heritage Auctions Erró, Hommage à Liotard, 1977. REYKJAVÍK.- When Erró began, in 1977, to make the series of works called One Thousand and One Nights, his idea was to put together 1001 visual works that he would then publish in a book. Each work was to be accompanied by a text by a writer. The project changed and the exhibition now shows paintings, collages and graphic works belonging to related series: One Thousand and One Nights (1977-1981), One Thousand and Three Nights (1982) and One Thousand and Three Nights (1984-1985), as well as the series Fractured Fairytales (1989-92). Many people are familiar with the storyteller, Scheherazade, who had been sentenced to death bu survived by telling the sultan a story every night. She cut her stories in the middle of exciting chapters, leaving the continuation for the day after, and so her execution was constantly postponed. This is how the collection of stories was born, One Thousand and One Nights, with its thrilling, unexpected and surprising stories. Folktales, fairy tales, travelogues, romantic no ... More Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Sonnenuntergang über dem Ruovesi-See (Detail), 1915-16, Collection Broere Charitable Foundation. ALKERSUM / FÖHR.- The Museum Kunst der Westküste unveiled its diverse and engaging exhibition program for 2025, promising art enthusiasts a year filled with captivating displays and thought-provoking installations. Kicking off the new year, the museum continues to showcase its recently opened exhibitions, "Moments of Clarity – Janus la Cour and the New Image of Nature" and "Remembrance – Photographic Positions by Nicole Ahland, Corina Gertz, and Kris Scholz". These exhibitions, which delve into the interplay between nature, memory, and contemporary artistic perspectives, will remain on display until the summer of 2025, offering visitors ample time to experience their profound narratives. On February 23, 2025, the museum will introduce "Beyond the Visible – Jochen Hein & Miguel Rothschild", featuring remarkable works from its Artist-in-Residence program. This exhibition highlights the ... More 1984-85 Star Co. Michael Jordan #101 PSA NM-MT+ 8.5. DALLAS, TX.- More than 2,400 stars shine in Heritage’s January 24-25 Winter Sports Cards Catalog Auction, among them one of the rarest and most coveted T206s and 51 sealed baseball wax packs from the 1950s to the 1970s. There’s a beautiful Bowman that ranks among the world’s mightiest Mantles, gaudy Goudeys from a renowned collection featuring Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, and a creamy Caramel from 1909-11 whose Shoeless Joe is sure to kick up a fuss. But in this auction, there’s only one Star. That’s the 1984-85 Star Company Michael Jordan card, to be precise — his actual rookie card, the first one officially licensed, offered here alongside the other 11 Bulls who made up the Chicago set. Jordan’s Star card is no stranger to Heritage, which sold a signed example in December for $120,000. However, after a long pause, Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) only began grading the 1984-85 Star cards in July 2022. As the grading service explained, ... More Reina Sofía Museum sees 9% increase in visitors despite renovations OK Linz presents the first solo and mid-career exhibitions of Cuban artist Glenda León The Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art announces grand opening of major expansion Revenue from ticket sales grew by more than 15% compared to 2023. MADRID.- Madrid’s prestigious Reina Sofía Museum reported a notable 9% rise in visitor numbers to its main headquarters in 2024, signaling a robust recovery and growing public interest despite ongoing restoration works at its Retiro Park venues. The museum welcomed a total of 1,960,249 visitors last year, up from 2,530,560 in 2023. Specifically, the main headquarters saw 1,537,105 visitors, marking a 9% increase from the previous year’s 1,409,113. Ticket revenue surged by over 15% compared to 2023, underscoring the museum’s financial resilience and appeal. Manuel Segade, the director of Reina Sofía, expressed his delight at the positive trends. “It is a joy to see that, despite the closure of the Retiro palaces for improvement work, the museum continues to grow, attracting audiences to the permanent collection and its temporary exhibitions. These figures are encouraging for the future work we are already undertaking to improve both the public reception areas and the routes through the buildings ... More Glenda León. Photo: Michael Maritsch. LINZ.- With 25 works, the OK Linz presents the first solo and mid-career exhibitions of Cuban artist Glenda León in the German-speaking world. Her works constantly challenge our perception of the world by visualizing the laws of nature, demanding the act of listening and contemplation or thematizing the divine dimension of mankind. It encompasses various techniques and media such as drawing, video art, installation, sculpture/object, and photography. The renunciation of anything superfluous and the fusion of natural and artificial elements testify to the artist's preference for process es. Her works move in the intimate and public realm, which illustrates her ability to give her objects new meanings through a process of manipulation, contextualization, and object association. Glenda León (* 1976 in Havana / Cuba), lives and works in Madrid and Havana. Based on a multidisciplinary background and spiritual explorations, her practice encompasses different media and challenges our perception with ... More Visitors to the new expansion will discover two buildings of exhibitions. LAKELAND, FLA.- The Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art (The AGB) at Florida Southern College announced the grand opening of its highly anticipated 14,000-square-foot expansion on Thursday, January 16, 2025, for Museum members and Saturday, January 18, for the community. The completion of the expansion project fulfills a three-decade dream to expand upon the Museum’s 1988 building, adding seven new galleries, new educational spaces, a new creativity lab, and renovations to the original building. The expansion seamlessly connects with the existing space, nearly tripling the Museum’s main exhibition area. This increased capacity allows for the display of more works from its 3,400-piece permanent collection in addition to hosting a broader range of diverse, world-class exhibitions. “This project reflects the realization of the dreams of many individuals in our community and at Florida Southern College to establish a world-class museum,” Dr. Anne Kerr, FSC President Emerita said. “ ... More Painting with wax! Restoring Reynolds’s portrait of the Earl and Countess of Ely More News From hospital to headlines: Doctor wins prestigious photography prize BORà S.- Dr. Dimitris Makrygiannakis, a senior consultant in rheumatology at Stockholm's Karolinska University Hospital, has traded his stethoscope for a camera lens, and the results are capturing international attention. Makrygiannakis has been awarded the prestigious Lars Tunbjörk Prize for 2024, a recognition usually bestowed upon established professional photographers. This year, the jury made an exception, recognizing Makrygiannakis's unique talent for finding the extraordinary in the ordinary. "He goes beyond the frame," the jury stated in their motivation. "With his compositions, he finds surreal angles, often with humor, in completely ordinary everyday situations. He has an intelligent eye and a unique style unlike anything else." Makrygiannakis's journey into photography began in 2010 after a series of personal events sparked ... More Kunstraum Lakeside announces permanent installation O-O-O by Julia Hohenwarter KLAGENFURT.- The permanent installation O-O-O by Julia Hohenwarter in Lakeside Science & Technology Park sums up all the moments of hospitality that have been negotiated at the Kunstraum since its founding in a single word: “Open – Offen – Odprto.” Like a flagpole that can be used as a communication platform by passersby and the Kunstraum Lakeside alike, the sculpture serves as a subtle signpost in (semi-) public space. In its state of perpetual transformation in the coming years through interventions by local users, O-O-O stands for openness, a willingness to change, and generosity—the very prerequisites for successful hospitality, but also for being a guest. In both cases, it is ultimately about understanding oneself in relation to others, accepting responsibility for potential mutual vulnerabilities, and consequently allowing oneself to be “alienated” ... More Form Meets Color: Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie features international contemporary masters BIELEFELD.- The Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, presents the thematic exhibition “Form meets Color” with a multifaceted dialogue between image, color and space in a spectral, experimental manner. Works by internationally renowned and important contemporary artists such as Yaacov Agam, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Amanda Chiarucci, Tony Cragg, Alexander Deubl, Marguerite Hersberger, David Magán, Frank Stella and Victor Vasarely will be presented. At the center of the exhibition is the large-format canvas by the American minimalist Frank Stella (1926-2024) “SCRAMBLE: GREEN DOUBLE / LEFT N, RIGHT 8, 1977” from the formative period of the 1970s in dialogue with the sculptural sophistication of “Untitled, 2001” by the American abstract expressionist and inventor of Pop Art John Chamberlain (1927-2011). The ... More Art exhibition 'Life Can Never Be Paused' explores the complex human experience TALLINN.- The exhibition Life Can Never Be Paused invites the audience on a personal journey where artistic expressions intertwine with existential questions. It is an invitation to pause, breathe, and view the world a little differently. The participating artists are Daria Morozova, Hedi Jaansoo, Lauri Lest, Maie Helm, Reti Saks, and Silva Eher. The exhibition is curated by Johanna Jolen Kuzmenko. How should we act when the world presents more than we can absorb? How to find peace and meaning in a rapidly changing reality? The title of the exhibition Life Can Never Be Paused points to an existential truth: life has the ability to persist even in the most challenging circumstances. In this exhibition, Kuzmenko explores themes ranging from personal inner turmoil to global societal challenges. Special attention is given to a critical analysis ... More Federal Reserve note proof archive grabs spotlight at Heritage's FUN US Currency Auction DALLAS, TX.- It has been said that the most passionate collectors are those who collect what they loved when they were younger. To those, it often is less about acquiring items of specific financial value, and more about chasing those items that captured fascination in years past. Consider the case of Charlton Buckley. At the age of 12, the former San Francisco-area businessman began collecting coins; shortly thereafter, his numismatic interests spread to paper money as he developed an appetite for National Bank notes, large and small, large size U.S. notes and fractional currency. By the mid-1970s, he had built an extraordinary trove of California Nationals and notes, including California Gold Bank Notes. The collection reached into Federal Reserve Notes, both large and small, and was easily one of the foremost collections ever assembled. The ... More Jane Lombard Gallery announces JLG Projects: Spotlight exhibitions expanding the gallery experience NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery announced the launch of JLG Projects, a new artist spotlight series of curated exhibitions designed to expand upon artists' practices under unique and focused circumstances. Hosted either at the gallery in TriBeCa or at pop-up locations, JLG Projects aims to provide audiences with an intimate exploration of an artist’s body of work, a defining decade in their career, or a specific artwork presented in extraordinary contexts. JLG Projects offers a dynamic platform that expands the traditional gallery model by creating space for immersive and unconventional presentations. Running parallel to the gallery’s regular schedule of exhibitions, this initiative invites both established gallery artists and those new to the program to present their work in innovative ways. Conceived in response to the evolving ... More 'Sandra Knecht: Home is a Foreign Place' opening January 9 at KBH.G Foundation BASEL.- The exhibition Home Is a Foreign Place at the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger | KBH.G addresses the concept of home in various ways – as a feeling, a place, and an idea. It questions how our understanding of home evolves and how deeply it impacts human existence. The works are based on over ten years of intense research and artistic work, in which Knecht has consistently pursued her examination of themes like home, identity, and diversity. Home Is a Foreign Place represents the concentrated culmination of Sandra Knecht's practice and is her most extensive solo exhibition to date. Sandra Knecht’s personal path to art, like her work, is unconventional. In 2011, she began studying visual art after spending over two decades working as a social worker. Her profession often brought her into the kitchens of the families she worked with, ... More PhotoGalleries Gabriele Münter TARWUK Awol Erizku Leo Villareal Flashback On a day like today, German-French painter August Macke was born January 03, 1887. August Macke (3 January 1887 - 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. In this image: August Macke, Landschaft mit hellem Baum, 1914. Aquarell uber Bleistift, 22.2 x 30.9 cm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett. Photo: bpk, Jorg P. Anders. © 1996 - 2024 Founder: Ignacio Villarreal (1941 - 2019) Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal (52 8110667640) Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

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