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Yosef Garfinkel, professor at the Hebrew University, displays pottery vessels that were found at the site claimed to be the Biblical town of Ziklag near the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat on July 8, 2019. Researchers in Israel said they have pinpointed the site of an ancient Philistine town mentioned in the biblical tale of David seeking refuge from the Israelite king Saul. Ziklag was a town under the rule of a Philistine king in nearby Gath after the ancient "sea peoples" began arriving in the region in the 12th century BC, the researchers say. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
by Alexandra Vardi
QIRYAT GAT (AFP).- Researchers in Israel said Monday they believe they have pinpointed the site of an ancient Philistine town mentioned in the biblical tale of David seeking refuge from the Israelite king Saul. Ziklag was a town under the rule of a Philistine king in nearby Gath after the ancient "sea peoples" began arriving in the region in the 12th century BC, the researchers say. A biblical tale says the town became the unlikely seat of David before his anointment as king in Hebron following Saul's death. "It is not 100 percent sure, but I think it's 90 percent that this was biblical Ziklag," said Yosef Garfinkel, head of the institute of archaeology at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. The excavation began in 2015 and the researchers plan to continue with further digs. "I hope it will be enough to clarify all the important aspects of the site," Garfinkel said at the site on a hilltop near the city of Qiryat Gat in central Israel. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Science Museum has launched a major new exhibition exploring communications intelligence and cyber security over the course of 100 years. Top Secret: From ciphers to cyber security marks the centenary of GCHQ, the UK's Intelligence, Security and Cyber agency which was first acknowledged in law in 1994. Through never-before-seen objects, interactive puzzles and first-person interviews, the exhibition explores the challenges of maintaining digital security in the 21st century and the unique technologies used throughout the history of one of the UK's intelligence agencies. © Jody Kingzett, Science Museum Group
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| | | See Ruskin masterpieces in Cumbria: His home and inspiration | | UK spy agency decrypts some secrets with new exhibition | | Texan widow gives massive donation of art to French gallery |
John Ruskin, Dawn, Coniston, 1873 (detail). Watercolour over pencil. Acquired with the support of a V&A Purchase Grant and the Friends of Abbot Hall, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria.
KENDAL.- Abbot Hall Art Gallery will stage one of its biggest ever exhibitions this month: Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud. The exhibition opens on 12 July and runs until 5 October 2019. It will include more than 135 works and stretch across six galleries. It takes place during the 200th anniversary year of John Ruskins birth (8 February 1819). Helen Watson, Lakeland Arts Director of Programming, said: Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud will be one of our biggest ever shows. This year is hugely significant in celebrating Ruskin and we are delighted to have this landmark exhibition at Abbot Hall during the 200th anniversary of his birth. Its particularly apt that the exhibition takes place in Cumbria - the home of Ruskin and the place he found most inspiration. John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art historian of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, w ... More | |
Pickwick phone © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, GCHQ.
LONDON (AFP).- Historic gadgets used by British spies will be revealed for the first time later this week, as one of the country's intelligence agencies steps out the shadows to mark its centenary -- and to educate people about the risks of cyber-attacks. The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) will hold an unprecedented exhibition at London's Science Museum, taking visitors through 100 years of secret conversations and eavesdropping. It was the codebreakers of GCHQ at Bletchley Park who helped break the Germans' Enigma code during World War II -- as portrayed in the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. A prototype of the Enigma cipher machine used by the Germans will be on display. But the standout exhibit at this new exhibition is the 5-UCO machine developed in 1943 to send decrypted German messages to officers in the field. "It was one of the first electronic and fully unbreakable cipher machines and was considered ... More | |
This file photo taken on April 15, 2013 shows US art collector Spencer Hays delivering a speech after receiving the Officer of Legion of Honour from the French culture minister at the Orsay Museum in Paris. FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A Texan widow who discovered a love for French art during a trip to Paris in the 1970s is to donate another part of her vast collection of 19th-century masterpieces to France. Marlene Hays and her late husband, businessman Spencer Hays, had already given 187 artworks to the Orsay museum in Paris worth more than 173 million euros ($195 million), the biggest donation to a French museum since World War II. Now Hays, 82, who was widowed in 2017, is giving a further donation of 106 works from mostly post-Impressionist artists including Matisse, Bonnard, Modigliani and the sculptor Camille Claudel. The latest gift of 40 paintings, 47 works on paper and 19 sculptures brings the Hays' donation to the world's greatest collection of Impressionist art to nearly 300 pieces. The couple -- who used to give each other masterworks for their birthdays ... More |
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| | | Tatjana Pieters announces the passing of conceptual painter Philippe Van Snick | | Anne Ellegood named ICA LA's next Executive Director | | Glass Maestro Lino Tagliapietra opens exhibition at Schantz Galleries |
Philippe Van Snick, studio view March 2018 © Photo Joris Casaer.
GENT.- Tatjana Pieters announced the passing of Philippe Van Snick, one of the precursors of conceptual painting in Belgium since the early 1970s. The artist lived and worked in Brussels, Belgium. Van Snick held solo exhibitions at Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (BE, 1972, 1974, 1975), BOZAR, Brussels (BE, 1988), Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE, 1990), Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (CA, 1999), S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE, 2001), Museum M, Leuven (BE, 2010), Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (BE, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), Nuno Centeno, Porto (PT, 2013, 2018), Arcade, London (UK, 2014), Exile Gallery, Vienna (2019), Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro & Casa Modernista, São Paulo (BR, 2015), Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (AU, 2016), De Hallen, Haarlem (NL, 2016) and M HKA, Antwerp (BE, 2017). In 2018 Van Snick was awarded the Ultima for Visual Arts 2017, a quality label with which the Flemish Community recognizes the cultural importance o ... More | |
Ellegood is currently the senior curator at the Hammer Museum.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Board of Directors of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles announced today the appointment of Anne Ellegood as the museums next executive director. Ellegood is currently the senior curator at the Hammer Museum. She succeeds Elsa Longhauser, who is stepping down from her position after 19 years of leadership and notably oversaw the museums transformation from the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA) into the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA). Ellegood will assume her new role on September 16, 2019. On behalf of the board of directors and search committee, we are proud to welcome Anne Ellegood as the next executive director of ICA LA. Anne is a remarkable curator with an ongoing commitment to social practice programming and scholarship. These accomplishments, along with her longstanding connections to the Los Angeles community, make her the ideal leader to usher in a new chapter in the m ... More | |
Maestro Lino Tagliapietra with The Secret Garden (Lagoon), Blown glass, 60 x 60 inches. Photo: Jim Schantz.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Schantz Galleries will be presenting forty works by Maestro Lino Tagliapietra, featuring his most recent innovations in glass. Tagliapietra, who will be at the opening event on Friday July 12, will introduce two of his newest innovations: Secret Garden (Laguna), a large installation of individually blown glass leaves in jewel-like aquatic colors inspired by Venices hidden parks, displayed as a group across the wall as if scattered by a gentle breeze; and Aurora, an LED illuminated glass panel, suggestive of the soft shimmer of the northern lights in the night sky. The title of this exhibition, Visionary honors Tagliapietra as an artist of foresight and imagination who transcends his thinking mind to embrace his intuition and access the mysterious and the beautiful. He sees and visualizes the unseen. He dares to experiment, demonstrating humility and vulnerability because he is not afraid of failure. ... More |
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| | | Social media rescue Morocco's last woman potters | | Badischer Kunstverein opens Mai-Thu Perret's first major solo exhibition in Germany | | Fort Gansevoort commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising with exhibition |
Moroccan potter Aicha Tabiz (L), also known as Mama Aicha, sits next to British apprentice Kim West (R), 33, during a pottery workshop near the village of Ourtzagh in the foothills of the Rif mountains on June 12, 2019. FADEL SENNA / AFP.
OURTZAGH (AFP).- Beautiful handcrafted pottery made by Mama Aicha rarely sells in Morocco anymore, but thanks to social media her ancient techniques are drawing students from around the world to the foothills of the Rif mountains. "When I heard about the workshop on Instagram, I signed up immediately because the practice is disappearing," said Mirna Banieh, a young artist who travelled to Morocco from the West Bank town of Ramallah. "Mama Aicha is old and her knowledge must be passed down," she added. Banieh's four fellow students sit cross-legged on mats, their hands covered in clay learning from the 82-year-old potter. They came from London and Nairobi to a remote hamlet at the end of a rocky trail for a week-long initiation. Their goal is to learn how to shape clay pieces by hand, dry them in the sun, fire them in a large open ... More | |
Mai-Thu Perret, Eventail des caresses (Coeur), Bronze, 2018. Photo by Annik Wetter. Courtesy of the artist.
KARLSRUHE.- Grammar and Glamour presents Mai-Thu Perrets first major solo exhibition in Germany. Perret works with diverse formats and media, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, tapestry, film, performance, and texts. In her work, the artist turns her attention toward a discourse of feminism and spirituality which she associates in a singular way with artistically immanent questions of materiality and form. Her handling of a variety of ceramics and tapestry techniques refers to Perrets interest in the arts and crafts movement as an alternative form of artistic expression. Realistic sculptures depicting female fighters and reformers are linked in the most intimate way with approaches to formal abstraction, which moreover reference her continuous scrutiny of painting and the possibilities of painterly transformation. But Perrets oeuvre is by no means self-referential; it is instead bound up with concrete narrative contexts. To some extent, ... More | |
Peter Hujar, Candy Darling on Her Deathbed, 1973. Pigmented ink print, 20 x 16 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fort Gansevoort presents A Look Back: 50 Years After Stonewall, organized by Lucy Beni and Adam Shopkorn. The exhibition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, a six-day riot said to have been spontaneously set off by Marsha P. Johnson in protest of one of many regular police raids at The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar located in New York Citys Greenwich Village. This event marks the beginning of the Gay Liberation movement and the contemporary fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. A Look Back: 50 Years After Stonewall unites the work of queer artists living and producing in and around New York City beginning around the time of the Stonewall Uprising in 1969 and leading into the 1980s. This is only a portion of the story, an incomplete history, most especially given that the Gay Liberation movement and its coinciding contemporary art market had not placed transgender voices nor people of ... More |
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| | | England's Creative Coast: Seven new site-specific arts commissions announced today | | Paddle8 announces new Head of Partnerships, Marketing & Social Media, Valentine Uhovski | | Painting/Sculpture: Marianne Boesky Gallery opens a group exhibition |
Jasleen Kaur, Marbled Busts.
MARGATE.- The cultural renaissance transforming the seaside towns of Englands South East spearheaded by the regions world-class galleries and arts organisations is the inspiration for Englands Creative Coast, a series of art commissions and creative initiatives that will connect the coastline of Essex, Kent and East Sussex, bringing new visitors to the region. The first artwork will be launched in spring 2020 with Michael Rakowitzs commission in Margate, with the others following sequentially over the summer. This ground-breaking project, which is led by Turner Contemporary and Visit Kent and principally funded by Arts Council England and Visit England / Visit Britain through the Discover England Fund, encompasses: Waterfronts, curated by Tamsin Dillon a series of seven new site-specific art commissions by Andreas Angelidakis, Mariana Castillo Deball, Holly Hendry, ... More | |
Previously Uhovski served as Head of Fashion, Culture and Events at Tumblr. Photo: Ben Rosser courtesy of Valentine Uhovski.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paddle8 announces the hiring of Valentine Uhovski as the brands new Head of Partnerships, Marketing & Social Media. Previously Uhovski served as Head of Fashion, Culture and Events at Tumblr. Uhovski will lead the existing roster partnerships and expand a program of collaborations, extending to luxury brands and guest curators. He will oversee Paddle8s tentpole events as well as expand community outreach and collaboration from a global perspective. We are thrilled for Valentine to join the Paddle8 team, states Paddle8 CEO Izabela Depczyk. Valentine brings to bear more than seven years at the helm of Tumblrs culture partnerships and events, at Paddle8 he will serve in a key strategic role to oversee the growth of our partnerships, oversee marketing as well as our social media channels. I ... More | |
Installation view. Courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, Aspen. Photo: Peter Kaiser.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting Painting/Sculpture, an exhibition featuring Jennifer Bartlett, Gina Beavers, Lynda Benglis, Sheila Hicks, Donald Moffett, Howardena Pindell, and Frank Stella. Painting/Sculpture is on view from July 10 through August 9 across both of the gallerys Chelsea locations at 509 and 507 W. 24th Street. Among the highlights in the exhibition is Lot 080711 (the radiant future) by Donald Moffett, which shows his continued interest in dispensing with traditionally understood conceptions of painting. The work uses a concrete mixer as a painting support, fusing the three-dimensionality of sculpture with the two-dimensional nature of painting. Moffetts work is juxtaposed with Frank Stellas Cantahar, in which the artist creates an incredible sense of depth and shadow within a flat surface. Here, Stella approaches sculptural ... More |
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Techno pioneer Mills says electro music now 'too middle class'
ORANGE (AFP).- Techno pioneer Jeff Mills said Thursday that electronic music has become too "middle class" and lost its political edge. The American DJ and record producer who founded the hugely influential Detroit collective Underground Resistance, said "bubblegum" pop has taken over the dance floors, airwaves and earphones of the world over. "Music, especially dance music, used to be more political. The make up of the people back in the 1970s and early 1980s was very mixed between gay and straight, people from everywhere, it was a melting pot." That "made it easier to speak about certains ideas like violence, brutality and racism," Mills insisted. "Now electronic music is primarily made by a certain type of people, typically middle class that probably have a pretty comfortable lifestyle." The more political concerns that Mills believes music should ... More
Lehmann Maupin opens an exhibition of work by London-based artist Mandy El-Sayegh
HONG KONG.- Lehmann Maupin is presenting Dispersal, an exhibition of work by London-based artist Mandy El-Sayegh. For the artists first solo exhibition in Asia, El-Sayegh presents new paintings, sculpture, and installation. Together, the works offer insight into El-Sayeghs complex assessment of the systemsfrom global finance and media, to more organic and aesthetic frameworksby which we make meaning, assign worth, and construct personal identity and culture. As part of a generation coming of age at the turn of the 21st century, El-Sayeghs artistic sensibility is informed by the fractured and diffused nature of acquiring knowledge and personal perspective amidst our globalized, information-saturated era. Her Net-Grid studies included in the exhibition visually recreate the process by which ones psyche seeks, traps, retains, and associates information, ... More
Milestone to launch new gallery with July 27 auction of breweriana, advertising, coin-ops and muscle cars
WILLOUGHBY, OH.- Milestone Auctions in suburban Cleveland will open the doors to their brand new, purpose-built gallery on Saturday, July 27 with an 800-lot sale of breweriana and advertising; coin-ops, and classic-era muscle cars offered with no reserve. In only a few short years, our auction business has grown exponentially, explained Miles King, who co-owns Milestone Auctions along with business partner Chris Sammet. Because of that growth, we really needed a larger space. We decided to take the leap and, instead of renting, custom-built a large, comfortable gallery our customers would enjoy. Our team had been feeling the pinch, too. There was a need for more storage space for consignments as well as a dedicated area for shipping. We ship goods all over the world, and theres never any down ... More
Historic documents of freedom on view at the National Museum of American Jewish History
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The National Museum of American Jewish History, located on Historic Independence Mall, is pleased to announce three extraordinary artifacts newly on view for July. These documents include a signed copy of Franklin Delano Roosevelts Four Freedoms Speech on museum view for the first time, original poster printings of Norman Rockwells iconic Four Freedoms, and an 1819 illustrated print of the Declaration of Independence, produced by Philadelphia printer and newspaper publisher John Binns. Im passionate about how these documents affected and informed the lives of real people. Im thrilled as always to lend these incredible pieces of history to the National Museum of American Jewish History. Their unique lens onto American history and culture and their location on Historic Independence Mall create ... More
BAMPFA mounts dual exhibition of new work by Helen Mirra and Sean Thackrey
BERKELEY, CA.- An exhibition at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive showcases new series by two Bay Area artists whose work is influenced by Zen Buddhism. No Horizon: Helen Mirra and Sean Thackrey marks the first dual exhibition of work by Helen Mirra and Sean Thackrey, two artists based in Marin County whose respective practices emphasize simplicity, texture, and a deep awareness of place. The exhibition features more than a dozen recent works by each artist, most of which are receiving their first museum presentation. The title of the exhibition is inspired by Without Horizon, a series of works created by Thackrey in collaboration with the artist and composer John Cage. A winemaker and art dealer who cofounded the San Francisco gallery Thackrey & Robertson in 1970, Thackrey has sustained a decades-long photography ... More
The Studio Museum in Harlem announces its Artists in Residence for 2019-20
NEW YORK, NY.- The Studio Museum in Harlem today announced the 201920 participants in its renowned Artist-in-Residence program, known for its catalytic role in advancing the work and launching the careers of more than two generations of outstanding black and Latinx artists. From October 2019 through September 2020, E. Jane, Naudline Pierre, and Elliot Reed will receive institutional and material support from the Studio Museumincluding studio space at Studio Museum 127, a temporary programming space located at 429 West 127th Street. The work they make during their residencies will be shown in an exhibition at MoMA PS1 in summer 2020, part of a multi-year partnership between The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of Modern Art, and MoMA PS1. Building on the institutions existing affiliations and shared values, this wide- ... More
New museum strategy generates important loan to non-museum location
LONDON.- Ben Uri Gallery and Museum announced the first long-term loan of an important work from its collection to a non-museum location, as part of its 2019 strategic plan. This initiative is designed to generate ongoing public access to wonderful works held in store which are rarely, if ever, exhibited, for a wide range of reasons. In this case, the painting is simply too large to be shown in Ben Uris gallery. The problem of art in long term store is widespread across UK and international museums. On average, some 90% of museum heritage collections languish in store, unseen by the public at large. Ben Uris new Loan policy addresses this crucial issue, and this long-term loan could not have happened without the great support of the artists family and the management of Nightingale House, part of Nightingale Hammerson, in Balham, London SW12. The ... More
The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco opens Le Studio: A project by Quetzal for Villa Paloma
MONACO.- On July 8th the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco opened the new educational room Le Studio, conceived by the Paris-based design studio Quetzal, created by Louise Naegelen, Adrien Gadet and Benjamin Lina. The space at Villa Paloma one of the two venues of the Museum together with Villa Sauber is designed to welcome the young visitors during school months, as well as during the holidays, and to become the prefect space for experimentation and learning. Quetzal design studio explain The space is inspired by the archaeologic site and planned as a place for research. The whole project is developed around two elements: cork and glass. The cork cover the floor and one of the perimetric walls which is also a storage thanks to drawers, and therefore the technical part of the room. Each drawer is enriched by symbols, like hieroglyphs, ... More
Ylise Kessler Gallery opens an exhibition of works by by Julian Hatton and Kay Harvey
SANTA FE, NM.- Ylise Kessler Gallery is announced an exhibition of abstract landscape paintings by Julian Hatton, and shaped collages and ceramic works by Kay Harvey. The exhibition opens Friday, July 12 and runs through August 17. While living in New York City full time, Hatton developed his lush, energetic style by following a daily practice of painting en plein air in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The gestural, abstract works are filled with saturated color and bold organic forms. His paintings relay a visual language that is imprinted by the landscape but not ruled by it. In Hattons words, My paintings, in perhaps the simplest sense, are about color in space. A more detailed explanation might go something along the lines of landscapes, sometimes naturalistic, sometimes abstract, painted in a manner that plays with depth, color and illusion. I take the idea of landscape ... More
Haus der Kunst presents more than 200 works from all creative periods of Miriam Cahn's artistic career
MUNICH.- With more than 200 works from all creative periods, Haus der Kunst honors Miriam Cahns artistic career, which has spanned more than five decades. Her work provokes a discussion about new images of the body and humanity today through painting. Even in her early work, Cahn (born 1949 in Basel) explored the female body as a vehicle of social significance, as well as its involvement in the network of power structures. In the 1970s the reduction of women to their physical being was addressed in art forms such as performance or video; the body itself was also being employed as an artistic material and instrument. At the time, Cahn was already translating these ideas and practices into radically extended forms of painting. In her pictorial worlds, Cahn pushes for the abolishment of social norms and counters the traditional representation ... More
One-of-a-kind meteorite pistols could bring $1 million+ in Heritage Auctions' Nature & Science Auction
DALLAS, TX.- A one-of-a-kind set of Model 1911 Meteorite Pistols is being offered in Heritage Auctions Nature & Science Auction July 20 in Dallas. The auction, celebrating the Golden (50th) Anniversary of the first man to walk on the moon, features the most impressive collection of large Meteorites and Gold ever offered at auction. The pistols are made almost exclusively from the Muonionalusta Meteorite, which is likely the oldest known meteorite on Earth, Heritage Auctions Nature & Science Director Craig Kissick said. They are a spectacular lot for the most serious collectors, an opportunity that comes along once in a lifetime, but theyre not the only appealing lot. The lots were offering represent some of the largest known lunar and Martian Meteorites ever offered in the same sale. The .45-caliber pistols (estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000) are ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani was born July 12, 1884. Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12 July 1884 - 24 January 1920) was an Italian-Jewish painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces, necks, and figures that were not received well during his lifetime but later found acceptance. In this image: Amedeo Modigliani, Reclining Nude (Céline Howard), 1918, Private collection, Geneva.
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