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Mexican archaeologist Raul Barerra (R) gives an explanation during a tour by the archaeological site of the ancient Aztec temple of Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl and ritual Ball Game recently discovered in downtown Mexico City, on June 7, 2017. ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP.
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- A giant temple to the Aztec god of the wind and a court where the Aztecs played a deadly ball game have been discovered in the heart of Mexico City. Archaeologists unveiled the rare finds Wednesday after extensive excavations, giving journalists a tour of the semi-circular temple of Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl and nearby ball court. Records indicate that Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes first watched the ritual Aztec ball game at the court in 1528, invited by the last Aztec emperor, Montezuma -- the man whose empire he went on to conquer. Historians believe the game involved players using their hips to keep a ball in play -- as well as ritual human sacrifices. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on June 6, 2017 shows a general view of the exterior of the Dubai Opera in downtown Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP
| Exquisite work that reveals genius of Cézanne to lead 'Actual Size' sale | | Sotheby's to offer 20th century sculpture from the Bloch Family Collection | | J. Levine to auction rare, lost Jackson Pollock painting on June 20 in Scottsdale |
Paul Cézanne, Baigneuses, La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au fond, watercolour and pencil, circa 1902-1906, 5in by 8 ½in 12.7cm by 21.6cm (est. £4 6 million). © Sotheby's.
LONDON.- At the turn of the century, Paul Cézannes revolutionary works began the process of the fragmentation of reality in art that opened the door to modernism. Returning to a subject that had captivated him since the 1860s, the artist used the classical subject of bathers from the grand French tradition as a compositional tool for a completely new and free aesthetic. The masterful use of translucent patches of watercolour renders the human figures almost weightless the nudes are fully embraced by nature. Adding to the rarity of the richly-composed and vibrant artwork, the triangular composition reveals a view of Montagne Sainte-Victoire. Thus, in such a small scale, Cézanne is able to perfectly capture the most important subjects and ideas that formed his artistic legacy. A generation of artists saw a new world of possibility ... More | |
Alberto Giacometti, Buste de Fraenkel Bronze, 1956-59. Estimate: £400,000-600,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Encompassing the full sweep of 20th-century sculpture - through figurative and abstract work, the diverse approaches of male and female artists, and disparate geographical origins (from Taiwan to Cornwall to the Côte d'Azur) - Taking Shape is a rare collection that was passionately assembled over the course of 40 years by Mary and George Bloch. A couple who were ahead of the curve in their approach to collecting important pieces by a diverse group of international artists before a number of them had found international recognition, their collection of sculpture unites European Modernism, the height of post-war British art, as well as the roots of Cubism and kinetic experimentation. Each of the 22 works in this collection represents the visions of some of the worlds finest artists, including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Jean Dubuffet, Alexander Calder, ... More | |
Josh Levine holds Jackson Pollock gouache painting. Photo: Sami Gill, J. Levine Auction & Appraisal.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ.- A rare, lost Jackson Pollock painting is going up for auction on Tuesday, June 20 at J. Levine Auction & Appraisal after the Scottsdale-based auction house spent nearly 18 months and tens of thousands of dollars researching and authenticating the forensics and ownership history. Online bidding is available now, with live bidding slated to begin at 11 a.m. PT on June 20. A private preview is available upon request. A free, public preview will take place on Monday, June 19 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Bidders must be pre-qualified in order to place a bid. The auction house is located at 10345 N. Scottsdale Rd., in Scottsdale. The abstract, untitled gouache painting measures 22 ½ x 32 inches with a forensic report stating, among other findings, that the dating of the painting to the mid-twentieth century is well established as no pigments or binding media introduced in the late 1950s and 1960s have ... More |
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| Three exhibitions open at Museum Folkwang: Posters from the Summer of Love, Arwed Messmer and Peggy Buth | | Heritage Auctions sets world record for sale of Dutch coin | | The 'obsession' that changed human history |
Victor Moscoso, The Chamber Brothers Glasses San Francisco, 1967. 51 x 36 cm. Sammlungen Lutz Hieber und Gisela Theising © Victor Moscoso 2017.
ESSEN.- This year is the 50th anniversary of the high-water mark of the hippy movement: the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco. Against a backdrop of serious racial unrest, the Vietnam War, and a consumer-oriented society, there emerged a genuine counter-culture that strove to find new ways for people and countries to co-exist. Visitors to San Francisco 1967 at the Museum Folkwang can enjoy the largest poster exhibition on the Summer of Love so far held anywhere in Europe. Much has been written and told from a journalistic, historical, literary, and cinematic perspective about the Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion) and the "German Autumn" of 1977. For his latest work, the photographer and image archaeologist Arwed Messmer adopts a photographic point of view to explore this particular chapter of West German history. Messmers work starts off with ... More | |
The story behind the coin ties together the history of the Netherlands and Portugal.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions Europe recently sold a 10 dukat "Portugalöser," struck by the city of Deventer in the year 1640 to compete with Portuguese coinage circulating in Brazil, for $179,000 by far a record price ever realized for a coin of the pre-Kingdom Dutch provinces. "Heritage Auctions Europe has been growing steadily since its opening in 2015," said Jacco Scheper, Director of Heritage Auctions Europe. "We're extremely pleased to see high-value lots coming from these auctions and expect to see many more in the months to come." The story behind the coin ties together the history of the Netherlands and Portugal. Dutch commercial interests were minting coins at the time to compete with Portuguese coinage circulating in Brazil, as The Netherlands provinces were trying to establish colonial toeholds there. Because the city of Deventer had no authorization to mint these coins in 1640, this issue was labeled a ... More | |
French paleoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin poses for a picture on June 6, 2017 in Paris. PATRICK KOVARIK / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- An "obsession" with the lower jaw of a long-dead human, unearthed in the 1960s at a prehistoric Moroccan campsite, led palaeoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin to the discovery of a lifetime. After decades of work to identify the jawbone's owner, Hublin was able to announce Wednesday that it belonged to the earliest known member of our species. His efforts revealed that Homo sapiens is 100,000 years older than previously assumed -- ageing our species by a whole third and dislodging East Africa as the cradle of humankind. It was in 1961 that mining activity at the site called Jebel Irhoud, not far from Marrakesh, first brought an ancient human skull to the surface, followed by more fragments over subsequent years of excavation. Initially, the pieces were dated to about 40,000 years ago, later pushed back to 160,000 years ago. At the time, ... More |
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| Exhibition explores a multiplicity of meanings and uses of blue and black | | Christie's announces highlights from the Magnificent Jewels & the Rockefeller Emerald sale | | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art opens the first solo exhibition of Raymond Pettibon in Russia |
Joan Mitchell, Untitled, 1958. Oil on paper, 30 3/4 x 22 7/8 inches (78.1 x 58.1 cm). Private Collection, courtesy Cheim & Read, New York © Estate of Joan Mitchell.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents Blue Black, an exhibition guest-curated by influential American artist Glenn Ligon. With more than 50 works ranging from abstraction, to portraiture, to outsider art, experimental film, textiles, and moreand including examples by LigonBlue Black explores a multiplicity of meanings and uses of the two colors. These include their deployment as discrete formal elements, their role as complex evocations of race, identity, and power, and their association with music, among other meanings and allusions. In so doing, the exhibition resists fixed interpretations, instead enlisting color to pose timely and nuanced questions. Pulitzer Arts Foundation Director Cara Starke notes, In his work, Glenn Ligon brilliantly and subtly plumbs the overlapping complexities of American history, race, language, identity, and art. In ... More | |
A multi-gem pendant and varicolored enamel pendant necklace, by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany & Co. Estimate: $50,000-70,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York announces the June 20th auction of Magnificent Jewels & the Rockefeller Emerald. The sale will be led by the Rockefeller Emerald, sold on behalf of a private American Collector. This historically important gemstone is among the finest emeralds to ever be offered for sale at auction (Estimate: $4,000,000 $6,000,000). The New York auction will offer more than 270 lots, with estimates ranging from below $5,000 to $4,000,000. Highlights from the sale include an impressive selection of exceptional fancy colored and colorless diamonds, offered in an expansive range of price points, along with significant signed period and modern jewels by Buccellati, Bulgari, Cartier, David Webb, Graff, Harry Winston, Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels and more. The sale is further highlighted by two historically significant private ... More | |
Raymond Pettibon, No Title (My father called ), 1982, 27.9 Ã 21.6 cm. Pen and ink on paper. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York.
MOSCOW.- Following its tradition of introducing internationally renowned artists to a local audience, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is presenting the first solo exhibition of Raymond Pettibon in Russia. A major part of the Garage summer exhibition season, the showcurated by Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari from the New Museum in New Yorkbrings together around four hundred works, including ephemera and materials from the personal archive of a figure who has been key to the American art scene since the 1990s. Pettibon first received attention for his work when it was used in fliers, zines, and record covers in the burgeoning Los Angeles punk scene of the 1980s. His work became identified with a brash and iconoclastic visual style that would influence and speak to generations of disaffected youth. In spite of this impact, Pettibons link to the punk scene has obscured the scope of his thematic ... More |
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| Galerie Perrotin opens in Tokyo with interiors designed by Andre Fu | | Notable collections to be offered by Thomas Del Mar Ltd | | The $110,000 Sobey Art Award highlights diversity in Canadian contemporary art |
Entrance to the new gallery. Photo: Nacas, courtesy of Perrotin Tokyo.
TOKYO.- Following openings in Paris, Hong Kong, New York and Seoul, contemporary art gallery Perrotin, founded in 1989 by Emmanuel Perrotin, opened its newest gallery in Tokyo on June 7th with a solo exhibition bringing together a collection of recent paintings by 97 year old Pierre Soulages. The interiors of Perrotin have been designed by the internationally renowned Hong Kong architect Andre Fu, who was also the designer for Perrotins Hong Kong space, which opened in 2012. Nestled in the heart of Tokyos dynamic Roppongi neighbourhood, the gallery is located on the ground floor of the Piramide building and has been visualized by Fu and his design studio AFSO as a modernist art space that responds to the gallerys distinct street-front location. The 140 square foot gallery is pure, contemporary yet highly intimate. A key design challenge was the need to create an unconventional visual connection between the outdoor and the ... More | |
A fine and rare British heavy Cavalry officers sword, circa 1750-70, which is expected to fetch £2,000-2,500.
LONDON.- A collection of swords that belonged to Television Historian, the late Richard Holmes will be among the 700 items to be offered in Thomas Del Mar Ltds auction of Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria at 25 Blythe Road, London W14 on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. The sale will begin at 11am and viewing will take place on the preceding Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with online bidding being available via the-saleroom.com. Richard Holmes (1946-2011) was known to thousands as a military historian with a flair for presenting his subject both in print and on television. To his academic peers, he was a professor having earned a chair at Cranfield Universitys Security Studies Institute in 1995; in the military world he had become a brigadier in the British Armys reserve forces and been colonel of his regiment; to curators, he was a respected and active Trustee of the Royal Armouries; in his county of residence, Hampshire ... More | |
Ursula Johnson, Excavata, 2015. Pine, hardware, found object, ash log shavings (collected from the performance Processing in Mikwitetmn). Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: Roger Smith.
OTTAWA.- The finalists for the 14th edition of Canadas prestigious contemporary art prize, the 2017 Sobey Art Award, were announced today by the Sobey Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada. By choosing a nominee from five different regions, the award provides visibility and support to young Canadian contemporary artists from coast to coast to coast. The award also offers an opportunity to exchange ideas and to learn about different artistic and curatorial practices from across the country. The five shortlisted artists, four of whom are women, contending for the $50,000 prize are: From the Atlantic region: Ursula Johnson (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) From Québec: Jacynthe Carrier (Québec City, Québec) From Ontario: Bridget Moser (Toronto, Ontario) From the Prairies and the North: Divya Mehra ... More |
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Sabrina Amrani opens the first solo exhibition in Spain by Mónica de Miranda
MADRID.- Sabrina Amrani is presenting Atlantic - Journey to the center of the earth, the first solo exhibition in Spain by Mónica de Miranda (1976, Portugal). The work of Mónica de Miranda can be understood as an agent that continually reconnects artistic processes with the transitory condition of the spectator. Regardless of the themes that she investigates, or of socio-political reflections that strap in her identity a real and emotional sense with the place and history of those who inhabit it, her works contain part of her self-referential experience but not always autobiographical, because it is not a testimony of the journey but of someone who recognizes herself in the transition and in the territorial change. This change, or this logic of circulation, lies not only in the fact that she has lived in several countries and known different cultures, but essentially in the way she interprets ... More
The Wolfsonian's road-trip-themed summer revs up with dual photography shows
MIAMI, FLA.- The WolfsonianFlorida International University shines the headlights on wanderlust for Summer 2017 with two complementary photography displays delving into the possibilities of facing the open road with camera in hand. In a then-and-now balance, North and South: Berenice Abbotts U.S. Route 1featuring black-and-white images chronicling her 1954 journey along the American East Coastwill be in dialogue with The Long Road to Now: Digital Photos Inspired by Berenice Abbotts Road Trip, co-curated with Instagram forum #JJ Community. The 50 images culled from Abbotts prolific series, only a small slice of her thousands of shots captured along the highway and today held in the collection of Syracuse University, set the thematic and technical stage for the 15 contemporary creatives who likewise merge an artistic eye with a documentarian ... More
Exhibition explores the complex relationship between architecture and street culture
ROTTERDAM.- The Metro54 collective presents BLUEPRINT: Whose urban appropriation is this?, a multidisciplinary group exhibition and public programme, at TENT Rotterdam, focusing on the relationship between street culture and architecture. Metro54 invited architects, designers, rappers, producers, and artists to show new and existing work that explores and articulates the complex relationship between architecture and street culture. Rotterdam is known as the Dutch capital of hip-hop, where architecture, urban arts, and urban culture are deeply intertwined with the citys DNA. Old neighbourhoods and new pompous architecture alternate with each other, functioning as a catalyst for contemporary art, performance, and music culture. This group exhibition and lively public programme taps into this condition by highlighting and questioning urban ... More
Modern wristwatches drive Sotheby's Spring Sale of Important Watches totaling $7.4 million
NEW YORK, NY.- Modern complicated timepieces led yesterdays auction of Important Watches at Sothebys New York, which totaled $7.4 million. Noteworthy prices for signature pieces by leading names in horology Patek Philippe, Rolex and A. Lange & Söhne were matched by significant interest in contemporary wristwatches by innovative, independent makers like Richard Mille and Greubel Forsey. Following a four-day exhibition and seven hours of auction, 310 lots sold across two sessions, resulting in a strong sell-through rate of 84.2%. Nate Borgelt, International Senior Specialist for Sothebys Watches, noted: With interest and participation from around the world including South America, Asia, Europe and the United States our sale was a truly global affair. We were delighted to see significant prices for beautiful and complicated timepieces by both ... More
Ordovas announces first major presentation of Aleksandar Duravcevic's work in the United Kingdom
LONDON.- Memory Keeper is a selection of paintings, sculpture and film by Aleksandar Duravcevic that explore storytelling and recollection through ideas of identity, repetition and the passing of time. On display from 9 June - 29 July at Ordovas, London, this exhibition is the gallerys second dedicated entirely to the work of a single, living artist and the first major presentation of Duravcevics work in the United Kingdom. Working with living artists as well as our historical exhibitions are both a very important part of what we do - our programme is academic, curated and also very personal, says Pilar Ordovas. I have most recently enjoyed working with Frank Auerbach, Damien Hirst, Not Vital and Aleksandar Duravcevic for our exhibition this summer. I first came across his work through a friend and went to see his pavilion for Montenegro at the Venice Biennale ... More
Spanish artist Juan Garaizabal opens exhibition at De Buck Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- De Buck Gallery announces an exhibition of works by Spanish artist Juan Garaizabal. The exhibition Build a Story. Urban Memory of the Lost Tuileries is on view from June 8th, 2017, through July 15th, 2017. Known internationally for his monumental public Urban Memories sculptures, Juan Garaizabal brings his first solo show to New York at De Buck Gallery. Showcasing the Paris segment of his installations, the exhibition consists of sketches, production patterns, and a series of sculptures (which Juan calls drawings in space) for which the study was done at the original site of the Palais des Tuileries and its surrounding gardens in Paris. Garaizabals main drive for the Urban Memories is the concrete, physical resurrection on site of the memory of a historic structure, valorizing and capturing fragments of architectural foundations that have ... More
PAFA presents contemporary art installation 'Leah Modigliani: The City in Her Desolation'
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts presents Leah Modigliani: The City in Her Desolation, on view June 8 - August 23 in PAFA's Morris Gallery, 118 N. Broad Street in Philadelphia. In this installation, Modigliani explores the history of two works in PAFA's 19th century sculpture collection by examining the changing role of civic engagement through culture. PAFA's Curator of Contemporary Art, Jodi Throckmorton, notes, "The fate of all cities, and the fragile promise of the social contract of equality for all, is the subject of Modigliani's work, which tracks the banishment of two important works of art - and the eventual reclamation of one." Based on research of the archives that Modigliani conducted over the past year in PAFA's Study for the Center of the American Artist, she created six new artworks inspired by the fates of two neoclassical figurative ... More
Almine Rech exhibits works by Genieve Figgis
BRUSSELS.- Genieve Figgis is a consummate storyteller. Using paint rather than words, her deeply narrative worksoften conjuring characters and settings out of the Edwardian age of the Anglo-Irish aristocracyfit snugly within this long tradition of Irish cultural production. While it may seem essentialist, if not a political minefield, to overemphasize national identity in critical discussions of Figgis work, it could be argued that what distinguishes her use of figuration from the slew of contemporary painters is a distinctive translation of the Irish blarney into a pictorial form. What theorists such as Eagleton wrote of nineteenth century Irish writers such as Oscar Wildes ambivalent relationship to Britannia could easily applied to Figgis own work: both conjure Anglo-Irish society at the cusp of Irish independence. A world that is infused with qualities of violence ... More
Clars to offer important Asian art and antiques
OAKLAND, CA.- On June 18, 2017, Clars Auction Gallery will present important Asian art and antiques as part of their June 17th and 18th Fine Art, Decorative Art, Furniture, Jewelry/Timepieces and Asian Art Auction. In addition, a most significant collection of erotic art will be offered as well as valuable US coin collection. Clars will present for sale a group of eight scrolls by one of Chinas most renowned 20th century artists, Zhang Daqian (1899-1983). This collection of eight scrolls includes landscape paintings, ink and color on paper and one executed with colophon to celebrate Shaoyun [Ma Hongkui] Generals birthday. Each of these important works is signed and sealed Zhang Daqian and will be offered as one lot with an estimate of $200,000 to $400,000. This collection comes to auction from the Estate of Ma Hongkui of Los Angeles, CA. Over the past year, Clars has ... More
InTRANSIT takes over Kensington and Chelsea
LONDON.- This June, InTRANSIT will once again take over the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with its exciting and experimental programme of site-responsive art and performance. With this years theme of Island Life, InTRANSIT brings together responses from a diverse selection of artists looking at the contrasts of urban isolation and connectivity, celebrating community and the principle that no man is an island. Pop-up Island installations create an arts-archipelago across the borough, with the Portobello Pavilion - InTRANSIT's hub of practical activity and discussion at its centre. Highlights include: a series of large-scale, playful sandcastles produced in conjunction with the Museum of Architecture; an immersive exploration of JG Ballard's novel Concrete Island; an electro-folk opera at the Print Room; an art exhibition in a secret subterranean space at Notting Hill Gat ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish painter Michael Peter Ancher was born June 09, 2017. Michael Peter Ancher (9 June 1849 - 19 September 1927) was a Danish impressionist artist. He is most associated with his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish port of Skagen. His paintings are classics and he is probably one of Denmark's most popular artists. In this image: Redningsbåden køres gennem klitterne (The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes), Michael Ancher (1883).
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