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The archeological site of Kalinga in the Philippines being excavated. These fossil bones and cut stone tools are 709,000 years old.
by Marlowe Hood
PARIS (AFP).- Were the early humans roaming east Asia more than half-a-million years ago clever enough to build sea-faring watercraft and curious enough to cross a vast expanse of open sea? This and other questions arise from the discovery in the Philippines of a butchered rhinoceros skeleton and the stone tools probably used to carve away its meat, researchers said Wednesday. The find pushes back the arrival of the first homo species on the island chain ten-fold to 700,000 years ago, they reported in the journal Nature. Earlier archeological clues from Luzon island -- tools at one site, pre-historic animals remains at another -- hinted at the presence of primitive human species, echoing the way Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis probably populated the Indonesian archipelago during roughly the same period. But until now, the earliest confirmed evidence of hominins -- the scientific term used to group modern and early humans -- in the Philippines came from a single, 67,000-year old foot bone unearth ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Jack Shainman, Frieze New York 2018. Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy of Mark Blower/Frieze.
| 'Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs' opens at the Museum of the City of New York | | Paul McCartney to mark opening of the V&A Photography Centre with major photographic gift | | Fifty Brett Weston photographs donated to the San Antonio Museum of Art by Christian Keesee |
Stanley Kubrick, From Johnny on the Spot: His Recorded Adventures Mirror the New York Scene, 1946 © SK Film Archives, LLC/Museum of the City of New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of the City of New York opened Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs, a photography exhibition exploring the iconic directors formative years as a staff photographer at Look magazine between 1945-1950 and revealing the foundations of his creative transformation from photojournalist to cinematic legend. In May, TASCHEN will publish a 300-page large format book to accompany the exhibition. Through a Different Lens opened to the public on Thursday, May 3, and remains on view through October 2018. Stanley Kubricks early career as a photojournalist for Look magazine is a revelation for most people who know him only as a filmmaker. In 1945, the future director of such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange ... More | |
Linda McCartney (19411998), Jimi Hendrix. 1968 Bromide print © 1968 Paul McCartney / Photographer: Linda McCartney.
LONDON.- Today, the V&A announced a major gift of 63 photographs by Linda McCartney, generously gifted by Paul McCartney and his family. The photographs trace Linda McCartneys career across four decades, from the 1960s to the 1990s. The collection encompasses portraits of music legends The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Jimi Hendrix, as well as pictures of flora and fauna, and intimate personal portraits, including the McCartney family on holiday. The gift marks the first time that a selection of Linda McCartneys original Polaroids have ever been made available to the public. Linda McCartney embraced myriad photographic processes and techniques, and the gift includes lithographs, bromide prints, cyanotype prints, platinum prints, photogravures, hand painted prints, contact sheets and Polaroids. ... More | |
Brett Weston, Texas Landscape (detail).
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Philanthropist and art collector Christian Keesee has donated fifty Brett Weston (American, 1911-1993) photographs to the San Antonio Museum of Art. The images date from 1940 to 1985 and cover a range of subjects including landscapes in Texas, California, Mexico, and Hawaii and reflect Westons singular devotion to an exquisite formalism that emphasizes the lyrical and sensuous potential of line and form. I enjoyed working closely with the Brett Weston Archive to select a beautiful group of Westons photographs, says Suzanne Weaver, the Brown Foundation Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. This generous gift enriches our holdings of over 1,500 photographs, which are primarily photojournalist, documentary, and street photography, by representing one of the most important themeslandscapein American photographic practices since the 19th century. The Brett Weston Archive was ... More |
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| Tokyo digital art museum looks to 'expand the beautiful' | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new paintings by Urs Fischer | | Major installation joins new works on display across Tate Modern |
A Japanese member of Teamlab collective poses in a digital installation. Behrouz MEHRI / AFP.
TOKYO (AFP).- The waterfall appears to run down the wall of a room and across the floor, but the flow is an illusion -- a digital exhibit at a new interactive museum in Tokyo. The flower-filled waterfall is the work of Japanese collective teamLab, known internationally for their innovative "digital art" that combines projections, sound and carefully designed spaces to create otherworldly, immersive experiences. After exhibitions around the world, they are opening this summer a museum dedicated entirely to their unique brand of artwork. The space is being billed as a first, a digital museum with artwork that envelops and interacts with visitors. One space features a bucolic rice field, another is filled with seemingly endless hanging lamps that illuminate as the visitor nears, the light moving from one lamp to another around the room. Elsewhere, a waterfall filled with flowers appears to flow over a hill or waves crash along ... More | |
Urs Fischer, (To be titled) © Urs Fischer. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Sōtatsu, an exhibition of new paintings by Urs Fischer. Sōtatsu comprises a suite of nine paintings in which Fischer further explores the ways that space and gesture can be divided, stretched, opened, and closedcreating a panorama that is as continuous as it is fragmented. Inspired by the hand scrolls and painted screens of early seventeenth-century Japanese artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu, Fischers interior landscapes use negative space, light, and repetition to evoke time and movement. Sōtatsu, one of Fischers favorite artists, was a cofounder of the Rinpa school, which promoted a return to traditional Japanese subjectssuch as gardens, cranes, the four seasons, and references to famous poemswhile incorporating shimmering metallic backgrounds, bold colors, and images intersecting with calligraphic text. In a twenty-first-century echo of Sōtatsus ... More | |
Jordan Wolfson, Colored sculpture, 2016. The Tanks, Tate Modern, 3 May 2018 August 2018. Installation view. Photo: Tate photography / Seraphina Neville.
LONDON.- Tate Modern unveiled a large-scale animatronic installation in the Tanks, Colored sculpture by American artist Jordan Wolfson. The work features a menacing puppet over 7 feet tall, which is lifted, pulled, dragged and dropped to the floor by mechanised chains attached to each limb. The figure has digital screens for eyes and is equipped with sensors which allow it to spot passing visitors and stare back at them. It is one of many new works going on display across Tate Modern over the coming months. Wolfsons sculpture, which is being gifted to Tate by Joe and Marie Donnelly, draws upon various representations of boyhood from American pop culture, including Huckleberry Finn, Mad Magazine and Howdy-Doody. The apparent acts of violence inflicted on this figure can seem shocking, but are tempered by its deliberately crude construction of polyurethane parts. The figure ... More |
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| Naked Trump statue goes for $28,000 at auction | | George Harrison's first electric guitar among the historic items to headline Music Icons auction | | Nahmad Contemporary celebrates five years with an anniversary exhibition |
In this file photo taken on October 17, 2016 a naked statue of US President Donald Trump titled "The Emperor Has No Balls" is shown on exhibit at Julien's Auctions. Alberto E. Rodriguez / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- A naked statue of Donald Trump, complete with a distended belly and jowly sneer, is to go on display at a Haunted Museum after a paranormal investigator bought it at auction. Julien's Auctions announced Wednesday it sold the artwork -- believed to be the last of the controversial statues not vandalized or destroyed -- for $28,000 (23,000 euros) at its biannual auction in Los Angeles. The infamous statue by a West Coast anarchist collective is one of a series depicting the 45th president in the nude, but without testicles. In August 2016 -- during Trump's then improbable bid for the White House -- the statues appeared in public spaces in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Cleveland, garnering international attention. The four other naked Trumps -- titled "The Emperor Has No Balls" were confiscated or destroyed. ... More | |
George Harrisons first electric guitar, a Hofner Club 40 not seen since 1966. The guitar is estimated to sell between $200,000$300,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Juliens Auctions, the worldrecord breaking auction house, has announced the full lineup of their two day blockbuster, music auction event of the season taking place on May 18 with the previously announced Property from the Life and Career of Prince and May 19 with Music Icons live at Hard Rock Cafe New York and online. One of the highly anticipated items of the auction announced today is George Harrisons first electric guitar, a Hofner Club 40 not seen since 1966. Harrison played the small blonde with black body binding singlecutaway hollow body instrument in the early days of The Beatles when they performed around Liverpool, England as The Quarrymen. The group had been transitioning from a skiffle band using acoustic instruments to a rock and roll band playing on electric instruments. John Lennon and George Harrison were the first to acquire electric guitars, which were almost identical Hofner Club 4 ... More | |
Richard Prince, All I've Heard, 1988. Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 56 x 48 in (142 x 122 cm) © Richard Prince.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nahmad Contemporary celebrates five years with an anniversary exhibition, Five Years at Nahmad Contemporary, on view May 1June 9, 2018. Chronicling the exhibitions mounted since the gallery's founding in 2013, this presentation features 20 artworks by some of the most influential artists of our era, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Daniel Buren, Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Wade Guyton, Hans Hartung, Joan Miró, Gustave Moreau, Albert Oehlen, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Mark Rothko, Egon Schiele, Rudolf Stingel, Antoni Tà pies, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and Christopher Wool. A fully illustrated publication accompanies the presentation. Five Years at Nahmad Contemporary is an homage to the artists, lenders, and friends who have both inspired and shaped the gallery. Each of the selected masterpieces summon one of the gallerys past exhibitions, from single-artist presentations to thematic and cross-generational sho ... More |
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| Paintings · Drawings · Prints: Work by Peri Schwartz on view at the Page Bond Gallery | | Immersive, multimedia exhibition showcasing J Ivcevich's most recent work on view at Garvey|Simon | | RSL to auction fabled antique banks and toys of Tom Sage Sr. and Dr. Z, June 2-3 in New Jersey |
Peri Schwartz, Studio XLVIII, 2018, oil on canvas, 52 x 44.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Page Bond Gallery presents Paintings Drawings Prints: Peri Schwartz opening Friday, May 4 from 6 to 8PM and running through June 2, 2018. Within a practice that spans painting, drawing, and printmaking, New York-based Peri Schwartz primarily focuses her artistic inquiry on two subjects: her studio, and bottles and jars. For years Schwartz has treated her studio as a mutable still life, capturing the space and its contents in an ongoing investigation of color, light, and composition. She brings her studio alive on the canvas with semi-abstract swaths of color delineated by remnants of the charcoal grid she uses to map out the composition. The bottles and jars series, often etchings or monotypes, are quieter odes to color and the beauty of light interacting with glass. Her paintings, prints and drawings focus on composition and the interplay of color, light, and space. Peri Schwartz ... More | |
Green Mixtape, 2018. Mixed Media, 33 x 24 x 3 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garvey|Simon is presenting J Ivcevich: Trail of Mystics, an immersive, multimedia exhibition showcasing the artists most recent paintings, sculptures, ceramics and sound design. This all-encompassing sensory experience is a meditation on the intersection of the deep past, present, and looming future. Trail of Mystics will be open to the public on May 4th, in collaboration with New York Creative Tech Week, May 3 to May 12, 2018. The opening reception will take place on May 10th from 6-8pm; the exhibition closes on June 9th. An extension of his 2014 Shreds series, Ivcevichs newest installation creates a wellspring of temporal tension. Drawing upon his interest in sociology, as well as his extensive international travels, Ivcevich blends innovative drafting technologies with traditional artisanal craft to manufacture his abstract paintings, totems, and mask-like sculptures. Found wood bases, designed by their own organic dec ... More | |
One of the most sought after of all Lehmann toys, the Boxer Rebellion in its original box, estimate $18,000-$25,000.
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. .- Over the weekend of June 2-3, 2018, RSL Auction Company will offer the collections of two legendary pioneers of the antique toy and bank hobby: Tom Sage Sr., and Dr. Gregory Zemenick widely known in the trade as Dr. Z. The Saturday session will begin at 10 a.m. with 175 cast-iron mechanical banks from the Sage collection. Then, following a short intermission, the spotlight will shine on Dr. Zs 300-lot assemblage of mechanical, clockwork and early American tin toys; plus antique tobacciana and cast-iron novelties. Sundays session will open with 130 lots of highly important German hand-painted tin toys and Lehmann wind-ups many of them boxed from a fine private collection. After an intermission, Dr. Zs wonderful cast-iron still banks will be auctioned. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available for ... More |
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Eric Wolf's first one-person show with Gregory Lind Gallery opens in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gregory Lind Gallery presents Maine Paintings, Eric Wolfs first one-person show with the gallery. Wolfs painting project has continued to evolve, as Wolf has moved from a long strict minimalist phase, into a kind of reversal: using tonal grays to create atmospheric paintings. These new works link the project to American landscape figures and traditions like Marsden Hartley, Charles Burchfield and the Hudson River school, as well as the perceptual suggestiveness of the impressionists and early modernists. The work inverts the tradition of moving from representation to abstraction while retaining modernisms core value of oscillating and dynamic representations of visual space. Integrating these divergent interests into a coherent project, the work is teeming with references across disparate cultural practices, while delivering unusual visual ... More
Portrait of Jimmy Barnes AO by first-time finalist Jamie Preisz awarded 2018 Packing Room Prize
SYDNEY.- In his inaugural year as judge of the Archibald Packing Room Prize, having negotiated 52 per cent of the vote after Steve Peters retired from the Gallery in 2017, head packer Brett Cuthbertson and his packing room team have awarded the 2018 Packing Room Prize to Sydney artist and newcomer finalist, Jamie Preisz, for his portrait of singer/songwriter Jimmy Barnes AO, titled Jimmy (title fight). Cuthbertson, who spotted the work on day one of Archibald Prize submissions to the Gallery, said none of the entries he saw after the arrival of the portrait of Barnes matched up to the attraction the work held for him. Look, to be honest, when the work arrived, Id just been asked by a journalist who Id like to see painted this year. Fair dinkum, I said Barnesy would be great. I turned around after the interview, and there was a young artist turning his work around ... More
No Place takes over an abandoned Wilhelminian-style building in central Berlin
BERLIN.- As an innovative platform for exhibiting contemporary art, No Place brings together nine international artists to create a site-specific installation within several rooms of GLINT, an abandoned and dilapidated building in Mitte, Berlin, where the artists are given free reign to explore what defines a utopian spirit and to defy the limits of the possible. The experimental and nomadic platform No Place returns for its second edition after launching in Lima, Peru in 2017. A project promoted jointly by four galleries - Nueveochenta (Colombia), Arróniz (Mexico), Michael Sturm (Germany) and NF/NIEVES FERNÃNDEZ (Spain) - No Place aims to generate new experiences for the public via an alternative production model. Art is a motor of change, and the problem of todays art world is not a lack of rigorous analysis, or a necessity for the revelation of the truth, but instead the need for a radi ... More
Paula Cooper Gallery presents a new series of large-scale works by Charles Gaines
NEW YORK, NY.- Paula Cooper Gallery is presenting a new series of large-scale works by Charles Gaines, entitled Faces 1: Identity Politics. Exploring the relationship between aesthetics, politics, language and systems, the exhibition is on view at 521 West 21st Street from May 3rd through June 9th 2018. For more than forty years, Charles Gaines has employed rule-based methodologies to investigate the disparities and slippages between visual and linguistic meaning. His new series, Faces 1: Identity Politics, comprised of twelve large-scale works, marks an extension of this interest in serialized projects, in particular his series Faces (1978-79). For his new works, painted on gridded clear acrylic panels, the artist outlines portraits of distinguished thinkers who have developed concepts of identity, ordering them chronologically from Aristotle to the present, ... More
Groundwork: A season of international contemporary art set to open in Cornwall
HELSTON.- CAST (Cornubian Arts and Science Trust) announced the opening of Groundwork, a season of international contemporary art in Cornwall from 5 May to 30 September. With a focus on place and an emphasis on moving image, sound and performance, the season presents new commissions made in Cornwall, together with existing works by internationally acclaimed artists. At Kestle Barton, Bella, Maia and Nick (from nothing to something to something else, Part I), is a new commission by Dutch artist Manon de Boer. Filmed at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, the work portrays three local music students experimenting with new sounds and rhythms, continuing de Boers continuing fascination with the importance of open time in acts of creativity. Following research at Goonhilly Earth Station, the large telecommunications site first established on the ... More
Artists announced for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018
LONDON.- New Contemporaries announced this year's selected artists with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies. The panel of guest selectors comprising Benedict Drew, Katy Moran (New Contemporaries alumnus 2006) and Keith Piper (New Contemporaries alumnus 1986) has chosen 57 artists for the annual open submission exhibition. The resulting exhibition will offer an insight into todays creative practices, showcasing some of the most dynamic work being made by emerging artists. Selected artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018 are: Agil Abdullayev, Kobby Adi, Ayo Akingbade, Annie-Marie Akussah, Chris Alton, Louis Bennett, Jack Burton, Christian Noelle Charles, Kara Chin, Faye Claridge, Jack Fawdry Tatham, Emma Fineman, Rhona Foster, Deme Georghiou, William Glass, Carrie Grainger, Madelynn Mae Green, Habib Hajallie, Camilla ... More
Tampa Museum of Art opens "Vapor and Vibration: The Art of Larry Bell and Jesús Rafael Soto"
TAMPA, FLA.- Tampa Museum of Art is presenting Vapor and Vibration: The Art of Larry Bell and Jesús Rafael Soto May 3 through September 30, 2018. This exhibition places in dialogue, for the first time, the work of two of the 20th centurys most innovative artists exploring light and space. Since the 1960s, Soto and Bell have pushed the boundaries of traditional painting and sculpture with new materials and forms. While there have been several exhibitions devoted to each artist, Bell and Soto aims to present their works in a fresh context not yet explored by curators and art historians. Bell and Soto is not a survey or historical overview of the artists prolific careers. Rather, the show juxtaposes key bodies of work by both artists in three sections: Cubes and Structures; Vapor and Vibration; and Light and Transparency. Cubes and Structures section explores ... More
Shannon's bi-annual American & European Fine Art Auction grosses $2.5 million
MILFORD, CONN.- Shannons Fine Art Auctioneers just concluded its best auction in five years, as the firm achieved an 80 percent sell-through on the 244 artworks that came up for bid in a sale that grossed $2.5 million. The event Shannons bi-annual American & European Fine Art Auction was held on Thursday, April 26th, online and at Shannons gallery in Milford, Conn. The sale was a big success across all genres, which included the Hudson River School, American Impressionism, Modernism and European fine art. Many fine 19th century paintings also came up for bid. Modernism in particular did especially well, with new world auction records set for two artists: Eugene Berman (American/Russian, 1899-1972) and Alice L. Mattern (Am., 1909-1945). Remarkably, both record prices were identical $81,250. The Berman painting ... More
Fondation d'entreprise Hermès presents an exhibition by artist duo Marie Cool Fabio Balducci
BRUSSELS.- As part of the Poésie balistique (Ballistic Poetry) season instigated at La Verrière, the Brussels art space of the Fondation dentreprise Hermès, curator Guillaume Désanges presents a monograph exhibition by the French-Italian art duo Marie Cool Fabio Balducci. Since meeting in 1995, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci have created a joint uvre characterised by slow, minimalist, often repetitive gestures: actions executed or documented within the exhibition space, using everyday objects (pens, thread, hand-cream) often associated with clerical work (sheets of A4 paper, office desks, Scotch tape, rulers). The calm, pre-determined, repetitive gestures enact a gradual shift into the realm of poetry, creating a space for freedom and silent resistance out of workplace ... More
Sotheby's to offer the Quidam de Revel collection dedicated to fashion and haute couture
PARIS.- Sothebys unveiled the Quidam de Revel collection dedicated to fashion and haute couture, to be sold in Paris on 5 July 2018. Collected by Emmanuelle and Philippe Harros, the 160 pieces, jewellery and accessories which date from the 1930s - 2000s provide a wide overview of iconic designs by couturiers who have left their mark on the history of fashion. Hidden from the public eye for the last twenty years, these items will now be showcased at the Galerie Charpentier for a few days only. Quidam de Revel needs no introduction in the world of fashion. The name is already known to cultivated fashion-lovers in search of a unique piece that is rich in history to lend new chic to their wardrobes. Emmanuelle and Philippe Harros, the couple behind the brand, have always worked with discretion. For twenty years now, they have sought out and preserved ... More
Hammer Museum appoints new Artist Council members Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Rafa Esparza
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum announced today the appointment of Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Rafa Esparza to its Artist Council. Established in 2006, the Artist Council is a rotating advisory group of 10-15 internationally renowned, Los Angeles-based artists. The group meets regularly with Hammer curators and leadership to engage in extended conversations about specific programmatic issues at the Hammer as well as broad conceptual questions facing contemporary museums today. The Artist Council is a crucial guiding voice within the Hammer Museum, and Im delighted to see Njideka and Rafa join their ranks. We rely on the Artist Council to challenge and enhance the Hammers standing as an intellectual and cultural laboratory of ideas. Njideka and Rafa are valuable additions to this esteemed group, said Hammer Museum ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Frederic Edwin Church was born May 04, 2018. Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 - April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, perhaps best known for painting large panoramic landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets, but also sometimes depicting dramatic natural phenomena that he saw during his travels to the Arctic and Central and South America. In this image: Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), Winter Twilight from Olana, about 1871-2. Oil on paper, 25.6 x 33 cm© New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation / Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY (OL.1976.4).
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