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This file photo taken on August 31, 2016 shows Egyptians riding their carts past the Great Pyramid of Cheops, aka Pyramid of Khufu, on the Giza Plateau, on the southern outskirts of the capital Cairo. Scientists have found, but not yet examined, a mysterious, Boeing-sized "void" in the Great Pyramid of Egypt -- a fourth cavity besides the already-known king and queen's "chambers" and Grand Gallery, they announced on November 2, 2017. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP.
by Mariette le Roux and Laurence Coustal
PARIS.- A passenger plane-sized "void" has been discovered in the middle of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, where it has lain secret and untouched for 4,500 years, scientists revealed on Thursday. The space is one of four cavities, along with the king and queen's chambers and "Grand Gallery", now known to exist inside the giant monument constructed under pharaoh Khufu of ancient Egypt. "It is big," said co-discoverer Mehdi Tayoubi of the ScanPyramids project, which has been exploring Khufu's pyramid since October 2015 with non-invasive technology using subatomic particle scans. "It's the size of a 200-seater airplane, in the heart of the pyramid," Tayoubi told AFP of the discovery, published in science journal Nature. Towering over the Giza complex on Cairo's outskirts alongside smaller pyramids for kings Menkaure and Khafre and the Great Sphinx, the Khufu's pyramid is the oldest and only surviving construction among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and one of the largest buildings ever ere ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Wall of Sound Editions has published a phenomenal new limited edition book of photographs of Bruce Springsteen made by Frank Stefanko. Bruce Springsteen Further Up the Road is an astounding anthology of over 40 years of largely unseen images of Springsteen, all shot by Stefanko throughout Springsteen's epic career.
| Exhibition at Pace London examines American abstract painting in the 1960s and 70s | | Exhibition reveals for the first time the influences between Rufino Tamayo and the American art world | | Friends of Florence completes major restoration of Renaissance frescoes at Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata |
Kenneth Noland, Galore, 1966 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 24" x 94" (61 cm x 238.8 cm), horizontal, 94" x 24" (238.8 cm x 61 cm), vertical © Estate of Kenneth Noland. DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2017. Photography by Tom Barratt.
LONDON.- Pace London presents IMPULSE, an exhibition that examines American abstract painting in the 1960s and 70s, co-curated by Tamara Corm, Senior Director at Pace London, and Amelie von Wedel and Pernilla Holmes, Wedel Art. Charting unprecedented experiments in pure colour, improvisational techniques and the sculptural potential of painting, IMPULSE features works by Frank Bowling, Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland that demonstrate the freeform and highly innovative breakthroughs in abstraction in this period. IMPULSE is on view at Pace, 6 Burlington Gardens, from 3 November 22 December 2017. The 60s and 70s were a radical time in the history of abstract painting in America. Emerging from the dominance of Abstract Expressionism ... More | |
Rufino Tamayo, Carnival [Carnaval], 1941, oil on canvas, 44 1/8 x 33 1/4 in. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1942. © Tamayo Heirs/Mexico/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Rufino Tamayo (18991991), one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century, was drawn to New York City at a time when unparalleled transatlantic and hemispheric cross-cultural exchange was taking place. Tamayo: The New York Years is the first exhibition to explore the influences between this major Mexican modernist and the American art world. It reveals how a Mexican artist forged a new path in the modern art of the Americas and contributed to New Yorks dynamic cultural scene as the city was becoming a center of postwar art. Tamayo: The New York Years brings together 41 of Tamayos finest artworks, including a number of key loans from public and private collections in Mexico, that place Tamayo at the center of a major shift in the history of 20th-century art. The ... More | |
Andrea del Sarto, Birth of the Virgin, 1514 (after restoration).
WASHINGTON, DC.- Friends of Florence and its partners celebrate the completion of a four-year restoration project at the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata in Florence of twelve superb lunette frescoes, architectural elements, and marble statues in the Cloister of the Vows funded by the organization. The frescoes are by Florentine Renaissance masters Alessio Baldovinetti (1424‒99), Andrea del Sarto (1486‒1530), Andrea Feltrino (1477‒1548), Rosso Fiorentino (1495‒1540), Franciabigio (1482‒1525), Pontormo (1494-1557), and Cosimo Rosselli (1439‒1507). The sculptural components include columns, portals, and coats of arms as well as a bas-relief depicting the Madonna of the Snow attributed to Luca della Robbia (1400‒82) and a bust of Andrea del Sarto. The Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata was built between 1444 and 1477, based on designs by Michelozzo (1396‒1472) and Leon Battista Alberti ( ... More |
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| Major exhibition by Sean Scully to go on tour in Russia | | Dolby Chadwick Gallery opens an exhibition of new work by Barbara Vaughn | | Christie's announces highlights from the fall sale of Latin American Art |
Sean Scully, Wall of Light Blue Black Sea, 2009 (detail). Oil on aluminum, 216 x 190.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist. © Sean Scully.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA.- Following a series of highly successful exhibitions in China, the international acclaimed abstract artist Sean Scully will have a touring show at The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow opening on 3 November 2017, curated by Russias leading curator Olga Siblova. Sean Scully: Facing East, a career-spanning solo exhibition of works by the artist, will then travel to the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg from 15 February - 9 April, 2018. The thirty paintings, watercolours, mixed-media compositions, and pastels that are featured in the exhibition chronicle the artists rise to prominence as one of the most significant painters of his era. His name, the legendary art critic and cultural philosopher Arthur Danto insisted, belongs on the shortest of short lists of the major painters of our time. To move chronologically in the exhibition from work to workfrom the sole ... More | |
Barbara Vaughn, Red, Black & Blue. 42 x 30.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery announces Uncharted Waters, an exhibition of new work by Barbara Vaughn, on view from November 2 to December 2. This show addresses changes in environmental, social, and immigration policies promulgated by the new administration. Over the past five years, Vaughn has explored abstraction and different modes of seeing by photographing harbors and canals in locations across the world. Each split-second, closely cropped capture of the surface of a given body of waterand its consequent reflectionsfeatures elliptical and biomorphic forms, undulating movement, and often bold color palettes. The subject matter is not immediately recognizable as water, let alone the natural world. The works in Uncharted Waters utilize these same processes but incorporate narrative elements that furnish them with a new and urgent subtext. Vaughn describes these photographs as her response ... More | |
Alfredo Ramos Martinez, Mujer con flores. Oil on canvas, painted circa 1932. Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces the fall season of Latin American Art with the live auction taking place November 21-22 and an online auction running November 13-21. Combined, the sales include over 200 lots, offering a comprehensive selection from 18th-century colonial painting through modern and contemporary masterpieces, and together the sales expect to realize in excess of $18 million. Featured are works from private collections including CUBA MODERNA: Masterworks from a Private Collection; The Collection of Estela and JoaquÃn Shapiro; The Collection of Clara Diament Sujo; The Tuttleman Collection; The Lance Aaron Family Collection; and Property from the Collection of Reyna Henaine. Works from the live and online auctions will be on view November 18-21 at Christies Rockefeller Plaza. Leading the sale is a sumptuous canvas by Claudio Bravo (1936-2011), Lux ... More |
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| Carpenters Workshop Gallery exhibits Vincent Dubourg's organic, dynamic, and sculptural works | | Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery opens exhibition dedicated to Middle Eastern art | | Jim Shaw's first exhibition in New York since 2015 opens at Metro Pictures |
Vincent Dubourg, Buffet Grand Vortex, 2017. Aluminium. H130 L245 W88 CM / H51.2 L96.5 W34.6 in. Limited edition of 8 + 4 AP.
NEW YORK, NY.- For more than fifteen years, Vincent Dubourg has dealt with form and metamorphosis. Like a blacksmith, the artist draws on fire, air and water to shape the contours of his creation. In great urgency he draws, permeates and marks his objects, drawing from deep sources within his being. Simultaneously a poet of form, artist and artisan, he guides his gesture to give voice. He expresses great admiration for natures genius and this incomparable model dictates each of his actions. From Dubourgs workshop in Creuse, he creates organic, dynamic, and sculptural forms guided by the daily confrontation of natures beauty and the perception of time. His new collection is animated by a discreet movement, delicate pigmentation, and a breath of life. A vortex whirls in a circular motion, it forms a vacuum, and embodies subjects to its action. In water it swirls but what happens beneath ... More | |
Alfred Basbous, Woman Nude, 2001, Marble, 40 x 27 x 21 cm. Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys is presenting an exhibition dedicated to Middle Eastern art, Two Moderns from the Middle East: Reza Derakshani and Alfred Basbous, which is on display at Sothebys Hong Kong Gallery from 3 to 17 November 2017. The exhibition is guest-curated by international art advisors Arianne Levene Piper and Eglantine de Ganay-dEspous, in association with Sophia Contemporary Gallery and the Alfred Basbous Foundation. Over the past decade, Middle Eastern art has gained increasing recognition on the international stage. As such, it has started to catch the attention of Asian collectors, whose tastes have diversified beyond the traditional Asian arts. In response to the regions growing interest, Sothebys brings to Hong Kong works by two iconic Middle Eastern artists: Reza Derakshani (b. 1952), one of Irans most celebrated living artists, and Lebanese-born modern sculptor Alfred Basbous (1924-2006). The s ... More | |
Jim Shaw, Daniel's Dream #2 (The Eleventh Horn), 2017. Acrylic on muslin, 44 x 36 1/2 inches, 111.8 x 92.7 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jim Shaws exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture, and video at Metro Pictures is the influential artists first in New York since his 2015 New Museum survey "The End is Here, where he exhibited his idiosyncratic works alongside his exalted collection of thrift store paintings (first shown at Metro Pictures in 1991) and densely accumulated oddball religious ephemera. An icon of the Los Angeles art scene, he is associated with a generation of artists that includes Mike Kelley, John Miller, and Tony Oursler, all of whom studied at CalArts in the 1970s. Rendered in exquisite detail, Shaws virtuosic work combines his analysis of the political, social and spiritual histories of the United States with contemplative reflections of his own psyche. For more than three decades he has examined art history, comic books, subcultural undergrounds and consumer productsto name only a ... More |
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| Ubuntu Art Gallery showcases "The River" by Mutaz Elemam | | Matthew Barton Ltd's November auction celebrates ten centuries of decorative arts | | A bouyant mood sets the tone at TEFAF New York Fall |
Mutaz Elemam was born and raised in Kassala in the Eastern region of Sudan.
CAIRO.- In an unprecedented tour de force, Ubuntu Art Gallery showcases for the first time The River, a large-scale and hugely significant painting by artist Mutaz Elemam. Executed over a span of five months and completed in March 2011, this is a work of monumental magnitude that spans 203 cm in height and 735cm in width. The work itself holds a personal importance to Elemam and has been kept until now as part of his own personal collection. The River is a stand-alone achievement and is a seminal painting that heralded the artists subsequent body of works; Memories of The Nile and Unyielding River, through which he explores not only the vegetative and animal life of the river but celebrates its glory and perenniality through his own distinctive visual idiom. Engaging and engulfing by its sheer size , tactile in ... More | |
A monumental 10th Century Cham Stone Head of a Dvarapala from the Da Nang Region of Vietnam. Estimate: £8,000-12,000.
LONDON.- A fascinating selection of items reflecting all aspects of decorative arts from all over the world will be included Matthew Barton Ltds bi-annual auction of European & Asian Decorative Works of Art on Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at the collective of auctioneers based at 25 Blythe Road. The sale which comprises just over 500 lots of Silver, Ceramics, Jewellery, Watches, Works of Art, and Objects of Vertu, from both Europe and Asia, has prices ranging from £50 through to £12000 Asian objects catalogued by specialist Arthur Millner are well represented. One of the earliest pieces in the sale is a monumental 10th Century Cham Stone Head of a Dvarapala from the Da Nang Region of Vietnam. The Hindu kingdom of Champa, which occupied most of the Southern half of modern ... More | |
Michele Tosini, An Idealized Female Figure. Photo: Haboldt.
NEW YORK, NY.- The second edition of TEFAF New York Fall came to a close yesterday, November 1, 2017, at the historic Park Avenue Armory, following six days of steady, strong sales and attendance from international artworld and academic leaders, collectors, and the public. The Fair presented 95 of the worlds top art and antiques dealers, including a dozen new participants, with museum-caliber fine and decorative arts ranging from antiquity to the early 20thcentury, fostering a rare, diverse and vibrant visual experience. Following a stellar kick-off and preview day on Friday, October 27, which attracted vigorous sales within the first moments of opening, TEFAF New York Fall continued to welcome buyers from both public and private collections from across the globe, as well as such notable attendees ... More |
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Castello di Rivoli presents a major retrospective by arte povera artist Gilberto Zorio
TURIN.- For the first time in a public museum in Turin, the Castello di Rivoli presents a major retrospective devoted to the work of Gilberto Zorio (b. Andorno Micca, 1944), a contemporary art pioneer and a key member of Arte Povera. Curated by Marcella Beccaria and developed in dialogue with the artist himself, this exhibition includes new installations together with historical works, spanning over 50 years of the artists career. This comprehensive and innovative presentation features some of Zorios most important works from his early days, including historical installations jealously guarded by the artist in his own private collection. These rare pieces are being presented to the public alongside other works from various collections and those from the Museums permanent collection. New site-specific installations conceived by Zorio for the third floor of the ... More
Sotheby's to offer the IWC Big Pilot's Watch Annual Calendar Edition "Le Petit Prince"
GENEVA.- Sothebys renews its partnership with the prestigious watchmaker IWC Schaffhausen, and to offer a one-of-a-kind timepiece at auction to benefit the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation. During Sothebys sale of Important Watches on 12 November 2017, we will present a completely unique special edition watch by IWC Schaffhausen: the IWC Big Pilot's Watch Annual Calendar Edition "Le Petit Prince"(Reference IW502705, Lot 183). This extremely attractive wristwatch in 18-carat white gold is a homage to author and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and features an annual calendar function with the month, date and day in three separate semi-circular windows. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the watch will benefit the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation, whose charitable work is dedicated to supporting young people and children ... More
Sargent's Daughters opens exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Peter Granados
NEW YORK, NY.- Sargent's Daughters is presenting In Search of the Miraculous, an exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Peter Granados. This is Granados' first exhibition with the gallery, and is on view from Wednesday, November 1st through December 3rd, 2017. Granados spent his childhood in a California "Fourth Way School" -- an organization committed to the esoteric practices and "systems of self-development" introduced by early 20th century Russian mystic, G.I. Gurdjieff, and the exhibition title takes its name from the book In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky, who was a student of Gurdjieff's. Unlike most esoteric organizations that came into being in California during the early 1970's, this one grew prosperous. By the early 1990's it had amassed thousands of international followers and cultivated a fantastic 360 acre property ... More
Veteran antique dealer's luxury car collection was star attraction at Milestone's Oct. 14 auction
WILLOUGHBY, OH.- The late Charlie Schalebaum needed no introduction at the renowned Hershey Car Show. He was a legend in the trade, known far and wide as the King of Hershey for his consistently high-quality displays of automobilia. On October 14, Milestone Auctions of suburban Cleveland, Ohio, conducted a 496-lot sale of Schalebaums fine automobiles, automotive art, and eclectic array of antiques that Milestone co-owner Chris Sammet described as an absolutely unique collection of conversation starters. Not surprisingly, the big-ticket items of the day were Schalebaums beautifully maintained luxury cars. A West Coast online bidder secured the top lot, a 1982 Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible with only 15,707 actual miles on its odometer. Finished in classic blue over silver with a black interior, ... More
Jessica Baran joins Barrett Barrera as Associate Director of Curatorial and Program Development
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The success of recent events, expansion of vision, and strong pool of international artists looking to present innovative works has led St. Louis-based Barrett Barrera Projects to make an exciting addition to their leadership team. Jessica Baran will serve as Associate Director of Curatorial and Program Development, providing thought leadership, contemporary art expertise, artist advisement, and assistance in developing events and programs through Barrett Barrera Projects and its affiliate gallery projects+gallery. Baran is a curator, art writer and poet who has authored three poetry collections and whose poems and art criticism have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. In 2013, she received Lost Roads Press first Besmilir Brigham Women Writers Award for her book Equivalents and in 2014 was a recipient of a Regional Arts ... More
Gulf Coast and Hill Country landscapes loom large in Heritage's Texas Art Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Exceptional examples by Texas' most important plein air artists, including Autumn on River by José Arpa y Perea (est. $20,000-30,000) and Alexandre Hogue's Glen Rose, 1926(est. $20,000-30,000), will cross the block Nov. 18 at Heritage Auctions. The firm's fall Texas Art Auction offers several fresh-to-market masterworks and highly-sough-after contemporary art. "Punctuated with a mix of classic and contemporary, this auction presents admirers of Texas art rare and noteworthy selections appealing to every range of collector," said Atlee Phillips, director of Texas Art at Heritage Auctions. In Autumn on River, Perea's talent is on full display with his tactical use of heavy impasto to render the boulders and leaves juxtaposed against his delicate brush in the rendering of a Texas stream. His subtle use of color and light makes the painting an ... More
"Like a Moth to a Flame" opens at OGR Torino
TURIN.- Come una falena alla fiamma (Like a Moth to a Flame) - 2 Spaces, 54 Artists, 1 Birth, 1 Anniversary is the title of the great exhibition project realised together by OGR Torino and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, which opens to the public from 4 November 2017 till 14 January 2018 at the premises of the two cultural institutes of Turin. Like a Moth to a Flame is an ambitious project, signed by three outstanding international curators, for the first time called to work together and interact with Turin and its important artistic heritage: Tom Eccles, director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at the Bard College of New York, Mark Rappolt, chief editor of the British magazine Art Review, and the British artist Liam Gillick. The exhibition aims at providing a portrait of Turin through the objects that the town and its residents have collected. Like a Moth to a Flame develops ... More
National Maritime Museum unveils artwork inspired by life and surgeries of WWI survivor
GREENWICH.- As part of the National Maritime Museums commemorations for the WWI centenary artist-in-residence Paddy Hartleys new artwork is being displayed in locations across the Museum from 3 November 2017. The new pieces created by Paddy are inspired by the lives and surgeries of sailors, who suffered devastating injuries when serving at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 the largest naval battle of the First World War. At the heart of Paddys new artworks are a series of poignant pieces inspired by Swansea-born Able Seaman William Vicarage. Since 2004, with support from Wellcome, Paddy has been researching the astonishing life story of Vicarage, from his survival of the Battle of Jutland in which he sustained life-changing burns to his face and hands, to the pioneering surgery he received at the hands of WWI surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, ... More
Michael Hoppen Gallery opens exhibition of works by Chilean artist Juana Gómez
LONDON.- Chilean artist Juana Gómezs hand embroidered photographic canvases combine the spheres of scientific exploration with ancestral tradition. Weaving complex scientific and mythological patterns onto images of both her own and her daughters bodies, her work is interested in placing mankind within a broader context of interconnectivity. Rather than seeing us as individuals, dethatched from one another and the world around us, Gómez positions us as part of an ancient chain that goes back to the origin of life: a combination of patterns, molecules and small organisms. The word Distaff defines both the matrilineal branch of a family, and also the domestic life, describing a tool that bears the same name used for manually spinning fleece. Both meanings are relevant to Gómezs work, as she utilises weaving and embroidery to explore the themes of genealogy, ... More
Thematic installation Cyberbodies addresses the intersection of digital culture and the body
SANTA FE, NM.- Art House is presenting Cyberbodies, a new thematic installation of artworks showcasing significant highlights and new acquisitions from the Foundations digital art collection, including works by pioneering digital artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eduardo Kac, and Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). Together, the works explore the ways in which emerging technologies extend, distort and disrupt how bodiesespecially womensare viewed as objects of desire in digital culture. The technologies in Cyberbodies include interactive videodisc and touchscreen, a pre-internet Minitel system, and customized generative software. The new exhibition enhances the installation Code as Form, also on view. A presentation of visual, optical, and abstract art generated from biometric data, acoustic signals, music and Morse Code, Code as Form reveals data itself to be a wellspring of artistic ... More
Freeman's Fine Jewelry Auction breaks company record
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- When the hammer fell on the last lot in yesterdays Fine Jewelry auction, Freemans set a new company record: the rare Belle Ãpoque fancy vivid yellow diamond pendant by J.E. Caldwell and Co. soared past its $250,000-350,000 presale estimate, selling for $760,000 and becoming the most expensive piece of jewelry Freemans has sold in recent history. The 10.59 carat, cushion-cut diamond hailed from a private collection and attracted rare diamond collectors and connoisseurs from around the world. Fifteen phone bidders actively sought the diamond. Yesterdays results provided solid confirmation of how strong the market is for rare gems, Department Head Virginia Salem said. We saw unwavering participation from bidders around the globe. The vigorous bidding for the fancy vivid yellow cushion-cut diamond was a testimony ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Annibale Carracci was born November 03, 2017. Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 - July 15, 1609) was an Italian Baroque painter. In this image: Eugenio Riccomini, curator of the exhibition of Italian painter Annibale Carracci, stands next to the painting "I macellai" (The butchers) during the exhibit opening in Bologna, Italy, Thursday Sept. 21, 2006. Carracci, who lived from 1560 to 1609 was underpaid in his lifetime and undervalued for centuries after his death and at last is having a renaissance in his native Bologna. Carracci's mastery ranged from sympathetic and realistic portraits of common folk like butchers, to magnificent frescoes adorning palatial residences in Rome.
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