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An archaeologist works on remains of dogs and guinea pigs found in one of the archaeologist sites of the "Parque de las Leyendas" (Park of the Legends) zoo in Lima on September 20, 2016. The main zoo in Peru, "Parque de las Leyendas", is surrounded by prehispanic sanctuaries, in which were already found two tattooed people, hundreds of sacrified dogs and guinea pigs. ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP.
by Roberto Cortijo
LIMA (AFP).- As lions, tigers and bears roam lazily about Peru's largest zoo, archeologists are busy digging up stranger animals from the ground beneath them. The zoo, the Park of Legends in the capital, Lima, is also the burial site of scores of ancient dogs apparently sacrificed 1,000 years ago at the funerals of fallen warriors, whose remains lie beside them. Before it became a zoo and botanical garden in 1964, the park was a sacred site for at least three ancient civilizations: the Lima culture (AD 100-650), the Ichma culture (900-1470) and the Incas (1200-1500). The dogs, sacrificed by the Ichma, are often found with ropes still tied around their necks, which bear the telltale signs of animal sacrifice: slit throats or strangulation wounds. Surprisingly, their fur is still intact. Their human companions' remains often show signs of violent ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This file photo taken on June 11, 2009 shows US singer Bob Dylan performing during the 37th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Michael Douglas at Sony Pictures in Culver City, California. US songwriter Bob Dylan won the Nobel Literature Prize on October 13, 2016, the first songwriter to win the prestigious award and an announcement that surprised prize watchers. KEVIN WINTER / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts launches digital Fabergé archive | | $10 million map of New York Harbour to be offered at TEFAF New York | | Rock poet Bob Dylan wins Nobel Literature Prize |
Fabergé firm (Russian). Imperial Tsesarevich Easter Egg, 1912. Platinum, lapis lazuli, diamonds, watercolor on ivory, rock crystal, 3.75 x 2.375 in. (9.53 x 6.03 cm.) Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Bequest of Lillian Thomas Pratt. (Photo: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts).
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced the launch of its first digital archive, which documents the formation of the museum's renowned Fabergé and Russian decorative arts collection at www.faberge.vmfa.museum. Organized through the museums Margaret R. and Robert M. Freeman Library, this project was made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Bequeathed to the museum upon her death in 1947, Lillian Thomas Pratts Fabergé collection consistently remains one of the highlights of the museums permanent collection. In 1917, Pratt married her second husband, John Lee Pratt, a self-made millionaire engineer and businessman with General Motors. She began purchasing her collection of over 500 items, while accompanying her husband on ... More | |
The 1531 map of the world by Vesconte Maggiolo is the earliest extant depiction of New York Harbour, and is priced at $10 million. Photo: Courtesy of Daniel Crouch Rare Books.
NEW YORK, NY.- Daniel Crouch Rare Books will exhibit the most expensive map ever offered on the open market at TEFAF New York (21-26 October 2016). The 1531 map of the world by Vesconte Maggiolo is the earliest extant depiction of New York Harbour, and is priced at $10 million. The map depicts Giovanni de Verrazzanos epic first voyage to the new world when he became the first European mariner to anchor in New York harbour. Verrazzano named the area Angouleme in honour of his patron Francis I of France, who was known as Francis of Angouleme before becoming king. Here he met and reported enthusiastically on the local indigenous people who were Algonquian-speakers. In letters to Francis I he describes the beauty and abundance of the land. The voyage was rife with challenges, from losing half the fleet to terrible storms, as well as many men succumbing to malnutrition and scurvy. However, having sailed from Die ... More | |
This file photo taken on July 29, 1981 shows US singer Bob Dylan performing during a concert in Munich, southern Germany. US songwriter Bob Dylan won the Nobel Literature Prize on October 13, 2016, the first songwriter to win the prestigious award and an announcement that surprised prize watchers. Frank Leonhardt / DPA / AFP.
STOCKHOLM (AFP).- US music legend Bob Dylan, whose poetic lyrics have influenced generations of fans, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, the first songwriter to win the award in a decision that stunned prize watchers. The 75-year-old was honoured "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition", the Swedish Academy said. The choice was met by gasps and a long round of spontaneous applause from journalists attending the prize announcement. The folk rock singer had been mentioned in Nobel speculation over the years, but was never seen as a serious contender. The Academy's permanent secretary Sara Danius said Dylan's songs were "poetry for the ears" while acknowledging that some might find Dylan a "strange" choice. "... if ... More |
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| Paint, urine and (fake) blood: Russia conservatives attack art shows | | Winning design announced for new art museum in Beirut | | Exhibition features the most complete surviving example of a Gothic table fountain |
A man walks past a mural depicting Soviet World War II era pilots in Moscow on October 12, 2016. Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- Heading to an exhibition of photographs of Ukrainian troops, Russian art lecturer Anton Belikov slipped a can of red paint into his pocket. Enraged by the images of pro-Kiev fighters on display at Moscow's Andrei Sakharov Centre, Belikov began spraying them with paint, and throwing them onto the floor. It was the second time in less than a week that conservative activists with powerful backers had targeted a Moscow exhibit showing images seen as harmful to Russia, as conflicts in Ukraine and Syria sharpen anti-Western moods. Belikov's complaint was that the photos -- taken by acclaimed reporters -- were too positive on the Ukrainians fighting against pro-Russian rebels that the West claims are backed by the Kremlin. "I decided to do it at the moment when I realised the photos weren't showing the horrors of war," said ... More | |
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BEIRUT.- An international jury, chaired by Lord Peter Palumbo, Chairman of The Pritzker Prize for Architecture, has selected the winning design for the competition to design Beiruts newest art museum, BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art. The firm HW architecture, led by Lebanese/French architect Hala Wardé, was selected from a shortlist of 13 design teams. The new museum will be centrally located in the heart of the Beirut positioned on a symbolically-charged site in Beirut that once marked the dividing lines in the Lebanese civil war now to be transformed into a site of unification. The museums permanent collection will include modern and contemporary artworks from Lebanon, the Lebanese diaspora and the wider region. The jury also included curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Dame Julia Peyton-Jones; architects George Arbid, Dr. Farès el-Dahdah, Dr. Rodolphe El-Khoury, Rem Koolhaas, and Lord Richard Rogers; artist Lamia Jorei ... More | |
Table Fountain, c. 132040 (detail). France, Paris. Gilt-silver, translucent enamel on basse-taille, opaque enamel; 31.1 x 24.1 cm. (weight 2.7 kg). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade 1924.859.          Â
CLEVELAND, OH.- Myth and Mystique: Clevelands Gothic Table Fountain, for the first time, presents the Cleveland Museum of Arts Gothic table fountain as the focus of a single exhibition. The table fountain is being displayed among a group of objects including luxury silver, hand-washing vessels, enamels, illuminated manuscripts and a major painting. Each informs some aspect of the fountains history, functionality, presumed use and context, materials, technique, dating and style. Some of these works are important international loans, notably Jan van Eycks painting Madonna at the Fountain from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, which also comprises part of the museums centennial loan program. Van Eyck is considered the most significant Northern Renaissance ... More |
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| Paintings and landscapes by Everett Gee Jackson on view at Hirschl & Adler | | Exhibition of new sculptures by Arlene Shechet opens at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. | | Nobel prize-winning Italian playwright Dario Fo dead |
Everett Gee Jackson, Girl with Acacia Tree, 1931. Oil on canvas, 27 x 23 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- In September 1930, Everett Gee Jackson published a short treatise on modern art. In Modernism Without Apologies, Jackson noted, Form is the material of modernists. . . . It is the contention of the modernist that, by the arrangement of forms, colors and lines considered abstractly, one may possibly express objectively his emotional reaction to experiences with nature. Jacksons own path to modernism was steered and accelerated by a 1923 student visit to Guadalajara, Mexico. With its unique blend of ancient and Old World cultures, and vibrant contemporary mural painting movement, Mexico captivated Jackson. The young artist spent the next four years, on and off, traveling through the Mexican countryside and voraciously drawing inspiration from the work of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Siqueiros, and other artists of the Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors. Under the influence of the Mexican ... More | |
Arlene Shechet, Full On, 2016. Glazed ceramic, painted and carved hardwood, gold, 19.5 x 16.5 x 12.5 inches, 49.5 x 41.9 x 31.8 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. presents Turn Up the Bass, an exhibition of new sculptures by Arlene Shechet on view from October 13, 2016 through November 12, 2016. In Turn Up the Bass, Arlene Shechet continues to break new ground, presenting a generative new body of work that advances her long history of integrating object and pedestal. A master of glaze, she displays her technical virtuosity in these sculptures by using a new homemade clay to cast positive elements from the hollows of carved wood, concrete and steel. The clay undulates and circulates throughout these solid materials, as parts fit into, under and around each other. Erasing the boundary between base and sculpture, this interpenetrating process creates dynamic hybrid forms. At once structural and biological, Shechets sculptures are infused with a vital combination of incursion, vulnerability, strength and eroticism. In a series of low ... More | |
Italian playwrite and 1997 Nobel literature laureate, Dario Fo, joking before receiving the Doctor Honoris Causa title in Rome. TIZIANA FABI / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- Italian satirical dramatist Dario Fo, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1997, died on Thursday aged 90, prompting an outpouring of tributes for a provocative playwright unafraid to clash with authority. The writer and actor succumbed to complications arising from a lung condition he had suffered for several years, his doctor told a news conference. Left-winger Fo, one of the leading figures in 20th century farce and political theatre, was best known for his works "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" and "Can't Pay, Won't Pay". His anti-conformist stance and commitment to political and social causes involved him in numerous court cases and controversies with the Italian state, police, censors, television and even the Vatican. "With Dario Fo's death, Italy has lost one of the great characters of its theatre, culture and civilian life," Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said in comments carried by the Agi news ... More |
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| Bertoia's Annual Fall Auction presents diverse categories of toys, banks, trains and holiday antiques | | Egyptian masterpiece sells for £1.2 million as Bonhams smashes records in Middle Eastern Art sale | | Katharine DeShaw named Academy Museum Managing Director, Advancement And External Relations |
Early miniature butcher shop, German, possibly by Gottschalk, well detailed and accessorized, est. $1,600-$2,200
VINELAND, NJ.- Bertoias is a house of many collector specialties, but its a rare occasion when all of those specialty categories come together under one roof in one fabulous sale. That will be the case on Nov. 11, 12 and 13 when Bertoias presents its perennially popular Annual Fall Auction featuring selections from many premier collections of toys, trains, banks and holiday antiques. More than 2,100 lots will be offered, and those who cannot join the fun in person are encouraged to take part by bidding absentee, over the phone or live online. An overview of the expansive three-day event reveals that, by the number of lots offered, there are 160+ containing European and American trains, 150+ European autos, boats and airplanes; 100+ European clockwork toys (including Lehmanns and Martins), 150+ comic character toys, 98 steam plants, 100 penny ... More | |
Mahmoud Saids Lile Heureuse made five times its estimate, selling for a record breaking £1.2m. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Coming to the market for the first time in history, Lile Heureuse (1927) a masterpiece by Mahmoud Said (Egypt, 1897-1964) smashed its estimate of £200,000-300,000, selling for £1.2m. This is a record for any Arab artwork sold in the past five years And the highest price ever achieved for Middle Eastern artwork sold outside the region The highlight in a wide-ranging sale of 20th Century Arab and Iranian Art, Lile Heureuse or Happy Isle is regarded as a cultural landmark. Painted at an important turning point in Mahmoud Saids career, it was this work that established the artists signature style the stylized depiction of traditional Egyptian life. Presented as a gift from the artist to his close friend Jean Nicolaides in the 1930s, the work was then lost for nearly half a century as it passed by descent through the Nicolaides family. As Nima Sagharchi, Bonhams ... More | |
Beginning on November 1, DeShaw will direct all aspects of fundraising.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced the appointment of Katharine DeShaw as its Managing Director, Advancement and External Relations. Beginning on November 1, DeShaw will direct all aspects of fundraising, including completion of the $388 million capital campaign to support the new Museum, now under construction. She will play a key leadership role in expanding external relations efforts, including community and civic outreach, while supporting publicity and marketing initiatives for the Museum. As we forge ahead toward our opening, Katharine brings not just expertise but also superb leadership, born of nearly three decades of success in philanthropy and the arts, said Kerry Brougher, Director of the Academy Museum. She has the skills, the vision and, above all, the talent to help us create the great movie museum that the film capital of the world expects and deserves. DeShaw ... More |
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Rare William James Glackens New York street scene offered at Gray's
CLEVELAND, OH.- Following the success of their Modern, Contemporary & Conceptual art auction in September with a 90% sell rate, of which 20% sold over estimate, Grays Auctioneers announces its October 26 live and online auction. The most notable lot in the auction is Lot 8A a rare and exciting discovery of an oil on canvas by William James Glackens (1870-1938), one of the founders of the Ashcan School of American Art. This painting, depicting an evening street scene, embodies the quest to capture urban realism and the vitality of everyday life in New York City. A smoking street vendor offers passers-by a chance to Have a look at Venus 10ȼ, while a man looks through the vendors telescope, street lights and shop windows glow in the background. The nude has been an iconic image throughout art history. In 1504 Michelangelo defined the beauty of the male figure ... More
Buck Schiwetz Regionalism in Texas Art Auction at Heritage
DALLAS, TX.- An important collection of artwork by Edward Muegge "Buck" Schiwetz, telling the story of Texas' thriving industrial history, highlights an important selection of Modernism in Heritage Auctions' autumn Texas Art Auction Oct. 29 in Dallas. Paintings in the auction's selection of Schiwetz's work include Pelicans by the Matagorda Bay, 1966 (est. $10,000-$15,000) and San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo), 1967 (est. $5,000-$7,000). Schiwetz's drawings and watercolors reached critical acclaim when they were featured in The Humble Way magazine in 1945 to promote the areas of Texas where the Humble Oil and Refining Company operated. Its popularity prompted the company to publish the first Texas Sketchbook in 1952, a compilation of Schiwetz drawings of Texas. Revised and enlarged editions followed in 1958 and again in 1962. Schiwetz's work has since been ... More
Warhol, Picasso, Freud, Emin and more in Modern and Contemporary Editions Auction
LONDON.- The biggest names in modern and contemporary art will be offered for auction on Wednesday 9th November 2016 at Dreweatts & Bloomsburys Modern & Contemporary Editions sale. The auction will begin at 11am at Bloomsbury House, 24 Maddox Street, London. Estimates range from £100 - £10,000. Of particular note is lot 144, Andy Warhols Joseph Beuys in Memoriam (F.&S.371), expected to reach £10,000 - £15,000 (pictured). Warhol created the print as a tribute to the artist Joseph Beuys, who was considered one of the most influential post-war art figures of the 1960s. While they were never said to be close friends, Warhol and Beuys greatly admired each other. Though their styles varied, the two artists are often associated with one another; particularly as they both worked with the Japanese artist Kaii Higashiyama, on the "Global-Art-Fusion" project in 1985 ... More
Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art unveils 70-foot immersive drawing installation
COLLEGEVILLE, PA.- An immersive drawing installation inspired by Collegeville, Phoenixville, and the Route 29 corridor between them now greets visitors to the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art on the Ursinus College campus. Especially commissioned for the museum, In the Weeds by Baltimore artist Amanda Burnham is the first in a yearly series that will be displayed on a 70-foot-long wall along the newly renovated Baldeck/Hollis Gallery on the ground floor of the Berman Museum. This piece enlivens the space and adds a texture to the overall Berman programming, says Charles Stainback, director of the Berman Museum. This is a bold, powerful, and colorful installation and were proud to have Amandas work inaugurate the new Baldeck/Hollis Gallery in the museum. Burnham captured the welcoming stoops and wrought iron fences, and ... More
An exhibition of lacquer works by Jihei Murase opens at Ippodo gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Ippodo gallery is holding an exhibition of lacquer works by Jihei Murase III. Murase is a third-generation lacquerware artist, with the Murase family traditions dating back to the Edo period (1603-1868). Seeking inspiration for the original work of his grandfather honoring the tea ceremony, the objects are created in the style of Negoro, named for the 12th century temple which originated the design. The Negoro design is a simple, Zen, modest style, where black reveals itself through vermillion over time, and Murases work is well known for its expertise in this longstanding tradition. Beyond reverence for the past, the works speak to the changing tides of art and lifestyle in modern society. Delving into form and meaning, works intermingle value of nature, tradition, and harmony in innovation, ultimately challenging conventional tea ceremony with precision ... More
The National Gallery of Denmark presents a series of new paintings by Sergej Jensen
COPENHAGEN.- Sergej Jensen is born in Denmark in 1973. He grew up in Germany and went to art school there. Today he lives and works in Berlin and New York. Despite the Danish roots and the international recognition he has not yet had a solo exhibition at a Danish museum. From 13 October, visitors to SMK can experience a series of his new paintings in x-rummet SMK's experimental venue for contemporary art. The exhibition in x-rummet constitutes Sergej Jensens first solo exhibition at a Danish museum. Danish-born Sergej Jensen is an internationally acclaimed artist known for his unconventional approach to painting. Recently Sergej Jensen has worked with figurative subject matter sourced from widely different art historical periods and schools, ranging from the Renaissance, to Romanticism, to early modernism - sometimes all at once. Like some of Jensens earlier ... More
"True Nordic" at the Gardiner Museum explores the influence of Scandinavia on Canadian design
TORONTO.- The Gardiner Museum presents the landmark exhibition True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada, exploring more than seven decades of Nordic influence on Canadian artisans and designers. True Nordic reveals how Canadian makers sought to create objects that would transmit ideas about place and the character of Canadian society, says exhibition co-curator Michael Prokopow, Associate Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies at OCAD University. The first exhibition of its kind, True Nordic features over 100 works by more than 60 designers including Kjeld and Erica Deichmann, Carl Poul Petersen, Karen Bulow, The Brothers Dressler, and Heidi Earnshaw. The works reflect a simple yet vital Scandinavian aesthetic tied to natural forms, materials, and imagery, and a desire to create attractive, functional ... More
Lyons Wier Gallery opens exhibition of works by Fahamu Pecou
NEW YORK, NY.- Lyons Wier Gallery announces the exhibition, #BLACKMATTERLIVES by Fahamu Pecou. The first time I viewed Fahamus work, I felt his painting prowess was only surpassed by his astute storytelling. Fahamu has long used self-portraiture to shed light on what he felt were social misconceptions and injustices of African American men and how they were/are portrayed in popular culture, hip-hop culture and mainstream media. Drawing upon his alter-ego, Fahamu Pecou is The Shit, Fahamu developed a visual trope to address these societal ills using mastheads, swagger and ingenious double entendres. #BLACKMATTERLIVES is the culmination of Fahamus four consecutive museum shows, including Do or Die, (an exhibition representing aspects of his research as a PhD student) currently on view at the Halsey Institute of ... More
Robert Manley joins Phillips' 20th Century & Contemporary Art Department
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced the appointment of Hugues Joffre as Special Advisor to Chief Executive Officer Edward Dolman, in addition to his role as Chairman of the company in Europe. Robert Manley, who joined the firm in October 2016, has been appointed Worldwide Co-Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art. Mr. Manley will partner with existing Worldwide Co-Head Jean-Paul Engelen to lead the department as Phillips continues to strengthen its team of international specialists and expand its range of art and expertise available to collectors. In his capacity as Co-Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, Mr. Joffre has spent the last 18 months establishing expertise in 20th century art, since offered alongside contemporary art to create a new 20th Century & Contemporary Art department. Moving forward, he will concentrate on developing ... More
Simon Lee Gallery opens exhibition of new sculptures by artist Angela Bulloch
HONG KONG.- Simon Lee Gallery presents an exhibition of new sculptures by acclaimed artist Angela Bulloch. One way conversation is a continuation of Bullochs latest body of work presented last year in Considering Dynamics and The Forms of Chaos at the Sharjah Art Museum, UAE and L'ALMANACH 16 at the Le Consortium Dijon, France. Formed in steel and MDF, the stacked columns of polyhedra have a stylized geometry and manufactured surface sheen that alludes to minimalism and technology. Often apparent in Bullochs installations where technology mediates interaction with the work, is her interest in cybernetics, fundamental themes of biological, social and technological systems, and the integration of the human subject with technology. Totemic and quasi-minimalistic, the idiosyncratic physical geometry of the stacks are suggestive ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Ralph Lauren was born October 14, 1939. Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifschitz, October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive, best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand. In this image: Designer Ralph Lauren walks the runway to audience applause after his fall 2010 collection was presented in New York, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010.
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