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This picture taken on March 3, 2019 shows a view from inside the catacombs of Kom El-Shoqafa (Mound of Shards), dating to the Roman period (1st-4th centuries AD) in the centre of the Egyptian Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria, during the inauguration of a project to drain groundwater from the archaeological site. Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP.
ALEXANDRIA (AFP).- Egypt on Sunday announced the completion of a project to save famed 2,000-year old catacombs in the costal city of Alexandria from rising waters. The Kom al-Shoqafa location, considered by archaeologists to be the largest Greco-Roman burial site in Egypt, has been threatened by water since its discovery in 1900. The catacombs, which were in use from the first to the fourth century AD, are renowned for funerary architecture blending ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman art. The rising water prompted Egypt to launch a massive drainage project supported by the United States Agency for International (USAID) in 2017. Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani told reporters at the site that the programme had helped "end a problem threatening the area for more than 100 years". Thomas Nichols, an engineer involved in the project, called it "a unique programme where we blended archaeology and civil engineering together". Egypt has in recent years sought to promote archaeolo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day David Richard Gallery is presenting Neo-Op, an exhibition by Mark Dagley featuring a comprehensive body of work begun in 1994, with several new canvases finished as recently as February of 2019. This work emerged out of Dagley's systematic approach to structure using a specific set of material constraints and limitations on color. The results include multiple series in two and three dimensions: paintings, sculpture and works on paper using simple motifs of geometric progression, linear interplay, concentric organic forms and chain-linked lozenges.
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 | | Gianguan Auctions celebrates China's material heritage at its annual Spring Auction | | Dayton Art Institute kicks off centennial celebration and unveils new museum logo at annual meeting | | Conversation with artist John Walker to be live-streamed March 5 | 
Ming, He Chaozong, An Exceptionally Rare Dehua Figure of Seated Guanyin.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Monday, March 18 Gianguan Auctions celebrates the 18th running of its annual spring sale. As in previous years, the auction is scheduled to offer international collectors taking in events at Asia Week, an independent and trusted source for important and rare Chinese works of art. In tribute to the Year of the Pig, three carved jade pigs are on the podium. The highlight is a Ming carving of a smiling pig recumbent in a woven basket with handle. The turned-up tips of its ears and the corners of its mouth are symbolic of the comforts of wealth and prosperity associated with pigs. The back of the basket carries the Shou sign, a reference to longevity. At 7.5 wide, and 3 tall, the white-with-russet jade carving weighs 2,808 grams. It is Lot 63, estimated at upwards of $40,000. Two pigs of the Neolithic period evoke the rituals of the era in which the Zodiac symbols originated. Lot 84 is a recumbent, russet-jade p ... More | | 
In conjunction with the launch of the centennial celebration, External Affairs Director Alexis Larsen unveiled an all-new logo for the DAI. It represents the first complete rebranding of the museum since the mid-1990s.
DAYTON, OH.- The Dayton Art Institute kicked off its centennial year celebrations and unveiled a new museum logo at its Annual Meeting on Thursday, February 28. The museum also shared highlights and financial results for Fiscal Year 2018 and awarded its annual Pamela P. Houk Award for Excellence in Art Education at the meeting. On February 28, 1919, the fledgling Dayton Art Association was incorporated as the Dayton Museum of Arts, beginning the 100-year-history of the Dayton Art Institute that we will celebrate throughout 2019, said Dayton Art Institute Director and CEO Michael R. Roediger. Last year was another great year of progress here at the museum as we continued to prepare for our centennial. Roediger shared highlights of the museums planned centennial ... More | | 
Born 1939, in Birmingham, England, Walker studied at Birmingham College of Art (195660) and continued his studies at the British School in Rome (196061) and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris (196163).
LINCOLN, NE.- Artist John Walker was first interviewed by historian and writer Jennifer Samet in 2013 for her ongoing column "Beer with a Painter." The two will meet againat Sheldon Museum of Art, Tuesday, March 5, at 6 p.m. (CT)to discuss Walker's creative process and continued fascination with the coastline of Maine. The event will be streamed live at go.unl.edu/walker-conversation. Sheldon currently features John Walker: Moments of Observation, an exhibition of energetic paintings made by the Maine-based artist in response to the relationships of land and sea. This exhibition offers us the opportunity to broaden our understanding of the rich tradition of painting by examining the achievement of such an innovative artist, said Wally Mason, Sheldons director and chief ... More |
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| | | Neo-Op: An exhibition by Mark Dagley opens at David Richard Gallery | | Neue Galerie debuts pioneering exhibition on self-portraiture from Austria and Germany, 1900-1945 | | Exhibition demonstrates the influence of Vincent Van Gogh on David Hockney's work | 
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NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is presenting Neo-Op, an exhibition by Mark Dagley featuring a comprehensive body of work begun in 1994, with several new canvases finished as recently as February of 2019. This work emerged out of Dagleys systematic approach to structure using a specific set of material constraints and limitations on color. The results include multiple series in two and three dimensions: paintings, sculpture and works on paper using simple motifs of geometric progression, linear interplay, concentric organic forms and chain-linked lozenges. Dagley was born and raised in Washington, D.C., where he began studying painting at the Corcoran in his mid-teens. Though the regions Color School had a great influence on his artistic development, he has always aimed to be something more than a second-generation participant. His interests in color, finish and surface have led him in many directions, but the categoriz ... More | | 
Max Beckmann (18841950), Self-Portrait with a Cigarette, 1923. Oil on canvas, 60.2 x 40.3 cm (23 3/4 x 15 7/8 in.) The Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. F. H. Hirschland. Photo: © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
NEW YORK, NY.- On February 28, Neue Galerie New York debuted The Self-Portrait, from Schiele to Beckmann, an unprecedented exhibition that examines works primarily from Austria and Germany made between 1900 and 1945. This groundbreaking show is unique in its examination and focus on works of this period. Approximately 70 self-portraits by more than 30 artistsboth well-known figures and others who deserve greater recognitionhave been united in the presentation, which is comprised of loans from public and private collections worldwide. The exhibition is on view through June 24. Admired for their revelatory nature, self-portraits yield insight into both the appearance and the essence ... More | | 
David Hockney, 'Kilham to Langtoft II, 27 July 2005' (detail), Oil on canvas, 24 x 36", © David Hockney, Photo: Richard Schmidt.
AMSTERDAM.- The colossal works of David Hockney are on display in the Netherlands. For the first time, this spectacular exhibition offers an extensive and colourful exploration of the common ground between the work of Vincent van Gogh and David Hockney. The exhibition 'Hockney - Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature. The world-famous Yorkshire landscapes by David Hockney (1937) are a vivid feast for the eyes. This is the first time that these works are on display in the Netherlands. The blockbuster exhibition Hockney Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature demonstrates the unmistakable influence that Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) had on the displayed works. One of the highlights is the colossal The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven), consisting of 32 parts and measuring 9.75 metres wide by 3.66 metres high. Sketchbooks, videos, photographic ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at the Glyptotek offers a sculptural odyssey through the years 1789-1914 | | First major retrospective of American photographer Sally Mann travels to Houston | | Tate Modern opens a major exhibition of the work of pioneering artist Dorothea Tanning | 
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, The Girl with the Conch Shell. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
COPENHAGEN.- The special exhibition Perfect Poses? is a sculptural odyssey through the period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the beginning of the First World War in 1914 a period also known as The Long 19th Century. The French sculpture of the 19th century was a deeply felt passion both with Carl Jacobsen, founder of the Glyptotek, and Calouste Gulbenkian, founder of the museum in Lisbon. In Perfect Poses? we present the French sculpture of both collectors from a new angle working from the poses of the sculptures. In the exhibition Perfect Poses? the Glyptoteks renowned collection of sculpture, which includes works by such great French artists as Carpeaux, Maillol and Rodin, meets the French Sculpture Collection of the Museo Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon. Thus the exhibition is at once a unique encounter between two collections and an updated look at a period in sculptural history ... More | | 
R. Kim Rushing, Sally with Camera, c. 1998, gelatin silver print, collection of Sally Mann.
HOUSTON, TX.- For more than 40 years, Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and natures magisterial indifference to human endeavor. In March 2019, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, opened Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, the first retrospective exhibition of the artist. Through approximately 112 works, many of which have never been exhibited or published, the survey investigates how Manns relationship with her native Virginiaa place and identity rich in literary and artistic traditions but troubled by historyhas shaped her work. The exhibition is on view from March 3 through May 27, 2019, following presentations at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; and before traveling ... More | | 
Dorothea Tanning (1910 2012), Maternity, 1946-47. Oil paint on canvas, 1422 x 1219 mm. Private collection © DACS, 2019.
LONDON.- Tate Modern unveiled a major exhibition of the work of pioneering artist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012). Organised in collaboration with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa in Madrid, it is the first large-scale exhibition of her work for 25 years and the first ever to span Tannings remarkable seven-decade career. Bringing together some 100 works from across the globe, over a third of which are shown in the UK for the first time, the exhibition explores how she expanded the language of surrealism. From her early enigmatic paintings, to her ballet designs, uncanny stuffed textile sculptures, installations and large-scale late works, it offers a rare opportunity to experience the artists unique internal world. The exhibition follows the story of Tannings life and work, from her influential first encounters with surrealism in New York in the 1930s, through to her later ... More |
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| | | High Museum's new exhibition celebrates the art of southern backroads | | James Cohan opens an exhibition of new work by Simon Evans™ | | Telfair Museums exhibits a floating collection of 19 cloud-like, stainless steel sculptures by Jaume Plensa | 
James Son Ford Thomas (American, 19261993), Untitled, late 1980s, unfired clay, artificial hair, earrings, beads, glass marbles, and paint. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, gift of Randy Siegel, 2017.326.
ATLANTA, GA.- This spring, the High Museum of Art presents Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads, an exhibition that celebrates the regions self-taught artists and offers a rare look at how their worlds converged with contemporary American photography and literature. On view March 2 through May 19, 2019, the exhibition is the first collaboration between the Museums folk and self-taught art and photography departments. Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-taught Art Katherine Jentleson and Associate Curator of Photography Gregory Harris drew inspiration for the exhibition from an unpublished manuscript for a guidebook of Southern self-taught artists by late poet and publisher Jonathan Williams (19292008), who had road-tripped around the South with photographers Guy Mendes and Roger Manley in the 1980s and 90s. Williams intended to publish the manuscript through ... More | | 
Simon Evans™, All that potential energy, 2019. Gold leaf and mixed media on paper, 59 x 49 in. 149.9 x 124.5 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting Passing through the gates of irresponsibility, an exhibition of new work by Simon Evans at the gallerys Lower East Side location from March 1 through April 14. This is the artists fifth solo exhibition at James Cohan. Simon Evans is the artistic collaboration between Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan. Together the New York-based artists create dense text-based collages brimming with poetic handwritten phrases, drawings, and images often scavenged from the detritus of everyday life both inside and outside the studio. The works depict and describe a universe suspended between the poles of earnestness and irony. With deft wit and a wry brand of melancholy, ambiguously personal and fictional narratives are woven into diagrams, charts, maps, taxonomies, advertisements, diary entries, inventories, and cosmologies that plunge the viewer into alternate states of pathos and hope. The works in ... More | | 
Jaume Plensa, Talking Continents,2013; stainless steel, 19 components; installation view, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017-2018; courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong, & Co. © Jaume Plensa.
SAVANNAH, GA.- Jaume Plensa (Spanish, b. 1955) is one of the worlds foremost living sculptors. He is widely known for large-scale public artworks and more intimate and meditative installations that aim to unify people through connections of spirituality, the body, and shared memory. Talking Continents is a floating collection of 19 cloud-like, stainless steel sculptures. Their biomorphic forms are made of die-cut letters taken from nine different languages. Presented together, they refuse to come together as words, existing instead as abstract forms, arbitrary signs, and signifiers. As such, each sculpture embodies a dissolution of meaning or breakdown in communication. At the same time, the letters comprising the works are also the components needed to reconstruct words and create meaningthe building blocks for cultural understanding. A firm believer that art has the capacity to transform our lives, Plensa has stated that Talking ... More |
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Pushing Forward the Genre of Portraiture: Transforming the National Portrait Gallery
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 First museum show of paintings by Nick Goss opens at Pallant House GalleryCHICHESTER.- The first museum show of paintings by Nick Goss (b.1981), one of Britains most exciting contemporary painters, comes to Pallant House Gallery in spring 2019. Gosss large-scale narrative paintings feature imaginary cityscapes and interior scenes, exploring themes of displacement and natural disaster. In this exhibition, which features 12 major paintings including a group of new works, Goss reimagines his home city of London. Using a collage-based approach, his paintings feature a mix of materials including oil paint, silkscreens, stencils and pastels. Imagery and stories are also layered, drawn from personal memories as well as historical events. Goss incorporates impressions of the 1953 Flood in Zeeland, the Netherlands, as recounted by his maternal grandmother, as well as JG Ballards pioneering 1962 work of climate fiction ... More Personal items belonging to renowned economist Friedrich von Hayek come to auctionLONDON.- This month, Sothebys will bring to the market items from the personal collection of Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992). A towering economist, political philosopher and beloved of right-wing policy makers, Hayek is often regarded as one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. From his Nobel Prize and Presidential Medal of Freedom, to his typewriter, writing desk, and personal annotated version of Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations, the dedicated online sale from 8 19 March, which is timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary this month of the publication of Hayeks seminal publication, The Road to Serfdom, will offer an unprecedented look at the life of this extraordinary genius. Hayeks explanation of the relationship between market forces and personal freedom, among his other theories, had a profound impact ... More Shin Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Stephen AntonakosNEW YORK, NY.- Shin Gallery is presenting an exhibition of works by Stephen Antonakos curated specifically for the gallerys extraordinary architecture. In one color and of widely different scale, the selections span the decades from the 1960s to 2007 and include an early model, a Neon Canvas, and four kinds of drawings. The early model for a massive 40-45-foot wide neon installation establishes the artists central concern: activating space. The scale of the sculpture is indicated by the Plexiglas walls and ceiling, not merely by the central object. The intensity of neon color that would fill its surrounding space is an essential element. Antonakos chose neon as his primary medium around 1960 for its flexibility, live colors, and its possibilities of great scale. He grasped that it is impossible to separate light and space, that the glow of neon color reaches outside the tube ... More Soweto Gospel Choir riding high after Grammy winJOHANNESBURG (AFP).- When the Soweto Gospel Choir was named as winner of the Grammy for Best World Music Album, it earned the ensemble a place in the music history books. Announced by Questlove, drummer from the US hip hop band The Roots, the award sparked an explosion of excitement among the South African singers. "He was almost stuttering, like: 'And the winner is Fr- Fr- Freedom, Sss- Soweto Gospel Choir,' then we jumped up! Like he took long, man," chuckled choirmaster Shimmy Jiyane. "I screamed my lungs out," admits choir member Mary Mulovhedzi. "Then the ululating came, the Sowetans (in us) just came out -- we couldn't hold back." What earned them the award was their album "Freedom" -- a 12-track tribute to Nelson Mandela released to mark the 100th year of his birth. It was the choir's third Grammy in its 17-year existence, adding ... More Two-person exhibition of works by Florencia Escudero and Marcela Flórido opens at Kristen LorelloNEW YORK, NY.- The gallery is presenting a two-person exhibition of Brooklyn-based artists Florencia Escudero and Marcela Flórido. Paintings and drawings by Flórido are paired with soft sculptures by Escudero. The exhibition developed from the friendship and critical dialogue that Escudero and Flórido have kept since meeting each other at the Yale University School of Art graduate program, which they both attended. Their works relate themes of constructed realities, female representation, and memory. Escudero explores the notion of a fictive world through hand-sewn, digitally printed sculptures that parse elements of the female body, sometimes through proxies. Stand-ins include fashion accessories and doll parts. Escudero gathers imagery from digital space that relates to versions of fantasy and desire often circulated in mass media. Within ... More Alphabet Magic at the Grolier Club celebrates the art of Hermann & Gudrun ZapfNEW YORK, NY.- Alphabet Magic: A Centennial Exhibition of the Work of Hermann & Gudrum Zapf celebrates the life and art of two of the last centurys most influential designers. Few in the book arts have had as profound an impact as Hermann Zapf and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. Their careers in the fields of type design and calligraphy are legendary. The arc of their work is on public view at the Grolier Club from February 20 through April 27, 2019. This centennial exhibition showcases 170 pieces, many of which are being shown for the very first time. Alphabet Magic chronicles the extraordinary artistic achievements of Gudrun and Hermann Zapf with the most comprehensive exhibition of their work to date. Zapfs typefaces Palatino, Optima, and Zapfino (to name a few) are a part of our everyday lives in the United States and Europe, as well as around the world. ... More International Fine Print Dealers Association appoints Jenny Gibbs as new Executive DirectorNEW YORK, NY.- The Board of Directors of the International Fine Print Dealers Association has announced the appointment of Jenny Gibbs as the Executive Director of the International Fine Print Dealers Association, the Fine Art Print Fair and the IFPDA Foundation. President of the IFPDA, David Tunick, says As a former museum director, art school dean and auction house expert Jenny has worked alongside gallerists, curators and artists from old master to contemporary. This breadth of experience is what we need to advance the mission and objectives of the IFPDA. Of her appointment Gibbs says I am tremendously excited to join this esteemed group of art world professionals. Our members play a vital role in supporting artists working in the 21st century and in preserving the history of fine art print connoisseurship. Gibbs most recently held the position ... More Exhibition of works by Martin Kline on view at Heather Gaudio Fine ArtNEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art is presenting Martin Kline: Hammock Paintings and Recent Works, the artists second solo exhibition at the gallery. This is the first time the Hammock paintings are being exhibited in the United States. As an artist, Kline continually explores the properties of the medium and his recent paintings take his signature use of encaustic into a new direction. In these works, his additive process becomes collage, the encaustic almost presenting itself as a man-made material rather than liquid applied with a paintbrush. The resulting abstracted patterns gain an intricacy much like honeycombs, made all the more complex with the use of camouflaged patchworks in various palettes. These collaged surfaces can also appear in the other new series of works in the exhibition, the Hammock paintings. In these large panels, Klines ... More 10 contemporary Quebec fashion designers exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine ArtsMONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is showcasing Quebec fashion with Montreal Couture. Presented in conjunction with the retrospective Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, the exhibition features the creations of a selection of established and emerging designers whose distinctive styles define current Quebec fashion: Philippe Dubuc, Denis Gagnon, Ying Gao, Helmer Joseph, Nathon Kong, Marie-Ãve Lecavalier, MARKANTOINE, Fecal Matter, Atelier New Regime and Marie Saint Pierre. MMFA Director General and Chief Curator, Nathalie Bondil explains, "This exhibition is a tip of the hat to Quebec fashion. It was born at last falls Museum Ball, NUIT COUTURE where dramatic installations paid tribute to Quebec fashion designers. Some were known to me, others were a revelation, but all amazed me with their talent ... these designers, established ... More The Approach opens an exhibition of works by Phillip AllenLONDON.- Phillip Allens paintings act as reminders of what painting can be, that painting now is where we can best confront art rather than succumb to any of its increasing politeness or provocative conventions. His relatively modest paintings include their own noise and are not content to sit obedient as figures on a wall ground. They are not simply mere art objects contained and catalogued to be instagrammed and kept tame within screens or four walls, but are paintings that dont actually tune anything out, that seem to resist singular contexts. In this, Phillip Allens paintings remind us of the power of static, of old television sets left hissing on far into the early hours
a lost memory between channels. Static combines noise and impossible visuals in a marginal, best occluded, moment. It is anti-attention, a kind of automatic anti-art, and where it used ... More Fine clocks, property of designer Joseph Minton, western art highlight Heritage Auctions saleDALLAS, TX.- A collection of 19 clocks, including seven tall case clocks by important makers, will be among the highlights at Heritage Auctions Fine & Decorative Arts Including Estates Auction March 8-10 in Dallas. The auction also will feature pieces from the collection of noted Dallas collector and designer Joseph Minton and a collection of lots from important Western artists. The clocks are incredible, with mechanisms by important clock makers within finely crafted cases, Heritage Auctions Fine Art Silver & Decorative Art Director Karen Rigdon said. The mechanisms are signed by important makers and the cases are beautiful, dating to the 18th and 19th centuries. The top estimate in the auction belongs to an exceptional Melchior Balthazar French Régence Gilt Bronze-Mounted and Brass-Inlaid Kingwood Tall Case Clock with "Equation of Time," Paris, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Franz Marc died March 04, 1916. Franz Marc (8 February, 1880 - 4 March, 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
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