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The skeleton of a giant plesiosaurus (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), an extinct marine reptile discovered in cretaceous rocks near El Calafate, Santa Cruz province, Argentina, is seen during its exhibition inauguration at the Natural Science Museum in Buenos Aires, on December 19, 2018. JAVIER GONZALEZ TOLEDO / AFP.
BUENOS AIRES (AFP).- Argentine paleontologists unveiled on Wednesday the replica of a 65-million-year-old skeleton of a plesiosaur marine reptile found in a Patagonian lake in 2009. "We've been working since 2009 until now to liberate the fossil from the rock surrounding it, making a reproduction and hanging it here in the museum hall," paleontologist Fernando Novas of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Science Museum in Buenos Aires told AFP. The fossil is of a marine reptile found in Cretaceous period rocks close to the southern town of El Calafate, 2,800 kilometers (1,700 miles) from Buenos Aires. The remains of this plesiosaur are the most complete found in Argentina and were discovered in rocks submerged in Lake Argentino at the foot of the Andes mountains. "It was around 50 centimeters (1.64 feet) under the water and part of the lake had to be drained to take out the rocks," said scientist Marcelo Isasi. Four tons of rocks had to be removed to unearth the fossil remains, found just 500 meters (1,640 fe ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Costumes from "King and I" room are pictured during the exhibition "Musical comedies" ("Comedies musicales") at the National Center for Stage Costume in Moulins, central France. "My Fair Lady", "Sound of Music", "42nd Street" or "Grease", an exhibition at the National Center for Stage Costume (CNCS) in Moulins, which opened on December 1st, 2018 and runs through April 28, 2019, brings together around 100 costumes of famous musical comedies. Thierry Zoccolan / AFP
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| | | Sotheby's reveals highlights from Evening Sale of Master Paintings in New York | | Exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art explores works by American Moderns | | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam expects to welcome nearly 700,000 visitors by the end of 2018 |
Francisco José de Goya Y Lucientes, Portrait of the actress Rita Luna. Oil on canvas, 16¾ by 13⅜ in.; 42.6 by 34.1 cm. Estimate $1/1.5 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will offer works by some of the most celebrated names in European art history in the Master Paintings Evening Sale on 30 January 2019. Headlined by an impressive group of 17th-century Dutch masterpieces from a distinguished private collection, the auction also features standout works by masters including Orazio Gentileschi, Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder. Open to the public on 25 January, the sale will be presented alongside Sothebys Masters Week exhibitions of Master Paintings & Sculpture Day Sale, Old Master Drawings, 19th-Century European Art and The Gilded Age Revisited: Property of a Distinguished American Collection. At the core of this Januarys sale is a group of seven paintings of impressive quality from a distinguished private collection. Leading this group is a remarkably well-preserved Banquet of the Gods by Joachim Anthonisz. ... More | |
Preston Dickinson, Power Station Night, 1924, Pastel and graphite heightened with opaque watercolor on laid paper. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT: Purchased through the gift of Henry and Walter Keney (1928.323).
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will present American Moderns in Watercolor: Edward Hopper and His Contemporaries December 22, 2018 to March 17, 2019. American Moderns in Watercolor brings together sixteen works of art from the 1920s and 1930s that depict urban and rural subjects. Edward Hopper and contemporaries such as Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, Preston Dickinson, Arthur Dove, John Marin, and Abraham Walkowitz were increasingly on the move, either by car or on foot, observing the changing American landscape. This exhibition explores how these modern artists uniquely embraced the portable medium of watercolor, experimenting with new subjects, styles, and techniques. From the solitude in Hoppers composed watercolors of coastal New England to the energetic forces of New York City painted by Marin, American ... More | |
Vincent van Gogh, Augustine Roulin (La berceuse) (Augustine Roulin (Rocking a Cradle)), 1889. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, gift of ir. V.W. van Gogh, Laren (NL).
AMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum expects to end the year with an estimated 695,000 visitors. A slight uptick compared to 2017, when 691,851 guests visited the Stedelijk. This years most popular exhibitions were STEDELIJK BASE, the new permanent installation of the collection initiated by former artistic director Beatrix Ruf, and the survey of Studio Drift, which drew an incredible 263,000 visitors, and therefore gave the museum the busiest summer in its history. Jan Willem Sieburgh: 2018 was another good year for the Stedelijk. Being able to end the year with such excellent visitor figures inspires our confidence in the future. From surveys we conducted, we know our visitors appreciate the Stedelijks engaging, topical and diverse programming. I take that as a huge compliment. 2018 was a varied year, with mass-appeal exhibits such as the Studio Drift exhibition, the newly-restored Keith Haring velum, and stunning ... More |
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| | | Frieze announces new collaborations with museum leadership and themed sections for Frieze New York | | Rago Auctions announces highlights of the January 10-20 auctions | | American photographer Bruce Weber faces new accusations of harassment |
Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Spotlight section, Frieze New York 2018. Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy of Mark Blower/Frieze.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today Frieze announced a range of dynamic collaborations with an unprecedented number of museum leaders for new themed sections and artist commissions at the 2019 edition of Frieze New York. Patrick Charpenel (Executive Director of El Museo del Barrio, New York), Franklin Sirmans (Director of the Perez Art Museum, Miami) will curate two new themed sections at the fair. Reflecting New York as a nexus and catalyst for innovation and ideas in the art world, the new sections will celebrate pivotal New York arts organizations with enduring legacies that have both local and international reach. For the 2019 Frieze Artist Award supporting a commission by an emerging artist, Courtney J. Martin (Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the DIA) will serve as curator. Charpenel, Sirmins, and Martin join Laura Hoptman (Executive Director of the Drawing Center, New York), organizer of the fairs Spotlight section, as the disti ... More | |
Libenský + Brychtová. Head with a Square Eye. Estimate: $12,000 - 16,000.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Saturday, January 19 and Sunday, January 20 Rago Auctions will hold its first 2019 sale of Early 20th Century and Modern Design. David Rago, Partner + Co-Director 20th-21st C. Design Dept: Our best auctions usually have a large component of fresh material from private collections, and the January sale is exceptional in that regard. A group from the famed Harriman-Judd collection of European ceramics will start off the weekend, followed by a large collection of early 20th century American art pottery. Finally, there are two more collections of post-war ceramics, one from New York and the other from California. In all, these represent one of the most important and diverse groupings of decorative ceramics ever brought to auction. Property from four private collections of early 20th c. pottery including over thirty lots of pottery from the Harriman Judd Collection, featuring works by the Martin Brothers including three bir ... More | |
This file photo taken on July 15, 2015 shows photographer Bruce Weber attending the Parke & Ronen mens fashion show at New York Fashion Week. Mike Coppola / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- American fashion photographer Bruce Weber, who was accused of sexual harassment by a former model last year, faced five more accusations on Friday. Weber, who worked for Vogue and helped forge the image of such brands as Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Abercrombie & Fitch, had been accused of molesting Jason Boyce in December 2014. "Today we filed a new federal court lawsuit on behalf of five additional men, all models, with strikingly similar allegations against Mr Weber," Lisa Bloom, who is representing them, said in a statement. "The new case was filed under the federal sex trafficking law, which has recently been interpreted to prohibit 'casting couch' behavior in which a powerful person sexually exploits a vulnerable job applicant for his own sexual gratification," Bloom said. Weber, ... More |
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| | | Exhibition transforms MAXXI into an intense and somewhat chaotic street scene | | PDNB Gallery exhibits photographs by Paul Sokal | | Solo exhibition of works by Korean artist Ham Kyungah on view at Pace Gallery Hong Kong |
Boa Mistura, New production, 2018. Courtesy the artist.
ROME.- Starting in the 1960s, it was the artists who believed that the road was the modern intellectual, social and political battlefield. They took to the streets with invasions, surprises, disturbances, break-ins, rebellions; they have involved people, communities, have offered new points of view. From the 7th of December 2018 to the 28th of April 2019, MAXXI dedicates to them all, but also to architects, urban planners, and designers, The STREET. Where the world is made. More than 200 works from more than 140 artists to describe a space that is not only a fundamental manmade infrastructure, but a place crossed by multiple meanings, sometimes victim of visual and physical bombardment - signs, advertising, surveillance cameras, garbage a place where shared practices and new technologies are experimented, and a showcase of projects stemming from the needs of the communities. The main partner is Enel, the Fondazione MAXXIs first ... More | |
Paul Sokal, Calendar Before iPhone, 2017. Courtesy artist and PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX.
DALLAS, TX.- The aroma of cookies baking in the oven is that familiar scent that conjures memories of your childhood. Suddenly you remember your mom (or dad) pulling the cookies out of the oven, and you are standing there, ready to devour that first warm confection. Paul Sokal has been collecting old relics from his childhood, and not too recent past. These objects are his subject matter for this series, Before iPhone. Like that scent of baking cookies, these objects from a time machine trigger memories of the analog culture many of us grew up with. Sokal states, The pace of life was more patient and communication was spoken face to face, rather than texted across a room, when it was easier to connect across the dining table than across the world. In a studio setting, Sokal places these archetypal relics against a stark white background. The resulting photograph is presented in a large color print. ... More | |
Installation view, "Ham Kyungah," November 28, 2018-January 22, 2019. Pace Gallery, Hong Kong. © Ham Kyungah.
HONG KONG.- Pace Gallery Hong Kong is hosting a solo exhibition for Korean artist Ham Kyungah. She is known for her multidisciplinary experimental work in fields ranging across painting, photography, installation, performance, and video art. This exhibition consists of her signature work, a series of six large-scale needle paintings of chandeliers that have been completed in collaboration with North Korean embroidery craftsmen. The exhibition, titled Ham Kyungah, opened at the Pace Hong Kong Entertainment Building on November 28, 2018. Her artwork has sought to reveal the hidden side of social systems that affect each individuals life, reaching their culmination through needle painting. Coming across North Korean propaganda leaflets that scattered in the wind outside her parents house in 2008 became the trigger of her attempt to communicate with ... More |
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| | | Jonathan+Olivia unveils original Banksy in their new Whistler store | | Historic library weaves 'Harry Potter'-style tourist magic in Rio | | New 'Mammoths and Mastodons: At La Brea Tar Pits' opens in Los Angeles |
Jonathan+Olivia was created in Vancouver back in 2005 by Jackie before the shop relocated to Toronto.
WHISTLER.- Almost 16 years after being created, Jackie OBrien Jones and husband Nic have unveiled an original Banksy piece Bombing Middle England in their new Jonathan+Olivia Whistler streetwear culture store. The piece, stenciled on concrete, measures over 2 meters by 60 centimeters and depicts pensioners bowling with bombs in a manner reminiscent of Cinders McLeod's 1999 drawing 'Anarchic Granny'. The piece was created privately by Banksy during his first official exhibition Graffiti, Lies & Deviousness' back in January 2003 in the basement of the original Surface to Air store in Paris. Nic Jones, a former partner and director of the brand, and his wife Jackie now wish to return this 7 foot x 2ft concrete wall, that has literally been under wraps all this time, to its original intention of being seen by the public. Jonathan+Olivia was created in Vancouver back in 2005 by Jackie before the shop relocated to To ... More | |
Orlando Inacio, manager of the Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, poses with its books in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 5, 2018. Carl DE SOUZA / AFP.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- From the outside, it looks like another historic edifice in Rio's rundown city center. Inside, however, is a multi-tiered library so spectacular, so ornate, that stunned visitors feel like they've walked into a movie fantasy set. "In 'Harry Potter' we've seen libraries like this!" exclaimed Didier Margouet, a 57-year-old French tourist, looking around at the shelves of leather bound books climbing the walls under an octagonal skylight of red, white and blue stained glass. "Yes, like in the movies," agreed his partner, Laeticia Rau, 50. The Royal Portuguese Reading Room -- the Real Gabinete Portugues de Leitura in Portuguese -- was built in the late 19th century under the stewardship of an association of Portuguese migrants that still cares for the institution. Its Gothic-Renaissance architecture and plethora of carvings, tiles ... More | |
Mammoths and Mastodons: At La Brea Tar Pits, Courtesy of the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- For the first time since the museum at La Brea Tar Pits opened in 1977, the visitor experience will change significantly, becoming more interactive and hands-on with new life-sized animal models and a range of touchable activities. On view starting December 21, 2018, Mammoths and Mastodons: At La Brea Tar Pits features highlights from a touring exhibition created by Chicagos Field Museum that spotlight extraordinary Ice Age giants found both at L.A.s iconic Tar Pits and around the world. The accompanying 3D film Titans of the Ice Age plays in the Tar Pits Theater. These new components have been interspersed among the real Ice Age fossils currently in the museum galleries and offer a deeper understanding of mammoths and mastodons and the rest of their fascinating family tree, including early relatives and one modern-day relationthe elephant. Visitors will encounter a colossal ... More |
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Over 100,000 cards will be offered by Whyte's this January
DUBLIN.- This collection was formed by Dubliner, Seamus Kearns (1929-2014). Seamus began collecting stamps in the 1930s and fell in love with old postcards in the 1950s, since when he started amassing this collection. A founder of the Irish Picture Postcard Society, he provided many exhibitions around the country, including a major show at The Guinness Hopstore in 1994. The main value is in Irish topographical and historical Irish cards views of villages and towns from the early 1900s to the 1950s as well as historic events such as the 1916 rising. With the advent of texting and selfies the sales of postcards have gone into decline but this collection shows what we are missing today not only the wonderful images but also the thoughtful messages. Every county and most places in Ireland are represented here. The views show the transition from muddy ... More
Winners announced for Sino Group x Niio inaugural digital art prize
HONG KONG.- Sino Group announced the winners of the ground-breaking art prize, the Sino x Niio Illumination Art Prizes 2018/19, presented in collaboration with new media art platform, Niio. 157 submissions by 112 young artists from 39 countries were entered into the competition. This international art prize provides the winning artists with the unique platform to display their light designs for Sino Groups Christmas and Chinese New Year Illuminations on the Tsim Sha Tsui Centre & Empire Centre. The innovative new art prize is the first of its kind in Hong Kong; it aims to promote young talent and provide access to some of the worlds most prominent platforms for digital art, as well as make art easily accessible to the general public. The winner of the Artistic Blessing prize is ONEONE by Daniel Belton and Good Company Arts from New Zealand; their ... More
Exhibition at Blindspot Gallery features three new video works by Hao Jingban
HONG KONG.- Hao Jingbans first solo exhibition at Blindspot Gallery Uninvited Guests features three new video works from the artists most recent project using the Manchukuo of the 1930s-40s as background. The artist conducts historical investigation, archival research, field study and personal interviews, tracing back to the propaganda, drama and documentary films, as well as related figures, from the period of the Manchukuo Film Association. By weaving real and fictional narratives in video, reenactments and live performances, Hao explores the politicalness of visual language and the subjectivity of interpretation, revealing the power dynamics, border geopolitics and conflicting identities behind these performative mediums. Forsaken Landscapes is a work integrating live performance and videos, based on several films selected ... More
Priska Pasquer exhibits works by Ulrike Rosenbach and Angela Brandys
COLOGNE.- Priska Pasquers Feminine exhibition is devoted to strong female positions. Taking centre stage here are the works of Ulrike Rosenbach (born 1943), one of the main pioneers of performance and media art. Since the 1970s, Ulrike Rosenbach has been calling female typifications and gender stereotypes into question. Her experimental works have an enormous influence on younger generations of artists. Feminine reflects this and juxtaposes Rosenbachs works with those of a younger female artist in each case. While London-based artist Angela Brandys (born 1988) plays this role in the first exhibition, Feminine II in February 2019 will feature works by Johanna Reich (born 1977). With their idiosyncratic works, the artists address topical and highly sensitive issues as well as occupying a prominent position in the contemporary debate. The experimental ... More
Jonathan Watkins takes the helm at Manif d'art 9 - The Quebec City Biennial
QUEBEC CITY.- Manif dart announced the curator for the ninth edition of its flagship event, the Quebec City Biennial. Jonathan Watkins, Director of Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England, has made his mark in numerous international events over the years, from Sydney to Turin, Sharjah to Guangzhou, and Milan to Venice. This year he pilots Manif dart 9 The Quebec City Biennial. Produced in collaboration with the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), the biennial event will once again take place in various venues throughout Quebec City between February 16 and April 21, 2019. Jonathan Watkins program is entitled Small Between the Stars, Large Against the Sky, and will be mounted in collaboration with Manif darts general and artistic director Claude Bélanger, the MNBAQs contemporary art curator Bernard Lamarche, and the Biennials ... More
Museo Nivola opens exhibition of works by Le Corbusier
ORANI.- Le Corbusier was not only the greatest architect of the 20th century, he was also an exceptional visual artist who, starting from the geometries of his Purist period (from 1918 to the second half of the 1920s), developed, through contact with the Surrealist milieu and the lesson of Picasso and Léger, a highly potent and evocative synthetic language. At the base of his work as a painter stands an extremely rich and still little known body of graphic works, within which the collection of drawings preserved by Nivola has special significance. From a corpus of more than 300 works, the 64 selected for this exhibition reunite for the first time the segments of the collection now divided between Europe and America. The fruit of a joint project between the Fondazione di Sardegna and the Fondazione Nivola in the context of the series AR/S - Arte condivisa in Sardegna, with ... More
Gatekeeper at Japan's 'Suicide Forest' hopes music can save lives
NARUSAWA (AFP).- From his hut on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest", Kyochi Watanabe blasts John Lennon's "Imagine" into the night -- hoping that music can lift people from their despair before it's too late. The 60-year-old musician has been waging an eight-year battle to banish the vast forest's morbid reputation by reaching out to those who come to end their lives. But now he fears his work is being undone. The forest, known as Aokigahara, made global headlines last year when YouTube star Logan Paul filmed an episode of his online series there, showing a suicide victim at the site. The footage sparked outrage and infuriated Watanabe, who was born nearby and has spent most of his life in and around the forest. "It's a forest of nature. It's a forest of religion. It's not that kind of place," he said. "Do people want to make this forest a hell?" he ... More
Guangzhou Triennial 2018 opens at the Guangdong Museum of Art
GUANGZHOU.- In the summer of 1945, the American engineer Vannevar Bush published an essay in the Boston-based journal The Atlantic. Titled As We May Think, the paper imagined a universal communications apparatus which anticipated the advent of an information society. Over the last three-quarters of a century, what was then pondered by an insightful individual, who was able to think beyond the limits of his time, has materialized itself as a new world order in which the once dreamed-up Memex has not only taken on a much more powerful incarnation but also evolved, multiplied and accelerated into a pervasive, all-encompassing membrane of connected machines that operate on a planetary scale, giving rise to the unprecedented transformations that have for-ever redefined contemporary notions of work and play, politics, economics, and culture, ... More
Photography and an extraordinary installation of 2500 trophies on view at the Pecci Center
PRATO.- The Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art presents two new episodes in the program of exhibitions for the winter, offering visitors multiple female perspectives. Confirming its leading role on the Italian and international scene, the contemporary art museum in Tuscany unveils two projects that combine historical research and support of the most recent experimentation. Nomadic Subject. Female identity through the mages of five Italian photographers, 1965-1985, is a group show that comes to terms with the theme of representation of female identity in a period of major social and political transformations in Italy, through the images of Paola Agosti, Letizia Battaglia, Lisetta Carmi, Elisabetta Catalano and Marialba Russo. The show brings the works of these five women photographers together for the first time, with over 100 images that ... More
Exhibition brings one of the world's most beautiful and extensive collections of jewelry to St. Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- When independent, jet-setting women of the 1960s and 70s wanted to sparkle a little brighter, they frequently turned to renowned French jewelry designer Jean Schlumberger. Best known for his work for Tiffany & Co., Schlumberger was a master at using the beauty of the natural world as inspiration for creating unique, brightly colored works of jeweled art that were both elegant and whimsical. After premiering at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2017, Jewels of the Imagination: Radiant Masterworks by Jean Schlumberger from the Mellon Collection is making its first appearance outside Virginia at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. The exhibition highlights 135 spectacular pieces from the personal collection of philanthropist and art collector Rachel Bunny Mellon. The glittering jewelry designs of Schlumberger were the epitome ... More
New exhibition at Tallinn Art Hall focuses on war refugees
TALLINN.- This new exhibition at Tallinn Art Hall, by Marko Mäetamm including work by Rita Bozi and Ken Cameron, uses the memory of Mäetamm's grandfather who lived in Canada, to speak about war refugees, exiled Estonians and the mental conflict between the Soviet Union and the West. A narrative that is familiar to many Estonians brings together the world views of three generations, while revealing the humour in their peculiar encounters. Through video, installation and text, the exhibition, One Month in Canada tells the story of the artists father visiting his own father in Toronto in 1978: their first and last meeting since 1944. This mythical grandfather has been living in my head as long as I can remember. Since my fathers trip, all sorts of stories from Canada and items brought from there have become an integral part of my life. I ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was born December 22, 1960. Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. In this image: Basquiat: Boom For Real. Installation view Barbican Art Gallery 21 September 2017 - 28 January 2018 © Tristan Fewings / Getty Images Artwork: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1982 Courtesy Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.
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