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This picture taken on January 31, 2019 shows the head of the golden sarcophagus of the 18th dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun (13321323 BC), displayed in his burial chamber in his underground tomb (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile river opposite the southern Egyptian city of Luxor (650 kilometres south of the capital Cairo). The famous tomb underwent a nine-year conservation by a team of international specialists. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP.
by Emmanuel Parisse
LUXOR (AFP).- After almost a decade, a team of international experts on Thursday revealed the results of their painstaking work to preserve the tomb of Egypt's legendary Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Nearly a victim of his own fame, long years of mass tourism had left their mark on the boy king's burial place near Luxor on the east bank of the Nile River. "A hundred years of visits, after being sealed for 3,000 years... can you imagine the impact on the grave?" said Neville Agnew, head of the project led by the Los Angeles-based Getty Conservation Institute. "Visitors, humidity, dust..." lamented the scientist during the unveiling ceremony at the tomb, discovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings. Called to the rescue in 2009, Agnew has led a 25-member team -- including archaeologists, architects, engineers and microbiologists -- to preserve the tomb and fend off the ravages of time and tourism. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The new holocaust museum 'House of Fates' housed in what was the former 'Jozsefvarosi' railway station is pictured in Budapest on January 21, 2019. As Hungarian Jews prepare to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day Sunday, the community finds itself riven by a bitter dispute over the long-delayed opening of a Holocaust museum in Budapest. The "House of Fates" complex, fronted with two 15-metre-high towers of stacked cattle wagons connected by a giant floodlit metal bridge in the shape of the Jewish Star of David, dominates a boulevard on the run-down fringe of the city centre. FERENC ISZA / AFP
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| | | Hip-hop turns 40 -- and its parents are beaming with pride | | Young Bowie too 'amateur' for BBC: new documentary | | Columbus Museum of Art celebrates international partnership with exclusive exhibition from The Netherlands |
In this file photo taken on January 19, 2019 Curtis Fisher, aka Grandmaster Caz looks at Hip-Hop memorabilia at the Hip-Hop Museum Pop Up Experience in Washington, DC. Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Forty years ago, hip-hop was little known outside its birthplace, New York -- until the Sugarhill Gang decided to record their rhymes, launching the genre's rise as a dominant cultural and commercial force. The result was the group's 1979 smash "Rapper's Delight" -- which is credited as the commercial start of an unforgettable era in music. Once an underground style centered on live performance in New York's Bronx borough, rap and hip-hop are the most influential styles in contemporary music today. To mark hip-hop's big anniversary, a pop-up museum has been established in the US capital through mid-February. "I never thought it would reach those proportions," said Grandmaster Caz, an icon of early hip hop who wrote parts of "Rapper's Delight." "Back in the day, we were discouraged from doing hip-hop -- nobody respected it." But the track found runaway ... More | |
This file portrait taken on May 13, 1983 shows British singer David Bowie during a press conference at the 36th Cannes Film Festival. AFP PHOTO / FILES / RALPH GATTI.
LONDON (AFP).- A new documentary about the late British rock star David Bowie reveals judges at an early audition considered him "amateur-sounding" and "devoid of personality". Producers of the film "David Bowie: Finding Fame" trawled the BBC's archives to unearth the scathing written verdicts from a 1965 "talent selection group" at the broadcaster. The panel had reviewed a three-song audition by "David Bowie and the Lower Third" -- one of many bands he featured in during his decade-long rise to fame in the 1960s. "The singer is a cockney type but not outstanding enough," the judges wrote, using the term for an East London native, according to previews of the new film to air on British television next week. "There is no entertainment in anything they do," they added of the band. "It's just a group and very ordinary, too, backing a singer devoid of personality." The 90-minute documentary is the ... More | |
Unidentified Dutch Artist, Portrait of Rochus Ress, as a three-year-old boy, 1622. Collection of Huis Van Gijn, Dordrecht.
COLUMBUS, OH.- Life in the Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Masterpieces from the Dordrecht Museum, on view at the Columbus Museum of Art, is the result of an innovative international partnership with Dordrecht Museum, The Netherlands. Spanning more than three centuries, Life in the Age of Rembrandt features 17th-century art from the Golden Age of Dutch painting and concludes with works of The Hague School of the late 19th-century. This exclusive exhibition, shown only in Columbus, Ohio, showcases some 90 works, including 40 masterworks, many paired with a related object such as a print, a coin, Delft ware or silver. All the works in the exhibition are on loan from the Dordrecht Museum, The Netherlands. Called the cradle of the Golden Age, the city of Dordrecht is steeped in European Old World traditions, art and history and is the oldest incorporated port city in Holland. The influence of the Golden Age is still visible in Dordrechts many mans ... More |
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| | | Detroit Institute of Arts celebrates the extraordinary gift of Margaret Herz Demant in new exhibition | | Meijer Gardens opens a landmark exhibition celebrating Fred Meijer's collection and legacy | | Museum of the City of New York exhibits never-before-seen photographs of Jackie Robinson |
Femme au bouquet (Woman with Bouquet), ca. 1920, Fernand Léger, French, graphite and watercolor. Margaret Demant Bequest, Detroit Institute of Arts.
DETROIT, MICH.- Extraordinary Eye, Extraordinary Gift: The Legacy of Margaret Herz Demant focuses on the patronage and recent bequest of art from the late Margaret Herz Demant. This exhibition celebrates her gift of artworks to the museums permanent collection, and her passion for African and modern Western art. Demant collected these pieces with the sole purpose of enhancing the DIAs world-class art collection, purposefully purchasing art to fill in gaps within the various departments. Extraordinary Eye, Extraordinary Gift is on view Jan. 27May 26, 2019 in the new acquisitions gallery adjacent to Rivera Court. The exhibition is free with museum admission, which is free for Wayne, Oakland and Macomb county residents. This exhibition displays 35 works in a variety of media, by artists of different cultural and ... More | |
Antony Gormley, SIGNAL III.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- Timed to commemorate the centenary of Fred Meijers birth and to celebrate his role as one of Americas foremost patrons of the arts, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park opened A National Treasure: F red Meijer, His Collection and Legacy. This exclusive exhibition is a celebration of Meijers desire to build a world-class sculpture collection. This exhibition runs through August 25, 2019 and displays eleven different chapters, each based around original works of art from Meijer Gardens permanent collection as well as exclusive loans from sculptors and galleries that Meijer knew and admired. In addition, the exhibition debuts a series of important recent acquisitions to Meijer Gardens permanent collection, including works by El Anatsui, George Segal and George Minne. A National Treasure: Fred Meijer, His Collection and Legacy examines Meijers passion for sculpture, his growth as ... More | |
Della Britton Baeza, President and CEO of Jackie Robinson Foundation speaks during the Jackie Robinson Centennial Photo Exhibit Premiere at Museum of the City of New York on January 31, 2019 in New York City. Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Jackie Robinson Foundation, Inc./AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait of a Baseball Legend, on view at the Museum of the City of New York features 32 photographs originally shot for Look magazine (most of them never published), as well as rare home movies of the Robinson family, and memorabilia related to Robinsons career. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Jackie Robinson Foundation and launches the Foundations yearlong, national Jackie Robinson Centennial Celebration, which will culminate in the opening of the Jackie Robinson Museum in New York City in December 2019. In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson will be on view at the Museum of the City of New York through ... More |
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| | | Auction of Dogs in Art & Sporting Art on February 13 at Doyle | | Exhibition of recent works in painting and sculpture by Cecilia Biagini opens at Ruiz-Healy Art | | The Design Museum presents a new exhibition that explores the role of monuments and memorials in the 21st century |
Edmund Henry Osthaus (American, 1858-1928), The First Lesson - A Setter and Her Six Pups (detail). Est. $30,000-50,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, February 13 at 10am, Doyle will hold an auction of Dogs in Art® including The Sporting Art Collection of James W. Smith. Coinciding with the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the auction offers over 200 lots of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and other objects devoted to dogs, horses and sporting art. A special section of the auction is devoted to The Sporting Art Collection of James W. Smith (1941-2018), master breeder of smooth fox terriers and board chairman of the American Kennel Club. In 1956, James W. Smith entered his first dog show, and by the time he was honored by the American Kennel Club as Breeder of the Year in 2012, he had produced more than 50 champions, Best in Show dogs, national and regional specialty winners, and numerous group winners. An ... More | |
Cecilia Biagini, Figuring Point, 2017.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruiz-Healy Art is presenting Cecilia Biaginis fourth solo exhibition at the gallery featuring recent works in painting and sculpture. Working within the borders of geometry, Biagini explores the properties and relations between abstraction and construction, appearance and disappearance, lines and surfaces, as well as form and structure. Aguaviva is the Spanish term for jellyfish and the literal translation for water alive. Biagini draws inspiration from the movement of the bodys rhythmic contractions while underwater. Utilizing a bold sense of color and line she juxtaposes chaos and order. Biagini states she cannot avoid the nature of improvising with tools, as she creates a system that allows [her] to work beyond [her] expectations. Her paintings depict transparencies, curvilinear structures, and visible impressions, in dialogue with wall reliefs. Biaginis sculpture and sou ... More | |
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photo: Brad Feinknopf.
LONDON.- In this exhibition, celebrated architect Sir David Adjaye OBE examines the idea of the monument and present his thinking on how architecture and form are used as storytelling devices. Monuments are a record of who we are and are deeply ingrained in our psyche as a way of memorialising our triumphs and failures. However, the form that monuments take, and the way they are experienced, is constantly changing. This exhibition shows that contemporary monuments are no longer static objects in a field plaques, statues or neo-classical sculptures but are dynamic and complex spaces that serve a wider purpose. The exhibition opens with a visual survey of monuments and memorials starting with the Acropolis of Athens (447 BC) and continues through many places, cultures and ideas until the 2018 Millicent Fawcett statue by Gillian Wearing in London, UK. Each ... More |
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| | | Never-before seen artefacts cast new light on William Morris' greatest influence | | Ingleby Gallery opens 2019 exhibition programme with an exhibition of photography by four artists | | Kasmin opens exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles based artist Theodora Allen |
Installation view. An Earthly Paradise: William Morris & The Thames.
HENLEY-ON-THAMES.- In an exhibition first, The River & Rowing Museum explores one of William Morris most important and little-known influences: the River Thames. An Earthly Paradise: William Morris & The Thames features original printed textiles and sketches by the 19th centurys most celebrated designer, and cast new light on Morris lifelong passion for the river. Telling this story for the very first time, the exhibition explores how a lifetime spent boating and fishing infused Morris designs, inspired his poetry, fuelled his manufacturing, and filled his leisure time. From 1879 the river even connected his two homes: Kelmscott House in London and Kelmscott Manor, upstream in rural Oxfordshire. Morris instantly recognisable textile designs including Wandle and Windrush are inspired directly from his days exploring and fishing in the upper reaches, and passages from his celebrated 1867 epic poem The Earthly ... More | |
Cindy Sherman, Untitled (Madonna), 1975 - 1997. Gelatin silver print Signed and dated by the artist in pencil on print verso, 17.6 x 12.5 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Ingleby, Edinburgh.
EDINBURGH.- Ingleby Gallerys 2019 exhibition programme opens with an exhibition of photography by four artists who use self-portraiture as a kind of challenge to both confront, and yet avoid, the viewer's gaze. In doing so something of themselves is simultaneously revealed and concealed; exposed but held back. It is a beguiling contradiction achieved through one of the most direct mediums in which the Self becomes both subject and object; laid bare but distanced by the artifice of props and costume. The unrivalled master of this way of working is Cindy Sherman, (b.1954) represented here by a small but captivatingly intense portrait from 1975. It is an image that subverts conventions of femininity and religion to present the artist as film star, sex-bomb, the Madonna. In Shermans words: I feel Im anonymous in ... More | |
Theodora Allen, Shield (Opium Poppy), 2018, oil and watercolor on linen, 26 x 20 inches, 66 x 50.8 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin is presenting weald, an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles based artist Theodora Allen. For her first exhibition with the gallery and debut New York solo show, Allen presents two bodies of work: Shields (dwale) and Monuments (weald). Dwale from Old Norse, meaning deep sleep or trance; weald from the Old English for forest. The two words are anagrams, both archaic; one is landscape and the other mindscape. The Shield paintings are a suite of intimately scaled still lifes, each variation set within the iconic shape of medieval armor. Executed in a muted palette of jewel-toned hues, the plants are both isolated and adorned, akin to scientific botanical illustrations used in early herbals and pharmacopeia. The storied herbage belong to a world of remedies, aphrodisiacs, sacraments, and poisons. They are killers or curers, sinners or saints. As emblems they are ... More |
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Exhibition examines how "high art" and pop culture intersect
LONG BEACH, CA.- The University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach is presenting Call and Response, When We Say You Say, curated by Mario Ybarra Jr. and Karla Diaz, co-founders of the renowned Wilmington art collective Slanguage. Ybarra and Diaz contemplate a selection of UAM collection works and invite Slanguage guest artists to collaborate with them to examine how high art" and pop culture intersect. The exhibition title reflects the playfulness at the heart of the Slanguage practice, taking cues from the volleying interaction between artist, art, and audience. The exhibition runs from January 28 April 14, 2019. UAM Collection Artists: Kim Abeles, Richard Bosman, Patricio Cabrera, Albert Contreras, Adolph Gottlieb, Graciela Iturbide, Lee Krasner, Piotr Kowalski, Ken Light, Ken Price, Lorna Simpson, Andy Warhol. Slanguage ... More
Exhibition of Polaroids by Andy Warhol inaugurates BASTIAN's London space
LONDON.- BASTIAN is presenting Andy Warhol Polaroid Pictures, the inaugural exhibition at the gallerys London space running 2 February 13 April 2019. A series of over 60 portrait and self-portrait Polaroid photographs by Andy Warhol - some of which are exhibited for the first time - depict artists, actors, politicians and friends of his eccentric Factory entourage. The exhibition offers an intimate portrayal of New York in the 1970s and 80s during the establishment of a new visual culture. Positioning Warhol as both subject and spectator, the series highlights the artists prolific capacity as a chronicler of his time. Central to the exhibition is Self-Portrait (1979). Measuring 81.3 x 55.9 cm, it is one of the few large-scale Polaroid portraits produced by Warhol. In this work the artists face, grimacing and strained, looms closely into the camera lens, producing a highly ... More
From gilt to grey, Paris Elysee hall gets subdued makeover
PARIS (AFP).- The most prestigious room in France's grand presidential palace has toned down the gold in favour of a subtle palette of grey after a months-long renovation that was unveiled to the public Friday. Out are the regal red carpets and elaborate tasselled tapestries which lined the walls of the Elysee Palace's main reception hall, some of which had hung there for the past 40 years. In their place are subdued dove grey carpets and curtains embroidered with leaf motifs, against walls bearing the superimposed Rs and Fs of the French Republic. President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, have made no secret of their desire to update the Elysee, bringing in modern artworks from Pierre Alechinsky, Robert Delauney and Nicolas de Stael to mirror their more progressive tastes. The 1,000 square meter (10,700 square foot) reception hall, ... More
Stars flock to funeral of legendary film composer Legrand
PARIS (AFP).- The legendary French film composer Michel Legrand was laid to rest Friday after a final standing ovation in a Paris theatre decorated to look like one of his favourite movies. The musician who scored such French screen classics as "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and "The Young Ladies of Rochefort" -- both starring Catherine Deneuve and directed by Jacques Demy -- died on Saturday aged 86. Legrand won three Oscars for his work in Hollywood, most famously for writing "The Windmills of Your Mind" for "The Thomas Crown Affair" in 1969, as well as the music for Barbra Streisand's "Yentl" (1984) and the "Summer of '42" (1972). A magic forest reminiscent of another Demy film, "Donkey Skin" -- which also starred Deneuve -- was created inside the Marigny theatre in Paris where his coffin was taken after a funeral service at the Alexander Nevsky ... More
The Renaissance Society announces historic $1M gift for publications
CHICAGO, IL.- Solveig Ãvstebø, Executive Director of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, announced today the establishment of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Publications Program following a $1 million pledge from the Chicago-based founder of Morningstar and his wife. This transformative gift secures the independent contemporary art museums publishing activities for the next 10 years and marks the largest single commitment in its 104-year history. Known around the world for its remarkable support of artists, the Renaissance Society has established itself as a unique platform for ground-breaking creative experimentation and deep inquiry. Publishing has been at the core of the institutions activity since its founding in 1915, and it has produced significant exhibitions and accompanying publications with artists such as Louise ... More
Two artists present works of nostalgia and reflection, opening our eyes to the future
GREENSBORO, NC.- Two Artists | One Space opened at GreenHill on February 1. In GreenHills gallery, concurrent one-person exhibitions by Cathy McLaurin and Dane Winkler ask us to question what is authentic? Both artists are excavators who mine the often overlooked histories of areas where the economic train has moved on and who uncover repositories of heritage, history, and value. In their work, McLaurin and Winkler investigate losses to communities and their transformations of economies and cultures, with works responding to a sense belonging as well as displacement. McLaurins multi-media projects are rooted in archival research, utilizing video interviews, photographs, and collections of objects. She presents two installations at GreenHill, The North Wind and the Sun and The Reverend, His Lover, Their Monet and the Museum, with ... More
Göteborgs Konsthall opens a solo exhibition with Phoebe Boswell
GOTHENBURG.- Göteborgs Konsthall is presenting the exhibition Here, the first Scandinavian solo exhibition of Kenyan-British artist Phoebe Boswell. Boswells multidisciplinary art practice is anchored to a restless state of diasporic consciousness and engages in questions of collective memory, personal identity and what it means to be home. She creates layered, deeply immersive multimedia installations which center and amplify histories thatlike her ownare often systemically marginalized. The exhibition Here at Göteborgs Konsthall, brings together distinct themes in the artist's oeuvre which each address what it means to belong, particularly from the perspective of the racialized, sexualized and gendered "other." Phoebe Boswell takes us on a journey that begins by observing the social structure of the city of Göteborg from the point of view ... More
Exhibition showcases Bożenna Biskupska's ongoing series of paintings entitled Cages
LONDON.- létrangère is presenting Epiphany of Time, the first exhibition in the UK of work by the Polish artist, Bożenna Biskupska. The exhibition showcases Biskupskas ongoing series of paintings entitled Cages, many of which are shown here for the first time. Each painting in the Cages series is created using thick layers of oil paint, confined within a rectangular border; some are slashed through by thick diagonal lines or interrupted by additional rectangles within. The works are left to ripen for a long period of time, often for a number of years until the artist decides to release them when they mature enough. The materiality of paint, transformed by time, reveals colour and develops texture which adds a sculptural dimension to the work. The process where time plays a central role in transforming the materials is key to Biskupskas practice. Referencing existential and metaphysical ... More
Moderna Museet Malmo exhibits Jordan Wolfson's Riverboat Song
MALMO.- Jordan Wolfson is one of the most exciting young artists on the American art scene right now. On February 2, his video sculpture Riverboat Song opens at Moderna Museet. At first glance, it might look like an entertaining flow of randomly arranged images from popular culture and found clips from the internet. But the scenarios in Jordan Wolfsons works are, in fact, meticulously composed to explore a specific, real feeling, and to catch the viewer off balance. Wolfson manipulates the ostensibly familiar and challenges the bond of trust between sender and receiver. In Riverboat Song (201718), which was recently acquired for the Moderna Museet collection, derailed animated figures are combined with found clips from the less savoury sides of the internet. The boyish Huckleberry Finn-like protagonist recurs in several of Wolfsons works, possibly ... More
Exhibition of paintings and drawings by artist Ellen Altfest on view at White Cube
HONG KONG.- White Cube is presenting an exhibition of paintings and drawings by the New York based artist Ellen Altfest, her first in China. Working on a one-to-one scale, Altfests art evolves out of a direct observation from life. Her subject matter includes male models, nude or partially covered by fabric, or the natural world experienced at its quietest, and works typically require several months to over a year to complete. The time collapsed into her paintings generates a concentrated intensity that verges on the hallucinatory, with a level of detail that is unsettling in its degree of naturalism. Barry Schwabsky has characterised this realism as a refusal to abbreviate, whereby Altfest, unlike other painters, does not economise on mark making or use of colour to generalise compositional passages. One of the earliest paintings in this exhibition, Tree (2013), for ... More
Johnny Hallyday show to go ahead despite family's anger
PARIS (AFP).- A show about the life of legendary French rocker Johnny Hallyday is to go ahead despite the opposition of his family, the producers have said. The death of the "French Elvis" in December 2017 prompted the biggest outpouring of grief seen in the French capital since the funeral of Edith Piaf half a century before. But plans for a new musical tribute to Hallyday, who died of cancer aged 74, has divided his fans and sparked a furious response from his manager and his widow. "Johnny Hallyday is a commercial brand and you cannot use it like that," Hallyday's manager Sebastien Farran told the Parisien daily. "We do not endorse this show and we still do not know its content. They have never contacted us," he added. The newspaper reported that Hallyday's widow Laeticia was annoyed and has called in her lawyers to stop the show because ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada was born February 02, 1853. José Guadalupe Posada (February 2, 1853 - January 20, 1913) was a Mexican political printmaker and engraver whose work has influenced many Latin American artists and cartoonists because of its satirical acuteness and social engagement. He used skulls, calaveras, and bones to make political and cultural critiques. Among his famous works was La Catrina. In this image: José Guadalupe Posada, Calavera de la Catrina (Skull of the Female Dandy), from the portfolio 36 Grabados: José Guadalupe Posada, published by Arsacio Vanegas, Mexico City, Mexico, c. 1910, printed 1943, photo-relief etching with engraving, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the friends of Freda Radoff.
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