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In this 2018 photo provided by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, INAH, a skull-like stone carving and a stone trunk depicting the Flayed Lord, a pre-Hispanic fertility god depicted as a skinned human corpse, are stored after being excavated from the Ndachjian?Tehuacan archaeological site in Tehuacan, Puebla state, where archaeologists have discovered the first temple dedicated to the deity.
MEXICO CITY.- Archaeologists in Mexico have found the first temple to the pre-Hispanic deity Xipe Totec, a god of fertility and war who was worshipped by sacrificing and skinning captives. Evidence indicates that priests ritually sacrificed their victims on one of the temple's two circular altars, then flayed them on the other and draped themselves in their skin, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement. Historians have long known that Xipe Totec ("the flayed god") was worshipped by numerous peoples across what is now central and western Mexico and the Gulf coast. But the discovery -- made among the ruins of the Ndachjian-Tehuacan archeological site in the central state of Puebla -- is the first time a temple dedicated to the god has been found, the institute said. The artefacts uncovered at the site include three stone sculptures of Xipe Totec: two skinned heads and a torso, whose back is covered in engravings representing the sacrificial skins worn by the god. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on January 4, 2019, shows the Qasr al-Farid tomb (The Lonely Castle) carved into rose-coloured sandstone in Madain Saleh, a UNESCO World Heritage site, near Saudi Arabia's northwestern town of al-Ula. Fayez Nureldine / AFP
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 | | Met welcomes nearly 7.4 million visitors in 2018 | | British Museum launches Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research | | Christie's to auction the collection of Richard L. Feigen | 
In this file photo taken on February 26, 2018 a banner for the upcoming "Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas" exhibition hangs outside The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ANGELA WEISS / AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it welcomed 7.36 million visitors to its three locationsThe Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuerin 2018, an increase over the 7 million it reported for 2017. The number is due in part to the record-breaking attendance for Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, which attracted 1,659,647 visitors to The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters during its run from May 10 to October 8. The final weeks of Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, which was on view through February 12, 2018, and David Hockney, which closed on February 25, 2018, also contributed to the record number. "We're delighted that so many people decided to spend their time at The Met in the last year," said Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of the Museum. "It's inspiring to know that New Yorkers ... More | | 
Anthropomorphic mask with triangular nose-ornament, made of gold by hammering and embossing. 100BC-1600 (?).
LONDON.- Thanks to support from the Santo Domingo family, the British Museum announced the creation of the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin America Research. Housed within the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the British Museum, the Centre will attract and facilitate work by some of the worlds leading scholars from the fields of archaeology, history, art and anthropology. The research undertaken will ensure much greater understanding of the Museums collections from the region and will highlight what we can learn from the human story of Latin America. The British Museum cares for a comprehensive collection of Latin American material culture. Some 45,000 objects spanning a period of 10,000 years encapsulate, and can help communicate, some of the most remarkable narratives of human development on the planet. Detailed research on these archaeological collections, juxtaposed with contemporary works r ... More | | 
Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), Virgin and Child with Saint Lucy and the Young Saint John the Baptist, oil on panel, 30 7/8 x 24 13/16 in. (78.5 x 63 cm.) Estimate on Request. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Property from the Collection of Richard L. Feigen, the renowned and influential American art dealer. Featuring early Italian and Baroque paintings, as well as 18th century British landscapes, several paintings from the Collection will be offered in the Old Masters sale in New York on May 2, 2019. Artists represented in the sale include Annibale Carracci, Guercino, Lorenzo Monaco, and John Constable, among others. A global tour of select highlights from the collection will tour to Los Angeles, New York, London, Dubai and Hong Kong. Francois de Poortere, Head of Department, Old Masters, comments, Known for his discerning eye and impeccable taste, Richard Feigen has always been a true visionary in the global art world. He has made countless and startling discoveries throughout his career and continues to champion the field of Old Masters. It is an honor ... More |
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| | | Shulamit Nazarian opens Trenton Doyle Hancock's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles | | Bonhams to offer an important collection of Clark Gruber & Co. Territorial gold | | John Hansard Gallery presents a new sculptural exhibition by Siobhán Hapaska | 
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Undom Endgle and the Souls Journey (Sculpture), 2018. Styrofoam, epoxy, steel, automotive paint, silicone, wood base, 82.5 x 70 x 31.5. inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Shulamit Nazarian presents An Ingenues Hues and How to Use Cutty Black Shoes, Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The new drawings, paintings, and sculptures in this show expand upon the artists saga of The Moundverse, a constructed world that has propelled his artistic practice for the past twenty-five years. In addition to the narrative tradition of his religious upbringing, Hancock immersed himself in graphic novels, comics, and Greek mythology; at the age of ten, he began creating characters as articulations of his experience as a Black youth in small-town Paris, Texas. In The Moundverse, Hancock has developed an extensive cast: altruistic Mounds, destructive Vegans, ... More | | 
1860 Clark Gruber & Co. $20. Genuine, Tooled, Repaired & Cleaned PCGS. Estimate: $90,000-110,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On January 28, Bonhams sale of Coins and Medals will feature a complete set of Clark Gruber & Co. Territorial gold coins minted in 1860-1861 in Denver, Colorado, which was amassed over several decades. This set includes the quarter eagles, half eagles, eagles, and the ultra-rare double eagles from both dates issued, 1860 and 1861. Multiples of certain dates and denominations are also part of the collection resulting in the largest grouping of Clark Gruber & Co. gold offered on the market for many decades with estimates ranging from $1,500 to $90,000. A decade or so after the California Gold Rush began in the late 1840s, gold was discovered on the South Platte River, near the future city of Denver. Clark, Gruber & Co., a reputable bank and brokerage firm in the state, established a coinage facility and remained in ... More | | 
Installation view.
SOUTHAMPTON.- John Hansard Gallery, part of the University of Southampton, is presenting Snake and Apple a new sculptural exhibition by Siobhán Hapaska. Siobhán Hapaska (b.1963) continually reconsiders the role of the object in contemporary sculpture. Through her forms Hapaska seeks to find a balance and sense of stability to explore human relations and navigate our current global condition and its frequent violence. Hapaska carefully employs an array of materials, each loaded with history and multiple readings. These materials are manipulated into intricate relationships of both potential energy and harmony. For John Hansard Gallery, Hapaska presents work from her series Snake and Apple (2015present). Glossy fibreglass apples look set to burst as they are constricted between snakeskin veneered metal U channels. The arrangement of elements is at once seductive and unnerving. ... More |
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| | | Laughter in Hell: kamel mennour opens exhibition of works by Zineb Sedira | | Neandertal genes influence brain development of modern humans | | Ahlers & Ogletree's New Year's auction is packed with 1,144 quality lots | 
View of the exhibition « Laughter in Hell », kamel mennour (6 rue du Pont de Lodi), Paris 6, 2018-2019 © Zineb Sedira / DACS, London. Photo archives kamel mennour. Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris/London.
PARIS.- Humour is the politeness of despair. The well known aphorism authored by filmmaker Chris Marker could stand as the ironic epitaph of the Black Decades in Algeria, a period that French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira addresses though not without humour in her recent body of work. The traumatic period that started in the late 1980s with countrywide street protests was followed a few years later by a military intervention that forestalled the electoral victory of the Islamist Salvation Front (FIS) and removed the sitting president. Throughout the 1990s, Algeria was then mired in a violent internal war between armed Islamist groups and the Algerian army that resulted in the death of about 200,000 civilians. Whilst these events are little known internationally and unwillingly discussed within Algeria, Zineb Sedira audaciously recounts this dramatic chapter of contemporary ... More | | 
Computed tomographic scan of a Neandertal fossil (La Ferrassie 1) © CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Image: Philipp Gunz).
LEIPZIG.- A characteristic feature of modern humans is the unusually round skull and brain, in contrast to the elongated shape seen in other human species. An interdisciplinary research team, led by the Max Planck Institutes for Psycholinguistics and Evolutionary Anthropology, brought together fossil skull data, brain imaging and genomics. By studying Neandertal DNA fragments found in the genomes of living Europeans, the scientists have now discovered genes that influence this globular shape. Modern human skulls have a unique globular (round) shape. Our closest cousins, the long extinct Neandertals, had the elongated skulls that are typical of most primates. This striking shape difference is suspected to reflect evolutionary changes in the relative sizes of structures of the human brain, perhaps even in the ways that key brain areas are connected to each other. However, brain tissue doesn't itself fossilize, so the underlying biologica ... More | | 
Unsigned, bust-length oil on canvas Portrait of a Lady by British painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), possibly of Lady Charlotte Johnston (est. $15,000-$25,000).
ATLANTA, GA.- A 93-piece Royal Copenhagen porcelain dinner service for twelve in the Flora Danica pattern, two figural watercolor paintings by the renowned French painter Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), and a 38-carat aquamarine necklace from the collection of the late Lily Langtree are a few expected top lots in Ahlers & Ogletrees New Years Signature Estates Auction slated for the weekend of January 12th and 13th, online and in the Atlanta gallery at 700 Miami Circle. The Saturday-Sunday auction will be packed with 1,144 quality lots, mostly pulled from prominent local estates and collections. Included will be lovely period antiques, fine art by noted artists, silver, Asian arts, period furniture, fine estate jewelry and more. Online bidding is provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, HiBid.com and Bidsquare.com. Start times will be 10 am Eastern both days. The Royal Copenhagen 93-piece porcelain ... More |
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| | | Nathalie Karg Gallery opens exhibition of works by Joe Fyfe | | Exhibition explores the interplay between geometric color abstraction and perceptual space | | Paintings by female artists who never received their just due while alive offered at Gray's Auctioneers | 
Each painting utilizes a poem from the book.
NEW YORK, NY.- The title of the exhibition refers to the materiality, lightness and distance of my work. It is a line from Exiled Grace, an entry in Calligrammes (1913-1916) by Guillaume Apollinaire, a book of poems written while he served in World War I. Each painting utilizes a poem from the book. Il Pleut came about capriciously. I imposed the Apollinaire poem over the variegated surface of the support. It felt cheeky to apply this beloved modernist poem--as important to literary history as art history--as an organizing motif for a painting. When I finished the Il Pleut painting, I had to understand it. I thought of the Giorgio Agamben essay, What is the Contemporary? I had been wondering, how do you feel the present? How do you frame it? Agambens mysterious conclusion was that an anachronistic relationship to the present was necessary to perceive the contemporary. Soon after I discovered the Marxist cultural critic Mark Fisher, now deceased, who described ... More | | 
Mokha Laget, Gamut #2, 2018. Flashe and acrylic on shaped canvas, 48 x 36 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art announces its debut exhibition of Santa Fe artist Mokha Laget, opening January 5, 2019, with a reception from 4-6pm and artist talk at 4:30pm. Spatial Chromatics features recent paintings that explore the interplay between geometric color abstraction and perceptual space. The exhibition will be on view through February 16, 2019. Optically charged and vibrantly hued, Mokha Laget combines irregularly shaped canvases, geometric abstraction, and saturated color to create dynamic compositions. Formed by the layering of multiple geometric shapes, Laget uses their intersections as borders for her large areas of deep color. Some produce striking changes of tone, while others have more subtle shifts, as if one form is a transparent overlay of another. Diagonal lines are an important element in Lagets division of the surface, their intersections and juxtapositions ... More | | 
Woodcut by Rockwood Kent (American, 1882-1971), titled The Mountain Climber, signed lower right and measuring 7 ¾ inches by 5 ¾ inches (est. $1,500-$2,500.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Grays Auctioneers will kick off the New Year with another extensive sale of fine art, decorative arts and furniture on Wednesday, January 16th, online and in the firms gallery at 10717 Detroit Avenue in Cleveland, beginning at 11 am Eastern time. Well be highlighting some terrific female artists who never received their just due while alive, said Serena Harragin of Grays. The full catalog is up now, at GraysAuctioneers.com. Bidding is also available on Liveauctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. In-person previews will be held Thursday thru Wednesday, January 10th-16th, from 10-5; and Saturday, January 12th, from noon-4 pm. Lot 33 is a painting after Margaretha Haverman (c.1693-1739), the 18th century Danish still life artist about ... More |
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 Booked: Tai Kwun - Centre for Heritage and Arts announces a new international art book fairHONG KONG.- Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts will welcome the first edition of a new international art book fair in Hong Kong this January. The inaugural Booked: Tai Kwun Contemporarys Hong Kong Art Book Fair will take place from 11 to 13 January 2019 at JC Contemporary in Tai Kwun. The three-day event will provide a platform for art book publishers and artists to display and sell a diverse range of art books, such as photography books, art albums, art historical and theoretical texts, zines as well as artists books, among others. Booked aspires to enable local, regional and international publishers and artists to showcase and share their works; additionally, the art book fair will feature talks, workshops and performances over the three days. Examples of art books include (but are not limited to) artists books, photography books, art albums, zines, ... More French literary bad boy Houellebecq returns with 'yellow vest' novelPARIS (AFP).- Provocative French author Michel Houellebecq's highly anticipated new novel, in which he appears to foretell the "yellow vest" revolt, looked set to become an instant bestseller after going on sale Friday. Houellebecq, a fierce eurosceptic, became a pin-up of the far right after his last book, "Submission", which envisioned a France subject to sharia law after electing a Muslim president in 2022. The deeply depressed hero of his latest book "Serotonin" is an agricultural engineer who returns to his roots in a provincial France devastated by globalisation and European agricultural policies. He finds a resentful rural populace who are "virtually dead" yet ripe for rebellion and who rise up to block motorways, much as the "yellow vest" movement has done for real since late November. Houellebecq's seventh novel, written long before protesters in high-visibility ... More Haus der Kulturen der Welt turns 30 BERLIN.- In 2019, HKW will be 30 years old. The programs during this anniversary year position the institution as a space for studying the contemporary. Rather than looking back, creative practices for dealing with the urgent issues of present-day societies are more important than ever. HKW is a seismograph for changes in contemporary cultures, oriented by multiple perspectives. It is important to contrast todays so-called right-wing usurpation with alternative concepts, for instance in the context of the exhibition project bauhaus imaginista with its discourse events that locate the Bauhaus in various political contexts. The topics of the HKW's projects extend from the power of binary code over life forms in the technosphere and questions of how our knowledge is archived all the way to languages of ethnology. What happens between human and machine, between ... More Pi Artworks opens Yuşa Yalçıntaşs second solo exhibitionISTANBUL.- Pi Artworks Istanbul is proud to present Yuşa Yalçıntaşs second solo exhibition, Yuka*, between 5 January 2 March 2019. The literary meaning of the term Yuka, from which the exhibition takes its name, provides the viewer with tools to decipher the encrypted language it contains, therefore delineating the boundaries of the exhibition. Elements of esotericism, iconography, as well as the interlaced relationship between ritual and recreation are ideas that evoke Yalçıntaşs first solo exhibition, Causa Sui, that took place in 2016 at Pi Artworks Istanbul. In Yuka, Yalçıntaş builds upon these concepts, this time focusing upon the aspect of daily practices. The theatrical narrative brought to life by the artists composition, constituted of elements placed together for a particular purpose, blends with the exhibition spaces architectural backgroun ... More Ruth Estévez named Senior Curator-at-Large at the Rose Art MuseumWALTHAM, MASS.- The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University announced today the appointment of Ruth Estévez as Senior Curator-at-Large. With extensive experience as a curator of contemporary art and performance, Estévez will organize exhibitions and programming, expand interdisciplinary research and scholarship, and advise the museum on key acquisitions. As Senior Curator-at-Large she will share expertise with Brandeis faculty, staff, and students. Ruths extensive knowledge of contemporary art practice and her experience questioning and mining existing structures will play a key role in shaping the museums future and will serve as a connector to the rest of the world, said Luis Croquer, the Roses Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator. I am thrilled to welcome her to the Rose where her unique perspective will enrich the Roses ... More 4th Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale opensSHENZHEN.- Expanded Animation, a concept from Siegfried Zielinski, explores how artists using new method and media bring life, or animate, non-living things using both cinematic and non-cinematic animated forms. The 4th Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale is one of the youngest events of its kind dedicated to the art of independent animation and continues to exceed expectations with its innovative approach and curation through new commissions and international and national collaborationsgiving the format of biennale of the future. Two simultaneous year-long academic collaborative projects between the Biennale and Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and Sichuan Academy of Arts have produced 14 new independent animated works. Curated by Daniel Franke and Tang Yong these works by students and professors express and combine ... More New website of the archive of Zbigniew Warpechowski's performancesWARSAW.- Galeria Monopol announced the launch of a new website with the archive of Zbigniew Warpechowskis performances, one of the precursors and most recognised representatives of this art worldwide. If you are looking for information about performance art, artists from Poland and Central Europe, or the history of art of the second half of the 20th century, it is worth visiting this page. The website contains photos and descriptions of 50 actions carried out by the artist, as well as films and documents about them. A performer, painter, poet and author of texts on the theory of performance. Born in Płoska in Volhynia in 1938. Lives and works in Sandomierz (Poland). He has cultivated performance art since 1967, which makes him a forerunner of this movement. Warpechowski has had over 300 performances in many countries in Europe, ... More Major new commission by Heather Phillipson on view at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary ArtGATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents a major new commission by Heather Phillipson (b. 1978, London). Responding to BALTICs vast Level 4 gallery, The Age of Love comprises video, sound and objects, evoking alternate worlds and temporalities. Somewhere between an agricultural vista and a lunar wasteland, the gallery is punctuated by functioning farm equipment, holding pens, sequenced lighting and screens, vocal warm-ups, rave era undertones and the noise of circling gulls. Phillipson works across sculpture, video, music, online media, drawing, and poetry. For this commission, her work shifts away from what she calls her increasingly apocalyptic undertones towards affirmative ways of conceiving and defying. Animatronic dog hair, augmented reality bird faeces, birds eye views, mobile sculptures and a leftover foot like a knock-off ... More Gallery Kayafas exhibits Judy Haberl's newest worksBOSTON, MASS.- Gallery Kayafas is exhibiting Judy Haberls newest works, The Chefs Hand and Traces. Known for her imaginative and innovative work, Haberl most recently collaborated with chefs, working in Boston and across the US. Each chef was given a thin, flexible plastic cutting board and asked to use it during meal preparation for several weeks. The cutting boards recorded the marks left behind cutting, chopping, cleaving, dicing each chef has a unique hand and style in the art of cuisine. Finished cutting boards were photographed and printed in the Intaglio drypoint process. The end results are an extraordinary reveal of marks made randomly. Abstract in visual definition yet purposely aligned by the chef with thought only to the meal at hand. The cutting board, in a kitchen is a culinary tabula rasa. Much of what happens in kitchen ... More Outdoor interactive multimedia exhibition Home? by GayBird unveiled in Hong KongHONG KONG.- Home?, the first outdoor multimedia exhibition of the 2nd Edition of JOCKEY CLUB New Arts Power by renowned Hong Kong multimedia artist and composer GayBird is now opene to public for free. Home? is being exhibited in Central Pier, Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui and centre of Causeway Bay. The interactive exhibition invites the audience to question the meaning of home. Taking place at various locations citywide, Home? is an extension of GayBirds well-received installation Home which premiered at the OzAsia Festival 2017. For the Hong Kong edition of the outdoor, interactive exhibition, GayBird adds a question mark to the end of the word home, hopes to remind people of the essence of life through the original concept of home. Each location will be presented in either a crowded, concentrated or a structured setting, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French-American painter Yves Tanguy was born January 05, 1900. Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 - January 15, 1955), known as Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter. Tanguy, the son of a retired navy captain, was born at the Ministry of Naval Affairs on Place de la Concorde in Paris, France. His parents were both of Breton origin. In this image: A pair of earrings, painted by Yves Tanguy.
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