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A general view shows well-preserved and rare wall paintings inside the tomb of an Old Kingdom priestess on the Giza plateau on the southern outskirts of Cairo, that was unveiled on February 3, 2018, after being discovered during excavation work in Giza's western cemetery by a team of Egyptian archaeologists. Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Enany told reporters the tomb belong to Hatpet, a priestess to Hathor, the goddess of fertility who assisted women in childbirth. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP.
CAIRO (AFP).- Egyptian archaeologists on Saturday unveiled the tomb of an Old Kingdom priestess adorned with well-preserved and rare wall paintings. Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Enany told reporters that the tomb on the Giza plateau near Cairo was built for Hetpet, a priestess to Hathor, the goddess of fertility, who assisted women in childbirth. The tomb was found during excavation work in Giza's western cemetery by a team of Egyptian archaeologists led by Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. The antiquities ministry said the cemetery houses tombs of top officials from the Old Kingdom's Fifth Dynasty (2465-2323 BC), and that several have already been dug up since 1842. The newly discovered tomb "has the architectural style and the decorative elements of the Fifth Dynasty, with an entrance leading to an 'L' shaped shrine", the ministry said. "The tomb has very distinguished wall painting ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on January 23, 2018 shows an Emergency exit sign witten in German inside a World War II bunker located under the Gare de l'Est (the East railway station) in the French capital Paris. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP
| Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum showcases modern and contemporary prints | | First exhibition to explore Eduardo Chillida's multitude of media opens at the Meadows Museum | | The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Takashi Murakami's works in first ever retrospective to be presented in Canada | 
Robert Motherwell, Untitled, from the portfolio X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters, 1964. Screen print with collage elements, 24 x 20. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. University acquisition, 1970.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Printmaking is a distinctive artistic practice that draws from a range of technical traditions. For many artists, this hybrid aspect combined with the multiplicity, seriality and mass communication inherent in printmaking lends itself to unfettered experimentation. The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis presents three new exhibitions that together explore the modern and contemporary evolution of printed and editioned artworks. Spanning the mid-1940s through the 1970s, Postwar Prints and Multiples: Investigating the Collection features work by leading figures associated with European and American abstraction, Pop and Op art, and Conceptual art. Intended to showcase the depth of the museums permanent holdings, the exhibition surveys a wide range of visual strategies: from semi-figurative works by Jean ... More | | 
duardo Chillida (Spanish, 19242002), Besarkada III / Embrace III, 1991. Iron. © Zabalaga-Leku. ARS, New York / VEGAP, Madrid, 2017. Courtesy The Estate of Eduardo Chillida and Hauser & Wirth.
DALLAS, TX.- The Meadows Museum is presenting Dallass first exhibition dedicated exclusively to the work of Eduardo Chillida (19242002). Chillida, one of Spains most celebrated modern sculptors, is famous for his monumental iron and stone sculptures that shape both urban and rural landscapes. This exhibition includes 66 of the artists works, from his sculptures, to his drawings, collages, gravitations, graphic works, and a selection of his books. Co-curated by William Jeffett, chief curator of exhibitions for The Dalà Museum, and Ignacio Chillida, the artists son, the works in Memory, Mind, Matter: The Sculpture of Eduardo Chillida come exclusively from the Museo Chillida-Leku in Hernani (San Sebastián, Spain); the exhibition travels to Dallas from the Salvador Dalà Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. A complimentary exhibition, Chillida in Dallas: De Musica at the Meyerson, is curated by ... More | | 
Takashi Murakami, Kleins Pot A, 1994-97. Acrylic on canvas mounted on board in plexiglass box (optional) Colección Pérez Simón, Mexico © 1994-97 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Photo: Yoshitaka Uchida.
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery kicked off its spring season with Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg (February 3 May 6, 2018), the first ever major retrospective of Takashi Murakamis work in Canada. Featuring over 55 impressive paintings and sculptures, Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg offers an in-depth survey of the evolution of Murakamis paintings from the 1980s to the present, while highlighting the artists role as a committed and often conflicted cultural commentator. Spanning three decades from his earliest mature work to his recent large-scale creations, this extraordinary exhibition will include a recently produced five-metre tall sculpture and two specially created multi-panel paintings. For Murakami, connecting with his audience and allowing his artwork to be accessible to the general public are integral aspects ... More |
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| Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao covers sixty years of Henri Michaux's creative activity | | Exhibition brings together recent work with earlier paintings from the 1970's and 80's by Edwina Leapman | | Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger opens exhibition of works by Mark Tobey | 
Henri Michaux, Untitled, 1956. India ink and pencil on paper, 240 x 162 mm. Private collection © Archives Henri Michaux, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2018.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Henri Michaux: The Other Side , an exhibition which brings together a prominent set of works by an unclassifiable figure of the arts and literature of the 20th century. Over the course of his long life, Henri Michaux (Namur, Belgium, 1899Paris, France, 1984) greatly influenced the artists and writers of his time, both as a poets poet and a painters painter, lionized by figures in both fields like André Gide and Francis Bacon. Michaux feverishly produced thousands of works on paper whose full extent is only now becoming apparent. This exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Michaux Archives in Paris, covers sixty years of Michauxs creative activity, focusing on his most important periods and series. Bringing together some 230 of the artists pieces, documents and objects, Henri Michaux: The Other Side is ... More | | 
Edwina Leapman, With Pink, 2013. Acrylic on canvas. 122 x 147.5 cm.
LONDON.- Edwina Leapman and Annely Juda Fine Art have a long-standing history together, resulting in numerous solo shows since her first with the gallery in 1976. This exhibition brings together recent work with earlier paintings from the 1970s and 80s, highlighting Leapmans move from the early monochromatic canvases to the more recent coloured paintings. The early works show pronounced lines that are rendered in thin transparent whites, whereas the later work contrasts broad colourful brushstrokes painted over contrasting base colours; ranging from shimmering blues to dark reds and purples. Guided by parallel lines, Leapman draws a brush across the canvas from left to right, thus the paint engages with the weave of the canvas with varying intensity and depth, resulting in her characteristic paintings with their rhythmic, resonating surfaces. Leapman originally worked figuratively and her early ... More | | 
Mark Tobey, Sumi, 1957. India Ink on paper, 15,75 x 11,02 in (40 x 28 cm). Courtesy Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris.
PARIS.- Pioneer explorer of the sign in painting, the American artist Mark Tobey (1890-1976) sought, through pure abstraction, an original calligraphy, a sacred space outlining the path to universal language between beings. Linked to his Baháà faith, a universal vision unifying religions, humans, and all aspects of the world, which he embraced in 1918, Tobeys blank writing is vibrant, metaphysical, born of light, space, activity, and equilibrium within pulsation. It is here set in dialogue with the detached and contemplative writing of the Swiss artist Michael Biberstein (1948-2013), openly agnostic and passionate admirer of astrophysics, whose ethereal landscapes, in translucent layers, are true chromatic respirations where silence resonates to the rhythm of light. Reminiscent of the eastern landscape paintings of the great Chinese dynasties of the past, Michael ... More |
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| Preserved in time: WWII bunker hidden under Paris train station | | Turner Contemporary explores the relationship between T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' and the visual arts | | Minneapolis Institute of Art and theater artist Robert Wilson collaborate to create immersive experience | 
This picture taken on January 23, 2018, shows French historian Clive Lamming posing in a World War II bunker located under the Gare de l'Est (the East railway station) in Paris. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- It lies hidden deep beneath Paris's bustling Gare de l'Est railway station, its sprawling subterranean rooms and sparse furniture pristinely preserved if a little dusty. Originally built a few years before World War II for luggage storage, the underground bunker was repurposed after war broke out. French railway historian Clive Lamming said its 1939 overhaul was to provide "a place to retreat in case of an air attack" so staff could keep the trains running east towards Germany. Leading this AFP reporter through a concrete air lock and heavy door to the shelter, he said: "The concern was gas." "We remembered World War I -- a perfectly airtight place was needed," he added. With its three-metre (10-foot) thick concrete ceiling, it was designed for about 70 people to be able to take refuge in the small rooms of the 120-square-metre ... More | | 
T.S. Eliot by Patrick Heron, 1949 © reserved; collection National Portrait Gallery, London.
MARGATE.- Journeys with The Waste Land is a major exhibition exploring the relationship between T.S. Eliots 1922 poem and the visual arts. In 1921 Eliot spent a few weeks in Margate at a crucial moment in his career. He arrived in a fragile state, physically and mentally, and worked on his poem The Waste Land , sitting in the Nayland Rock Shelter on Margate sands, which was published the following year. He wrote to a friend: I have done a rough draft of part of Part III but do not know whether it will do, and must wait for Viviens opinion as to whether it is printable. I have done this while sitting in a shelter on the front as I am out all day except when taking rest. (Letter, 1921 22, © Estate of T. S. Eliot) Writing shortly after the First World War, the world beyond Eliot was also fractured and fragile. Out of this devastating event, a new generation of writers, artists and musicians emerged. Eliots poem quickly became seen as one of ... More | | 
China, Qing dynasty (16441911), Manchu Emperors Ceremonial Twelve-symbol jifu Court Robe, 17231735. Silk tapestry (kesi). The John R. Van Derlip Fund 42.8.11.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Art collaborated with celebrated theatre director and visual artist Robert Wilson to organize a first-of-its-kind exhibition highlighting the drama, rituals, and opulence of the Qing Empire, the last imperial dynasty of China. The exhibition presents objects from Mias renowned collection of Chinese art, including rare court costumes, jades, lacquers, bronzes, gold ornaments, paintings, and sculpture, displayed in an immersive, experiential environment conceived of by Wilson. "Power and Beauty in Chinas Last Dynasty: Concept and Design by Robert Wilson, presented by Sit Investment Associates, is curated by Liu Yang, Mias Curator of Chinese Art, and is on view February 3 through May 27, 2018. The staging and storytelling involved ... More |
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| First solo exhibition of Italian abstract painter Giorgio Griffa in the United Kingdom on view at Camden Arts Centre | | From homemakers to makers: The history of University of Georgia's craft programs | | National Postal Museum opens exhibition celebrating women's duty and service in World War I | 
Giorgio Griffas minimalist approach reduces painting to its essential elements.
LONDON.- Camden Arts Centre is presenting the first solo exhibition of Italian abstract painter Giorgio Griffa in the United Kingdom. Closely linked to the Arte Povera movement, Griffa first became known in the 1960s as part of an Italian generation of artists who proposed a radical redefinition of painting. The exhibition provides a rare opportunity to discover the breadth of the artists practice, incorporating works from the 1960s through to today. Giorgio Griffas minimalist approach reduces painting to its essential elements: raw canvas, colour and brushstrokes. Griffa believes in the intelligence of painting, creating with what he calls passive concentration. Carefully following material behaviours as they play out on the canvas, he allows the instruments of painting to lead as the works protagonists: the type or width of brush or sponge, the colour or dilution ... More | | 
A photograph for the poster of Robert Ebendorf's exhibition at the Visual Arts Building in 1970.
ATHENS, GA.- When most people hear the word agriculture, they think cows, chickens and crops, not fine handmade jewelry or beautifully crafted ceramics. But, believe it or not, the University of Georgias art school got its start in the College of Agriculture, back in 1927. This unusual beginning for what was then the art department likely led to the strength of its craft programs, which are the subject of a new exhibition on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. Crafting History: Textiles, Metals and Ceramics at the University of Georgia runs through April 29 at the museum and is the first attempt to document the full scope and story of the universitys craft program. As its three curators dug deeper into their research, they kept expanding the size of the project. The result was not only an exhibition ... More | | 
Greta Wolf from Maple Grove, Michigan, was stationed at Base Hospital No. 54, Mesves, France during World War I. Courtesy Greta (Wolf) Fleming Collection, Gift of Janice Fleming, Womens Memorial Foundation Collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- In Her Words: Womens Duty and Service in World War I opened Feb. 2 at the Smithsonians National Postal Museum. The exhibition, open through May 8, offers a glimpse into the lives of four women serving in and alongside the American military during World War I. Through letters, uniforms, ID badges, notebooks and other authentic objects, the exhibition reveals the wartime experiences, personalities and aspirations of two U.S. Army Nurses, a U.S. Navy Yeoman and a YMCA worker. Visitors will learn about and see evidence of the work these women performed and the circumstances in which they served. Despite limited opportunities and unequal treatment ... More |
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 Spertus Institute commissions site-specific installation by Chicago artist Ellen RothenbergCHICAGO, IL.- Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership has commissioned a site-specific installation by internationally-acclaimed, Chicago-based artist Ellen Rothenberg. Entitled ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant, it is on view in the Institutes main floor Gallery. With this work, Rothenberg prompts visitors to consider connections between past and contemporary issues of migration. The project is inspired by objects and documents that Rothenberg uncovered in the Spertus collectionas well as research she pursued in Berlin at Germanys largest refugee camp, currently housed in the monumental Tempelhof Airport, a disused site that was originally designed and built by the Nazis. Rothenberg has titled the installation ISO 6346 after the international standard for identification and marking of shipping containers, such as those being ... More Erte serigraph, Majolica pitcher, Meerschaum pipes, more at Feb. 17 auction in FloridaPANAMA CITY BEACH, FLA..- Antique and collectible items spanning multiple categories from four prominent local estates, plus additional merchandise from Panama Citys Council on Aging, will all be rolled into one important auction on Saturday, February 17th, by The Specialists of the South, Inc., online and in the firms Panama City gallery at 544 East 6th Street, at 8 am Central. The auction will be a feast for the eyes, packed with sterling and silver, vintage dolls, furniture, art, pottery, glassware and more. Previews will be held the week of auction, from 9 am to 4 pm, and on auction day from 7 am until the start of sale at 8. For those unable to attend in person, online bidding will be facilitated by the platforms LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. The four principal estates break out as follows: Furniture (some of it antique), china, more than 120 ... More Museum Ludwig exhibits works by photographer couple Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion BaruchCOLOGNE.- With sympathy and observing distance, the photographer couple Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch captured the 1960s in San Francisco, when the Black Panthers emerged from the civil rights movement and hippies experimented with new forms of living and working in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. It was a time when the various currents of the civil rights movement and counterculture were concentrated particularly on the West Coast of the United States. The politicization and radicalization following the assassination of Malcolm X and the bloody race riots in Watts, Los Angeles, contrasted with anarchic hedonism, and the agitative posters of the Black Panthers could be seen alongside psychedelic posters from the hippie culture across the urban landscape. In 2013 the Museum Ludwig received a donation of fifty-two photographs by Ruth-Marion ... 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More Book culture returns to Iraq's post-jihadist MosulMOSUL (AFP).- Literary cafes, poetry readings and pavement bookstalls -- Mosul's cultural scene is back in business, months after Iraqi forces ousted the Islamic State group from the city following three years of jihadist rule. At the "Book Forum" cafe, men and women, young and old, sit passionately debating literature, music, politics and history. Drinking tea, coffee and juice, some smoke nargileh water pipes while an oud player takes the stage to accompany a poet about to read from his work. Opposite, the only wall not covered with bookshelves is instead host to a gallery of portraits -- medieval Iraqi poet Al-Mutanabbi is pictured alongside Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish and a series of abstract paintings. A few months ago, opening a mixed-gender literary cafe in Iraq's second city would have been unthinkable -- punishable by flogging or death under IS rule. ... 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More Exhibition explores the history of birds' nests and egg collecting through artEASTBOURNE.- Towner Art Gallery presents Natural Selection by the artist Andy Holden and his father, the well-known ornithologist Peter Holden. Exploring the history of birds nests and egg collecting through animation, video, sculpture, and music, Natural Selection marks the culmination of a five-year collaboration between Holden and his father, now on a national UK tour. A co-commission with Artangel, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and Leeds Art Gallery, Towner is the first regional gallery to which Natural Selection migrates, following Artangels launch in the former Newington Library at Elephant & Castle in September 2017. Reimagined for Towners large spaces, and drawing in additional elements by Andy Holden, such as new rook paintings and tapestries inspired by John Clare and the land enclosure acts, alongside rarely seen works by Eric ... More Heritage Auctions' Make Offer to Owner program hits $10 million recordDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions Make Offer to Owner (MOtO) service, a proprietary program in which clients make anonymous offers to purchase items previously sold at auction, enjoyed a record-breaking year in 2017 as sales surged to more than $10 million. This program combines two of the features clients consider most important: quickness and security, Heritage Auctions Co-Chairman Jim Halperin said. It allows a quick way for a customer to continue pursuit of a missed auction item, and does so through a safe, efficient process that benefits both sides of each transaction. The top seven MOtO sales yielded a six-figure return; seven of the top 10 lots sold during 2017 were sports collectibles and memorabilia. Clients who enroll in Heritages MOtO program have the opportunity to bid on items in select auctions within 72 hours after the conclusion of the sale ... 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More Fiumano Clase opens exhibition of works by recently graduated emerging artistsLONDON.- Recently launched contemporary art gallery, Fiumano Clase, opened the new year with its second exhibition, Discoveries, from 30th January 8th March 2018 at 21 Wren Street, London WC1. The exhibition features work by four of the most intriguing recently graduated emerging artists scouted by Fiumano Clase in the past 12 months. Rhine Bernardinos striking sculptural series, Regla, which uses glass, water and her own menstrual blood, will be on show to the public in its entirety for the first time in Discoveries. Regla is made up of 12 sculptures, one for each menstrual cycle of the year- the last one was completed in December 2017. Bernadinos work is a comment on human perception and her belief in the potential of art to encourage social change. She describes her piece as "a makeshift laboratory wherein collections of menstrual blood ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Fernand Léger was born February 04, 1881. Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 - August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art. In this image: Fernand Leger, Deux femmes tenant des fleurs, 1954. Oil on canvas, 21 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches.
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