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An excavation worker works inside a burial shaft at the Giza pyramid plateau, on the southwestern outskirts of the Egyptian capital Cairo, on May 4, 2019, following the discovery of several Old Kingdom tombs and burial shafts. MAHMOUD KHALED / AFP.
CAIRO (AFP).- Egypt's antiquities ministry on Saturday unveiled a 4,500-year-old burial ground near the Giza pyramids containing colourful wooden coffins and limestone statues dating back to the Old Kingdom. The site on the southeastern side of Giza plateau contains tombs and burial shafts from various periods, but the oldest is a limestone family tomb from the fifth dynasty (around 2500 BC), the ministry said. An AFP photographer who was allowed to access the burial shaft saw inscriptions on the walls, intricately painted wooden sarcophagi and sculptures of animals and humans. The ministry said the tomb was that of two people: Behnui-Ka, who had seven titles including the Priest and the Judge, and Nwi, also known as Chief of the Great State and "purifier" of the pharoah Khafre. Khafre, known to the Ancient Greeks as Chephren, built the second ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Indian Sikh devotees watch fireworks on the occasion of the 398th birth anniversary of the ninth Sikh guru Teg Bahadur at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on April 24, 2019. NARINDER NANU / AFP
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| | | Pristina appointed host city of Manifesta 14 in 2022 | | David Zwirner opens an exhibition of new works by Chris Ofili | | Almine Rech opens an exhibition of De Wain Valentine's work |
The National Library of Kosovo in Pristina. Photo by Ferdi Limani. Courtesy of Manifesta.
PRISTINA.- Since its inception in the early 1990s, the mission of Manifesta is to examine the changing cultural topography of Europe. Every two years, Manifesta looks at the world through the prism of the specific situation of a new host city. The Supervisory Board of Manifesta selected the city of Pristina in Kosovo because of the geographical and geo-political importance of the Balkan in relation to Europes recent history and its future. In its relatively short history as the capital of the youngest nation state of Europe, the city of Pristina has experienced major transformations in its landscape by unrestrained neoliberal policies of privatization of open urban spaces. Manifesta aims to support the citizens of Kosovo in their ambition to reclaim public space and to rewrite the future of their city as an open-minded metropolis in the heart of the Balkans. Pristina presents a unique location from which to look at the past ... More | |
Chris Ofili, Calypso 15, 2019 © Chris Ofili. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting Dangerous Liaisons, an exhibition of new works by Chris Ofili, on view at the gallerys 34 East 69th Street location, in New York. The show marks the artists fourth solo presentation with the gallery. The title of the exhibition references René Magrittes eponymous painting of 1935, which Ofili explores in drawings that employ the compositional organization of the Surrealists work as a structure for his own rich and layered colorism. The interwoven patterns and forms in these works create dynamic visuals in which the delicately rendered surfaces optically pulse and vibrate. Homers Odyssey serves as another central theme of the show, with several drawings and paintings devoted to the figures of Calypso and Odysseus. Inspired in part by the music of the island of Trinidad, where Ofili has lived since 2005, the artist has reimagined Calypsotraditionally represented as a ... More | |
De Wain Valentine, Column Coral,1972. Cast polyester resin, 22 3/4 x 4 9/16 x 3 11/16 in. 57,8 x 11,6 x 9,4 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech inaugurated the first exhibition of De Wain Valentines work presented on its New York premises, making it the third solo show with the gallery. The exhibition is on view from April 30 to June 8, 2019. Valentine incarnates a key moment in the development of the Los Angeles art scene in the 1960s and 1970s (in parallel, and somewhat in opposition to New York-based Minimalism). His work caught immediate attention through a fresh vernacular artistic vocabulary that encapsulated the essence of L.A. life. Valentines work stems from an unexpected alliance between his extraordinary technical and engineering virtuosity, and his rich and sensual perceptual experience. His sculptural and pictorial career has, for the past six decades, been spanning a colossal, yet, intimate project, and reflects Valentines abiding love affair with the L.A. ocean and sky. This exhibition offers fresh avenues ... More |
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| | | 'The Mikado' revamped for 21st century with Trumpian twist | | Gallery transformed with an installation originating from the interior of a local bus | | Hannah Fitz's first solo exhibition with Kerlin Gallery opens in Dublin |
Members of the troupe perform during a rehearsal of the Mikado comic opera at The Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College on May 1, 2019 in the Bronx. Don Emmert / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- As scandals under the Donald Trump administration offer a steady stream of fodder for satirists and comedy show hosts, now the world of musical theater is taking a stab at lampooning the White House. This weekend a New York take on "The Mikado" -- a 19th century comic operetta originally intended to satirize British politics through Japanese imagery -- sees its characters take on decidedly Trumpian airs. Ben Spierman's revamp of the Victorian musical in which a clownish despot rules over his juvenile population is an attempt, he says, to show that the more things change, the more they stay the same. "For me 'The Mikado' is a perfect example," Spierman, the director of the Bronx Opera, told AFP. "The politics and the reality of the fact that we have corruption, and that we have unqualified people in jobs ... More | |
Johann Arens, Scenes of the World, 2019, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Pump House Gallery. Photo by Damian Griffiths.
LONDON.- Wandsworth Councils Pump House Gallery is presenting a new solo exhibition by Johann Arens. The gallery has been transformed with an installation originating from the interior of the P5, a local bus that traverses the neighbouring landscape of housing estates. Sculptural renditions of the familiar interiors of buses including elongated handrails and robust seating convert the gallery into a similarly transitory public space to highlight the momentary synergies of a bus ride. The exhibition borrows its title from Hale's Tours and Scenes of the World, an attraction designed in the early twentieth century that simulated a railway journey. These customised cinema spaces mimicked train carriages to the finest detail and were often even mechanised to rock the passengers, simulating the motion of a steam train. With elaborate equipment of levers, pulleys, wheels and sound- ... More | |
Hannah Fitz, GOING BALLISTIC 2019. Steel, card, plaster, fibreglass, resin, paint, scarves, 153 x 78 x 65 cm. 60.2 x 30.7 x 25.6 in. Image courtesy of the artist and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery is presenting OK, Dublin born artist Hannah Fitzs first solo exhibition with the gallery. In OK, human scale and almost human-like sculptures occupy the gallery. The figures appear to be football players and there is a type of game at play Fitz builds a comparable world where action is arrested, colour is drained, light and shadow have form, figures merge as though solid matter is fluid and gravity seems less in control. The players perform tricks or jostle for the ball. One slides onto their knees, stripping off its shirt in celebration of a goal; others lounge nearby, dappled by the shade of foliage. Water bottles and footballs share the scene. In this defamiliarised sculptural landscape the life-size occupants come in and out of focus with an awkward grace. All are rendered in the same muted palette of off-white and ... More |
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| | | The Alamo adds six stunning bronze sculptures | | Exhibition brings together works by Francesco Perini, Voukenas Petrides and Lukas Wegwerth | | Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv opens an exhibition of works by Keren Cytter |
José Antonio Navarro (Artist: Juan Dell).
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- On Monday, the Alamo installed six stunning bronze sculptures in its Cavalry Courtyard. Some statues are recognizable from their former locations at SeaWorld and the Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center, while others were crafted specifically for the Alamo Sculpture Trail, following the footpath from the Briscoe Western Art Museum to the Alamo. Opening soon to the public, the new art display features historical figures from the Texas Revolution. David Crockett was a frontiersman who became a well-known politician and humorist in early 19th century America. After losing his re-election bid in 1835, Crockett vowed to go to Texas where he expected to revive his political career. Instead, David Crockett became one of the best-known Alamo heroes. William Barret Travis had accomplished much before his death at the Alamo in 1836. He taught school, edited a newspaper, and passed the bar ... More | |
Lukas Wegwerth, Crystallization No 150.
LONDON.- Gallery FUMI is presenting an exciting new group show featuring the latest works from the creative minds and skilled hands of Francesco Perini, Voukenas Petrides and Lukas Wegwerth. Expanding on their successful collections, Crafted Landscapes, brings together artists and designers showcasing their affinity for combining age-old natural materials with fresh, contemporary design. On the ground floor, the creamy strata of Perinis Incontro series evokes a rustic panorama of ancient oak and weathered stone similar to a rich shell-strewn coastline. Below ground, Wegwerths Crystallizations sparkle like natural geodes in a timeless cavern. The smoothly undulating forms of Voukenas Petrides works appear sculpted over centuries by a subterranean river. Inspired by his native Italian landscape and history, Perini has incorporated travertine into his work for the first time. Used in architecture since ... More | |
Keren Cytter, Mar Saba, 2019.Colored pencils and pen on paper, 45.5 Ã 61 cm. Courtesy of the artist, Pilar Corrias, London, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne / Berlin, and Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.
TEL AVIV.- Keren Cytter is a unique voice in the Israeli and international art scene; her very particular non-narrative style cuts across video, poetry, prose, drawing, and dramaturgy. A prolific creator, she has made more than fifty video works, written several novels and even an opera libretto, started a dance theatre group called Dance International Europe Now and an organization called Art Projects Era. Sponsored Content, her first institutional solo presentation in Israel, carries a deep autobiographical tone, although, as always in her work, this very tone is hinted and suggested, avoiding any direct references. For this exhibition, which is articulated in two galleries, the artist has conceived an immersive display that invites the viewer ... More |
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| | | Jon Buck exhibits a new body of work at two locations this Spring | | Bernarducci Gallery presents an exhibition of large-scale monochrome paintings by Curt Hoppe | | Michael Hoppen Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Eamonn Doyle |
Jon Buck, In Ferment, 2018, Bronze, Edition of 10.
LONDON.- An ardent advocate of conservation, sculptor Jon Buck is exhibiting a new body of work at two locations this Spring; Pangolin London and Gallery Pangolin. Jon Bucks latest sculptures play on the forms of two ancient objects; bells and boats - warning tocsins and rescue vessels. This exhibition is a celebration of the beauty of biodiversity, but also comes with a caution for our planet. Intricate motifs tessellate across the surface of these vessels and bell forms, within which metaphors for life can be found. The bells that Buck has made do sound, realising the dual purpose of a bell; joyful or forewarning. The biodiverse scenes, transcribed through his universal language of glyphs, are a celebration and honouring of the life that the bells also toll for, calling for its preservation. Throughout his career Buck has interpreted the world around us, drawing his inspiration from poetry, science and anthropology. Compelled b ... More | |
Curt Hoppe with Self Portrait, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 96 x 70 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bernarducci Gallery is presenting Downtown Portraits, an exhibition of large-scale monochrome paintings by Curt Hoppe. Hoppe (b. 1950, St. Paul, MN) evolved as a cartoonist, photographer, and, finally, hyper-realist painter in the hipster milieu of New York in the late 1970s, and never left the center of the subterranean literally and figuratively -- arts scene. The subjects here are peers, long-time downtown denizensartists, critics, musicians, and other creative gadflies with names you will recognize, along with a few up-and-comers, including local workers and residents on track as the next idiosyncratic zeitgeist-influencers. In portraiture the subject constitutes half of the artistic production and effect, and is paramount. Hoppe exploits his subjects power by choosing moments of public self-presentation, prior to the photographic sessions that undergird his ... More | |
K12, 2018 © Eamonn Doyle. Courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery.
LONDON.- Eamonn Doyles photographs are regularly exhibited internationally, although it is when seen en masse and staged together, that their collective dynamic and sensory drama becomes truly apparent. This is what Michael Hoppen Gallery is undertaking in London, in May 2019. The exhibition at the Michael Hoppen Gallery has been hung over two floors and is a comprehensive and diverse showing of Eamonn Doyles work which runs in tandem with his solo exhibition at the RHA, Dublin. The show in London explores Doyles various interpretations of his preoccupation with the movement of people, meanwhile, the exhibition in Dublin is set to be the largest of any photographers work ever to be staged in Ireland - and will tour globally thereafter. Michael Hoppen Gallery showcases a select from the series i and On, which is being shown alongside The State Visit (a ... More |
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James Bond & 'Pussy Galore' & Bluebird items top the H&H Classics Automobilia Auction with 90% sold
LONDON.- The H&H Classics Automobilia Auction Online sale on April 21 made a total of £104,623 with 90% of the 559 lots on offer changing hands. The top seller of the day was a Vincent prototype rotary engine, offered with models and other related parts together with numerous drawings and all of the paperwork relating to the project including the minutes of all the meetings at which Philip Vincent was present. The lot came from the estate of Beryl Norris - the widow of Lew Norris (engineer), who alongside his brother Ken worked on Bluebird CN7 and K7 for Sir Donald Campbell and numerous other projects for vehicle manufacturers of the period. Ken Norris is perhaps best known as the inventor of the inertia-reel seatbelt. Interest from around the globe saw the final selling price soar to £9,200. Showing the market for car mascots is still buoyant, a nickel-plated ... More
Sunil Gupta's first solo exhibition with Hales Gallery opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Hales announced Sunil Guptas first solo exhibition with the gallery, Christopher Street. Over a career spanning four decades, Gupta has remained dedicated to advocating the visibility of queer identity, cultivating a compelling practice which is simultaneously political and deeply personal. The artist lives and works in London. Sunil Gupta was born in India in 1953 and moved to Canada as a teenager in the late 1960s. Seeking new experiences, in 1976 he moved to New York City and enrolled on an MBA. Gupta recalls his first experience of the city as surpassing his imagination: I arrived in a situation that I had never thought of and that wasnt available in the place I had left. For me, migration wasnt so much a departure as an arrival. [1] In the West Village, Gupta found himself in the midst of a social and cultural revolution. The Stonewall riots ... More
The Institute of Contemporary Arts opens the first UK exhibition dedicated to Kathy Acker
LONDON.- The Institute of Contemporary Arts presents the first UK exhibition dedicated to the American writer Kathy Acker (19471997), and her written, spoken and performed work. Acker is an exceptional figure in late-20th-century Western literature who moved between the avant-garde art and literary scenes of New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Paris and London. Through her prolific writing, Acker developed experimental textual methodologies as she distorted language, hybridised fiction and autobiography, plagiarised the work of other authors, and introduced maps, drawings and diagrams. For a period during the 1980s when Acker lived in London, she was a regular presence in the ICA programme: holding conversations with other writers, giving readings, performing with musicians and writing a script for the play Lulu ... More
Exhibition deals with breakdowns in communication and the challenges of hearing one another
CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Can You Hear Me Now?, an exhibition drawn largely from the MCA Collection that deals with breakdowns in communication and the challenges of hearing one another in todays polarized political climate. The exhibition invites audiences to consider the creation and amplification of messages today, and the ways some voices are supported while others are cast aside. Artists such as Marina Abramovic, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Ann Hamilton, and Mona Hatoum explore communication on levels ranging from the personal to the governmental, surveying a world that struggles to engage in meaningful conversations without succumbing to political apathy. Can You Hear Me Now? is organized by MCA Barjeel Fellow Bana Kattan and runs from April 27 to September 29, 2019. Several works in this ... More
Sprovieri opens exhibition of previously unseen work by Emilio Prini
LONDON.- Sprovieri and Archivio Emilio Prini are presenting Colori, final previously unseen work by Emilio Prini, dated by the artist himself in June 2016, in Rome. The thirteen unframed 70 x 50 cm (B2) pieces containing as many colours suggest an homage to the 13 artists of Arte Povera, ever present as language/art/life, enclosing the number of gestures that Prini has implemented over time, highlighting how he has continued to develop the use of simple, accessible materials in dialogue with the surrounding space. Italian genius has once more, generously (for free), materialised and made possible a worldwide dream, the fourth art, Arte Povera oh! You, World, have the famous three Fine Arts? We have four. The logic behind the exhibit presented in the gallery operates according to the general theory of Standard: a formula applied by the artist to ... More
Artists Space appoints Miriam Katzeff as Deputy Director and Hana Tran as Exhibitions Manager
NEW YORK, NY.- Artists Space Executive Director and Chief Curator Jay Sanders today announced the appointment of two new staff members, who join the organization as it prepares to move into its new long-term home at 80 White Street later in 2019. Miriam Katzeff joins Artists Space as Deputy Director. Katzeff was the Director/CoFounder of Primary Information, a non-profit organization devoted to publishing artists' books and artists' writings. She is also an independent curator and a former Director at Team Gallery (2005-2014) where she worked closely with artists to help produce artworks and curated exhibitions. As an independent curator, she has organized a program of political video at the Swiss Institute (New York) and co-curated exhibitions at the ICA (Philadelphia), MoMA-PS1 (New York), and White Columns (New York) with Primary ... More
Exhibition sees the encounter of five practices interested in cut-outs, fiction and cognitive estrangement
LONDON.- Out of Eye: on a basic level, out of might simply mean from. Yet it is not difficult to imagine a second meaning, the suspicion of something removed, or cut out, of the eye. Going further, we might suggest a third reading: the beyond. Something out of the eye is, in part, something which lies outside the eyes range; outside standard perception, cognition or experience. This exhibition sees the encounter of five practices interested in cut-outs, fiction and cognitive estrangement. The works unveil lost and found narratives that reckon with their environment and frustrate our curiosity over what might lie beyond the radius of sight. Attention is paid to the activity of cutting and reconstructing images or texts as a method of freeing content from its original meaning and reappointing it to new systems of awareness. The dynamism of material, pictorial ... More
University Archives to offer early American history, science and technology and Civil War memorabilia
WESTPORT, CONN.- Collectors of early American history, science and technology and Civil War memorabilia will want to mark their calendars for Wednesday, May 15th, when those popular categories and many others will be featured in University Archives next online-only auction, starting at 10:30 am Eastern time. In all, close to 300 quality lots will come up for bid. Live bidding for the auction has already been posted online. Internet bidding is available via the popular platforms Invaluable.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. As with all University Archives auctions, this one is loaded with rare, highly collectible autographed documents, manuscripts, books, photos and relics. People can visit the company website at www.UniversityArchives.com. Besides the best offering of Declaration signers in years with 66 lots, we are strong in Lincoln, ... More
On view now: Never before seen works by provocative feminist icon Hannah Wilke
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Tyler School of Art at Temple University is presenting the work of alumna and feminist icon Hannah Wilke, on view from April 26 through July 12, 2019. Hannah Wilke: Sculpture in the Landscape exhibits photographs that were never printed or shown in the artists lifetime, including her Gum in Landscape series, as well as prints of her ceramic and bronze sculpture maquettes. This exhibition and publication provide a rare opportunity to experience a previously unknown body of Hannah Wilkes work and is presented in collaboration with the Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles. What a thrill to see this body of work and share it with the public for the first time, says Tyler Dean Susan E. Cahan. Hannah Wilke is part of a lineage of extraordinary women who earned their degrees here: Barbara Chase-Riboud, Ree Morton, ... More
Kaldor Public Art Projects and Carriageworks unveil Project 34: Absorption by Asad Raza
SYDNEY.- Kaldor Public Art Projects and Carriageworks unveiled Kaldor Public Art Project 34: Absorption by Asad Raza. Absorption is presented free to the public from 3 to 19 May 2019 at the Clothing Store, Carriageworks. It represents the first exhibition by the New York-based artist in Australia. At the heart of the project is a set of metabolic processes and experiments. A group of cultivators continually mix materials sourced from the region, including sand, silt, clay, phosphates, lime, spent grain, cuttlebone, legumes, coffee and green waste to create a new soil mixture or neosoil. Testing and monitoring its composition as it changes, the cultivators oversee almost 300 tonnes of material, which fills the ground-floor rooms of the Clothing Store. The project functions as a depot for the arrival, combination, and dispersion of this neosoil, which ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter and architect Viktor Hartmann was born May 05, 1834. Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann (5 May 1834, Saint Petersburg - 4 August 1873, Kireyevo near Moscow) was a Russian architect and painter. He was associated with the Abramtsevo Colony, purchased and preserved beginning in 1870 by Savva Mamontov, and the Russian Revival. In this image: The Paris Catacombs
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