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Archaeologists of the INRAP (the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research) search an ancient necropolis site in Narbonne, southern France, on October 7, 2019. The necropolis site is exceptional for its size - 5.000 m2 -, its state of conservation and the amount of treasures depicting the funeral rites at the time of Narbo Martius, first Roman colony in Gaul, founded in 118 years before Christ. ERIC CABANIS / AFP.
PARIS.- At the gates of Narbonne, an Antique necropolis is currently under excavation by an Inrap team, as prescribed by the State (Drac Occitanie), prior to the construction of a Zac. Due to its importance and its exceptional state of preservation, this site is a major discovery for French archaeology and benefits from significant funding from the government (State, Occitanie region, Aude department, Grand Narbonne agglomeration, city of Narbonne) and the project developer (Alenis, Grand Narbonne development company). The archaeological site adjoins Narbo Via, an international Antiquity museum designed by « Foster+Partners » who, in 2020, will present the exceptional heritage of Antique Narbonne in an 8,000 m2 space. At the end of the Roman conquest of 125 BC, the city of Narbonne was the first Roman colony established in Gaul. One century later, Auguste made Narbo Martius the capital of the Narbonne province, which extends from Fréjus to Toul ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This 15th edition of the Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale is devised as an ecosystem at the intersection of biological, economic and cosmogonic landscapes. It bears witness to the shifting relationships between human beings, other living species, the mineral kingdom, technological artefacts and the stories that unite them. Echoing LyonÂs geography, the title of the 15th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale is Where Water Comes Together with Other Water, taken from a Raymond Carver poem.
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| | Kunsthal Rotterdam opens the first retrospective on French creator Thierry Mugler | | Perrotin opens an exhibition of works by Park Seo-Bo | | Exhibition captures six decades of images that reflect the evolution of photography in Japan |
Dominique Issermann, Jerry Hall. Photo: © Dominique Issermann. Outfit: Thierry Mugler, Les Insectes collection, haute couture spring/summer 1997.
ROTTERDAM.- This fall the Kunsthal Rotterdam presents the first retrospective on French creator Thierry Mugler. This major exhibition will reveal the multiple universes of this undeniably artistic figure visionary couturier, director, photographer and perfumer in a retrospective of his work, especially his ready-to-wear and haute couture creations. Initiated, produced and circulated by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with the Clarins Group and the Maison Mugler, the exhibitions world premiere will launch in Montreal in March 2019. As collaboration partner, the Kunsthal Rotterdam will be the second stop and the first venue in Europe to show this spectacular retrospective. I have always been fascinated by the most beautiful animal on Earth: the human being. I have used all of the tools at my disposal to ... More | |
View of the exhibition Ãcriture at Perrotin Paris October 12 December 21 Photo: Claire Dorn © Courtesy of the artist & Perrotin.
PARIS.- Perrotin is presenting Park Seo-Bos second exhibition at the Paris location. Without Park Seo-Bo (b. 1931), there is no western painting in Korea. As such, Park was a pioneer of the avant-garde in the 50s, a leader in the development of Abstract Expressionism in the 60s and since the 70s has been hailed as the Master of Dansaekwha, a Korean art movement which is gaining global attention. Color(色). Park Seo-Bo held a solo-exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul) and is now expecting his second invitational exhibition at Perrotin Gallery, Paris. The exhibition will introduce Late Ecriture(描法) also known as Color Ecriture(色彩描法) whose work begins with an encounter with autumn foliage. In 2000 when Park held an exhibition in Japan, the colourful maple leaves at their peak ... More | |
Takashi Hamaguchi, 8500 Armed Students Gathering in front of Yasuda Hall, University of Tokyo, from the series Campus Dispute, 1968. Gelatin silver print, 36.1 Ã 49.6 cm. Yokohama Museum of Art.
OTTAWA.- The Shōwa era (December 1926 to January 1989), saw unprecedented changes in photographic expression in Japan. These six decades were marked by the diversification of genres from propaganda and documentary photography, to photojournalism and artistic photography and the emergence of new photographic technologies and movements. The early 1960s, a time of high economic growth in the country, also saw the birth of the automatic exposure camera, making photography accessible to all. Through more than 200 photographs drawn from the Yokohama Museum of Art collection, the National Gallery of Canada presents this tumultuous epoch in Hanran: 20th-century Japanese Photography, an exhibition on view from October 11, 2019 to March 22, ... More |
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| | Philip Gips, creator of celebrated film posters, dies at 88 | | Empire State Building observatory reopens with new 360-degree view | | Aria that cost Marie-Antoinette her head is sung again at Versailles |
Gips designed a macabre look for the poster of Rosemarys Baby (1968), a horror story about a young woman (played by Mia Farrow) who believes that her odd neighbors in the Manhattan apartment building where she and her husband (John Cassavetes) live are Satanists who have impregnated her with a demon child.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Philip Gips, a graphic artist who created many celebrated movie posters, including those for Rosemarys Baby and Alien, which hinted at the terror audiences would experience but gave away nothing of the films plots, died Oct. 3 in a hospital in White Plains, New York. He was 88. His son Michael said the cause was complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia. Starting in the 1960s, Gips sometimes in collaboration with Stephen Frankfurt, a friend and his partner in a Manhattan advertising agency created a succession of posters with imagery that captured the essence of the movies they advertised. He was an equal giant among his peers in the 1960s, 70s and 80s like Bill Gold and Bob Peak, said Dwight Cleveland, a collector and the author of Cinema on Paper: The Graphic Genius of Movie Posters (2019). Gips designed a macabre look ... More | |
A woman looks out the window toward the West Side of Manhattan inside the newly renovated 102nd floor observatory of the Empire State Building on October 10, 2019 in New York City. Opening to the public on October 12, the new 102nd floor observatory is 1250 feet above street level and features 360 degree views of New York City. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- The stunning view from the highest observatory at New York's Empire State Building just got even better. On Saturday, the viewing platform on the 102nd floor, known as the "top deck," reopened with a new 360-degree perspective on the Big Apple following ten months of renovations. The work is the third in a four-step project, which started four and half years ago, to improve the experience at arguably the world's most famous building. The entire project is costing $165 million. The redevelopment of the observatory, which sits at 1,250 feet (381 meters), began in January. Walls that were over 3.6 feet (1.10 meters) high and blocked part of the view have been replaced by glass. The elevator shaft is now also made of glass, allowing visitors to enjoy the view before the doors even open. The fact the elevator is see-through means people can enjoy a panoramic view of the city from wherever they stand in the ... More | |
Flyman Carlos Casado operates ropes to move the scenery on stage of the Royal Opera of the Chateau de Versailles, west of Paris during a rehearsal of Gretrys opera 'Richard the Lionheart' on October 2, 2019. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP.
VERSAILLES (AFP).- The last time the strains of the aria "Oh Richard! Oh my king!" echoed around the Opera Royal at Versailles it was for Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette just before they were dragged off to Paris and their doom by their revolting subjects. The piece from "Richard the Lionheart" by Andre Gretry, one of the tragic queen's favourite composers, was last performed by the Palace of Versailles' own opera company in 1789, as the ancien regime crumbled. This week it returned to the gilded chocolate-box opera, commissioned by the Sun King Louis XIV, after a 230-year break. The lavishly decorated theatre was used less than 20 times -- most famously for the festivities that followed Marie-Antoinette's marriage when she was just 14 -- before she and her husband lost their heads in the French Revolution. And it was the singing of the aria by the king's bodyguards when the royal couple appeared at a banquet at the opera on October 1, 1789 that lead to their downfall, Versailles' theatre and events direc ... More |
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| | Robert Goelet, New York grandee and naturalist, dies at 96 | | Ingleby Gallery opens an exhibition of photographs by Garry Fabian Miller | | Rare and previously unseen historic photographs revealed at the Hermitage Museum |
Robert Goelet, then president of the American Museum of Natural History, in the museum's dinosaur hall in New York, Jan. 23, 1976. The scion of a 17th-century New York family who, with his wife, became a steward of the 3,300-acre Gardiners Island, a wildlife sanctuary off Long Island, died Oct. 8, 2019, at his home in Manhattan. He was 96. (Jack Manning/The New York Times).
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Robert G. Goelet, a civic leader, naturalist and philanthropist whose marriage merged two families that date to 17th-century New Amsterdam and made the couple stewards of Gardiners Island, a storied sanctuary off the tip of Long Island, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 96. His death was confirmed by his son, Robert Gardiner Goelet. The scion of a real estate dynasty, Goelet (pronounced guh-LET) was 52 when he married Alexandra Gardiner Creel in 1976. Under a trust from her aunt, she held Gardiners Island jointly with her idiosyncratic uncle Robert David Lion Gardiner, and when . Gardiner died in 2004, the Goelets took full possession of it all 3,300 acres, 40 times the size of Central Park, complete with 27 miles of coastline, lush white pine and ... More | |
Garry Fabian Miller, There is no shadow, 2017. Light, oil, Lambda C-print from dye destruction print. Edition of 3 with 2 APs. 143.2 x 143.2 (framed). Courtesy of the Artist and Ingleby, Edinburgh.
EDINBURGH.- For the past thirty-five years Garry Fabian Miller has worked without a camera, making images entirely in the darkroom and using the techniques of early nineteenth century photographic exploration to experiment with the possibilities of light, as both medium and subject. Since the mid 1980s Miller has patiently developed methods of passing light through coloured glass and liquid onto photographic paper, often using long exposures lasting anywhere between one and twenty hours to create his unique and luminous images. These techniques have earned Miller a deserved reputation as one of the most progressive artists working with photography today, a status marked by the Victoria & Albert Museums support of his work over the past 30 years. This support found physical form in Shadow Catchers, the landmark 2010 exhibition devoted to camera-less photography, and continues in the museums commitment to documenting the working practice of Miller's darkroom as a unique site of artistic ... More | |
This exhibition includes approximately 70 items selected from the Department of Russian Culture, almost all of which are shown in public for the first time.
ST. PETERSBURG.- The State Hermitage Museum is showing an exhibition of rare and historic photographs from 12 October 2019 to 11 October 2020. The exhibition is the first to be shown at a new space dedicated to photography at the museums Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre in St Petersburg and follows the Photograph Conservation Initiative which was launched in the spring of 2010 and which over 5 years established a photograph conservation department at the museum. The Hermitage collection includes more than 80,000 photographs reflecting the art of 19th and early 20th century photographers, and representing the most important milestones of pre-revolutionary Russian photographic art. Its core is formed by the Imperial collections from private libraries and apartments of the Winter Palace, augmented by nationalized collections from St. Petersburg mansions and palaces of notable families including the Bobrinskys, Shuvalovs, ... More |
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| | Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art opens Robert Huot retrospective | | Tower Records founder's art collection to be offered at Heritage Auctions | | Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale imagined as a vast landscape of uneven topography and unsettled climates |
Robert Huot, Acrelin, 1965 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 68 x 90 in.
UTICA, NY.- Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art presents Robert Huot Paintings, a retrospective look at an artists core motivation for 60 years, creating conceptually interesting and skillfully crafted paintings October 13, 2019 through January 19, 2020. Robert Huot (born 1935) has been an artist and politically engaged citizen for much of his life. By his early 30s, he had established himself as an active player in the New York City art scene. He was a serious painter of large, minimalist canvases that were critically well received; he exhibited regularly at commercial galleries in New York and in Europe; he collaborated with his peers, including artist Robert Morris and choreographer Twyla Tharp, his first wife; and he was invited to participate in notable exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. By art world standards, Robert Huot was a success. ... More | |
Robert Arneson, Simple Silly Sample, 1989. Estimate: $40,000-60,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Wayne Thiebaud's Blueberry Custard, from the personal collection of music entrepreneur and art collector Russ Solomon, is among the top highlights in Heritage Auctions' Modern & Contemporary Art Auction Nov. 20 in Beverly Hills, California. Wayne Thiebaud's Blueberry Custard (estimate: $2,000,000-2,500,000) was painted in 1961, the year the artist met New York dealer Allan Stone, who represented Thiebaud until Stone died in 2006. Included in his first solo show with Stone in April 1962, Blueberry Custard prompted critic Max Kozloff to suggest that in lieu of paint, the artist seemed to paint with flour, butter and sugar. The painting fittingly hung in Solomon's kitchen for many years. It was out of public view until recently exhibited in a Thiebaud retrospective at Jan Shrem and Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at U.C. Davis in 2018. Blueberry Custard is one of 16 lots from the collection of Solomon, who was the founder of Tower Records. The r ... More | |
Petrit Halilaj, Shkrepëtima (détail), 2018. Courtesy of the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin ; kamel mennour, Paris/London; Fondazione Merz.
LYON.- In 2019, the Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale has moved to the 29,000 sqm space of the former Fagor factory for the first time. This 15th edition has been curated by the Palais de Tokyo, which has imagined the international exhibition as a vast landscape of uneven topography and unsettled climates. The Lyon Biennale is being held in macLYON and the 29,000 sqm post-industrial space of the former Fagor factory in the heart of the Gerland district an exceptional site, emblematic of Lyons history. The factory, which operated here from 1945 until 2015, was among the last big manufacturing plants inside the city limits. This vast brownfield site hosts a system of political, poetic, aesthetic and environmental interactions through works by fifty or so artists of all generations and many nationalities, selected by the Palais de Tokyos curators. The Lyon Biennales new artistic director is Isabelle Bertolo ... More |
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Dora Ohlfsen and the Art Gallery of New South Wales facade commission
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales is presenting Dora Ohlfsen and the facade commission an exhibition that explores the story of the empty niche on the Gallery's facade and proposals from six contemporary artists for a possible new commission. Architect Walter Vernons 1901 plan for the Art Gallery of NSW facade specified a bronze sculpture to be placed above the entrance doors. In 1913 the Gallery trustees commissioned expatriate Australian sculptor Dora Ohlfsen to sculpt a classical Greek chariot race in low relief. It was to be Ohlfsens one major Australian commission and her designs were approved but the artwork was never realised. One hundred years later, this significant space for sculpture on the Gallerys facade remains empty. Dora Ohlfsen and the facade commission ... More
Two-person exhibition of work by Amanda Church and John Franklin opens at Hionas Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Hionas Gallery is presenting a two-person exhibition of work by Amanda Church and John Franklin: BODY / object. The show runs from October 12 to November 2, 2019. BODY / object brings together two complementary bodies of work that interact both implicitly and thematically. Within Amanda Churchs canvases, the fragmented and intertwined body parts that inhabit the space are recognizable, yet their actions remain elusive, hinting at something seductive one moment and quotidian the next. So ones imagination and wandering eye are left to trace the contours and voluptuous lines that form an outstretched limb or a backside. No outlying border or trailing fragment is without purpose. The artists pronounced lines and cavorting shapes comprise an unmistakable gestalt, wherein the interplay of hard-edge geometry and soft biomorphic ... More
De Niro talks Trump and acting technique at London Film Fest
LONDON (AFP).- Legendary Hollywood actor Robert De Niro renewed his criticism of Donald Trump on Friday, telling a London audience the US president was trying to "destroy" American institutions "to save himself". In a wide-ranging question-and-answer event at the London Film Festival, De Niro said Trump was attempting to "upend" Americans' views of typically non-partisan entities like the CIA and FBI. "We have to defend these institutions -- plus the fourth estate, the press -- because he's trying to destroy them and for only one reason: to save himself," the New York-born actor told film enthusiasts in the British capital. "Everything's been turned upside down because of Trump, because he's such a dirty player," he added, as the discussion touched on his 2006 movie "The Good Shepherd" about the rise of the CIA from the ashes of World War II. "He won't ... More
Dying languages cry out in 'Last Whispers'
MONTCLAIR, NJ (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The earth spins on-screen amid an eerie, uncomfortable sound, like a building rush of air. Its an ominous, galactic vision that swiftly condenses into an intimate one: A dot of flickering light in the middle of darkness; a womans voice singing, her fragile intakes of breath audible; an electric guitar strumming with spare, melancholy sweetness. Her words are unfamiliar, a little guttural, the consonants chewy. A title tells us that the woman is singing in Ingrian, a nearly extinct Finnic language spoken now by just a handful of people in western Russia. It is one of over three dozen endangered languages heard in Last Whispers, a film and surround-sound experience that will be screened Oct. 16-20 at Peak Performances at Montclair State University. Its creator, the artist Lena Herzog, calls it an oratorio for vanishing ... More
Metro Pictures features Alexandre Singh's short film The Appointment
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexandre Singhs first major exhibition at Metro Pictures features the New York premiere of his short film The Appointment (2019, 19 min). Singh transforms the gallery into an abandoned cinema from an imagined dystopic future. With trompe loeil wallpaper and flooring that is painstakingly hand-drawn, the exhibition includes sculpture and paintings that refer to the macabre vernacular of the film. The works further Singhs ideas around narrative and storytelling, which he first began exploring in 2007 with his Faustian novella The Marque of the Third Stripe. A darkly comic thriller, the film is a tale of doubling and mistaken identity that embraces the fantastical and supernatural qualities of Gothic literature, from E. T. A. Hoffmann to Roald Dahl. The protagonist is Henry Salt, an enfant terrible of letters who we meet as he wakes from a ... More
Modern Art opens a solo exhibition of new work by Michael E. Smith
LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Michael E. Smith at its Vyner Street gallery. This is Smiths first solo exhibition with Modern Art. Michael E. Smiths sculptures are made out of objects combed from the by-products of todays world. Sometimes these are nondescript things, for instance, a black sweatshirt and a fog machine, or a rusty bicycle frame and a used water pitcher. They appear as articles of disuse, retrieved from a wasteland. Other times, death itself is present in Smiths work, such as dried bones of animals, or taxidermy. Combined and arranged, Smiths sculptures become orators in a language that is difficult to pin to words. They operate instead through affective and lyrical registers, suggestive of political and social experiences that may be shared - ecological crisis, capitalist consumption and waste - as well as those ... More
Dorothy Hood's Illuminated Earth opens at McClain Gallery
HOUSTON, TX.- McClain Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of paintings by the late artist Dorothy Hood. Best known for her large-scale paintings that bring together elements of Surrealism, Modernism, and Abstraction, Hood created works that drew on her fascination with outer space, the terrain of the southwest, poetry, and mysticism. Illuminated Earth features a series of paintings that depict both physical and metaphorical landscapes, emphasizing Hoods deft use of color, geometric forms, and spatial depth. The paintings on view speak both to the time Hood spent in Mexico and to her eventual return to exploring the Texas landscapes of her youth, highlighting the intrinsic connection in her work between abstraction, landscapes, the cosmos, and the psyche. This exhibition also includes seminal examples of early abstractions from the 1940-1950s along ... More
Spectacular Sapphire ring leads Heritage's Fine Jewelry Auction beyond $3.6 million
DALLAS, TX.- A breathtaking Ceylon Sapphire, Platinum Ring realized $100,000 to lead Heritage Auctions Fall Fine Jewelry Auction to $3,675,672 Sept. 23 in Beverly Hills, California. The auction featured assortments of colored gemstones and bejeweled curiosities that fared exceptionally well. This auction featured some exceptional colored gemstones, which were extremely popular, Heritage Auctions Senior Director of Fine Jewelry Jill Burgum said. It also featured an assortment of fascinating curiosities, which included some unique pieces that showed off the creative minds of the designers who made them. The Ceylon Sapphire, Platinum Ring, Dubail Paris, French prompted multiple bids before it ultimately reached $100,000 to claim top-lot honors in the sale. The ring boasts a brilliant square cushion-shaped sapphire weighing 28.45 carats, set in platinum ... More
Iraqi and Vietnamese directors scoop top prize at Busan film festival
BUSAN (AFP).- An Iraq-Qatar co-production looking at life in war-torn Baghdad and a Vietnamese tale of a young bookie struggling to support himself and his loved ones have shared the top award at the 24th Busan International Film Festival. Iraqi director Mohanad Hayal's "Haifa Street" and "Rom", from Vietnam's Tran Thanh Huy, won the festival's New Currents award, which hands out two prizes of $30,000 to first- or second-time Asian directors, early Saturday. "The decision was tough and these two films are not first and second, this was not a horse-race," said New Currents jury head Mike Figgis, the Oscar-nominated director of "Leaving Las Vegas". "We saw a lot of great work from young, exciting filmmakers who understand the art of cinema." "Haifa Street" was a film with tension from beginning to end, the jury said in a statement. "This is a mature, ... More
Customs House Museum and Cultural Center opens 'Landy R. Hales Layered Posters'
CLARKSVILLE, TN.- Through the end of the year, the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is exhibiting layered posters by Landy R. Hales, a well-known graphic designer in New York City during the 1920s and 30s. Included in the show are nostalgic images of toys, nursery rhymes, household interiors, and Christmas moments. The whimsical works displayed are from the Hales family collection. Hales began his career with no formal art training and apprenticed as a sign painter in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1908, Hales formed the Brilliant Sign Company in Baltimore to design displays for area businesses. During World War I, Hales designed posters for the Liberty Bond Program, created by then Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941). This poster campaign was intended to popularize the bonds, and Hales created posters ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova died October 13, 1822. Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 - 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical style, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque sculpture. In this image: An assistant shows a handmade book portraying works by Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, with a dedication to former US President Barack Obama in the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner", in Rome, on Thursday, July 2, 2009.
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