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A visitor looks at a Diadumenos statue (Man binding his hair after winning an athletic contest) dated approximatively from 100 BC displayed as part of the temporary exhibition Odysseys at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens on October 4, 2016. The exhibition marks the museum's 150th anniversary. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP.
ATHENS.- The new exhibition of the National Archaeological Museum "Odysseys" is the main commemorative event on the occasion of the 150th anniversary since the foundation of the Museum. It attempts to give an account of the adventurous journey of man through time considered from an abstract and symbolic perspective that draws its inspiration from the Homeric Odyssey. Without reciting the mythological epic of Homer the exhibition is inspired by the archetypal character of Odysseus and recounts through the emblematic, as well as the lesser-known ancient works of the National Archaeological Museum, the long chronicle of the beleaguered man, his incessant endeavour to tame his environment, conquer new places, broaden his horizons, establish well-governed societies and fight against the perishable nature of his existence with the aid of love and creative act. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Frieze London 2016. Photograph by Linda Nylind. Courtesy of Linda Nylind/Frieze.
| Study reveals Asian ancestry of Pacific islanders | | Christie's to offer restituted Egyptian mummy portraits | | Greek police bust 'antiquities smuggling ring' |
Photo of an approximately 3,000 year old secondary burial at the funerary site in the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu that is source of one of the ancient DNA samples reported on in this study. It is a skull and its re-adjusted mandible placed in a Lapita vessel.
WELLINGTON (AFP).- Ancient DNA has revealed the first inhabitants of Vanuatu and Tonga came from Asia, not other Oceanic populations as has long been assumed, a study published Tuesday found. The study sheds light on the last great human migration into unpopulated lands, when a people called the Lapita fanned out into the South Pacific about 3,000 years ago. Little is known of the mysterious culture beyond their distinctive dotted pottery and the human remains they left behind. Scientists had speculated that they were an offshoot of Australo-Papuan populations of Australia, New Guinea ... More | |
An Egyptian encaustic on wood mummy portrait of a woman Hadrianic Period, circa 2nd century A.D. Estimate: $150,000-250,000. © Christies Images Limited 2016.
NEW YORK, NY.- On October 25, Christies sale of Antiquities presents two important Egyptian portraits on behalf of the heirs of Rudolf Mosse. Hauntingly lifelike, these remarkable portraits, an Egyptian encaustic on wood mummy portrait of a woman, Hadrianic period, circa 2nd century AD (estimate: $150,000-250,000) and an Egyptian encaustic on wood mummy portrait of a bearded man, circa 1st century AD (estimate: $100,000-150,000), are among the most extraordinary artistic achievements to survive from antiquity. Egyptian mummy portraits date from the mid-1st to the 3rd century AD, and while they have been found in many ... More | |
Police, workers and archaeologists unearth ancient statues hidden in a well near the village of Nemea. VALERIE GACHE / AFP.
PATRAS (AFP).- Greek police on Tuesday arrested 26 people suspected of trafficking in antiquities, a police source in the southwestern port of Patras said following a nationwide raid. Six of the arrested were foreigners, the source said, without revealing their nationalities. The police were looking for 15 other people suspected of involvement in the smuggling ring. Initial investigations suggest the gang sold illegally acquired antiquities in auctions in Britain, Germany and Austria. Police raids unearthed ancient statues hidden in a well near the village of Nemea in the Peloponnese region in the country's south. The gang acquired antiquities including ancient coins, valued them and contacted potential buyers ... More |
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| The New York Public Library reopens its historic Rose Main Reading Room and Bill Blass Public Catalog Room | | Museum de Fundatie presents 100 portraits of 100 people from the past 100 years | | Exhibition of new work by Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão on view at Gagosian in Rome |
The Rose Main Reading Room and adjacent Bill Blass Public Catalog Room were both reopened to the public at 10 a.m. today.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library today reopened two historic rooms in its iconic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street after a more than two-year closure for repairs and restorations. The Rose Main Reading Room and adjacent Bill Blass Public Catalog Room were both reopened to the public at 10 a.m. today. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held in the Rose Main Reading Rooms South Hall shortly before then. New York Public Library President Tony Marx and Board of Trustees Vice Chairman Abby Milstein both spoke. Renowned poet Elizabeth Alexander read two poems: The House Was Quiet and The World Is Calm by Wallace Stevens, and Branch Library by Edward Hirsch. Marx, Milstein, Life Trustee Sandy Rose whose family funded a restoration of the Reading Room in the 1990s and elected officials including ... More | |
Kazimir Malevich, Female Torso, 1933. Collectie Russisch Staatsmuseum St Petersburg.
ZWOLLE.- From October 1, 2016 to January 15, 2017, Museum de Fundatie presents the exhibition Behold the Man. With 100 works by artists such as Kokoschka, Brancusi, Picasso, Nussbaum, Goldin, Trecartin, Dumas, Richter and Rauch, Behold the Man shows how artists of the past century successfully used the seemingly clear and straightforward genre of the portrait to evoke the richness and complexity of the modern world. The curator of Behold the Man is art critic Hans den Hartog Jager, who also organized the exhibitions More Light (2011) and More Power (2014). The organizing principle of the exhibition Behold the Man seems simple at first: 100 portraits of 100 people from the past 100 yearsexactly one from each year. They vary from Oskar Kokoschkas Self-Portrait (1917) to Neo Rauchs Storm Front (2016), from Pablo Picassos Large Still Life with a Pedestal Table (Marie-Thérèse) (1931) to Kerry ... More | |
Adriana Varejão, Oil and plaster on canvas, 70 7/8 à 70 7/8 inches 180 à 180 cm © Adriana Varejão. Photo by Vicente de Mello. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
ROME.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of new work by Adriana Varejão. One of Brazils most renowned living artists, Varejão is perhaps best known for her incisive reflections on the rich yet conflicted history and culture of Brazil, embodied in her azulejão or big tile paintings, ongoing since the first iteration in 1988. These highly inventive paintings simulate azulejos, or painted tiles whose complex provenance connects Brazil with Portugal through trade and colonization. The azulejo, a square glazed terracotta tile, is the most widely used form of decoration in Portuguese national art, used continuously throughout the countrys history from the Middle Ages onward. Traditionally, vast, luxuriously theatrical designs of azulejos were used to decorate both religious and secular buildings, homogenizing the architecture into an illusionistic pictorial whole. The azulejo constantly ... More |
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| The Abraaj Group announces winning artists and curator for the US$100,000 Abraaj Group Art Prize 2017 | | Collecting history gathers at Bonhams Fine Chinese Art Sale in London | | The Brooklyn Museum presents a participatory, immersive installation by French artist Philippe Parreno |
Rana Begum, Photo Philip White, Courtesy the artist.
DUBAI.- The Abraaj Group announced today the curator, winning artist and shortlisted artists selected for the ninth Abraaj Group Art Prize, the most significant arts prize in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2017 Winning Artist: Rana Begum, Bangladesh The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2017 Shortlisted Artists: Doa Aly, Egypt Sarah Abu Abdallah, Saudi Arabia Raha Raissnia, Iran The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2017 Guest Curator: Omar Berrada (Director, Dar al-Mamûn; a library and artists residency in Marrakech) 2017 marks the 9th edition of the Prize, which has been recognised globally as an exceptional platform for artists working in the region. The jury received a record number of applications from 61 countries earlier this summer; more than double the number received in 2015. Annually, the $100,000 award enables the winning artist ... More | |
Ding Tripod incense burner, dating to the Northern Song/Jin Dynasty, 12th century, estimated at £80,000-120,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams is offering an exceptional selection of Chinese ceramics and works of art in its Fine Chinese Art sale to be held on Thursday 10 November at Bonhams New Bond St, during Londons Asian Art Week. Leading the early ceramic section of the sale is an exceptionally rare Ding tripod incense burner, dating to the Northern Song/Jin dynasty, 12th century, estimated at £80,000-120,000. Modelled after a Han dynasty bronze container, lian, and counted amongst the five classic wares, the Ding vessel is an elegant embodiment of the values of harmony, regulation and simplicity of the ancient Chinese past, highly regarded by the Emperors of the Northern Song and subsequent dynasties. The remarkable vessel has been preserved in a European ... More | |
Philippe Parreno (French, born Algeria 1964). My Room Is Another Fish Bowl, 2016. Mylar and helium, overall dimensions vary. Installation view of IF THIS THEN ELSE at Gladstone Gallery, New York, March 5April 16, 2016. © Philippe Parreno. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. Photo: David Regen.
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum announces that the exhibition Philippe Parreno: My Room Is Another Fish Bowl has been added to the fall 2016 schedule. From October 5 to November 20, 2016, approximately 150 colorful fish-shaped Mylar balloons float at various heights and move gently through the glass-enclosed Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion in response to human interaction and climatic changes. This elegant and hypnotic installation invites visitors of all ages to contemplate the passage of time and shifting patterns of light and atmospheric conditions as the balloons swim through the air. ... More |
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| Berry Campbell Gallery announces the passing of American abstract painter Walter Darby Bannard | | The National Gallery of Canada presents an exhibition of works by the 2016 Sobey Art Award finalists | | A vanguard of four influential L.A. galleries head to Manhattan for an exhibition at Robert Kuo Gallery |
Walter Darby Bannard was a leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter. Photo: Jacqueline Gopie.
NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell Gallery announced the passing of Walter Darby Bannard (1934-2016). He was a great man, an intellectual genius, a generous mentor, and an unstoppable artist. In his honor, the gallery will present Walter Darby Bannard: Recent Paintings on Thursday, October 13, 2016 from 6 to 8 pm A leading figure in the development of Color Field Painting in the late 1950s and an important American abstract painter, Walter Darby Bannard (better known as Darby Bannard) was committed to color-based and expressionist abstraction for over six decades. During his undergraduate years at Princeton University, he joined fellow students, the painter Frank Stella and the critic and art historian Michael Fried in conversations that expanded aesthetic definitions and led to an emphasis on opticality as the defining feature ... More | |
Jeremy Shaw.
OTTAWA.- A special exhibition featuring the works of the five finalists for the prestigious 2016 Sobey Art Award opens Thursday, October 6 at the National Gallery of Canada. Presented for the first time at the Gallery and organized in collaboration with the Sobey Art Foundation, the group exhibition offers the opportunity to experience the newest developments in contemporary Canadian art. It highlights work by artists from across the country selected from a long list of exceptional nominees: Jeremy Shaw from the West Coast and Yukon region; Brenda Draney from the Prairies and Northern Canada; Charles Stankievech from Ontario; Hajra Waheed from Quebec and William Robinson from the Atlantic Provinces. The 2016 Sobey Art Award exhibition is organized by Josée Drouin-Brisebois, the Gallerys Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and chair of the Sobey Art Award selection jury. Jury members include Jonathan Middleton, Director and ... More | |
Cheryl Ekstrom, artist's proof of a Frits Henningsen High-back Wing Chair in Stainless Steel (Courtesy, JF Chen).
NEW YORK, NY.- A quartet of highly esteemed Los Angeles galleries of decorative art and design opened an important exhibition curated by Robert Kuo and Judith Lance. The galleries inaugurated an experiential joint presentation of their collections that will create a discourse on contemporary design taking place in Los Angeles. Titled Robert Kuo Selects: Studio and Found Collections and Represented Artists, the exhibition features latest collections by JF Chen, Blackman Cruz, Dana John and Kuo himself, all of whom are presenting at Kuos New York gallery, located at 303 Spring Street. Explaining the impetus for the exhibition, Robert Kuo says: The city of Los Angeles is teeming with creativity and is one of the undisputed forerunners in the world of design. The goal of the event is to showcase exceptional collections by a selected group of galleries-- studio production pieces, ... More |
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Colombian street artists graffiti for peace
BOGOTA (AFP).- Spray-paint cans in hand, a generation of street artists is covering Colombia's run-down walls with rifles that shoot heart-shaped bullets and rainbow-colored pleas for peace. After half a century of conflict, the end of which remains just beyond reach, war and peace have become central themes in Colombia's graffiti art. On the streets of Bogota, corncobs that look like grenades and gun barrels sprouting carnations have provided the backdrop as the government and the leftist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) worked for nearly four years to conclude a historic peace agreement. The peace process suffered a shock setback Sunday when voters rejected the resulting accord in a referendum, apparently resentful of the blood shed by the Marxist guerrillas and the lenient punishment the deal meted out for their crimes. But that ... More
University Of Richmond Museums opens "Visions from the Other Side: Works by Nicholas Roerich"
RICHMOND, VA.- Visions from the Other side: Works by Nicholas Roerich is on view from October 5 through November 18, 2016 in the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums. The exhibition features twenty paintings from the collection of the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York that represent the rich artistic and broad humanitarian contributions that Roerich made to Russian and world cultures. Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) was recognized as an artist, philosopher, historian, archaeologist, ethnographer, poet, writer, and art critic in his lifetime. He was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In his work, Roerich demonstrates the dominant passions that guided his life and work: art, science, and philosophy. The artist once wrote that culture and the achievements of empires have been constructed by Beauty. Take away the monuments ... More
Art exhibition exploring Oklahoma history opens at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
NORMAN, OKLA.- Oklahoma history comes to life through paintings, lithographs, drawings and other media in a new exhibition at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. Picturing Indian Territory is the first of its kind: a scholarly examination of the visual history of Oklahoma and its previous incarnations as Indian and Oklahoma Territories, as told through the eyes of the artists who visited the land over the course of nearly a century. This exhibition provides an opportunity to see how artists, illustrators and journalists constructed an image of life in the Indian and Oklahoma Territories for a larger national and international audience, said Mark White, the museums Wylodean and Bill Saxon Director and co-curator of Picturing Indian Territory. Visitors may be surprised to see the unique outsiders perspective presented in the historic ... More
The New York Ceramics & Glass Fair announces 2017 dealer roster
NEW YORK, NY.- Heading into its 18th year, the New York Ceramics & Glass Fair -- the singular fair of its kind in the United States, continues to attract a stellar roster of internationally renowned specialists -- from ancient to contemporary, spanning five centuries. Twenty- eight dealers will reveal their treasures, starting on January 19 for a four day run at the historic Bohemian National Hall, located on 321 East 73rd Street. Says Meg Wendy, who co-produces the fair with Liz Lees, "This year we are delighted to announce first-time participants Antoinette's Heirlooms from London, Lisa Battle Sculpture, Rockville, MD, Michael Wainwright USA, from Great Barrington, MA, and the Lacoste Gallery from Concord Massachusetts." Adds Ms. Lees, "We welcome these distinguished galleries to our fair." Returning to the fold from Great Britain, Ireland and the United ... More
Olivier Malingue Gallery announces opening of its premises in the heart of Mayfair
LONDON.- Olivier Malingue Gallery announces the grand opening of its premises in the heart of Mayfair, London. Following the Malingue familys international expertise in Modern, post-war and Contemporary Art, the gallery opened with the first solo exhibition in Europe of seminal Korean artist Cho Yong-Ik (b. 1934). Rising to prominence in the mid-60s following his studies at Seoul National University, Cho Yong-Ik passed in the 70s to the Dansaekhwa rubric of expression. Presenting a survey of Cho Yong-Iks works from the 70s, 80s and 90s, the exhibition explores how he both championed the movements key tenets - repetition, meditation and tranquility through placing the act of making at the heart of creation - yet differentiated himself from other Dansaekhwa artists by placing a further emphasis on energetic materiality. On display are a select number ... More
Forum Gallery announces new Park Avenue location for 2017
NEW YORK, NY.- Forum Gallery will move to a new, expanded location at 475 Park Avenue in February 2017, Gallery Directors Robert and Cheryl Fishko announced today. The gallery will depart its current location, 730 Fifth Avenue, in December 2016, and will reopen at 475 Park Avenue on February 7, 2017. Forum Gallery will launch its new location with an exhibition of modern and contemporary figurative art. An exhibition of new paintings by the abstract landscape artist, Brian Rutenberg, will follow, from March 23 through May 6, 2017. Forum Gallery will present two final exhibitions at its current Fifth Avenue location: American Views, now on and continuing through November 5, 2016, and Tula Telfair: Invented Landscapes, from November 10 to December 17, 2016. "In an era when so many fine art galleries are working in a purely digital format, Forum Gallery remains committed ... More
Dutch clean-up 'heroes' turn beach rubbish into art
SCHEVENINGEN (AFP).- Every parent has watched bemused as excited kids toss aside gifts to play with the boxes instead. But what about when they ignore the shells on a tropical beach in favour of plastic bottle tops? That was the puzzle for Ralph Groenheijde when he and his family visited Costa Rica a few years ago -- a trip that was to spark a passionate crusade to clean up the beaches back home in the Netherlands. His then two-year-old son paid little heed to the shells, collecting instead dozens of brightly coloured bottle tops. Eventually they used them to create a giant sun mosaic on the sand, before depositing them in a bin. It was to trigger Groenheijde's scheme not to just clean up the wide, sandy beaches skirting the coast of The Hague, but also to turn an unwanted "treasure trove" of trash into wacky works of art. In a play on words, this summer's creations ... More
India's home auctioneers raise gavel on unwanted goods
NEW DELHI (AFP).- On a scorching rooftop in a smart neighbourhood in the Indian capital, 40 Delhiites with an eye for a bargain peer over auction tables creaking with used, broken and half-eaten items, the front line of a thriving second-hand economy. The auctioneer's voice rises to a frenzied pitch as the numbers soar higher, each item wielded to a rapid bidding war - 200 rupees ($3), 300, 700 - as sheaves of Gandhi-emblazoned notes change hands in a flurry of shouts, winks and the occasional scuffle. Mobile phones missing chargers, American shaving foam cans that have lost their pressure and expired food packets are all on display, together with a vacuum cleaner, outdated Apple laptops and knock-off designer sunglasses - labelled coyly as "local". "Everything will go," says Ashok Sood, a professional home sale organiser who arranges weekly auctions at homes ... More
The French auction house PIASA stakes a claim to Contemporary African Art
PARIS.- PIASA, one of Frances most distinguished auction houses, will hold its third sale of Contemporary African Art, Origins and Trajectories on November 17 in Paris, featuring the work of 50 African artists. PIASAs ambition to own part of this increasingly valuable market is well within reach, says Christophe Person, who heads the Contemporary African Art department at PIASA in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. A financier turned art specialist, Christophe has the ability to match big figures and powerful images. Person comments: African art is taking a long overdue turn in the spotlight of world interest. There is a growing understanding of the relevance of the continents artists whose themes are universal. And there is also a groundswell of interest from collectors and investors who have seen the prices climbing steadily. PIASAs auction is part of a very ... More
TEFAF debuts new website
HELVOIRT.- At a time of significant change in the art and antiques industry, where accessibility and transparency are increasingly important, TEFAF is launching a new website. It has become essential, with TEFAFs expansion to New York with two additional fairs, TEFAF New York Fall and TEFAF New York Spring, to better inform, engage and serve its growing community of art dealers, galleries, museums, collectors, and other art market professionals and enthusiasts. TEFAF has been operating as one of the leading fine art and antiques organisations on the world stage for 30 years. It is most renowned for the annual fair in the Dutch city of Maastricht as well as the publication of the annual TEFAF Art Market Report. All the online content is created by or co-created with the exhibitors, vetting experts and other people within the TEFAF community and will provide visitors ... More
Exhibition of new work by Claire Sherman opens at DC Moore Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announces the opening of West Ridge, an exhibition of new work by Claire Sherman. Shermans paintings of exposed islands and chaotic forest interiors challenge us to encounter unpredictable, wild nature through the emphatic materiality of paint. Existing in tension with landscape archetypes, the paintings, like the exhibitions title, evoke specific places that could also be anything, anywhere. Sherman distorts scale, color, and perspective to create unraveling environments. Branches bowed by fringes of moss sweep across the canvas and plunge back into space. Angular limbs appear silhouetted amidst the searing blues and agitated brushstrokes of the night forest beyond. In these works, the artists approach to subject matter and paint handling finds a parallel in her interest in epiphytesplants that grow on top ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss architect Le Corbusier was born October 06, 1887. Charles-Ãdouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 - August 27, 1965), was an architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India and America. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. Le Corbusier adopted his pseudonym in the 1920s, allegedly deriving it in part from the name of a distant ancestor, "Lecorbésier." He was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal and AIA Gold Medal in 1961. In this image: French architect Georges Le Corbusier, left, and French writer Jules Romains are shown during a session of the conference of artists from around the world in the Palace of the Doges in Venice, Italy, in Sept. 1952.
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