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A picture taken on August 6, 2017, shows a general view of an archeological excavation site, believed to be the location of a biblical village that was home to Saint Peter, near the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. Israeli and American archaeologists have likely uncovered the lost Roman city of Julias near the banks of the lake, also known as Lake Tiberias, Mordechai Aviam of Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archeaology said. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
TIBERIAS (AFP).- Researchers may have found the home town of Peter and two other apostles of Jesus near the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, an archaeologist said Monday. Israeli and American archaeologists have likely uncovered the lost Roman city of Julias near the banks of the lake, also known as Lake Tiberias, Mordechai Aviam of Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archeaology said. First century Roman historian Flavius Josephus wrote that Julias was built around 30 AD on the ruins of Bethsaid, a fishing village where Peter was born according to the Gospel of John. Christians recognise Saint Peter, originally a fisherman, as one of the first followers of Jesus and the leader of the early Church following the ascension. The Catholic church also venerates him as its first pope. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Spanish King Felipe VI (L), his wife Queen Letizia (2R) and their daughters Spanish crown princess Leonor (2L) and princess Sofia pose at the door of Can Prunera Museum in the village of Soller on Mallorca island, on August 6, 2017. JAIME REINA / AFP
| London V&A Museum's 'Europhile' ex-director dies | | Conservators prepare Dali's 'Christ of St. John of the Cross' to go on loan | | Williams College Museum of Art to receive landmark gift of African art from Drs. Carolyn and Eli Newberger |
Martin Roth, 2014 © Thierry Bal.
LONDON (AFP).- London's Victoria and Albert Museum on Monday announced its "committed Europhile" former director, Martin Roth, has died months after stepping down. "We are extremely saddened to hear that Dr. Martin Roth has died. Martin will be remembered as a man of prodigious energy; a director with a global reputation both within the museum world and beyond," said Nicholas Coleridge, chairman of the celebrated design museum. Roth, 62, died in his native Germany. He had been diagnosed with cancer after announcing his departure from the museum last year, according to British media reports. The German foreign ministry said it was "profoundly saddened" by Roth's death, tweeting: "His commitment to fostering cultural collaboration across borders will be missed." Roth led the museum for five years and was credited with raising its international profile. He was behind successful exhibitions charting the lives of creatives such as David Bowie and Alexander McQueen. ... More | |
Sophie Kostin and Glasgow Museums technicians unfit Dalis Christ of St John of the Cross in preparation for loan. © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.
GLASGOW.- One of Scotlands favourite paintings, Christ of St John of the Cross by Salvador DalÃ, which usually hangs in Glasgows Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, has come off display and is now being prepared to go on loan to the Royal Academy of Arts in London. It will return to Kelvingrove Museum in the summer of 2018. The painting will be one of the star attractions of an exhibition titled DalÃ/Duchamp, opening on 7 October 2017. Sophie Kostin, Frames Conservator at Glasgow Museums, delicately unframed the iconic painting at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre before Suzanne Ross, Painting Conservator at Glasgow Museums, inspected the work in preparation for it being packed and transported to the Royal Academy. An image of Christ of St John of the Cross will remain in the space at Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery, alongside interpretation explaining why ... More | |
Image of the unpacking and condition assessment process. Photo: Courtesy Williams College Museum of Art.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Williams College Museum of Art announces a promised gift of over 340 objects of African art from Drs. Carolyn and Eli Newberger. The collection includes works from the late 19th through late 20th century and represents numerous cultures from West Africa with decorative, religious, and utilitarian objects. In 1967, Carolyn, Eli, and their infant daughter Mary Ellen began two years of service with the Peace Corps, living in the capital city Ouagadougou in what is now Burkina Faso. They admired and appreciated the art around them and became friends with the director of the national museum, Toumani Triandé. Under Triandés tutelage, they amassed a collection of quality and authenticity. They were interested in village artifacts and everyday objects that expressed the artistic vision of West African people. Utilitarian objects such as sandals made from tire tread, ... More |
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| Architects, refugees team up on tiny houses in Berlin | | Three new "club-tailed" scorpions join the tree of life | | Irma Stern's poignant portrait 'The Red Dress' leads Bonhams South African sale |
Ali Fadi, Kurdish Syrian refugee and construction worker, is pictured on the Tiny Houses Project's construction site at the Bauhaus Archive Museum of Design, works in Berlin on June 6, 2017. Adam BERRY / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- Troubled to see a long queue of asylum seekers shivering for hours on a winter's day outside Berlin's notoriously chaotic registration centre, Van Bo Le-Mentzel decided to take action. "I fetched my drill and collected some wood that I found randomly in the streets and brought it to the line where people were standing there bored to death and we just started building," the architect told AFP. The end products were pint-sized playhouses that children could crawl into for shelter as well as break up the monotony of the endless wait. It also marked the birth of the so-called Tiny House University, a project bringing together architects, designers and refugees to experiment with innovative ways to house a population in need. "We are trying to create new kinds of housing forms in society in which it's possible to live and survive ... More | |
Dr. Lauren Esposito at the California Academy of Sciences. © California Academy of Sciences.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- A team of researchersincluding Dr. Lauren Esposito, Curator of Arachnology at the California Academy of Sciences and colleagues from the American Museum of Natural History and Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)have painstakingly revised a large group of Neotropical club-tailed scorpions. After sifting through DNA and comparing the physical traits of hundreds of specimens to reorganize (and strengthen) scientific understanding of this scorpion group, the scientists described two new genera and new species. The authors also restored a long-forgotten group (Heteroctenus). The colorful, new-to-science club-tailed scorpions hail from the tropical regions of North, Central, and South America. The results appear this summer in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Clocking in at 435 million years old, scorpions are among the oldest living terrestrial arthropods on the planet, says Esp ... More | |
Irma Stern (South African, 1894-1966), The Red Dress. Estimate: £250,000-350,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The Red Dress by Irma Stern, the grande dame of South African art, leads The South African Sale, to be held at Bonhams New Bond Street saleroom on 13 September 2017. The bold and colourful painting is a sensitive depiction of a young Cape Malay woman. It is estimated at £250,000-300,000. The portrait was executed in 1949, when Stern was at the height of her powers. The sitters features are delineated in bold black strokes that exude artistic confidence. The red highlights on the womans nose and forehead echo the vibrant pigment of her dress, whilst the blue of the background is picked up in her scarf. Bonhams Director of South African Art, Giles Peppiatt suggests that the portrait derives much of its power from the artists empathy for her sitter: Although she spent much of her life in South Africa, Irma Stern felt unsettled by Capetonian high society and always viewed herself as something of an outsider. ... More |
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| Syria's traditional oud-making on the decline | | Two Pussy Riot members detained over protest in Siberian city | | MoMA appoints Michelle Elligott as the Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections |
Ali Khalifeh, a lute-maker, tries a oud at a shop in the Syrian capital Damascus on July 17, 2017. The first Damascene oud was produced in 1897 by Abdo al-Nahhat, who became one of the country's most renowned lute-makers. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP.
DAMASCUS (AFP).- Antoun Tawil, one of Syria's last traditional lute makers, waits in vain in his Damascus workshop for orders of the oud, an instrument his country was once renowned for producing. While the conflict that has ravaged Syria over the past six years has devastated many of its historic crafts, the production of the oud, the oriental lute, has been particularly hard hit. Lute makers have emigrated in large numbers, and the Damascene wood used to build the instruments has also become rare. "There were around 20 workshops before the crisis, between Damascus, Aleppo and Hama... Now there are no more than six," four of them in Damascus, said Tawil. The slender 57-year-old is one of them. In his tiny nine-square-metre shop in Tekkiyeh Sulamaniyeh, an Ottoman complex made up of a mosque and a crafts ... More | |
Alyokhina on Sunday posted photos and a video of their brief protest on a bridge, calling Sentsov's case "one of the key political cases in the history of our country."
MOSCOW (AFP).- Russian police on Monday detained for several hours two members of Pussy Riot after they staged a protest in support of a jailed Ukrainian filmmaker in a Siberian city. Maria Alyokhina, one of the punk rock group's members previously jailed for a protest against President Vladimir Putin, wrote on Twitter that she and Olga Borisova were being held in Yakutsk. Alyokhina tweeted that they were taken to a police station after protesting in support of filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year term for "terrorist" offences in Yakutsk, almost 5,000 kilometres (3,000 miles) east of Moscow. Borisova, in a video from a police car posted on Twitter, added: "We're going to the police station... on suspicion of committing an administrative offence, (holding) an unsanctioned rally." The duo was taken from the station to court, where they ... More | |
Michelle Elligott, Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections. Photo: Sari Goodfriend.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces the appointment of Michelle Elligott as Chief of Archives, Library, and Research Collections. In this role, she will provide key professional and intellectual leadership for the Museums world class research collections; oversee the strategic planning and facilities of the Archives and Library; and manage all aspects of the research collections and records of the institution with respect to their care, cataloging, and accessibility. Ms. Elligott brings more than two decades of experience to the position. In 1999, she was appointed the Rona Roob Senior Museum Archivist, and since 2014 has served as Chief of Archives. In her new position she will also provide leadership to the Library, succeeding Milan Hughston who retired in 2016. I am confident that Michelle will provide exemplary leadership to the Archives and Library and will continue to advance our efforts in acquisitions, preservation, a ... More |
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| Mississippi Museum of Art de-installs entire collection to make way for exhibition about Mississippi identity | | Hatton Gallery to reopen with 'Pioneers of Pop' after £3.8 million renovation | | Des Moines Art Center welcomes new assistant curator |
Louis Joseph Bahin (1813-1857), Portrait of George Matthews Marshall, ca. 1853. oil on canvas. Collection of Lansdowne Plantation, Natchez, MS.
JACKSON, MISS.- This summer, the Mississippi Museum of Art will de-install the entirety of its permanent exhibition gallery space to prepare for an unprecedented bicentennial exhibition exploring two centuries of Mississippi statehood. Beginning August 21, 8,500 square feet of gallery space currently containing the ongoing, free exhibition titled The Mississippi Story will be transformed to make room for Picturing Mississippi, 1817-2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise, the largest art exhibition about Mississippi identity ever conceived, which in its totality will cover more than 16,000 square feet of gallery space. The majority of the approximately two hundred objects currently on view in The Mississippi Story will return to the Museums vault during the run of Picturing Mississippi. In Fall of 2018, following the bicentennial exhibition, the Museum will install a reimagining of The Mississippi Story complete ... More | |
Joe Tilson (b.1928), Nine Elements, 1963. Painting, mixed media on wood relief, 259 x 182.8 cm. Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, purchased 1983 © Joe Tilson. All rights reserved, DACS 2016. Photo: Antonia Reeve.
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.- The Hatton Gallery at Newcastle University will re-open on 7 October 2017, following a 20-month, £3.8million redevelopment made possible by National Lottery players through the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), with a ground-breaking exhibition that will firmly and correctly - position Newcastle as the birthplace of Pop Art. The gallery has played a unique role in the development of British Art, with its history intimately entwined with some of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The exhibition Pioneers of Pop revolves around the numerous artists and writers, activities, projects and ideas which had at their centre, artist Richard Hamilton, during his time teaching at Newcastle University (1953-1966). Hamiltons significant achievements in the North East included the ground-breaking ... More | |
Ledesma worked in the painting and sculpture curatorial department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) for more than six years.
DES MOINES, IA.- The Des Moines Art Center announced the appointment of Jared Ledesma as its new assistant curator. Ledesmas first exhibition at the Art Center, I, too, am America, opens this fall, and will feature political and activist art from the 1930s to 2000. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Ledesma worked in the painting and sculpture curatorial department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) for more than six years; at the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, California; and at the former Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco. While at SFMOMA, Ledesma worked extensively with the museums permanent collection and on special exhibitions, including the award winning The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde (2011), Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California (2014-15), Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA (2015), Matisse/Diebenkorn ... More |
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Children's Museum of the Arts renovated by Parsons School of Design students
NEW YORK, NY.- Childrens Museum of the Arts and Parsons School of Design at The New School announced the unveiling of the CMAs new lobby and lounge on Saturday, August 26, 2017. The Design Workshop at Parsons, an innovative design-build studio led by graduate architecture students, is leading the project with assistance from West Chin Architects and Conto and Sons contractors, and pro bono acoustic services provided by Arup. The lobby and lounge will be transformed into welcoming and interactive spaces that will help CMA further serve its creative community. After studying the functionality of the lobby, Parsons students designed an inviting entryway by relocating the front desk, optimizing storage space for strollers and coats, and creating points of interactivity to engender a sense of excitement and playfulness. The design will also resolve ... More
Birmingham Museum of Art's Third Space exhibition presents rotation
BIRMINGHAM, AL.- On Saturday, August 12, the Birmingham Museum of Art will unveil a new rotation of artwork in its current exhibition Third Space /shifting conversations about contemporary art. For the second of four rotations in the two-year exhibition, twenty-seven works of art will be added to the galleries. Third Space is the first major exhibition of contemporary art from the Museums own collection. Bringing together the work of more than 90 artists from around the world, the exhibition explores a shared cultural experience between the American South and the Global South. Third Space is a representation of the ways in which the Birmingham Museum of Arts collection of contemporary art has grown in breadth and depth over the past couple of decades, says Gail Andrews, R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art. The exhibition is designed ... More
Ten years of internet auctions at Ketterer Kunst: Net pioneer celebrates anniversary
MUNICH.- Ketterer Kunst, a pioneer in internet-based art auctions, has good reason to celebrate, as Germanys top selling auction house made online auctions part of its business as early as in 2007. We were the first auction house to recognize the potential of internet auctions in the mid 2000s. It was clear from the start that the internet was a future market place for art auctions and that we had to follow the path, says company owner Robert Ketterer. He continues: While there still was a lot of skepticism in the sector, we had strong faith in the success and were convinced that we would manage to serve a market of objects that cannot be offered in a conventional salesroom auction due to high catalog expenses and the logistic efforts. Meanwhile the prognosis has proven to be true and the company s pioneering spirit has paid off, as top hammer prices are knocked ... More
Emma Elizabeth Tillman show opening at Gallery 46 this week
LONDON.- Gallery 46 announces the debut solo exhibition of American artist Emma Elizabeth Tillman. Entitled Disco Ball Soul, the show is comprised of more than 90 small-Â‐scale collages created over a ten-Â‐year period. The collages are constructed from photographs taken by Tillman and feature fragments from her personal diaries written in ink onto masking tape. The presentation also includes fourteen large-Â‐scale photographs. Tillman began this body of work in 2007 whilst visiting her then-Â‐boyfriend Rick, who lived in a crumbling adobe house in the majestic desolation of the Arizona desert. When the couple temporarily moved to France, the camera and the diary came along, aiding Tillman in her quest to capture time and gain repeated access to the past. Living in a cottage in rural Brittany, with no running water or electricity and only a fireplace for heat, ... More
Aspen Art Museum raises $2.8 million at 2017 Artcrush summer benefit
ASPEN, CO.- On Friday, August 4, 2017, the Aspen Art Museum held its annual ArtCrush galaraising over $2.8 million to benefit the museums impressive educational and curatorial programming throughout the year. This years ArtCrush returned to its iconic home at the Buttermilk Ski Area, internationally known as the marquee location for the annual ESPN Winter X Games and marking a continued collaboration with the AAMs long-time community business partner, Aspen Skiing Company. More than 600 of the worlds most distinguished and influential art collectors, artists, gallerists, museum professionals, and business leaders gathered in Aspen to participate in the museums signature multi-day series of events. The week culminated with Friday evenings ArtCrush Live and Silent Auctionfollowed by a night of music and dancing for AfterPartyCrush, held at Aspens ... More
Hicks Gallery, London introduces emerging artist: Bobbie Russon
LONDON.- Bobbie Russon creates bold and moving depictions of predominately female figures, mapping a path of loss, awkward self-awareness and developing sexuality; she communicates her excruciating shyness as a child and the acute loneliness she felt. The subjects in her paintings are most often female as she draws on her own emotion and experience, I suppose I use girls in my work, simply because that is what I know. I work quite intuitively, and the imagery and themes come from my own personal experience, feelings and memories, both as an only child to a single mother and as a mother to my two daughters and son. However, while I paint from a female perspective, the themes in the work are more generally about being human. Russons paintings are charged with the unspoken curiosities within the young girls that they often depict girls ... More
"Native Fashion Now" exhibition enters final weeks at the National Museum of the American Indian
NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center in New York will soon close the final showing of the first large-scale traveling exhibition of contemporary Native American fashion, celebrating indigenous designers from across the United States and Canada, from the 1950s to today. Native Fashion Now, originally organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., explores the exciting and complex realms where fashion meets art, cultural identity, politics and commerce. The exhibition closes Sept. 4 during Labor Day weekend. Through nearly 70 works, Native Fashion Now explores the vitality of Native fashion designers and artistsfrom pioneering Native style-makers of the mid-20th century like Charles Loloma (Hopi Pueblo) to maverick designers of today such as Wendy Red Star ... More
Sale of erotic, fetish & queer art to celebrate relaunch of Fine Art Bourse
SYDNEY.- Tim Goodman is no stranger to shaking up the artworld and is about to do it again with the re-launch on July 28th of his new auction house, Fine Art Bourse (F.A.B.) targeting industry leaders with a flat 5% deal to both buyers and sellers. Some eyebrows may be raised with F.A.B.s first global cloud based auction, Erotic, Fetish & Queer Art, at 6.00pm Monday, 11 September (GMT - London Time). This follows a successful auction sale of erotic art conducted in London last year by Sothebys and the highly successful exhibition at the Tate, Queer British Art 1861 1967. . We are looking to source erotic art in the UK which has been home to some of the greatest collections of erotic art for years, says Goodman. He believes that the industry dominated for over 200 years by a duopoly is ripe for a challenge given the huge charges they levy on their clients, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kneller was born August 08, 2017. Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (8 August 1646 - 19 October 1723) was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to English and British monarchs from Charles II to George I. In this image: Sir Godfrey Kneller - Self portrait.
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