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A photo provided by the University of Cincinnati shows the Tholos Tomb IV at Pylos, as reconstructed by the Greek Archaeological Service. Two large tombs have been discovered and excavated at the site of the ancient city of Pylos in southern Greece, suggesting that Pylos played a surprisingly prominent role in early Mycenaean civilization. Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati via The New York Times.
by Nicholas Wade
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Two large tombs have been discovered and excavated at the site of the ancient city of Pylos in southern Greece, suggesting that Pylos played a surprisingly prominent role in early Mycenaean civilization. Although the tombs had been looted in antiquity, archaeologists reported Tuesday that they had recovered thousands of pieces of gold foil, remnants of the sheets of gold that once lined the tomb floors and would have lent a spectacular gleam to the darkened chamber. The larger of the two tombs is 39 feet in diameter and the smaller 28 feet. Both were originally built in a beehive shape known as a tholos but had collapsed. Archaeologists also found beads made of amber, carnelian and malachite, and a golden pendant depicting the head of Egyptian goddess Hathor. These items suggest that Pylos, a city with a fine port, had trading connections, previously unknown, with Egypt and the Near East around 1500 B.C., the time the tombs were in use. The two new tholos ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day They call him art's man in black. Artist Pierre Soulages has painted primarily in black for eight decades -- foreswearing all other colours since 1979. Now the Louvre museum in Paris is marking his 100th birthday with a rare tribute to a living artist. Twenty works -- out of more than 1,700 canvasses he has produced over his long career -- are being shown in a special three-month show
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| | Old mistresses turn tables on Old Masters | | Getty Museum exhibition showcases never-before-seen photographs | | Art of early Caribbean civilizations featured in Met exhibition |
Self-Portrait (1558), by Sofonisba Anguissola. Galleria Colonna via The New York Times.
by Deborah Solomon
MADRID (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Old Masters have always outnumbered Old Mistresses, especially at the Prado. The museum is chock-a-block with paintings we know from Art History 101, in which female artists seem almost nonexistent. We come to the Prado to admire El Grecos bony saints and Francisco de Goyas strolling majas, to marvel at Diego Velázquezs Las Meninas, that brilliant painting-puzzle in which the artist depicts himself with assorted members of the Spanish court, working on an enormous canvas that we cannot see, leaving us to wonder for eternity what it shows. This year the Prado is celebrating its 200th anniversary, and the good news is that the female presence in its galleries has been winningly expanded with A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana. The historically revelatory show, which remains on view until Feb. 2, brings together about 60 works by two 16th-century Italian artists who were celebrated in their lifetimes but rudely ... More | |
Alexander Rodchenko, Roll (of Film), 1950. Gelatin silver print Dimensions: Image: 30.5 à 24 cm. 84.XM.258.52 © 2019 Estate of Alexander Rodchenko / UPRAVIS, Moscow / Artists Rights Society, NY. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Museum holds one of the largest collections of photographs in the United States, with more than 148,000 prints. However, only a small percentage of these have ever been exhibited at the Museum. To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Photographs, the Getty Museum is exhibiting 200 of these never-before-seen photographs and pull back the curtain on the work of the many professionals who care for this important collection in Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs, on view December 17, 2019-March 8, 2020. Rather than showcasing again the best-known highlights of the collection, the time is right to dig deeper into our extraordinary holdings and present a selection of never-before-seen treasures. I have no doubt that visitors will be intrigued and delighted by the diversity and quality of the collection, whose riches will support exhibition and research well into the decades ahead, s ... More | |
Deity figure (zemÃ), TaÃno, Dominican Republic (?), ca. A.D. 1000 Guaiacum wood, shell, H. 27 in. (68.5 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- A special exhibition highlighting the artistic achievements of early Caribbean civilizations has gone on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Showcasing more than 40 works drawn primarily from The Met collection and augmented by select loans from public and private collections in the United States, Arte del mar: Artistic Exchange in the Caribbean presents a stunning narrative of creativity from the ancestral cultures that encircled the Caribbean Sea in the millennia before European colonization. The exhibition is the first to focus on the artistic exchange that took place among the TaÃno civilizations of the Greater Antilles (present-day Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico) and the coastal societies in countries such as Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, and Honduras before the 16th century. Highlights include rarely seen sculptures created in ancient Puerto Rico. "Early Caribbean civilizations ... More |
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| | Bolivia stuck over ex-president's museum | | Five arrested over Bosnia genocide museums embezzlement | | LACMA opens the first substantial exhibition on the art of Fiji to be mounted in the U.S. |
Bolivia's ex-President Evo Morales gestures during a press conference in Buenos Aires, on December 17, 2019. RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP.
LA PAZ (AFP).- Bolivia's interim government has inherited an unexpected problem since Evo Morales resigned and fled the country: what to do with the former president's $7 million museum. After almost 14 years in power, Morales hurriedly left Bolivia last month as protests against his controversial re-election to an unconstitutional fourth term intensified. Since his flight, Bolivia has been wracked by violence mostly between his supporters and the security services. But the government of interim President Jeanine Anez has another problem to solve in the form of a costly museum dedicated to Morales, whose detractors accused him of corruption during his leadership. "We've got to do something" with it, Culture Minister Martha Yujra told Lider97 radio, complaining that "it's no use to us, it serves no purpose." The 4,000-square-meter museum was opened in 2017 in a remote village of just 600 people, ... More | |
This general view shows the facade of The Museum of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, in Sarajevo on December 17, 2019. ELVIS BARUKCIC / AFP.
SARAJEVO (AFP).- Bosnia police on Monday arrested five genocide museum employees suspected of embezzling money from the two institutions in the country dedicated to the victims of its 1990s conflict. Jasmin Meskovic, who heads the Association of Detainees of Bosnia, was among those arrested, a spokeswoman from the prosecutors' office said. Meskovic is "suspected of having organised, since July 2017, a group of people (who were)... selling forged entry tickets (and) keeping the collected money," spokeswoman Azra Bavcic said. Meskovic is one of the museums founders and co-president of the body that manages them. The amount of money that was allegedly embezzled has not been disclosed. In the Sarajevo museum, the price for an adult ticket is five euros ($5.60). The museum of crimes against humanity and ... More | |
Double Portable Temple (bure kalou), Fiji, early 19th century, coir, wood, reed, and shells, 44 à 25 à 21 in., Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, gift of Joseph Winn Jr., 1835, photo © Peabody Essex Museum, by Jeffrey Dykes.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific, the first substantial project on the art of Fiji to be mounted in the U.S. The exhibition features over 280 artworks drawn from major international collections, including Fiji Museum, the British Museum, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Cambridge), the Smithsonian, and distinguished private collections. The exhibition includes figurative sculpture, ritual kava bowls, breastplates of pearl shell and whale ivory, large-scale barkcloths, small portable temples, weapons, and European watercolors and paintings. Additionally, Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific showcases historical photographs from LACMAs recently acquired Blackburn Collection, as well as a newly ... More |
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| | Almine Rech announces representation of Polish painter Ewa Juszkiewicz | | Pérez Art Museum Miami receives 16 Christo artworks totaling $3 Million | | Art and science come together in Detroit Institute of Arts' exhibition "Bruegel's The Wedding Dance Revealed" |
Ewa Juszkiewicz, Untitled (after Christoffer Eckersberg), 2019. Oil on canvas, 78,7 x 58,4 cm, 31 x 23 Inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
LONDON.- Almine Rech announced the representation of polish painter Ewa Juszkiewicz in Europe, UK and China. Through her painting, Ewa Juszkiewicz (b. 1984, Gdansk, Poland) challenges visual conventions and confronts stereotypical perceptions of womens beauty in classical European painting. By deconstructing and reinterpreting the female subject in historical artworks, Juszkiewicz undermines their constant, indisputable character. One of the most celebrated contemporary Polish painters of today, Juszkiewicz challenges the viewers perception by experimenting with the form of the female figure and face, balancing human and inhuman elements within her work to reveal a style that is at once classical in technique, yet subversive and rebellious in content. ... More | |
Christo. Photo by World Red Eye.
MIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami has received 16 major works valued at $3 million by artist Christo, gifted to the museum by PAMM trustee Maria Bechily and Scott Hodes. PAMM will now have the fourth largest holding of Christos work in the United States. These fine works provide a vivid glimpse into Christo and Jeanne-Claudes tremendously important oeuvre, said René Morales, PAMM Interim Director of Curatorial Affairs. As a group, they provide an expansive overview of their artistic legacy, comprising a readymade, partial career retrospective of their major projects spanning from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. The collection is a fine example of Christos drawing and collage practice, which constitutes a pivotal aspect of his production. Christo and Jeanne-Claude have declined financial support from governments, institutions, single patrons, and foundations, choosing to fund ... More | |
Dr. Christina Bisulca and Conservator Blair Bailey perform FORS analysis on The Wedding Dance to determine pigments and binders used therein.
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts invites visitors to experience an exhibition that explores how science and technology is used to learn about art, focused on one of the DIAs most iconic European paintings. Bruegels The Wedding Dance Revealed is open from December 14, 2019August 30, 2020. The year 2019 marks the 450th anniversary of artist Pieter Bruegel the Elders death, and to commemorate it, the DIAs Conservation department and the European Art department collaborated to trace the life of the painting from its creation in 1566 to the present, including the story behind the DIAs exciting acquisition of the work in 1930. This exhibition is free with museum admission, which is always free for residents of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties. ... More |
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| | Four exhibitions explore Lenore Tawney's life, impact, and work | | A Grand Old Flag: The Stars and Stripes Collection of Dr. Peter J. Keim auction totals $795,241 | | "Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction" opens at the Guggenheim Museum |
In Poetry and Silence: The Work and Studio of Lenore Tawney installation view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2019. Photo courtesy of John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
SHEBOYGAN, WI.- Lenore Tawney (19072007) was an influential figure in the postwar fiber arts movement with impactful and groundbreaking work that continues to reverberate today. Known for her monumental sculptural weavings, Tawneys practice also included drawing, collage, and assemblage. Tawneys lifes work, dating from circa 1946-1997, is the subject of a four-exhibition series, Mirror of the Universe, through March 7, 2020 at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. The exhibition represents the most comprehensive presentation of her work since 1990. Improvisational, experimental, and deeply personal, Tawneys work redefined traditional notions of weaving as she manipulated fiber into abstract sculptural forms and complex woven structures. She held a deep belief in mystical philosophies which ran through all aspects of her life ... More | |
A 28-Star Great Star American Flag commemorating Texas Statehood, circa 1846 sells for $68,750.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans A Grand Old Flag: The Stars and Stripes Collection of Dr. Peter J. Keim auction held on 24 November 2019 was a great success, with overall sales totaling $795,241. Active bidders on the nearly 200 lots of historic American Flags and Flag-related artifacts included institutions, private collectors, and dealers from across the country. Prior to the auction, highlights from the Keim Collection were exhibited in Boston, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia. Significant auction highlights included a 28-Star Great Star American flag commemorating Texas Statehood, circa 1846 (Lot 29), which sold for an impressive $68,750 against a presale estimate of $15,000-25,000, a 41-Star American Flag commemorating Montana Statehood, circa 1889 (Lot 83) which sold for $41,250, over 10 times its original estimate of $4,000-6,000, and a 13-Star Great-Star pattern American Flag datin ... More | |
Zarina, Untitled, 1977 (detail). 20 needle-pierced sheets of laminated paper, approximately 26 x 19 3/4 inches (66 x 50.2 cm) each. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed by the International Directors Council and through prior gift of Solomon R. Guggenheim, 2010.32.
NEW YORK, NY.- From December 18, 2019, through July 20, 2020, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction. Featuring a selection of nearly a dozen paintings and works on paper from the Guggenheim collection by Agnes Martin, Roman Opałka, Park Seo-Bo, and others, this presentation explores how artists operating in a variety of contexts foregrounded process as they forged new approaches to abstraction. The exhibition is organized by David Max Horowitz, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. During the 1960s and 1970s, many artists working with abstraction rid their styles of compositional, chromatic, and virtuosic flourishes. As some turned toward such minimal approaches, a singular emphasis ... More |
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A defense of cursive, from a 10-year-old national champion
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- A fifth grader in New Jersey is a master of curlicues and connecting loops. His technique is so good he was named a state and national champion of a dying art: cursive writing, a skill that once seemed destined to go the way of the typewriter. The boy, Edbert Aquino, who is 10, took home last years national trophy, $500 and bragging rights for his Roman Catholic elementary school in Bergen County. But competition for the prize might just get stiffer in New Jersey. Assemblywoman Angela McKnight, D-Jersey City, has introduced legislation that would require public schools to again teach a skill that had been phased out across the country, but is now enjoying something of a revival. Like many students in New Jersey, McKnights son had never been taught cursive writing. Tasks she considers fundamental were ... More
Sun Museum presents "CHO Kam Chow Larry: Capturing the Glamour of Lights"
HONG KONG.- Sun Museum is presenting an exhibition, entitled CHO Kam Chow Larry: Capturing the Glamour of Lights, from 17 December 2019 to 7 March 2020. On display are 60 photographs taken by Hong Kong amateur photographer Larry Cho. The artworks record his recent visit to various heritage sites in Henan province of China. Through his camera, he has created a world that is colourful, glamourous, and pleasing to the eye. After graduating from high school, Larry has pursued a career in the banking industry. Since his move to Australia in 1993, he has fully devoted to photography and took some hundred thousand photographs during his travels around the world. His calm and meticulous personality enables him to create a different world through his lens. The artworks on display were all taken during Larrys travel to Henan where he visited ... More
FotoFocus appoints C. Jacqueline Wood as FotoFocus Film Curator at Large
CINCINNATI, OH.- FotoFocus announced it has appointed Cincinnati-based film specialist and artist C. Jacqueline Wood as FotoFocus Film Curator at Large. In her role, Wood will spearhead a new free monthly film series presented by FotoFocus across Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky every second Tuesday in 2020 titled SECOND SCREENS, which will celebrate the non-profit organizations tenth anniversary and expand its mission of promoting lens-based art to fully encompass film, video, and the moving image. The aim of SECOND SCREENS is to enrich Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentuckys cinematic landscape through public screenings of works that span many years, subjects, and genres, including narrative, documentary, avant-garde, and animation. Cutting-edge contemporary films and classic masterpiecesfrom United Skates, ... More
Converse Auctions will offer over 300 lots of fine Chinese antiques
MALVERN, PA.- Converse Auctions invites everyone with a fondness for fine Chinese antiques to ring in the New Year a few days early at their Auspicious Asian Acquisitions Auction, slated for Friday, December 27th at 10 am Eastern time. Offered will be over 350 lots, to include fine jade carvings, porcelain, paintings, jewelry, bronze Buddhas, fine furniture and more, all online. As with all Converse sales, folks can bid online for the Auspicious Asian Acquisitions Auction through the company website and via the popular platforms LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. An expected top lot is the pair of elaborate zitan folding chairs with dragon arms, heavily carved legs, arm rests and back, all in a dragon and cloud motif (est. $3,000-$5,000). The legs and arm rest supports are carved as clouds. The back of the chair ... More
Manifesta announces participants of collateral programme Les Parallèles du Sud
MARSEILLE.- Manifesta 13 Marseille announced the final list of the Les Parallèles du Sud participants, Manifesta 13 Marseilles collateral programme that will take place from the 7th of June to the 1st of November 2020. Since starting to shape Manifesta 13 Marseille and engrained within the bid of Marseille, creating sustainable collaborations between local, regional and international cultural partners was at the core of Manifestas mission. Manifesta 13 Marseille would particularly like to thank the Région Sud for its support for Les Parallèles du Sud and its continuous encouragement. Reflecting upon the main ambitions of Manifesta 13 Marseille, the programme Les Parallèles du Sud aims to highlight the need of the local cultural scene to develop long-lasting connections and creative collaborations between regional and international professionals, cultural producers, ... More
Rare, artistic 1911 Chinese dollar estimated to be worth $500,000 to be auctioned
SANTA ANA, CA.- Numismatic auction powerhouse Stacks Bowers Galleries is presenting for sale a beautifully-minted and ultra-rare 1911 Chinese Silver Long-Whisker Dragon Dollar at the New York International Numismatic Convention on January 17, 2020. Part of Stacks Bowers World and Ancient Coin Auction Session One of the two-day event held at the Grand Hyatt in New York City, this 1911 Chinese dollar created at the Central Chinese Mint in Tientsin features an extremely rare pattern and is the single finest certified of the type at either the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation or Professional Coin Grading Service. Valued at as much as $500,000, this fantastic rarity is missing from most of the significant collections of Chinese coins, private or institutional, such as the famous Irving Goodman, Dr. Norman Jacobs and Chang foundation collections. This ... More
Frieze announces participating artists for Frieze Projects at Frieze LA 2020
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Frieze Projects returns to Paramount Pictures Studios iconic backlot set with a series of immersive art installations, site-specific works, performances and videos, co-curated by Rita Gonzalez (Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art, LACMA) and Pilar Tompkins Rivas (Director, Vincent Price Art Museum). Frieze Projects is an anchor program of Frieze Los Angeles that takes place February 14 16, 2020 at Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood. Launched in 2019, Frieze Los Angeles brings together more than 70 galleries from around the world and is supported by global lead partner Deutsche Bank for the second consecutive year. Frieze Projects takes place across Frieze art fairs globally, offering a curated program of ambitious and experimental artwork beyond the gallery booths. The ... More
Independent Art Fair appoints Ashley R. Harris as Executive Director
NEW YORK, NY.- Independent New York announced the appointment of Ashley R. Harris as Executive Director. Harris will assume her post with the fair in January 2020. In the newly created position of Executive Director, Harris will collaborate closely with co-founder and CEO of Independent Elizabeth Dee, founding curatorial advisor Matthew Higgs and the rest of the Independent team to continue developing relationships with galleries and institutional partners worldwide. Her appointment is part of Independents mission to continually innovate in response to the gallery and artist marketplace, thereby providing support for a sustained engagement of the audience, during and beyond the fair. Harris joins Independent from Sothebys, where she has served as Marketing Director since 2016. A leader in the fields of marketing and communication, ... More
Fruitmarket Gallery announces plans for reopening + Karla Black's first selected survey in UK
EDINBURGH.- The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, today announced plans for 2020 when the gallery will reopen with their existing galleries refreshed and expanded into a large adjacent warehouse in a £3.75m capital development. A major exhibition by one of Scotlands most renowned sculptors, Karla Black, will inaugurate the newly expanded Fruitmarket, which also makes room for a new cross cultural programme. The development brings the gallerys next door building also a former fruit and vegetable warehouse into active cultural use, as an expansive, inspirational space where artists can make new work in and for the Fruitmarket Gallery, creating a regular programme of Fruitmarket Gallery commissions curated in-house. The new space will realise the gallerys ambitions to deliver a year-round multi-art form programme from a venue ... More
Seong Eun Kim appointed Director of Nam June Paik Art Center
YONGIN.- Nam June Paik Art Center announced the appointment of Dr. Seong Eun Kim as its new director. With her commitment to practice-based research on art museums, Kim will lead NJPAC in a museologically holistic way. Kim commented on her appointment: NJPAC is an ever-evolving institution full of sparkling Paikian energy. I am thrilled to take this opportunity to build on its reputation as a museum dedicated to the artist and thinker Paik, and also as the only public museum specializing in media art in Korea. I will carry on the highly regarded projects that NJPAC has undertaken, with its fantastic team, and at the same time will launch a few new initiatives to unlock its untapped potential. Having obtained a D.Phil. in anthropology from the University of Oxford in 2009 for her thesis on contemporary artists interventions in museums, Kim worked ... More
Top hat: UNESCO honours Kyrgyzstan's ak-kalpak
BISHKEK (AFP).- Kyrgyzstan hoped for a fillip for its tourism on Tuesday after the distinctive headgear traditionally worn by its men, the ak-kalpak, won UNESCO intangible heritage status. Inclusion on the prestigious global list "has some very positive aspects for us -- including for tourism, to attract tourism to our country," said deputy culture and tourism minister, Maksat Uulu Damir. "This gives the international community a chance to get to know our mountainous country." UNESCO annually announces a list of cultural artifacts that encapsulate the spirit and heritage of their countries. Those added this month included traditional Thai massage. The embroidered high hat is already so revered in its Central Asian homeland that it has its own national day. Usually made from felt, the four-panelled hat symbolises "the peaks of the magnificent Kyrgyz mountains, forever snow- ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian sculptor and painter Mimmo Paladino was born December 18, 1948. Paladino was born in Paduli, Campania, on December 18, 1948, but grew up and trained in Benevento. He now lives in Rome and Milan, but still has a studio in the little town near Benevento. In this image: Mimmo Paladino, Mattinate (Puglia Suite) No. 7, 2011. Watercolour with collage. Paper and image 58.0 x 77.0 cm.
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