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Hercules and Omphale, by Artemisia Gentileschi, in the process of being repaired at the Getty Museums conservation studio in Los Angeles, Oct. 21, 2022. The painting that was scarred by the 2020 blast in Beirut is now attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi, the great 17th-century Italian painter known for her depiction of strong women. Brian Guido/The New York Times.
by Jori Finkel
NEW YORK, NY.- When a deadly explosion rocked the port of Beirut in August 2020, antiques were reduced to rubble and paintings torn to shreds. But in one Lebanese mansion an anonymous painting pierced by shards of glass from a blown-out window and impaled by wood from the window frame gained something extraordinary. It is now recognized by experts as a long-lost painting of Hercules and Omphale by Artemisia Gentileschi, the great 17th-century Italian painter known for portraying strong women from biblical and mythological scenes. This painting is definitely by Artemisia, said Davide Gasparotto, the Getty Museums senior curator of paintings, who has brought it to the Getty for restoration and exhibition under a long-term loan agreement. Its a very powerful, convincing painting one of her most ambitious in terms of size and the complexity of the figures. Sheila Barker, a leading Gentileschi scholar who has yet to see the painting in person, says ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Marc Schmitt Estate + Ancient / Ethnographica sale on Oct 27, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. Since the 1990s Marc Schmitt was the owner / founder of Amiguet's Ancient Art, a name known all too well in the area of Pre-Columbian Art. Marc's appreciation of both Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial cultures came from his grandfather, Louis Amiguet who emigrated to the US from Guatemala before 1950. Triassic Arizona Petrified Wood Slab. Estimate $6,000 - $9,000.
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| Tanya Bonakdar Gallery announces representation of Monica Bonvicini | | First known family of Neanderthals found in Russian cave | | Bharti Kher opens a major solo exhibition exploring her alchemical practice | 
Monica Bonvicini, Bent Grass, 2022. LED, electrical wire, PLA, cables, 170 x 62 x 53 cm. Photo by Jens Ziehe. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery announced representation of Monica Bonvicini. Among the most important artists of her generation, Monica Bonvicinis evocative and thought-provoking sculptures, installations, texts, photographs, videos and public projects explore the relationship between architecture, gender and power. For the past three decades, Bonvicinis multifaceted practice has confronted issues of institutional critique and the politics of space. While the idea of the built environment is central to Bonvicinis research so is the concept of destruction. Her work aims to expose and destabilize outdated social and political structures in ironic and playful ways. Dry-humored and direct, Bonvicinis art never refrains from establishing a critical connection with the sites where it is exhibited, the materials that comprise it, and the roles of spectator and creator. Born in Venice, Italy, ... More | | 
An artists rendering of a Neanderthal father and daughter. DNA from fossils in a Russian cave have reveled the first known Neanderthal family. Tom Björklund via The New York Times.
by Carl Zimmer
NEW YORK, NY.- Analyzing fossils from a cave in Russia, scientists have found the first known Neanderthal family: a father, his teenage daughter and others who were probably close cousins. The findings, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, painted a tragic picture of our extinct relatives, who roamed Eurasia tens of thousands of years ago. The family, part of a band of 11 Neanderthals found together in the cave, most likely died together, scientists said, possibly from starvation. The study was carried out by a team of researchers including Svante Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist who for 25 years has been uncovering the secrets of Neanderthals, from extracting their DNA from cave floor dirt to replicating their brain cells. He won the Nobel Prize this month for his efforts. I would not have thought we would ... More | | 
Bharti Kher, Body Incantatory 23, 2019. © Bharti Kher. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo Dominic Brown Photography.
BRISTOL.- Autumn 2022 at Arnolfini sees internationally renowned artist Bharti Kher return to the southwest, with a major solo exhibition exploring her alchemical practice through drawing, sculpture and the spaces in between. The Body is a Place follows the unveiling of Khers 18-foot-tall painted bronze sculpture Ancestor in New York in September 2022, and her celebrated installation at this years Venice Biennale in the lyrical setting of The Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello. A collector of material and meaning, Kher gathers words and marks, filling the Arnolfini like the clean white page of one her numerous sketchbooks and diaries, sharing the hand-brain-body-art-language which weaves throughout her two and three-dimensional forms. Featuring a body of previously unseen drawings, created during residencies in Somerset in 2017 and 2019, The Body is a Place reveals the cyclica ... More |
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| London theatergoers are on the edge of his seats | | How the 'Black Death' left its genetic mark on future generations | | Important tapestries commissioned by Cardinal Mazarin offered at Bonhams | 
A seat that Kirwin & Simpson designed for @sohoplace, a West End theater that opened this month, at the firms workshop in Grays, England, Oct. 23, 2022. Tom Jamieson/The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
LONDON.- Earlier this month, during the first performance at the West Ends newest theater, @sohoplace, the audience repeatedly cheered the actors performing Marvellous, a comedy about a British eccentric. At one point, several hundred theatergoers even applauded a technician who came on to clean the floor. But there was one person key to the evening for whom no one cheered, whooped or even politely clapped. And Andrew Simpson, the designer of the theaters seats, was happier that way. If a seats good, you dont notice it, he said. You only notice it when its bad. In the world of theater seating, he added, No news is good news. Simpson, 62, is in a position to know. He is lead designer at Kirwin & Simpson, a family firm his grandfather founded that started out patching upholstery in a local movie house during World ... More | | 
A photo provided by the Museum of London Archaeology shows the East Smithfield plague pits in London. Museum of London Archaeology via The New York Times.
by Carl Zimmer
NEW YORK, NY.- Many Europeans carry genetic mutations that protected their ancestors from the bubonic plague, scientists reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. When the Black Death struck Europe in 1348, the bacterial infection killed large swaths of people across the continent, driving the strongest pulse of natural selection yet measured in humans, the new study found. It turns out that certain genetic variants made people far more likely to survive the plague. But this protection came with a price: People who inherit the plague-resistant mutations run a higher risk of immune disorders such as Crohns disease. These are the unfortunate side effects of long-term selection for protection, said Hendrik Poinar, a geneticist at McMaster University in Canada and an author of the new study. Bubonic ... More | | 
Detail of Four Bacchanalian panels commissioned by Cardinal Mazarin. Estimate: 70,000-100,000. Photo: Bonhams.
PARIS.- Four tapestries on a Bacchanalian theme commissioned by Cardinal Mazarin and presented as a diplomatic gift by Louis XIV to the First Minister of Spain Don Luis Méndez de Haro, Marquis de Carpio lead Bonhams' Classics sale in Paris on Thursday 17 November. They are estimated at 70,000-100,000. The gift marked the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 which followed the inconclusive ending of the Franco-Spanish War of 1648-1659. Mazarin the consummate diplomat who served Louis XIII and Louis XIV as First Minister for more than 20 years ensured that the French came out on top in the negotiations. It was the last great diplomatic triumph of his career before his death two years later. Mazarin was also an important patron of the arts and keenly appreciated the role of art in diplomacy. The panels in the sale were part of a set of seven he had commissioned from the Manufactures de Louvre in 1648. They were sma ... More |
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| Arts AlUla unveiled major art project: the Safar art collection at AlUla's International Airport | | Gagosian celebrates visionary artist Walter De Maria with first comprehensive monograph | | EJ Hill wants to take you on a ride | 
Artwork by Stephanie Neville, Textile. Part of the Safar art collection. Image courtesy of Arts AlUla.
ALULA.- Safar is a major new collection of over 64 artworks by 24 Saudi and international artists at AlUlas International Airport that opened earlier this October. Spanning both the Executive Terminal and the Commercial Terminal, Safar highlights and celebrates AlUlas cultural legacy, natural wonders and community and includes works by artisans of AlUlas Madrasat Addeera Art and Design Centre, opened by Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) to train and upskill the next generation of creatives. Safar meaning travel in Arabic is a fitting name for this important collection of sculpture, photography, textiles, paintings, and design pieces found at the gateway to AlUla. AlUla has long been a place of artistic journey: a historic hub of cultural transfer, which is now being revived as an oasis of art ... More | | 
View of "Walter De Maria: Trilogies," 2011, The Menil Collection, Houston. Foreground: "Circle, Square, Triangle" (stainless steel) (1972) The Menil Collection, Houston; background: "Bel Air Trilogy: Circle Rod" (200011) Collezione Prada. Photo: Paul Hester. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announced the publication of Walter De Maria: The Object, the Action, the Aesthetic Feeling. At almost five hundred pages, it is the first comprehensive survey of the artists entire, exceptionally diverse oeuvre. Exploring both his creative career and his personal life, The Object, the Action, the Aesthetic Feeling reveals the interconnected and influential nature of Walter De Marias practice. The book will be available for purchase in Gagosians physical and online shops beginning October 28, at a price of $200, and will be distributed by Rizzoli International Publications early ... More | | 
The artist EJ Hill and his working roller coaster Brava!, mid-assembly at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Mass. on Oct. 12, 2022. Cindy Schultz/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- It was a Friday night in central New Jersey, and artist EJ Hill had me doing high-speed upside-down corkscrews as we rode the Green Lantern, a somewhat demonic roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure that seems designed to reshuffle your organs. For me, in deep middle age, this was my first roller coaster. For Hill, 37, his umpteenth. Hes a coaster aficionado. Coaster toys littered his childhood bedroom in South Central Los Angeles. He knows an in-line twist from a heartline roll. He loves wooden coasters of yore and high-tech insanities like the X2, with seats out on wings that flip you over and over as you go. For your first coaster, that was a bold start, Hill said as we devoured ... More |
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| Michael Hoppen Gallery now represents Krass Clement | | The Phyllis M. Goddard Collection of William Spratling silver headlines Moran's Made in Mexico sale | | White Cube opens an exhibition of works by Marguerite Humeau, Loie Hollowell, and Julie Curtiss | 
Krass Clement, Det Limtelys (The Lightlight), Turkey, 1985. Signed vintage silver gelatin print, 19.2 x 29.1 cm.
LONDON.- Michael Hoppen Gallery announced representation of Danish photographer, Krass Clement (b. 1946). Clement graduated as a film director in 1973 but soon turned to still photography, publishing his first photo-book Skygger af øjeblikke (Shadows of the Moment) in 1978. He has since become an active documentary photographer, focusing on people from both Denmark and abroad. Starting out in black and white, Krass has persisted in developing and modernising his artistic expression so that his practise today also includes work in colour. Clement's work originates from a fertile and imaginative thought process, a stream of consciousness that is clearly evident in his later photo-books. It emerges from two traditions: The Scandinavian Melancholy and the 'flaneur' tradition from the Parisian school. His work is more concerned with capturing a state of mind than with situations, and ... More | | 
Sergio Bustamante (b. 1949), Fish cooling (Peces refrescandose), Ceramic and paint, 37 H x 20 W x 19 D. Est $3,500-4,500.
MONROVIA, CA.- As we get closer to the end of the year, John Moran Auctioneers is offering some of their best art and objects just in time for the holiday season. On Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at 10:00am PST, they will present their Made in Mexico sale, filled with fine art, pottery, jewelry, and a large collection of William Spratling silver from the well-known author Phyllis M. Goddard. The 87-lot, William Spratling collection comes from the estate of Phyllis M. Goddard, a lifetime collector and researcher of his work. Her children had this to say about their mother and her love of Spratling silver, Phyllis Goddard dedicated 30 years to collecting, researching, and sharing her love of Spratling silver with others. From her discovery of a silver cigarette box and 6 wood-based silver snail ashtrays found in an antique shop in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, she embarked on a journey of learning and sharing her knowledge a ... More | | 
Now Open | Earthseed: Julie Curtiss, Loie Hollowell, Marguerite Humeau.
LONDON.- The dystopian world created by influential science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1947−2006) in her prescient Parables novels opens in 2024 in an America devastated by climate change and corporate greed, where a Christian-fundamentalist brand of fascism is taking hold. Earthseed is both how the central character, Olamina, refers to all human beings, and the name that she gives the movement she founds amidst the ruins of civilisation. Earthseed is a matriarchal cult, a philosophy and a manual for survival: God is Change, Olamina pronounces, and it is only through malleability and adaptability that we can take control of that inexorable change and resist chaos and victimhood. Humans Earthseed − contain the potential to escape our self-engineered destruction and instead take root among the stars. The works in this exhibition resonate with the notion of travel to outer space and inner space, in different ways considering the female ... More |
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 Leslie Jordan, comic actor and Instagram star, dies at 67NEW YORK, NY.- Leslie Jordan, a comic actor who after a late start in his performing career became a recognizable face from roles on numerous television shows, most notably Will & Grace, then achieved even more fame during the pandemic when his quirky homemade videos attracted millions of Instagram followers, died Monday in a car crash in Hollywood, California. He was 67. David Shaul of the BRS/Gage Talent Agency, which represented him, confirmed the death. News reports quoting the police said Jordans car crashed into the side of a building after he had apparently experienced a medical emergency. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that someone driving a BMW collided with a wall in Hollywood at 9:30 a.m. and died, but he declined to identify the victim. Not only was he a mega-talent and joy to work ... More  Reptiles in relationships and more social secrets of scaly speciesNEW YORK, NY.- Ned and Sunny stretch out together on the warm sand. He rests his head on her back, and every so often he might give her an affectionate nudge with his nose. Theyre quiet and, like many long-term couples, they seem perfectly content just to be in each others presence. The couple are monogamous, which is quite rare in the animal kingdom. But Sunny and Ned are a bit scalier that your typical lifelong mates they are shingleback lizards that live at Melbourne Museum in Australia. In the wild, shinglebacks regularly form long-term bonds, returning to the same partner during mating season year after year. One lizard couple in a long-term study had been pairing up for 27 years and were still going strong when the study ended. In this way, the reptiles are more like some of the animal kingdoms most famous long-term couplers, such as albatrosses, ... More  Julien's Auctions announces "A World of Fashion: Property From the Archives of Doris Raymond"BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.- Juliens Auctions announced A World of Fashion: Property from the Archives of Doris Raymond, an exclusive auction presentation featuring over 400 lots from the world renowned The Way We Wore® vintage boutique that includes over a century of European, Japanese, and American garments and accessories amassed by fashion retailer and historian Doris Raymond. Raymonds legendary career of collecting, archiving and inspiring fashion, as well as providing important vintage pieces to museums, films, stylists and celebrities around the world will be well represented in this event launching Juliens new auction category specializing in luxury fashion taking place Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 live in Beverly Hills and online at julienslive.com. A New York native, who early on worked as a disc jockey in San ... More  Wanrooij Gallery in Amsterdam presents a solo exhibition by Koh Sang WooAMSTERDAM.- Wanrooij Gallery in Amsterdam is now presenting a solo exhibition of the American-Korean visual artist Koh Sang Woo that started 21 October 2022 and will until 21 January 2023. The exhibition 'Wild in Blue' shows a selection of colorful photographic paintings. The vivid portraits of wild animals, with human characteristics, display a prominent use of the color blue with a subtle pink hart. Koh Sang Woo is internationally known for both his blue tone photography as the recent 'Blue Endangered Animals' series in his signature style. For the series of endangered animal species, including pandas, tigers, bears and elephants, he combines photography with digital painting. The artist is inspired by the work of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Andy Warhol. As in traditional art, the animals are portrayed frontally; to communicate ... More  Towner Eastbourne announce winner of the Brewers Towner Award 2022 - Harald SmyklaEAST SUSSEX.- Brewers Towner International is an open call exhibition of contemporary art that takes place at Towner Eastbourne. The second edition features a range of artists, local, national and international, coming together to share work which addresses the theme of SANCTUARY. The Brewers Towner Award of £10,000, sponsored by Brewers Decorator Centres, is given to one of the exhibiting artists alongside mentoring from the Towner team. The winner of this prestigious award has been announced this weekend as Harald Smykla. Harald Smykla studied painting/printmaking at Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Art (Germany). Based in London since 1988, his practice evolved into merging unorthodox notions of drawing and other traditional media with performative and participatory strategies, exploring contexts of place and time, materiality, process ... More  Mother of Pakistani artist Zubeida Agha to lead Bonhams South Asian Art Sale LONDON.- The artist Zubeida Agha (Pakistani, 1922-1997) is credited with introducing modernism to the newly independent Pakistan. Two of her paintings, on show at Zubeida Agha: Celebrating an Extraordinary Career, a Bonhams exhibition dedicated to her powerful body of work running from 19 November until 22 November, will be offered in the Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art sale on 22 November. Featuring artists who challenged and established national identities in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, the 114-lot sale will consist of works by Maqbool Fida Husain, Sayed Haider Raza and Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar, as well as the exquisite collection of Dr. Sandran Waran. The two Agha works in the sale are: Untitled (Flowers in a Vase). This was painted in 1971, during civil war in Pakistan, which would end with the formation ... More  Rare and fresh-to-market gambling, music, and vending machines at forefront of Morphy's auctionDENVER, COLO.- Once found at saloons, hotel lobbies and oceanfront boardwalks all across America, antique coin-op machines are quaint reminders of an era when radio, television and video games were still mysteries of the future. For mere pocket change, turn-of-the-century fun-seekers could enjoy an entire afternoon of entertainment. By simply dropping a penny, nickel or quarter into the slot of a coin-operated machine, they could have their fortunes told, watch primitive motion pictures, listen to rhapsodic tunes from a mechanical band, or try their luck at any number of gambling devices or games of chance. Morphys in Denver, Pennsylvania, has catered to collectors of antique mechanical music, gambling and vending machines since opening their doors in 1997. Their next big coin-op specialty sale, which also includes antique advertising, ... More  Realities of war explored through manga in 'Navigating a Minefield' at the Honolulu Museum of ArtHONOLULU, HAWAII.- The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) presents Navigating a Minefield: A Manga Depiction of Japanese Americans in the Second World War from Oct. 27, 2022-March 5, 2023. The exhibition features genga (original, digitally produced sketches) from the graphic novel Journey of Heroes: The Story of the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team (2012), written by author and producer Stacey Hayashi and illustrated by comic artist Damon Wong, both of whom are from Oahu. Journey of Heroes was created in preparation for Hayashis live-action film Go for Broke: An Origin Story (2017). Hayashi partnered with Wong to draw key scenes from the script, which evolved into a complete graphic novel. To communicate difficult subjects such as war to a multi-generational audience, the pair reimagined ... More  Albright College opens solo exhibit by D. Dominick LombardiREADING, PA.- Albright Colleges Freedman Gallery will display artwork by D. Dominick Lombardi from Oct. 27-Dec. 8. The artist will give a free virtual lecture about his process and artistic practice on Thursday, Oct. 27, 4 p.m. Pre-registration is required. A free reception to view the Freedman Gallery exhibition will be held on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2-4 p.m. A visual artist, curator and prolific art critic, Lombardi most recently was published in The Brooklyn Rail and Art and Antiques magazine, and formerly served as an art critic for the New York Times from 1998 to 2005. Lombardis curatorial practice includes ongoing partnerships with the Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, Fla., and Hampden Gallery, Amherst, Mass. As a visual artist, Lombardi has shown extensively across the world in solo and group shows, and is currently represented by Artego ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter William Hogarth died October 26, 1764. William Hogarth (10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian.". In this image: A visitor looks at a William Hogarth painting 'David Garrick as Richard III', on display at Tate Britain art gallery in London, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007.
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