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Professor Avi Gopher from the Institute of Archeology of Tel Aviv University holds an ancient tooth that was found at an archeological site near Rosh Haain, central Israel, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. Israeli archaeologists say they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man. A Tel Aviv University team excavating a cave in central Israel said Monday they found teeth about 400,000 years old. The earliest Homo sapiens remains found until now are half as old. Archaeologist Avi Gopher says further research is needed to solidify the claim. If it does, he says, "this changes the whole picture of evolution." AP Photo/Oded Balilty.
By: Daniel Estrin, Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP).- Israeli archaeologists said Monday they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man, and if so, it could upset theories of the origin of humans. A Tel Aviv University team excavating a cave in central Israel said teeth found in the cave are about 400,000 years old and resemble those of other remains of modern man, known scientifically as Homo sapiens, found in Israel. The earliest Homo sapiens remains found until now are half as old. "It's very exciting to come to this conclusion," said archaeologist Avi Gopher, whose team examined the teeth with X-rays and CT scans and dated them according to the layers of earth where they were found. He stressed that further research is needed to solidify the claim. If it does, he says, "this changes the whole picture of evolution." The accepted scientific theory is that Homo sapiens originated in Africa and migrated out of the continent. Gopher said if the remains are definitively linked to moder ... More |
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Belvedere Pays Tribute to Valie Export, a Pioneer of Media art, with Exhibition
Valie Export, Kalashnikov, 2007. © VBK, Vienna 2010. Exhibition view, Belvedere, Vienna, 21010. Installation, 109 Russian Kalashnikov assault rifles, basins filled with waste oil, 2 videos, 3800 x 400 x 400 cm. Photo © AnnA BlaU.
VIENNA.- “A lying truth. Feedback feed. A recording is made of melting ice, and then played back in reverse on the monitor. The end of the recording = the beginning. Chunks of time. Flow of time. Time reversal. Time repetition. Time dissolution. Tension: time present / future / past.” From VALIE EXPORT’s concept for the video-sculpture ZEIT und GEGENZEIT (TIME and COUNTERTIME) (1973) To pay tribute to the importance and topical relevance of VALIE EXPORT’s art, the Belvedere and the LENTOS are holding extensive solo shows at two locations: Vienna, where the artist lives and works, and Linz where she was born. VALIE EXPORT is regarded as one of the most important pioneers of media art. In over four decades she has achieved a large and consistent oeuvre encompassing performance, action, photography, film, “expanded cinema”, sculpture, text, and media installation. ... More | | John Warhola, Brother of Artist Andy Warhol and Museum Founder, Dies at Age 85
In this Aug. 9, 2002 file photo, the family of pop artist Andy Warhol, a Pittsburgh native, older brothers John Warhola, left, and Paul Warhola, right, stand with Andy's great nephew Matthew Warhola, 2. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar.
ROCHESTER, PA (AP).- John Warhola, the older brother who helped raise pop art icon Andy Warhol and later helped establish the Andy Warhol Museum in their native Pittsburgh, has died. He was 85. Warhola died on Christmas Eve after battling pneumonia at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, according to his son, Donald Warhola. The hospital is just a few blocks from the museum. Warhola lived in nearby New Sewickley. He was one of three founding members of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and was its vice president for 20 years. The foundation established the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh in 1994, seven years after the artist — whose given name was Andy Warhola — died at age 58 from complications following gall bladder surgery. After their father Andrij Warhola died in 1942, John Warhola was tasked with raising his younger brother, Andy, and making sure he attended college. Their father had purchased enough savings bonds to pay for Andy's first ... More | | Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World at the British Museum Highlights Discoveries
Goblet depicting figures harvesting dates (Begram, Room 10), 1st-2nd centuries AD glass and paint, National Museum of Afghanistan. Copyright Thierry Ollivier / Musee Guimet.
LONDON.- Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World highlights some of the most important archaeological discoveries from ancient Afghanistan and displays precious and unique pieces on loan from the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul currently undergoing reconstruction. The geographical position, overland connections and history ensured that it was a region which enjoyed close relations with its neighbours in Central Asia, Iran, India and China, as well as more distant cultures stretching as far as the Mediterranean. The exhibition showcases over 200 stunning objects belonging to the National Museum of Afghanistan, accompanied by selected items from the British Museum. The artefacts range from Classical sculptures, polychrome ivory inlays originally attached to imported Indian furniture, enamelled Roman glass and polished stone tableware brought from Egypt, to delicate inlaid gold personal ornaments worn by the ... More |
 | Ara Pacis Pays Tribute to Marc Chagall on the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of His Death
Marc Chagall, Esquisse pour l'air du temps, 1942, inchiostro di china, acquerello e gouache su carta, 53.5 x 37 cm. Collezione privata. © Chagall ®, by SIAE 2010.
ROME.- On display are about 130 paintings and drawings, some of them previously unseen, coming from private collections, from the Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou and the Musée National Marc Chagall in Nice. The exhibition inside the Ara Pacis complex pays tribute to Marc Chagall on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death. Observe the painter’s works, and you are soon aware of what is so very singular about the world he depicts. Strange characters from another age inhabit improbable spaces; animals are transfigured; a huddle of architecture forms the backdrop to scenes that are both ordinary yet magical. Again and again we are invited to contemplate a world where upheaval could equal catastrophe - or tragic muddle - or indeed enchantment and delight. That is why we are so readily drawn into Chagall’s canvases, each one of which reveals ... More | | Exhibition at Fotomuseum Winterthur Looks at Photographs of Labor from Its Collection
Anonymous, Bearbeiten einer Gussform, Giesserei Olten, ca. 1935. Silbergelatine-Abzug, 29.9 x 20.2 cm. Von Roll Fotoarchiv im Fotomuseum Winterthur.
ZURICH.- We each relate to work in our own personal way. We may be employed or self employed; we may have just entered the workforce and have specific goals or we may be enjoying well-earned retirement. Working to earn a living is a salient feature of bourgeois society. It defines social status and belonging, while unemployment and not working bears the menace of being ostracized. From its earliest beginnings, photography has captured how, where and under what conditions people work – not only by in-house photographers, adhering to the perspective and specifications of the management but also by freelance photographers with an open-ended, unfiltered approach to places of production and trade. The exhibition,Arbeit/Labour, on view until 8 May 2011 at the Fotomuseum Winterthur (Gallery of Collections), builds visual and thematic bridges, from the continuing transformation of physical labour in the photographs of Jakob Tug ... More | | The World of Lucas Cranach, One of the Greatest European Painters of the 16th Century at Bozar
Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Melancholy, 1532, Colmar, musée d'Unterlinden © Colmar, musée d'Unterlinde.
BRUSSELS.- Lucas Cranach was one of the greatest European painters of the 16th century. This exhibition - the first to be devoted to the artist in a Benelux country - replaces the work of this leading figure of the German Renaissance in the social, cultural, and artistic context of his time. The exhibition is on view until January 23 2011 at Bozar. A court painter, he also rubbed shoulders with great figures such as Martin Luther, while liberating nudity and the power of women in a sensual, anti-academic style. Some 150 paintings, drawings, and rarely seen engravings show the authenticity and originality of his sophisticated artistry, his work in the studio, and his close bonds with his German, Italian, and Dutch contemporaries, including Dürer and Metsys. A journey through a fascinating period in European history. Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court paint ... More |
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Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Exhibition from Its Collection
Christo, Der Spiegel, 1998.
VADUZ.- “Art needs the mountain peaks and the valleys need art” (Marcel Odenbach) This presentation of works from the collection, marking the 10th anniversary of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, views Liechtenstein from an artistic standpoint, focusing both on the country and on dialogue. The presentation which is curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll is on display until 27 February 2011. Features of landscape and social structures not only impact people’s experiences and histories, they also shape a country. State borders serve to consolidate and evoke distinctions between inside and outside, here and there. Perspectives shift, promoting dialogue between inwardly and outwardly directed prospects and views. The Principality of Liechtenstein is a modern industrial and service society that developed swiftly from having been an agrarian society. This decisive transformation resulted in a certain tension betwe ... More | | New York and Other States Scrimp on Civil War's 150th Anniversary Celebrations
A 23rd New York Infantry Civil War uniform is on display at the New York State Military Museum. AP Photo/Mike Groll.
By: Chris Carola. Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP).- New York state contributed 448,000 troops and $150 million to the Union cause during the Civil War, not to mention untold tons of supplies, food, guns and munitions. But with the 150th anniversary of the war's start just months away, New York state government has so far failed to scrounge up a single Yankee dollar to commemorate a conflict it played such a major role in winning. New York isn't alone. Other states saddled with similar budget woes are unable or unwilling to set aside taxpayer funds for historic re-enactments and museum exhibits when public employees are being laid off and services slashed. Even South Carolina, where the war's first shots were fired upon Fort Sumter in April 1861, has ... More | | Policies of the Hispanic Image Examined in Exhibition at Centre de Cultura Contemporania
This exhibition is a meticulous examination of the relation between the Hispanic myth and its principal survival strategy: the baroque.
BARCELONA.- The Hispanic phenomenon symbolizes the homogeneous framework shared by Spain and Latin America. But who built this myth and what strategies have been generated to keep it going down through the centuries, through many different regimes, ideologies and governments? This exhibition, curated by art historians Jorge Luis Marzo and Tere Badia, is a meticulous examination of the relation between the Hispanic myth and its principal survival strategy: the baroque. Of all the images used in Spanish-speaking countries to construct and legitimate their identity and memory, the baroque has been the most lasting, widespread and influential, often at the cost of other equally important threads. “The Baroque D_effect” is devised as a dissection of this narrative and of the cultural policies that continue ... More |
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Museu d'Art Contemporani in Barcelona Exhibition Asks: Are You Ready for TV?
David Hall, TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces): Interruption piece, 1971. Courtesy of David Hall and LUX, London.
BARCELONA.- The Museum brings together an exhibition of 145 “experiments” carried out for television by 150 artists and thinkers such as Andy Warhol, Bill Viola, LéviStrauss, Guy Debord, Richard Serra, Martha Rosler, Joan Jonas, Joseph Beuys, Albert Serra, Muntadas, John Berger, Robert Hughes and many others. Beginning of the 1980s. Joseph Beuys is not an artist but a rock star. He sings on a typical Saturday-night variety show: “From the country that destroys itself and dictates to us its ‘way of life’, Reagan comes bringing us weapons and death”, and the chorus responds: “But we want sun instead of rain”, which could well be interpreted as “We want sun, not Reagan”, in a play on words between Regen (rain, in German) and the surname of the fortieth President of the United States. A few meters away, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s sentence: “There is nothing more ferocious than television”, and at the same time the German ar ... More | | Graham Nash to Visit Eastman House, to Be Named George Eastman Honorary Scholar
Graham Nash in the press room at the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concert at Madison Square Garden. AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams.
ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Witness history as photographer and musician Graham Nash receives the title of George Eastman Honorary Scholar, and discusses his career and the Taking Aim exhibition, at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22 in the Dryden. Nash is being honored for his contribution to photography as an artist and innovator. Past recipients of this title include Dennis Hopper and Jeff Bridges. While best known for his legendary music career with Crosby, Stills, and Nash as well as The Hollies – and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for each band – he has been taking pictures for more than 50 years and collecting photographs since the 1970s. His passion for fine-art photography led him to establish Nash Editions, a pioneering and celebrated printmaking studio that produces state-of-the art digital images for a long list of master photographers and artists. Eastman House presented the world premiere of ... More | | Fitzroy Gallery Present Country, a Solo Exhibition of New Work by Gerry Judah
The rubble and debris are fused onto a background of empty canvas with layers of acrylic gesso to create monochrome and quasi-abstract compositions.
NEW YORK< NY.- Fitzroy Gallery presents Country, a solo exhibition of new work by London-based artist Gerry Judah, which is comprised of six large-scale monochrome paintings. This is Gerry Judah’s first exhibition in the United States and is on view until January 29 2011. Judah’s work is a direct response to landscapes of destruction and explores war, conflict, peace, natural disasters and devastation. Urban landscapes, constructed from buildings, complete with internal structures, communication wires and water towers are fixed onto canvas, and then systematically destroyed resulting in frozen vignettes of silence and loss. The rubble and debris are fused onto a background of empty canvas with layers of acrylic gesso to create monochrome and quasi-abstract compositions. The white on white, black on black and red on red constructions are epic in scale and story. The paintings, ... More |
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Fore! Gary Wiren Golf Memorabilia Collection to Come to Lighthouse ArtCenter
TEQUESTA, FL.- Mark your calendar now! Come February 17, it’s all about golf at the Lighthouse ArtCenter. The museum will pay tribute to the local and national favorite pastime through an exhibition featuring one of the finest collections of golf memorabilia in the world, compliments of Dr. Gary Wiren. Dr. Wiren is a golf educator, a Master member of the Professional Golfers Association of America, a former national PGA staff director, and is one of only three professionals named to both the PGA Hall of Fame and Golf Magazine’s World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame. The exhibition premieres alongside some of the nation’s finest golf art from the renowned Academy of Golf Art. Participating artists are: painters David Coolidge, Leslie B. DeMille, Linda Hartough and George T. Lawrence; photographers Dick Durrance II and Larry Lambrecht; sculptor Brad Pearson. Both exhibitions open February 17, 2011, and run thr ... More
New Exhibits at Chicago's Hull House Museum
CHICAGO (AP).- At the turn of the 20th century, thousands of immigrants sought out Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago. There they received medical treatment at settlement house clinics, learned job skills through training classes and found community at an art gallery, gymnasium and gardening club. The stories of Addams and the immigrants are told at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, which in December finished a major renovation following the 150th anniversary of Addams' birth last fall. Visitors can now see new exhibits, walk into Addams' restored bedroom and view two sides of the famous feminist social reformer's life — her Nobel Peace Prize and the hundreds of pages of her FBI file. Hull House was the most well-known of the 400 settlement houses in the United States in the early 1900s. The settlements were designed to provide services to immigrants and the poor while uplifting them through culture, education and recreation. The legacy of Hull House remains relevant today ... More
Every Tree Tells a Story: Photography Exhibition on View at Center for Contemporary Art in Newark
NEWARK, NJ.- The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s (TCLF) 2010 Landslide: Every Tree Tells a Story traveling photography exhibition featuring 25 images of 12 different locations in the US and Puerto Rico, begins at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ, November 4, 2010 and runs through January 8, 2011. Landslide, first issued in 2003, is TCLF’s annual compendium of significant at‐risk parks, gardens, horticultural features, and working landscapes and each year is accompanied by a traveling exhibition of commissioned photography. The 2010 Landslide: Every Tree Tells a Story focuses on the irreplaceable trees and tree groupings, often associated with historically important people and events that have shaped the development of communities and cultures. Russell Hart, executive editor at American Photo magazine, commissioned this year’s photography, and the November/December 2010 edition of American Photo features Landslide site images. Long time sup ... More
Donation Agreement for the Pietzsch Collection Signed at the National Gallery in Berlin
BERLIN.- The art collecting couple, Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch, officially signed a donation agreement with the state of Berlin that should pave the way to their internationally renowned collection being bequeathed to the city. The Pietzsch Collection is one of the most outstanding German private art collections from the high modernist period. It principally consists of Surrealist works from Paris and Abstract Expressionist works by the New York School, encompassing paintings by Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Paul Delvaux and Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and Barnett Newmann, as well as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The donation comprises some 150 paintings, drawings and sculptures, with an estimated value of €120 million. The agreement will only come into effect under the condition that Berlin city council places the collection, in its entirety, in the hands of the Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage as a permanent lo ... More
Park Avenue Armory to Present Tune-In Music Festival
NEW YORK, NY.- As part of its first full artistic season, Park Avenue Armory will launch the Tune-In Music Festival February 16-20, 2011, a contemporary music festival bringing together some of today's leading new music performers and re-establishing the Armory as a thrilling and distinctive space for new music. The Armory's soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, with its cathedral-like acoustics and informal character, will create an environment that is at once both immersive and informal. For some of the performances, musicians will be scattered throughout the vast hall and on the balcony encircling the room, erasing the confines and eliminating the formalities of traditional concert halls. Curated by Grammy Award-winning eighth blackbird, who will also perform, the Festival brings together a diverse array of composers and performers for four concerts, including: red fish blue fish, the percussion lab out ... More
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