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Stairway with Maya hieroglyphs . El Palmar archaeological zone, Campeche. Photo: Kenichiro Tsukamoto/INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- A stairway with Maya hieroglyphs was discovered at El Palmar Archaeological Zone, in southeast Campeche, by experts from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the University of Arizona (UA) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), revealing the preliminary decipherment that this Maya city maintained contact with Calakmul, in Campeche, and Copan, Honduras, almost 1300 years ago. Leaders of the project Javier Lopez Camacho, from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and Kenichiro Tsukamoto, from the University of Arizona (UA), announced that the 6-step stairway conserves 90 blocks with more than 130 glyphs that refer to events registered in the Classic Maya period (250-900 AD). They remarked that although it is not the only hieroglyphic stairway discovered in the Maya Lowlands, (20 have been reported until now), the one at El Palmar is associated to the periphe ... More |
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Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Mark Tansey at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills
Mark Tansey, Invisible Hand, 2011 (detail). Oil on canvas, 83 7/8 x 71 7/8 inches. Photo: The Douglas M. Parker Studio, courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian Gallery is presenting an exhibition of recent paintings by Mark Tansey. At first glance, Tansey’s distinctive paintings appear to depict straight narrative scenes but closer scrutiny reveals an undercurrent of quirks and visual puns. By thus manipulating the conventions and structures of figurative painting, he creates corollaries for literary, philosophical, and historical concepts in visual allegories about the nature and implications of perception, meaning, and interpretation in art. Growing up in a family of art historians, Tansey weaves an extensive knowledge of art history into his paintings through an exacting and time-intensive process. His images derive from an encyclopedic archive of magazine, journal and newspaper clippings accumulated over many years, as well as from his own photographs. Selecting source ... More | | Exhibition of New Sculptures by Artist Tony Cragg at Buchmann Galerie in Berlin
Tony Cragg, Mixed Feelings, 2010. Cast Iron, 55 x 23 x 22 cm. Courtesy Buchmann Galerie.
BERLIN.- The Buchmann Galerie presents for the Gallery Weekend Berlin an exhibition of new sculptures by Tony Cragg. The Musée du Louvre Paris has just shown sculptures by Tony Cragg in a solo exhibition in the Cour Marly and Cour Puget. A large-scale sculpture at the entrance underneath the pyramid will be on view another 6 months. Tony Cragg (b. 1949, lives and works in Wuppertal) is one of the most important sculptors of our time. His work testifies to a method in which questions of design and their sculptural solutions are repeatedly taken up and refined. Tony Cragg’s sculptures can be described as visual appropriations of forms and structures from the complex world in which we live. He derives both the conception of the content and the diverse vocabulary of forms from an attempt to come to terms with organic life forms and microbiological structures as well as from his work with profane consumer materials and ... More | | About Face: Portraiture as Subject, a Unique Exhibition Organized by The Blanton
Farrah Fawcett by Andy Warhol, 1980. Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen on canvas. Bequest of Farrah Fawcett, 2010. © The Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts.
AUSTIN, TX.- About Face: Portraiture as Subject, a unique exhibition organized by The Blanton, features 40 portraits in diverse mediums from antiquity to today. Drawn mostly from The Blanton’s notable collection, along with several choice loaned objects, the exhibition includes works by artists known for their probing investigations of the genre, such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, John Singer Sargent, Diego Rivera, Sir Jacob Epstein, Antonio Berni, Alice Neel, Chuck Close, Robert Henri, Andy Warhol, Yasumasa Morimura, Oscar Muñoz, and Kehinde Wiley. Annette DiMeo Carlozzzi, Blanton deputy director for Art and Programs remarks, ”Just as we are fascinated with faces, so too have artists explored portraits as subject matter since ancient times. From a ... More |
 | World's Most Famous Office Building, Empire State Building, Celebrates 80th Anniversary
The Empire State Building is illuminated with a variety of colors. AP Photo/Rich Kareckas.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Empire State Building (ESB), the world’s most famous office building, will celebrate its 80th anniversary on Sunday, May 1, 2011. Soaring 1,454 feet above Midtown Manhattan, ESB has served as one of the most recognizable and beloved attractions. The building has accomplished many milestones over the last 80 years, and today it stands tall as a 21st Century icon. Anthony E. Malkin, Empire State Building Company, stated, “On this significant anniversary, the Empire State Building celebrates 80 years of being an international symbol of innovation and ingenuity.” He added, “Through an award-winning renovations and modernization project, the world’s most famous office building offers unmatched experiences for both its tenants and the millions who visit the Observatories each year.” The Empire State Building: Through the Years • January 2011: ESB became New York City’s la ... More | | Still a Best-Seller, the King James Bible is Being Celebrated on Its 400th Anniversary
Dunia Garcia-Ontiveros, head of Bibliographic Services at the London Library, looks at a copy of the King James bible. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis.
By: Robert Barr, Associated Press
LONDON (AP).- Every Sunday, the majestic cadences of the King James Bible resound in Her Majesty's Chapel Royal in London, in scattered parish churches in Britain and in countless chapels, halls and congregations around the world. You may also hear it in a pub or on a street — "the skin of my teeth," ''the root of the matter," and "turned the world upside down" — or listening to the lyrics of Handel's "Messiah." Still a best-seller, the King James Bible is being celebrated on its 400th anniversary as a religious and literary landmark and formative linguistic and cultural influence on the English-speaking world. You don't have to be a believer to appreciate it. When Britain's most famous atheist, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, read a chapter from the ... More | | KOW Berlin Brings Cady Noland and Santiago Sierra Together for Exhibition
Cady Noland, "Metal Fence", 1990 and Santiago Sierra, "89 Huichols", 2006.
BERLIN.- In Cady Noland and Santiago Sierra, KOW Berlin brings two artists together who regard social violence not as a departure from social normality but as an expression of the normative form of rule and economic system we all implicitly support: capitalism and liberalism. That has not always made their art easily digestible to the public. In the 1980s, Noland provoked observers by denouncing the myth of the self-determination of US-Americans and their love of freedom as an imperialist gesture. Sierra was accused of criticizing the humiliating instruments of capitalist domination by merely mirroring them in his own artistic practice, effectively turning the victims of social violence into victims also of his art and inflicting a second humiliation on them. Yet we believe that both descriptions are overly simple. We hope to show that Sierra as well as Noland hit a deeper neuralgic spot of social conditioning ... More |
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Exhibition of Books of the Republic of Venice at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
St. Francis of Assisi presenting a Venetian senator to the Virgin and Child.
BOSTON, MA.- From May 3 to June 19, visitors to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are invited to take a closer look at seven Venetian manuscripts from the museum’s extensive rare books collection in a unique, compact exhibition entitled Illuminating the Serenissima: Books of the Republic of Venice. Organized by Dr. Anne-Marie Eze, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, whose recent research has focused on Isabella Stewart Gardner as book collector, this collection of beautifully decorated Venetian commissioni will be on view in the museum’s Long Gallery, where they have been kept in covered bookcases since Isabella Gardner’s day. La Serenissima, or the Most Serene Republic of Venice, existed for over a millennium from the late seventh century to 1797. At the height of its power in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it was the center of an empire extending from mainland Italy to the eastern ... More | | Sotheby's London to Offer the Historic Rules of Club Football and Sheffield FC Memorabilia
The 1858 rules promoted a passing game played with the feet.
LONDON.- Sotheby's London announced the sale on 14 July 2011 of the earliest rules of club football, being sold as part of the historic archive of the world’s oldest football club, Sheffield FC (established 1857), which is estimated at £800,000 ‐ £1,200,000*. This extraordinary and unique piece of sporting history, which represents a crucial step towards the evolution of the modern game of association football, is the earliest set ofrules ever likely to come to the market. The lot includes both the original handwritten draft rules (1858) and the only known surviving copy of the printed Rules, Regulations, & Laws of the Sheffield Foot‐Ball Club (1859). In its entirety, the archive documents the club’s earliest years in astonishing detail and provides a fascinating insight into British sporting and social history. Chairman of Sheffield Football Club, Richard Tims, commented: “The sale of this rema ... More | | Ten-Year Survey of the Work of Betsabeé Romero on View at the Neuberger Museum of Art
Betsabeé Romero, Ciudades que se van (Moving Cities), 1997, four carved tires and textile imprints, variable size. Courtesy of the artist.
PURCHASE, NY.- This spring, the exhibition Betsabeé Romero: Lágrimas Negras/Black Tears, a ten-year survey of the work of internationally-renowned Betsabeé Romero, Mexico’s leading artist, will travel from Mexico to the Neuberger Museum of Art, the only United States venue. Romero is a self-described “mechanic artist,” who draws on Pre-Columbian iconography, colonial imagery, and popular culture to transform automobiles and their components into contemporary works of art. The artist’s refashioned cars, carved tires, painted hoods, and incised mirrors explore the tensions between local traditions and industrialized societies dominated by speed, mass production, and emigration. Betsabeé Romero: Lágrimas Negras/Black Tears will be on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art through August 14, 2011. The exhibition features more ... More |
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First Italian Solo Show of the Swiss Artist Reto Pulfer at Pastificio Cerere Foundation
Reto Pulfer, ZR Silberesel, 2010.
ROME.- On Friday, April 29th, Pastificio Cerere Foundation presented Die Kammern des Zustands, the first Italian solo show of the Swiss artist Reto Pulfer (Berna, 1981) curated by Vincenzo de Bellis with the support of the Swiss Institute in Rome. Site specific works realized for the ex pasta factory of San Lorenzo are shown in the exhibition. The artist has conceived a unique, big installation that involves the whole space of the Foundation, instead of small rooms in which public could walk (as in Thyme Change Theme Park). Reto Pulfer sums his conceptual interest in the idea of Zustand, German translation for “moods”. They manifest themselves through five different environments in separated rooms that public has to investigate. Rooms are set up as a game of structures in which compositions' elements can change exactly as it happens with moods. “A Zustand is complete in itself but it's stable just for a limited time, as these spaces”, tells Reto Pulfer. In t ... More | | Seminal Hiraki Sawa Videos Reveal Unique Voice at Michigan's Kresge Art Museum
Hiraki Sawa (Japanese, born 1977) Elsewhere, 2003, single-channel video, approx 7 ½ min. Image courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai. ©Hiraki Sawa.
EAST LANSING, MI.- Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University presents Hiraki Sawa: Other Dwellings, a pre-opening exhibition of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, curated by Founding Director Michael Rush. The exhibition is on view April 30 through July 29, 2011. Hiraki Sawa: Other Dwellings presents seminal single-channel works of this young Japanese-born artist whose videos have placed him at the forefront of a new generation of video artists. Born in Kanazawa, Japan, in 1977, he has been living in London since 1997 when he enrolled at the University of East London, eventually earning an MFA from the Slade School of Art at University College London in 2003. All of Sawa’s videos, from the earliest single-channel pieces (Dwelling, 2002; Airliner, 2003; Migration, 2003 ... More | | North America's Finest Artists Return to NYC for Fourth Annual Fine Art Show and Sale
The exhibition features many of the nation’s finest artists.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Salmagundi Club will host the fourth annual American Masters at SCNY on May 13th, featuring many of the nation’s finest artists – from Richard Schmid to Jacob Collins. Proceeds from the show and sale will benefit the Salmagundi Club, one of New York City’s most historic and valued art institutions since 1871. The 2011 American Masters welcomes back many of last year’s artists and several new faces as well. The show and sale includes works from artists Christopher Blossom, Scott Christensen, Quang Ho, David Leffel, Walter Matia, Sherrie McGraw, Dean Mitchell, Dan Ostermiller, Tucker Smith, John Stobart, Curt Walters and 42 others. Artists new to the show include Jacob Collins, Rose Frantzen, Jeremy Lipking, and Laura Robb. Of special note is the exhibition by our honored Master Artist Doug Allen that will be held in the Patrons’ Gallery. This is a rare opportunity to see a body o ... More |
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 Carlier Gebauer Presents First Solo Exhibition of Italian Artist Rosa BarbaBERLIN.- carlier | gebauer presents their first solo exhibition of artist Rosa Barba, opening at the Berlin Gallery Weekend 2011. With her filmic works and sculptures, which she exhibited widely in major institutions for contemporary art in Europe, Rosa Barba (born 1972 in Agrigent/Italy) has fundamentally recontextualized the discourse of celluloid-formats in the visual arts today. In her manifold techniques Barba challenges her own medium, the 16 mm and 35 mm film, as a historic innovation of modernism – and demonstrates, that his epoch, as much as the medium itself, remained incomplete, open for aesthetic, narrative and technical potentialities. The artist turns the celluloid into a contemporary and living medium, into an artistic field in which past and present are retranslated into one another. At carlier | gebauer, Rosa Barba shows six works of the last two years, which demonstrate the wide angle of her ar ... More Quilt Paintings by Texas Artist Sedrick Huckaby on View at the Tyler Museum of ArtTYLER, TX.- The Tyler Museum of Art is presenting a selection of oil paintings by the acclaimed Sedrick Huckaby, a contemporary Texas artist who uses thick, impasto paint to create shape-shifting quilt murals, evocative of tradition, family, and faith. The exhibition, A Legacy of Love and Freedom: Quilt Paintings by Sedrick Huckaby, includes a selection of the artist’s most recent works, on view through July 3, 2011 in the Museum’s Bell Gallery. Simply stated, Huckaby paints his grandmother’s handmade quilts, but upon the large canvases, the folding images are a soothing complexity of form and meaning. "Sedrick Huckaby is one of the nation’s most promising young artists. This is an invaluable opportunity for people to listen as he discusses his works and to learn firsthand what inspires and motivates an artist who is quickly achieving widespread acclaim,” said TMA Curator, Ken Tomio. There is no ad ... More Peabody Museum Names Miki Kratsman as the 2011 Robert Gardner Fellow in PhotographyCAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology announced the selection of the 2011 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography. Following an international search, the Gardner Fellowship committee awarded the Fellowship to Miki Kratsman, a prize-winning Argentinean-born photographer who has lived in Israel since 1971. His work has appeared in the Venice Art Biennale, and in solo exhibitions from Tel Aviv to Seoul , Madrid, and New York. Kratsman will create a project called Palestinian Semblance (working title). Since 1986, Kratsman has covered the occupied territories as a photographer for several newspapers, mostly for the Schoken Group, publishers of Ha'aretz newspaper. Over the years, he has photographed Palestinians at demonstrations, daily activities, celebrations, funerals, for profile story portraits, and more. During his Fellowship, Kratsman will create a portfolio of photographs that explore how Pale ... MoreDr. Ned Rifkin Resigns as Director of the Blanton Museum of ArtAUSTIN, TX.- Dr. Ned Rifkin, director of the Blanton Museum of Art, will resign from that position May 31 to commit full time to scholarly work and teaching at The University of Texas at Austin. Rifkin, director of the museum since May 2009, also holds a position as professor of art and art history in the Department of Art and Art History in the university's College of Fine Arts. This spring semester, he has been teaching a special junior seminar on the year 1962 as part of the Plan II Program. "I began my professional career in 1977 as an assistant professor of art at The University of Texas at Arlington," Rifkin said. "Currently, I have been leading a junior seminar in the Plan II Program here at UT Austin and I had forgotten how much I love to work closely with students on developing their learning skills. "Much as I will miss working with the outstanding staff at The Blanton, I believe my eagerness to teach more and ... More Baltimore Museum of Art Selects Maryland-Based Firm Ziger/Snead for Major RenovationBALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art's Board of Trustees today announced its selection of the Maryland-based architecture firm Ziger/Snead to work with the Museum on its ambitious $24 million capital renovation. The decision follows a comprehensive year-long selection process. The BMA's much-anticipated renovation—scheduled to be completed in 2014 during the BMA's 100th Anniversary—will create dynamic spaces for art and people and ensure the BMA is a magnet for new generations of visitors. "The BMA's Architect Selection Committee was very impressed by Ziger/Snead's clarity of vision and design and their success with both historic and contemporary buildings," said Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Chair, BMA Board of Trustees. "We are confident that their design will help advance the BMA's goal of creating a more welcoming environment for our visitors and a more beautiful setting for our magnificent collection." "The extraordinary ... More |
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