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One of two human corpses that were partially mummified. Photo: DMC INAH/SILVANA ZUANETTI.
MEXICO CITY.- Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History found two human corpses that were partially mummified and a raramuri ancestor’s skeleton in the Cueva El Gigante (Giant’s Cave), located in Guerrero, in the Tarahumara Sierra in Chihuahua. The two mummies are now added to another eight that were found in the same place late last year. According to the specialists, the finding of the mummified individuals, which are thought to be between 800 and 1000 years old, are part of a Pre-hispanic burial ground, since, between 2010 and 2011, ten mummies and thirteen skeletons have been found in the cave. Archaeologist Enrique Chacón, in charge of the Cueva El Gigante Archaeological Project, informed of the finding of the last two mummies and the skeleton was registered recently while excavation, documentation and register work was being finished on site. The mummies found last ... More |
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| That Seventies Show: An Exhibition of Works Created from 1970 to 1980 at Forum Gallery | | Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts to Present "Reflections of the Buddha" in September | | Pennsylvania Judge Hears Arguments Over Moving of the Barnes Foundation to New Home | 
Ilya Bolotowsky, Trylon, 1977, acrylic on wood, 36h x 7w x 7d inches. Photo: Forum Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Forum Gallery presents That Seventies Show, an exhibition of works created from 1970 to 1980 by a diverse group of creative artists whose energy and impulses are emblematic of the decade. Unlike previous time periods, important art of the 1970s cannot be characterized by a term, or label. Instead, the art on view represents the origins of pluralism and defies the idea of a collective effort or single artistic movement. Figurative drawings by William Beckman; and figurative paintings by Gregory Gillespie, Joseph Hirsch, David Levine, Ben Shahn and Raphael Soyer illustrate this diversity. Although united by their focus on the human figure, each artist takes a different approach and the results are quite different. Both Gillespie, who burst on the scene in the Seventies, and Shahn, who was by then a mature and well-known artist, created fantasies, but Gregory Gillespie had his own, intense surreal style, while ... More | | 
Head of Buddha Śākyamuni, 4th century. Afghanistan, ancient Gandhāra region, probably Hadda. Stucco with traces of pigment, 18 x 10 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (45.7 x 26.7 x 24.8 cm) Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase, 43:1931.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- A superb selection of some of the greatest Buddhist sculptures and hanging scrolls held in United States collections, representing several major traditions and sites of production from the late 2nd to the 18th centuries, will be on view to the public in the serene and light-filled Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts from September 9, 2011 through March 10, 2012 in the exhibition Reflections of the Buddha. The exhibition opens with a public reception on Friday, September 9, from 5 to 9 p.m. Marking the beginning of the Foundation’s tenth-anniversary season, Reflections of the Buddha will offer visitors a unique encounter with Buddhist visual and spiritual traditions, experienced in harmony with the contemplative atmosphere of the Foundation’s building, designed ... More | | 
The entrance to the Barnes Foundation collection in Merion, Pa.,. AP Photo/George Widman.
By: Joann Loviglio, Associated Press
NORRISTOWN (AP).- The Barnes Foundation's new home is well under construction in Philadelphia but a long and bitter fight continues over whether the world-famous art collection should stay in its longtime suburban home. Montgomery County Orphans' Court Judge Stanley Ott presided over a packed two-hour hearing Monday afternoon on the ongoing Barnes saga. He approved the proceeding after a request from a citizens group that argued he didn't have all the evidence when he approved the relocation in 2004. The Friends of the Barnes Foundation, a group trying to halt the multibillion-dollar collection's 5-mile move from suburban Lower Merion, said Ott was misled by the actions of the attorney general's office, which has oversight over charitable trusts. Samuel Stretton, an attorney represen- ... More |
| Sotheby's to Offer 20th Century Design from the Chicago Collector in a Dedicated Sale in September 2011 | | Tacoma Art Museum Honors Life and Work of Oft-Forgotten Artist Virna Haffer | | Lynda Benglis Currently on View at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles | 
Per Lutkin, Collection of 33 Vases. Manufactured by Holmegaard Glassworks, Fensmark, Denmark. Glass. Est. $4/6,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s New York will offer 20th century furniture, ceramics, glass and carpets from the Chicago home of collector Colleen Sullivan in a dedicated auction on 21 September 2011. A Midcentury Eye: The Collection of Colleen Sullivan will showcase works by prominent European and American designers from the 1930s through the 1960s, featuring French design by Jean Royere, Rene Herbst and Charlotte Perriand; mirrors and objet by Line Vautrin; ceramics by Georges Jouve; Italian design by Ico Parisi and Franco Albini; decorative arts in glass by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte; Scandinavian design by Helge Vestergaard Jensen, Josef Frank and Hans Wegner; ceramics by Axel Saalto and Berndt Friberg; and American design by Samuel Marx, George Nakashima and Tommi Parzinger. With the majority of the pieces estimated between $5,000 and $35,000,* the auction represents a rare opportunity for both new and seasoned ... More | | 
Virna Haffer, Old Tacoma Hotel Fire, circa 1935. Gelatin silver print. Collection of the Washington State Historical Society, gift of the estate of Virna Haffer.
TACOMA, W.A.- One of the most inventive Northwest artists of her time, Virna Haffer was an internationally recognized and respected Tacoma photographer who has slipped from both regional and national art history books. During the summer, Tacoma Art Museum uncovered her innovative artwork in A Turbulent Lens: The Photographic Art of Virna Haffer, on view from July 2 through October 16, 2011. In a career spanning more than six decades, Haffer found success as a photographer, printmaker, painter, musician, sculptor, and published writer, though she is known first and foremost as a photographer. Self-taught, she began her ambitious career in the early 1920s, both running a successful portrait studio (where she photographed the likes of the Weyerhaeuser and Chihuly families) and also exhibiting her unique artistic images around the world. The curatorial team of Margaret Bullock, Christina Henderson, and David Martin search ... More | | 
Lynda Benglis, Fling, Dribble, and Drip, February 27, 1970, Life Magazine, 13 ¼ x 10 ¼ in., courtesy the artist and Cheim & Read, New York, © Lynda Benglis, DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2009.
LOS ANGELES.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Lynda Benglis, a traveling exhibition of the work of American artist Lynda Benglis from the past forty years, on view at MOCA at Grand Avenue July 31–October 10, 2011. The first full-scale survey of Benglis’s oeuvre since Dual Natures at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1991 (Benglis’s last major retrospective), this traveling exhibition highlights works from the 1960s through 2009, including three video works and a selection of ephemera. MOCA’s presentation incorporates a number of sculptures from the museum’s permanent collection, exhibited together for the first time in the context of a solo retrospective. “Lynda’s close relationship with California began in 1971 and continues through numerous solo and group exhibitions in commercial venues and museums including MOCA,” said MOCA Senior Curator Alma Ruiz. “T ... More |
| Forty-Five Magnificent Landscape Paintings on View at Peabody Essex Museum | | After Twenty-Seven Years and $45 Million, Taiwan Restores Ornate 19th Century Mansion | | Goodwood Pays Tribute to The Horse Collaborating with Tim Flach for the Annual Summer Exhibition | 
Asher Brown Durand, Shandaken Range, Kingston, New York, 1854. Oil on canvas, 21 1/2 x 17 in. (54.6 x 43.2 cm) Courtesy of The New‐York Historical Society.
SALEM, MA.- This summer, visitors to the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) will come inside to get closer to nature. Forty-five magnificent landscape paintings featuring rugged mountains, verdant forests and luminous sunsets are on display which started July 30, 2011 in Painting the American Vision, an exhibition of works by Hudson River School painters from the collection of the New-York Historical Society. In the first half of the 19th century, a loosely affiliated group of painters, poets and writers sought to create a distinctly American aesthetic, liberated from European history and artistic conventions. What they had in common was a belief in the transformative power of nature, its ability to change and be changed, and its potency as a source for individual spiritual renewal. The works they created also demonstrated an early awareness of the importance of preserving natural sites ... More | | 
Restored ornate doorways line the courtyards of the famed 150-year-old Lin Family Mansion in Wufeng, Taiwan. AP Photo/Wally Santana.
By: Annie Huang, Associated Press
WUFENG (AP).- Twenty-seven years in the making, the $45 million renovation of a 150-year-old Taiwanese homestead is finally nearing completion. The Lin Family Mansion — a complex of five buildings on 7.4 acres (3 hectares) — is one of Taiwan's most important historical sites, a rare example of the ornate architectural style favored by nobles from southern China in the waning years of the Qing dynasty. The renovation has been a painstaking process, with workers facing a variety of challenges — not least a devastating earthquake — to return the 19th-century structures to their original glory. The complex in Wufeng, an hour by high-speed rail from Taipei, is expected to open to the public at the end of 2011. It sits near a scenic mountain and a lake retreat. ... More | | 
George Stubbs, Shotting Party (detail).
CHICHESTER.- Goodwood has always been inexorably linked with horses from its rich history and early associations with hunting to international dressage, horse trials and carriage driving championships, to the public horse races established in 1802 and the celebrated Glorious Raceweek. From 1 August to 26 September, Goodwood House opens its doors to the public to showcase its beautiful art collection including The Horse, an exhibition of horse-related art from the Goodwood collection and work by British photographer, Tim Flach and leading British Sculptor, Nic Fiddian-Green. The summer exhibition, curated by James Peill, includes paintings by Wootton and Stubbs and a picture of the first ever horse box which was used to secretly transport the racehorse Elis from Goodwood to Doncaster; arriving fresh after the journey, Elis won the 1836 St. Leger. Selected photographs from Tim Flach& ... More |
| Gwangju Biennale Foundation Announces Six Young Asian Women as Joint Artistic Directors | | The Spectacular of Vernacular on View at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston | | MOVE: Art and Dance Since the 60s on View at Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen | 
Sunjung Kim. Photo: Seung Mu Lee.
GWANGJU.- The Gwangju Biennale Foundation announced the appointment of Sunjung Kim, Mami Kataoka, Carol Yinghua Lu, Nancy Adajania, Wassan Al-Khudhairi, and Alia Swastika as Joint Artistic Directors of the 9th Gwangju Biennale 2012. For the first time, the Biennale has appointed a group of six young Asian women curators to co-direct the exhibition and program. The Gwangju Biennale Foundation has not selected Asian female curators in order to display the political, cultural, or geopolitical hegemony of Asia. Instead, through their appointment, we seek to build a platform that can embrace layers of diverse and engaging discussions in visual culture. As the oldest and most prestigious biennale of Asia, we hope to provide an opportunity to rethink and reexamine the anthropological and aesthetic positioning of Asia. Breaking away from past regional and global conflicts and the constant collision between truth and information, we propose t ... More | | 
Dario Robleto, Demonstrations of Sailor’s Valentines, 2009. Cut paper, various seashells, colored wax, cartes de visites, silk, ribbon, foam core, glue, 59 x 52 x 6 in. (149.9 x 132.1 x 15.2 cm.) Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Purchased with funds from the Ellen Pray Maytag Madsen Sculpture Acquisition Fund, 2009.75
HOUSTON, TX.- In an era of virtual neighborhoods and fast-paced Internet communication, The Spectacular of Vernacular addresses the role of vernacular forms in the work of 27 artists who utilize craft, incorporate folklore, and revel in roadside kitsch to explore the role of culturally specific iconography in the increasingly global world of art. Originally employed as a linguistics term, vernacular is now broadly applied to categories of culture, standing in for “regional,” “folkloric,” or “homemade”—concepts that contemporary artists have investigated since the late 1950s as part of a deeper consideration of the relationship between art and everyday life. For the artists ... More | | 
William Forsythe, The Fact of Matter, 2009, Hayward Gallery London, 2010, © The Forsythe Company, Foto: Hugo Glendinning.
DUSSELDORF.- For the first time, the exhibition “MOVE – Art and Dance since the 60s” offers an overview of the relationship between the visual arts, dance, movement, and choreography over the past 50 years and up to the present day. Currently on view sculptures and installations by artists, dancers, and choreographers which influence the movements of exhibition visitors in a variety of ways. “Not depictions of movement but instead movement itself is the theme of this exhibition,” explains Doris Krystof, curator of the Düsseldorf version. Vision and movement - according to the argument presented by MOVE - are resources of perception and knowledge that function on equal terms. The exhibition, which runs from July 19 to September 25 at the K20 Grabbeplatz, encompasses works by Janine Antoni, Pablo Bronstein, Trisha Brown, Boris Charmatz, Lygia Clark, William ... More |
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 Works Spanning 1969-84 by Àngels Ribé on View at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona BARCELONA.- The exhibition by Àngels Ribé (Barcelona, 1943) at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, covers a period of her production from 1969 to 1984. This period is particularly significant for it marks the appearance of a new aesthetic model that would have a fundamental influence on the creation of new ways of conceiving the artistic practice. The associative and symbolic functions of art are renegotiated: the artwork ceases to be an autonomous entity, as was the norm in the modernist tradition, and its meaning becomes dependent on an interchange with the spectator. In this way, the ambiguity and the multiplicity of references and readings that are an intrinsic part of the work of art are revealed. Àngels Ribé, having begun her artistic career at that time and within those parameters, consolidated a language of her own that has continued until today through various supports and media. In 1969 Ribé moved ... More Katharine Hepburn's Former Estate on Sale for $28 Million NEW YORK (REUTERS).- The former estate of legendary actress Katharine Hepburn who died in 2003, is up for sale with a $28 million asking price. The large six-bedroom house in the shoreline community of Old Saybrook in Connecticut was sold by Hepburn's estate for $6 million and has undergone significant renovation and updating since 2005, listing agent Colette Harron said on Monday. Hepburn, who died at age 96, spent her final years at the house, which was built in 1939 after the Hepburn family home was destroyed during the 1938 hurricane that devastated large sections of the southern New England coastline. The three-story, 15-room brick Colonial features seven full bathrooms, a two-car garage, a dock and beach, and 680 feet of waterfront on Long Island Sound. The four-time Oscar-winning actress once entertained Howard Hughes at the home, a scene that was dramatized in the 2004 film "The Aviator." Cate Blanchett's ... More New York Caricaturist, Illustrator Sam Norkin Dies at 94 NEW YORK (AP).- Sam Norkin, a caricaturist and illustrator who created more than 4,000 published drawings that captured moments in theater, dance, opera, jazz, pop and classical music over seven decades, has died. He was 94. Publicist Lester Schecter says Norkin died Saturday in New York. From 1940 to 1956, Norkin's illustrations were featured in the New York Herald Tribune. During the next 26 years, he covered performing arts for the New York Daily News. His art appeared in newspapers in cities where shows made their debuts, including The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Toronto Star. He also was a member of the Drama Desk Board for more than 40 years and served as its president. An annual special award has been named in his memory. ... MoreNew Jersey Museum's Lord Byron Letter Turns Out to Be Fake MORRISTOWN (AP).- It turns out a nearly 200-year-old letter donated to a New Jersey museum wasn't written by English Romantic poet Lord Byron. The National Historical Park in Morristown received the letter more than 50 years ago from a banker and collector. The letter's authenticity came into doubt when Drew University began planning a large Byron exhibit. The park's chief of cultural resources Jude Pfister offered the letter. The Star-Ledger of Newark (http://bit.ly/qNW7q5) reports the university shared the letter with an expert at the New York Public Library. She found problems with the salutation, signature and content. The letter appears to have been written 50 years after Byron's death in 1824. The author remains a mystery. The museum is considering an exhibit on forged documents. ... More Nebraska's Sheldon Museum of Art to Open "History"LINCOLN, NE.- The Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is reinstalling its permanent collection galleries with a new show, "Histories," which focuses on the complexity of the subject. The exhibition opens with a First Friday reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 5. The term "history" suggests a single, unified explanation and understanding of events and actors on the world stage. And yet in both academic settings and popular culture, history reveals itself to be a complex, multifaceted topic, explored and interpreted in a variety of different ways. Through artworks from the Sheldon Museum of Art's permanent collection, this exhibition investigates some of the ways history has directed, influenced, or been represented in art, exploring how it has been translated and construed by different people during different periods. Beginning with the theme of Important People and Major Events -- often the tradi ... More Iconic Cow Sign in South Carolina Survives Brand ChangeBy: Harriet McLeod
CHARLESTON (REUTERS).- The Coburg Cow, a big, rotating bovine that has stood alongside a busy suburban highway in Charleston, South Carolina since 1959, will remain at its post despite a name change by the dairy it advertised. In July, Coburg Dairy LLC, which employs about 220 people, became the Borden Dairy Company of South Carolina as part of Borden's product relaunch in six Southeastern states. Some locals worried that the iconic cow might not survive. "We have no plans to disturb the Coburg Cow," general manager Ed Medors told Reuters on Monday. "In fact, we're trying to arrange a meeting between her and our iconic brand, Elsie." Elsie, a real cow, has been part of Borden's advertising campaign since 1937. "She's older, but we hear they get along fine," Medors said. Some version of a cow sign has stood at a corner on Charleston's Savannah Highway since the 1920s, pointing the way to the Coburg Dairy down the road. In 1959, Roberts Sign Company built and i ... More |
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