An archeologist works at the site where a 3,500-year-old paving stone was discovered in Buyuk Taslik village, in Sorgun district of Turkey's Yozgat province on September 21, 2021. The discovery of a 3,500-year-old paving stone, considered as the "ancestor" of Mediterranean mosaics and resting in the remains of a lost city in central Turkey, sharpens knowledge of the daily life of the still mysterious Hittites of the Bronze Age. Adem ALTAN / AFP.
by Burcin Gercek
USAKLI HOYUK.- The discovery of a 3,500-year-old paving stone, described as the "ancestor" of Mediterranean mosaics, offers illuminating details into the daily lives of the mysterious Bronze Age Hittites. The assembly of over 3,000 stones -- in natural shades of beige, red and black, and arranged in triangles and curves -- was unearthed in the remains of a 15th century BC Hittite temple, 700 years before the oldest known mosaics of ancient Greece. "It is the ancestor of the classical period of mosaics that are obviously more sophisticated. This is a sort of first attempt to do it," says Anacleto D'Agostino, excavation director of Usakli Hoyuk, near Yozgat, in central Turkey. At the site three hours from Turkey's capital Ankara, first located in 2018, Turkish and Italian archaeologists painstakingly use shovels and brushes to learn more about the towns of the Hittites, one of the most powerful kingdoms in ancient Anatolia. "For the first time, people felt the necessity to produce some geometric patter ... More
Frans Hals, Portrait of a Man, c. 1635, Rijksmuseum.
LONDON.- Frans Hals (c.1582/3–1666) is one of the greatest masters of the Dutch Golden Age, praised by his contemporaries for his capacity to paint lifelike portraits that seem ‘to live and breathe’. In autumn 2021, The Wallace Collection celebrates Hals’s most famous and beloved, yet still enigmatic, painting The Laughing Cavalier (1624). The historic purchase of The Laughing Cavalier in 1865 by the 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800– 1870), the Wallace Collection’s principal founder, was instrumental in the revival of Frans Hals during the 19th century. Prior to this, Hals had been lost to obscurity. At a sale in Paris, Lord Hertford sensationally outbid Baron James de Rothschild (1792–1868) paying the astronomical sum of 51,000 francs for the picture (more than six times the estimate). The publicity around the sale led to the immediate fame of the painting and of Hals, causing prices of his works to ... More
VIENNA.- The exhibition Avant-Garde and the Contemporary. The Belvedere Collection from Lassnig to Knebl brings into productive correspondence around 140 historical and contemporary artistic perspectives. Through six narrative strands, the show conveys approaches to art from the 1930s to the present day. It follows both well-known and hidden paths and establishes often unexpected connections. The interplay between the historical avant-garde and the contemporary allows viewers to experience the Belvedere's collection as a dynamic construct. The works of Toni Schmale and Fritz Wotruba, Maria Lassnig and Sarah Lucas, Ashley Hans Scheirl, and Rudolf Hausner, Carola Dertnig, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Jakob Lena Knebl, Robert Zeppel-Sperl, Melanie Ebenhoch, and Bruno Gironcoli and many other Austrian artists are an integral part of and account for ... More
The artist Joe Minter with his piece “African Village in America,” a dense outdoor environment of artworks he has forged from refuse over the past 32 years across his half-acre yard, in Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 30, 2021. Wulf Bradley/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.- “I’m the conjurer of all my ancestors, 400 years of African people in America,” said Joe Minter, surveying the dense outdoor environment of artworks he has forged from refuse over the past 32 years across his half-acre yard, facing two of the largest African American cemeteries in the South. Nodding to the tombstones, he added, “they have given me the privilege of being their spokesman.” Minter described receiving the word of God in 1989 to “pick up what has been thrown away, put it together and put my words on it.” Ever since, the artist, now 78, with a gift for mechanics and previous jobs in construction and auto repair, has been building ... More
Left to Right: Patek Philippe, Vintage, 18k White Gold Ref. 2598 'Calatrava' Wristwatch (Estimate: $10,000-15,000); Patek Philippe, 18k Pink Gold Ref. 5053 'Officer's’ Wristwatch (Estimate: $7,000-9,000); Patek Philippe, 18k Yellow Gold Ref. 3919 'Calatrava' Wristwatch (Estimate: $4,000-6,000).
CHICAGO, IL.- On October 5, Hindman Auctions will present a Timepieces sale which will offer 80 stunning watches ranging from classic to modern styles by esteemed designers including Patek Philippe, Ulysse Nardin, Cartier, Piaget and Rolex. The sale will also present pocket watches from the Halim Time & Glass Museum in Evanston, Illinois. Property of the Hirschfield Estate, Santa Barbara, California will also be featured. Noteworthy Patek Philippe watches include a Ref. 4908 ‘Twenty-4’ wristwatch (lot 45; estimate: $15,000-20,000) that contains 34 round brilliant cut diamonds, sunburst silvered brown dial, single cut diamond and Roman numerals and an integrated flexible link bracelet. A Ref. 5053 ‘Officer’s’ ... More
Third Imperial Egg, 1886–7. Chief workmaster August Holmström (1828–1903), St Petersburg Gold, sapphire, diamond; h. 8.2 cm. Presented by Emperor Alexander III to Empress Maria Feodorovna, Easter 1887 Private Collection.
LONDON.- New highlights of the exhibition announced today as tickets go on sale include some of the rarest works produced by the Fabergé firm. Many of these works are being shown for the first time in the UK and some of which are being reunited for the first time since the Russian revolution. Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution will be the first major exhibition devoted to the international prominence of the legendary Russian goldsmith and the importance of his little-known London branch. With a focus on Fabergé’s Edwardian high society clientele, it will shine a light on his triumphs in Britain as well as the global fascination with the opulence of his creations. Across over 200 objects, the exhibition will tell the story of Carl Fabergé, the man, and his internationally ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-David Zwirner is presenting Jesse Murry: Rising, curated by Lisa Yuskavage and Jarrett Earnest. Painter and poet Jesse Murry (1948–1993) identified three significant approaches to landscape —“poetic,” “dramatic,” and “visionary,” which he aimed to synthesize into abstract paintings. Built of subtly shifting color dynamics, his canvases became “places summoned by the memory through the imagination; where the elements of WEATHER are protagonists that act out moods open to many readings; where the light & space have a spiritual import.” To this end, the horizon was both his central image and guiding ideal, as the moment where near and far, inside and outside, self and other could be negotiated and reconciled. Fusing the Romantic painting tradition of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner with the quality of mind and imagination of Wallace Stevens’s poetry, Murry ... More
Emma Talbot, A Crash in Fast and Slow Motion, 2020. Acrylic on silk, 400 x 300 cm. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam and Petra Rinck. Installation view Kunsthaus Centre d’art Pasquart. Photo: Lia Wagner.
BIEL/BIENNE.- In Emma Talbot’s (b. 1969, GB) work across several mediums drawing is always the starting point for her explorations of some of the most urgent questions of our time, from feminist theory and psychoanalysis to ecopolitics and the natural environment and our shifting relationships to technology, language and communication. Her radiant painted silk hangings and the related animations recall both dream diary and automatic drawing, often connecting word and image to express the lyricism and the pain of subjectivity. Incorporating her own writing as well as references to other literary and poetic sources, Talbot combines painted text, figurative depiction, mark-making and pattern. Her most recent three-dimensional ... More
Jasmin Werner, Wholly Family IV, 2021. Aluminium, wood, bottle brush, apple, plaster, ink pen, coloured crayon, threaded rod, nut, toy fruit and vegetables, metal ornament (halo), 58 x 39 x 17 cm. Courtesy the artist & Galerie Guido W. Baudach. Photo: Roman März.
BERLIN.-Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting its first solo exhibition with Cologne-based German-Filipino artist Jasmin Werner. On display are two brand-new series of assemblage-like sculptures of her usual peculiar materiality which are as allusive as cryptically titled Wholly Family and Schloss der Republik Burj Khalifa OFW. The following text by Dubai and New York-based writer Rahel Aima not only describes the works, but also provides a very personal introduction to their broader context. Around the time I learned to drive, sometime in the mid-2000s, a very large billboard went up in Dubai. It was emblazoned with the phrase “History Rising” and faced the highway, as these things do. ... More
Huang Rui, Revisiting the Classics, 1981 (detail). Oil on canvas with calligraphy copybook collage, 89 x 102.5 cm.
BEIJING.- From September 25 to December 19, 2021, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents “Huang Rui: Ways of Abstraction.” Since the late 1970s, Huang Rui (b. 1952, Beijing, lives and works in Beijing) has been active at the forefront of Chinese contemporary art as an artist and instigator, who notably co-organized the “Stars Art Exhibition” in 1979 and pioneered contemporary art practice in China. “Huang Rui: Ways of Abstraction” is the largest solo exhibition by the artist in recent years. Featuring more than 40 paintings and sculpture installations from the beginning of the artist’s career to the present day, this exhibition explores the language of abstraction and East Asian thoughts that have informed the artist’s practice for decades. Structured by five series—“Early Abstraction,” “Space,” “Space Structure,” “Experiments with ... More
LUNDS.- Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the greatest poets in the German language, wanted to imagine how the world looks through the eyes of the panther in his famous poem with the same name, subtitled ‘In Jardin des Plantes, Paris’. The insight that different animals experience the world differently also means that the human world is not the objectively true one. When humankind is no longer considered the self-evident centre of the universe it becomes clear that all animals, also humans, must live symbiotically in order to survive. Western thought has long claimed exceptional status for humankind. The term animale rationale goes back to Aristotle: an animal endowed with reasoning and abstract thinking, often considered key features of language. Today we know that non-human animals have their own languages, only different than ours. ‘In the Pupil of the Panther’ reflects on the relationship between humans and animals, departing from an enhanced consciousness of the acute stress ... More
People walk down a road from the Arch of Sptimus Severus, in the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna near the coastal Libyan city of Al-Khums, 120Km east of the capital, on August 24, 2021. Mahmud TURKIA / AFP.
by Hamza Mekouar
AL KHUMS.- Once among the Roman Empire's most beautiful cities, Leptis Magna lies neglected and shunned by tourists after a decade of war, but some see its potential for rebirth. There is no queue at the gate and only a handful of visitors, almost all Libyans, wander among the imposing ruins at the UNESCO World Heritage site. Visiting the area, a former Roman outpost on the south coast of the Mediterranean, is "a voyage in time, a dive into history", enthuses Abdessalam Oueba, a Libyan visitor in his 60s. Founded by the Phoenicians then conquered by Rome, the city was the birthplace of Septimius Severus, who rose to become emperor from 193 until 211. The ruler waged military campaigns across Europe and into modern-day ... More
ATLANTA, GA.- Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, the first exhibition to feature together the work of these two leading Indigenous contemporary artists whose processes focus on collaborative artmaking, opened this September at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University. Exploring the collective process of creation, Each/Other is comprised of over two dozen mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, and large-scale installation works by Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, along with a new monumental artist-guided community artwork. While each artist’s practice is rooted in collaboration, they have never before worked together or been exhibited alongside one another in a way that allows audiences to see both the similarities and contrasts in their work. Marie Watt, who resides in Portland, Oregon, ... More
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George Mraz, consummate jazz bassist, dies at 77 NEW YORK, NY.- George Mraz, a sought-after jazz bassist whose deft, versatile work anchored the recordings and performances of generations of artists, from Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie more than 50 years ago to Cyrus Chestnut and Joe Lovano in this century, died Sept. 16. He was 77. His wife, pianist Camilla Mraz, posted news of his death on Facebook. She did not say where he died or give a cause, although a GoFundMe page was established in 2016 to assist Mraz with expenses related to pancreatic cancer. Mraz came to the United States from what was then Czechoslovakia in 1968 to attend Berklee School of Music (now Berklee College of Music) in Boston. While studying there, he was also playing at Lennie’s on the Turnpike and other local nightclubs, catching the ear of some of jazz’s biggest names. In 1969, Gillespie invited him to join ... More
The score of Final Fantasy gets its due at the concert hall LONDON.- At a recent concert in London, the bows of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra rose and fell like the mighty sword of Sephiroth, the silver-haired villain of Final Fantasy VII. Onstage, a 32-person choir thundered the antagonist’s name: “Sephiroth!” The audience in the 19th-century theater burst into applause when it recognized the opening notes of “One-Winged Angel,” a battle theme from the game that merges Latin opera, influences from Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” and caustic rock music. Almost 6,000 people of all ages attended this Final Fantasy VII Remake concert at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday, which showcased the soundtrack to the seventh installment of the hugely popular Japanese video game. At the concert, the two worlds of gaming and classical music merged, and while some concertgoers wore suits and bow ties, ... More
María Mendiola, half of a chart-topping disco duo, dies at 69 MADRID.- María Mendiola, a member of the Spanish duo Baccara, whose “Yes Sir, I Can Boogie” became one of the disco anthems of the 1970s, died here Sept. 11. She was 69. Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by her family. They did not give the exact cause but said that she had been dealing with a blood deficiency for two decades. Baccara, the duo of Mendiola and Mayte Mateos, achieved instant fame with “Yes Sir, I Can Boogie,” the first song they ever recorded, which was released in 1977 and went on to become the most successful disco song by a female duo. It sold about 18 million copies worldwide and topped the charts in Britain, Japan and several other countries. Mendiola and Mateos were dancers with the company of Spain’s national television broadcaster when they met. At the suggestion of Mendiola, who thought that their careers ... More
Colby College officially breaks ground on the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts WATERVILLE, ME.- To celebrate the start of the largest academic building project in its history and acknowledge the lead donor who is making it possible, Colby College officially broke ground on the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts. The building is named in honor of Trustee Michael Gordon, an alumnus from the Class of 1966, whose commitment to the arts will provide expansive arts opportunities for Colby students and the broader Waterville community. The $85-million, 74,000-square-foot center, which will open in the fall of 2023, will be the most advanced and innovative arts facility in the region and the new home for Colby’s Departments of Theater and Dance of Music and the Cinema Studies Program. With a unique combination of multipurpose performance areas and studios designed for teaching, performing, working, and creating, ... More
Artist group IC-98's Lands of Treasure opens at Serlachius Museums in Finland MÄNTTÄ.- The internationally renowned Finnish artist group IC-98, consisting of Patrik Söderlund and Visa Suonpää, bring to Serlachius Museums their new animation work Lands of Treasure. The video work, commissioned by Serlachius Museums, addresses humankind’s search for a new direction in a world affected by climate crisis. Lands of Treasure is based on an old Finnish folk tale about an encounter at night between a forest spirit and a stonemason in a forest. The stonemason shoots the forest spirit, which falls and creates a large clearing. People take advantage of this as they begin to divide up the land. The story can be interpreted as describing the birth of modern society and the alienation of humankind from nature. IC-98’s animations combine classic drawing technique and digital effects. In the slow-advancing work, ... More
Argentinian couples win top tango competition after Maradona tributes BUENOS AIRES.- Two Argentinian couples won the world's biggest tango competition, held in Buenos Aires, on Saturday at the end of a festival that paid tribute to late legendary soccer player and long-time tango fan Diego Maradona. Held through a combination of in-person and virtual events due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year's world tango dance championship involved around 800 dancers from 25 countries. The finals were staged in front of the illuminated Buenos Aires Obelisk at the heart of the Argentine capital. Couple Emmanuel Casel and Yanina Muzyka won the "stage tango" category, while Agustin Agnez and Barbara Ferreyra were crowned winners of the "salon" category. Throughout the competition, songs and dances paid homage to Argentine sports great Diego Maradona, who died of a heart attack on November 25 last year ... More
Joel Coen's Macbeth: pure and somber NEW YORK, NY.- Without his brother Ethan, but with cinema heavyweights Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, American director Joel Coen took up the challenge of adapting Macbeth, producing a sleek film that remains true to Shakespeare's great text. With "The Tragedy of Macbeth," which premiered on the opening night of the 59th New York Film Festival on Friday, Coen follows in the footsteps of Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski and other cinema greats who adapted the play for the screen. "Macbeth is maybe the Shakespeare play that lends itself to cinema the most," Dennis Lim, director of programming at the festival, told AFP. "I think there's something about the structure, the pace, the action, and the themes." Having won numerous awards, including Oscars for "Fargo" and "No Country for Old Men," the Coen brothers have worked across different genres, directing adventure films, comedies and thrillers laced with black humor. For this project, Joel ... More
DMW Gallery in Antwerp presents a solo show by Marius Ritiu ANTWERP.- For his solo exhibition Is there anybody out there, Marius Ritiu has created a large installation combined with a sound performance. In addition, a series of smaller works are on display. On the occasion of his current solo exhibition at DMW Gallery in Antwerp, Marius Ritiu presents a monumental indoor installation made of copper plates. Reflecting the light as well as the occasional golf ball, their shiny surfaces operate as a peculiar visualisation of sound waves. This is made apparent when visitors accept the artist’s invitation to use the installation as a canvas at which to take aim with a golf club. The impact of the golf balls on the copper plates is transported to the adjacent room, where a barrage of pedals turn the crashing noise into a soundscape that evokes otherworldly connotations. Is there anybody out there? Or is it the artist ... More
Emmanuel Louisnord Desir's first exhibition with François Ghebaly opens in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CA.-François Ghebaly is presenting Emmanuel Louisnord Desir’s Prisoners of Hope, the Los Angeles-based artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. At heart of Emmanuel Louisnord Desir’s practice is an exploration of relationships—familial, communal, and above all, spiritual. Often composing his works around seeds of lyrical wisdom, Desir shifts seamlessly between material modes, employing carved wood, welded and cast metal, found object assemblage, 3D printed resin and oil painting. He draws from personal anecdote, diasporic history, arcane symbolism and Abrahamic narrative, inhabiting a cosmology all his own. Desir’s work offers close reflections on the remnant of a divine people and the spiritual and physical infirmities inflicted by contemporary life. In works like Ode to Job, his figures are studded with boils, scars, ... More
Stars lend voices to world-spanning concert for climate, vaccines NEW YORK, NY.- A "once-in-a-generation" music event circled the world Saturday, with a slew of megastars taking the stage in New York and beyond for Global Citizen Live -- 24 hours of shows across the planet to raise awareness on climate change, vaccine equality and famine. Between star-studded sets of some of the biggest names in music -- including Elton John, BTS, Coldplay, Lizzo, Jennifer Lopez and Billie Eilish -- actors, politicians, company executives, royals, actors and activists made appeals or announced donations to tackle major global challenges. NGO Global Citizen wants one billion trees planted, two billion vaccines delivered to the poorest countries and meals for 41 million people on the brink of starvation. After the show ended in Paris and handed off to New York, Britain's Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, took to the stage to advocate ... More
Guido Spars appointed Founding Director of the Federal Bauakademie Foundation BERLIN.- Founding Director Prof. Guido Spars took office on September 1, 2021. As founding director, Guido Spars is developing a programmatic concept for the Federal Bauakademie Foundation and a strategy for enhancing its profile in the regional, national, and international professional community- along the planning and construction value chain as well as in politics, society, and the general public. Guido Spars will now begin conversations with cooperation partners from the various subsectors of planning and construction and develop a spatial use concept that can serve as the basis for holding an architectural competition for reconstructing the Bauakademie. The new Bauakademie will meet the highest standards of sustainability and become a site of innovative power. Spars: “A reconstructed Bauakademie building will give us the chance, ... More
On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas was born
February 27, 1917. Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 - 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. In this image: Place de la Concorde, 1875, oil on canvas, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
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