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In drawings of Jerusalem dating to the 19th century, Jerusalemite women are portrayed smoking clay pipes similar to the one uncovered in the current excavation.
JERUSALEM.- Two weeks ago, during an archaeological excavation currently underway in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, headed by Dr. Kate Rafael of the Israel Antiquities Authority, a ceramic mouthpiece of a pipe was uncovered that bears the Arabic inscription: “Heart is language for the lover” (literal translation), meaning: love is language for the lovers. According to Shahar Puni of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “Oftentimes in archaeological excavations remains are revealed including monumental inscriptions (institutional), some of which are of religious value, some commemorating a donor, etc. Along with these we sometimes find inscriptions that are of a personal nature: verses of a poem, congratulations and other quotations from which we can learn about daily life and even emotional matters between a man and woman… Clay pipes of this kind were very common in the Ottoman period (16th-19th cent ... More |
| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | MADRID.- The Museo del Prado, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS) and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, which together form the triangular Art Walk in Madrid, have broken records of visitors in 2011. The historic number 1, the Prado Museum, received 2,911,767 visitors. To this figure must be added the 863,957 visitors who have visited the two exhibitions of the Prado International program held in St. Petersburg (The Prado at the Hermitage, February 25-May 29, 2011) and Tokyo (Goya . Lights and Shadows, 22 October 2011-29 January 2012). In this image: A journalist looks at the painting The Wine of Saint Martins Day by Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel (Brueghel) the Elder, which was purchased in 2010 for seven million euros, on display for a press preview following a complex restoration at the Prado museum, in Madrid, Spain. EPA/FERNANDO ALVARADO. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| MEX/LA: Mexican modernism(s) in Los Angeles at the Museum of Latin American Art | | Two documents to be featured in "Lux in Arcana" at Rome's Capitoline Museums | | Exhibition at Yale Center for British Art focuses primarily on depictions of Shakespeare's comedies | 
José Clemente Orozco, Prometheus, 1930. Frary Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA. Photo: Jeffrey Nintezel© 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City.
LONG BEACH, CA.- MEX/LA: “Mexican” Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985 is part of Pacific Standard Time. This unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months to tell the story of the birth of the LA art scene. MEX/LA: “Mexican” Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985 focuses on the construction of different notions of “Mexicanidad” within modernist and contemporary art created in Los Angeles. The period from 1945 to 1985 is attributed as the time when Los Angeles consolidated itself as an important cultural center, however, this time frame excludes the controversial and important presence of the Mexican muralists and the production of other artists who were influenced by them ... More | | 
The two documents from 1308-1311 will fascinate a large public.
ROME.- Two long-awaited documents that will be featured in the exhibition Lux in arcana - The Vatican Secret Archives reveals itself, at the Musei Capitolini from February 2012, have been revealed in the magazine “Il Venerdì di Repubblica”. Two documents from 1308-1311 that will fascinate a large public: the Chinon parchment with the sacramental absolution of the Temple's dignitaries and the Trial against the Order of the Templars contained in a roll 60 linear meters long. The sacramental absolution of the Temple's dignitaries came in August 1308. The Templars had already been tried by the French inquisitors and had admitted their crimes under torture. Subsequently, Clement V sent to Chinon castle three cardinals charged with the task of questioning the grand master and the other dignitaries: Hugues de Perraud, visitor of the Order, Raymbaud de Caron and Geoffrey de Charny, preceptors of Outremer and Normand ... More | | 
James Northcote, Master Betty as Hamlet, Before a Bust of Shakespeare, 1804–06, oil on canvas, Paul Mellon Fund.
NEW HAVEN, CT.- In spring 2012 Shakespeare at Yale, a campus-wide, term-long series of exhibitions, plays, concerts, films, and lectures will celebrate the university’s wealth of resources for the study and enjoyment of the works of William Shakespeare. At the Yale Center for British Art, “While these visions did appear”: Shakespeare on Canvas will feature works from the Center’s permanent collection of paintings to explore historic representations of Shakespeare’s scenes and characters by artists working in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The exhibition will focus primarily on depictions of Shakespeare’s comedies, but will also draw on comedic elements from the tragedies and histories, including The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Henry ... More |
| The Kunsthalle Dusseldorf presents first Chris Martin exhibition outside of the U.S. | | Made in America 1900-1950. Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada | | John Edward Buchanan Jr., Director of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, dies at 58 | 
Motown Music and the Astral Plane, 2007-2008. Mixed media, oil and collage on canvas, 122 x 97 cm. Photo: Courtesy Chris Martin, KOW BERLIN, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York and Daniel Weinberg, Los Angeles.
DUSSELDORF.- The Kunsthalle is showing the first institutional exhibition outside the United States of the American painter Chris Martin (born 1954, Washington D.C.). Martin has regularly paid his respects to cherished artist colleagues from the fields of painting and music since the mid 1990s: Pop greats as well as those who work at or beyond the boundaries of the zeitgeist. In some cases, like Michael Jackson, James Brown or Frank Moore, who conceived the red Aids ribbon, the pictures were prompted by their deaths. Such dedications placed Martin’s expansive compositions on the foundation of a social frame of reference, are gestures of reverence and solidarity. At the same time, they break with the purity requirements of colour field painting and monochrome painting. The names stand awkwardly and coars ... More | | 
Walker Evans, Corner of State and Randolph Streets, Chicago, c.1946 1947. Gelatin silver print, 27.7 x 32.3 cm; image: 26.1 x 25 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Gift of Benjamin Greenberg, Ottawa, 1981© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
OTTAWA, ON.- In the first five decades of the 20th century photography came into its own – both as an art form and as a tool to document social and political change. American photographers were exploring both the poetic and transformative expressiveness of the medium, as well as recording the growth and change of the country in its various phases of industrial development. On view until April 1, 2012, Made in America 1900-1950: Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada looks at both approaches, and the divisions between the two, as they are necessarily porous and somewhat arbitrary. “The Gallery’s collection is so rich in 20th century American photographs that it needs an exhibition in two parts and a catalogue in two volumes. This first presentation focuses ... More | | 
John E. Buchanan, Jr., director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Image: Jennifer Hsu/FAMSF.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announces with great sadness the death of John Edward Buchanan, Jr., Director of Museums, on Friday, December 30, 2011 Mr. Buchanan passed away at the age of 58 after a battle with cancer. Comments Diane B. Wilsey, President of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Board of Trustees, “The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has lost a dynamic, creative leader whose vibrant energy and humor will be missed by everyone. I, personally, have lost a best friend whose vast knowledge and intellectual curiosity never ceased to amaze me.” John E. Buchanan, Jr. joined the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) in February 2006. During his six-year tenure, he led the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park to record levels of attendance and membership, increased levels of corporate sponsorship and individual giving, deve- ... More |
| Extensive exhibition of more than 100 works by artist Emil Wachter at Museum Würth | | Spreading the tentacles of public art: Octopus by Marialuisa Tadei comes to Thomas More Square | | Multi-colored Formalist compositions by Jerry Walden at RHV Fine Art in Brooklyn | 
Emil Wachter, Roter Akt, 1993. Öl auf Leinwand, 100 x 70 cm. Sammlung Würth, Inv. 5810. Foto: Volker Naumann, Schönaich.
KUNZELSAU.- The Museum Würth in Künzelsau is devoting an extensive exhibition of more than 100 works to the Karlsruhe artist Emil Wachter. The main focus of the exhibition will be the considerable holdings of paintings and drawings by Wachter in the Würth Collection; these will be complemented by selected works on loan. The exhibits range from delicate watercolours and cycles of drawings to colourfully dense oil paintings to large triptychs. Wachter’s sacred art, which plays an important role in his oeuvre, and in particular his many stained-glass windows, will also be taken into consideration, as will his sculptures. The painter, graphic artist, sculptor and theologian Emil Wachter was born in 1921. Although his art diverged from the established standards of his time from the very start, he was nevertheless firmly rooted in the European cultural ... More | | 
Octopus by Marialuisa Tadei at Thomas More Square.
LONDON.- Renowned international artist, Marialuisa Tadei, is now exhibiting her landmark installation Octopus at Thomas More Square, St Katherine’s Dock. Octopus featured in Art London this year and was chosen as pick of the week in Country Life Magazine, following a very favourable reception from art critics. The work seeks to bridge the gap between the material and spiritual worlds in response to the extreme consumerism of the modern world. The installation is created entirely of hand-cut coloured-glass tiles, laid as a mosaic over a concrete and steel frame. Marialuisa is a rising star in the art world having participated in 2009 Venice Biennale and again in 2011. Marialuisa has exhibited alongside some of the world’s most-celebrated sculptors including Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Mark Quinn. She is perhaps best known for her Oculus Dei series, which was hailed as ‘ethically pure and sublimely abstract’ by the noted critic Donald Kuspit. Octopus is th ... More | | 
Jerry Walden, Hundred First, Red, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 39" x 57". Photo: Courtesy RHV Fine Art.
BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Jerry Walden paints hard-edged visual abstractions in acrylic on canvas by layering and juxtaposing random and well considered stripes of color to form undulating lines of shifting hue and direction that result in multi-colored Formalist compositions. After 6 years of re-evaluating his studio practice by working through his Deconstructing Jerry (DJ) and Reconstructing Deconstructing Jerry (RDJ) Series this exhibition marks the transition to a new body of work. Rather than display a finished body of work this exhibition of 8 new paintings will document the artist’s transition from one mode of thinking to another and offer the viewer insights into the artist’s studio practice. Like his RDJ series, Walden begins each painting by applying 1” stripes of tape every one inch so that half of the entire surface of the canvas is covered and fills in the untaped stripes with randomly selected color. The tape ... More |
| Artist Chakaia Booker selected for second installation of the New York Avenue Sculpture Project | | June Kelly Gallery in New York presents Su-Li Hung: "Seasonal Impressions Paintings" | | First in a series of remarkable time painting apps for iPad released by Red Hill Studios | 
Chakaia Booker, standing, a sculptor from New York and one of the master teachers, talks to Vera Fomenkov, 17, of Baltimore, Md., during youngARTS Week. AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Internationally renowned sculptor Chakaia Booker has been selected as the second artist for the New York Avenue Sculpture Project, the only public art space featuring changing installations of contemporary works by women artists. Organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the New York Avenue Sculpture Project is a collaboration between the museum, the Downtown DC Business Improvement District, the DC Office of Planning and other local agencies. Based in New York, Booker (American b. 1953) works almost exclusively with recycled tires that are cut, shaped and folded, then woven into dynamic, highly textured sculptures. Her large-scale expressive works fuse ecological concerns with explorations of racial and economic difference, globalization, and gender. “It is wonder- ... More | | 
Su-Li Hung, Elm Tree, Early Spring, 2011, oil on canvas, 36x48 inches. Photo: Courtesy June Kelly Gallery.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- An exhibition of recent paintings by Su-Li Hung -- seductive colorful abstractions of trees in all seasons as a metaphor that captures the cyclical nature of our lives -- will open at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street, on Thursday, January 5. The work will remain on view through February 7. Hung sees beauty in the tree itself -- in the strength of its trunk, the limitless variety in the shape of its leaves, its bark rough or perhaps smooth, in the remarkable skeletal appearance of its branches when the leaves fall. Trees have been a principal focus of her work since the 90s – an enduring passionate interest in the abstraction she sees in trees in all their permutations. “The tree grows, leaves come, go, and return, evoking for me new inspiration with each season,” Hung says. In the current exhibition, Hung has used diptychs in some paintings to constrast the dominant ... More | | 
Your fingers literally paint with time – transforming everyday scenes into amazing time composites.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Red Hill Studios announces the release of the Painting with Time iPad app – the first in a series of remarkable time painting apps – that lets you explore how the world around you changes over time. "The Painting with Time app makes it fun to manipulate time," says Red Hill Studios Creative Director Bob Hone. "Your fingers literally paint with time – transforming everyday scenes into amazing time composites." Brought to you by the creators of the Exploring Time international documentary series, and the Playing with Time traveling museum exhibition, this free educational app lets you make leaves magically appear on trees and then paint on the incredible colors of Fall. Fill up a tidal pool in Monterey with the incoming tide. Display the shades of San Francisco over a day. Each scene reveals a slow natural process that we can't normally see. "People cannot perceive the immense amount of ... More |
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 Changing the world through art, a gala and art auction honoring two artists NEW YORK, N.Y.- Haunch of Venison and HiArt! presents the Third Annual Changing the World through Art, a Gala and Art auction honoring two extraordinary artists - Ahmed Alsoudani and Leonardo Drew - and involving some of the world's leading artists. Works to be auctioned include paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints by Sarah Sze, Takashi Murakami, Nick Cave, Zefrey Throwell, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Mel Kendrick, David Humphrey, Rachel Howard, Sebastiaan Bremer, Rosy Keyser, Ellen Berkenblit, Spencer Tunick, Jon Kessler, Raphael Vargas-Suarez, among a long list of others who have very generously donated to this cause. Time In is the most radical, interdisciplinary arts program for at-risk children in the world. An introduction to high art aesthetics combining opera through hands-on art with museum visits and gallery hops specializing in 20th & 21st century art, Time in brings entire classes ... More Industry of Nature: New book offers another approach to ecology AMSTERDAM.- Nature has always been a source of inspiration and resources to mankind – from the reproduction of floral motifs to the use of wood – but it has more to offer. Throughout the ages, nature has developed and optimised countless solutions to issues that also man faces daily. There is an amazing playground of smart, simple and sustainable behaviours, just waiting to be explored and learned from. Offering a starting point to explore the wonders of nature, Industry of Nature shows a compilation of 75 fascinating solutions which nature has developed in order to foresee in needs such as adhesion, camouflage, aerodynamics, strength, electricity generation, insulation, and much more. Some of these solutions have already been applied to designs which are therefore also featured in the book. For example, the light and resistant honeycomb materials that take inspiration from the cellular structure built by bees, supramolecular materials with properties of self-healing t ... More Solo show by London based artist Roisin Byrne at Alma Enterprises LONDON.- Alma Enterprises presents a solo show by London based artist Roisin Byrne. It's Not You It's Me is a work that takes this break-up platitude and perversely stands it on its head (1). Taking on the guise of a false collector in order to find out information on a quasi mythical work by Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi, Byrne discovered that the artist himself did not exist. Cuoghi had sought to become his father over 7 years by gaining weight, dying his hair and adopting the lifestyle and mannerisms of a 60 year old man. Byrne became fascinated by his apparent non-existence and that this 'event', always written about as 'not being a work' was what the artist Cuoghi was most renowned for. Taking the opportunity to become the artist herself she legally changed her name to Roberto Cuoghi, opened a bank account and began to buy up work on the secondary market with a credit card in Cuoghi's name. Adopting the online persona ... More |
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