Thursday, January 24, 2019 – 12:00 – Saturday, March 30, 2019 – 18:00Project IMage:
Larry Achiampong and David Blandy conducting DNA ancestry tests
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Archeologists in Canada’s Quebec City have found a well-preserved relic of the settlement’s first fortifications built by French settlers more than 300 years ago, they said on Tuesday. The foundations of the palisaded ramparts date from 1693 and are about 20 meters long (22 yards). They were uncovered during initial construction work at a residential project in the city, whose old quarter is a World Heritage site. “We found a small piece of wood driven into dark soil. We got out our trowels and scraped the dirt very delicately, and realized that we had found a hugely important relic, very well preserved,” said Jean-Yves Pintal, head of the archeological team. The relic was part of an enclosure erected according to the plans of French military engineer Josue Dubois Berthelot de Beaucours between 1693 and 1694 to replace a temporary system built in 1690 to defend the city against possible English artillery fire.
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The National Gallery is staging the first-ever exhibition of portraits by the Italian Renaissance artist Lorenzo Lotto. Lorenzo Lotto Portraits brings together many of Lotto’s best portraits spanning his entire career from collections around the world. These include such masterpieces as the ‘Bishop Bernardo de‘ Rossi’ (1505) from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, united with its striking allegorical cover from the National Gallery of Art, Washington; and the monumental altarpiece of ‘The Alms of Saint Antoninus of Florence’ (1540–2) from the Basilica Santi Giovanni e Paulo in Venice coming to the UK for the first time. In this painting Lotto not only inserted portraits of members of the commissioning confraternity, but also, highly unusually, paid poor people to sit for him. Working during a time of profound change in Europe, Lotto was remarkable for depicting a wide variety of middle-class sitters, includ
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Kieta Jackson fashions intriguing sculptured artefacts using woven metal strands and sheet copper that weathers over time.
She weaves fine gauge wire on a loom to produce a tactile fabric that is both hard and soft at the same time. This material is then manipulated into sculpted shapes reminiscent of museum archaeological treasures or beach finds shaped by the sea. Her methods include distressing of the fabric and leaving loose threads to suggest corrosion and ageing of the piece.
A lifelong interest in archaeological relics and unusual objects shapes her work.
Kieta earned her degree in Textile Art at Norwich School of Art and Design in 1999. She was awarded a Distinction at the 5th Baltic Biennial of Miniature Weavers; Poland. Her published works include Jac Scott’s book ‘Textile Perspective in Mixed Media Sculptures’ (2003), British Fibre Art Magazine (Spring 2015) and Peripheral ARTeries (2017).
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Rebecca Rabinow, Director of the Menil Collection in Houston, welcomeed civic officials, cultural leaders, community representatives, artists, supporters, and Menil leadership on Saturday, November 3 for the dedication and public opening of the Menil Drawing Institute. The new home for the Institute is the first freestanding museum facility built expressly for the acquisition, study, exhibition, conservation, and storage of modern and contemporary drawings. The 30,000-square-foot, $40 million building—designed by Johnston Marklee in collaboration with landscape architects Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates—opened with the inaugural exhibition The Condition of Being Here: Drawings by Jasper Johns, spanning the artist’s career. Rebecca Rabinow, Director of the Menil Collection, said, “As we prepare to cut the ribbon to welcome visitors into this beautiful new building, we reflect on the Menil Collection’s commitm
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