Lost Barbizon oil sketch rediscovered at the Milwaukee Art Museum

An important oil sketch lost to scholars for more than 140 years has been rediscovered at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The true identity of the work was obscured by an old attribution to English landscape painter John Constable (1776–1837). Research and conservation revealed it is actually the study for the major 1833 Salon painting by Theodore Rousseau (1812–1867), View on the Outskirts of Granville, in the collection of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Visitors to the Milwaukee Art Museum will have the opportunity to see the oil sketch in person at the upcoming exhibition Constable? A Landscape Rediscovered, opening September 7, 2018. The exhibition marks the painting’s debut with its correct attribution and investigates the provenance of the work, which entered the Layton Art Collection, Inc. as a gift from Arthur Nye McGeoch (1869–1949), a prominent Milwaukee financier, art collector and real estate magnate.

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Edmonton | Three Grant Opportunities

Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund

The Edmonton Artist’s Trust Fund (EATF) is a joint project of the Edmonton Arts Council and the Edmonton Community Foundation. The EATF is designed to invest in Edmonton’s creative community and to encourage artists to stay in our community. The funds are intended to offset living and working expenses, allowing the artist to devote a concentrated period of time to his/her artistic activities, career enhancement and/or development.

Funds are intended to support artists at all stages of their professional careers, in all fields and any artistic tradition, who demonstrate excellence in their field and commitment to working in and contributing to the Edmonton region’s arts community.

Please note that all nominations must be supported by hard copy letters of nomination, to be delivered to the Edmonton Arts Council’s office (by mail or in person) and received by 4:30 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2018.

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British Museum opens new display What is Europe? Views from Asia

This focussed exhibition explores perceptions of Europe through specially chosen objects from Japan, China and South Asia. The new Asahi Shimbun Display, What is Europe? Views from Asia features objects that illustrate encounters between Europe and Asia from the 18th to the 20th century. Each of the thirteen objects on show has a unique story and reveals that this engagement was far more nuanced than has often been presented. Western perspective was adopted by many Asian painters and printmakers, and techniques such as etching were learned from printed European manuals in Japan. This display demonstrates the influence of European art through the display of a work by German expressionist Käthe Kollwitz. This print shows two men pulling a plough and clearly inspired the woodblock print on display by Chinese artist Li Hua that depicts the same theme. Kollwitz’s prints were introduced in China through a work by leading literary figure Lu Xun. Only 50 copies of this insightful and rare

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Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi)—Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism

Thursday, August 23, 2018 – 14:00The exhibition FIVE HEADS marks the beginning of a season of events co-curated with arts Catalyst and Hermione Sprigg and a residency and exhibition with artist Tuguldur Yondonjamts. 

Opening ceremony and publication launch:August 31st, 6 – 8.30pm Greengrassi Gallery & Corvi-Mora1a Kempsford Road London SE11 4NU Artists:Nomin Bold & Baatarzorig Batjargal | Bumochir DulamYuri Pattison | Hedwig WatersDolgor Ser Od & Marc Schmitz | Rebecca EmpsonDeborah Tchoudjinoff | Lauren BonillaTuguldur Yondonjamts | Rebekah PlueckhahnFeat. Mongolian Rapper “Big Gee” What does the future look like, or feel like, from the perspective of a yak in the coal miningdistrict of Khovd? A Mongolian root extracted, illegally traded and sold internationally as apharmaceutical product? Or the toolkit of an urban shaman, securing economic fortune forprofessional women in Ulaanbaatar? Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi) brings together the work of five anthropologists and five artists/collectives researching and responding to the dramatic rise and fall of Mongolia’s mineraleconomy. Drawing from ongoing fieldwork in Mongolia, the artists in this exhibition examinecrisis as a space for the emergence of new possibilities. Curated by Hermione SpriggsExhibition dates: September 1st – 15th, 2018Conversations & events in collaboration with Arts CatalystJoin our events page for updates In 1964, at a time when Mongolia was suspended in the social and economic stasis of Sovietrule, Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan seized upon Ezra Pound’s definition ofthe artist as “the antennae of the race,” claiming “the power of the arts to anticipate futuresocial and technological developments by a generation and more.” Indeed, art (or perhaps thesynaptic negative space which exists between art and anthropology) has taken on antennalikeproperties in the context of Mongolia, where the need to rapidly re-think the impactsof mineral extraction and economic chaos is pressing and real, and where a resurgence inshamanic practices—often explained by shamans themselves through a language of codeand telecommunications—can itself be thought of as a kind of radar or antennae capable ofreaching through time, assuring future fortune in the face of agsan (the invisible and chaoticforces of transition). Nested within what might be described as an “aesthetics of estrangement” (Castaing-Taylor)or a process of “optimal distortion” (Neilson & Pedersen) are proposals for alternative mapsand re-surfaced trajectories that shatter a teleological timeline of progress, staking territoryinstead for speculative thought and practical forms of human-nonhuman reciprocity. Asglobal cores and peripheries exchange places and rehearse histories of empire formation, FiveHeads explores geo-ontological emergence, (post)capitalist futures, and alternative strategiesfor creative survival in the present. The accompanying publication Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi) Art, Anthropology and MongolFuturism (Sternberg Press, 2018) features documentation of the art-anthropology exchangeprocesses, alongside written contributions by Simon O’ Sullivan, Uranchimeg Tsultem, RichardIrvine, Tsendpurev Tsegmid, Hermione Spriggs & Rebecca Empson, and will be availablefor presale for the duration of the exhibition. For more details please visit the following link. Photo: Tuguldur Yondonjamts Binary story/ 875-887, single channel video, sound, 18 min (2018)

 

  

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Saga of early humans etched in DNA of mixed-species child

Denny was an inter-species love child. Her mother was a Neanderthal, but her father was Denisovan, a distinct species of primitive human that also roamed the Eurasian continent 50,000 years ago, scientists reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. Nicknamed by Oxford University scientists, Denisova 11 — her official name — was at least 13 when she died, for reasons unknown. “There was earlier evidence of interbreeding between different hominin, or early human, groups,” said lead author Vivian Slon, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. “But this is the first time that we have found a direct, first-generation offspring,” she told AFP. Denny’s surprising

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