| Archeologists from University of Innsbruck find four 600-year-old linen bras at Lemberg Castle in Austria | | University of Cincinnati research reveals largest ancient dam built by Maya in Central America | | Israel Antiquities Authority announces Akko's magnificent harbor from 2,300 years ago is exposed on the seabed | 
The bra is commonly thought to be little more than 100 years old as corseted women abandoned rigid fashions and opted for the more natural look. AP Photo/University Innsbruck Archeological Institute.
By: George Jahn, Associated Press
VIENNA (AP).- A revolutionary discovery is rewriting the history of underwear: Some 600 years ago, women wore bras. The University of Innsbruck said Wednesday that archeologists found four linen bras dating from the Middle Ages in an Austrian castle. Fashion experts describe the find as surprising because the bra had commonly been thought to be only little more than 100 years old as women abandoned the tight corset. Instead, it appears the bra came first, followed by the corset, followed by the reinvented bra. One specimen in particular "looks exactly like a (modern) brassiere," says Hilary Davidson, fashion curator for the London Museum. "These are amazing finds." Although the linen garments were unearthed in 2008, they did not make news until now says Beatrix Nutz, the archaeologist responsible for the discovery. Researching the items and carbon dating them to make sure they ... More | | 
View of a Maya-built canal. Pictured is Guatemalan researcher Liwy Grazioso, who has participated in the work by a UC-led team. Photo: Courtesy University of Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Recent excavations, sediment coring and mapping by a multi-university team led by the University of Cincinnati at the pre-Columbian city of Tikal, a paramount urban center of the ancient Maya, have identified new landscaping and engineering feats, including the largest ancient dam built by the Maya of Central America. That dam – constructed from cut stone, rubble and earth – stretched more than 260 feet in length, stood about 33 feet high and held about 20 million gallons of water in a man-made reservoir. These findings on ancient Maya water and land-use systems at Tikal, located in northern Guatemala, are scheduled to appear this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in an article titled “Water and Sustainable Land Use at the Ancient Tropical City of Tikal, Guatemala.” The research sheds new light on how the Maya conserved and used their natural resources to support ... More | | 
An imported bowl characteristic of the Hellenistic period. The bowl was found in a layer of harbor sludge. This layer contained thousands of intact pottery vessels, potsherds, etc. Photo: Kobi Sharvit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
JERUSALEM.- The harbor is considered the largest and most important in the country in the Hellenistic period. Among the finds there: large mooring stones that were incorporated in the quay, which were used to secure sailing vessels. This is probably a military harbor. In archaeological excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting at the foot of Akko’s southern seawall, installations were exposed that belong to a harbor that was operating in the city already in the Hellenistic period (third-second centuries BCE) and was the most important port in Israel at that time. The finds were discovered during the course of archaeological excavations being carried out as part of the seawall conservation project undertaken by the Old Akko Development Company and underwritten by the Israel Lands Administration. The first evidence indicating the possible existence of this quay was in 2009 when a section of pavemen ... More |
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| M&M maker Mars gives Smithsonian's National Museum of American History $5M for exhibit | | Sotheby's Paris announces sale of the Marcel Brient Collection of Contemporary art | | Space shuttle Enterprise set to open to public at the Sea, Air and Space Museum | 
Mars, Incorporated funds American business exhibition at Smithsonian. Exhibition opens 2015 in the National Museum of American History. Photo: National Museum of American History.
By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- Candy maker Mars Inc. is donating $5 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to create a new gallery focused on business and innovation in the United States dating back to the 1700s, the museum announced Wednesday. The McLean, Va.-based maker of Snickers, M&Ms and pet foods will be the lead sponsor of a planned "American Enterprise" exhibit. The 8,000-square-foot multimedia gallery will trace the nation's economic development from a small agricultural nation to one of the world's largest economies. In announcing the gift, Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough said it will tell a broad story about business for visitors of all ages. The Smithsonian is naming the gallery the Mars Hall of American Business. It is scheduled ... More | | 
Martial Raysse, Arbre. Assemblage d’objets, 180 x 80 x 80 cm. Exécuté en 1959-1960. Estimate: 200 000–300 000 €. Photo: Sotheby’s / ArtDigitalStudio.
PARIS.- Sotheby’s announced the sale of part of the Marcel Brient Collection of Contemporary Art, to be held in Paris on 25th September 2012 and consisting of around 100 lots reflecting the collecting career of this intuitive, free-thinking Frenchman. The ensemble presents a rich overview of creation in France since the 1960s, and of the extraordinary diversity of the artists involved. In the words of Stefano Moreni, Head of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s France: ‘Although this ensemble selected from the Marcel Brient Collection makes no claim to be exhaustive, it will offer collectors from France and around the world a deeply varied insight into the work of artists in France over the last forty years, and a rare opportunity to acquire works that occupy a major role in the history of art.’ Over four decades Marcel Brient discreetly amassed one of the largest collections of contemporary art in France–m ... More | | 
The Space Shuttle Enterprise sits on display at the Sea, Air and Space Museum. AP Photo/Frank Franklin II.
By: Alex Katz, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- The last time some New Yorkers saw the space shuttle Enterprise, it was zipping around the city, riding piggyback on top of a modified jumbo jet past the Statue of Liberty and other local landmarks. Others got to lay eyes on it as it sailed up the Hudson River on a barge. Today, following its April and June sojourns, the piece of NASA history is on the move no more. The Enterprise, a 150,000-pound mammoth of a flying machine, goes on public display Thursday at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's new Space Shuttle Pavilion. Encased in the center of an accommodating inflatable dome, the shuttle will be available for visitors to admire up close from just feet away. At 57 feet wide and 137 feet long — with a 78 foot wingspan to boot — the Enterprise is an imposing figure with quite a presence in its new home. The space ... More |
| Discussions underway to renovate and restore historic Gustav Stickley house in Syracuse | | National Museum hosts major exhibition of contemporary Indigenous sculpture | | Exhibition at Fraenkel Gallery focuses on an especially fertile period in the career of Garry Winogrand | 
Stickley’s unassuming Queen Anne Victorian house was built in 1900. Photo: Elizabeth L. Crawford / Senior Associate / Crawford & Stearns.
SYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art and the L. & J.G. Stickley Company announced that discussions have begun to explore the possibility of renovating and restoring the Gustav Stickley House, located at 438 Columbus Avenue in Syracuse, as a historic house and museum operated by the Everson Museum. A survey is underway by architects and preservation planners Crawford & Stearns to identify the feasibility of the project and develop a work detail with the costs associated with it. Stickley’s unassuming Queen Anne Victorian house was built in 1900. Following a Christmas Eve fire in 1901, Stickley rebuilt the house with a new Arts and Crafts interior, the first in the United States . The interior is unique and represents the aesthetic shift in America that precipitated the spread of the Arts and Crafts style across the country. The house, which is currently unoccupied, was purchased in 1995 by the L. & J.G. Stickley Compan ... More | | 
Danie Mellor, Red, White and Blue, 2008, mixed media, dimensions variable, tallest 105cm. Courtesy the artist and Caruana and Reid Fine Art. Photo: Australian Museum.
CANBERRA.- A major exhibition of contemporary sculptures by established and emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists opened at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra and will be on display until 14 October 2012. Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture, which features the work of 33 established and emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, is a collaboration between the Australian Museum and Sydney’s Object Gallery. The exhibition features a menagerie* of sculptural works depicting a variety of animals. “Menagerie delights in its variety, its vitality and the range of styles and responses to the natural world. The love of animals is one of those universal qualities that unites all Australians and I am sure this exhibition speaks to everyone who sees it, no matter what their age or background,” said ... More | | 
Garry Winogrand, New York, ca. 1968 (detail). Gelatin-silver print, 11 x 14”. Photo: Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery is showing Garry Winogrand circa 1969, an exhibition focusing on an especially fertile period in the career of one of photography’s most influential artists. The exhibition is comprised of approximately thirty photographs, many of which are being exhibited for the first time. In 2013 Winogrand’s work will be the subject of a major retrospective organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and will travel to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Garry Winogrand began photographing in 1948 at the age of 20. His inclusion in the landmark 1967 exhibition New Documents, curated by John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art, heralded the arrival of a major talent. That exhibition, which also included the work of Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander, traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and influenced an entire generat ... More |
| Six winning photographs commemorating Fenway Park centennial debut in Boston | | National Potrait Gallery in London unveils new portrait of sporting Dame Kelly Holmes | | First solo museum exhibition by artist D-L Alvarez explores horror and the national psyche | 
The Stuff of Dreams, Elena Finiello Portrait. Marshfield, MA. Fan MVP.
BOSTON, MASS.- —The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in partnership with the Boston Red Sox, announces the winners of its online photography contest Grandstand to Gallery: Museum of Fine Arts and Fenway Park Photo Project. Six photographs, chosen from 700 submissions, are displayed in a special exhibition at the MFA on view through October 3 near the Museum’s State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance. Grandstand to Gallery marks the first time the MFA has used social media to gather works of art from the community for display in an exhibition. The contest, launched in late April in celebration of Fenway Park’s centennial, invited fans of the Red Sox and MFA to upload their favorite Fenway photos from the past 100 years to the MFA and Red Sox Facebook pages and RedSox.com. The six winners, in addition to having their works displayed at the Museum and online at www.mfa.org, will be honored at a reception at the MFA tod ... More | | 
Dame Kelly Holmes by Craig Wylie © National Portrait Gallery, Commissioned as part of the First Prize, BP Portrait Award, 2008.
LONDON.- A new portrait of Double Olympic Champion Dame Kelly Holmes has gone on display at the National Portrait Gallery. The portrait is the work of artist Craig Wylie, and was commissioned as part of the First Prize in the BP Portrait Award competition at the Gallery in 2008. The portrait is a large-scale (172 cm x 115 cm) head and shoulders oil painting. The size of the work is important to the artist, who says that the act of painting creates ‘a kind of hyperreality through amplification’. Sittings for the portrait took place in late 2011 during which Wylie took a number of photographs of Dame Kelly Holmes from which to work. The portrait has a narrow format with the sides of the canvas cropped close to the edge of the sitter’s head but leaving space above. With this approach Wylie hoped to focus the attention of the viewer on the sitter’s gaze. The portrait evokes a sense of reflection and represents D ... More | | 
D-L Alvarez: The Closet #13, 2006–07; graphite on paper; 17 ½ x 21 ¼ in. each; courtesy of Derek Eller Gallery, New York.
BERKELEY, CA.- The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents D-L Alvarez / MATRIX 243. D-L Alvarez’s first solo museum exhibition is a haunting meditation on the violent end of innocence. Drawing on iconic imagery from Hollywood horror films, Alvarez, an Oakland-based artist, focuses on the uncanny moments when social and domestic deviance collide. For many, the utopian experiment of the 1960s ended with the Manson Family murders. The decade of countercultural idealism had found its nemesis, and Americans grew wary of social outliers. Horror films featuring grotesque Manson-like transgressions supplanted the more nuanced Hitchcockesque thrillers of the sixties. Likewise, television studios began to abandon tried-and-true sitcoms that offered harmonious caricatures of the American family in favor of more progressive depictions of a less ... More |
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 Autistic student creates dynamic artwork TEQUESTA, FL.- The Lighthouse ArtCenter and its board member Cathy Helowicz are proud to present the extraordinary art of Joshua Silver Banks. Josh Banks, a young man transcending multiple challenges, expresses himself and shares his joyous exuberance of life through his colorful works of art. He was diagnosed with autism around age 2, and now at age 24, he does not speak, but through his artwork Josh is finding his voice. “After teaching Josh therapeutic riding lessons years ago, it was such a joy to reunite with him with through his artwork. I’ve been very involved with the Lighthouse ArtCenter for six years now and it just felt fantastic to showcase his artwork. I’m so proud and amazed at his creativity and am happy that he has found another outlet for his energy,” said Ms. Helowicz, who taught therapeutic riding to Josh. She arranged for Josh to exhibit at the Lighthouse ... More LACMA presents two Michael Heizer exhibitions to complement Levitated Mass LOS ANGELES, CA.- Michael Heizer’s ambitious, large-scale projects are often difficult to realize and just as difficult to document. In the documentation of his own work and of natural sites, the artist took a similarly radical approach by creating photographs and projections scaled to actual size. Michael Heizer: Actual Size presents the artist’s large-scale photographic works in two galleries. In the Resnick Pavilion, Actual Size: Munich Rotary (1971)—shown for the first time in more than three decades—projects Heizer’s 1969 work Munich Depression, a displacement of 1,000 tons of soil from an unbuilt area near Munich, Germany. Installed in BCAM is a series of fifteen individual actual-size photographic prints of rocks in their natural environment that Heizer began in 1970. Taken together, Levitated Mass and Actual Size make a statement about humanity that is both sweeping in scope and specific to ... More Gifts like you've never seen, Greg Londrigan's latest sculpture sheds new light on the spirit of giving GRAND BLANC, MI.- An Artist’s tribute to the world is the complexity of the inner self and his fight to gift a personal vision. A person’s gift to the world is one of generosity and love. To be received by all is it’s own reward. If giving is receiving and receiving is giving then artist Greg Londrigan has certainly been given the gift of sculpture. His latest piece entitled “To: You, From: Me – To: Me, From: You” literally envelops this adage. With a simple complexness the latest sculpture sheds new light on the spirit of giving and receiving. In a surprising moment Greg captures the weightless suspension of two “gifts” or “presents” connected by a dance of intertwined ribbons. With vibrant red ribbons wrapping around pure white gifts attached to a cylindrical base he some how bends the perception of the normal gift giving tradition. Greg Londrigan is known for his clean flowing metal sculptures that could ... More "Tara Bogart: A Modern Hair Study" opens at hous projects in New York NEW YORK, NY.- In an era where most images have been fashioned to fit an ideal of airbrushed, spray tanned, artfully coiffed perfection, the almost effortless authenticity of the cameo-like photographs in Tara Bogart’s A Modern Hair Study is refreshingly unpretentious. She evidently agrees with early 20th century American photographer Edward Weston, who valued “the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.” Bogart is an artist whose passion for photography emerged early in life in her native Milwaukee. Inspired by an archival image of Felix Nadar’s Hair Study while visiting the National Library of France, she has created a series of intimate portraits of women. Focusing solely on their backs and their hair, she forces the viewer “to contend with all of the peripheral things that make each woman unique.” Distinguished both by their ... More Sweet Distemper: A group exhibition organized by Isaac Lyles on view at Derek Eller Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery is presenting Sweet Distemper, a group exhibition organized by Isaac Lyles, featuring work by Anna Betbeze, Samara Golden, Tamara Gonzales, Davina Semo, and Despina Stokou. Sweet Distemper is a riot of paint, mirror, collage, rug, and chain. Urgency and aggression animate the works; play and vim blossom out of the distressed surfaces. With continued looking, the layers of experiential and formal complexity unfurl: Anna Betbeze’s operatic expanses of burnt wool jut against the hard concrete and blackened mirrors of Davina Semo, whose rhythmic grids flow into the cascading lace patterns of Tamara Gonzales’s spray-painted canvases; Despina Stokou’s cancelled text paintings and explicit collages jam into Samara Golden’s Migraine sculptures which hang ominously from golden chains. The rich materiality, glowing with wreckage ... More Maine gardens preserve famed designer's legacy By: Beth J. Harpaz, AP Travel Editor
SEAL HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Some of Maine's most popular destinations are located on Mount Desert Island, including Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. But the island is also home to several remarkable gardens, all connected to the renowned landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, whose philosophy of garden design emphasized native plants and using natural landscapes to define outdoor spaces. One of the gardens, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Seal Harbor, is a private garden that's open to the public, by reservation only, just a few days a year. But the other two, Thuya Garden and Asticou Azalea Garden in Northeast Harbor, which contain plants from Farrand's Bar Harbor home, welcome visitors daily for much of the spring, summer and ... More |
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