Passionate art lovers will sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to see or acquire a piece of art. Franck Goddio spent 13 years uncovering the sunken ancient Egyptian city of Thonis in the Mediterranean Sea (see below) to reveal exquisite treasures such as a grand temple of the god Amun. Whether it’s finding sunken artifacts or the chance discovery of a rare antique object at a bric-a-bac stall, there is a definite allure to searching for art and being rewarded with a find. The dedication of collectors who harbor a desire to to own a piece of art is also noteworthy. They can spend decades patiently waiting for a piece to become available and with luck manage to be triumphant at an auction. Enduring day long journeys in heat and dust to see rare statues or visit a temple is also where the dedication of the art aficionados is on display. Rising before sunrise on the weekend to get to an antique market to snare a bargain is also the modus operandi for some. Even a visit to the Paris Louvre requires a certain dedication with the long queues. Fortunately they are handsomely rewarded for their efforts. The painstaking work of archaeologists to discover and unearth mysteries from the past is admirable for their commitment.
This post presents a collection of links ranging from travel destinations for art, museums, art and antique exhibitions, pottery fairs and other guides for finding and exploring art.
Art exploration – ancient and contemporary:
Venice Biennial 2017 13May – 26 November 2017
http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2017
Berlin Art Week 13 – 17 September 2017
Berlin Art Week is a highlight on the contemporary art calendar in the German capital. For the sixth time, the Berlin art world will be hosting exhibition openings, fairs, prize award ceremonies, artist films, and numerous special events during the week. The rich variety of this fall program is made possible by the joint collaboration of institutions, galleries, artist, collectors, and project spaces and draws international attention.
http://www.berlinartweek.de/en/berlin-art-week.html
Salad Days 2017
Saturday, July 8 from 11:00 am-3:00 pm!
http://www.watershedceramics.org/events/salad-days/
ICFF — May 21-24, 2017 Javits Center, NYC
NGV – Van Gogh and the Seasons
28 APR 17 – 9 JUL 17
‘The parsonage garden in the snow’ – Van Gogh
January 1885 Nuenen
‘Wheatfield’ June 1888 Arles – Vincent Van Gogh
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/van-gogh-and-the-seasons/
Small Great Italian Museums
http://papale-papale.it/categoria/12/pagina/2
Art in Clay Hatfield
18th 19th 20th August 2017
Pottery & Ceramics Festival
Hatfield House
Hertfordshire
Scvlptvre
November 18, 19, 20 2016
Palais des congrès de Montréal.
Terry lazaroff
http://www.scvlptvre.com/
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
Sydney, Australia
20th October – 6th November, 2016
See more sculptures here – Sculpture by the Sea – 20th Anniversary
Biennale Interieur 2016
25th Silver Edition
14-23 October Kortrijk, Belgium
https://interieur.be/biennale/2016/participants/news
Berlin Art Week
13 – 18 September, 2016
Berlin Art Week
photo Amin Akhtar
http://www.berlinartweek.de/en/berlin-art-week.html
Plaza Art Fair
Friday, September 23, 2016 – Sunday, September 25, 2016
http://countryclubplaza.com/event/plaza-art-fair/
Degas – A New Vision – NGV – (National Gallery Victoria)
Currently running till 18th September 2016
‘The Woman In Movement’ – Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas is one of the most celebrated artists associated with French Impressionism. The art he made over more than fifty years of constant creativity and renewal embraces painting, drawing, printmaking, monotypes, sculpture and photography, and has had an immense impact on modern and contemporary art. Modern life as he experienced it in nineteenth-century Paris provided Degas with a repertoire of motifs he explored with endless variation and innovation; from scenes of work and industry to ballet and the theatre, racecourses and boudoirs. This sweeping exhibition brings together more than 200 works by Degas from dozens of collections worldwide, offering a fresh and dynamic reappraisal of this legendary artist’s genius.
Le Don du Fel – 9th European Ceramic Sculpture Festival, 2016
Mo Jupp, Jean-Marie Borgeaud, Emma Rodgers, Michael Flynn, Michel Wohlfahrt
from the 26th of June to the 11th of August, 2016
Jean Marie Borgeaud
http://ledondufel.com/en/now-showing/
MAISON&OBJET
September 2- 6, 2016
September 3-10, 2016 – Paris Design Week
The multi-multicultural crossroads of contemporary living.
MAISON&OBJET is the major event for professionals working in the art of living in all its rich and varied expressions. The lifestyle show brings together a 360°product offering. Decoration, design, furniture, accessories, textiles, fragrances, the world of children, tableware.
http://www.maison-objet.com/en/paris-design-week
Futura festival, 2016
25 to 27 August
20 concerts, 1 Nuit Blanche (from midnight to 8 am),
100 speakers, for concerts in total sound immersion
1 large screen for video projections
6 performers on acousmonium: Eric Broitmann , Guillaume Contré ,Tomonari Higaki , Olivier Lamarche , Jonathan Prager and Nathanaëlle Raboisson
http://festivalfutura.fr/
Sublime Symmetry, 2016
A touring exhibition showcasing the work of celebrated Victorian Arts and Crafts designer, William De Morgan.
1st june to 4th September 2016 – free entry
Cannon Hall Museum, Park and Gardens, Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley South Yorkshire S75 4AT
Set in 70 acres of parkland, this country house museum is home to an impressive collection including ceramics, glass, furniture and Old Master paintings.
William De Morgan, Two Handled Vase with Persian Floral Decoration, 1882-1888
© De Morgan Foundation
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
21 May 2016 to 21 Jan 2017 – Free Entry
Non Vital –
The artist’s first major retrospective in the UK brings together the work he has created in locales across the world.
‘Heads’ – Non Vital – 2014
Photo Eric Gregory Powell
The historically designed landscape of YSP remains home to a series of monumental and imposing sculptures by KAWS
Monumental Kaws sculpture
http://www.ysp.co.uk/
Sydney Vivid 2016 – Light, Music, Ideas
27 May to 18 June
http://www.vividsydney.com/?nst=0&gclid=CKPv69Tu-8wCFUccvAod_Q4Cug&gclsrc=aw.ds
Heiva, Tahiti
Thursday 02 to Saturday, June 4 at Place To’ata.
The annual Heiva, started in 1881, is an iconic event for Polynesian culture. Dance competitions, which are some of the most important events in Heiva, are prepared for months in advance by dancers.
‘The Hand-dance of Aparima’ – Heiva, Tahiti
photo -Mark Sisson
http://www.tahiti-tourisme.pf/heiva/heivaheiva-des-ecoles-de-danses/programme-du-22eme-heiva-des-ecoles/
Mount Hagen Cultural Show 2016 – New Guinea
20th – 21st August
Tribes from all over the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea and other neighbouring tribes from the Highlands region will gather in the township of Mt. Hagen to put on exciting cultural performances.
http://www.papuanewguinea.travel/viewservices/News.aspx?Pop=1&rqEventID=249
Venice Art Crawl – July 21, 2016
VENICE ART CRAWL • FRESH AIR • FRESH ART
The Venice Art Crawl’s mission is to foster and reinvigorate the creativity that has historically and currently makes Venice such a vibrant and dynamic community.
VAC light sculpture – Shana Koenig
http://venicechamber.chambermaster.com/events/details/venice-art-crawl-may-2016-14087
5th International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics of Sevres
from 12 to 29 May 2016 – 47 Grande Rue, Sevres, France
Ceramic Biennale (5th edition )
Now unavoidable, this international biennial welcomes the guests of honor Valérie Hermans and Jean-Paul Azaïs along with 42 other ceramic artists.
They share a love of nature and the earth. On clean shapes, box, nest, they drove passionate research. John Paul reveals the poetry of clay with natural glazes. Valerie works with high temperature glazes and especially celadon. Both, alchemists, playing with fire.
See more here
10 London highlights
A visitor walks through an exhibition room at the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, UK. Photo: Bloomberg
http://www.traveller.com.au/london-10-things-most-visitors-to-london-miss-goqggx
Visiting Masterpieces: Pairing Picasso
February 13, 2016 – June 26, 2016
Picasso cubist sculpture
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/visiting-masterpieces-pairing-picasso
London Gallery – Erskine, Hall and Coe
Nine Potters Anniversary Edition
30th March – 23 April, 2016
An exhibition featuring the works of Michael Cardew, Claudi Casanovas, Hans Coper, Elizabeth Fritsch, Ewen Henderson, Bernard Leach, Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, Elizabeth Raeburn and Lucie Rie.
http://www.erskinehallcoe.com/
Annual Michigan Regional Exhibition
May 12 – August 3
Long Beach Antique Market, USA
Long Beach Veterans Stadium – Antiques, Collectibles, Vintage items
Third Sunday of every month, next event on Sunday July 17
http://www.longbeachantiquemarket.com/
Art Nouveau and architecture
http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/11-04/eight-places-to-find-art-nouveau-around-the-world.html
Discovery of sunken Egyptian city
Known as Thonis to the ancient Egyptians and Heracleion to the ancient Greeks the city was rediscovered in 2000 by French underwater archaeologist Dr. Franck Goddio and a team from the European Institute for Underwater Archeology (IEASM) after a four-year geophysical survey. On the sunken Island of Antirhodos, the ruins of the lost city the size of Paris was found 30 feet under the surface of the Mediterranean Sea in Aboukir Bay, near Alexandria. This city, shrouded in myth, was swallowed by the Mediterranean Sea and buried in sand and mud for more than 1,200 years. Archeologists are now unearthing the mysteries of Heracleion, and uncovering amazingly well-preserved artifacts telling the story of a vibrant classical-era port.
Egyptian statue buried underwater
Portrait of a pharaoh, Quartzite, 25th dynasty (712-661 BC) with characteristic traits of the statuary of the 25th so-called Ethiopian Dynasty (8th century BC).
Lifting an Egyptian statue from the submerged city – Monumental statue of red granite (5.4 m) representing Hapy, god of the Nile flood and symbol of abundance and fertility.
Head of a colossal red granite statue of a pharaoh is raised to the surface.
Discovery of an ancient inscribed Egyptian tablet- The stele of Thonis-Heracleion (1.90 m), ordered by Pharaoh Nectanebo I (378-362 BC), is almost identical to the stele of Naukratis in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo.
Franck Goddio and his team watch the rise to the surface of a colossal statue of red granite (5.4 m) representing the god Hapy, symbol of abundance and fertility and god of the Nile flood which stood in front of the temple of Heracleion. Never before has the statue of a god of this size been discovered in Egypt, which indicates Hapy’s importance for the Canopic branch, the largest and most important of the Nile branches at that time. Hapy looks happy to be rediscovered.
One of the finest finds in Abukir Bay is the remarkable dark stone statue of a 3rd century Ptolemaic queen, very probably Cleopatra II or Cleopatra III
Recovery of monumental Egyptian sculpture – archaeologists Franck Goddio and his team inspect the colossal red granite statue of a pharaoh of over 5 metres height, weighing 5.5 tons
The statue of an Isis priest holding an Osiris-jar found on the sunken Island of Antirhodos in the great harbour of Alexandria
Above view of the colossal triad of 5-metre high red granite statues of a pharaoh, his queen and the god Hapy, dating from the 4th century BC, which stood in front of the great temple of Heracleion. They are lying on a pontoon barge together with the 17 fragments of an over 5-metre high 2nd century BC red granite stele in reassembly.
Egyptian potter ?
A diver eye-to-eye with a sphinx made out of black granite. The face of the sphinx is believed to represent Ptolemy XII, father of the famous Cleopatra VII.
Majestic lion statue
Ceramic bowl that dates from the 1st century BC – 1st century AD. Its shape suggests that it may have been used for divination rituals.
Sunken Cities – Egypt’s lost worlds
19 May – 27 November 2016, British Museum
More Franck Goddio finds
Porcelain dishes in blue and white appear after the sediment has been removed from the wreck of the Lena Shoal junk.
Rediscovering Shi Cheng, a Chinese Lion City which was flooded half a century ago
All photos ©Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation, photo: Christoph Gerigk
franckgoddio.org
Easter Island Moai have bodies too
Excavated Easter Island Moai reveals the hidden body, which got buried through mud slides.
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Art of Santa Fe
List of Sante Fe galleries – follow link
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-d-santa-fe-main-20151004-story.html
Lucio Lopez-Rey
JCompton Gallery
LAPADA Art & Antiques Association
Click the link below for the 2016 calendar of 20 Art and Antique events
http://lapada.org/events/
Olympia art and antique fair, UK
Potfest in the Park 2016 – July 29th – 31st
Fri, Sat & Sun 10am – 5pm daily
Over 100 exhibitors from all over Europe and beyond. All with very distinctive individual styles, all passionate about working with clay.
”Monks Cave’ by Daniel Boyle
Potfest in the Park
‘They came from the East, bearing gifts’ by Ralph Jandrell
Photos Christine Cox
Rodin Museum
http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/musee-rodin
Camille Claudel
Burghers of Calais – Auguste Rodin
Musée Rodin
Potters Market Seillans, France
August 15, 2016
http://www.potiers-seillans.com/#ad-image-1
Seillans pottery market
The Madrid Art and Ceramics Fair
From 19/11/2016 to 27/11/2016. From 12:00 to 21:00.
http://www.ifema.es/feriarte_01/Visitantes/FeriarteColecciona/index.htm
Madrid Art and Ceramics Fair
Art Deco cities
http://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2015-02-20/10-great-art-deco-cities-you-might-not-know-about/1
Napier Art Deco
Keramisto 2016! Netherlands
17 and 18 September
http://www.keramisto.nl/nl/26-laatste-nieuws/39-internationale-keramiekmanifestatie-keramisto-2016.html
Keramisto
London free art
http://www.timeout.com/london/art/free-art-in-london
Photograph by Richard Avedon
European Art Nouveau
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/mar/29/10-best-art-nouveau-cities-europe-prague-budapest-glasgow
Art Nouveau Museum, Riga
Art Basel Modern and contemporary art, Miami
December 1 – 4, 2016
https://www.artbasel.com/miami-beach
Guaratiba – Roberto Burle Marx, 1989
Paris by the beach
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/jul/06/10-best-ways-enjoy-paris-on-a-budget
Musée Carnavalet. Photograph- R Ian Lloyd
Masterfile/Corbis
Museums and galleries of Paris
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/paris/articles/Pariss-best-museums-and-art-galleries/
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Budget Venice
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/veneto/venice/articles/Venice-on-a-budget-the-best-cheap-hotels-and-restaurants/
Gothic relief in Venice, sculpted around 1430, showing Madonna and Child sided by Mark the Evangelist and John the Baptist, Campo San Zaccaria
Photo by Giovanni Dall’Orto – Wikimedia Commons
Paris Louvre
The Louvre’s collection covers Western art from the medieval period to 1848, formative works from the civilisations of the ancient world, and works of Islamic art. See the collections with the link.
Nymph and Triton surrounded by two geniuses – Jean Goujon
http://www.louvre.fr/en/departements
If you want to avoid the queues then try using the entrance at the Porte des Lions just east of the Pont Royal; at number 99 the Rue du Rivoli; at the Arc du Carousel or directly from the Metro station Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre (platform on line 1).
You can escape the queues completely by purchasing your ticket in advance at FNAC or other department stores
http://www.traveller.com.au/amazing-museums-of-the-world-welcome-to-wonderland-gmo016
Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Lansing, USA
13 art trips
http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestravelguide/2015/08/13/13-art-trips-you-need-to-take/#3137149b4da8
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/may/18/10-best-european-museums-paris-berlin-rome
Centrale Montemartini, Rome
Photograph–Massimo Listri, Corbis
http://www.touropia.com/tourist-attractions-in-paris/
Argilla Argentona. International Ceramics Fair
1st, 2nd and 3rd July 2016
Argentona street market
Free Paris
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/france/paris/travel-tips-and-articles/76886
Italian cultural holidays
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/articles/The-top-10-cultural-holidays-in-Italy/
San Vitale mosaic, Ravenna
Leaning tower, Pisa
Paris off the beaten track
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/may/06/top-10-art-culture-paris
Venice highlights
http://www.traveller.com.au/20-reasons-to-visit-venice-gniadh
Mid Century ceramic vessel – San Polo, Venice
San Giorgio Maggiore Church, Venice
The Baroque church rises on homonymous island; visible from San Marco Square
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Federation Square, Melbourne
The home of Australian art, presenting Indigenous and non-Indigenous art from the colonial period to the present day.
General entry is free
Open 10am–5pm
Enfilade and Intrafilament, the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square
The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show
October 27-30
Patrick Mestdagh
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