Monday, September 01, 2025

A rare gold coin of Egyptian Queen Berenice II was uncovered in excavations conducted at the City of David

The rare gold coin uncovered in the Israel Antiquities Authority excavations at the City of David. Photo: Eliyahu Yanai, City of David.
JERUSALEM.— A very rare gold coin, bearing the portrait of Egyptian Queen Berenice II, was found in the Givati Parking Lot excavation in the City of David National Park, conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority. The coin is a small denomination quarter-drachma, made of pure gold (99.3%), dated to 246–241 BCE, during the reign of Ptolemy III, husband of Queen Berenice II. This is the first coin of its kind worldwide found in a clear archaeological context, and one of only 20 known in existence. The rare coin will be displayed to the public in early September as part of the City of David Research Conference. The obverse of the coin depicts Berenice as a Hellenistic queen, wearing a diadem and veil, with a necklace around her neck. The reverse depicts a cornucopia, a symbol of prosperity and fertility, flanked by two stars. Around the cornucopia is the Greek inscription “of Queen Berenice.” The coin was discovered during soil sifting adjacent to the excavation area by Rivka Langler, an excavator at the Givati Parking Lot. “I was sifting the excavation soil when suddenly I saw something shiny. I picked it up and realized it was a gold coin. At first, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, but within seconds I was running excitedly through the excavation site. I’ve been excavating in the City of David for two years, and this is the first time I’ve found gold! I always saw other excavators discovering special finds, and I kept waiting for my moment – and now it finally arrived!” “The coin is the only one of its kind ever discovered outside Egypt, which was the center of Ptolemaic rule,” said Dr. Robert Kool, Head of the Numismatics Department at the Israel Antiquities Authority, and Dr. Haim Gitler, Chief Curator of Archaeology and Curator of Numismatics at the Israel Museum, who studied the coin. The Greek inscription “BASILEISSES” – “of the Queen” – is rare on coins of this peri...
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Final weeks to see modernist masterpieces from Berlin at the National Gallery

CANBERRA.— Closing on 21 September 2025, Cézanne to Giacometti marks the first time works of art from one of the most significant hubs of modern art in Germany – the Museum Berggruen collection – have been shown in Australia. Exclusive to the National Gallery in Kamberri/Canberra, Cézanne to Giacometti brings together 80 rarely seen works from the renowned Museum Berggruen collection in direct dialogue with over 75 works from the national collection. Spanning over a century of artistic transformation, the exhibition examines the moments of contact and exchange between groundbreaking European artists and their Australian counterparts. The avant-garde visions of Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Alberto Giacometti shaped 20th century modern art in Europe. Australian artists such as Grace Cossington Smith, John Passmore,
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Royal treasures unveiled: Medals of Italy's last kings go under the hammer in Geneva

GENEVA.— Piguet Auction House announced the auction of an exceptional collection of medals originating directly from the House of Savoy. These unpublished medals form part of the prestigious collection assembled by the last two Kings of Italy, Their Majesties King Victor-Emmanuel III and King Umberto II, and carefully preserved to this day by the latter’s daughter, H.R.H. Princess Maria-Gabriella of Savoy. Unveiled to the public for the very first time in Geneva, within the galleries of Hôtel des Ventes Piguet from September 18 to 21, this remarkable ensemble of several hundred rare pieces retraces major European events from the 17th to the 20th century through commemorative medals of the House of Savoy and of the Kingdoms of Italy and Sardinia. The auction will take place exclusively online from September 10 to 22. Victor-Emmanuel III of Italy (1869–1947) had a scholarly passion for the history of coins and medals. Throughout his life, he assembled one of the most
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Lead weight inscribed with the name of an official in the Hellenistic administration recovered

JERUSALEM.— A rare lead weight, bearing an inscription from about 2,150 years ago and preserved in excellent condition, was seized in Jerusalem in an operation by the Theft Prevention Unit of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The inscription – “Heliodorus son of Apollonios, Agoranomos” – records the name of the official responsible for regulating weights and measures. It is dated to year 165 of the Seleucid era (148/7 BCE), during the Hellenistic rule in the Land of Israel. Alongside the inscription, a depiction of a dolphin appears, the meaning of which is still under study, with the hope of identifying the city from which the weight originated. The weight was seized in an antiquities shop in Jerusalem, following intelligence information received by the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Theft Prevention Unit. Inspectors of the Authority questioned the shop owner in an attempt to trace the
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Living better by design in NGV's Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday exhibition

MELBOURNE.— From air-purifying paints to edible coffee cups and leather made from seafood waste and mushrooms, NGV’s latest design exhibition, Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday, brings together the work of more than 50 Australian and international designers, spotlighting products and systems that improve the health and wellbeing of society and the environment. On view at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Making Good explores a powerful shift in design practice driven by studios and entrepreneurs who are transforming products used in daily life such as clothing, toiletries, and grocery items, to be both functional and make a positive impact. Visitors will discover designers who have developed innovative solutions to repurpose and recycle construction waste into sustainable building materials. These designers include glass artist Matthew Curtis, who has developed architectural glass blocks made from recycled television screens and waste float-glass from the construction industry, and
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Larry Bell 'Irresponsible Iridescence' to open at 101 Spring Street

NEW YORK, NY.— Judd Foundation presents Irresponsible Iridescence, an exhibition of new work by Larry Bell at 101 Spring Street in New York. The exhibition is comprised of twelve ‘Solar Study’ works, in which Bell moves beyond pure abstraction to explore narrative two-dimensional compositions of surface and light. Exhibited for the first time, the ‘Solar Study’ series (2024) is a striking departure from work Bell has done before utilizing new processes and technologies. Following a transition to solar powered-energy, Bell created almost one hundred new works over a short period of time in his studio in Taos, New Mexico. “Sometimes when I’m lucky the work creates itself,” Bell summarizes of the process. “I am only responsible for turning on the equipment and turning it off. The results of the use
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Hauser & Wirth Basel unveils first Swiss exhibition of Symbolist master Eugène Carrière

BASEL.— As part of the Kunsttage Basel 2025, an exhibition dedicated to the renowned French Symbolist artist Eugène Carrière (1849 – 1906) opened at Hauser & Wirth’s gallery in Basel, one of the first in Switzerland. ‘Sculpting Light’ spans 20 years of the artist’s practice, from 1885 to ca. 1905, traversing some of the artist’s best known subjects, from portraits and intimate depictions of mothers and children to landscapes. The exhibition explores these motifs through Carrière’s conceptual use of light. As curator and art historian Helen Hirsch writes: ‘Carrière uses light as a metaphor for the inner light of the subject, for its aura. It is not just a stylistic device; it also has a symbolic function for the artist as an emblem of a person’s inner vitality and charisma: their outer appearance is an expression of their inner light.’ Seen through this lens, ‘Sculpting Light’ celebrates the work of an under-appreciated artist whose pa
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Derek Eller Gallery announces a solo exhibition of new paintings by Jameson Green

NEW YORK, NY.— Derek Eller Gallery will present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Jameson Green entitled Crutches, Crosses, Caskets / Caskets, Crosses, Crutches. For his fifth solo show at the gallery, Green evolves both techincally and conceptually, fine tuning his style and content to present his most singular voice to date. Crutches, Crosses, Caskets / Caskets, Crosses, Crutches references a representation of the Black community which centers around a cyclical metaphor for change: Crutches, a culture wounded by its own hand or circumstance but wounded perhaps even fatally; Crosses, it will be prayed for, as a pastor prays for the soul at a funeral; Caskets into the soil you shall return, but like anything created there will be an end. By then flippng the title to Caskets, Crosses, Crutches, the metaphor becomes about rebirth: from the ground we arise; through religion we find faith, and through strength we persevere. The largest painting in the show, entitled Colored TV
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assume vivid astro focus opens Friday at Tibor de Nagy Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.— Tibor de Nagy will present ablaze vibrations amplifying fluidity, a solo exhibition by assume vivid astro focus. This exhibition features six vibrantly hued paintings displayed on custom wallpaper (a special collaboration between AVAF and Chambord Prints). The combination of paintings and wallpaper creates an environment where a vast spectrum of colors and textures envelops the viewer. With this body of work, AVAF explores the interplay between color as a universal language and its capacity to heal and energize. Drawing from the artist's uniquely produced palettes, a system that they have employed to produce over 1,400 color tones, the new works aim to create a tactile and emotional connection between the viewer and the work. These colors also mimic the luminosity of our daily interaction with digital screens or devices,
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Exhibition of works by Ebecho Muslimova opens at Kunsthall Stavanger in Norway

STAVANGER.— Kunsthall Stavanger presents Fatebe Shadows, the first Scandinavian solo exhibition by acclaimed painter Ebecho Muslimova. The exhibition showcases her vibrant and provocative character ‘Fatebe’, and features newly commissioned paintings created by the artist specifically for Kunsthall Stavanger. At the core of Muslimova’s practice is a fascination with the archetype of the Trickster; a mythological character who crosses boundaries, disrupts norms, and through disorder asks us to reconsider our fixed notions of order and identity. Drawing from mythological and Jungian concepts of the trickster, Muslimova uses Fatebe to peel back the subconscious and reveal the creative potential residing in what we often try to suppress. At Kunsthall Stavanger, Fatebe Shadows unfolds as a vivid exploration of the individual and collective subconscious through
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Bortolami to host first New York gallery show of artist Xiyadie

NEW YORK, NY.— Bortolami will present a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Xiyadie, marking the first gallery show in New York of his hand-cut and dyed paper works. This presentation follows his debut American exhibit at the Drawing Center co-curated by Rosario Güiraldes and Hera Chan in 2023. Since his premiere in New York, Xiyadie’s work has been presented at the 60th Venice Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Xiyadie–meaning Siberian butterfly–began working under this pseudonym in the 1990s, upon his move to Beijing as a migrant worker from Weinan, in the Northwest of China. The chosen name denotes a twinned freedom and resilience, as the unbounded and delicate creature is primed to survive the harshest of climates. Prior to his relocation, and since the 1980s, Xiyadie has continued the oft-feminized domestic métier of papercuts, freely snipped and hand-dyed, a tradition passed down from his mother. Like his self-appointed moniker, the cutouts are at once
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Ruiz-Healy Art presents "Views from Mexico: A 20th-Century Panorama"

NEW YORK, NY.— Ruiz-Healy Art presents Views from Mexico: A 20th-Century Panorama, a group exhibition showcasing works by Dr. Atl, Federico Cantú, Pedro Friedeberg, Mathias Goeritz, Julia Lopez, Feliciano Peña, and Francisco Toledo, among others. The exhibition will be on view at our New York City gallery from September 5 to October 31, 2025. Covering nearly a century, the exhibition provides a glimpse into the fluidity and evolution of global artistic movements and how they are interpreted in Mexico. Ranging from realism, abstraction, surrealism, and modernism, the featured artists cultivated and mastered these styles, influencing the cultural landscape of 20th-century Mexico. Following the 1910-1920 Mexican Revolution, the country experienced a cultural and political revival that motivated artists to experiment with new techniques, subjects, and media. The early Mexican Renaissance aimed to create a distinct national identity, emphasizing pre-Hispanic imagery and the natural landscape. Artists such
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Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal presents 19th edition of the Biennale d'art contemporain

MONTREAL.— The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) is co-presenting with MOMENTA the central exhibition of the 19th edition of the Biennale d’art contemporain, In Praise of the Missing Image, in its temporary space at Place Ville Marie from September 11, 2025, to March 8, 2026. Curated by guest curator Marie-Ann Yemsi, this exhibition brings together works by artists Iván Argote, Maureen Gruben, Joyce Joumaa, Niap, Lee Shulman + Omar Victor Diop — The Anonymous Project, and Sanaz Sohrabi. By focusing on what escapes visibility, silences and gaps in individual and collective memory, the works assembled here address both the contemporary stakes of the image and the present day consequences of the complex dynamics behind narrative construction. In Praise of the Missing Image, in this context, invites reflection on how the stories we are told are shaped and by whom. Through a variety of media such as photography, sculpture, installation, and video,
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Paul Thiebaud Gallery announces John Santoro: Mud Time and the Sprites of Spring

Paul Thiebaud Gallery announces the opening of Mud Time and the Sprites of Spring, an exhibition of new paintings by Chicago based artist John Santoro, on Saturday, September 13, 2025 with a reception from 3-5pm and an artist talk at 3:30pm. On view will be twelve new oil paintings depicting abstracted landscapes in Santoro’s rigorous and evocative brushstrokes. Thickly painted wet on wet, Santoro’s impastoed canvases capture the movement and drama of extreme weather as it plays out in the world around us. The exhibition will be on view through November 8, 2025. Inspired by the seasonal changes brought about by the arrival of Spring, billowing clouds, and wind whipping storms of his native Chicago, John Santoro interprets these phenomena through the language of gestural abstraction. In works such as Mud Time and the Sand

Northwestern Qatar's Media Majlis Museum presents Memememememe

The Media Majlis Museum at Northwestern University in Qatar will explore Internet memes through the lens of measurement in its 10th exhibition, “Memememememe,” opening on September 1, 2025, and running through December 4, 2025. Curated by Jack Thomas Taylor, curator of art, media, and technology, and Assistant Curator Amal Zeyad Ali, the exhibition examines how digital memes serve as cultural barometers, emotional shorthand, and vehicles for political commentary that influence contemporary consciousness. Through four interconnected themes —Mass, Length, Time, and Volume— it looks at how these small yet powerful units of culture spread, mutate, and measure our collective thought. “As a university museum integrated in NU-Q’s academic mission, the Media Majlis Museum blends scholarship, art, and media to make a fuller sense

Jacco Olivier explores isolation and the human condition in new exhibition, Point Nemo

Galerie Ron Mandos will present the new solo exhibition Point Nemo by Dutch artist Jacco Olivier. The exhibition opens on Saturday, September 20, and runs through Sunday, October 26. The exhibition brings together a series of new paintings and animations that reflect on isolation and the human search for meaning in life. How far and remote places can be; how we are sometimes bound to one place yet long in our minds for a horizon elsewhere. Olivier’s works move between these extremes: the urge to escape and the inevitable realization that one is always anchored somewhere. The title refers to the most distant point on earth from any mainland: a place without an island, without a buoy, without a landmark. Only water. And yet, in Olivier’s imagination, a rock appears—a hold for thought, a place to land. He created four monumental paintings of this solitary

Philadelphia's 20/20 Photo Festival returns in September 2025

In September 2025, Philadelphia celebrates photography! The sixth annual 20/20 Photo Festival will showcase the diversity of contemporary photography through exhibitions, artist talks, demonstrations, workshops, and hands-on public events—all free or low-cost and open to the public. This year's theme, Structures invites artists and audiences alike to explore, represent, and challenge the physical, social, and conceptual structures that shape our lives and our art. A core mission of the Festival is to make photography accessible and welcoming to all, and this year’s programming continues that tradition by providing opportunities for the community to experience photography in fresh, engaging, and inclusive ways. The week of events runs from Thursday, September 4 through Sunday, September 11, 2025, with programming taking place

Jenny Jisun Kim: Verses on Oxherding opens September 5 at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery

A consonant is defined by an impediment – a partial or complete obstruction of the airflow in the vocal tract. It is the antithesis of the directness expressed by a vowel – a sound produced with an open vocal tract, allowing air to flow freely. Ironically, the free flow of air alone does not produce a full spectrum of desired meanings. It is its inhibition that completes human spoken language. Arguably, all paintings are translations; imagery is predetermined in the painter’s mind before it is realized on canvas. True to both traditions of representation and abstraction, this process of cartography is never one hundred percent accurate. The artist’s style is revealed by the methods of translation between the “imagery in mind” and the “imagery realized.” Some are “vowel” painters who keep their mouths open and resist the blockage of the flow. Contrarily, “consonant”

Mathieu Cherkit's new exhibition turns everyday life into art

“Always on My Mind,” Mathieu Cherkit’s fourth solo show with Xippas and his second exhibition in the gallery’s Paris location, draws inspiration from the artist’s own domestic sphere and daily routines. While some of the eleven new paintings on view revisit locations he has depicted in previous works (like Glissement, 2025, which features a distinctive twisting yellow staircase), others explore new terrains, including his galley kitchen (Yelo Voodoo, 2025), home office (TT, 2025), garden (Iris and Cerasus serrulate, both 2025), and the paved road winding past his front door (Grande rue, 2023-2024). Recalling the fervor with which van Gogh painted the interior and environs of his beloved “yellow house” in Arles, Cherkit’s depictions of his immediate surroundings are rooted in reality and capture fleeting emotional experiences of place. While details like recognizable brand logos, familiar elements of home décor, and quotidian electronics firmly re

Ayana Ross's solo exhibition Saving Our Sacred Selves opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia

“Preservation is not simply survival—it is continuity, awareness, daily resistance, care and righteous imagining. Saving Our Sacred Selves examines how we preserve our individual and collective selves and what should be carried forward or relinquished. Grounded in the artist’s introspective inquiry, the exhibition straddles the tension between what the world forgets and what we fight to remember—our stories, our legacy, and the unseen, but critical, bonds that shape who we are. The work draws upon the prophetic frameworks of Black women writers and thinkers—most notably Alice Walker, Octavia Butler, and Toni Morrison— as reminders that imagining is a radical act, that predicting what’s ahead can be practical, and that what

Speed Art Museum presents documentary honoring the unseen labor behind the Kentucky Derby

This fall, the Speed Art Museum will host screenings of Backside, a compelling, observational documentary by Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana that honors the primarily immigrant workforce quietly sustaining the horseracing industry. Filmed over five years by an all-LatinX team, Backside offers an intimate look at the lives of workers who begin their days before dawn, seven days a week, caring for some of the world’s most prized racehorses in the barns behind Churchill Downs—known as the “backside.” Screenings will take place at Speed Cinema from Thursday, September 25 through Sunday, September 28, 2025, with post-film discussions featuring the director, producers, and grooms featured in the documentary. A Spanish-language screening with discussion in Spanish will also be offered. This marks one of the first screenings of Backside outside

Pedro Costa Innervisions 30th anniversary exhibition at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

On this occasion, to mark the 30th anniversary of the grand opening of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, it is holding the exhibition Pedro Costa Innervisions. Representing Portugal, filmmaker Pedro Costa (1958–) has been highly acclaimed internationally not only for his cinema, but also for exhibitions such as Company, held in 2018 at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, and The Song of Pedro Costa, which from 2022 to 2023 toured various regions of Spain. The title of this exhibit commemorates the album Innervisions (1973) by Stevie Wonder, whom Costa encountered in his teens and would become a great inspiration for him. The spirit of this album, which approaches the relationships between societies and individuals with music, deeply resonated with Costa’s praxis of cinema. Theatrically released in Japan in 2004, In Vanda’s Room

Claire Gavronsky & Rose Shakinovsky open exhibition at Goodman Gallery London

Goodman Gallery will present two solo exhibitions by Rose Shakinovsky (b.1953) and Claire Gavronsky (b.1957) in its London location. Originally from Johannesburg, the couple have been based in Italy since 1985. Employing very diverse techniques and visual languages, both artists explore collective responses to current crisis and trauma. Shakinovsky and Gavronsky have collaborated as the artist “rosenclaire” since 1986. rosenclaire run a renowned artist residency programme in Tuscany where they have been mentors to the same group of 85 international artists from 13 countries, for over 30 years. Building on her 2024 solo exhibition at Goodman Gallery London, ‘Drawn Together’, Claire Gavronsky‘s current series of paintings addresses how women and children endure and survive situations of extreme adversity, by virtue of their generosity and support

La Pocha Nostra's Other Art World opens Sept 12 at Saint Joseph's Arts Society

This fall, Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation presents The Other Art World, a bold and expansive exhibition chronicling over four decades of transgressive, transdisciplinary work by Gómez-Peña and his legendary performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra. Conceived by Founding Artistic Co-Director Guillermo Gómez-Peña and co-curated by Emma Tramposch and La Pocha Nostra with the Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation, the exhibition brings together a sweeping constellation of photographic “performance-for-the-camera” works, films, sound art, velvet paintings, performabilia, and rare archival material that spans from the artist’s birth to the present day. Founded in Los Angeles in 1993, La Pocha Nostra is known for its provocative explorations of borders—cultural, geographic, spiritual, and technological—and its creation of large-scale performance
Flashback: On a day like today, French painter Henri Rousseau died
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 -September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. In this image: Employees of the Grand Palais museum in Paris take Henri Rousseau's painting "Foret tropicale avec singes," (1910), away for packing Thursday June 22, 2006, for transportation to the U.S. for the "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris" exhibit, the first all-Rousseau retrospective in two decades which opened Sunday, July 16, 2006, at the National Gallery of Art's East Building in Washington.

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