{"id":642,"date":"2021-05-07T08:37:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T00:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=642"},"modified":"2021-05-06T22:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T14:46:55","slug":"rare-north-korean-art-alights-in-switzerland-oldest-human-burial-in-africa-discovered-and-more-morning-links-from-may-6-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/rare-north-korean-art-alights-in-switzerland-oldest-human-burial-in-africa-discovered-and-more-morning-links-from-may-6-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare North Korean Art Alights in Switzerland, Oldest Human Burial in Africa Discovered, and More: Morning Links from May 6, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>The Headlines<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><b>RESEARCHERS HAVE DISCOVERED THE OLDEST<\/b>\u00a0known\u00a0<a title=\"human burial in Africa\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"5\">human burial in Africa<\/a>,\u00a0<i>National Geographic<\/i>\u00a0reports. Uncovered in Kenya, the roughly 80,000-year-old site is the resting place of a child of 2 or 3. Archaeologists believe the child was buried in a shroud, with a pillow under their head. Older human burials have been discovered elsewhere, like some\u00a0dating\u00a0back more than 90,000 years in Israel. \u201cEarly African burials are especially rare despite the fact that Africa is the birthplace of our species,\u201d\u00a0<b>Nicole Bovin<\/b>, the head investigator on the project, told the\u00a0<i>Guardian<\/i>. \u201cThis almost certainly reflects\u00a0<a title=\"biases in where research has been done\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\">biases in where research has been done<\/a>\u2014the regions where earlier burials have been found have been much more extensively researched than Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>THE SWISS ART COLLECTOR AND RETIRED DIPLOMAT\u00a0ULI SIGG<\/b>\u00a0is showcasing his collection of North and South Korean art at the\u00a0<b>Kunstmuseum Bern<\/b>\u00a0in neutral Switzerland. Sigg began acquiring North Korean pieces, which rarely appear beyond its borders, while Swiss ambassador to the country. Putting together the exhibition has been\u00a0<a title=\"a thorny process\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"7\">a thorny process<\/a>, the\u00a0<i>New York Times<\/i>\u00a0reports. The North Koreans complained about a (rather ominous) watercolor of the nation\u2019s current leader,\u00a0<b>Kim Jong-un\u00a0<\/b>, examining two great white sharks, Sigg said, and lawmakers in the South accused a foundation funding the project of promoting Northern\u00a0propaganda. In any case, it\u00a0came together, and runs through September. It\u2019s a big year for Sigg, who donated a bounty of contemporary Chinese art to the\u00a0<b>M+<\/b>\u00a0museum in Hong Kong, which will open later this year.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Digest<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This week,\u00a0<i>ARTnews<\/i>\u00a0is publishing interviews that\u00a0Museum of Fine Arts Boston\u00a0curator Liz Munsell and writer and musician Greg Tate conducted with associates of\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_jean-michel-basquiat\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"jean-michel-basquiat\">Jean-Michel Basquiat<\/a>. The talks were held in conjunction with a show they organized at the MFA Boston, \u201cWriting the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation,\u201d which is on view through July 25. First up in the series: Fab 5 Freddy and Lee Qui\u00f1ones in a two-part discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The Istanbul Biennial, which had been set to open its latest edition in September, said that it will delay its opening by a year. A statement from its organizers cited \u201cthe gravity of the ongoing health crisis in many regions around the world and the uncertainty of the coming months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the Oval Office is perhaps not often thought of as an ultra-high-profile rotating exhibition space, in one narrow sense, that is exactly what it is,\u201d journalists Larry Buchanan and Matt Stevens write in a close read of the art that President Biden is displaying in his workplace.<\/p>\n<p>The photographer Deana Lawson was profiled by Jenna Wortham in a story with portraits of the artist by Lyle Ashton Harris.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Hammer Museum\u00a0in Los Angeles has launched what it\u2019s calling the\u00a0Hammer Channel, a collection of its archived talks, performances, and other events going back more than 15 years. It\u2019s available on the\u00a0<a title=\"its website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"14\">its website<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"15\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Kicker<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><b>WHATEVER YOU THINK ABOUT DAMIEN HIRST,<\/b>\u00a0you have to admire his worth ethic. The artist just sold $22.4 million worth of prints in a six-day sale, he\u2019s at work on an NFT project called\u00a0<i>The Currency<\/i>, and he\u2019ll do an exhibition of 30 of his huge new paintings of cherry blossoms this summer at the\u00a0<b>Fondation Cartier<\/b>\u00a0in Paris. (It\u2019s his first museum show in France, oddly enough.) The\u00a0<i>Financial Times<\/i>\u00a0<a title=\"sat down with Hirst\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"17\">sat down with Hirst<\/a>, and he had this to say about his effervescent new works: \u201c\u00a0<b>I definitely wanted to create an all-enveloping visual experience that just gets hold of you, whether you like it or not.<\/b> I wanted to bypass all your judgement faculties and just get hold of you, internally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Thank you for reading. We\u2019ll see you tomorrow.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Headlines RESEARCHERS HAVE DISCOVERED THE OLDEST\u00a0known\u00a0human burial in Africa,\u00a0National Geographic\u00a0reports. Uncovered in Kenya, the roughly 80,000-year-old site is the resting place of a child of 2 or 3. Archaeologists believe the child was buried in a shroud, with a pillow under their head. 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