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Prehistoric Humans Revealed

How our ancestors really looked and dressed: Exhibition reveals the face of pre-historic man Daily News UK

For the past seven years, sculptor and avid paleaonthropology researcher Elisabeth Daynes has studied human origins. This passion was first launched by Daynes in 1988 when the Thot Museum in Montignac (France) commissioned her to create hyper realistic reconstructions of a life-size mammoth and a group of Magdalenian people from the later cultures of the Upper Paleolithic period in western Europe.

With the opening of the Tautavel Museum dedicated to Human origins in the French Pyreneans, Elisabeth Daynes became widely known.

In 1996, the artist met Jean-Noël Vignal, a forensic anthropologist at the Forensic Institute of Paris. This collaboration married her career as a sculptor of early humans with advanced technology. Read more about Elisabeth Daynes’ biography.

Now Elisabeth Daynes has brought a pair of 17,000-year-old skeletons to life, creating silicone models of them after studying their prehistoric bones. The representations of ‘Chancelade Man’ and the ‘Woman of the Pataud Shelter’ are based on remains found in France’s Dordogne region and believed to date to the 18th millennium BC. The woman wears fur, hemp and nettle and sports ivory and bone beads — a representation based on research. The dreadlocks and tattoos are artistic license, based purely on conjecture.

Daynes’ models are on exhibit until December 5, 2014 as ‘Chairs des Origins — our ancestors as you’ve never seen’ in Bordeaux

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Georgia O’Keeffe Record Sale

The value of simplicity prevailed this week when Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting ‘Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1’ sold for $44.4 million, more than triple the previous auction record for any work by a female artist. The work was sold by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico to replenish its own acquisitions fund.

Sotheby’s hasn’t disclosed the identity of the buyer, who bid by telephone. The previous auction record for an O’Keeffe painting was $6.2 million, in a 2001 Christie’s New York sale.

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Annie Leibovitz’s ‘Pilgrimage’

Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage at the Smithsonian February, 2012; (AP Photo by Jacquelyn Martin) The New-York Historical Society celebrates the final stop on the national tour of Annie Leibovitz’s Pilgrimage, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

For the new project, Leibovitz and her children took a road trip across the country where photographs were snapped at locations including Yosemite Valley, Elvis Presley’s home, Niagara Falls, author Louisa May Alcott’s home, Gettysburg, and more. Leibovitz also traveled abroad for some of the photos in the exhibition including Sigmund Freud’s final home in London.

ArtDaily writes:

“From the beginning, when I was watching my children stand mesmerized over Niagara Falls, this project was an exercise in renewal,” said Annie Leibovitz. “It taught me to see again.”

Pilgrimage is an evocative and deeply personal statement by a photographer whose career now spans more than forty years, encompassing a broad range of subject matter, history and stylistic influences. Together the pictures show Leibovitz at the height of her powers and pondering how photographs, including her own, shape a narrative of history that informs the present.

One of America’s best photographers Annie Leibovitz endured a very public crisis in 2009. Having lost both her father and longtime lover Susan Sontag, the artist also endured a very public financial crisis in which she exchanged the rights to all of her photographs for $15.5 million. The possibility of foreclosure and eviction made daily headlines in New York.

Speaking of the journey Leibovitz undertook, she followed a prescription that so many mothers refuse to adopt:

“It’s not unusual for me to turn to my work in times of trouble,” Leibovitz told The Daily Beast, comparing ‘Pilgrimage’ to airplane emergency protocols. “They tell you to put the oxygen mask on yourself before you take care of your kid. My greatest relationship has been my work, and this was my way of taking care of [myself].”

Anna Wintour, Annie Leibovitz, ‘Deeply Tasteful’ and the Kimye Crisis

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour spoke again this week about her April 2014 Vogue cover story featuring Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in ‘Keeping Up With Kimye’. Lensed by Annie Leibovitz before the couple’s summer nuptials, Anna shed additional perspective on her controversial decision to put the couple on the cover of Vogue in a talk at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art last Monday.

The Kimye cover had die-hard fashionistas crying in angry angst from sea to shining sea in America.

“If we just remain deeply tasteful and just put deeply tasteful people on the cover, it would be a rather boring magazine! Nobody would talk about us. It’s very important that people do talk about us,” Wintour said.

Huff Po reminds us that Wintour released a statement immediately after the April issue hit the newsstands, slamming rumours that Kanye West had “begged” Anna Wintour to put them on the cover.

“As for the cover, my opinion is that it is both charming and touching, and it was, I should add, entirely our idea to do it,” Wintour said in March. “You may have read that Kanye begged me to put his fiancee on Vogue’s cover. He did nothing of the sort. The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn’t true.”

Wintour added that there might be another Kardashian cover in the future, saying, “I hope another Kim Kardashian comes along this year!” Take that cry babies!

Kim Kardashian & Kanye West By Annie Leibovitz for Vogue US April 2014

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“From the beginning, when I was watching my children stand mesmerized over Niagara Falls, this project was an exercise in renewal,” said Annie Leibovitz. “It taught me to see again.” Pilgrimage is an evocative and deeply personal statement by a photographer whose career now spans more than forty years, encompassing a broad range of subject matter, history and stylistic influences. Together the pictures show Leibovitz at the height of her powers and pondering how photographs, including her own, shape a narrative of history that informs the present.

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