| A megaraptor emerges from footprint fossils | | Long-lost Klimt painting sells for $37 million at auction | | The Venice Biennale and the art of turning backward |
The Fujianipus yingliangi. The 90-million-year-old raptor is believed to have competed with tyrannosaurs of similar size in Cretaceous China. (Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Thanks to their reign of terror in Jurassic Park, Velociraptors are infamous prehistoric predators. The sickle-clawed killing machines familiar to moviegoers, though, are far removed from their scientific counterparts and not just because the fictional ones lack feathers. ... More | |
Portrait of Fräulein Lieser by Gustav Klimt. (via im Kinsky via The New York Times)
VIENNA.- Portrait of Fräulein Lieser, an enigmatic, long-lost 1917 painting by Gustav Klimt, sold Wednesday for 35 million euros with fees, or about $37 million, at the auction house im Kinsky in Vienna. The unsigned and unfinished work was estimated to sell for between $32 million and $53 million, before the addition of fees. The winning bid was tendered in the room by Patti Wong, ... More | |
Paintings by 20th-century artists hang cheek by jowl in the Central Pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times)
VENICE.- There is a sour tendency in cultural politics today a growing gap between speaking about the world and acting in it. In the domain of rhetoric, everyone has grown gifted at pulling back the curtain. An elegant museum gallery is actually a record of imperial violence; a symphony orchestra is a ... More |
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| Denenberg Gallery opens an exhibition of recent work by Marc Pally | | Getty Museum agrees to return ancient bronze head to Turkey | | Everything you need to know about the 2024 Met Gala |
Nudibranch Ranch, 2020 Acrylic, Graphite, Fixative on Wood Panel 36 x 24 inches
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.- Denenberg Gallery is presenting an exhibition of recent work of well-known Los Angeles artist Marc Pally. The exhibition will continue through May 31, 2024. Pally waited for a distinctive opportunity to present a new body of work from the past several years. After exhibiting for two decades, with his last show at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in 2005, ... More | |
Head from a Statue of a Youth, 1st century BCE1st century CE. Bronze, 10 5/8 Ã 8 7/16 Ã 10 5/8 in. Inscribed A (alpha with broken crossbar). 71.AB.458
NEW YORK, NY.- The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles said Wednesday that it was returning an ancient bronze head to Turkey that it had purchased in 1971 from an antiquities dealer who sold other items to museums that were later found to have been looted. The museum said the decision was made in light of new information ... More | |
Rihanna at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 1, 2023. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- First things first: What is the Met Gala? Officially, its the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute benefit, a black-tie extravaganza held the first Monday in May to raise money for the museums fashion wing, the only curatorial department at the Met that has to pay for itself. Unofficially, its the party of the year, the Oscars ... More |
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| Serpentine unveils major new public sculpture by Gerhard Richter | | Three vibrant and colorful paintings by Maud Lewis sell in Miller & Miller's online auction | | Stolen antique clock returned to museum after 20 years |
STRIP-TOWER (2023) by Gerhard Richter © 2024, Gerhard Richter, Prudence Cuming Associates.
LONDON.- Serpentine and The Royal Parks announced the unveiling of a new large-scale sculpture by German artist Gerhard Richter (b. 1932, Dresden, Germany; lives and works in Cologne, Germany). Situated on the plinth at Serpentine South, in Kensington Gardens, STRIP-TOWER (2023) will be staged from 25 April to 27 October 2024. It will be the latest presentation in a long- ... More | |
Group of six 1966-1967 handwritten letters from Maud Lewis to John Kinnear, a London, Ontario artist and friend who worked as an agent for Ms. Lewis in the late 1960s (CA$9,440).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- Three vibrant and colorful paintings by the legendary Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis (1901-1970) sold for a combined $79,060, and a 19th century French Bontems caged singing bird automaton played a sweet tune for $10,030 in Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltds online Advertising, ... More | |
Brighton & Hove Museums Local History Curator Dan Robertson with Sussex Police RCT Sergeant Tom Carter with returned clock. © Brighton & Hove Museums.
BRIGHTON.- An antique clock stolen from historic Preston Manor in Brighton more than two decades ago has been safely returned to its owners. Staff said the clock was a huge favourite with visitors, especially children because sailing ships moved to music when the clock chimes every hour. ... More |
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| Mexico City-based artist Tania Candiani receives Bemis Center's Ree Kaneko Award | | Morphy's lively Las Vegas Coin-op & Antique Advertising Auction closes near $4M mark | | Janet Borden Inc. opens the first exhibition devoted to Martin Parr's fashion work |
Tania Candiani in her studio. Photo by Marcela Moreno.
OMAHA, NE.- Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts announced interdisciplinary artist Tania Candiani as the 2023 recipient of its annual Ree Kaneko Award. As part of Bemis Centers Alumni Program, the award provides $25,000 in financial support to increase the capacity of a Bemis ... More | |
Framed Cadillac Beer bottle sign, single-sided tin, great color and sheen. Sold for $5,904 against an estimate of $700-$1,500.
LAS VEGAS, NEV.- Morphys April 11-13, 2024 Coin-Op & Antique Advertising sale brought old-school fun to Las Vegas and reaped the rewards with a full house of motivated collectors and $3,936,000 in winning bids (inclusive of 23% b.p.). ... More | |
There is a relentless enthusiasm present in this work, galloping along at an hysterical pace.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. is presenting FASHION FAUX PARR, the first exhibition devoted to Martin Parrs fashion work. Parr has been making photographs for the fashion industry since 1999. This twenty-five year undertaking has seen him travel from Moscow to Bangkok, from ... More |
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Pier 24 Photography opens last show before closingNEW YORK, NY.- As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. In its more than ten years, Pier 24 Photography has exhibited many thousands of photographs, and thus hundreds of thousands of hypothetical words. Up until now, every show has begun with the Pilara Foundation Collection and expanded from there. Turning the Page is the first exhibition that does not feature works from the collection. Instead, it looks at and celebrates the photobook, a medium that has undergone its own renaissance parallel to Pier 24 Photography's years in operation. Each of the galleries presents works from a distinct photobook, whether an iconic volume or a recent monograph. The content, sequence, and design of each selected book guided the approach to that particular installation, aiming for a thoughtful translation of its overall ... More Inside the crisis at NPRNEW YORK, NY.- NPR employees tuned in for a pivotal meeting late last year for a long-awaited update on the future of the public radio network. After many tumultuous months, marked by layoffs, financial turbulence and internal strife, they signed in to Zoom hoping to hear some good news from NPRs leaders. What they got instead was a stark preview of the continued challenges ahead. We are slipping in our ability to impact America, not just in broadcast, but also in the growing world of on-demand audio, Daphne Kwon, NPRs chief financial officer, told the group, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by The New York Times. For the past two weeks, turmoil has engulfed NPR after a senior editor assailed what he described as an extreme liberal bias inside the organization that has bled into its news coverage. The editor, ... More What to know about Venice's fees for day tripsROME.- After years of debate, Venice, Italy, on Thursday will begin charging day visitors 5 euros (about $5.35) to visit its fragile historic center on peak days, making it the first city in the world to adopt such a measure to counter overtourism. Critics question whether a nominal fee will put people off from visiting one of the worlds most desired destinations. But officials hope that it might encourage some to rethink their plans and decide to come on weekdays or in the offseason. That might help mitigate the impact of the estimated 20 million visitors who descended last year on the citys beleaguered residents, which number fewer than 50,000, according to municipal statistics. About half of those visitors came only for the day, city officials said. Overnight guests are exempt from the fee. The spirit of the initiative, city officials have said, is ... More In coral fossils, searching for the first glow of bioluminescenceNEW YORK, NY.- Bioluminescence is used throughout the animal kingdom, particularly in marine environments, to lure prey, startle predators and even act as camouflage in the surrounding light. We always say its light-limited in the deep sea, but there are a lot of organisms that produce their own light, said Andrea Quattrini, a zoologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington. The dazzling glow of bioluminescence is common in Octocorallia, also known as octocorals, a class of more than 3,000 Anthozoa species including sea fans, sea pens and soft corals. The prevalence of bioluminescence in these sessile animals makes a lot of sense, Quattrini said: They settle somewhere and theyre there. How long organisms have been able to emit light is at the center of recent research by Quattrini and colleagues. ... More 'Oh, Mary!,' a surprise downtown hit, will play Broadway this summerNEW YORK, NY.- Oh, Mary!, an outrageously madcap comedy that imagines the former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln as an oft-inebriated chanteuse-wannabe, will transfer to Broadway this summer after becoming a surprise hit downtown. The show, which is gleefully tasteless and also ahistorical, is the brainchild of Cole Escola, an alt-cabaret performer who built a cult following with a series of YouTube sketches and reached a wider audience with a role on Hulus Difficult People. The Broadway run is scheduled to begin previews June 26 and to open July 11 at the Lyceum Theater. It is scheduled to run until Sept. 15. Oh, Mary! began its life in January at the Lucille Lortel Theater in the West Village. That commercial off-Broadway run has been extended twice and is scheduled to end May 12. The run has been sold out, and has attracted ... More Steve Carell as the 50-year-old loser in a comic 'Uncle Vanya'NEW YORK, NY.- Why is it called Uncle Vanya? All the man does is mope, mope harder, try to do something other than moping, fail miserably and mope some more. You cant blame him. Vanya has spent most of his nearly 50 years scraping thin profit from a provincial estate, and not even for himself. The money he makes, running the farm with his unmarried niece, goes to support life in the city for his fatuous, gouty sort-of-ex-brother-in-law, an art professor who knows nothing about art. Also, Vanya is hopelessly in love with the old mans exquisitely languorous young wife, who, reasonably enough, finds the moper pathetic. In short, he is the opposite of the bold, laudable characters most writers of the late 1890s would name a play for. Thats probably just why Anton Chekhov did it, announcing a new kind of protagonist for a new ... More Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough investigate a chilling murderNEW YORK, NY.- Weve been teenage girls, Lily Gladstone said. Which means that Gladstone and her co-star, Riley Keough, know what teenage girls can do. In Under the Bridge, a limited series now streaming on Hulu, Keough and Gladstone play a writer and a cop investigating the 1997 beating and murder of Reena Virk, a 14-year-old Indo-Canadian girl. Six teenage girls and one teenage boy, many of them Virks classmates, were eventually convicted. The case has inspired plays, poems, documentaries and several books, including Rebecca Godfreys 2005 literary nonfiction work Under the Bridge, which gives the series its shape and name. (The show also relies on a memoir by Virks father, Manjit Virk.) Though Godfrey died in 2022, before filming began, she worked closely with the shows creator, Quinn Shephard, on ... More Helen Vendler, 'Colossus' of poetry criticism, dies at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Helen Vendler, one of the leading poetry critics in the United States, with a reputation-making power that derived from her fine-grained, impassioned readings, expressed in crystalline prose in The New Yorker and other publications, died on Tuesday at her home in Laguna Niguel, California. She was 90. The cause was cancer, said her son, David Vendler. In an era dominated by poststructuralist and politically influenced literary criticism, Vendler, who taught at Harvard for more than 30 years, adhered to the old-fashioned method of close reading, going methodically line by line, word by word, to expose a poems inner workings and emotional roots. Vendler has done perhaps more than any other living critic to shape I might almost say create our understanding of poetry in English, poet and critic Joel ... More For Maxine Hong Kingston, age is just time going byNEW YORK, NY.- In a way, I dont believe in old age. I hear people say, this hurts or that hurts, and they attribute that pain to old age. Its not age. Age is just time going by, and thats very mysterious. I dont think about vanity much. I look in the mirror and if I think, I look young, thats good enough. Instead of wearing lipstick or rouge, I darken my eyebrows. I can express all kinds of things just with my eyebrows. I do think about retiring, but stories and ideas keep coming. As Phyllis Hoge, a poet and my best friend, used to say, We wont die until weve finished our work. I was born this way. From a very young age I just wanted to be a storyteller or a poet. I didnt know what I was going to write. I wasnt even aware at that age that I had nothing to write about. Sometimes Ive thought, or had the illusion, th ... More How 'Stereophonic' made musicians out of actorsNEW YORK, NY.- About a week into rehearsals for the off-Broadway premiere of David Adjmis latest play, Stereophonic, Will Butler sent an email to the cast. Butler, a former member of Arcade Fire, had a new band, Will Butler + Sister Squares, and a new self-titled album. A club in Brooklyn would soon host the record release party. Butler, the composer of Stereophonic, had a proposition: The actors should open for him. Sarah Pidgeon, a cast member, remembered reading the message last August during a rehearsal break. I immediately said no, she recalled. Because what if its a failure? She had taken piano lessons as a child, but Pidgeon didnt consider herself a musician. Neither did any of the other actors. Stereophonic, which opened last week at Broadways Golden Theater, is set in recording studios in ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Eugène Delacroix was born April 26, 1798. Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 - 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. As a painter and muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. In this image: A man looks at the painting "Jeune tigre jouant avec sa mere" during a press visit of the exhibition "Delacroix (1798-1863)" at the Louvre Museum in Paris on March 27, 2018. The exhibition on French artist Eugene Delacroix will run from March 29 to July 23.
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