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George Matthew Bruestle (American, 1871 1939), Brown Hillside, 1917, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches, Museum Purchase, 2024.22.1. Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.
READING, PA.- A century ago, the noted Reading industrialist and philanthropist George Horst arrived to retrieve paintings that had long been loaned to the Reading Public Museum. It was with great regret that the founder of the Museum, Levi Mengel, surrendered them, with the hope that one day Horst might change his mind. While that never happened, now, a hundred years later, the Reading Public Museum is pleased to announce the return of one of these Horst paintings to its walls. At a Freemans/Hindman auction in early June, the Reading Public Museum acquired the landscape painting Brown Hillside, which was painted by the American artist George Matthew Bruestle (1871/2 1939) in 1917. The atmospheric impressionist painting by Bruestle, which is characterized by bold visible brushstrokes, was exhibited in 1919 at the 114th Annual Exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, which attracted entries from artists all over the nation. Bruestle was raised in New York ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Hake's $2.9 million pop culture auction held on July 30-31 recorded outstanding prices for Golden Age comic books, rare Star Wars figures, and original comic book art. Along the way, several world auction records were set. Some of the big winners on the top 10 list included: Marx Mechanical Batman with Walking Action, copyright NPP 1966, made in Hong Kong. Wind-up figure, 3.25in tall, with removable key and colorful original box showing Batman on all four vertical panels and bat logos on top and bottom flaps. Extremely scarce, especially with box. Sold for $15,340 against an estimate of $2,000-$5,000.
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| Museum of Islamic Art presents landmark exhibition surveying the Islamic artistic traditions of Morocco | | Golden Age comics and Star Wars rarities dominated the top 10 at Hake's $2.9M pop culture auction | | Holabird announces four-day American Treasures of the Past auction |
Necklace of the Aït Morghad, Aït Hdidou or Aït Atta. Morocco, High Atlas, Draa Tafilelt or Lower Ziz Vallery. Alawite period, early 20th century CE. Carved amber. Qatar Museums, General Collection, PJM.ET.1309.
DOHA, QATAR.- This November, the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) will present Splendours of the Atlas: A Voyage Through Moroccos Heritage, a major exhibition taking visitors on a journey through the legacies of Morocco, revealing the forces that have shaped the countrys unique identity. Organized as part of the Qatar-Morocco 2024 Year of Culture, the exhibition presents ... More | |
French Meccano Star Wars (1978) Luke Skywalker action figure, 20 Back (French square cardback), 3.75in tall, AFA-graded 80 Y-NM. The highest-graded and only graded example of this very rare figure. Sold within estimate for $27,612.
YORK, PA.- The most patriotic superhero of them all, Captain America, was in stellar, fist-flying form at Hakes July 30-31 pop culture memorabilia auction. A rare copy of Timelys Captain America Comics #1, the March 1941 comic book introducing the indomitable World War II character, his sidekick Bucky Barnes and their Nazi nemesis The Red ... More | |
Americas first gold coin, a 1795 Capped Bust Heraldic Eagle reverse $5 gold piece, an important coin in any collection (est. $45,000-$65,000).
RENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC has held numerous monster four-day auctions in the past, but theyve clearly raised the bar for the upcoming American Treasures of the Past auction planned for August 22nd thru 25th, online and live in the Reno gallery located at 3555 Airway Drive (Suite #308), starting promptly at 8 am Pacific time all four auction days. A whopping 2,151 lots are slated to come ... More |
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| 2 charged with hate crimes in vandalism aimed at museum officials | | The world is still catching up to the music of Hector Berlioz | | Ordrupgaard acquires two new paintings by Vilhelm Hammershøi |
Anne Pasternak. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Two people have been charged with hate crimes, accused of being part of a group of vandals in June who smeared red paint and graffiti at the homes of the Jewish director of the Brooklyn Museum and other leaders of the institution. Samuel Seligson, 32, of Brooklyn, a journalist, was charged Tuesday with two counts of criminal mischief as hate crimes. His arrest came a week after the police arrested Taylor Pelton, 32, of Queens, who was charged with several counts of criminal mischief in the third degree as hate crimes. The police said vandals attacked the Brooklyn ... More | |
The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this years Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams. Photo by Pierre Petit
NEW YORK, NY.- Hector Berlioz did not have the twilight of a great composer. In his memoirs, he described himself in his 60s as past hopes, past illusions, past high thoughts and lofty conceptions. His extraordinary but unusual music was unloved and unplayed; a widower two times over, he was lonely, and hated people more than ever. He wrote, with a shake of his fist at the sky: I say hourly to Death, When you will. Why ... More | |
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Landscape. Summer. Ryet, 1896, was acquired with financial support from Augustinus Fonden, the New Carlsberg Foundation, and Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond. Photo Anders Sune Berg.
CHARLOTTENLUND.- Two early and very rare motifs have now been added to Ordrupgaards already extensive collection of works by Vilhelm Hammershøi (18641916): Landscape. Summer. Ryet, 1896, acquired by the museum at Christies in London with financial support from the foundations Augustinus Fonden, the New Carlsberg Foundation, and Aage og ... More |
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| Maeve Turner appointed Head of Gardens and Horticulture at The Frick Collection | | Ann Abadie, champion of Southern studies, is dead at 84 | | 19th century photographs offer compelling 'backstage' glimpse |
Maeve Turner. Photo: J.Ferrara Photography.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection announced today that it has appointed Maeve Turner as its Head of Gardens and Horticulture. With more than fifteen years of experience working on major horticultural initiatives at esteemed New York City institutions including the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the High Line, Turner joins the Frick at a critical juncture as it looks ahead to the reopening of its Fifth Avenue home, following the completion of a comprehensive renovation and enhancement designed by Selldorf Architects in conjunction with the preservation firm Beyer Blinder Belle. The museum and library ... More | |
An undated photo provided via Kate Medley shows Ann Abadie when she was a student at the University of Mississippi. Abadie, a scholar of the South who helped found one of the countrys leading Southern studies institutes, died on July 30, 2024, in Tupelo, Miss. She was 84. (via Kate Medley via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Ann Abadie, a scholar of the South who helped found one of the countrys leading Southern studies institutes, died July 30 in Tupelo, Mississippi. She was 84. Her daughter, Leslie Abadie, said she died in a hospice after having a stroke. Abadie spent her entire half-century career at the University of Mississippi, a place both embedded in Southern history and one of its key observatories. She played ... More | |
Adrien Tournachon, French (18251903) and Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon], French (18201910). Pierrot Yawning, 1854. Salt print, 11 1/4 à 8 1/2 inches. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, 2017.61.39
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Early photography is ripe with creative fictions. Actors, children, aristocrats, models, artists, psychiatric patients, maids, and all manner of the working class posed in front of cameras and were transformed into figures from history, literature, the Bible, or into an idealized version of themselves. Still Performing: Costume, Gesture, and Expression in 19th Century European Photography, which opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum ... More |
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| The choreographer bringing hope to the stage and beyond | | A decade later, 'The Leftovers' seems almost like prophecy | | Green Day comes around, celebrating two album anniversaries |
Dancers perform a scene from Möbius Morphosis, Rachid Ouramdanes work at the Panthéon in Paris, which was part of the Cultural Olympiad, on July 17, 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Beneath the soaring dome of the Panthéon, performers, dressed in black, spilled across a vast stage. Suddenly their bodies stopped and with it, the breeze in the air. Now still as sculptures, they began to shift their heads, gradually locking eyes with one another and with members of an audience that surrounded them on three sides. Slowly, they lifted their arms like wings before swinging them down to smack their thighs, ... More | |
Damon Lindelof, left, and Tom Perrotta, the creators of the HBO series "The Leftovers," in Burbank, Calif., May 6, 2014. In interviews, the creators look back at their HBO grief drama and how it plays differently after the coronavirus pandemic. (Sam Comen/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In Guest, an episode in the first season of the HBO drama The Leftovers, a woman named Nora Durst (Carrie Coon) approaches a disheveled self-proclaimed prophet named Holy Wayne (Paterson Joseph). She is looking for relief from the torment of her entire family disappearing in a Rapture- ... More | |
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day introduces a performance by the cast of "American Idiot" at the 64th Annual Tony Awards ceremony on Sunday night, June 13, 2010, in New York. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- With a raised eyebrow, a wrinkled nose and lips curled into a defiant grin, Billie Joe Armstrong looked wide-eyed into the crowd at Citi Field in Queens on Monday night and mouthed the words I love you. Tré Cool sat, blue-haired and snarling, at the drum kit. Mike Dirnt planted his feet firmly in a wide stance, with his bass at his knees. Green Day, the long-running California ... More |
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In Conversation: Angel Otero and Julie Rodrigues Widholm
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A jingle put Cellino & Barnes on the map. Their split inspired a play.NEW YORK, NY.- We must begin with the jingle. Cellino and Barnes. Injury attorneys. 800-888-8888. Dont wait. Call eight! It represents everything you probably know about Ross M. Cellino Jr. and Stephen E. Barnes: They were two New York personal injury lawyers reachable for years at 800-888-8888. You may also recall hearing about trouble in paradise. The pair went to court in 2017 and, after an extended legal battle, officially split three years later. Then, just a few months following the divorce, Barnes and his niece died when a small plane he was piloting crashed. Unlikely legal pioneers, Cellino and Barnes proved the power of advertising. From the 1990s through their breakup, they became billboard royalty whose influence expanded beyond western New York ... More Niki's early music makes her cringe. Her emotional pop is growing up.NEW YORK, NY.- Niki Indonesian pop songwriter Nicole Zefanya was 11 years old when she saw a Taylor Swift documentary that changed her life. That memory is just a core memory of mine, she said. Swifts 2010 E! True Hollywood Story pointed Niki toward the kind of career she could have herself, one that now encompasses songs that have been streamed hundreds of millions of times and concerts that turn into fervent singalongs. Her third full-length album, Buzz, will be released Friday, followed by a world tour that comes to New York Citys Central Park SummerStage on Sept. 13. Im from Jakarta, and somehow Ive made it all the way here, Niki said via video from her Los Angeles apartment. Sometimes it is just mind-boggling how this is the story I get to tell. Niki, 25, casual in a pale-gray ... More A Nashville block party for a beloved honky-tonkNASHVILLE, TENN.- Step inside Roberts Western World, and its the music that hooks you. Maybe you dont know the words, maybe its the soundtrack your parents or grandparents loved. But theres something about the rapid-fire twang of a guitar, the percussive pulse of a slap on a double bass that threatens to burst out of this old honky-tonk. On Monday, for the first time in recent memory, Roberts took that music to the street outside. On its block of Lower Broadway, the famed downtown Nashville strip of country music bars, people gathered to celebrate JesseLee Jones, the owner of Roberts, and the 25 years he has spent protecting its country roots from trends and changes. We dont look at it like its a museum piece, Joe Fick, a bass player and vocalist with the band Kelleys Heroes, said of the music he frequently performs at Roberts. ... More These Irish rappers know their movie will make people angryNEW YORK, NY.- He gave me his wallet, joked DJ PróvaÃ, a member of the Belfast-based rap trio Kneecap, to explain why the group trusted British filmmaker Rich Peppiatt to tell their story. Kneecaps blending of hip-hop beats with Irish-language rap lyrics championing republican politics seeking unity for the Irelands north and south has won it fans on both sides of Irelands internal border. The group has also drawn wrath from both British and Northern Irish politicians, who have accused it of inciting sectarianism. But this only made the trio a more attractive subject for his first scripted project, Peppiatt said, and Kneecap a riotous fictionalized retelling of the rappers origins comes to U.S. theaters Friday. They deal with serious subjects in a hysterical way and made headlines for saying things that no one else seemed ... More A play About J.K. Rowling stirred outrage. Until it opened.EDINBURGH.- There are more than 3,600 shows in this years Edinburgh Festival Fringe and most will struggle to get even a single newspaper review. Yet for months before the festival opened Friday, one play was the subject of intense global media attention: TERF, an 80-minute drama about J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter author, and her views on transgender women. Before anybody had even read the script, a Scottish newspaper called the play, which imagines Rowling debating her views with the stars of the Harry Potter movies, a foul-mouthed attack on the author. An article in The Daily Telegraph said that scores of actresses had turned down the opportunity to play Rowling. And The Daily Mail, a tabloid, reported that the production had encountered trouble securing a venue. On social media and womens web forums, too, ... More Why 'The Great Gatsby' and other Broadway shows are turning to influencersNEW YORK, NY.- On a 91-degree day in June, a group of 20- and 30-somethings in sundresses and Bermuda shorts was navigating a dimly lit cocktail lounge whose air-conditioning was on the fritz. It didnt matter: Cocktails with names like the Ghost Writer were flowing, and patrons were posing in front of a velvet emerald curtain, holding Team Daisy and Team Gatsby hand fans emblazoned with the faces of Eva Noblezada and Jeremy Jordan, the stars of the Broadway musical The Great Gatsby. Flickering candles adorned tables at the side of the room, where people colored in silhouettes of the character Myrtle Wilson, a social climber in the musical, and filled out trivia sheets with questions like Is Gatsby in East or West Egg? Silver gift bags filled with miniature bottles of Champagne and Old Sport stickers sat on a table ... More With solitude and untouched nature, the quieter corners of the Adirondacks beckonNEW YORK, NY.- At 6 million acres, New Yorks Adirondack Park is the size of Vermont, and larger than all of New Jersey. A unique mix of state and private property that encompasses mountains, wilderness areas and lakes, the park draws more than 12 million visitors annually who want to hike, paddle, explore and more. Im one of them. Ive vacationed in the park for the past 16 years, appreciating its wild beauty more each time I visit. But as much as I love notching climbs to the top of the parks High Peaks the 46 mountains, near the popular town of Lake Placid, that rise above 4,000 feet I have experienced crowds, trail erosion and the need for parking reservations. Even with the parks size 10 distinct regions and 20 wilderness areas lie within its borders many visitors dont venture far from the parks population centers. ... More What if all dance forms were considered equal?PARIS.- Under the gentle radiance of golden chandeliers stood dancers, rows and rows of them, gleaming onstage. The scene was like a painting steeped in mist, its width diffused by shards of light and fog, its depth seeming to reach into infinity. The mood was dreamy as packs of dancers moved as one, filling the stage with the force of unison, or breaking away for solos, more meditative than flashy, yet each and this was important showing intent and individuality. Within each body, you felt dance history. For this version of his dance Apaches, choreographer Saïdo Lehlouh opened the Foyer de la Danse behind the stage at the Palais Garnier, the opera house that is a hallowed home for classical ballet. The foyer, a gilded salon where dancers warm up, is not a space the public usually sees. Its kind of the background, the underground ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Michael Kors was born August 09, 1959. Michael Kors (born Karl Anderson, Jr.; August 9, 1959) is an American fashion designer. He is best known for designing classic American sportswear for women. In this image: Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia and Michael Kors poses for a photograph while doing an interview promoting the launch of the new season of Project Runway in Times Square on Thursday, July 19, 2012.
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