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File photo of a salon-style wall of works by J.M.W. Turner at âTurnerâs Modern World,â at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on April 3, 2022. Hackers targeted software that many museums use to show their collections online and to manage sensitive information. (Matt Cosby/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Several prominent museums have been unable to display their collections online since a cyberattack hit a prominent technological service provider that helps hundreds of cultural organizations show their works digitally and manage internal documents. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Rubin Museum of Art in New York and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas were among the institutions confirming that their systems have experienced outages in recent days. The service provider, Gallery Systems, said in a recent message to clients, which was obtained by The New York Times, that it had noticed a problem Dec. 28, when computers running its software became encrypted and could no longer operate. We immediately took steps to isolate those systems and implemented measures to prevent additional systems from being affected, including taking systems offline as a precaution, the company said in the message. We also launched an investigation and third-party cyberse ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Morgan Library exhibition reflects on disparities in wealth, personal values, and morality. Installation Views: Photography by Carmen González Fraile, 2023.
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| Frick leader to step down after a 14-year run | | Study aims to bring a tinier Tyrannosaur back from oblivion | | The man who destroys $3,000 handbags on the Internet |
Ian Wardropper, director of the Frick Collection, with preparatory materials, where the East 70th Street Russell Page viewing garden is being restored with seasonal plantings that fit Pages vision, in New York. (Richard Renaldi via The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- After 14 years running the Frick Collection, during which this art museum finally realized a controversial expansion of its Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue and temporarily took up residence in the modernist Breuer building on Madison Avenue its director, Ian Wardropper, said he would retire in 2025. My goal is to leave the institution in good shape programmatically and financially, and that will be the case, Wardropper, 72, said in a telephone interview. Im hoping I can turn it over to somebody with fresh ideas. The announcement is the latest in a series of significant resignations by long-serving leaders of major museums, including the Guggenheim, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In addition, the contract of Glenn D. Lowry, the longtime director of New Yorks Museum of Modern Art, expires in 2025. Such ... More | |
In an image provided by the American Museum of Natural History, a comparison of skulls, a T. rex, top, and the Nanotyrannus lancensis specimen found in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. New research is trying to remake the case that fossils known as Nanotyrannus were their own species, rather than a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex. (Larry Witmer; American Museum of Natural History via The New York Times)
by Asher Elbein
NEW YORK, NY.- It is only 23 inches long, but one tyrannosaur skull has been a bone of serious contention among paleontologists for decades. In 1988, a team of researchers named it Nanotyrannus lancensis, suggesting that it represented a distinct animal that lived in the shadow of Tyrannosaurus rex. In 1999, another group argued that the skull and similar specimens were T. rex as a teenager, before the species underwent an extraordinary growth spurt that preceded adulthood. For years, the teen T. rex hypothesis gained traction. Most people bought into it, including me, said Nick Longrich, a paleontologist with the University of Bath in England. But Longrich has changed his tune. In a study published Wednesday in the journal Fossil Studies, he and colleagues argue that enough evidence ... More | |
Volkan Yilmaz, known as Tanner Leatherstein, with an Il Bisonte leather purse he reviewed for a video at Pegai, his leather store in Dallas, Dec. 21, 2023. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
by Elizabeth Paton
NEW YORK, NY.- One video opens with a large white leather handbag covered in the signature LV logo of Louis Vuitton. Within milliseconds, a hand with a switchblade swoops in and slashes a huge gash in the side of the bag before tearing it apart at its seams. In another, the distinctive red sole of Christian Louboutin is loudly ripped from a black stiletto using a wrench; in still another, scissors snip through a $2,200 Prada clutch before a man sets fire to a piece of the leather and turns it to ash. Youve entered the TikTok world of Tanner Leatherstein, who has more than 950,000 followers. Leatherstein, whose real name is Volkan Yilmaz, has attracted a cult following on the social media platform as well as on YouTube and Instagram for his butchering of exorbitantly expensive items. The reason, he says, is to show his viewers the true quality of the materials and craftsmanship and then break down how much the item may have cost to make. In many cases, ... More |
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| New work by artist Dominic Chambers exhibited in "leave Room for the Wind" at Lehmann Maupin | | 'Kyungmi Shin: Monsters, Vases and the Priest' opens at Sperone Westwater | | In Detroit, an opera leader finishes with one last triumph |
Dominic Chambers, Leave Room for the Wind (detail). 80 x 110.5 inches, 203.2 x 280.7 cm. Photo by Daniel KuklaPhoto courtesy of Lehmann Maupin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin has announced Leave Room for the Wind, an exhibition of new work by artist Dominic Chambers. Born in St. Louis, MO (1993) and currently based in New Haven, CT, Chambers creates vibrant paintings that frequently portray scenes of leisure, joy, and quiet contemplation. In his newest body of work, Chambers continues his examination of the contemporary role of leisurefocusing on its relationship to natureand explores how art can function as a mode for understanding, recontextualizing, or renegotiating ones relationship to the world. Leave Room for the Wind coincides with the artists debut solo museum exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (on view through February 15, 2024) and marks the artist's first major solo exhibition in New York. Chambers is often inspired ... More | |
Kyungmi Shin, the ornamental, 2023. (detail)
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater now showing Kyungmi Shins first solo exhibition at the gallery, Monsters, Vases and the Priest, with new paintings inspired by mythology and created during her 2023 American Academy in Rome residency. The source for her heroic figures and central characters are vintage photographs from Shins own family album, as well as historic photographs of the Asian diaspora. This kind of depiction of Asian character had been absent in the mainstream Western media and narratives, and I am actively seeking this alternative depiction of Asian persons, says Shin. Layered over the photographic images, which are transferred onto gessoed wood panel, Shin paints chinoiserie landscapes and tapestries, fictional and fantastical depictions of Asian lands. During my time in Rome, I began to think deeper about the how mythologies are created, says Shin. Being in the anci ... More | |
Wayne Brown, who served as the Detroit Operas president and chief executive from 2014 until he retired at the end of 2023, at the Detroit Opera House, Dec. 7, 2023. (Nick Hagen/The New York Times)
by David Allen
NEW YORK, NY.- After Yuval Sharon became the artistic director of Michigan Opera Theater in 2020, the company renamed itself the Detroit Opera perhaps the most visible among moves that have led to a remarkable streak of successes based on a new, ambitious approach. The house has placed itself at the center of operatic conversation with productions like a drive-through Götterdämmerung and a virtual-reality Walküre. It has broken fundraising records, drawn first-time ticket buyers by the thousands and collaborated more with companies elsewhere. Robert OHaras staging of Anthony Davis X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at the Metropolitan Opera ... More |
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| January exhibition 'Perseverance' now open at Berry Campbell | | Maurice Hines, tap-dancing star with his brother, dies at 80 | | Grace Graupe–Pillard debuts new environmentally conscious abstract paintings in first solo show |
Perle Fine, The Wave, Roaring, Breaking (Gardenpartie), 1959. Oil and collage on canvas, 68 x 94 in. © A.E. Artwork Courtesy: Berry Campbell, New York. (detail)
NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell has opened Perseverance, a curated group exhibition of cross-generational women artists from the gallerys primary and secondary market programs. This exhibition reflects Berry Campbells steadfast dedication to the rediscovery and advancement of women artists and centers on the ongoing aesthetic dialogues between contemporary artists and estates represented by the gallery. Featuring 29 paintings and works on paper, this exhibition fosters an environment for artwork created across temporal and geographic contexts. Artists included in the exhibition: Mary Abbott (1921-2019); Alice Baber (1928-1982); Janice Biala (1903-2000); Lilian Thomas Burwell (b. 1927); Nanette Carter (b. 1954); Jean Cohen (1928-2012); Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989); Dorothy Dehner (1901-1994); Lynne Drexler (1928-1999); Claire ... More | |
Maurice Hines, left, and his brother, Gregory, who inherited a tap dance tradition on the wane and, decades later, had a lot to do with bringing it back into the public consciousness, performing in the Broadway show "Eubie!, in New York, November 1978. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
by Brian Seibert
NEW YORK, NY.- Maurice Hines, a high-wattage song-and-dance man who rose to stardom as a child in a tap-dancing act with his brother, Gregory, then performed on and off Broadway, including in shows he directed and choreographed, died Friday in Englewood, New Jersey. He was 80. His death, at the Actors Fund Home, was confirmed by his cousin Richard Nurse. No specific cause was given. The Hines brothers inherited a tap-dance tradition on the wane and, decades later, had a lot to do with bringing it back into the public consciousness. They started dance classes in New York Citys Harlem neighborhood when Maurice was 5 and Gregory was 3. After two years, they came under the tutelage of great tap teacher and choreographer ... More | |
Grace Graupe-Pillard, Upended Landscape, 2023. Oil alkyd on canvas, 76 x 54 inches. All Artworks: Copyright © Grace Graupe-Pillard. Courtesy David Richard Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery has just opened Fractured, nine new paintings by Grace Graupe-Pillard from her current series of works that comment on the environmental, social, and global impact of climate change. The irony, of course, is that the adverse impact of climate change to humans was caused by humans, but due more to economic and political interests, along with disregarding warnings by scientists and naturalists, then out of ignorance. This presentation is not only a debut of these new environmentally conscious paintings but also Graupe-Pillards first solo exhibition with the gallery. About Graupe- Pillards Artworks: Graupe-Pillards approach to art making is to exploit binaries, exposing cultural ignorance, mythologies, and injustices while simultaneously celebrating an underlying truth and beauty that is not fully appreciated in and of itself, or empathizing with harmed and affected parties in any give ... More |
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| San Francisco Bay area artists featured at George Adams Gallery in NY in 'Going Our Way' | | 'New Terrains: Contemporary Native American Art' opens January 5th | | 'still, weight, thing' underscores an interest in the cross-sections of visual language by Ciarán Murphy |
Joan Brown, Dancers #3, 1972. Enamel on masonite, 72 x 48 inches. JBRp 85. Photo courtesy of the artist and George Adams Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The George Adams Gallery opens today Going Our Way, a group exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Roy De Forest, Viola Frey, M. Louise Stanley, and William T. Wiley. Known for its enduring commitment to art from the San Francisco Bay Area, the exhibition maintains the gallerys tradition of championing the regions artistic heritage. The artists included are connected through the unique influence of the Bay Area on their work, and the title reflects each artists response to prevailing trends over a span of three decades. While they worked in different styles and across media, the six artists are united in their rejection of the impersonal, objective attitude that informed the dominant West Coast trends of Formalism, Photorealism and New Abstraction. Instead, each in their own way celebrates an intimate, ... More | |
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, 1998, 60 x 50 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips has announced 'New Terrains', a watershed exhibition of important works of contemporary Native American art opens today. Exploring the influences of modernism, post-war and pop influences, the exhibit provides context for the evolution of contemporary Native art in the mid-to-late 20th and early 21st centuries. These artists evoke the rich diaspora of Native American tribal representation, including Canadian first nations people. Featuring over 50 artists, spanning seven decades, the works reflect the socio-political and artistic climates in which they were conceived. Native American art is continually expanding to embrace new ideas, expressions, and artistic mediums. Established, emerging, and under-recognized artists share their unique visions and stories of what it is to be an indigenous artist. New Terrains is co-curated by Bruce Hartman, Tony Abeyta, and James Trotta-Bono. Each ... More | |
Ciarán Murphy, Detail, sonomus, 2023. Oil on linen, 120 x 100 cm, 47.2 x 39.4 inches. Image courtasy of the artist and GRIMM Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- GRIMM is currently showing 'still, weight, thing', an exhibition of new paintings by Irish artist Ciarán Murphy (b. 1978 in Mayo, IE). This is the artists second solo exhibition in New York and the first in the gallerys Tribeca location. The exhibition is made possible with the kind support of Culture Ireland. Ciarán Murphys practice grapples with the saturated, albeit fragmented, state of the image economy and the various paradoxes therein. The title of the exhibition, still, weight, thing underscores an interest in the cross-sections of visual language, where alternative meaning hovers just beyond the forefront of understanding. The artists representations dissolve, reappear, and coalesce in a manner that suggests a very human, cognitive observation, contrasting with the credible, and thus predictable, nature of technological or mechanical image making. ... More |
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Tales of the Black underworld fuel hip-hop. His feed recounts them.
NEW YORK, NY.- Beginning in the late 2010s, Brian Valmond started shining a light on stories that are often shaded by secrecy, exaggeration, self-protection and self-aggrandizing. His subject matter is, by and large, the world of Black gangs and drug kingpins of the 1980s and 90s topics that have also long driven the aesthetics and narratives of hip-hop. Since 2017, Valmond, 25, has been using his @_ValTown_ account on Twitter, now known as X, to unravel these tales bit by bit in threads that become mini events. His stories are tantalizing and sometimes surprising, especially when he highlights the links between the criminal underworld and the realm of celebrity, underscoring the blurred lines between those two milieus. The Italian Mafia, theyre all in the media, theyre glamorized and they have their underworld legends, whereas ... More
5 minutes that will make you love Strata-East Records
NEW YORK, NY.- Weve been asking writers, musicians and scholars to tell us what songs theyd play to get people into jazz. This month, we decided to highlight a record label: Strata-East Records, founded in 1971 by trumpeter Charles Tolliver and pianist Stanley Cowell. An artist-driven label, Strata-East became a hub for the type of Afrocentric and psychedelic jazz that wasnt accepted by the wider mainstream. With projects like Tollivers own Music Inc., alongside experimental acts like Brother Ah, the Descendants of Mike and Phoebe, and Jayne Cortez, the albums released on Strata-East spoke to the civil rights struggles of Black Americans at the time. In 1974, the label enjoyed a breakout hit with Winter in America, a collaborative album from Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson powered by the lead single The Bottle. But ... More
'The Color Purple' tips its hat to classic Black musicals
NEW YORK, NY.- Even when Hollywood saw little use for Black performers other than as mammies and butlers, the musical genre, a storytelling mode composed of magical realist fantasy and hoofing artistry, provided space for Cab Calloway, Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge to manifest their glamorous glow. Through rapturous songs, sung in resplendent gowns and tailored tuxedos, the promise of Black liberation was heard. The genres possibility for emancipation is showcased in the latest film version of The Color Purple, whose origin derives from a story of perseverance and sisterhood that first found acclaim in 1983, when its author, Alice Walker, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Within two years of Walkers success, Steven Spielberg directed an acclaimed big-screen adaptation of her novel. By 2005, a staged musical of The ... More
First exhibition of 2024 'Exquisite Corpse' is now on view at Chase Travaille
BOSTON, MA.- LaiSun Keane is now hosting Exquisite Corpse, Chase Travailles first solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from January 5 - February 18, 2024. This is the fourth time working with Travaille; who previously had his ceramic works included in two 2022 group exhibitions and took him to Intersect Palm Springs in February this year. This solo presentation includes 2D collages created from comic book pages and 3D vessels constructed using shards collected from other ceramicists. An iteration of this exhibition is currently on view at the Windgate Museum, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas. Travailles practice developed during his 2021 residency in Montana when he was looking for new ways to make ceramics without a kiln. He then stumbled across a pile of discarded projects from past residents and repurposed them ... More
At a revamped Under the Radar, New York greets a 'Global Downtown'
NEW YORK, NY.- Writer and performer Inua Ellams was born in Nigeria, is based in England and performs internationally. As an immigrant, Im most comfortable when Im not at home, he said during a recent conversation. To go to another country and see if my concepts still stand the test of artistry, thats what I love doing. Ellams will take that test in early January, at Lincoln Centers Clark Studio Theater, when he performs Search Party, during which the audience curates an evening of his poetry by shouting out words that Ellams enters into the search bar of an iPad already loaded with his works. Search Party is among the works included in this years Under the Radar Festival, a celebration of experimental performance. Having lost its longtime space at the Public Theater owing to the Publics budget cuts, the 2024 festival will ... More
'Hayden Rowe Street' opening today at Derek Eller Gallery, with work by JJ Manford
NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery is now showing a solo exhibition of new paintings by JJ Manford entitled Hayden Rowe Street. Utilizing oil stick, oil pastel and Flashe paint on burlap stretched over canvas, Manford curates imagined domestic spaces filled with an array of historic artworks, objects, textiles, furniture, and animals. Simultaneously painterly and cinematic, his recent works highlight the coexistence of our manufactured and natural world. These paintings are all about life, as it turns out. The artists as well as ours, as viewers. We bring to his work many of our own associations and memories, especially those of us who grew up in the same generation as him. The absence of the human figurein spaces depicted almost life-sizedmakes the viewer sensitive of their own embodied presence. As if to underscore this fact, Manford ... More
'Gayleen Aiken: I Have Many Hobbies' now opening at Western Exhibition in first ever show in Chicago
CHICAGO, IL.- Western Exhibitions is presenting Gayleen Aikens first ever show in Chicago, Gayleen Aiken: I Have Many Hobbies, organized by Peter Gallo and Sean Horton. Gayleen Aiken (1934 2005), a self-taught artist from Barre, Vermont, produced paintings and drawings that combined narrative text and image, cardboard cut-outs, and handmade books, often featuring a cast of recurring characters which she called the Raimbilli Cousins, members of an imaginary extended family that she invented as a child. The show will open in Gallery 2 at Western Exhibitions Chicago location with a free public reception today, Friday, January 5, from 5 to 8 pm, and will run through February 17, 2023. 'I first saw Gayleen ... More
What to know about the science of reading
NEW YORK, NY.- During an era of intense politicization of education, there has been rare bipartisan consensus on one issue: the need to overhaul how children learn to read. Over the past five years, more than 40 states have passed laws that aim to revamp literacy instruction. And on Wednesday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a proposal to require schools to use scientifically proven reading curricula by 2025, and to invest $10 million in retraining teachers. The effort sweeping the country is known as the science of reading movement. Heres what to know about it, and where it stands. There is no single definition of the science of reading. But the key idea is that teaching strategies should align with a wide body of cognitive research on how young children learn to read. That research, amassed over decades, shows that in ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French-American painter Yves Tanguy was born January 05, 1900. Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 - January 15, 1955), known as Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter. Tanguy, the son of a retired navy captain, was born at the Ministry of Naval Affairs on Place de la Concorde in Paris, France. His parents were both of Breton origin. In this image: A pair of earrings, painted by Yves Tanguy.
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