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Visitors view Edgar Degas Family Portrait (The Bellelli Family), 1858-69, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2023. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Wednesday, July 24, 2024, that it attracted more local visitors last year than it did before the pandemic, and that the number of visitors from elsewhere in the United States had nearly completely rebounded. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Wednesday that it attracted more local visitors last year than it did before the pandemic, and that the number of visitors from elsewhere in the United States had nearly completely rebounded. But the museum said that it was still only attracting about half the international visitors that it did before the pandemic upended the tourism industry. All told, the Met attracted nearly 5.5 million to its main home on Fifth Avenue and to the Cloisters in the year ending June 30, the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view "Hannah Höch. Assembled Worlds" Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez; © Bildrecht, Vienna 2024
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| StART KX announces the first of its 2024 programming 7-13 October 2024 | | The Parrish Art Museum announces the appointment of Nina Sarin Arias as new Trustee | | The Center for Maine Contemporary Art announces Robert Wolterstorff as new Executive Director |
Justin Dingwall, Look Behind the sun, 2024. 330 x 505mm.
LONDON.- 10 years ago, StART was the first ever art fair at the Saatchi Gallery. A decade on, the founders are excited to announce its relocation to the Town Hall in Kings Cross, London for its 11th edition, and the next 10 years. The innovative global art fair will relocate to an iconic new space in Londons world-renowned creative and technology hub, Kings Cross-St Pancras the vibrant district for innovative talent, now known simply as KX. The fair will be the debut event ... More | |
An Indian American born in the San Francisco/Bay Area, she attended Parsons Fashion Design program after obtaining a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from London Business School. Photo Courtesy: Nina Sarin Arias.
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum has appointed Nina Sarin Arias to its Board of Trustees. Sarin Arias brings a wealth of experience as the Founder and Creative Director of ARIAS New York, a womens ready-to-wear brand launched in 2017 and proudly made in New York City. An Indian American born in the San Francisco ... More | |
Robert Wolterstorff. Courtesy of CMCA.
ROCKLAND, ME.- The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) announced the appointment of Robert Wolterstorff as the museums new Executive Director. Wolterstorff officially assumed his role on July 22, bringing a wealth of experience in museum leadership to CMCA. As Executive Director, Wolterstorff will spearhead organizational direction, fundraising initiatives, community engagement, and exhibition planning and programming. Jonathan Chodosh, Interim Chair of CMCAs Board of Trustees, expressed his ... More |
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| The avant-garde psychiatrist who built an artistic refuge | | Secrets emerge from a fossil's taco shell-like cover | | Fossil hints that Jurassic mammals lived slow and died old |
The psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles in the garden of the Saint-Alban hospital, in southern France, circa 1945. (via Family Ou-Rabah Tosquelles via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A black-and-white snapshot from around 1945 shows a man with twin shocks of hair sitting in a childs playpen, a cigarette between his lips. This is Francesc Tosquelles, a psychiatrist who spent decades dismantling the hard bars between illness and health, pathology and normalcy, artists and everyone else. He drew on Freud and Marx, and also on his experience as a refugee, in exile from Francisco Francos ... More | |
Odaraia alata and its taco-like shell. (Danielle Dufault via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- About 70% of the animals on Earth including centipedes and bees, shrimp and crabs are arthropods with mandibles, or pincerlike jaws. To understand how organisms with this anatomical feature became so diverse and successful over the last 500 million years, scientists looked inside the tacolike shell that protected an enigmatic creature that once swam in prehistoric seas. Odaraia alata, an arthropod, roamed the shallow seas of the middle Cambrian Period approximately 508 million ... More | |
A paleontologist at National Museums Scotland, with a fossil of Krusatodon kirtlingtonensis, a mouse-like mammal from the Jurassic that was previously known only from bits of fossil teeth. (Duncan McGlynn via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Small mammals often live fast and die young. Rodents and shrews mature quickly, mate within months and usually go belly up in a year or two. Some giant rats kick the bucket in just six months. But miniature mammals have not always burned out so quickly. Researchers recently analyzed a pair of fossilized skeletons belonging to a mouse-size mammal relative that ... More |
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| Design Museum acquires Ahluwalia garment for upcoming sustainable fashion display | | Noriko Ohara, who gave voice to a beloved anime character, dies at 88 | | Met exhibition to explore how Black artists have engaged with ancient Egypt over the last 150 years |
The museum will acquire Ahluwalia piece as part of its permanent collection. Courtesy of Ahluwalia, SS24 show, photography by Jason Lloyd-Evans.
LONDON.- The Design Museum today announces the acquisition of a garment from fashion brand Ahluwalia, for a new display Tomorrow's Wardrobe that will open on 14 September. Opening to coincide with London Fashion Week and London Design Festival, Tomorrows Wardrobe will explore the potential for a more sustainable fashion industry. The display will look at initiatives across the production, design, and use of clothes to reduce the industrys environmental ... More | |
She starred in Doraemon and other animated shows watched by nearly every child in Japan, and her voice became widely recognized.
NEW YORK, NY.- Noriko Ohara, the Japanese voice actress who for decades played the role of Nobita in the beloved childrens show Doraemon, giving life to a main character in one of the countrys longest-running television shows, has died. She was 88. Her agency, 81 Produce, said in a statement Tuesday that she died July 12 after unsuccessful treatment for an unspecified illness. The statement did not list the place of death or mention surviving ... More | |
Fred Wilson (American, born 1954). Grey Area (Brown Version), 1993. Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of William K. Jacobs, Jr. and bequest of Richard J. Kempe, by exchange (2008.6aj)
NEW YORK, NY.- Opening at The Met on November 17, 2024, the major exhibition Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876Now will examine how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual, sculptural, literary, musical, scientific, scholarly, religious, political, and performative pursuits. The multisensory exploration of nearly 150 years of artistic and cultural production ... More |
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| Why the Olympics' Parade of Nations is the world's costume party | | Maestro accused of striking singer won't return to his ensembles | | Art Gallery of New South Wales to unveil major new Tank commission by Angelica Mesiti |
An earlier episode of Parisian flag-waving: the celebration of Napoleon Bonapartes coronation in 1804 on the Champ de Mars, now the site of the Eiffel Tower. When the Olympic athletes march in or float in, as they will in Paris you can enjoy the illusion that its a small world after all. (Musée Carnavalet via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Welcome back to the Olympics, and a five-ringed circus of sport and security, national pride and international sponsorship. This summers Games begin in Paris this Friday, with an uncommon opening ceremony: athletes and acrobats floating along the Seine for as many spectators as the anti-terror police will allow. No other country would have tried this, President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview this ... More | |
John Eliot Gardiner leads the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in a cycle of Beethovens symphonies at Carnegie Hall in New York on Feb. 18, 2020. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- John Eliot Gardiner, an eminent conductor who was accused of striking a singer in France last year, will not be returning to three renowned period ensembles he founded, the board overseeing them announced Wednesday. Gardiner, 81, who is one of the worlds most celebrated conductors, will no longer lead the three groups: the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. The board of the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras, the nonprofit that oversees all three ensembles, said ... More | |
Angelica Mesiti in the Tank at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Naala Badu building, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter.
SYDNEY.- One of Australias most acclaimed contemporary artists, Angelica Mesiti, will premiere an immersive visual and sonic experience in the extraordinary Tank at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in September. Occupying the entire 2200-square-metre former Second World War oil tank, Angelica Mesiti: The Rites of When is a video and sound installation that reimagines communal rituals in relation to seasonal cycles, at a time of environmental uncertainty and flux. The major new commission includes seven monumental video screens interspersed between the Tanks own forest of concrete ... More |
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Darryl Daniel, illustrator of Snoop Dogg's first album cover, dies at 56NEW YORK, NY.- Darryl Daniel, a hip-hop illustrator who designed the cover for his cousin Snoop Doggs genre-defining album Doggystyle, and went on to lend his distinctive artistic flair to brands that included Adidas and Supreme, has died. He was 56. His sister Diondra Daniel confirmed his death. Snoop Dogg acknowledged his death on social media Monday, but neither provided additional information. Daniel, known in the hip-hop world as Joe Cool, became synonymous with the bright colors, block letters and bawdy canines featured on the Doggystyle cover, which sold millions of albums around the world after its release in 1993. His style would always be linked to the albums hits including Gin and Juice and Lodi Dodi, which played in streets and house parties throughout Long Beach, California, greater Los Angeles and the country ... More For some old musicals, not just revival but reappropriationNEW YORK, NY.- Ten years ago, I cringed through an Encores! performance of one of the most odious musicals Id ever seen. Thats not to throw shade on Encores!, the concert series that dredges up both diamonds and dirt from the musical theater dustbin. But Irma La Douce, a 1960 Broadway hit about jolly prostitutes and the men who keep them, was perhaps a dredge too far. Did I mention that it involved penguins? In a way, it was a relief that the show was so bad: There was nothing to regret in consigning it to my personal catalog of cancellation. Most of the most offensive musicals of the past are like that, providing their own incontrovertible arguments against revival, except as carefully labeled historical exhibits in some deep-future Encores! season. On the other hand, the best vintage musicals need no excuses. They ... More A tenor with one of the strangest, most essential voices in operaBERLIN.- Klaus Florian Vogts voice is a phenomenon that even he has had trouble grasping. In the early days of his career, he would hear recordings of himself singing and be surprised by the timbre. He knew his tenor was bright, but outside his head it sounded even brighter. He wasnt the only one unsure of what to make of his voice. Lithe, polished and powerful, it continues to divide listeners. Some critics find it youthful; others, immature. At 54, Vogt is one of the most essential performers in opera. But there is no voice that divides fans so much, music critic Markus Thiel wrote in a review. Ethereal, otherworldly, some cheer. Boyish, Wagner wish-wash, others complain. These days, Vogt isnt so surprised by his sound. Its continually grown closer, what my imagination is of how I want to sing and what the actual result is, he ... More Found in translation: Asian languages on-screenNEW YORK, NY.- American audiences used to balk at subtitles. But recent hits like Shogun and Everything Everywhere All at Once show how much that has changed. In Hollywood today, not only are Asian and Asian American narratives more prominent than ever, but they are also being told in increasingly dynamic ways through the artful use of Asian languages. Take, for instance, a scene from the recent HBO miniseries The Sympathizer, which ran its final episode in May. In the series, Robert Downey Jr. plays an auteur director making The Hamlet, a movie set during the Vietnam War. In this scene, American soldiers confront a Vietnamese villager. Except something isnt quite right: She is speaking Cantonese. In the lineage of the Hollywood Vietnam War movie, where Vietnamese characters rarely had lines beyond screaming ... More Fashion's fake news epidemicNEW YORK, NY.- There is yet another job opening in fashion. On Monday, Tom Ford (the brand) announced the departure of Peter Hawkings as creative director after just over a year. That company now joins the ranks of Chanel, Givenchy and Dries Van Noten, all soldiering on without a designer or any real design direction besides rinse and repeat. Its an unprecedented state of uncertainty, not helped by the fact that at the same time speculation is swirling about a host of other brands that still have artistic directors, though youd never know it by the gossip. A brief sampling of the theories floating around: Sarah Burton, the longtime designer of Alexander McQueen who left last year, is definitely, positively going to Givenchy. Soon. Everyone says. Hedi Slimane is 100% leaving Celine, going to Chanel and being replaced by ... More Was your 4D screening of 'Twisters' a blast? Thank these effects wizards.NEW YORK, NY.- First you get the aroma of the meadowlands. Then a vision of an Oklahoma prairie fills the screen and, as the grass undulates, a soft breeze wafts over you and your seat sways. The wind is not ominous not yet. These sights, sounds, feelings and scents open a 4D presentation of the tornado thriller Twisters. For the past decade and a half, companies like CJ 4DPlex have turned splashing and shaking moviegoers into an art, fine-tuning their techniques to lure fans into theaters. Carefully tracking through each scene, they look for moments to heighten the experience in a way that adds meaning without distracting from the narrative. In a typical 4D presentation, audiences pay on average $8 more than the price of a regular ticket to sit in pods of four chairs that can pitch and tilt subtly or with extreme force, using technology ... More Lewis H. Lapham, longtime editor of Harper's, dies at 89NEW YORK, NY.- Lewis H. Lapham, the scholarly patrician who edited Harpers Magazine for nearly three decades, and who in columns, books and later his own magazine, Laphams Quarterly, attacked what he regarded as the inequities and hypocrisies of American life, died Tuesday in Rome. He was 89. His death was announced by his children. A longtime resident of New York Citys Upper East Side, he had been living in Rome with his wife and other family members since January. The scion of a shipping and banking family whose forebears included a founder of Texaco and a mayor of San Francisco, Lapham was a nationally respected journalist whose commentaries on politics, wars and the wealthy were disparaged by conservative critics but often likened by admirers to the satires and cultural criticisms of H.L. Mencken and Mark ... More A city of light and shadows is redrawn for the OlympicsPARIS.- There is a glorious folly to the Paris Olympics, the first in the city since 1924, as if France in its perennial revolutionary ardor took a century to ponder something unimaginable, the transformation of a great city into a stadium. The heart of Paris has fallen silent in preparation for the opening ceremony Friday, when a flotilla will usher thousands of athletes down the Seine, under the low-slung bridges where lovers like to linger. Not since the COVID-19 pandemic has the city been so still or so constrained. From the Pont dAusterlitz in the east to the Pont Mirabeau in the west, roads are closed; newly built stands for spectators line the riverbanks; fences enclose sidewalks; and residents need police-issued QR codes to reach their homes. The golden cherubs, nymphs and winged horses of the Pont Alexandre III gaze out on metal bleachers and posses of police. ... More Chappell Roan booked a tour. Then she blew up.SEATTLE, WA.- In September 2023, Chappell Roan opened the tour for her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, in Roseville, California, at the Goldfield Trading Post, a venue that holds 600 people. Last Friday night in Seattle, she held court before a festival crowd of 10,000 at the Capitol Hill Block Party. And lately, 10,000 is a small crowd for the rising pop star. The narrow street where the event is held couldnt contain all the fans who arrived in glittery pink cowboy hats an homage to Roans song Pink Pony Club, about dancing at a gay bar so those without tickets camped out at an adjacent gas station and sang along to synth-pop hits like Good Luck, Babe! and Hot to Go! both of which have been climbing Billboards Hot 100 in the past six weeks. The last few months have been transformative for Roan, ... More After losing crops to drought, Sicily fears losing tourism, tooLEONFORTE.- As tourists savored icy granitas under hibiscus trees and swam in the cool Mediterranean Sea, in the farmlands of southern Sicily, among hillsides so scorched they resembled desert dunes, a farmer watched recently as his cows headed to the slaughterhouse. After months of drought, he didnt have any water or food to give them. Its devastating, said the farmer, Lorenzo Iraci Sareri, as tears fell on his tanned face, lined by 40 years of labor pasturing cows. I have never seen something like this. Parts of southern Italy and other Mediterranean regions, including Greece and southeastern Spain, are experiencing one of their worst droughts in decades. It is particularly devastating, experts say, because the lack of rainfall has been made worse by the higher temperatures caused by climate change. Artificial basins where animals used to drink offer litt ... More Dancers drop threat to strike during Paris Olympics opening ceremonyPARIS.- Dancers in France called off a threat to strike during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris after event organizers met some of their demands, labor unions said Wednesday. Thousands of dancers, musicians and other performers are expected to line the bridges and banks of the Seine River on Friday for the ceremony, which for the first time is being held outside, rather than in, an enclosed sports stadium. Some dancers, angered by disparities in pay, had threatened a walkout, which would have partly disrupted a widely anticipated and high-risk event that will be watched by millions around the world. About 200 dancers even briefly interrupted a rehearsal on the banks of the Seine in protest earlier this week, standing motionless with their fists raised in the air for the duration of their eight-minute routine. Labor unions were complaining that about 250 t ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Ignacio Villarreal Junco founder of ArtDaily died  July 26, 2019. July 26, 2019. Ignacio Villarreal Junco (December 20, 1941 - July 26, 2019) Journalist, graphic designer and publicist between the 1960s and 1990s, creator of concepts, images, slogans, logos, campaigns and founder of ArtDaily.com The First Art Newspaper on the Net. As editor he published the magazines: Gala (1965), Creatividad (1972-1977), Espacio (1983-1984), Museos (1995-1996). For ten years he made the Agenda del Arte (1987-1997). He made the serigraphic editions titled: 1976-Calendario Gráfico, 1977-Alfabeto Gráfico. He also edited serigraphs with the visual artists: José LuÃs Cuevas, Juan Soriano, Juan Genovés. Corporate Identities: 1968 - Hylsa, 1970 - Universidad de Monterrey, 1974 - BanpaÃs, 1978 - Akra, 1985 - Ãbaco, 1990 - Club de Fútbol Monterrey, 1991 - Socrates Rizo Campaign, 1992 - ConfÃa, 1993 - Mexlub, 1993 - Rogelio Montemayor Campaign, 1996 - Monterrey400 (Fourth centenary of the city), 2002 - UANL Tigres Soccer Club. As a publicist, he received 18 national awards: Teponaxtlis de Malinalco and as founding editor of ArtDaily, an art newspaper that has received 51 awards or distinctions.
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