| The last picture show for Fotografiska | | The Met presents exhibition of Edward C. Moore's collection of decorative arts | | Alphonse Mucha's art nouveau masterpieces now on display in exclusive Sydney exhibition |
The exterior of Fotografiska at 281 Park Avenue South in New York on June 11, 2024. (Graham Dickie/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Vivian Maier: Unseen Work will be the final show at the six-story Flemish Renaissance Revival building that Fotografiska New York has occupied since opening at the end of 2019. Its a very beautiful building, but everything has to be in tandem to work, said Sophie Wright, the private museums executive ... More | |
Glass garland bowl. Early Imperial, Augustan. Late 1st century BCE. Roman. Glass; cast and cut. H. 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm), diameter 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm) Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891 91.1.1402
NEW YORK, NY.- Edward C. Moore (18271891)the creative force who led Tiffany & Co. to unparalleled originality and success during the second half of the 19th centuryamassed a vast collection of decorative arts of exceptional quality and in ... More | |
Alphonse Mucha 'Reverie' 1898, colour lithograph, 72.7 x 55.2 cm © Mucha Trust 2024.
SYDNEY.- Opening tomorrow and exclusive to Sydney, the Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Alphonse Mucha: Spirit of Art Nouveau. This exhibition traces the remarkable life and work of one of the great pioneers of the 19th century art world, Czech art nouveau master Alphonse Mucha, and will be the largest exhibition ever seen in Australia of this visionary artists work. ... More |
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| Brooklyn's best vintage bookstore is in his living room | | The miniature secrets of championship rings | | On Canal Street, fake bags that are not for sale |
Rowan Thompson who stopped by High Valley with her friend Wesley Chau, in the Greenpoint area of Brooklyn on June 2, 2024. (Scott Rossi/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent Sunday, few moments passed when Bill Hall wasnt answering his homes buzzer. He led a succession of fashionable Brooklynites through his entryway and into his sunny living room, which is lined with vintage fashion magazines, photo books from Guy Bourdin and Ron Jude, and obscure German design quarterlies. Three big libraries just came in with 300 copies of The World of Interiors from ... More | |
Jason Arasheben, who has designed rings for the reigning NBA, MLB and NHL champions, at his office in Beverly Hills, Calif. on May 23, 2024. (Rosie Marks/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- As sports fans enjoy the legacy-defining moments of this months NBA Finals and Stanley Cup finals, Jason Arasheben is studying like a college student before exams. Arasheben, a celebrity jeweler whose clients include rappers Drake and ASAP Rocky, is investigating the history of the contending teams, the connections to their cities and any other interesting ... More | |
Merchandise on display at the RealReals exhibition on Canal Street, which is all fake, including the knockoff Serge Mouille lamp, in Manhattan on June 7, 2024. (Yuvraj Khanna/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Peering through the windows of the storefront at the corner of Broadway and Canal Street in lower Manhattan, it might seem like just another upscale boutique. Inside, luxury handbags Diors Lady D-lite, Louis Vuittons Loop, Loewes Puzzle bag, Telfars Shopping Bag, and several Hermès Birkins among them are arranged on a grid of white ... More |
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| Paintings by Eanger Irving Couse and Ivan Federovich Choultse highlight Neue Auctions sale | | Marilyn Monroe, Raiders of the Lost Ark & Irwin Allen items top sellers at Julien's Auctions | | Exhibition of drawings by Matthew Craven on view at Asya Geisberg Gallery |
Small, recently unearthed painting by Eanger Irving Couse, titled Turkey Hunter, circa 1926, in original condition, recently added to the artists catalog raisonné (est. $15,000-$25,000).
BEACHWOOD, OHIO.- Original oil on canvas paintings by acclaimed artists Eanger Irving Couse (American, 1866-1936) and Ivan Federovich Choultse (Russian/French, 1874-1913) are the expected headliners in an online-only Halcyon Sale planned for Saturday, June 29th, by Neue Auctions, starting ... More | |
Marilyn Monroe 1953 black Ceil Chapman evening dress sold for $254,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions and Turner Classic Movies opened Day One of their four-day summer blockbuster event Hollywood Legends: Danger, Disaster and Disco in a spectacular white glove evening sale held Wednesday, June 12th that exceeded expectations tallying $1 million, three times the original sale estimate. The sale was held live at a VIP reception at NYA Studios ... More | |
Matthew Craven, FOUNDATION., 2024. Pencil and ink on found paper, 40h x 30w in. 101.60h x 76.20w cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting Rendezvous with Rama, an exhibition of drawings by Matthew Craven. Each work is titled after a classic work of science fiction, with the shows title being an homage to Arthur C. Clarke, best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Cravens style rests on a pleasing fusion of drawing with a fine point marker girded onto a grid ... More |
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| Ewbank's to offer Peter Lepine-Smith's collection of electric clocks, telephones and radios | | Over 500 items crossed the auction block at Ahlers & Ogletree's Summer Estates & Collections auction | | Major Pharaoh exhibition opens at NGV International |
Green phone.
WOKING.- Peter Lepine-Smith (1926-2022) comes from the great British tradition of enthusiasts whose dedication to their particular field of interest knows almost no bounds. An accomplished engineer and collector, he famously took five years to build an 800ft, one-third size model trolleybus network in his garden in Great Bookham, Surrey. He named it the Maypine Trolleybus ... More | |
Oil on canvas American School portrait of a boy with his dog was rendered in 1779 and titled Portrait of Morgan Wilmot, unsigned, 47 inches by 32 ¾ inches (canvas, minus the frame) ($4,538).
ATLANTA, GA.- A Niermann Weeks Calais six-light chandelier lit up the room for $5,115, an 18th century American School oil on canvas portrait of a boy with his dog realized $4,538, an impressive Kirk & Son sterling repousse pitcher gaveled for $4,840, ... More | |
Installation view.
MELBOURNE.- The internationally exclusive blockbuster exhibition, Pharaoh, celebrates three thousand years of ancient Egyptian art and culture through more than 500 objects on loan from the British Museum, including monumental sculpture, tomb and temple architecture, coffins and funerary objects, as well as a significant display of exquisite ancient Egyptian jewellery. Curated ... More |
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Listen to 8 songs from the bewitching Françoise HardyNEW YORK, NY.- When she first broke through in the early 1960s, the bewitching French pop star Françoise Hardy, who died on Tuesday at 80, was initially lumped in with the yé-yés, the commercially minded rocking and twisting French singers of the era. She later came to see many of her early recordings, including her first hit, Tous les Garçons et les Filles, as sappy and lightweight. Hardy went on to forge her own path, becoming one of the rare singer-songwriters of her generation (and even rarer women in that category) an immediately identifiable performer who unleashed emotion by, counterintuitively, refusing to over-emote. Her brand of cool has continued to beguile new listeners. A new generation of arty-minded Americans was introduced to her when the Wes Anderson film Moonrise Kingdom (2012) prominently featured her hit ... More A prodigy of jazz clubs explores other stagesNEW YORK, NY.- Sitting outside a bar in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn one recent Sunday afternoon, Julius Rodriguez spoke with characteristic straightforwardness describing music that is anything but. The composer and bandleader, who has played with the rapper ASAP Rocky and style-bending artists like Kassa Overall and Meshell Ndegeocello, articulated the central challenge of his work, an amorphous blend of jazz, funk, gospel and R&B he simply calls the music. Its not about the notes, he explained, its about the emotions behind them. How do you describe the color orange to someone? Rodriguez said, his tone warm yet flat. How do you describe the taste of salt to someone whos never tasted salt? You dont know that youre there until youre there. You dont know what it feels like until you feel it. Rodriguez, 25, has been lauded ... More  IMMA presents first major retrospective of groundbreaking artist Hilary Heron in over 60 yearsDUBLIN.- IMMA presents Hilary Heron: A Retrospective, an exhibition of some 60 works celebrating the pioneering work of modernist sculptor Hilary Heron (1923 1977). As the first major retrospective exhibition of Herons work since 1964, this exhibition seeks to correct the ways that her work has been overlooked in Irish and international histories of modern sculpture. Hilary Heron was a Dublin born sculptor who co-represented Ireland at the 1956 Venice Biennale alongside painter Louis le Brocquy (1916 2012). The exhibition brings together work from national and international collections, including carvings, welding and castings. Heron was a master welder, a practice highly unusual for an Irish artist, let alone a woman in the 1950s. Her work tactfully and skilfully broaches themes of gender, relationships, deep histories and religion through impressive, varied mediums including stone, lead, steel and wood. Commenting on the exh ... More Charles Schulz, John Steinbeck & Johann Sebastian Bach among art, literature, and classical music up for auctionBOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction announces its special June sale, focusing on art, literature, and classical music. This extraordinary auction features a remarkable collection of autograph material from some of history's most celebrated figures. Charles Schulz - The original 'Peanuts' designs for Tarzana's 'Snoopy Bridge' are a significant highlight. This complete set of original pen-and-ink 'Peanuts' drawings was gifted by Schulz in 1971 to decorate the newly erected overhead footbridge at the intersection of Wilbur Avenue and Collins Street in Los Angeles's suburban Tarzana neighborhood of San Fernando Valley. These drawings are genuine slice of American life, showcasing characters who have been a vital ... More What is ballet in the 21st century? It's all over the place.NEW YORK, NY.- Ballet may be ballet no matter the century, but it also needs relevance in the moment. Modern life, either in its horror or euphoria, isnt separate from the art form. How could it be? A ballet is not just a pretty thing on a stage. It needs to have a reason for being, a pulse. But just what ballet is right now has become confusing. Its branches seem to be growing at different speeds with different textures. Some are thick and sturdy, while others are wispy, frizzled at the ends. It sometimes seems as if live performances are just extensions of TikTok. What the ballet strives for what companies and choreographers should always be striving for is the opposite: a work of art that can live only on a stage. That is ballet at its most untouchable. These thoughts were on my mind throughout New York City Ballets 75th anniversary, a three-season celebration that r ... More A new opera mashes up Monteverdi and W.E.B. Du BoisNEW YORK, NY.- Morality takes a hike in Claudio Monteverdis final opera, LIncoronazione di Poppea. Bold in its satire and explicit in its sensuality, even more than 350 years after its creation, the work gives its ruthless lovers, Nero and Poppea, everything they desire. A decadent exploration of Neros Rome, Poppea might seem to share little with The Comet, a W.E.B. Du Bois short story from 1920. Using tropes of sci-fi catastrophe, Du Bois, the famous Black sociologist, asks what it would take for a racially equitable civilization to emerge. But, like Monteverdis opera, it has an amoral, ice-cold finish: After the merest possibility of interracial love, the status quo of segregation returns. On Friday, both the opera and the story will be brought together, united by their common denominator of jaundiced cynicism, in The Comet/Poppea, ... More National Art School unveils 'undo the day' curated by Gina MobayedSYDNEY.- The National Art School has today unveiled undo the day, a new exhibition curated by Gina Mobayed, showcasing work by 10 contemporary artists including Karen Black, Nathan Hawkes, Irene Hanenbergh, Ruth Hutchinson, Nabilah Nordin, Mel OCallaghan, Tom Polo, Ronan Pirozzi, Jodie Whalen and Coen Young. Presented across two floors of the NAS Gallery until 3 August 2024, the exhibition explores the human response to move towards the light when in darkness, and finding hope in times of doubt and change. Curator Gina Mobayed says: In darkness there is less definition and more uncertainty, there is an instinctual urge to move forward through both vision and feeling. We rely on light for orientation to mark the distance between what we desire, what we are looking for, and sometimes what we know. A flicker or a spark ... More New chapter for AGSA Assistant Director, Artistic Programs Dr Lisa SladeADELAIDE.- Art Gallery of South Australia Assistant Director, Artistic Programs Dr Lisa Slade has been appointed to the role of the Hugh Ramsay Chair in Australian Art History at The University of Melbourne, one of the most prestigious appointments of its kind in Australia. The Hugh Ramsay Chair was created by a visionary endowment from Faculty of Arts alumna Patricia Fullerton, the grand-niece of the famous Australian artist Hugh Ramsay (1877-1906) and is now memorialized in this important role. The position is based in the Art History Program in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and will play an important leadership role in linking the academic program to the wider arts community and fostering public engagement. Dr Slade joined the team at AGSA as Project Curator in 2011, this role saw her ... More Tony nominees on the shows that shaped themNEW YORK, NY.- The Tony Awards are on Sunday at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, and will be broadcast on CBS starting at 8 p.m. Eastern time. Each year we photograph nominated actors and talk to them about their craft. This time we asked the nominees to share early theater memories, and their answers are reminders of the joys, and importance, of those formative experiences. Janet McTeer in A Dolls House that was a very early, if not the first, Broadway show that my mother took me to see. I was in the first row of the mezzanine, and Ill never forget the energy with which she came onstage. It was like watching a lightning bolt. It wasnt until I saw Pippin, when I was 13, that I decided that I was going to be a dancer on Broadway and do that guys choreography. I didnt know I was talking about god [Bob ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American-French painter Mary Cassatt died June 14, 1926. Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 - June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (Now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. In this image: Mary Cassatt (1845-1926), Mother and Two Children, 1906. Oil on canvas.
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