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Installation shot of The Rooted Nomad: M.F. Husain, organized by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. Designed by Visioni Srl, Rome. Image courtesy of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.
VENICE.- The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art has opened The Rooted Nomad, a unique exhibition on Indias most iconic contemporary artist, M.F. Husain (19152011). Presented at the Magazzini del Sale in Venice beginning April 18 and running through November 24, 2024, this dual-format independent project, part exhibition and part immersive, resonates with the 2024 Venice Biennales theme of Foreigners Everywhere. The restless itinerant spirit of Husain, the breadth of experiences he gathered and the evocation of multiple journeys, forms ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Karma presents The World Doesnt End, an exhibition of new oils and gouaches by Maja Ruznic, open from June 26 to August 23, 2024, at 22 and 188 East 2nd Street. Installation view. © Maja Ruznic. Courtesy the artist and Karma.
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| National Museum of African American History and Culture acquires largest collection of Charleston slave badges | | Osgemeos rocked Brazil. Can the graffiti twins take New York? | | A wax statue of Lincoln melted into a meme |
Collection of the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture, Partial Gift of Harry S. Hutchins, Jr. DDS, Col. (Ret.) and his Family, dedicated to the individuals these Slave Hire Badges represent and their descendants.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture recently acquired what is thought to be the largest and most complete set of historic Charleston Slave Badges. The collection includes 146 rare ... More | |
The identical twins Otávio and Gustavo Pandolfo, known as Osgemeos, draw sketches in the office of their studio in São Paulo, March 25, 2024. (Gabriela Portilho/The New York Times)
SAO PAULO.- Just inside the door to the studio of Brazilian artists Osgemeos is a self-portrait. Spray-painted on the concrete wall of the old metal workshops entryway, the image shows identical twins Otávio and Gustavo Pandolfo, 50, standing next to each other, hands at their sides and ... More | |
As temperatures in the region neared triple digits over the weekend, the replicas head mostly melted off, turning the towering president into a droopy mess. Photo: Reddit.
NEW YORK, NY.- What do you call a wax replica of a former president during an oppressive heat wave? A punchline waiting to happen. Originally installed at an elementary school in Washington, D.C., in February, the 6-foot wax version of the Lincoln Memorial was intended as a commentary ... More |
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| Susan Philipsz exhibits at fjk3 - Contemporary Art Space | | Kara Walker is no one's robot | | Belvedere 21 opens 'Visionary Spaces: Walter Pichler Meets Frederick Kiesler' |
Sound Mirrors is also the title of Susan Philipsz's double vinyl record, which is being released as a limited edition to coincide with the exhibition.
VIENNA.- With her site-specific sound installations on themes such as displacement, loss and memory, Scottish artist Susan Philipsz (born in Glasgow in 1965) is one of the outstanding artists of our time. For her exhibition in Vienna, she has combined sound installations and sound sculptures with films and photographic works to create an atmospheric space of ... More | |
A veiled gardener with animal hands known as Harpy plays dissonant chords from a gaping hole in its chest in Kara Walkers Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine). (Marissa Leshnov/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The raised right arm of a 7-foot-tall Black automaton in a somber Victorian dress came swinging down toward an approaching visitor, who had unknowingly triggered a motion sensor. Oh, watch your head! artist Kara Walker called out. She was standing just outside the wingspan of her creation, called Fortuna, as ... More | |
Walter Pichler, Galaxy 1, 1966. Estate of Walter Pichler, Vienna, photo: Werner Kaligofsky, 1998 / Bildrecht, Vienna 2024 © 2024 Estate of Walter Pichler, Vienna.
VIENNA.- The exhibition Visionary Spaces: Walter Pichler Meets Frederick Kiesler in Belvedere 21 highlights thematic similarities between the oeuvres of the two artists and sheds light on important aspects of their work. The display by Sonia Leimer fosters a dialog between the works of the two avant-garde artists who differed in terms of generation and discipline. Belvedere General ... More |
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| Scientists find first evidence that butterflies crossed an ocean | | Alexis Rose appointed Senior Director at Lehmann Maupin | | After 20 years, ancestor rock, Kānepō, to return home to Hawaiʻi |
The painted lady butterfly, one of the worlds most widespread butterflies. (Gerard Talavera via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Early one morning in late October 2013, Gerard Talavera, an entomologist, saw something highly unusual a flock of painted lady butterflies stranded on a beach in French Guiana. The painted lady, or the species Vanessa cardui, is one of the worlds most widespread butterflies, but it isnt found in South America. ... More | |
Rose has been instrumental in supporting Lehmann Maupins global sales team and artist development by serving as a liaison to several of the gallerys artists. Photo: Daniel Kukla.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin announced the promotion of Alexis Rose to Senior Director, based in New York. Over the past six years, Rose has been instrumental in supporting Lehmann Maupins global sales team and artist development by serving as a liaison to several ... More | |
Kānepō Has Been at the National Museum of the American Indian Since 2004.
WASHINGTON, DC.- After two decades representing the western cardinal point of the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall, the volcanic pōhaku (rock) named Kānepō will return to its home on the Island of Hawaiʻi this summer. In preparation for Kānepōs departure, a ceremony will be held July 1 during the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. ... More |
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| Library of Congress acquires House of Blues Radio Collection | | The last stand of the woolly mammoths | | Pace announces representation of artist Alejandro Piñeiro Bello |
Collection spans 20 years' worth of programs that promoted and popularized the blues.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Library of Congress has acquired the House of Blues Radio Hour spanning 20 years worth of programs that promoted the blues, introduced new audiences to the popular music genre and showcased emerging talent. Hosted by celebrity actor-musician Dan Aykroyd, the series was a soulful journey through a cornerstone of American ... More | |
In an artist's impression, a woolly mammoth of Wrangel Island. (Beth Zaiken via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- For millions of years, mammoths lumbered across Europe, Asia and North America. Starting roughly 15,000 years ago, the giant animals began to vanish from their vast range until they survived on only a few islands. Eventually they disappeared from those refuges, too, with one exception: Wrangel Island, a land mass the size of Delaware over 80 miles ... More | |
Portrait of Alejandro Piñeiro Bello © Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, courtesy the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alejandro Piñeiro Bello (b. 1990, Havana, Cuba) paints the sociocultural mystic splendour of Caribbean culture with a focus on the Caribbean diaspora, Cuba, and the surrounding island nations identities, and histories. This fall, Paces gallery in London will stage the largest exhibition to dateand first in the UKof works by Miami based-Piñeiro Bello, running from September ... More |
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Kinky Friedman, musician and humorist who slew sacred cows, dies at 79NEW YORK, NY.- Kinky Friedman, a singer, songwriter, humorist and sometime politician who with his band, the Texas Jewboys, developed an ardent following among alt-country music fans with songs such as They Dont Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore and whose biting cultural commentary earned him comparisons with Will Rogers and Mark Twain, died Wednesday at his ranch near Austin, Texas. He was 79. Little Jewford, a member of his band and a longtime friend, confirmed the death. He did not specify a cause, but he said Friedman had been ill in recent months. Friedman occupied a singular spot on the fringes of American popular culture, alongside acts such as Jello Biafra, the Dead Milkmen and Mojo Nixon. With a thick mustache, sideburns and a broad-brimmed cowboy hat, he played his own version of Texas-inflected country ... More National Museum of African Art presents "Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross"WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of African Art is showcasing works by sculptor and printmaker Bruce Onobrakpeya, considered one the fathers of postcolonial Nigerian modernism. On view June 21 through Jan. 21, 2025, Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross features works by the artist from 1966 through 1978, a period when he completed multiple commissions for the Catholic Church, including his seminal Fourteen Stations of the Cross series. The exhibition also recognizes Onobrakpeyas legacyinspiring generations of visual artists in Nigeriawith artworks from the museums collection that reflect Onobrakpeyas influence. Central to the exhibition Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross lies a profound cultural significance and institutional collaboration, said guest curator Janine ... More Exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Reine Paradis opens in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY.- KÃNIG Mexico City is presenting AURORA, an exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Reine Paradis, showcasing self-portrait photographs, paintings, sculptures, and a video installation from her two previous series, Jungle and Midnight. Her signature colors radiate off the surface with the use of deep blues, neon yellows, and bright oranges, all meticulously refined through a painstaking process. This collection of works dives into the surreal world and psyche of Paradis, from the moment of conception, through creation and even its deconstruction. Paradis examines the transition between extrinsic realities and personal fantasies, one of the continuing themes in her work. While she embraces the constantly changing and fluid nature of the world around us, she also obscures the boundary of what we know to be true. ... More Can a new leader make the Boston Symphony innovative again?LENOX, MASS.- Im going to sound like such a dork, Chad Smith said as he drove a golf cart around the grounds of Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestras pastoral summer home in the Berkshires. I love Tanglewood so much. He stopped the cart, and looked out beyond the manicured campus to rolling, tree-covered hills and the still waters of Stockbridge Bowl. It reminded him, he said, of the environment at the prestigious Salzburg Festival in Austria. But Salzburg isnt attached to an orchestra and a music institute like Tanglewood has been since its founding in 1940. This is the sense of innovation that is at the core of the BSO, said Smith, who became the Boston Symphonys president and CEO in the fall. The orchestra was not yet 60 years old, and it changed its identity again by becoming a symphony orchestra, a pops orchestra and an educational institution. ... More Mavis Staples is an American institution. She's not done singing yet.CHICAGO, IL.- On a rainy April day in Chicago, Mavis Staples sat in the restaurant of the towering downtown Chicago building where shes lived for the past four years. For two hours, she talked about the civil rights movement and faith. And finally, she mentioned her old flame Bob Dylan. The singer-songwriter proposed to Staples after a kiss at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival; she hid from him during a show at the Apollo decades later, fearing hed ask again. Theyve remained friends, even taking daily strolls during a 2016 tour together. Shed heard rumors he would soon retire, finally wrapping his fabled Never Ending Tour. Staples knew he would hate it. Oh, Bobby: He gotta keep on singing, Staples said. I could handle it more than him. I will call him and say, Dont retire, Bobby. You dont know what youre doing. Staples speaks from experience: Late ... More Mary Timony is an indie-rock hero. Her other gig? Mentor.WASHINGTON, DC.- In the dining room of her cozy home in Washington, D.C., Mary Timony retrieved her lute from an instrument case that, she joked, looks like a cat coffin. Timony, 53, has been on a learning kick recently. Literally all Im working on is this, she said, demonstrating how the so-called thumb-under fingerpicking method strays from traditional guitar technique. Timony is well known as a guitarist and frontwoman: In the 1990s she headed up the bands Autoclave and Helium, then released solo records before joining Wild Flag, an indie-rock supergroup. Ex Hex, her classic rock and power-pop trio known for catchy songs and rafter-reaching guitar solos, has released two albums since 2014; her latest solo LP, Untame the Tiger, written and recorded in the midst of a breakup as she cared for her dying parents, arrived ... More 'Woolf Works' review: A literary ballet's misstepsNEW YORK, NY.- At the start of Woolf Works, a three-act ballet by British choreographer Wayne McGregor based on novels by Virginia Woolf, we hear part of what is reportedly the only extant recording of Woolfs voice. It is a writers loving complaint about her materials: words. Used by everyone, they are full of echoes and associations, she says. A writer can invent new ones but cant use them in an old language like English, because words hang together. By beginning like this, is McGregor identifying with Woolf and admitting the difficulty inherent in his materials, steps in the old language called ballet? Or is this a smug assertion of difference that he, as a choreographer, can invent? Woolf Works is certainly ambitious. When the Royal Ballet debuted it in 2015, it was hailed as a breakthrough. But when American Ballet Theater gave ... More Bill Cobbs, 'Sopranos' and 'Night at the Museum' actor, dies at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Bill Cobbs, a prolific character actor whose half-century career bloomed while he was middle-aged and ranged from Sesame Street to The Sopranos to Night at the Museum, died Tuesday evening. He was 90. His death, at his home in the Inland Empire region of California, was announced on social media by his brother, Thomas G. Cobbs, and confirmed by his agent, Carmela Evangelista. No cause of death was given. Cobbs was not a Hollywood star, but his face was one anyone who watched TV or movies over the past several decades could recognize. He appeared in more than 200 films and television shows and was also a prominent theater actor. Born Wilbert Francisco Cobbs in Cleveland, Cobbs spent eight years working as a radar technician in the Air Force, where he started doing standup comedy, he said ... More Karma opens an exhibition of new oils and gouaches by Maja RuznicNEW YORK, NY.- Karma presents The World Doesnt End, an exhibition of new oils and gouaches by Maja Ruznic, open from June 26 to August 23, 2024, at 22 and 188 East 2nd Street. Ruznics unmediated, improvisational paintings portray alternate worlds in which figures merge with their mutating environments. Titled after a 1990 book of prose poetry by Charles Simic, who, like Ruznic, hails from former Yugoslavia, the new exhibitiongouaches at 188 East 2nd Street and large-scale oil paintings at 22 East 2nd Streetillustrates Ruznics visions of life enduring in the face of adversity. As one world is destroyed, another begins, and with it new truths are revealed. Color is the starting point for each of Ruznics compositionsthrough her associations of hues with particular feelings and memories, she arrives at her symbolically-loaded ... More 5.1 million Swiss francs for a Ferdinand Hodler lake view - Flea market find makes almost $400 000ZURICH.- Cuno Amiets portrait of Ferdinand Hodler, the result of a meeting of two Swiss artist icons, commissioned by the important Swiss collector Oscar Miller, realised a price commensurate with its importance in Swiss art history at Kollers Swiss Art auction on 21 June. A prolonged bidding battle for this masterpiece, a second version of which is in the Kunstmuseum Solothurn, was finally won by a collector in western Switzerland for five times its lower estimate, CHF 1.35 million (lot 3029, estimate CHF 250 000 / 400 000). The top result in the auction series was a view of the Lake of Geneva by Ferdinand Hodler, a beautiful example of the artists trademark Parallelism, which soared past its estimate to sell for CHF 5.1 million to a private Swiss collector (lot 3044, estimate CHF 1.6 / 2.4 million). An oil study by Hodler for ... More In 'The Bear,' Abby Elliott follows a new recipeNEW YORK, NY.- Abby Elliott knows her way around a comedy. A veteran of the Groundlings and the Upright Citizens Brigade, she joined Saturday Night Live at 21 and has since appeared in laugh-track-ready shows like How I Met Your Mother and Odd Mom Out. So in the spring of 2021, when FX approached her about a pilot for a new comedy, she was interested. I kind of went into it like, Oh, should I do a voice? Elliott said. Or I could do a little catchphrase? That could be fun. That show was The Bear, which returns for its third season on Thursday, on Hulu. Set largely in the fraught kitchen of a Chicago restaurant, it stars Jeremy Allen White as a troubled chef. Elliott appears as his forbearing sister. The Bear is a comedy only in the classical sense, in that it emphasizes human foibles and does not end in disaster. (Is a workplace ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian architect Domenico Fontana died June 28, 1607. Domenico Fontana (1543 - 28 June 1607) was an Italian architect of the late Renaissance, born in today's Ticino. He worked primarily in Italy, at Rome and Naples. He was born at Melide, a village on the Lake Lugano, at that time joint possession of Swiss cantons of the old Swiss Confederacy, and presently part of Ticino, Switzerland, and died at Naples. In this image: Domenico Fontana by Federico Zuccari.
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