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Installation view of LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from May 12 through September 7, 2024. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.
NEW YORK, NY.- A continuous high-pitched din a bit whirring, a bit crunching echoed over the Bottom, the residential sliver of Braddock, Pennsylvania, nearest to the industrial plants and the Monongahela River. It rose, indistinguishably, from the steel mill the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, opened by Andrew Carnegie in 1875 and still operating and the adjacent air separation plant, where ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of HOME1947: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy. On view at Oklahoma. Contemporary, Feb. 22-July 22, 2024. Photo by Cassandra Watson. Photo: Cassandra Watson.
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| Shelley Duvall vanished from Hollywood. She's been here the whole time. | | A vintage publication saved from The Great Fire | | Ruiz Healy Art in New York exhibits 'Contemporary Bodegones' |
The actor Shelley Duvall looks at a snapshot of her and Robin Williams on the set of Robert Altmans Popeye while sitting in her Toyota 4Runner near her home in Texas on Nov. 14, 2023. (Katherine Squier/The New York Times)
AUSTIN, TX.- On a winding back road of Texas Hill Country, Shelley Duvall pulled over and lit another cigarette. How did you like Egypt? she called out from the white Toyota 4Runner she spends most of her days in, and some nights, much to the chagrin of her partner, Dan Gilroy. The Egypt ... More | |
Among the many subjects John Evelyn (1620-1706) wrote about, horticulture became an increasing obsession.
LONDON.- One of the earliest works on English viticulture comes for sale at Chiswick Auctions this month. The specialist Books and Works on Paper sale on May 14 includes one of the few surviving copies of The English Vineyard Vindicated
, by John Evelyn and John Rose. Published in 1666, it is thought that most copies perished in the Great Fire of London. This rare survivor has an ink correction that is made in Evelyns own ... More | |
Chuck Ramirez, Candy Tray_ Fouquet's, Paris, 2003, 2011, Stamped by The Estate of Chuck Ramirez on gallery label, Pigment inkjet print, 48 x 36 in 121.9 x 91.4 cm.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to present Contemporary Bodegones, a group exhibition of works by Pedro Diego Alvarado, Yvette Mayorga, Eva Marengo Sanchez, Vick Quezada, and Chuck RamÃrez, on view from May 9th to September 6th, 2024, at the gallery's New York City gallery. Contemporary Bodegones ... More |
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| Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, pioneer of supergraphics, dies at 95 | | ANALOGr announces an auction of rare items from the life and career of The Grateful Dead | | The Laing opens 'National Treasures: Turner in Newcastle. Art, Industry & Nostalgia' |
In 1962, Stauffacher Solomon was the rare woman to set up shop as a graphic designer in the Bay Area, working for clients including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (now SFMOMA).
NEW YORK, NY.- Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, an audacious graphic designer, landscape architect and artist who first made a splash in the 1960s with the supersize, geometric architectural painting movement known as supergraphics, died Tuesday at her home in San Francisco. She ... More | |
The ANALOGr DEAD FOREVER auction features historical artifacts offered for the first time.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- ANALOGr invites fans, collectors, and music enthusiasts to participate in DEAD FOREVERan extraordinary event featuring over 300 curated lots from The Grateful Dead. From Jerry Garcia to Bob Weir and beyond, this collection showcases exceptional memorabilia celebrating the band's legendary legacy in music history. The Grateful Dead stands as one of the most ... More | |
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838, 1839, JMW Turner © The National Gallery, London.
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE.- This spring, The Laing hosts an ambitious exhibition of one of the world´s greatest artists, JMW Turner (1775-1851), centering on a work that the British public once voted as their favourite painting - The Fighting Temeraire (1839). As part of National Treasures, a programme marking the National Gallery´s 200th ... More |
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| Smithsonian launches online lesson that investigates long-omitted information on California's Gold Rush | | Lehmann Maupin welcomes Oren Pinhassi to the gallery | | A piano from the Titanic's sister ship awaits its next audience |
This 100120-minute lesson was created for an eighth- through 12th-grade social studies audience in a typical U.S. history survey course.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A new digital lesson from the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian, The Impact of the Gold Rush on Native Americans of California: A Source Investigation, offers insights into a little-known but vitally important aspect of one of the most iconic events in American historythe California gold rush. The inclusion of this content adds a long-omitted ... More | |
Portrait of Oren Pinhassi, 2024. Photo by Tom Carter.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin announced representation of New York-based artist Oren Pinhassi, who creates sensuous sculptures and large-scale installations that explore the politics of architectural spaces as they relate to the human body. His anthropomorphic sculptures, often standing up to eight feet in height, examine individual vulnerability and fluidity within the built environment, probing new possibilities for coexistence. In September ... More | |
A Steinway & Sons walnut upright piano that was commissioned in 1912 for the ocean liner Olympic, the sister ship of the Titanic, at the showroom of Besbrode Pianos in Leeds, England, on April 23, 2024. (Jo Ritchie/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- During the Titanics maiden voyage, musicians played pianos from Steinway & Sons to entertain passengers with waltzes and opera overtures. A twin of one of the ships Steinway instruments has been found in northern England, and a new nonprofit organization is gearing up to return it to the limelight. The gilt-trimmed ... More |
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| Gallery FUMI opens an exhibition featuring Casey McCafferty's carved wooden works | | A serene oasis for making music | | The Wadsworth acquires rare work by master Renaissance sculptor, Giambologna |
Installation view.
LONDON.- Casey McCaffertys carved wooden pieces are inspired by mythology and the sculpture and paintings of more ancient civilisations. Im using my own primal urges, too. I dont like to plan, says the artist, who works in wood and stone in his New Jersey studio, creating furniture and sculptures identifiable by their freestyle sensibility, totemic presence, lumps, bumps ... More | |
Aaron Dessner of The National at his Long Pond Studio, in Hudson, N.Y., on April 17, 2024. (Jane Beiles/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The first things you notice upon entering Long Pond Studio are the glass windows and doors. Theyre huge the doors are 8 feet square and frame pastoral scenes of grass, trees and water. Picture windows looking onto a pond would be merely pretty in a house. But in this setting ... More | |
Giambologna, Striding Mars (Mars Gradivus), 1565-1570. Bronze. 15.5 x 22.5 inches.
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art acquired Striding Mars (Mars Gradivus) a rare and important work by the Italian Renaissance sculptor, Giambologna. Modelled between 1565-1570 and cast in Florence around 1580, the small-scale (15.5 x 22.5 inches) bronze statuette epitomizes the artists mastery ... More |
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From Agnes Pelton to Rembrandt Peale: The 2024 American Art Signature Auction.
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Bernard Hill, actor in 'Titanic' and 'Lord of the Rings,' dies at 79NEW YORK, NY.- Bernard Hill, a British actor who incarnated a humble style of masculine leadership in three hugely successful Hollywood movies, Titanic and two films in the Lord of the Rings franchise, died Sunday. He was 79. His death was announced in a family statement sent by a representative of Lou Coulson Associates, a British talent agency. It did not say where he died or provide a cause. Hill drew praise from critics for his work in serious TV dramas, small-budget films and theater. But he was best known for playing the ships captain in Titanic (1997) and the ruler of a horsemens kingdom in the second and third installments of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). By appearing in Titanic and The Return of the King, Hill became the first actor to star in more than one film to ... More New Orleans Museum of Art dedicates Japanese Art Galleries in honor of Kurt A. Gitter, MD and Alice Yelen GitterNEW ORLEANS, LA.- Today, the New Orleans Museum of Art announced the dedication of its third-floor Japanese art gallery in honor of longtime museum supporters and patrons. The Kurt A. Gitter, MD and Alice Yelen Gitter Gallery will open to the public on Friday, May 10, with a new installation Envisioning Japan: Transformational Gifts from Kurt A. Gitter, MD and Alice Yelen Gitter. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen Gitter have had an indelible impact on NOMAs permanent collection, exhibitions, and presentations of Japanese art, said Susan M. Taylor, The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director of NOMA. Their contributions solidified Edo period painting and contemporary Japanese ceramics as two important areas ... More The romance novelist, his muse and a 'healing' plot twistNEW YORK, NY.- When Kimberlee Stevenson married John Murray on April 30, 2021, we thought the worst was behind us, Murray said. We were ready to start our lives together. We had both been through so much, Stevenson said. And for the first six months, life was indeed good. The two first connected in March 2016, when Stevenson picked up one of Murrays books, Until I Saw Your Smile at her library in Chesapeake, Virginia. Murray is the author of more than 40 romance novels, and Stevenson is a fan of the genre. Their commonality ended there. Stevenson, now 41, had been diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 2 1/2, and raised by her mother, and at the time, was single and did not have children. Murray, now 60, was 18 years older, divorced, had two sons from that ... More 'Time of the Heathen': Postwar life and death, an American taleNEW YORK, NY.- Peter Kassâ âTime of the Heathenâ is as much artifact as artwork. Symptomatizing both Cold War angst and the birth pangs of the New American Cinema, the movie premiered in late 1961 at the influential film society Cinema 16, where it received mixed reviews and dropped from sight. Newly excavated and restored, Kassâ âpsychological drama of guilt and violenceâ (as it was blurbed at the time) gets its first New York run at Film at Lincoln Center, through May 16. An opening title sets the action four years after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. A gangly, odd-looking white man identified in the credits as Gaunt (John Heffernan) strides through a generic rural America, Bible in pocket â looking for what? After being questioned by police, he stumbles across ... More What happens when a happening place becomes too hotMILAN.- Packed bars with carousing revelers spilling onto clogged streets. Takeaway booze swigged by drunken tourists and students. Earsplitting volumes in once quiet residential neighborhoods long after midnight. When Milans authorities embarked years ago on plans to promote the city as a buzzy destination by building on its reputation as Italys hip fashion and design capital, the resulting noise and rowdy overcrowding were perhaps not quite what they had in mind. Now, after years of complaints and a series of lawsuits, the city has passed an ordinance to strictly limit the sale of takeaway food and beverages after midnight and not much later on weekends in movida areas, a Spanish term that Italians have adopted to describe outdoor nightlife. It will go into effect next week and be in force until Nov. 11. Outdoor seating for restaurants ... More For her Broadway debut, she sings Alicia Keys's storyNEW YORK, NY.- Maleah Joi Moon has come a long way in a short time. Just a few years ago, she was a theater kid in suburban New Jersey, listening to her dads Alicia Keys records, starring in a high school production of Rent, waiting outside a Broadway stage door hoping to meet the cast of Waitress. Now, at 21, shes a Tony nominee for her Broadway debut as the star of the new Alicia Keys musical, Hells Kitchen, which opened last month. That means she is working alongside the people she had just been fangirling getting vocal advice and the occasional breakfast with Keys; honing her acting instincts with the shows director, Michael Greif, who directed Rent 28 years ago; and learning to manage an eight-show week from Shoshana Bean, the actress she stage-doored in Waitress, who has taken Moon under her wing while ... More Apple's new iPad ad leaves its creative audience feeling... flatNEW YORK, NY.- The trumpet is the first thing to be squished. Then the industrial compressor flattens a row of paint cans, buckles a piano and levels what appears to be a marble bust. In a final act of destruction, it pops the eyes out of a ball-shaped yellow emoji. When the compressor rises, it reveals Apples latest commodity: the updated iPad Pro. Tim Cook, Apples CEO, posted the advertisement, called Crush, on Tuesday after the company held an event to announce new tablets. Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product weve ever created, Cook wrote, adding, Just imagine all the things itll be used to create. For decades, Apple has been the toast of the creative class. It has won over designers, musicians and film editors with promises that its products would help them Think Different. But some creators took a different message ... More Contemporary Chinese ink art makes striking debut at OlympiaLONDON.- Anyone wanting to start or strengthen their collection of Contemporary Chinese Ink Art in which artists wildly and variously subvert the ancient medium and its traditional forms - will find exhilarating works by eight very different artists in Olympia Auctions sale of Chinese and Japanese Works of Art on 14th May 2024. This private collection of nine lots dating from 2002 to 2010 comes originally from the well-known London-based Chinese art dealer Michael Goedhuis who did much to establish this new collecting area. Two were in The Ortigo Collection, formed by Goedhuis and sold at a landmark Sothebys Hong Kong sale in 2016. One of the most strikingly contemporary images is Apple by Wei Qingji (b. 1971), estimated at £4,000 - £6,000. According to Goedhuis Wei has utilized his profound knowledge of traditional brush ... More Trent Riley named Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center's executive directorOKLAHOMA CITY, OK.- The Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center Board of Trustees announced the appointment of Trent Riley as its new executive director. Riley most recently served as Oklahoma Contemporarys chief development officer. He is widely recognized for strategic leadership positions in arts development, membership engagement and community involvement and comes to his role of executive director with an impressive financial track record. Rileys vision includes a renewed emphasis on mission, financial growth and providing contemporary art experiences to local, regional and national audiences. Riley holds a ÂÂmasters degree in public history with an emphasis in museum studies and has written numerous articles for magazines and journals about art, history and culture. Trents successful tenure as chief development ... More Steve Albini, studio master of '90s rock and beyond, dies at 61NEW YORK, NY.- Steve Albini, a rock musician and revered studio engineer who played a singular role in the development of the sound of alternative music in the 1980s, 90s and beyond recording acclaimed albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey and Pixies, along with hundreds of others while becoming an outspoken critic of the music industry, died Tuesday at his home in Chicago. He was 61. The cause was a heart attack, said Taylor Hales of Electrical Audio, the Chicago studio that Albini founded in 1997. With a sharp vision for how a band should be recorded as raw as possible and an even sharper tongue for anything he deemed mediocre or compromised, Albini was a visionary in the studio and one of rocks most acerbic wits. On his own, he led the bands Big Black and Shellac, both of which venerated loud, abrasive guitars and snarling ... More A star is born. She looks a bit like Amy Winehouse.LOS ANGELES, CA.- On the third floor of the Edition hotel in West Hollywood, three chairs were pushed against a wall in a hallway, supporting a rotating cast of entertainment journalists. The interviewers made hushed small talk, waiting for their turns with the director and star of Back to Black, a new film about singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse. A British man disclosed that hed dreaded the movie, as if watching it would give him war flashbacks. He once lived near Winehouse in London, and they shared mutual acquaintances. An American woman held a notecard with a question that read: Muh reese uh the phonetic pronunciation of Marisa not only was your portrayal of Amy beyond uncanny in every imaginable way, your performance was grounded in such truth and authenticity, and it was beautifully humanizing. Can you ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese painter and illustrator Hokusai died May 10, 1849. Katsushika Hokusai (c. October 31, 1760 - May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. In this image: A woman looks at the artwork 'Women in various walks of life' (around 1793) during a press preview of the Hokusai retrospective at the Martin Gropius Bau museum in Berlin, Germany.
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