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The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, Aug. 5, 2018. As tension continues to simmer over the Israel-Hamas war, New York City officials have embraced a privately funded initiative to send all eighth graders in public and charter schools to visit the Museum of Jewish Heritage. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- As tension continues to simmer over the Israel-Hamas war, New York City officials have embraced a privately funded initiative to send all eighth graders in public and charter schools to visit the Museum of Jewish Heritage. The program, part of a $2.5 million public-private partnership to address antisemitism, will be seeded with $1 million from a foundation run by Jon Gray, president of investment firm Blackstone. The citywide field trip plan, announced Thursday, will center on the museums efforts to educate younger visitors about the Holocaust. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day On view at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, the exhibition charts their radical leap into pure abstraction, and the important role they played in shaping the modern art movement in Australia.
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| Then and now: The Whitney Museum compares NYC artworks from its first Biennial to today | | Howardena Pindell joins White Cube | | Tracey Emin exhibits new paintings at Xavier Hufkens |
George C. Ault, Hudson Street, 1932. Oil on linen, 24 3/16 à 20in. (61.4 à 50.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 33.40. © Estate of George C. Ault.
NEW YORK, NY.- Much has changed in New York City in the nearly 100 years since the Whitney Museum of American Art launched its landmark exhibition, while some things have remained the same. The ... More | |
The painter Howardena Pindell at Garth Greenan Gallery in New York, Jan. 11, 2019. (Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times)
LONDON.- White Cube announced representation of artist and curator Howardena Pindell (b.1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). The artist will be jointly represented by White Cube (Europe and Asia) and Garth Greenan Gallery (US). In November ... More | |
Tracey Emin, I wanted to be clean, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 182.2 Ã 120 cm, 71 3⁄4 Ã 47 1⁄4 in. Photo: Ollie Harrop. Courtesy the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- Tracey Emin's new exhibition with the gallery revolves around a seminal theme in her oeuvrelove in all its many guises. In a new series of paintings, ranging from the intimately scaled to the monumental, Emin explores the intricacies ... More |
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| First major ticketed exhibition, Discovering Degas, opens at The Burrell Collection | | Milestone brings summertime fun with eclectic June 15 auction of vintage advertising signs, toys, coin-ops and old coins | | Margo Handwerker appointed dean of the Glassell School of Art Core Residency program |
Edgar Degas, Two Dancers on a Stage, 1874. © The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust).
GLASGOW.- A new exhibition of works by one of the worlds most revered artists, Edgar Degas, opens at The Burrell Collection on Friday 24 May 2024. Discovering Degas: Collecting in the Time of Sir William Burrell is the first-time visitors can see all 23 Degas works from Burrell's original collection at the same time, alongside 28 further world-class paintings, works on paper and sculptures ... More | |
Wonderful double-sided porcelain sign for Cadillac Authorized Service. Exceptional colors. Equally fine condition on both sides. Marked Walker & Co. Detroit. Estimate: $5,000-$7,000.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO .- Milestone Auctions is mixing it up for their June 15 sale, with a pop culture-focused selection thats right in sync with the fast-approaching first day of summer. Collectors can take a virtual road trip across America as they explore the catalog for this 794-lot auction. The emphasis is ... More | |
Dr. Margo Handwerker, newly appointed as dean of the Core Residency program at the Glassell School.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and its Glassell School of Art today announced the appointment of Margo Handwerker as dean of the Core Residency program at the Glassell School. In this newly created position, Dr. Handwerker will provide leadership for several signature initiatives of the acclaimed Core Residency for artists and writers, including the ... More |
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| He made the Met Opera's chorus the best in the world | | The Approach opens 'Adelaide Cioni: True Form' | | Exhibition pairs two pioneers of Australian abstraction for the very first time |
Mark Morris, left, with Donald Palumbo, the Metropolitan Opera's chorus master, during a rehearsal in New York on April 19, 2024. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- During the second intermission of the Metropolitan Operas gilded, gargantuan production of Turandot one Friday last month, Donald Palumbo raced up to a tiny broadcast studio on the top floor for an interview. Then he raced downstairs again. There was something he needed to do backstage before the curtain ... More | |
Adelaide Cioni, You Are My True Form, 2024. Wool stitched on fabric, 146 x 142 cm.
LONDON.- O image of mine, may you endure for the sake of my name, that everyone may love you, that people may stretch out their arms for me, bearing rich bouquets... You are here for me, as a shelter. You are my true form. This is what Panehsy, Royal Treasurer from Memphis, under Pharaoh Ramesses II writes more than three thousand years ago, in his dedication to the statue that will represent him after his death. It can be found in the section ... More | |
Grace Crowley, Portrait 1939. Oil on canvas on cardboard, 71.6 x 56.2 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Bequest of the artist, 1981 © National Gallery of Victoria.
MELBOURNE.- Grace Crowley & Ralph Balson is the first-ever major exhibition to explore in-depth the longstanding creative partnership and artistic synergies between pioneering abstract artists Grace Crowley (1890-1979) and Ralph Balson (1890-1964). On view at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, the exhibition charts their radical ... More |
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| She wants to make San Francisco Ballet an 'arrow to the future' | | 'Stax: Soulsville, U.S.A.' review: Looking for a little respect | | New York's Palace Theater reopens six years later (and 30 feet higher) |
Tamara Rojo, the artistic director of San Francisco Ballet since 2022, in San Francisco, April 17, 2024. Rojo has a vision of ballet as for the people all the people with dances that reflect our world. (Aubrey Trinnaman/The New York Times)
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- Coming from Tamara Rojo, three words go a long way: That, I believe. Rojo, the artistic director of San Francisco Ballet since 2022, wants dancers to have autonomy more than just input, a real choice in how to interpret a role. Theres a difference between watching dancers ripple through steps, however ... More | |
The early Stax hits, as the companys fortunes steadily rose through the mid-60s, flow through the first two hours of Soulsville U.S.A., and they carry you along on a continual, grinning high.
NEW YORK, NY.- Multipart music documentaries come at us these days with the insistence and abundance of the old K-tel collections, scrambling to satisfy the cravings of every variety of pop nostalgist. Recent months have added James Brown: Say It Loud (A&E), In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (MGM+), Kings From Queens: The Run DMC Story (Peacock) and ... More | |
Inside the newly renovated Palace Theater in New York, April 12, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Palace Theater, among the oldest and largest of Broadways houses, is a lavishly baroque jewel, built in 1913 for vaudeville but later transformed into a movie house and then, starting in 1966, a presenter of plays and musicals. Seen on its stage over the years: Sarah Bernhardt and Judy Garland, La Cage aux Folles and SpongeBob SquarePants. For six years, the Palace has been closed for an unusual ... More |
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Shirley Conran, author best known for the steamy 'Lace,' dies at 91NEW YORK, NY.- Shirley Conran, the industrious and proliferous British author whose 1982 novel, Lace, was a tale of female autonomy disguised as a bonkbuster (to use the British term for a steamy bestseller) that made her a millionaire and introduced the lowly goldfish into the erotic canon, died on May 9 in London. She was 91. The cause of her death, in a hospital, was pneumonia, her son Jasper Conran said. Shirley Conran was already a household name in England when she set out to write a sex guide for schoolgirls, but ended up writing the potboiler that was Lace. In 1968, she was the founding editor of Femail, The Daily Mails popular and revolutionary womens section; when it was launched, a photograph of her face, with a rose between her teeth, was plastered on billboards throughout London. She was also the author ... More Laguna Art Museum unveils 'On the Edge: Los Angeles Art from the Joan and Jack Quinn Family Collection'LAGUNA BEACH, CALIF.- Laguna Art Museum has opened the exhibition, On the Edge: Los Angeles Art from the Joan and Jack Quinn Family Collection on view through September 2, 2024. This exhibition, previously showcased at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in 2021, now takes center stage at Laguna Art Museum, offering a unique and enhanced experience. The Laguna Art Museum exhibition presents earlier works from the 1960s, bringing a historical perspective to the evolution of Los Angeles art, including works from artists Daniel LaRue Johnson, Dora De Larios, Charles Garabedian, Vija Celmins, Tony Berlant and others. The exhibition introduces additional artists, including John McCracken and Bruce Conner, enriching the narrative of this pivotal period in art history. Distinctive pieces from Billy Al Bengston and James Hayward were also ... More Artpace San Antonio announces Fall 2024 International Artists-in-ResidenceSAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio announced the Fall 2024 International Artists-in-Residence, selected by guest curator Beverly Adams, the New York Museum of Modern Arts Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art. Resident artists Celia Eberle (Ennis, Texas), Consuelo Jimenez Underwood (Gualala, California), and Julianny Vólquez (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) begin their residency on July 22, 2024. They will live and make new works at Artpace with a free public opening on September 12, 2024. Celia Eberle grew up in the Piney Woods of East Texas. She received her BFA with Honors from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1974, and dates her professional career from her inclusion in Women of the Big State, juried by Lisa Phillips in 1986. Eberle commuted from Longview to Dallas to participate in the ... More MOCA Tucson exhibits works by Sara Hubbs & Sarah ZapataTUCSON, AZ.- MOCA Tucson presents an exhibition featuring glass and textile based works by artists Sara Hubbs and Sarah Zapata that are informed by personal and familial histories. Combining traditional techniques and experimental processes with their chosen materials, the artists create otherworldly objects and environments. Taking an intuitive and unconventional approach to working with glass, Sara Hubbs often makes vesselscontainers that map the contours of absenceto consider the act of holding space within caretaking and grief. Her sculptures are formed using objects from her life that reflect her roles as parent and kin such as medical tubing, toy packaging, and organic matter. Attending to the ways we shape one another, she uses multi-step casting, slumping, and firing methods that alter her material references, ... More Anthony Meier now represents Libby BlackSAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- Anthony Meier announced the representation of Berkeley-based artist Libby Black (b. 1976, Toledo, Ohio), who works across drawing, painting, and sculpture to recreate everyday objects as brightly colored sculptural approximations. Her sculptures render both aspirational luxury and commonplace artifacts of domestic life, combining to create a tactile language that charts a trajectory both of personal history and broader cultural contexts. Through inquiry, reinterpretation, and recontextualization, Black illuminates her surroundings, offering insight into the world we share. We are honored to have Libby Black join the gallery, comments Anthony Meier. Her inventive approach to artmaking adds depth to the analysis of tense issues of domesticity, economics, and queer history. Using a combination of paper, paint, graphite, and ... More Belfast Photo Festival views a polarised world through the lens BELFAST.- Belfast Photo Festival, Northern Irelands leading visual arts festival, returns for its landmark 10th edition, animating Belfast with work by over 46 international artists throughout the month of June. This years festival explores the theme of Divergence and aims to delve deep into how contemporary photographers are interpreting the climate emergency, rapid digitaliszation, and the ethical questions surrounding artificial intelligence with notable exhibitions by artists Richard Mosse, Matthias Oostrik, and many more. Presented in the deconsecrated Carlisle Memorial Church with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Belfast Buildings Trust will be the island of Ireland premiere of Broken Spectre by award-winning Irish artist Richard Mosse. Taking the audience deep into the Brazilian Amazon, this immersive 74-minute audio- ... More The siblings who changed how we partyNEW YORK, NY.- On an afternoon this spring, James Hirschfeld, a founder of Paperless Post, was at the companys New York City office surveying moodboards for digital invitation designs. They included materials for forthcoming motifs like New Victorian, a collection inspired by 19th-century decor, and a line by Annie Atkins, a graphic designer known for her collaborations with director Wes Anderson. As Hirschfeld examined the collagelike boards, he recalled a meeting about the design of new childrens invitations. Someone said, Dinosaurs are out, owls are in, he said. And I thought, Is this my life? For the past 15 years, it has been. Hirschfeld, 38, with his older sister, Alexa Hirschfeld, 40, started Paperless Post in 2009, when they were 23 and 25. He was a senior at Harvard University, and she was working at CBS as a second assistant ... More David Zwirner celebrate 30 years with the opening of their flagship Los Angeles galleryLOS ANGELES, CA.- David Zwirner celebrate 30 years with the opening of their new flagship Los Angeles gallery and an exhibition featuring works by all of the gallerys artists. The exhibition presents new paintings, sculptures, and installations made specifically for the expansive show alongside recent and historic works. Titled David Zwirner: 30 Years, the exhibition features new works by artists who have been with the gallery since the beginning, including Luc Tuymans and Stan Douglas, and artists who have recently joined the gallery, including Elizabeth Peyton, Michael Armitage, and Emma McIntyre. David Zwirner: 30 Years inaugurates the gallerys new flagship building at 606 N Western Avenue in Melrose Hill, designed by Selldorf Architects, and spans the adjacent David Zwirner spaces at 612 and 616 N Western Avenue, which opened to the public ... More At DanceAfrica, the enduring power of loveNEW YORK, NY.- Not every love story has a third character, but in the case of NâGoma and Normadien Woolbright, there was one, and he was a force of nature: Chuck Davis, who brought African dance traditions to the United States and founded the DanceAfrica festival. It was his idea that the couple â his friends and colleagues â would marry on the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music at the annual festival in 1983. âLife is love,â Davis says in a video shot at the wedding, crossing his arms across his chest before reaching them broadly to either side. âLove is all.â The wedding was a lavish occasion, but it was more than a theatrical staging of a ritual. DanceAfrica, the vibrant festival now in its 47th year, is as much about building and honoring a community as it is about showcasing artistic forms. Personal moments like the Woolbrightsâ marriage ceremony are part of its texture. ... More New 'Richard III' raises an old question: Who should wear the crown?LONDON.- When Michelle Terry, the artistic director at Shakespeares Globe theater in London, decided to put on a production of Richard III with a feminist twist, she probably didnt expect accusations of discrimination. But thats what she got. The run-up to the shows premiere Tuesday was overshadowed by a controversy over the fact that Terry had cast herself as villainous title character despite not having a physical disability. The play depicts a set of murderous machinations whereby Richard, Duke of Gloucester, achieves his ascent to the English throne in 1483, and the events leading to his demise at the hands of Henry, Earl of Richmond, who would become Henry VII, the first Tudor king. Richard, described as deformed in the plays opening lines, has traditionally been portrayed as a hunchback almost always by able-bodied actors, ... More Belvedere announces new publication platform for research in Central European art historyVIENNA.- The English-language and open-access e-journal on Central European art history provides unrestricted access to new research findings and contributes to the breaking down of linguistic and cultural barriers. Building on the Belvederes long tradition of academic publishing, the Belvedere Research Journal joins a host of notable predecessors, including Mitteilungen aus der Ãsterreichischen Staatsgalerie (191721), Mitteilungen der Ãsterreichischen Galerie (195793), and Belvedere: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst (19952007). In keeping with the focus of the Belvederes collection, the new research journal is dedicated to the diverse perspectives of Central European art from the Middle Ages to the present. The online journal is published in partnership with the Heidelberg University Library as a continuous issue, with several ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Pontormo was born May 24, 1494. Jacopo Carucci (May 24, 1494 - January 2, 1557), usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. In this image: Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo (1494-1557), Portrait of a Bishop (Monsignor Niccolò Ardinghelli?), c. 1541-1542. Oil on panel; 102 x 78.9 cm. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.83
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