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In an undated image provided by Dave Roth, Disaster Girl, by Dave Roth and starring his daughter, Zoë. After more than a decade of having her image endlessly repurposed as a vital part of meme canon, Zoë has sold the original copy of her meme as a nonfungible token, or NFT, for nearly half a million dollars. Dave Roth via The New York Times.
by Marie Fazio
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The name Zoë Roth might not ring any bells. But chances are youve seen her photo. One Saturday morning in 2005, when Roth was 4 years old, her family went to look at a house on fire in their neighborhood in Mebane, North Carolina. Firefighters had intentionally set the blaze as a controlled fire, so it was a relaxed affair: Neighbors gathered and firefighters allowed children to take turns holding the hose. Roth remembers watching the flames engulf the house when her father, an amateur photographer, asked her to smile. With her hair askew and a knowing look in her eyes, Roth flashed a devilish smirk as the fire roared behind her. Disaster Girl was born. In the years since Dave Roth, Zoës father, entered it in a photo contest in 2007 and won, the image has been edited into various disasters from history, with Roth grinning impishly as a meteor wipes out the dinosaurs or the Titanic sinks in the distance. Now, after more than a decade of having her image endlessly ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day London Art Week dealers are now open again to the public - before the museums are able to open. Many are holding exhibitions or are open by appointment. London Art Week will be held from 2nd to 16th July with special exhibitions and there will also be a digital version again with international participants and a specially curated online exhibition 'Revolution and Renewal'. In this image: Colnaghi 1760: Spanish Modern Landscapes 1880-1950, open until 18th June. Works include Mariano Bertuchi's El Patio de la Sultana, 1903.
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| Sotheby's to offer Cy Twombly's 'Untitled (Rome)' | | White Cube announces exclusive global representation of Isamu Noguchi | | Degas' Danseuse rose and Femme sortant du bain to be offered at Christie's | 
Cy Twomblys Untitled (Rome). From the artists celebrated Blackboards series. Estimate $35/45 million. To appear at auction after remaining in the same private collection for nearly 30 years. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cy Twomblys Untitled (Rome), from the artists celebrated series of Blackboard paintings, will star in Sothebys May marquee auctions this May. Once part of the celebrated Saatchi collection, the painting has since remained in the same esteemed private collection for nearly 30 years, where it hung alongside many of the artists best-known works. Estimated at $35/45 million, it will be offered alongside many of the greatest names of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, Robert Colescott and more in Sothebys Evening Sale of Contemporary Art on May 12th a sale that will follow the exceptional Collection of Mrs. John L. Marion. Executed in 1970 at the apex of Cy Twomblys celebrated Blackboards paintings, Untitled (Rome) is ... More | | 
Isamu Noguchi, Akari 16A, and Triple Nest and Strange Bird on Enzo Mari Built it Yourself base by Dahn Vo, Isamu Noguchi and Dahn Vo Counterpoints. © INFGM-ARS.
LONDON.- White Cube announced representation of Isamu Noguchi (19041988) in a collaboration with The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in New York. One of the most significant artists of the 20th century, Noguchi was a future-focused idealist whose timeless work blended the ancient and the modern. An itinerant cultural synthesizer, he consistently defied categorisation, advocated globalism, and anticipated the social practice of art by several decades. Noguchi began his career as a sculptor, yet his resolute redefinition of the art form led to a multidisciplinary practice spanning gardens, playgrounds, public projects, furniture, lighting and set design. Irrespective of the medium or platform, all of Noguchis works are informed by a deep connection to nature and space. Born in 1904 in Los Angeles to a white ... More | | 
Edgar Degas, Danseuse rose (circa 1896, estimate: £2,500,000-3,500,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- Edgar Degas Danseuse rose (circa 1896, estimate: £2,500,000-3,500,000) and Femme sortant du bain (circa 1886-88, estimate: £1,300,000-1,800,000) will feature in Christies 20th and 21st Century Evening Sale on 30 June 2021. Together, they represent Degas exploration of two of the themes he found most enduring that of the dancer at rest and the intimate gestures of a woman bathing. Through the second half of his career, pastel had become Degas favoured medium, its materiality allowing him to build up complex layered colour schemes in his compositions. These two works on paper illustrate not only the evolution of Degas technique over the course of a decade, reflecting his mastery of the medium, but also the growing importance of working in series within his practice at this time. Danseuse rose and Femme sortant du bain have remained in the same private collection for over 20 years and have not been ... More |
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| How to breathe new life into Martha Graham's dances? Infuse them with art. | | Sotheby's sneaks up on younger market via sneaker sales | | Guernsey's to auction memorabilia from Keith Haring, Andy Warhol & Christo | 
Xin Ying rehearses Immediate Tragedy by Martha Graham for GrahamFest95, a three-day virtual showcase of dances paired with artworks at Hauser & Wirth gallery, in New York, April 9, 2021. Justin J Wee/The New York Times.
by Gia Kourlas
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- If the pandemic has taught Janet Eilber anything, its this: Im always reminded how potent Marthas work is, she said, when we mess with it. As the artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, Eilber has long been experimenting with ways to reframe the choreographers work even before the pandemic forced the dance world to go digital. What shes learned is that the works of Graham, a leader in mid-20th-century modern dance, dont crumble under pressure. They retain their purity; in some cases, they become even more powerful. Now with ... More | | 
A pair of basketball legend Michael Jordan's famous Air Jordans from his rookie season are seen on April 28, 2021 in Geneva. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP.
by Robin Millard
GENEVA (AFP).- Sotheby's is staging its first international dedicated sneaker sale, seeing the boom in a formerly niche market as a way to attract younger clients into the world of auctions. Fine art, jewellery and antiques might be the more traditional stock in auction house trade, complete with a packed room and auctioneer banging a wooden gavel. But the coronavirus pandemic has triggered a shift towards smartphone-accessible online auctions. Sotheby's says it has also noticed that younger people are being drawn to auctions by design classics with a back story. On Monday, the auction house sold a pair of Nike Air Yeezy 1s worn by rapper Kanye West for $1.8 million (1.5 ... More | | 
Keith Harings SoHo Refrigerator Door.
NEW YORK, NY.- A graffiti tagged refrigerator door, taxidermized mounted moose head and conceptual mixed-media works of art are among the items previously belonging to iconic artists Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Christo, that will be sold without reserve at Guernseys Urban Gems auction on Wednesday, May 12, 2021. During his rise to fame in the 1980s, Harings SoHo walk-up apartment became the hub of New York Citys art scene. Drenched in a wild array of Harings signature images and colors, it was the place to be for superstars, including Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Madonna and more graffiti artists than could fill a subway car. Harings sign-in guest register was his refrigerator door. The refrigerator door, complete with Harings own writing and art along with Madonna loves Keith, JM" (Jean-Michel) and over 82 more tags will be sold without reserve ... More |
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| The Renaissance's most influential composer, 500 years later | | A photographer looks deep into America's past | | New Directors/New Films turns 50 with a bracingly eclectic lineup | 
Centuries after his death, Josquin des Prezs achievements as a musical magician-mathematician remain stunning. Marina Muun/The New York Times.
by Zachary Woolfe
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For the 250th anniversary of Beethovens birth, the classical music field pulled out all the stops last year, even in the midst of pandemic performance cancellations around the world. But while 2021 brings its own significant anniversary in August it will be 500 years since the death of Josquin des Prez, the most influential composer of his age few listeners will know it. At the center of his body of work are 18 grand, unaccompanied choral masses exactly the kind of music that will be largely forbidden for some time yet, for fear of aerosol transmission of the virus. Those masses are the major legacy of the man Peter Phillips, founder and director of the renowned vocal ensemble The Tallis Scholars, called a magician-mathematician in a recent interview. Josquin indeed wedded the logic of math to the magic of melody, and his compositions ... More | | 
Dawoud Bey, A Woman at Fulton Street and Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY,1988.Pigmented inkjet print(printed 2019),40 x 30in. (101.6 x 76.2cm);Frame:50 1/8 x 41 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. Collection of the artist; courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago; and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. © Dawoud Bey.
by Tausif Noor
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Before he became a photographer, Dawoud Bey trained as a jazz percussionist, looking to John Coltrane as a role model for melding craft with a commitment to social justice. As a teenager in the 1960s, Bey was finely attuned to the social and political upheavals of the civil rights movement, staging sit-ins and demonstrations with his high school classmates and joining the Black Panther Party, whose newspaper he sold on the weekends. By 1968, the struggle for racial equality was converging with demonstrations against the war in Vietnam and the early stages of womens liberation, forming a pattern of transformation and upheaval that culminated with the ... More | | 
Apples. 2020. Greece. Directed by Christos Nikou. Courtesy Cohen Media.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A wildly eclectic, cutting edge and globe-spanning lineup has always epitomized New Directors/New Films, the annual showcase of emerging filmmakers presented by Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art. This years 50th anniversary edition is part of a citywide return to theaters, with in-person screenings taking place through May 13. The program will also screen virtually (through May 8), along with an online retrospective of selections from decades past including early works by directors like Lee Chang-dong, Christopher Nolan and Charles Burnett. Color me shocked if any of this years participants wind up directing a Batman movie in a decade. Although if I had to guess based purely on the kineticism of the filmmaking, my vote would go to the Indian director P.S. Vinothraj for his gripping debut, Pebbles. Its essentially a road movie, about a young boy and his fiendish, alcoholic father forced to trek home by foot in the drought-ridden hinterland ... More |
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| KidSuper wants to bring back Warhol's Factory | | Bertoia's to auction Paul Cole's 50-year antique toy and train collection | | NHMLAC appoints Shana Mathur as Chief Strategy and External Relations Officer | 
Colm Dillane, center, walks through the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn with members of his creative hive, April 13, 2021. With a cult label to his name and yet no fashion background, Dillane finds himself a wild-card finalist for the coveted LVMH prize. Isak Tiner/The New York Times.
by Guy Trebay
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hes a first-generation American and math whiz who went from selling T-shirts in his high school cafeteria to building a cult streetwear label. Hes a creative adventurer who collaborates with Puma and rising stars like Dominic Fike and Russ. Hes a designer for Lil Nas X, Young Thug and Bad Bunny and yet never learned to sew. Colm Dillane, the force behind the brand KidSuper, is the undisputed wild card among finalists for the prestigious LVMH prize, which. celebrates designers under 40 with more than two collections under their belts. Reached by phone at the Brooklyn building that serves as his store, studio and hive for an assortment of creative pals, Dillane, 29, talked ... More | | 
Circa-1908 Marklin Circus Oriental train wagon, 8in long with exquisite detail, hand-painted shutters. Estimate $20,000-$30,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- The exceptional antique toy and train collection of the late Paul Cole (1931-2020), a man whose career distinctions were rivaled only by his passion for hobbies and athletic pursuits, will be auctioned at Bertoias on May 21-22. Attendance at the live auction will be limited and by reservation only, and in-person previewing will be made available by appointment only. Bidders may participate remotely through a variety of methods, including absentee, by phone, or live online through Bertoia Live or LiveAuctioneers.com. As his many friends in the toy-collecting world would attest, the late William Paul Cole Jr known simply as Paul was a man of great intellect and integrity. A Harvard MBA and US Army captain, Paul worked as a systems engineer for IBM in New York until his fathers unexpected passing in 1965, at which point he returned home to his native ... More | | 
Shana Mathur is currently serving as Chief External Affairs Officer for The Broad Stage, a performing arts producer and presenter affiliated with Santa Monica College.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County today announced that Shana Mathur, a recognized leader in the management of non-profit cultural institutions, has been named to the newly created position of Chief Strategy and External Relations Officer. She will report directly to President and Director Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga and will be responsible for crafting the vision and executing the strategy for the NHMLAC brand and experience that attracts new fans, members, donors, and participants in life-long engagement; driving brand awareness and community engagement to increase the sphere of influence and market share for the museum in Los Angeles and beyond; and providing effective executive direction and management to the marketing strategy, communications, creative, enterprise and guest experience functions of NHMLAC, all while ... More |
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Retouching a Renaissance masterpiece | Restoring Botticelli part 2 of 2 | National Gallery
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 From Miami and Havana, singers take aim in battle of songHAVANA (AFP).- An ideological battle is being waged over Cuba's communist government between musicians in Havana and Miami, with political slogans set to reggaeton, salsa and rap. The latest volley will be fired on Sunday when hip hop duo Gente de Zona will perform, live for the first time, their YouTube hit "Patria y Vida" in Miami. The title of the track -- a collaboration with other Cuban artists based in Florida and at home -- translates as "Fatherland and Life," a spin on the slogan "Patria o Muerte" (Fatherland or Death) coined by the late communist leader Fidel Castro in 1960. The tune is a no-holds-barred critique of the island's six-decade-old communist government, rattling off a long list of grievances about poverty, repression and misrule. "It is over," declare the singers. "We are not afraid." It is this song, recorded in Havana ... More  Paul Kellogg, New York City Opera impresario, dies at 84NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Paul Kellogg, an innovative impresario who led the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York, and later, during a dynamic and financially precarious period, also led the New York City Opera, died Wednesday at a hospital in Cooperstown. He was 84. His death was announced by the Glimmerglass Festival, as the company is now called. No cause was given. Kellogg was living on the outskirts of Cooperstown and trying to write a novel when in 1979 he was the unexpected choice to become the executive manager of the 4-year-old Glimmerglass Opera, which presented productions in the cramped, acoustically dry auditorium of Cooperstown High School. Though an opera lover, he had no real training in music and scant managerial experience. Yet he immediately envisioned what this fledgling ... More  When the cellos play, the cows come homeLUND (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- During a recent performance of Tchaikovskys Pezzo Capriccioso, a handful of audience members leaned forward attentively, their eyes bright, a few encouraging snuffles escaping from the otherwise hushed parterre. Though relative newcomers to classical music, they seemed closely attuned to the eight cellists onstage, raising their heads abruptly as the pieces languid strains gave way to rapid-fire bow strokes. When it was over, amid the fervent applause and cries of bravo, there could be heard a single, appreciative moo. On Sunday, in Lund, a village about 50 miles south of Copenhagen, a group of elite cellists played two concerts for some music-loving cows and their human counterparts. The culmination of a collaboration between two local cattle farmers, Mogens and Louise Haugaard, and ... More  Anthony Powell, Oscar-winning costume designer, dies at 85NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Anthony Powell, an inventive British costume designer who won three Oscars but is perhaps best known for the outlandish clothing he conceived for Glenn Close as the fur-loving Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians and its sequel, died April 16 in London. He was 85. The Costume Designers Guild announced his death but did not cite the cause. His fellow costume designer Tom Rand said he died in a nursing home. Theres so much intelligence behind his work, no matter the genre or the character, said Keith Lodwick, curator of theater and screen art at the V&A Museum in London. You watch a movie like Evil Under the Sun, and you see extraordinary detail like in one scene, Roddy McDowalls red socks match the red carnation on his jacket. Powell, who brought deep research to his work in both theater ... More  The face of solo guitar is changing. It's about time.NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Before Yasmin Williams became a teenager, she found her perfect sport: Guitar Hero, the dizzying video game where aging rock staples enjoyed an unlikely second life through players wielding plastic controllers fashioned after vintage Gibsons. Williams parents purchased the game for her two older brothers, but the suburban D.C. family soon realized she was the household champion. They would try to beat me, Williams said on a recent afternoon in the sunroom of her grandmother Marshas home, near where she grew up. But they couldnt. More than competition, Guitar Hero represented a revelation for Williams. Though she was often the only Black student in her public-school classes, she didnt know the Beatles, let alone heavy metal, existed before the game. She cut her teeth on her fathers vintage ... More  Friedman Benda presents 'iThongo' by Andile Dyalvane, an exhibition focused on restorative healingNEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda is presenting iThongo by Andile Dyalvane. An extensive collection of sculptural ceramic seating, iThongo is Dyalvanes second solo exhibition with the gallery and the second collaboration with Southern Guild. In homage to his ancestors, this body of work traveled in its entirety to Dyalvanes rural homestead in Ngobozana, Eastern Cape, where his family and extended community had the opportunity to view it in November before being presented in Cape Town at the Southern Guild and presently, in New York at Friedman Benda. iThongo, meaning ancestral dreamscape in Xhosa, refers to the medium through which messages (uYalezo uLwimi lwabaPhantsi) are transmitted from the ancestors. iThongo comprises a series of sculptural stools, chairs and benches, exhibited in the custom of Xhosa ... More  Toledo Museum of Art welcomes Rhonda Sewell as first Director of Belonging & Community EngagementTOLEDO, OH.- Rhonda Sewell was selected as the Toledo Museum of Arts first Director of Belonging & Community Engagement, a role that will report to the Museums director. Her appointment started on Monday, April 26. Rhonda brings a wealth of talent and experience to this role, said Adam Levine, the Museums Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey director and CEO. She is a leader who is passionate about community and understands the imperative to make diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion integral to all we do at TMA. Rhonda will aid greatly in the execution of our strategic plan and help us reimagine our approach to community outreach. Sewell most recently served as the director of governmental and external affairs for the Toledo Lucas County Public Library, where she worked with local, state and federal legislators ... More  Hamilton beats original estimate by a landslideNEW YORK, NY.- Lion Heart Autographs, Inc. announced that a rare letter from Alexander Hamilton to James Madison (1790) sold for well over the original estimate at $113,850. The original estimate at auction was $8,000-$10,000. The Lion Heart Auction No. 13 took place on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 in New York. The unique 1790 Alexander Hamilton handwritten letter to James Madison mentioning Thomas Jefferson: the only letter between the two ever to appear at auction and likely the last one still in private hands chronicled the events which inspired The Room Where It Happens, from the musical Hamilton. The letter connecting three founding fathers was written when Hamilton, the nations first Secretary of Treasury, and Secretary of State Jefferson were at odds, until, with Madisons assistance, they resolved their differences ... More  Dix Noonan Webb appoint Joanne Lewis as Watch SpecialistLONDON.- Mayfair auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists, announced the appointment of Joanne Lewis, who joins the company as a Watch specialist. Currently, DNW hold four specialist Jewellery and Watches auctions a year, which include antiquarian, antique and modern diamond, pearl and gem set jewellery, wristwatches, pocket watches and associated objects of vertu. Joanne has over 20 years experience working for the leading London auction houses, latterly working for Sothebys in New Bond Street. She joined Sothebys in 2004 as a watch cataloguer, and by 2010 was Deputy Director and Head of the Watch Department. Joanne had the opportunity to work on many important horological collections during her time at Sothebys, one of the highlights ... More  L'INCONNUE gallery opens New York spaceNEW YORK, NY.- LINCONNUE Gallery (Lain-co-nü) inaugurated its new permanent location in New York with a two-person exhibition showing new and existing works by Emily Ludwig Shaffer (b.1988) and Françoise Grossen (b.1943). With different mediums, both artists share an interest and background in architecture, an abstracted relationship to the body, representation of craft and a tangential relationship to science fiction. Emily Ludwig Shaffer and Françoise Grossen marks the first exhibition following the gallerys relocation from Montreal. Shaffer views painting as a craft and explores ways of aligning her artworks with the disciplines of gardening, weaving, interior design, and architecture. Her grey figures can be perceived as stone or marble, influenced by garden statuary traditions. With these figures Shaffer juxtaposes emotions: refusal, boredom, agency, and solidarity and seeks to bring sensual sovereignty over the body into oth ... More  Heritage Auctions to offer the poster for 1953 Hank Williams concert that didn't happenDALLAS, TX.- One of the most coveted posters in existence was made for a concert that never happened. There were actually two shows scheduled for 3 and 8:15 p.m. on New Year's Day 1953, at the Canton Memorial Auditorium in Ohio. Among those scheduled to perform on that first day of the new year: Homer and Jethro, the hillbilly satirists from Tennessee; Hawkshaw Hawkins, a maker of occasional Top 10 country hits; and Autry Inman, one of the early rockabillies whose song "I Cried Again" was recorded by the man scheduled to headline that New Year's Day show. Except Hank Williams never made that concert. He died of a heart attack in the backseat of a car somewhere between Bristol, Tenn., and Oak Hill, W. Va, en route to that Ohio show. As Bill Malone wrote in his essential Country Music, U.S.A., the final months of Williams' life "were ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Ãdouard Manet died April 30, 1883. Ãdouard Manet (23 January 1832 - 30 April 1883) was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. In this image: Ms Vicky Hirsh, Mara Talbot and Dr Christopher Brown standing in front of Portrait of Mlle Claus by Manet.
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