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The Armys Monuments Officers in training at the National Museum of the United States Army at Fort Belvoir in Virginia on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. The officers had limited time and limited packing supplies during a training exercise in which they had to log, pack and evacuate items from a museum. Greg Kahn/The New York Times.
by Matt Stevens
FORT BELVOIR, VA.- The Army Reserve officers worked with brisk efficiency. For much of the afternoon, they had meticulously documented and carefully packed cultural treasures from the Smithsonia museum in Pinelandia a country that could soon be under siege. Their mission to evacuate important items from the museum was going well. But then an aloof, lunch-preoccupied security guard accidentally put his foot through a precious painting propped against a table. The room went silent. Then the museums collection manager had a conniption. The officers had a problem. A failure of our forces to secure the artifacts while we were handling them, Capt. Blake Ruehrwein, 40, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, said afterward. Thankfully for the officers, it was all only a training exercise set in a fictional museum and country. The mishap, which appeared at least somewhat intentional, would help them learn to deal with crisis and keep their heads on a swivel, instructors later said. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day London-born Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo presents her first major survey in Europe at BALTIC, exploring environmental justice through sculptural installations, drawings and film. Caycedoâs artworks examine the social and environmental impact of harnessing rivers to generate power.
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| Why Steve Jobs chose this designer's turtlenecks | | The superbly original, gloriously weird B-52's say farewell to the road | | The stories a painting can tell: The Nazis in Paris | 
The A-POC Queen ensemble, with gloves and bag, 1997, displayed as part of the Museum of Modern Arts exhibit, Items: Is Fashion Modern? in New York, Sept. 26, 2017. Mark Wickens/The New York Times.
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK, NY.- Little wonder, really, that Issey Miyake was Steve Jobs favorite designer. The man behind Jobs personal uniform of black mock turtlenecks, who died Aug. 5 at age 84, was a pioneer in all sorts of ways the first foreign designer to show at Paris Fashion Week (in April 1974), among the first designers to collaborate with artists and a proponent of comfort dressing long before the term ever existed. But it was his understanding and appreciation of technology and how it could be harnessed to an aesthetic point of view to create new, seductive utilities that set Miyake apart. Before there were wearables, before there were connected jackets, before there were 3D-printed sneakers and laser-cut lace, there was Miyake, pushing the boundaries of material innovation to bridge past and future. He was the original champion of fashion tech. It began in 1988 with Miyakes research into the heat press, and how it could ... More | | 
From left: Keith Strickland, Kate Pierson, Cindy Wilson and Fred Schneider of the B-52s, in Manhattan, on June 21, 2022. Mark Sommerfeld/The New York Times.
by Rob Tannenbaum
NEW YORK, NY.- When the B-52s played Rock Lobster on Saturday Night Live in January 1980, a few months after releasing their debut album, it was a lightning-strike moment for a generation of young misfits and oddballs. The bands uninhibited dancing, statuesque wigs and absurdist lyrics embraced the ecstatic, and its kinetically rhythmic guitar, precise drumming and bursts of Farfisa organ ensured a good time. Many of their campy, catchy songs celebrated people who seemed to be happily dislocated or disconnected from known dimensions (Planet Claire, Private Idaho). Several of the bands members were queer and all five considered themselves freaks. Over a period of decades, as they grew from a cult band to one with Top 40 hits most notably Love Shack in 1989 they discovered how many others identified the same way. This eccentric, downright lovable quintet, John Rockwell of The ... More | | 
James Northcote, Portrait of Master Semon with a Spaniel, signed by James Northcote, inscribed and dated on the chest in the lower left Alex r. Semon born in London April. 5. 1791 . and drawn July . 5 . 1796. Oil on canvas, 44 ¼ x 34 7/8 inches (112.8 x 89 cm.).
NEW YORK, NY.- As a viewer, we often look at the subject of a painting to engage us. Maybe we look at the technique in which the paint is applied by the artist, the use of color or brush strokes. Sometimes the life of the artist becomes a particularly intriguing point, but occasionally one comes across a picture in which the life of the painting itself exceeds that of the artist, subject or style. This is one of those paintings. James Northcote was known as a painter of portraits and in particular excelled at childrens portraits. He also painted historical, genre and animal scenes. In 1771 he came to London from Plymouth and entered the Royal Academy Schools. He worked as an assistant to Joshua Reynolds from 1771 1775. From 1777 1780 he was in Rome studying where he formed a deep appreciation for Correggio, the Italian Mannerists and the Roman Baroque. By 1781 he had permanently settled in London and had become a Royal Academician by 1787, painting ... More |
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| The world's best architects and designers answer the PMA's call to build A landmark for the future | | Giampaolo Bianconi joins Art Institute of Chicago as Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art | | Carolina Caycedo presents her first major survey in Europe at BALTIC | 
Sparked by the current growth and diversification of the collection, record attendance and community feedback, and new opportunities to expand and unify its campus, the Portland Museum of Art stands ready to embark on its most ambitious and pioneering era yet.
PORTLAND, ME.- The Portland Museum of Art, together with the leading independent architect selection firm Dovetail Design Strategists, is thrilled to announce the four world-class design teams shortlisted for its Campus Unification + Expansion International Design Competition, which will result in a new landmark building in the heart of downtown Portland, Maine. The four shortlisted teams (in alphabetical order) are: Adjaye Associates with KMA, Michael Boucher Landscape Architecture, Atelier Ten, and 2x4 LEVER Architecture with Unknown Studio, Chris Newell - Akomawt Educational Initiative, Openbox, Once-Future Office, Atelier Ten, and Studio Pacifica MVRDV with STOSS, the Institute for Human Centered Design, Pentagram, ... More | | 
At present, Giampaolo is a curator at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich. Photo: Thomas Gothier.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced that it is welcoming Giampaolo Bianconi as Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in October. I'm thrilled to be joining the Art Institute of Chicago at a crucial moment for thinking about art, museums, and society, says Bianconi. I look forward to working with so many inspiring colleagues on the art of our time. At present, Giampaolo is a curator at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich, where he recently organized the experimental platform Site Visit (2022), featuring weekly installations, talks, and workshops by local and international artists, including Madeline Hollander, Haris Epaminonda, Carolyn Lazard, and Cameron Rowland. Prior to joining the Brandhorst, he was a curatorial assistant in the Department of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. During his tenure at MoMA, he not only acquired works for the collection but organized exhibit ... More | | 
Installation view.
GATESHEAD.- London-born Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo presents her first major survey in Europe, exploring environmental justice through sculptural installations, drawings and film. Caycedos artworks examine the social and environmental impact of harnessing rivers to generate power. Carolina Caycedo makes work that addresses environmental justice, just energy transition and cultural and environmental biodiversity. Through her studio practice and fieldwork with communities impacted by large-scale infrastructure and other extraction projects, she invites viewers to consider the unsustainable pace of growth under capitalism and how we might embrace resistance and solidarity. Process and participation are central to Caycedos practice, bringing a collective dimension through performances, photographs and videos. Her work contributes to the construction of environmental memory as a fundamental space for climate and social justice. ... More |
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| Walters Art Museum announces two major hires | | Pi Artworks announced its representation of artist Albano Hernández | | David Kordansky Gallery announced the representation of The Estate of Betty Woodman | 
Earl Martin. Photo: Casey Kelbaugh.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Walters Art Museum announced today two major hires who will address important collection, conservation, research, and management areas. Dr. Gina Borromeo joins the Walters as Senior Director of Collections and Curatorial Affairs and its Senior Curator of Ancient Art, and will be a member of the museums Leadership Team. She comes to the Walters from the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she served as Chief Curator and Curator of Ancient Art. At the same time, Earl Martin has been appointed the museums inaugural Deborah and Philip English Curator of Decorative Arts, Design, and Material Culture. He joins the museum from the Bard Graduate Center, where he has served as a curatorand in that role has been collaborating with the Walters on its recent Majolica Mania exhibition. Martin will begin his new role at ... More | | 
Albano Hernández, Prints, 2021. Print 59.4 x 42 cm.
LONDON.- Albano Hérnandez (b.1988) Ãvila, Spain, lives and works in Cambridge, UK. Graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2022 (MA Painting) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, UCM. The Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award sponsored his studies at RCA, where he got a distinction and won the Hine Painting Prize 2022. In 2012 Albano won the BMW Painting Prize and the Obra Abierta Award three years later. Emanating from pictorial thoughts and based mainly on ceramic works, my practice has a transcategorical condition. My day-to-day is a constant game of dichotomies where a labour- intensive practice is mixed with industrial processes, undoing is as important as making, and impurity is as substantial as purity. In these processes, I follow a circular economy policy that allows me to reduce the amount of waste generated, establish dialogues between different works, and generate ... More | | 
Portrait of Betty Woodman: © Barbara Bordnick.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery announced the representation of the estate of Betty Woodman, which is stewarded by the Woodman Family Foundation. This new chapter in the gallerys relationship with Woodman and her work, which began in 2014, launches with a major solo exhibition at its New York location that will open on October 28, 2022. Betty Woodman (19302018) is recognized not only as one of the most important artists to work in ceramicsand one of those most responsible for its inclusion in contemporary art historical discoursebut also as an iconoclastic figure whose advances in several mediums made her a major voice in postwar American art. She transformed the functional history of clay into a point of departure, engaging in bold formal experiments in which she acknowledged the central role of the vessel even as she deconstructed, reassembled, and expanded ... More |
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| Modern and ancient crickets may sing the same song | | Julien's Auctions announces Property from the Estate of Kenny Rogers | | Solo exhibition of world-renowned artist Radcliffe Bailey opens at Knoxville Museum of Art | 
In an undated image provided by Charlie Woodrow, a specimen of Prophalangopsis obscura, a descendant of a singing insect from the Jurassic Period. Charlie Woodrow via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Whether its a cicadas earsplitting drone, a bees blaring buzz or a crickets incessant chirp, insects are a staple of summers score. And arthropods have been making a racket for hundreds of millions of years. One of the noisier groups has been the Prophalangopsidae, a suite of singing insects that went mainstream during the Jurassic period when some 100 species clamored about. While related to modern crickets and katydids, these ancient arthropods left few direct descendants, making it difficult to decipher what these Mesozoic maestros sounded like. However, a one-of-a-kind specimen of Prophalangopsis obscura may help replay these lost sounds. The most enigmatic of the eight modern Prophalangopsid descendants, P. obscura has never been observed singing in the wild and is known solely from a single specimen discovered ... More | | 
The CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Kenny Rogers in 2013 ($2,000 - $3,000).
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Juliens Auctions, the world record-breaking auction house to the stars, proudly presents Property from the Estate of Kennr Rogers, an exclusive presentation honoring the legendary GRAMMY® Award-winning singer, songwriter, and actor and one of the best-selling musical artists of all time who sold more than 120 million records worldwide, taking place live in a three-day auction event from Friday, October 21stSunday, October 23rd, 2022 at juliensauctions.com. It was also announced today that a portion of the proceeds of the auction will benefit Music Health Alliance, whose mission is to provide compassionate advocacy and access to life-saving healthcare resources that protect, direct, and connect music professionals with medical and financial solutions. A spectacular collection of over 1,200 lots featuring the country and pop music icons awards, wardrobe, equipment and memorabilia from his iconic ... More | | 
Manumit, 2016. Mixed media including iron rods, a bell and a sculpted head. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
KNOXVILLE, TENN.- The Knoxville Museum of Art will present Radcliffe Bailey: Passages, on view August 12-November 6, 2022. An opening reception will take place on Friday, August 12, from 5:30-7:30pm, with the artist in attendance. This free event is open to the public and will immediately precede the finale of the museums 2022 Alive After Five concert series featuring contemporary violinist Brooke Alford. Free to KMA members, $20 for non-members. We had to delay this ambitious exhibition for several years because of the pandemic, says Executive Director David Butler, and were proud that we can finally bring this broad sampling of Radcliffe Baileys visionary work to the Knoxville community. He addresses ancestral memory, cultural identity, and his own personal history in ways that will profoundly move and engage you. The selection featured in Passages reflects the broad scope of Radcliffe Baileys studio ... More |
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 Alteronce Gumby joins Nicola Vassell GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Nicola Vassell Gallery announced the representation of Alteronce Gumby, a contemporary abstract artist known for his vivid interstellar paintings that emerge from his profound fascination with the cosmos and theories of energy. His prismatic fields add new perspectives to the history of abstract painting by proposing deliberate connections between color, society and the universe. His solo exhibition with the gallery will open this September. Alteronces desire to interpret unknown territory is enhanced by his query into how societal conditions impact life on our planet. His practice serves as a portal into untouched worlds. It is in this context that Alteronce develops his extraterrestrial vistas. The physical and aesthetic properties of material, as well as its conceptual implication, inform Alteronces practice. His use of resin's performative ... More  The Hugh Lane Gallery presents 'Bones in the Attic'DUBLIN.- In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens around the world were asked to stay at home for the safety of themselves and others. But these stay-at-home orders served as a stark reminder that the domestic space continues to be the most dangerous place for a women, where countless victims are exposed to high risks of violence. Recent setbacks to womens health reveal an international legislative onslaught that is jeopardizing womens freedoms and protection of bodily autonomy. Our freedoms cannot be taken for granted. This tumultuous cycle continues to threaten womens place in society. In a presentation of sisterhood and solidarity that sighs womens liberty and subjugation are bound together, Hugh Lane Gallery presents Bones in the Attic. Bones in the Attic presents a significant and specific meditation on contemporary society, ... More  Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art opens Present Box Exhibition: Claire Ashley: Plump, Pucker, SquishBOULDER, CO.- Artist Claire Ashleys vibrant inflatables will devour BMoCAs Present Box from the inside out, occupying the space like an invasive but beautiful weed. On view August 1128, her site-specific installation Plump, Pucker, Squish invites viewers to experience the joy, humor, and downright absurdity in her work. Ashley blurs the lines between painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. She covers her monumentally scaled inflatables in abstract painting in an exhaustive palette of neon hues. Her acidic, bold colors reference pop culture and greet the viewer with an infectious sense of joy that cannot be ignored. Working on PVC-coated ripstop nylon, Ashley creates amorphous, undefinable forms that feel recognizable yet uncannily abstract. The works on view will fill every nook and cranny of the museums lobby and front entrance ... More  A bigger canvas for Jayson Musson includes puppets and PicassoPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The film set on view at the Fabric Workshop and Museum looks like a museum gift shop gone wildly awry. A copy of Michelangelos Pietà has been turned into a chair by removing most of Jesus body to make space for a cushion. A nude figure from Picassos Les Demoiselles dAvignon (1907) has been rendered in three dimensions as a coat rack. The anamorphic skull image in Hans Holbeins The Ambassadors (1533) forms the surface of a coffee table. And amid it all sits a large animatronic puppet: a scruffy, gray pothead rabbit named Ollie. Youve entered the world of His History of Art, Jayson Mussons first solo museum exhibition. It consists of three videos shot at the Fabric Workshop and playing on large, individual screens, along with the set and a behind-the-scenes gallery showcasing how the work was made. The ... More  King Henry VIII signed document sponsoring the feast day of St. George sold for $66,435 at auctionBOSTON, MASS.- A King Henry VIII signed document discussing sponsoring the feast day of St. George sold for $66,435 according to Boston-based RR Auction. The one-page vellum manuscript signed "Henry R," is dated July 26, 1536. The document by which King Henry VIII orders the treasurer and chamberlain to pay Edmund Peckham, accountant of the Royal House, the sum of nineteen pounds and thirteen shillings to cover the expenses of the feast held on the occasion of the solemnity of St. George, patron saint of England. St. George's Day was a major feast and national holiday in England on a par with Christmas from the early 15th century through the 17th century, but its popularity as a tradition waned by the end of the 18th century after the union of England and Scotland. "King Henry VIII's autograph is rare and highly sought in any ... More  Frist Art Museum presents Elise Kendrick: Salon NoirNASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Elise Kendrick: Salon Noir, a micro-exhibition celebrating the beauty of African American women, their unique hairstyles, and the Black salon experience through the works of Nashville artist Elise Kendrick. On view at the museum from August 12 through December 31, 2022, the exhibition offers an immersive experience within a common, accessible space. Installed in the elevator just inside the museums Ninth Avenue entrance adjacent to the Grand Lobby, Salon Noir takes advantage of a never-before utilized location to display art at the Frist. The elevators interior walls will feature vinyl prints derived from five of Kendricks portraits. Guests entering the space will find themselves immersed in depictions of Black hairstyles and haircare products. Under the direction of student curator Jonathan ... More  Joan Mitchell Foundation appoints Solana Chehtman Director of Artist ProgramsNEW YORK, NY.- The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced today that it has appointed Solana Chehtman as its new Director of Artist Programs. Chehtman is a highly regarded curator and cultural producer, who most recently served as the Director of Creative Practice and Social Impact at The Shed. In her new role, Chehtman will create and execute a programmatic vision centering artists as creative leaders and change agents, as well as oversee and further develop the existing programs with national impact, including the recently launched Joan Mitchell Fellowship and the longstanding Creating a Living Legacy (CALL) program, among other initiatives. Chehtman will begin in her new position on September 12, 2022. Throughout her career, Solana has demonstrated a deep commitment to equity and an artist-centered approach to programming ... More  What to do with an absent father? Cast him as a character onstage.NEW YORK, NY.- Brooklyn-based experimental-theater maker Aya Ogawa hadnt thought about her father in 10 years. When that fact occurred to her, in 2017 a decade after his death, which she and her mother had chosen not to mark with a funeral, or even an obituary in the local newspaper in his California town she didnt feel guilty about it. It seemed indicative of the remoteness of their relationship, and how painful it had been for her. Yet, Ogawa, then in the midst of creating a show called Failure Sandwich, did think she had failed somehow as a daughter to him. He would have wanted to be memorialized, Ogawa, 48, said one afternoon last week, sitting casually barefoot on the floor of a rehearsal studio upstairs at Lincoln Center Theater. He would have wanted to be celebrated and acknowledged and all that stuff. It was too ... More  Frank Miller sues Widow of comics magazine editor for the return of artworksNEW YORK, NY.- Comic writer and artist Frank Miller is suing the widow and the estate of a comics magazine founder over two pieces of promotional art he created that she was trying to sell at auction. The art, which appeared on covers of David Anthony Krafts magazine Comics Interview in the 1980s, includes an early depiction of Batman and a female Robin from the 1986 The Dark Knight Returns series and is potentially a valuable collectible. The lawsuit seeks the return of the Batman piece, which was used on the cover of Comics Interview No. 31 in 1986, as well as art depicting the title character of Millers 1983 Ronin series. He had sent both to Kraft for his use in the publication; the Ronin artwork was used as the cover of Comics Interview No. 2 in 1983. Miller contended in the court papers that he and Kraft agreed they were on loan, citing ... More  Large-scale steel sculpture by Vermont-based artist David Stromeyer installed at Shelburne MuseumSHELBURNE, VT.- This week, Shelburne Museum installed its newest permanent collection acquisition, Faceted Rock, by Vermont-based sculptor David Stromeyer. This large-scale steel sculpture has a prominent place on the museums grounds near the Meeting House building and joins the museums outdoor sculpture collection. For more than five decades, Stromeyer has created sculptures whose graphic forms, saturated colors, and complex, balanced compositions seem to defy steels material limits. Despite the weight of their materials and constructionincluding welded, cold bent, half-ton steel platesmany of Stromeyers sculptures play with space and perception; they seem to defy gravity, appearing to float and extend upwards effortlessly in the landscape" We are honored to add this stunning monumental work by David Stromeyer ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat died August 12, 1988. Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. He began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980s. In this image: At "Jean-Michael Basquiat: King Pleasure," works by the artist and personal effects including his books and trench coat, at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Manhattan, April 4, 2022. The exhibition features more than 200 artworks and artifacts from Basquiatâs estate, most of which have never been seen. Here, at right: "Untitled," a 1984 painting in acrylic and oil stick; top left: "Untitled (King Size Soft Pack)"; bottom left: "Untitled (Moon)." (Flo Ngala/The New York Times.
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