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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 18531890), Beach at Scheveningen in Calm Weather, 1882 Oil on paper mounted on board, 14 1/8 by 19 5/8 in. (35.5 by 49.5 cm.)
NEW YORK, NY.- Dick Wolf, the Law & Order creator, has made a promised gift of more than 200 works paintings, sculptures and drawings among them for the Metropolitan Museum of Arts collections of Renaissance and Baroque art. He is also donating a substantial sum of money, the Met announced on Wednesday, adding that it would endow two galleries with his name. Wolf has been a discreet collector in the art world, focusing his attention on older works at a time when the most well-known collectors invest in modern and contemporary art. Some of his promised gifts to the New York museum were also recent purchases, including a 15th-century Botticelli painting that sold for $4.6 million in 2012 and a 16th-century Orazio Gentileschi painting that sold for $4.4 million in 2022. The Gentileschi is already on view in the newly reopened European paintings galleries; Wolf is also donating a piece by the artists daughter, Artemisia, which sold for $2.1 million that same year. Ma ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Car Crash. Piero Gilardi e lâarte povera. Installation view of the exhibition at PAV - Parco Arte Vivente, 2023. Ph. Leo Gilardi. Courtesy PAV - Parco Arte Vivente.
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| Stéphane Mandelbaum, edgy art and a life violently cut short | | Almine Rech inaugurates new exhibition in Gstaad with 'Picasso: Unique etchings from the Crommelynck studio' | | Forget Halloween, bring ghost stories back to Christmas | 
Ernst Röhm, a 1981 work by Stéphane Mandelbaum in Graphite, gouache, marker and color pencil on paper. (Stéphane Mandelbaum Estate via The New York Times)
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK, NY.- Egon Schiele or Ana Mendieta, Amy Winehouse or the Notorious B.I.G.: When an artist dies young, dies dreadfully, it can be hard not to project the end onto all that came before. With Belgian artist Stéphane Mandelbaum, the subject of a jolting retrospective at the Drawing Center, the trouble is the same. In the early 1980s, he frantically drew disfigured self-portraits, fraught images of Jews and Nazis, and scenes of seedy Brussels nightlife. He worked at large scale, though with nothing fancier than a ballpoint pen; his drawings were a little punk but a lot more tragic; he faced down the history of the Holocaust, as well as the legacy of Belgian colonialism, with a frankness and fearlessness that only a few artists could muster. He was something of a savant as well as a fabulist and a house burglar, who got mixed ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Jeune garçon rêvant : les femmes!, June 2, 1968. Press proof. Aquatint, scraper, drypoint and burin on copper 72.5 x 61.5 cm - 28 1/2 x 24 1/4 in (unframed) 75.5 x 64.5 x 4 cm - 29 3/4 x 25 3/8 x 1 5/8 in (framed). © Courtesy of Almine Rech.
GSTAAD.- For its inaugural exhibition in Gstaad yesterday, Almine Rech presented the survey Picasso: Unique etchings from the Crommelynck studio. Featuring a selection of engravings by Pablo Picasso produced during his collaboration with the renowned printers Crommelynck, this survey offers a unique insight into Picassos mastery of the printmaking medium. Picasso began making engravings in 1899 when he was 18 years old. Between 1960 and 1971, the artist continued to produce engravings using copper plates. This method was used to make four test prints before acierage, a form of steel-coating. The Bon à Tirer is the test print chosen by the artist from the four; it is the single, valid print on which the entire numbered printing is based, which took place after acierage. Acierage gives the copper plate the hardness of steel, which allows for 50 to 250 printings. ... More | | 
The Ghost of Marley surprises the audience at a production of "A Christmas Carol" in Oklahoma City on Nov. 8, 2020. (Chris Creese/The New York Times)
by Isabella Kwai
LONDON.- At the most wonderful time of the year, there is one tradition that John Maguire remembers fondly: his Liverpudlian grandmother trying to scare the daylights out of him. Without much money for Christmas celebrations, he and his family leaned instead on a centuries-old form of festive entertainment on the cold and dark evenings. Wed turn all the lights off, and put the candles on, and shed tell us a story, Maguire said. Not nice stories ghost tales and other myths. It used to keep me awake at night. Now a grown-up, 46-year-old creative director at Arts Groupie, a group that promotes theater and other arts, he wants more people to have that painful pleasure. This year he revived the tradition, popularized during Victorian times, of sharing ghost stories at Christmas. He and other authors read chilling Victorian tales aloud to a quiet, dim library, lit ... More |
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| Josef Strau's first solo exhibition at Layr includes sculpture, photographic, print works, paintings and videos | | Ever want to curl into a ball? Here's how Trilobites did it. | | Can one of opera's greatest singers get her voice back? | 
Josef Strau, Hypostasicisms, 2023, Installation view, Layr SingerstraÃe, Vienna.
VIENNA.- The aim of this one-time experiment called Hypostasicisms was to emerge into the so called Neoplatonic metaphysics, to very practically concentrate on the possible applications of their most idealistic discourses as on the understanding of the forces of the universes with their distinct spheres, in between spiritual movements, gravitations and attractions, the separations of times and the different worlds in general and in the particulars on observing the sphere of the here and now during the moments of creation in the production of the works exhibited. Zooming down these Neoplatonic inspirations and models, down to the everyday practice of the artists temporal studio situation in the extensive dimensions of the Viennese RingstraÃen areas building. Possibly or actually finding a new philosophical Sachlichkeit in the most metaphysical methods. The production was also an attempt to re-appropriate earlier production procedures and repeat their exercises, by hopefully rectifyin ... More | | 
A Ceraurus pleurexanthemus, top, and Flexicalymene senaria, trilobites whose fossil was found at the Walcott-Rust Quarry in New York.
by Jack Tamisiea
NEW YORK, NY.- When the going got tough in the Paleozoic Era, trilobites rolled up. Armed with sturdy exoskeletons, these ancient arthropods curled up like armadillos to avoid predators or dangerous environmental conditions on the seafloor. Many trilobites have been found with their exoskeletons fossilized in a curled position, as if holding a perpetual stomach crunch. But few of these fossils preserve the internal anatomy that trilobites used to form a defensive ball. While enrolled trilobite fossils are really common, we dont have any of the ventral soft tissue preserved, said Sarah Losso, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University who specializes in trilobite evolution. Losso and her colleagues may have finally unfurled the mystery of tumbling trilobites by using a cache of impeccably preserved fossils. Their findings, published Wednesday in the journal Proceedings ... More | | 
The mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili at the Tbilisi State Conservatory in Tbilisi, Georgia on Oct. 20, 2023. (Daro Sulakauri/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rachvelishvili was pregnant when she began to lose her voice. It was the middle of 2021. She and her husband had tried for years to conceive, and it seemed like a child would be the storybook ending to being forced to slow down during the pandemic. Rachvelishvili, a Georgian mezzo-soprano, had spent the previous decade crisscrossing the world, blazing through some of the most difficult parts in opera. She made her name with a potent combination of capacious sound and interpretive subtlety. In 2018, Riccardo Muti, the preeminent Verdi conductor, called her without doubt the best Verdi mezzo-soprano today on the planet. Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Operas general manager, recently said: She was the greatest dramatic mezzo-soprano singing. It seemed there was no big, meaty role she couldnt tackle. Rachvelishvili sang Carmen, the role of her 2009 breakthrough, hundreds of times, and was scheduled to ring in 2024 as Bizets classic antiheroine ... More |
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| 'Ellipsis' new solo exhibition by Cristina Iglesias presents monumental suspended pavilion | | ARCOmadrid announces participating galleries for its next edition | | This cake maker finds beauty in change, time and even life and death | 
Cristina Iglesias, The Pavilion of Dreams (Elliptical Galaxy), 2016.Braided iron wire, steel cables, colored light and shadow 52 screens (22 horizontal, 30 vertical) 96 1/2 x 385 7/8 x 200 3/4 in. (245 x 980 x 510 cm) (overall variable) 72 x 47 1/4 in. (183 x 120 cm) (each screen).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Marian Goodman Gallery is conducting a solo exhibition by Cristina Iglesias in our Los Angeles space. The exhibition features a large-scale installation alongside new sculptures and works on paper and on copper. Throughout her career, Iglesias has defined a unique sculptural vocabulary, building immersive and experiential environments that combine Minimalist sensitivity to form with complex narrative constructions to create thresholds and portals to the temporal and the imaginary. The exhibition presents a monumental, suspended pavilion that is being shown in the main exhibition space, and new sculptures in bronze which are on view in the entrance gallery. Continuing her use of non-traditional materials, such as language, water ... More | | 
Installatioin view of ARCOmadrid. The 43rd edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair will be held from 6 to 10 March.
MADRID.- ARCOmadrid, organised by IFEMA MADRID, celebrates its 43rd edition from 6 to 10 March with the Caribbean at its centre. The extremely high quality of projects submitted by galleries guarantees a first-class artistic experience. The exhibition will showcase the current international art scene in a broad dialogue with Spanish art. Across five days of discovery and exploration, and with the presence of new international galleries, ARCOmadrid will be a benchmark for the visibility and introduction of artists, fostering an active market and promoting knowledge of art. ARCO, together with the city of Madrid, will focus the attention of galleries, artists, collectors, curators and other professionals, institutions, museums and art centres from all over the world, representing a unique experience for all visitors. A total of 207 galleries from 36 countries will convert Madrid into the international capital ... More | | 
A cake made by Jasmine de Lung at at her studio in San Francisco, Dec. 9, 2023. De Lung, whose business is named Jasmine Rae Cakes, embraces a sort of serendipity. (Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times)
by Anna Diamond
NEW YORK, NY.- A decade ago, Jasmine Rae de Lung, a San Francisco-based cake maker, wanted to test out some new decorating elements. She headed to Clement Street in the Richmond, a neighborhood with several Asian markets. Her haul that day included some rice paper sheets, typically used to form Vietnamese spring rolls. Back in her Mission District kitchen, de Lung realized the sheets wouldnt work for draping on a cake; they became flimsy when wet and shrank and shattered when refrigerated. The diaphanous material offered greater potential, though, in detailing: Cut into pieces, dyed, dried and attached to wire, the rice paper resembled delicate flowers. But de Lung also learned the paper couldnt be commanded; ... More |
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| Woman artist Oda Jaune to transform the TEMPLON gallery New York space | | Minnesota unveils new State Flag design | | New graphic biography delves into captivating early years of groundbreaking artist Ruth Asawa | 
Oda Jaune, B like Barbie, 2023. Oil on canvas, 170 Ã 120 cm 67 Ã 47 1/4 in. Photo: Laurent Edeline.
NEW YORK, NY.- For her first solo exhibition in the United States, the rare and uncanny Oda Jaune unveils a challenging exhibition in New York. Miss Understand offers a series of nearly 25 new oil paintings and dozens of watercolors, on a singular perception of the woman in our time. Oda Jaune, Bulgarian in origin and trained in Germany, has for nearly 15 years been among the most intriguing figures on the European art scene with a body of work freed from any pictorial convention. Poetic, sensual, and expansive, her painting ignites conversation and explores, without inhibition, the depth of femininity today. At the core of this new exhibition is a spectacular and large canvas. The work captivates and challenges. A baby is cradled in a nurturing embrace within softly curvaceous, winged forms, floating upon a fleshy ... More | | 
The new Minnesota State Flag, an image provided by the Minnesota Historical Society. (Minnesota Historical Society via The New York Times)
by Livia Albeck-Ripka
NEW YORK, NY.- Minnesota on Tuesday announced the winning design for its new state flag after a competition that was prompted by criticism that its current flag was offensive to Native Americans. The new design consists of a light blue right panel, representing the states many lakes, and navy blue left panel, resembling the shape of Minnesota, with an eight-pointed northern star. It is a vast departure from the current flag: a busy design with the state seal at its center depicting a pioneer beside a rifle and a Native American with a spear on horseback, which one lawmaker described as a cluttered genocidal mess. The winning flag proposal, submitted by Andrew Prekker of Luverne, was ... More | | 
Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape, by Sam Nakahira, developed in consultation with Asawas youngest daughter, Addie Lanier, chronicles the genesis of Asawa as an artist.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Renowned for her innovative wire sculptures, Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (19262013) was a teenager in Southern California when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II. Japanese Americans on the West Coast were forcibly removed from their homes. Asawas family had to abandon their farm, her father was incarcerated, and she and the rest of her family were sent to a detention center in California, and later to a concentration camp in Arkansas. Asawa nurtured her dreams of becoming an artist while imprisoned and eventually made her way to the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape (Getty Publications, $19.95) ... More |
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 Exclusive Sergio Hudson exhibition now open at November 18 at Columbia Museum of ArtCOLUMBIA, S.C..- The Columbia Museum of Art presents Sergio Hudson: Focused on the Fit, an exhibition showcasing the work of iconic fashion designer and Midlands native Sergio Hudson, on view since November 18, 2023, through Sunday, June 30, 2024. Organized by the CMA in partnership with Sergio Hudson Collections, LLC and community curator Megan Pinckney Rutherford, this exhibition showcases the remarkable moments of a designer who fell in love with fashion at 4 years old while living in Ridgeway, South Carolina, and has become one of the biggest names in the industry today. Many things are happening in my life that I could only dream of this exhibition at the CMA is one of them, says Hudson. I feel very lucky, and I hope my story can inspire other young men in South Carolina to believe in themselves and follow ... More  Phoenix Art Museum premieres Laura Aguilar exhibition featuring self-portraits in Southwest landscapesPHOENIX, ARIZ.- This winter, Phoenix Art Museum presents Laura Aguilar: Nudes in Nature, the future exhibition to bring together nearly 60 photographic works from five series of nude self-portraits by the groundbreaking photographer Laura Aguilar. Co-organized by the Center for Creative Photography, the exhibition considers how Aguilar used the photographic medium and her body to subvert Western beauty standards and upend the relationship between the female form and the landscape. Nudes in Nature is co-curated by Sybil Venegas, an independent curator and art historian, and Christopher Velasco, photographer, professor, and Aguilar's longtime studio manager. "We are excited to bring the profound and intimate work of Laura Aguilar to our audiences in Arizona," said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Sybil Harrington ... More  Grand Palais Éphémère to host 26th edition of ART PARIS 2024PARIS.- For its 26th edition from 47 April at the Grand Palais Ãphémère, regional and cosmopolitan art fair Art Paris 2024 is truly in Olympic form. Focusing as always on discovery, it will be welcoming a very select group of exhibitors with a stronger international presence that comprises 135 hand-picked modern and contemporary art galleries from 25 countries. This edition will be exploring two themes: Fragile Utopias. A Focus on the French Scene and Art & Craft, led respectively by guest curators Ãric de Chassey and Nicolas Trembley. The Promises sector for young galleries and Solo Show will be revealing new talents and featuring historical figures who deserve to be rediscovered. In 2024, Art Paris commits to further support the French scene by joining forces with BNP ... More  Lot auctioned by Baron Philippe de Rothschild SA sold for 237,500BORDEAUX.- The owners of Château Mouton Rothschild have decided to combine the reveal of the label for the most recently bottled vintage of their wine with an exceptional online auction in favour of a charity. The chosen beneficiary of this years auction, organised in partnership with Christies, is the Association Antoine Alléno. The lot comprised a unique assortment of different formats of Château Mouton Rothschild 2021, as well as an exclusive experience at the estate and an exceptional immersion in the world of multi-starred chef Yannick Alléno. The artists name and the original artwork that illustrates the label of Château Mouton Rothschild 2021 were revealed on 1 December; Universe of Mouton created by the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota thus features on the bottles of the lot put up for auction on Christies website. ... More  When translating a play is about more than languageNEW YORK, NY.- Richard Nelson seemed to have found the perfect home for his play Our Life in Art. He had written a show about the Moscow Art Theaters 1923 tour of the United States with its director, Konstantin Stanislavski, and was planning to have a Russian translation presented by the companys modern leader at a performance space that Stanislavski had built on the grounds of his familys factory. Whats more, the Brooklyn Academy of Music was interested in bringing the production to New York, where Nelson is best known as the author of the Rhinebeck Panorama, a collection of a dozen intimate plays that document and dissect slices of American life and history through nothing more than dinner conversation. A major step toward the plays premiere in Moscow came on Feb. 23, 2022, when the director, Sergei Zhenovach, ... More  Have yourself a jazzy, or pop-punk or country little ChristmasNEW YORK, NY.- There is no one correct way to celebrate the holiday season in song. For some, reverence is key. But often the best Yuletide numbers are the ones that fiddle around with tradition, taking the familiar components of joy and generosity and remixing them into something silly, salacious or downright odd. Adam Blackstone, who has been a bassist and musical director for Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake as well as many television shows, revels in his jazz background on his own Legacy albums. A Legacy Christmas merges brassy, swinging big-band arrangements with electronically tweaked R&B, and its packed with guests: DJ Jazzy Jeff, Boyz II Men, Andra Day. There are glossy, muscular revamps of songs like Lil Drummer Boy (which has BJ the Chicago Kid singing alongside Blackstones melodic ... More  How 'The Nutcracker' has been reimagined, for better and worseNEW YORK, NY.- The Nutcracker is a cherished holiday staple one that, for every traditional treatment, inspires a left-field twist toward the contemporary. Theres a grain of truth in Lisa Simpsons comment that everybody does The Nutcracker because you dont have to pay for the music rights. As critic Roslyn Sulcas once wrote in The New York Times, Even less-than-great versions of the ballet exercise a kind of magic through Tchaikovskys score, which offers the same infinite potential for choreography as the texts of great plays do for staging. That potential, however, can be double-edged. Here are five instances in which light tweaks and heavy rewrites have reframed and occasionally ruined Tchaikovskys famous music. Perhaps the most classic update of Tchaikovskys score, the Ellington-Strayhorn Nutcracker ... More  STRAAT Museum records almost 200,000 visitors in 2023AMSTERDAM.- STRAAT, the museum for street art and graffiti situated at the NDSM wharf in Amsterdam-Noord, reported an impressive visitor count of nearly 200,000 in 2023. This represents a growth of 70% compared to 2022. In addition to the permanent collection, exhibitions such as Women in Street Art, the major Shepard Fairey solo exhibition Printed Matters: Raise the Level, and Urban Artivism drew large crowds. The demographic breakdown reveals that approximately 40% of the museums nearly 200,000 visitors originate from international locations, 20% hail from the greater Amsterdam area, while the remaining 40% represent various regions within the Netherlands. Notably, STRAAT holds a commendable average rating of 4.8 out of 5 on Google, derived from a robust sample size of over 2,300 reviews. ... More  This Antarctic octopus has a warning about rising sea levelsNEW YORK, NY.- Scientists have long wondered whether the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a ticking time bomb in terms of sea level rise. New evidence from the DNA of a small octopus that lives in the Southern Ocean suggests that the ice sheet is indeed at risk of collapsing, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. The research doesnt predict when this might happen, but it indicates that 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming over the preindustrial global average, or perhaps even less than that, might be a tipping point for the ice sheet. The Earth is close to that temperature level now. Several distinct populations of Pareledone turqueti, commonly known as Turquets octopus, live in the waters around Antarctica today. These octopuses crawl along the sea floor and generally dont stray far from home. A ... More  Heritage's auction of 'Succession' costumes, props, set decorations is the event of the award seasonDALLAS, TX.- Successions series finale aired May 28, yet it will never be one of those TV shows that fades to black and vanishes altogether. Both line-quoting obsessives (You cant make a Tomlette without breaking some Gregs) and curious latecomers will forever flock to Jesse Armstrongs series about the dysfunctional, doomed Roy family, which The New Yorker once called a brilliant tragedy-satire of the corporate élite. The HBO® Original is as revered among creators and critics as it is by viewers: Succession boasts 27 nominations in the 2023 Emmy® Awards (14 for its cast alone!) and racked up a record-setting nine TV-show nods at the 2023 Golden Globes®. And as GQ noted only days after Tom and Shiv coldly clasped hands while Roman drank and Kendall sank, the shows place in the TV Hall of Fame has been cemented for some ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was born December 22, 1960. Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. In this image: Basquiat: Boom For Real. Installation view Barbican Art Gallery 21 September 2017 â 28 January 2018 © Tristan Fewings / Getty Images Artwork: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1982 Courtesy Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.
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