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Outside the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, July 20, 2021. The Humboldt Forums exterior is a reconstruction of the palace that was once home to the kings of Prussia and emperors of Germany. Felix Brüggemann/The New York Times.
by Thomas Rogers
BERLIN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For almost 20 years, Werner Kohl has followed the saga of the Humboldt Forum. Like many Germans, he has been watching and listening since 2002, when the government approved a plan for the huge new cultural attraction in Berlin. Thats nearly two decades of debate, protest, overspend and delay. So on Tuesday evening, when he finally stood in the buildings darkened exhibition spaces, he was thrilled, he said. Ive been looking forward to this day from the beginning, Kohl said. Im here to see if it delivers on what it proposed. Kohl, 63, was there to see Terrible Beauty, a temporary exhibition of ivory artifacts ranging across 40,000 years. It was one of six inaugural shows in the Forum, which brings together several museum collections in a reconstructed Baroque palace. Located on the site of the demolished East German Parliament and conceived as Germanys equivalent to the Louvre, the Humboldt Forum was originally scheduled t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A photograph taken on June 10, 2021 shows the Cordouan lighthouse at night off the coast of Le Verdon-sur-Mer, southwestern France on June 10, 2021. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP.
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| Notre Dame launches platform for online access to Hesburgh Library, Snite Museum of Art holdings | | Sydelle Rubin-Dienstfrey, Ph.D., appointed Head of Artemis Gallery's new Fine & Visual Arts Department | | Goodbye, Dolly: With their bids, fans hold on to Carol Channing | 
Online access to these selections of distinctive cultural heritage materials at Notre Dame is free and open to the public.
NOTRE DAME, IN.- The Hesburgh Libraries and the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame have launched Marble an online teaching and research platform designed to make distinctive cultural heritage collections from across the University accessible through a single portal. The development of Marble was made possible, in part, by a three-and-one-half-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create an open-access, unified software solution that would enable universities to access the Snite Museum and library holdings through a single online platform. University libraries, archives and museums nationwide have been digitizing collections for well over a decade and have long sought collaborative solutions that would enable their respective holdings to be easily discovered online and used for teaching and research. However, there have been many obstacles preventing efficient ... More | | 
Sydelle Rubin-Dienstfrey, Ph.D., newly appointed Head of Artemis Gallerys Fine & Visual Arts Department. Artemis Gallery image
BOULDER, CO.- Artemis Gallery, the globally recognized online auction firm specializing in ancient and ethnographic art, announces the promotion of Sydelle Rubin-Dienstfrey, Ph.D., to Head of the companys new Fine & Visual Arts Department. An accomplished researcher and writer in the ancient art and antiquities field, Rubin-Dienstfrey has served as Artemis Gallerys Art Historian and Head of Research & Fine Art since 2017. Rubin-Dienstfreys educational background and comprehensive knowledge of art in all its forms make her uniquely qualified to establish a new business vertical for Artemis Gallery, said the companys managing director, Teresa Dodge. We have always included selections of folk and outsider art; Spanish colonial, modern and contemporary art in our sales, and with each successive auction, there has been a marked uptick in those categories. It became clear to us that it was time to launch ... More | | 
Memorabilia from the Carol Channing estate, including a flag from the touring production of Sugar Babies, on display at a warehouse, in Commerce, Calif. on June 17, 2021. Alex Welsh/The New York Times.
by Adam Nagourney
LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For men of a certain age and it is mostly men Carol Channing was something of an obsession. They waited by stage doors from Broadway to Tampa, Florida, for her to emerge. They devoured the Hello, Dolly! cast album as teenagers, watched her on television and in the movies and, at times, dressed up in drag to impersonate her the exaggerated red lipstick, the drone of a nasal voice, the wide-eyed comedic delivery and the burst of puffy hair. So there was an audience ready and waiting when much of the Channing estate went to auction last month, more than two years after she died at the age of 97 in Rancho Mirage, California. All 400 items sold out in eight hours, of course, and the auction, authorized by Channings heirs, ... More |
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| Elvira Dyangani Ose appointed Director of MACBA | | Turner Auctions + Appraisals announces 'Hippie, Counterculture & Music Posters and Memorabilia' auction | | Dorothy Kosinski to conclude tenure as Vradenburg Director and CEO of The Phillips Collection | 
Elvira Dyangani Ose is currently Director and Chief Curator of The Showroom in London. Photo: Josep Lago.
BARCELONA.- Elvira Dyangani Ose (Córdoba, 1974) will be the first woman to hold the position of Director of the Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona. She is currently Director and Chief Curator of The Showroom in London, as well as Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a member of the Thought Council, Fondazione Prada. She has previously been Curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art; Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, London; Artistic Director of Rencontres Picha - Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville; Senior Curator at Creative Time in New York; and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. The General Council of the Consortium of the Museu ... More | | 
Promotional poster for the book, The Art of Rock, by Paul Grushkin, released in 1987. Estimate: $700 - $900.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present Feelin Groovy: Hippie, Counterculture & Music Posters and Memorabilia on August 7, 2021. Featuring 150 lots from a Northern California collectors estate, the sale features an eclectic range of colorful or psychedelic posters, mostly rock concerts, plus a smaller selection of travel, movie, French, and other offerings. Many posters are multiples; a few are reprints. Highlights include several lots of The Oracle of San Francisco, an underground newspaper published between 1966 and 1968 in Haight-Ashbury; and one lot of the Harbinger, which was published once in 1968 after the Oracle folded. Music and other posters include Jimi Hendrix Experience, Wavy Gravy in concert with Janis Joplin and other renown musicians, the Allman Brothers, Lightning Hopkins, Jefferson Starship, Artists Rights Today benefit concert, Willie Nelson, the Art of Rock; ... More | | 
Vradenburg Director and CEO Dorothy Kosinski. Photo: Daniel Schwartz.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Dorothy Kosinski, Vradenburg Director and CEO of The Phillips Collection, announced today that she will conclude her tenure toward the end of 2022. Followed by a transition period, requested by the Board of Trustees, she will mark 15 years of distinguished leadership and be named Director Emerita. Dr. Kosinski said: This is a moment of great celebration and achievement for me and the Phillips. This year, 2021, is the centennial of this distinguished institution. We have accomplished extraordinary work that has transformed the Phillips while maintaining its distinctive character as an intimate, experimental space. The Phillips is now more than ever an innovative and nimble organization, a museum poised for future challenges. Board Chair Dani Levinas commented: Dorothys impact is profound and far-reaching and sets up the Phillips for a dynamic future. We are particularly grateful for her incredible le ... More |
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| New Bay Area Discovery Museum by Olson Kundig | | Design Miami/ Basel returns in September with international gallery lineup and new hybrid exhibition format | | Academy Museum to open with 'Wizard of Oz' | 
The Bay Areas unique hub for childhood learning reimagined.
SAUSALITO, CA.- The Bay Area Discovery Museum unveils its campus-wide renovation and new exhibitions designed by Seattle based design and architecture practice, Olson Kundig and led by Design Principal, Alan Maskin. BADM takes a unique approach to children's programmingresulting in experiential spaces that encompass art, science and education. Now completed, Olson Kundigs master plan and renovation honored the architectural integrity of its historic locationFort Baker in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Centering the museums child-focused mission, Olson Kundigs renovation transformed the guest experience for visitors of all ages. Collaborating with early learning experts from BADMs in-house research division, Olson Kundig reimagined the museum through five new permanent exhibitions that seamlessly incorporate the latest research into interactive activities and environments. Within ... More | | 
Niko Niko side table, 2018 by Jaime Hayon at Galerie kreo, courtesy of Sylvie Chan-Liat and Galerie kreo.
BASEL.- Design Miami/ Basel returns to the Basel Messeplatz for the fifteenth edition of the fair from 21-26 September 2021. The 2021 fair signals a strong return with 27 international gallery presentations and 14 Curio exhibitions as well as a reimagined Design at Large program with large scale works and installations. The upcoming edition will also introduce the hybrid physical / digital event format for the fair first unveiled in Miami in 2020, this will allow collectors to view and shop works from the show floor directly online as well as engage in digital programming including virtual tours, talks and more. In an international first, Superblue will partner with Design Miami/ to present Shylights by DRIFT, Dutch artist duo Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta. Taking over the expansive downstairs space in Hall 1, the mesmerising work features sculptures that unfold and retreat in a fascinating choreography, mirroring the ... More | | 
Opening on September 30, the museum's first in-person event will be screenings of the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz," featuring a live musical orchestra from the American Youth Symphony.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- There's no place like home: and the Academy will finally open the doors to its very own Hollywood film museum in Los Angeles with live screenings of "The Wizard of Oz," it said Wednesday. Dedicated to the magic of movies and first dreamt up almost a century ago by the group that hands out the Oscars, the museum has been long delayed by construction and funding issues and more recently the pandemic. Opening on September 30, the museum's first in-person event will be screenings of the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz," featuring a live musical orchestra from the American Youth Symphony. Also on the opening weeks' schedule are a "Malcolm X" screening for museum members featuring Spike Lee and Denzel Washington, and showings of all Hayao Miyazaki's films. The latter will accompany the Academy ... More |
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| Isolde Brielmaier appointed Deputy Director of New Museum | | The Svane Family Foundation launches $1M commission and auction to benefit Bay Area arts community | | A new public sculpture by Tracey Emin unveiled in London | 
Isolde Brielmaier. Photo by Quil Lemons.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum, announced today the appointment of Isolde Brielmaier to the position of Deputy Director of the New Museum. Brielmaier will begin in her new role on September 1, 2021, succeeding Karen Wong, who has served as the institutions Deputy Director for nine years, having joined the Museum as Director of External Affairs in 2006. Brielmaier comes to the New Museum with over two decades of non-profit and private sector experience, specializing in exhibitions, scholarship, strategic planning, partnerships, digital strategy, events, and social impact initiatives. Having received her PhD in art history from Columbia University, she brings to her new post an exceptional range of experience spanning academia, the museum field, and the corporate sector. Brielmaier has also served on the New Museum Board of Trustees since 2016. Lisa Phillips commented: Isolde possesses a truly ... More | | 
Alicia McCarthy, Untitled, 2020. Oil pastel, chalk pastel, spray paint and house paint on canvas, 60 x 40 in.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Svane Family Foundation, launched in 2019 and focused on supporting Bay Area artists and arts organizations, announced today a first-of-its kind exhibition and auction featuring works created by 100 Bay Area artists. Titled Ark, this historic exhibition is a direct expression of how Bay Area artists endured the pandemic while envisioning our best days ahead. The foundations inaugural program, begun in June 2020, funneled $1M into the Bay Area art community through 100 individual, unrestricted $10,000 commissions in response to COVID-19 and the urgent need to get cash directly in the hands of artists suffering the economic fallout, where an estimated 66% of artists became unemployed at the peak of the pandemic in 2020, and 95% lost income, according to Americans for the Arts. In September 2021, Ark will enter its final phase, where ... More | | 
Tracey Emin, A Moment Without You, Three Mills, The Line. Photo: Angus Mill.
LONDON.- Established in 2015, The Line is Londons first dedicated public art walk; an outstanding, free outdoor art gallery, following the waterways and line of the Greenwich Meridian along a route which passes through 3 of the most diverse boroughs in the UK: Newham, Tower Hamlets and Greenwich. The Line announced the unveiling on 21st July of A Moment Without You by the acclaimed British artist, Tracey Emin. The only public sculpture by Emin currently in London, the work features 5 bronze birds perched above head height resting in sight of historic Three Mills, home to the House Mill and the worlds largest surviving tidal mill. Although rendered in bronze, the birds retain the delicate fragility of their living counterparts, as well as the intimacy of the sculptors physical touch in the modelling of each hand-sized form. Few public sculptures could look more completely at home in the natural waterside location of T ... More |
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Jackie Briggs on Camille Pissarros "The Hermitage at Pontoise" Eli Wilner & Company is proud to have framed several works in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The Wilner period frame on Camille Pissarroâs "The Hermitage at Pontoise" enhances the appreciation of this very special painting, as discussed in this video by Jackie Briggs, Guggenheim Gallery Guide. 
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 Prada presents the exhibition "Sturm&Drang Preview Services" at Prada Aoyama TokyoTOKYO.- Prada presents Sturm&Drang Preview Services, an exhibition project organized with the support of Fondazione Prada, at Prada Aoyama Tokyo from 22 July to 26 November 2021. The fifth floor of the iconic building designed by Herzog & de Meuron hosts a new development direction of the project Sturm&Drang, a collaboration between Fondazione Prada and gta exhibitions, ETH Zürich. Curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini (Armature Globale), Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen (gta exhibitions, ETH Zürich), Sturm&Drang explores Computergenerated imagery (CGI) practices, experiences, and environments. The exhibition aims at highlighting the complexity of computer modeling and investigating contemporary image production and its impact on our daily perception. Sturm&Drang Preview Services looks directly at the preliminary nondigital ... More  Venice dodges UNESCO endangered listing after big ship banROME (AFP).- Venice avoided being named a world heritage site in danger by UNESCO on Thursday, just weeks after Italy moved to ban large cruise ships from sailing into the city centre. The city has been on UNESCO's heritage list since 1987, but the UN body warned last month of the need for "more sustainable tourism management", recommending that Venice be added to its endangered list. The World Heritage Committee meeting in Fuzhou, China, cited Italy's recent ban and gave Italian authorities until next December to report back on efforts to preserve the city's ecosystem and heritage. Italy's Culture Minister Dario Franceschini welcomed the decision, but said "attention on Venice must remain high", underlying the need to identify a "sustainable development path". Prime Minister Mario Draghi expressed "great satisfaction" at the decision. ... More  Heritage Auctions returns missing Margaret Keane painting stolen in 1972DALLAS, TX.- On Nov. 14, 1972, a painting by iconic artist Margaret Keane was stolen from a dentists office waiting room in Honolulu, and remained missing for nearly 50 years. On Wednesday, Heritage Auctions reunited the lost artwork with its original owners among them, the woman depicted in the painting as a 7-year-old girl. During a media conference at the Dallas-based auction houses global headquarters, Heritage officials turned over the painting to the familys representative, Robert Wittman, a former FBI special agent and founder of the agencys Art Crime Team. The work sold at auction in December 2020, shortly after which Wittman, a renowned art-recovery and security specialist, informed Heritage Auctions it had been stolen from Hawaii in 1972. The work, known as Eyes Upon You, was consigned to Heritage Auctions by a family ... More  Civil War document signed by Lincoln included in Rafael Osona Auctions' annual saleNANTUCKET, MASS.- A Civil War document signed by then-President Abraham Lincoln and a rare 1775 American Revolutionary War Muster Roll are just a couple of the expected star lots in Rafael Osona Auctions annual, two-day online auction slated for the weekend of August 7th and 8th, at 9:30 am Eastern time both days. Over 700 lots will be sold. The auction will be headlined by the Gail and Rich Mellin collection of Chinese export porcelain of Canton design, American furniture, fine arts and décor. The Mellins are esteemed antiques dealers in Canton and export porcelains and are offering Part 1 of their collection from their recently sold Connecticut residence; property from the descendants of Francis Elias Spinner, U.S. Treasurer appointed by Lincoln; and fine antique rugs, China Trade art, and export porcelains from the Marie ... More  Early books and rare bindings are shining stars in Bellmans' most successful book auction since lockdown WISBOROUGH GREEN.- Bellmans held one of its most successful Printed Books, Manuscripts and Maps Auctions on Thursday, 15th July with 91% sold by lot resulting in a total of £105,655 (hammer price, £128,888 incl. BP). Top lot of the sale was an early book - a 1484 copy of Dante Alighieri's La Comedia, with the commentary of Christophoro Landino, which counts among previous owners members of the Strozzi family and the Athenaeum Library. It carried an estimate of £2,000 - £3,000, but reached three times its high estimate and sold for £9,000 hammer price (plus buyer's premium). Among other early books with the same estimate was the Summa theologiae. Pars secunda: secunda pars, by Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 - 74), edited by Ludovicus de Cremona and one of the earliest and rarest editions from the second Mantuan Press. Published ... More  Historic Cherry Lane Theater sold for $11 millionNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Cherry Lane Theater, the oldest continuously running off-Broadway theater in New York City, has been sold to the Lucille Lortel Theater Foundation for $11 million, the theater announced on Monday. It has been a great run, Angelina Fiordellisi, executive director of the theater, said in a statement. To stand on the stage where so many of our greatest artists, crews and theater providers have stood is to know what theater history feels like. The new owner will be the Lucille Lortel Theater Foundation, which is a few blocks from the Cherry Lane Theater on Christopher Street and has managed the building for the past decade. The sale includes the 179-seat main stage and a 60-seat studio theater. Fiordellisi, who has led the 97-year-old nonprofit theater since acquiring the building in 1996, will continue to lead ... More  Asians are represented in classical music. But are they seen?NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As reports of anti-Asian hate crimes spread in the United States earlier this year, David Kim, a violist in the San Francisco Symphony, found himself despondent. Kim, who is Korean American, was already disturbed by what he saw as widespread racism in classical music. He believed Asian string players were marginalized and treated like cattle, as he put it recently. Like a herd of mechanical robots. And he felt his white colleagues in San Francisco, who make up 83% of the orchestra, did not share his urgency about building a culture more welcoming to Asian, Black and Latino players. Feeling isolated and angry, Kim, 40, began to question his career. In March he resigned as the sole musician of color on an orchestra committee focused on equity and inclusion. And after the ensemble resumed live performances ... More  American Ballet Theater to return to Lincoln Center in OctoberNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- American Ballet Theatre will return to Lincoln Center for indoor performances in October, the company said Wednesday. Its homecoming season at the David H. Koch Theater is set to feature the world premiere of the work ZigZag by Jessica Lang and the stage debut of pieces by Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Rudd that were first shown online. Weve all been drastically changed by the experience of the last 16 months, Kevin McKenzie, Ballet Theaters artistic director, said in an interview. Its poignant to come back to the theater because it will point out how well we have weathered the time away from each other. The season will begin Oct. 20 with McKenzies staging of Giselle, a full-length Romantic ballet from the 19th century with music by Adolphe Adam. Six performances of the 1987 production, originally ... More  After 145 years, Bayreuth Festival has its first female conductorNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Bayreuth Festival in Germany is one of the most venerable events in classical music. Richard Wagner founded it to present his own operas, and its been open most summers since 1876. But 2021 brings something new in the festivals 145-year history: On Sunday, Oksana Lyniv will become the first woman to conduct a production there. A native of Brody, in western Ukraine, where she grew up in a family of musicians, Lyniv, 43, has spent the better part of the last two decades in German-speaking Europe. She was an assistant to influential conductor Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and from 2017-20 was chief conductor of the Graz Opera and Graz Philharmonic Orchestra in Austria. She has also maintained strong musical ties to Ukraine and is founder and artistic director ... More  Holabird Western Americana Collections announces Sizzling Summer Western Americana AuctionRENO, NV.- General George Armstrong Custers Civil War holster and gun belt, a photo diary of Pancho Villa with three books on the Mexican Revolution, and an 1898 prostitutes license and photo from Tombstone, Arizona are a few of the more interesting items in Holabird Western Americana Collections Sizzling Summer Western Americana Auction, slated for August 5th-9th. The five-day mega-event, packed with nearly 3,000 lots of Native Americana, philatelic (stamps) and numismatics (coins), militaria, railroad collectibles, Americana, mining memorabilia, stock certificates, art and more, will be held live in Holabirds Reno gallery at 3555 Airway Drive, as well as online, via iCollector.com, LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Auctionzip.com. Start times all five days are 8 am Pacific. This sale will make collectors even hotter than they were before ... More  New York's 'homecoming' to feature a free concert in every boroughNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In case the other boroughs were jealous of the star-studded concert announced for Manhattan's Central Park in August, the city is giving each one a show to call their own. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday that the lead-up to the reopening bash on the Great Lawn on Aug. 21 featuring Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Paul Simon and others will include free concerts in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. The concert series, part of what the city is calling homecoming week, is being presented as a celebration of New Yorks emergence out of the dark days of the pandemic and an enticement for tourists to return. If attendees are required to be vaccinated to attend the concerts, which is not yet clear, it will also be yet another carrot that the city government is waving in front of the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Philipp Otto Runge was born July 23, 1777. Philipp Otto Runge (23 July 1777 - 2 December 1810) was a Romantic German painter and draughtsman. He made a late start to his career and died young, nonetheless he is considered among the best German Romantic painters.
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