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Beyond The Scream, theres a side of the artist thats long been unexplored in the U.S., as shown by Trembling Earth at the Clark Art Institute.
by Roberta Smith
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The exhibition of the work of Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch at the Clark Art Institute is fun. Serious fun. High fun, if you will. But fun nonetheless. The thrilling kind that comes from seeing a major modern painter in a new, broader, enlivening light. This is the achievement of the Clarks sumptuous, revisionary Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth. The artist gleaned from the 47 paintings and almost as many prints in this exhibition is not just the godfather of figurative expressionism despite the shows rather hammy title. Nor is he the neurotic, alcoholic painter of The Scream of 1893 a revolutionary artwork and by now, a fixture of popular culture. And he is not the Munch who has typically been seen as an ingenious, innovative printmaker, but who lost his edge as a painter and went into decline after he recovered from a nervous breakdown. It had come in 1908 after Munch had spent 15 years establishing his career in Berlin. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Rachel Bartgis, a conservation specialist, builds an archival box in a preservation lab at the National Archivesâ main operations center in College Park, Md., April 21, 2023. The National Archives and Records Administration is devoted to preserving the priceless records of the United States, including the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, documents from the present day and classified papers once held by presidents of the United States. (Jared Soares/The New York Times).
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| Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles, dies at 77 | | Iconic Andy Warhol Campbell's Tomato Soup Can silkscreen up for grabs at Roland Auctions today and tomorrow | | Sinead O'Connor, evocative and outspoken singer, is dead at 56 | 
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NEW YORK, NY.- Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles whose broad vocal range on songs such as Take It to the Limit helped catapult the rock band to international fame, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 77. The cause was complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the band announced Thursday. Randy was an integral part of the Eagles and instrumental in the early success of the band, the group said on its website. Meisner, the bands original bass player, helped to form the Eagles in 1971 together with Glenn Frey, Don Henley and Bernie Leadon. Meisner was with the band when they recorded the albums Eagles, Desperado, On The Border, One of These Nights and Hotel California. Meisner left the band in September 1977 but was inducted with the Eagles into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. ... More | | 
Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987), Campbell's Tomato Soup Can. Screenprint from a limited edition of 250, numbered 28/250.
NEW YORK, NY.- Roland Auctions, NY, is presenting its two-part July 28th and 29th auction this week, maintaining their recent trend of hosting two-part auctions over the last several months, fine tuned to offer highly-desirable Contemporary and Modern Art, which has been topping all their recent auctions. Along with Fine Art selections, Roland will present hundreds of lots of Decorative Arts, 20th Century Modern, Antique & Vintage Furniture, Textiles, Silver, Gold and Silver Jewelry, Rugs, Collectibles, and Asian Art. An iconic Andy Warhol: Tomato Soup Can silkscreen is already getting a huge amount of pre-auction attention . This Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) screenprint of Campbell's Tomato Soup Can, is from a limited edition of 250, numbered 28/250, a signed, original work. Provenance: ... More | | 
Singer Sinead O'Connor at her home in County Wicklow, Ireland, Feb. 3, 2012. (David Corio/The New York Times)
by Ben Sisario and Joe Coscarelli
NEW YORK, NY.- Sinead OConnor, the outspoken Irish singer-songwriter known for her powerful, evocative voice, as showcased on her biggest hit, a breathtaking rendition of Princes Nothing Compares 2 U, and for her political provocations onstage and off, has died. She was 56. Her longtime friend Bob Geldof, the Irish musician and activist, confirmed her death, as did her family in a statement, according to the BBC and the Irish public broadcaster RTE. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinead, the statement said. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time. No other details were provided. Recognizable by her shaved head and by wide eyes that could appear pained ... More |
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| A time capsule of human creativity, stored in the sky | | Ales Pushkin, dissident artist in Belarus, is dead in prison at 57 | | Hugo Michell Gallery presenting exhibition by Trent Parke as part of the South Australian Living Artists Festival | 
Samuel Peralta, the creator of the Lunar Codex, a time capsule of human creativity, holds a soapstone Inuit sculpture at his home in Mississauga, Ontario, July 14, 2023. (Brendan George Ko/The New York Times)
by J.D. Biersdorfer
NEW YORK, NY.- Just keep telling the story, says the director character in Wes Andersons latest film, Asteroid City, which takes a stylized look at midcentury Americas fascination with space and interstellar communications. Later this year, the Lunar Codex a vast multimedia archive telling a story of the worlds people through creative arts will start heading for permanent installation on the moon aboard a series of unmanned rockets. The Lunar Codex is a digitized (or miniaturized) collection of contemporary art, poetry, magazines, music, film, podcasts and books by 30,000 artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers in 157 countries. Its the brainchild ... More | | 
A photo provided via Online Media Solidarity (Belarus) shows artist Ales Pushkin at his birthplace, the village of Bobr in Belarus, in May 2018. (via Online Media Solidarity (Belarus)) via The New York Times)
by Alex Williams
NEW YORK, NY.- Ales Pushkin, a dissident artist in Belarus whose incendiary work often took aim at the countrys authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, in one instance with a pile of manure dumped outside the presidential offices in Minsk, has died in prison while serving a five-year sentence. He was 57. His wife, Janina Demuch, announced his death in a Facebook post the morning of July 11, writing, Tonight Ales Pushkin died in intensive care under unknown circumstances in a prison in Grodno, in western Belarus. Belarusian authorities did not immediately comment on his death. Some news organizations reported that Pushkin had not been known ... More | | 
Trent Parke. Photo Courtesy of Hugo Michell Gallery.
ADELAIDE.- Trent Parke, the first Australian to become a Full Member of the renowned Magnum Photo Agency, has opened Monument, a retrospective body of work of never before seen black and white photographs at Hugo Michell Gallery. In this retrospective body of work, Trent Parke revisits his most iconic black and white street photography. Presenting a single filmic narrative through a series of photographs, this body of work has been inspired by NASAs Golden Record, a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk carried into space containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. This is Parkes photographic record of the last moments on earth. A Monument of humankind. Monument will be accompanied by a photographic book of the same name, published by Stanley Barker. This landmark publication is a portal through which ... More |
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| Solo exhibition of artist David Roesing "Do Now or Do Later" now opening at Sebastian Gladstone | | Murray Art Museum Albury has announced new solo exhibition by Newell Harry | | 'Embodying Colour: Outtakes' exhibition by Michael Post, Peter Weber and Heiner Thiel on view at Charlotte Jackson | 
David Roesing, Dinner Date, 2022, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60" x 40". Photo Courtesy of Sebastian Gladstone in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sebastian Gladstone is now opening Do Now or Do Later, the first west-coast solo exhibition of the New York-based artist David Roesing. The exhibition opens today with an opening reception from 7-9PM and will continue through Friday August 25th. David Roesings paintings conjure the flashing feeling of paging through a picture book, or reading an instructional diagram. In his work, commercial surfaces flicker amongst Legos, scientific scenarios, charts and graphsall over compositions that project the addled and overloaded brain of a child of the internet. These paintings are inherently now in the sense that if we had James Rosenquist at the peak of the billboard, we have Roesing at the peak of the clickable banner ad. Roesings pictures evoke the experience of the scroll the eye is active, while the back of a brain is teeming with incoming information. In Puzzle Comes Together, 2021, we see ... More | | 
Newell Harry, Untitled (Bearded Black Virgin with Ancestral Pig), 2011-12, Trobriand Island womens dance skirt, etched spade, boot polish, Japanese Yen, ceramic Matka (Madhya Pradeshi water vessel), glass beads, twine. , 130 x 43 x 20 cm. photo: Ivan Buljan. Courtesy line: Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.
ALBURY.- Murray Art Museum Albury is opening a major exhibition by internationally celebrated contemporary artist Newell Harry, the artist's largest solo project to date, starting today. After undergoing a major redevelopment and reopening in 2015, MAMA has become the most visited NSW public art gallery outside of Sydney, and a cultural highlight of regional Australia. The museum is home to the National Photography Prize, and has presented acclaimed exhibitions including SIMMER in 2021, Certain realities in 2019, and the nationally touring exhibition Material Sound in 2018. Titled Esperanto, this exhibition by Newell Harry marks the first time the gallery has presented a major solo exhibition of works by a contemporary Australian artist. Newell Harry is an Australian born artist ... More | | 
Michael Post, Untitled (WVZ 4-23-758), 2023. Aluminum, mirrored car paint, acrylic, 26.4 x 21.7 inches.
SANTA FE, NM.- In a dark forest, a flash of white from a deers tail. In a golden field, the ultra-violet of a cluster of flowers. The black shadow of a large shape beneath green waves. The red flash of a wing spiraling against blue sky. It might not be too much to say that homo sapiens wouldnt exist, at least not as we do now, without our ability to see colors. As quintessentially adaptable creatures, our brains developed around the talent for picking up complex patterns and colors, in our environment. It not only kept us alive but helped us thrive. It is a foundational part of who we are. One only needs to sit in a mono-color office building under fluorescent lighting to start to feel what it does to the body and mind to be denied our natural habitat of color. But there is more to this foundational connection to color. Color is freighted with meaning. It provokes the nervous system, pricks us with emotion, it triggers memory, elicits profound response. Personal, cultural, biological. We ... More |
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| The Association for Public Art brings Maren Hassinger's 'Steel Bodies' to Philadelphia | | From the stars to the land: A weekend with artists Sarah Rosalena and Sandy Rodriguez | | 'Oppenheimer' fans are rediscovering a 40-year-old documentary | 
Maren Hassinger, Steel Bodies, Socrates Sculpture Park, 2022. Image by Byron Guinanzaca.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Association for Public Art, formerly the Fairmount Park Art Association, has brought to life this summer the historic Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial along Kelly Drive and the Schuylkill River through a temporary exhibition by artist Maren Hassinger. Originally commissioned and presented by Socrates Sculpture Park in New York City, Steel Bodies includes ten large-scale open metal vessel sculptures that will be installed throughout existing figurative artworks and landscape. Part of an ongoing effort to reimagine the site, Hassingers evocative sculptures offer restorative and inspiring messages of shared and active humanity. This will be the first contemporary public art exhibition at the memorial and the artists first outdoor sculpture exhibition in Philadelphia. The Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial ... More | | 
Sandy Rodriguez Revolution & Resistance Mapa of Central Califas, 2023. Double sided folding screen, hand processed pigments, abalone, oil on panel, 94.5 x 94.5 x 1.5. Photo Credit: Ruben Diaz, courtesy of Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara.
SANTA BARBARA, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara are including a weekend program featuring artists Sarah Rosalena and Sandy Rodriguez on July 2829 in association with the concurrent exhibitions Sarah Rosalena: Pointing Star at MCASB and Sandy Rodriguez Unfolding Histories: 200 Years of Resistance at the AD&A Museum. In their intersecting art practices, Rosalena and Rodriguezs research-based work recovers knowledge from the past and present, mapping with materials and techniques of the Americas with weaving and painting to depict histories of resistance between land and sky. The ... More | | 
The Day After Trinity, made available without a subscription until August, shot to the top of the Criterion Channels most-watched films.
by Marc Tracy
NEW YORK, NY.- One morning in the 1950s, Jon Elses father pointed toward Nevada from their home in Sacramento, California. There was this orange glow that suddenly rose up in the sky, and then shrank back down, Else recalled. It was, hundreds of miles away, an atomic weapon test: a symbol of the world that was created when a team of Americans led by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer exploded the first nuclear bomb a decade earlier on July 16, 1945. Growing up in the nuclear age left an impression on Else, now 78. He was later a series producer of the award-winning Eyes on the Prize, a program on the civil rights movement, and directed documentaries about the Great Depression and Richard ... More |
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Matthew Day Jackson in Conversation with Jaeyong Park
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 Simpson Kalisher, photographer who captured urban grit, dies at 96NEW YORK, NY.- Simpson Kalisher, who liberated his lens from slick images in corporate reports and trade magazines to emerge as a discerning photojournalist whose street scenes froze the panorama of urban American life in the 1950s and 60s, died June 13 at his home in Delray Beach, Florida. He was 96. He was in hospice care at home at his death, his daughter, Amy Kalisher, said. A native of the Bronx borough of New York City, Kalisher was one of the last survivors of that generation of dynamic New York street photographers born in the 1920s and employed at first by the magazines, a group that included Robert Frank, Diane Arbus and Gary Winogrand, Lucy Sante, who wrote the foreword to Kalishers book The Alienated Photographer (2011), said in an email. His most distinguishing feature was his social empathy and imagination. The foreword ... More  Newly discovered treasures from East Coast estates up for bid at Stephenson's July 28 Decorative Arts AuctionSOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Stephensons Auctioneers, the Philadelphia regions premier source for estate-fresh antiques and art since 1962, will host a July 28 Decorative Arts Auction of 325 select lots ranging from fine French paintings to stylish mid-century furniture and high-quality diamond jewelry. All forms of bidding will available, including in person at the gallery, by phone, absentee, or live via the Internet through LiveAuctioneers. Stephensons has a loyal following that has grown exponentially over the past six decades, due in large part to the companys reputation for hosting sales that are wonderfully unpredictable. While you will always find certain standard categories in our auctions artworks, decoratives, furniture ... More  'Green Obsession' by Stefano Boeri Architetti wins the United Nations SDG Action AwardsROME.- Stefano Boeri Architetti's 'Green Obsession' has won the SDG Action Award, the Oscar of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals which, as part of the United Nations' SDG Action campaign, rewards initiatives that mobilize, inspire and connect communities in order to promote positive change. Created with the aim of enhancing the relationship between nature and design and implementing the principles of urban forestation, Green Obsession is Stefano Boeri Architettis design philosophy. Over time it has led to conferences, public programs and a book (Green Obsession: Trees Towards Cities, Humans Towards Forests, published by Actar in 2021 and supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts) and it has now attracted the attention of the United Nations SDG Action Awards (dedicated to active promoters of change recognized for their w ... More  Great War Victoria Cross awarded to Scheffield man sells for hammer price of £220,000 at NoonansLONDON.- A fine Great War Western Front Victoria Cross awarded to Sergeant Arnold Loosemore for his great gallantry during the second Anglo-French general attack of the Third Battle of Ypres that took place south of Langemarck in Belgium on 11 August 1917 was sold for a hammer price of £220,000 by Noonans in a sale of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria today (Wednesday, July 26, 2023). It was bought by a Private Collector. As Christopher Mellor-Hill, Head of Client Liaison at Noonans commented: We were very pleased that both telephone bidders on the VC were British and that it has gone to the collection of a private individual who is known to lend items for display. This was a very respectable price that reflects Loosemores gallantry in the Great War and it was a nice ending to his very sad story. He continued: Loosemores medals were ... More  Summer exhibitions at AAM: Laura Letinsky, Spatial Reckoning: Morandi, Picasso and Villon, & Amy Boone-McCreeshEASTON, MD.- The Academy Art Museum is pleased to announce three new exhibitions: Spatial Reckoning: Morandi, Picasso and Villon, 2023 Artist in Residence Laura Letinsky, and Amy Boone-McCreesh: Visual Currency. An opening reception for all three exhibitions and an artist talk with Letinksy will be held on Thursday, August 3 at 5:30 pm. Our latest slate of exhibitionsthoughtfully conceived and organized by curator Mehves Lelicshowcase diverse forms of creative expression, from the quiet still life paintings of modernist master Giorgio Morandi to the maximalist mixed media works of contemporary artist Amy Boone-McCreesh. At any given time at the Museum, we want our visitors to experience a wide range of artworks ... More  Artist Christian Noelle Charles creates beauty salon installation for new solo exhibitionEDINBURGH.- Artist Christian Noelle Charles reveals her latest solo exhibition WHAT A FEELING! | ACT I at Edinburgh Printmakers. Having been awarded The John Florent Stone scholarship from Edinburgh College of Art, the recipient follows her 2022 residency at ECA, Kypseli Print Studio in Athens and Centre of Somewhere Residency, Johannesburg with an exhibition of new work. This unique presentation of screenprints is the first part of an exploration project discussing the topics of racial identity, inequality, care and love through the Black Feminine Lens. Working across three different mediums: moving from printmaking to video, from video to performance, Charles explores the rhythms, movement, and the body language of women of colour. WHAT A FEELING! | ACT I is part of the 2023 Edinburgh Art Festival (11-27) August. For this solo ... More  Playing Hamlet in a world on fireNEW YORK, NY.- As a veteran of the Public Theaters free Shakespeare in the Park productions, Ato Blankson-Wood is used to contending with the elements. The bugs, the helicopters flying overhead: Theres an intense focus that is necessary, he said. But for this summers production of Hamlet, he has had to dig deeper: Not only is he feeling the weight of the title role but, as he put it, the world is on fire and air-quality issues have forced the cancellation of four Hamlet performances so far. Still, Blankson-Wood is undeterred. I remember that theres a person in that audience who is maybe seeing a play for the first time, or who was very excited to come see a show, he said during a recent interview at a cafe in Brooklyn. Thats what Im focused on. This is not about my experience; its for them, and for my scene partners. This alfresco staging of Hamlet, direc ... More  More income for the Supreme Court: Million-dollar book dealsNEW YORK, NY.- Only three months into Justice Ketanji Brown Jacksons first Supreme Court term, she announced a book deal negotiated by the same powerhouse lawyer who represented the Obamas and James Patterson. The deal was worth about $3 million, according to people familiar with the agreement, and made Justice Jackson the latest Supreme Court justice to parlay her fame into a big book contract. Justice Neil Gorsuch had made $650,000 for a book of essays and personal reflections on the role of judges, while Justice Amy Coney Barrett received a $2 million advance for her forthcoming book about keeping personal feelings out of judicial rulings. Those newer justices joined two of their more senior colleagues, Justices Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor, in securing payments that eclipse their government salaries. In recent months reports ... More  The U.S. Government wants your dead butterfliesNEW YORK, NY.- Got any dead butterflies lying around? Consider sending them to the U.S. government. Officials with the United States Geological Survey, an agency that conducts research on environmental risks, are asking residents in six states to mail in dead butterflies, moths and skippers to help scientists research the causes of the fluttering insects population decline, the agency said last week. Residents in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas are being asked to help contribute to the establishment of the Lepidoptera Research Collection, which will be a national storehouse, based in Kansas, of butterflies, moths and other species categorized as Lepidoptera. Contributors can see their submissions in an online registry, and the submitted specimens will be available to federal scientists for any research they hope to conduct. ... More  'Attenzione, Pickpocket!': A TikTok star watches out for tourists in ItalyVENICE.- You probably dont know Monica Polis face, but you might recognize her voice. Deep, booming and coming from your phone during a late-night TikTok scroll. Attenzione, borseggiatrici! Attenzione, pickpocket! Poli, 57, who lives in Venice, has become prominent on social media for patrolling the streets of her hometown, calling out would-be pickpockets to tourists. She is part of a group known as the Cittadini Non Distratti the undistracted citizens who wander the city shouting at people whom they believe to be thieves plucking wallets, passports and other items from the pockets of passersby. Sometimes Poli and her fellow amateur watchdogs will report these suspected pickpockets to the police. In 2019, The Economist reported that the group was responsible for one-third of all pickpocket arrests made in Venice. ... More  Bo Goldman, Oscar-winning screenwriter, dies at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Bo Goldman, one of Hollywoods most admired screenwriters, who took home Oscars for his work on One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975) and Melvin and Howard (1980), died Tuesday in Helendale, California. He was 90. A son-in-law, director Todd Field, confirmed the death. He did not specify a cause. Goldman was struggling to make a living as a writer until director Milos Forman saw the script he had written for a project called Shoot the Moon his first screenplay and, impressed, invited him to take a crack at adapting Ken Keseys novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest for the screen. The resulting movie, which starred Jack Nicholson as a rebellious new patient who disrupts a psychiatric ward, came out in 1975 and was a career maker. Goldman and Lawrence Hauben, who shared screenwriting credit, won the Oscar ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Marcel Duchamp was born July 28, 1887. Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 - 2 October 1968) was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art during this period. In this image: Marcel Duchamp's wanted poster is seen as part of the exhibit, "Inventing Marcel Duchamp:The Dynamics of Portrature," at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, on Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
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