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A visitor writes down his personal information for contact tracing if needed at the Lehmann Maupin gallery opening in Seoul on April 23, 2020, for the artist Billy Childish. Art galleries remain shuttered around the world but in South Korea, they reopen -- with contact tracing and masks. Woohae Cho/The New York Times.
SEOUL (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- I wouldnt say things are totally back to normal, explained Passion Lim, taking in the scene Thursday at the opening for Billy Childish paintings at the Lehmann Maupin gallery. But its a start, he added. Indeed, if you ignored the face masks on about half the attending crowd, it might have been opening night at a blue-chip art gallery anywhere anywhere before the coronavirus pandemic, that is. Now, as a steady stream of Mercedes sedans pulled up to the valet, disgorging their fashion-forward passengers, South Koreas return to business as usual seemed almost surreal. Elsewhere around the world, art galleries and museums remain shuttered, hemorrhaging staff and plaintively asking, What will it take to reopen? And just as crucially, What will this new art world look like? Seoul, a dense metropolis with a population of nearly 10 million but only two coronavirus deaths to date, is offering one possible answer. Lim had already been to three oth ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Petersen Automotive Museum is seen amid the coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles, California, April 27, 2020. Due to the global coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic museums around the world, facing financial uncertainly, are brainstorming innovative ideas to continue to share their collections and community with museum-goers. For the first time ever yesterday The Petersen brought its monthly Los Angeles "Cars and Coffee" Sunday auto enthusiasts get-together online, presenting 140 specialty and rare cars in video clips sent in by their owners from around the world. Robyn Beck / AFP.
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 | | Italian 'Arte Povera' art critic Germano Celant dies | | Art auction to raise funds for the Emergency Art Workers Support Fund in Scotland | | Christie's to offer one of the largest lunar meteorites in existence for private sale | 
Germano Celant at Fondazione Prada.
ROME (AFP).- Italian art critic and curator Germano Celant, who coined the term "Arte Povera" for the radical art movement of the late 1960s and 70s, died on Wednesday. He was 80. Artribune magazine reported that Celant died in Milan from complications from coronavirus. He had exhibited symptoms after returning to Italy from New York for the Armory Show in early March, the magazine wrote. Through key exhibits and texts, Celant was the influential proponent of the work of young Italian artists in Turin, Milan, Genoa and Rome working with natural materials and elements such as dirt, sticks or rags who were seeking to challenge the commercial art scene at the time. In 1967, Celant introduced the term "Arte Povera" (Poor Art) to describe this new wave of art, which became among the most recognised Italian art movements of the post World War II-era. "The world of culture and creativity mourns the death of another of its great actors," Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini ... More | | 
David Shrigley, Vibes, 2018. Screen print on paper, 76 x 56 cm. Market Value: £3,500.
EDINBURGH.- Visual Arts Scotland announced B!D, a 24-hour online auction featuring the work of Turner Prize winner Martin Boyce and Turner Prize nominees, Calum Innes and Christine Borland. B!D will officially launch on the evening of Friday 1st May at 6pm This auction will raise funds for the second round of the Emergency Art Workers Support Fund (EAWSF), following a successful first round which was generously supported by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, Inches Carr Trust, Creative Edinburgh and Art North. EAWSF is a temporary relief fund initiated by Visual Arts Scotland in mid March, when it became apparent that many art workers would be severely financially affected by COVID-19. This fund awards micro grants of £250 to those affected by loss of income as a result of the pandemic. It takes less than a week from the deadline for the funds to be transferred into the recipients bank account and ... More | | 
NWA 12691 The Fifth Largest Piece Of The Moon On Earth, Lunar Feldspathic Breccia, 13.535kg, Sahara Desert, Western Sahara. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Christies presents NWA 12691, a significant lunar rock, among the largest known in existence. Moon rock is among the rarest substances on Earth, with less than 650 kg. of lunar meteorites known to exist. This example is the fifth largest piece of the Moon on Earth, larger than any returned by the Apollo programme. Valued in the region of £2 million, the specimen is available for immediate purchase via Christies Private Sales. Lunar meteorites arrived on Earth after having been blasted off the lunar surface by the collision with an asteroid or comet. All of the Moons large craters were created by such impacts. This particular meteorite was part of a large meteorite shower straddling the Western Saharan, Algerian and Mauritanian borders, responsible for nearly half of all known lunar meteorites. Approximately 30 ... More |
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| | The National Gallery celebrates doctors, carers and nurses with exhibition | | Brian Eno's 15 essential ambient works | | Ricardo Brennand, Brazilian entrepreneur and collector, dies at 92 | 
Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of Ludovicus Nonnius, about 1627 © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- To coincide with International Nurses Day, which is traditionally held on 12 May, the anniversary of the birth of nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, the National Gallery invites its online visitors to celebrate doctors, healers and carers through its paintings. As the current health crisis is affecting the life of so many people all over the word and has put the highlight on the extraordinary work that doctors, healers and other carers do, the National Gallery would like to pay tribute to these professions and to reflect on the role that the arts can have on peoples well-being at this unsettling time. Art has the power to transform lives and can be a great source of solace, hope, comfort and strength. The following paintings, presented in chronological order, feature portraits of doctors and other health professionals, and also highlight the interesting synergy between the wisdom and therapeutic value of the arts and the knowledge of the sciences. Caroline Campbell, Director o ... More | | 
Brian Eno, who popularized the term ambient music in the 1970s, in Amsterdam, Feb. 21, 2018. Eno's open-ended songs are ideal listening in a time of uncertainty. Herman Wouters/The New York Times.
by Jon Pareles
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Amorphous, open-ended, unstructured time, with undercurrents of foreboding, pockets of boredom and fleeting interludes of peace or reassessment. Thats what COVID-19 has brought to many people and its a mental state that Brian Enos vast recorded catalog has been prepared for since he first popularized the term ambient music in the 1970s. The long days and featureless nights of self-quarantine offer an opportune moment to revisit or get acquainted with Enos time-warping music. He does have other skills. On four solo albums from the 1970s, after he left Roxy Music, Eno thoroughly mastered rock-song structure, with slyly cerebral lyrics and skewed instrumental sounds; all four albums are gems, particularly Before and After Science from 1977. He has ... More | | 
Ricardo Brennand. Brennand, one of the richest men in northeastern Brazil who amassed a vast trove of art and artifacts and built a castle-like repository so the public could see it, died on April 25, 2020, at the Hospital Portugues in Recife, the capital of Pernambuco State, from complications of Covid-19. He was 92. Instituto Ricardo Brennand via The New York Times.
by Michael Astor
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ricardo Brennands life as a collector started at age 12 with the gift of a pocketknife from his father. He went on to amass thousands of antique weapons, pieces of armor, clocks, keys and a trove of art and artifacts from Brazils colonial era. The pocketknife was still in the collection at his death, 80 years later. Brennand died on April 25 at the Hospital Portugues in Recife, the capital of Pernambuco state. The cause was complications of COVID-19, a family spokeswoman, Sonia Lopes, said. He was 92. An engineer by training, Brennand at one point owned more than 20 factories. They produced ... More |
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| | Their Met Gala, their way. You're invited. | | Marina Adams joins Stephen Friedman Gallery | | Portraits that more than meet the eye | 
The Metropolitan Museum of Arts annual blockbuster fashion show has been postponed indefinitely so a group of internet kids are about to hold the biggest fashion party of the year. Johanna Goodman/The New York Times.
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- This is the time of year when, in the normal course of 21st-century events, an army of stylists, makeup artists, florists, designers and celebrities would be about to descend on the Carlyle and Mark hotels in New York, clogging the elevators with garment bags bearing the hautest names: Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta, Versace. It is the time when paparazzi would be checking their equipment, and best and worst dressed lists would start proliferating. Its the week before the first Monday in May which is to say, the week before the Met Gala, the most watched fashion-celebrity-society event of the year and the party that heralds the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts annual blockbuster fashion show. But ... More | | 
Marina Adams (b. 1960, Orange, New Jersey, USA) lives between New York, USA and Parma, Italy. Adams is also represented by Salon 94, New York, USA.
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery announced representation of American artist Marina Adams. The artist will have a solo exhibition at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, USA in autumn 2020 and her first solo exhibition at Stephen Friedman Gallery in early 2021. Expansive in scale, Marina Adams work explores colour, form and movement in unabashed fashion. Inspired by textile design, architecture and postmodern poetry, Adams paintings feature vibrantly-coloured shapes arranged in abstract configurations. The synchronicities and oppositions between these forms generate a striking dynamism. Adams sketches out her compositions with charcoal before she begins to allow for experimentation whilst working; drips of paint and gestural brushstrokes break up vast expanses of colour on the canvas to reveal the artists touch. Adams states, I work in charcoal to get a sense of scale, of line and shape on the canvas. This frees ... More | | 
Jordan Casteel, Joe and Mozel (Pompette Wines), 2017. Oil on canvas, 90 x 78 in (228.6 x 198.1 cm). Private collection. Courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York.
by Jillian Steinhauer
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jordan Casteels exhibition Within Reach is currently hanging on the second floor of the temporarily shuttered New Museum. The situation is somewhat paradoxical, given that the shows most prominent theme is closeness something thats been severely disrupted by the coronavirus crisis. Yet that also makes it a good time to look at Casteels work however we can in a digital walk-through and in the catalog and think about the vision of community it offers. This is the artists first solo museum show in New York and it includes works from her noted series Visible Man (2013-14) and Nights in Harlem (2017). In large, expressive portraits, Casteel celebrates the people around her, black and brown folk who have historically been excluded from art institutions. Her subjects present ... More |
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| | Danish poet Yahya Hassan dead at 24 | | Dozens of DFW sports icons and Heritage Auctions are 'In This Together' for the North Texas Food Bank | | Bollywood mourns another star as Rishi Kapoor dies at 67 | 
In this photo taken on November 17, 2019, Danish-Palestinian poet Yahya Hassan gives a reading at the bookfair at Bella Center in Copenhagen. Ida Guldbaek Arentsen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP.
COPENHAGEN (AFP).- Danish-Palestinian bad-boy poet Yahya Hassan, who stormed on to Denmark's literary scene in 2013 and quickly became a household name, has died aged 24, his publisher said Thursday. The exact cause of his death on Wednesday has not been made public but police said they did not believe it was a criminal act. "Twenty-four years. That's nothing, this is a catastrophe," Simon Pasternak, head of publisher Gyldendal, said in an Instagram post. "I have known him, since he was 16 years, this brilliant boy with enormous talent." Police in Aarhus, the country's second largest city where Hassan lived, told local media that they had responded to reports of the death of a man in his mid-20s. "Currently there is nothing in our investigation that ... More | | 
Dak Prescott signed Dallas Cowboys jersey.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions is partnering with some of Dallas-Fort Worths greatest and most beloved athletes for the In This Together Charity Auction Benefiting the North Texas Food Bank. The food bank is experiencing demand like never before in its 38-year history. The images of lines of cars stretching for miles as people wait for hours to collect donated meals has been nothing short of staggering. A global pandemic has had a profound impact on our neighbors trying to remain safe and healthy and hoping not to go hungry while doing so. Dallas is a generous city known for its giving and its can-do spirit, in the best of times and especially during the worst, says Heritage Auctions co-chairman and CEO Steve Ivy. Theres no better example of those qualities than its sports teams and their owners. This is why Heritage Auctions, the worlds largest collectibles auction house, is ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on July 02, 2015 Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor poses during the trailer launch of the Hindi film All Is Well directed by Umesh Shukla in Mumbai. AFP.
by Udita Jhunjhunwala
MUMBAI (AFP).- Bollywood mourned a second loss in as many days as celebrated actor Rishi Kapoor, whose career spanned half a century, died Thursday aged 67 after a prolonged struggle with cancer. The news came as a severe blow to the Hindi movie industry and film lovers, who were already reeling from the death Wednesday of the internationally renowned actor Irrfan Khan, aged 53. "Our dear Rishi Kapoor passed away peacefully... today after a two-year battle with leukemia," his family said in a statement. Fellow-actor Amitabh Bachchan was among the first to mourn his death, tweeting: "I am destroyed". Indian Prime Minister ... More |
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 Argentine tango dancers go solo awaiting embrace lost to pandemicBUENOS AIRES (AFP).- Tango's once-warm embrace has grown cool under Argentina's strict coronavirus quarantine, though aficionados are finding a way to circumvent social isolation with virtual classes while they wait for dance venues to reopen. The lockdown means milongas -- traditional dance clubs that dot the Buenos Aires cityscape -- are closed indefinitely. Teachers are maintaining a minimum income from online classes, but they can't replace the connection that makes the dance so powerful for many. "The embrace represents 100 percent of tango," says Jonathan Villanueva, a teacher at Style and Elegance, a tango academy which is now offering its classes on Facebook. "The essential thing is contact with the other." It leaves practitioners of the passionate dance experiencing a unique artistic anguish -- tango was never meant to be danced ... More Emptied by virus, Lithuanian airport turns into drive-in cinemaVILNIUS (AFP).- Hundreds of movie fans flocked to Lithuania's main international airport on Wednesday night to a drive-in cinema created in the shadow of planes grounded by the coronavirus pandemic. Organisers of the Vilnius International Film Festival (Vilnius IFF) teamed up with the city's airport to create the Aerocinema drive-in. They want to offer people the opportunity to go out for a movie amid the month-long coronavirus lockdown that has shuttered cinemas. "We're offering people a new type of travel through the cinema on the airport tarmac," organiser Algirdas Ramaska told AFP, standing in front of a screen as tall as a five-storey building. "We were dreaming about it for a while, but it could only come true after aviation virtually came to a halt," he added, referring to the flight ban imposed in mid-March in a bid to stem the spread of the deadly ... More Barber Home brings art to people living under lockdown and offers support for artists BIRMINGHAM.- A new online collaboration with artists from across the West Midlands is bringing the Barber Institute of Fine Arts into peoples homes during the Covid-19 crisis. Anyone in the world, with access to the internet, can bring Barber Home into their own space and access practical art activities and workshops, share reflections on the collection and join in online events through a series of weekly projects for all ages being launched on the Barbers website every Thursday, starting today (30 April). The Barbers Learning and Engagement team are working with regional artists to create new and original responses to the gallerys world-class collection, providing access to art while the gallery is closed. First to go live today, is Birminghams Infinite Opera. They delivered an innovative and compelling pop-up performance in the gallery in March, ... More Quality collections produce strong prices at spring fine & decorative arts auctionMT. CRAWFORD, VA.- The Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates April 23-25 Fine & Decorative Arts Auction was a highly anticipated event and produced robust prices in multiple categories. The three-day format consisted of 1,840 lots of high-quality material and generated record levels of participation for the firm, a solid indication of vigor in this diverse segment of the marketplace. Despite altered bidding conditions due to COVID-19 restrictions, competition was intense throughout each day with over 7,000 registered bidders from over 40 countries participating online, by phone, and through absentee. Session I on Thursday started the weekend off smoothly with most lots meeting or exceeding expectations. The days offerings consisted of an excellent selection of paperweights (from antique to contemporary), American and European art glass, studio glass ... More ICA Miami commissions new digital works from four Miami artistsMIAMI, FLA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) has commissioned four Miami artists to create new works that can be experienced and shared digitally. Cristine Brache, Domingo Castillo, Faren Humes, and Terence Price II have each created digital works that will be launched over the next four weeks on ICA Miamis social media platforms and the ICA Channel, the museums online hub for exhibition tours, artist interviews, performances, educational tools, and other resources. The initiative continues ICA Miamis commitment to fostering artistic experimentation and commissioning new works, as well as engaging audiences with innovative artistic voices, during this period when all experiences with art are necessarily virtual. The projects have been organized by ICA Miamis Director of the Knight Foundation Art + Research ... More VR art show is gallery of future, say organisersPARIS (AFP).- One of the world's biggest art world players claims to have invented the "gallery of the future", with a virtual reality show opening on Thursday featuring a galaxy of contemporary stars. Hauser & Wirth is letting people visit a show in its huge new private gallery on the Spanish island of Menorca -- which will not physically open until next year -- on their computers and smartphones. "Beside Itself" features one of French legend Louise Bourgeois' giant spiders as well as work by Jenny Holzer, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Charles Gaines, Ellen Gallagher, Mike Kelley and Lawrence Weiner, whose work inspired the name of the show. The Swiss-based art giant said it had invested heavily in VR and modelling technology, setting up ArtLab in Los Angeles and drawing on 3D techniques used in architecture, construction and video-game design. ... More Irrfan Khan: Mira Nair remembers her 'Namesake' starNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Filmmaker Mira Nair first tried to get Irrfan Khan to appear in one of her movies when he was a drama student in Delhi. And while the substantial part she offered him in Salaam Bombay! (1988) ended up being downsized, she promised him the lead in a feature film one day. Nearly 20 years later, she kept her word, casting him as Ashoke Ganguli, the patriarch of an immigrant Bengali family in The Namesake, based on Jhumpa Lahiris novel. She gave him, she said, his first gateway to the world. In a telephone call, Nair, in New York, spoke about her work and friendship with Khan, who died Wednesday at 53. These are edited excerpts from the conversation. In my first film, Salaam Bombay!, I went to work with street children but also wanted to look at young actors to see if it would be possible ... More Legendary drummer and afrobeat co-founder Tony Allen diesPARIS (AFP).- Legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, who created afrobeat along with his old bandmate Fela Kuti, died suddenly at the age of 79 in Paris on Thursday, his manager told AFP. "We don't know the exact cause of death," manager Eric Trosset said, adding it was not linked to the coronavirus. "He was in great shape, it was quite sudden. I spoke to him at 1:00 pm (1100 GMT), then two hours later he was sick and taken to Pompidou hospital where he died." Allen was the drummer and musical director of Fela Kuti's band Africa '70 in the 1960s and 1970s. During that time the pair created afrobeat, combining West African musical styles such as highlife and fuji music with American imports jazz and funk. Afrobeat went on to become one of the totemic genres of 20th century African music. Over Allen's thrilling beat, Fela laid out his revolutionary and pan-African message, ... More People have gone full 1800sNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ive gone full Victorian, said Rhian Rees, 34, of flower pressing, a childhood hobby shes rediscovered in quarantine. It feels like were back in the old days when life felt more fragile. On a recent hike in Santa Clarita, California, Rees, an actor originally from England and now living in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, brought home an assortment of seedlings and delicate, small blossoms and leaves. Some she dried out in silica gel and later set inside blocks of polyester resin, while others were placed inside an old-fashioned flower press that had been gathering dust on her bookshelf, and others in between the pages of a book on 19th-century Shaker-style homes and interiors. The dried and flattened flowers were later affixed to notepaper that Rees used to write physical letters to family ... More Adam M. Levine begins Toledo Museum of Art directorship TOLEDO, OH.- On May 1, Adam M. Levine begins his tenure as the Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey director, president and chief executive officer of the Toledo Museum of Art. Levine returns to TMA from the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was the George W. and Kathleen I. Gibbs director and chief executive officer. Levine plans to begin his directorship with a focus on the communities served by TMA. He will immerse himself in listening to staff, museum stakeholders and the community at large. During my first 100 days at TMA, its my goal to speak with as many museum staff, members, donors and community leaders as possible, Levine said. Im using this time to listen and learn about the Museums strengths, what can be done better and where TMA can positively impact our community. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Sally Mann was born May 01, 1951. Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951) is an American photographer, best known for her large-format, black-and-white photographs -- at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. In this image: Sally Mann, Emmett, Jessie and Virginia, 1994. From the Immediate Family series. Gelatin silver enlargement print. © Sally Mann.
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