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In an undated image provided by Wes Magyar, an installation view of Gala Porras-Kims solo exhibition Gala Porras-Kim: A Hand in Nature at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. Porras-Kim has confronted the restitution of cultural artifacts and now with melting Antarctic ice climate change. (Wes Magyar via The New York Times)
DENVER, CO.- Inside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, little pieces of Antarctica were melting: cross-sections of an ice core from the continents Newall Glacier, each one about the size of a beverage coaster and encased in a vacuum-sealed plastic bag. Artist Gala Porras-Kim watched approvingly during a visit last month, pointing out the air pockets that had started to form. The ice cores are an archive of ancient air, because the air gets stuck in the layers of ice, she said, pointing at the display during an interview at the museum. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Design Museum in London announced details of the over 250 objects to be displayed in its major upcoming Barbie exhibition - including over 180 remarkable dolls.
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| Claude Monet's 'Moulin De Limetz' highlights Christie's 20th Century Evening Sale in New York | | Heritage Auctions offers costumes, props, vehicles and set pieces from the HBO Original Series 'Westworld' | | Sold to benefit various charities: A Park Avenue collection |
Claude Monet (1840-1926) Moulin de Limetz, Oil on canvas, 36 ¾ x 29 in. (93.3 x 73.7 cm.) Painted in 1888. Estimate: $18 million 25 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced Claude Monets Moulin de Limetz ($18 million 25 million) will be a leading highlight of the 20th Century Evening Sale this May in New York. The work is being offered by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas ... More | |
Westworld (HBO®Original 2016-2022) Ed Harris "MIB" Westworld Ensemble.
DALLAS, TX.- First, there was Westworld the November 1973 big-screen feature, written and directed by doctor-turned-novelist Michael Crichton and set in a theme park where humans did terrible things to cyborgs who werent supposed to mind until they did. The New York Times called it a science-fiction melodrama about Doomsday ... More | |
Ãlisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Portrait of the artist's daughter, Jeanne-Julie-Louise Le Brun (1780-1819), playing a guitar, oil on canvas, 39 ½ x 32 5⁄8 in. (100.4 x 83 cm.), Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced A Park Avenue Collection, a sale of almost 270 lots from the Park Avenue home of a European collector. The sale will take place live, at Christies Rockefeller Center, over a morning and an afternoon session, ... More |
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| Exhibition is the first to center on William N. Copley's development of his signature visual language | | Four Dallas Museum of Art curators unite to complicate the expectations of representation | | The Orchid Show after dark, where green thumbs and plant killers mingle |
William Nelson Copley is currently included in the exhibition Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962, on view at the Grey Art Museum, NYU in New York through July 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin is presenting William N. Copley: LXCN CPLY, on view from April 4May 11, 2024, in New York. The exhibition explores the artists repertoire of recurring imagery and is the first to center Copleys development of his signature visual language. LXCN CPLY draws this thread through five decades of the artists career, focusing on a selection of exemplary ... More | |
Nari Ward, Iron Heavens II, 1995, oven pans, ironed sterilized cotton, and burnt wooden bats, Dallas Museum of Art, The Rachofsky Collection Acquisition Fund, 2021.48.AC. © Nari Ward Studio. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London, and GALLERIA CONTINUA.
DALLAS, TX.- This spring, the Dallas Museum of Art presents When You See Me: Visibility in Contemporary Art/History, a permanent collection exhibition that grapples with the complexities of visibility. Taking its title from Deborah Robertss work of the same name, the exhibition showcases ... More | |
Vibrant violet orchids at the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx during its annual orchid show, on the evening of March 30, 2024. (Rose Callahan/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- It was Saturday night in the Bronx, and as a lively, colorful crowd sipped vodka cocktails underneath dramatic palm fronds, the word people kept whispering was phalaenopsis. Thats a moth orchid, for the uninitiated, one of the most widely grown varieties in the world. Not to be confused with the dendrobium (cane orchid) or paphiopedilum (slipper orchid), all of which ... More |
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| Exhibition presents sixteen sculptures by the Harlem Renaissance master Richmond Barthé | | Quapaw Treaty of 1818 goes on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian | | Titian's early masterpiece 'Rest on the Flight into Egypt' leads Christie's Old Masters Part I sale |
Richmond Barthé (19011989), Black Narcissus, 1929. Bronze, 18 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 9 inches / 47 x 13.3 x 22.9 cm. signed.
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is presenting Richmond Barthé: A New Day Is Coming, a solo exhibition of sixteen sculptures by the Harlem Renaissance master Richmond Barthé (19011989) curated with renowned artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (b.1960). The exhibition surveys the most productive decades of Barthés career, from 1929 to 1966, with an emphasis on the works of the 1930s and 1940s that established him as a ... More | |
National Archives, Washington, DC | Transcript: Originally published in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, 1904; digitized by Oklahoma State University.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of the American Indian, in partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration, is displaying the Quapaw Treaty of 1818 in Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations. The treaty has been installed and will be on view until October 2024. When the U.S. negotiated the Treaty of 1818, the ... More | |
Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (Pieve di Cadore circa 1485/90-1576 Venice) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (detail), oil on canvas, laid on panel 18.1/4 x 24.3/4 in. (46 x 62.9 cm.) Estimate: £15,000,000 - 25,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
LONDON.- Coming to the market for the first time in more than 145 years, Titians early masterpiece Rest on the Flight into Egypt will headline Christies Old Masters Part I sale on 2 July 2024, presenting a very rare opportunity for buyers to become part of the next chapter in this fabled pictures remarkable story (estimate: £15,000,000 ... More |
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| 'Action Comics' No. 1 sells for $6 million at Heritage Auctions to become world's most valuable comic book | | 36 hours in Mumbai, India | | The eclipse that ended a war and shook the gods forever |
Action Comics #1 Kansas City Pedigree (DC, 1938) CGC VF+ 8.5 Off-white to white pages.
DALLAS, TX.- Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the most valuable comic book in the world. A copy of Action Comics No. 1, the comic book that introduced Superman to the world in 1938, sold for $6 million Thursday at Heritage Auctions during the first session of the latest four-day Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction. Graded CGC Very Fine+ 8.5, this issue from the Kansas City Pedigree is one of the world's finest copies. ... More | |
A man checks his smartphone at Moghal Masjid, an Iranian-style Shiite mosque built in 1860, in Mumbai, India, on March 24, 2024. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Mumbai appears as much a dream as a city. Sprinkled with the stardust of Bollywood, the Hindi-language film industry that is based here, and studded with billionaires, Indias hyperkinetic metropolis (known until 1995 as Bombay) feels like a place where anything is possible. But over the years, the citys reality has been one ... More | |
Thales, a Greek philosopher 2,600 years ago, is celebrated for predicting a famous solar eclipse and founding what came to be known as science. (John P. Dessereau/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In the spring of 585 B.C. in the Eastern Mediterranean, the moon came out of nowhere to hide the face of the sun, turning day into night. Back then, solar eclipses were cloaked in scary uncertainty. But a Greek philosopher was said to have predicted the suns disappearance. His name was Thales. He lived on the Anatolian ... More |
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Sprovieri opens Cinthia Marcelle's third solo exhibition at the galleryLONDON.- Internationally recognised Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle's practice is a consistent continuation of socio- political art production in 20th-century Brazil, combining material experimentation with conceptual rigour and unique participatory practice. Since the late 1990s, Cinthia Marcelle has been creating material- intensive and performative installations and video works, many of them made in partnership with Tiago Mata Machado, as poetic-metaphorical images that question conventional ways of perceiving and behaving, how we see the world and our role in it, and disrupt habitual routines and categorizing patterns. Marcelle repeatedly blurs the supposedly fixed binary opposition of concepts such as order chaos, fictionreality, ruleexception, submissionresistance, or insideoutside. She points out that conventions and ... More Gazing at the sky, awaiting a moment of aweNEW YORK, NY.- The moment she saw the sun, something inside Julie McKelvey changed. She was hanging from a rope on the side of Mount Everest, four hours from the summit. The night was frozen, the slope some 60 degrees steep, the oxygen thin as she ascended to the highest point on Earth. In the dark, she felt the fear and power of the mountain. She focused on exactly where to put her foot, her hand, alongside her fellow climbers. Then, peripherally to her right, she saw an orange flash. I see this sunrise that I will never forget as long as I live, she reflected. The colors it is just red, and then it is orange, and then it is yellow, and then the blue is coming. It was so incredibly spiritual for me, and beautiful. McKelvey, a mother and executive from central Pennsylvania, searched for words to capture the emotion of that ... More Daniel P. Jordan, Monticello leader in changing times, dies at 85NEW YORK, NY.- Daniel P. Jordan, who as president of the foundation that owns Monticello, Thomas Jeffersons plantation in Virginia, broadened its educational mission and, perhaps most significant, commissioned a study that found that Jefferson had almost certainly fathered six children with Sally Hemings, one of hundreds of people he enslaved died March 21 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was 85. His daughter Katherine Jordan said the cause was a heart attack. Questions about Jeffersons relationship with Hemings had circulated among historians, and her family, for two centuries. In 1993, when Jordan invited some of her descendants to a Jefferson commemorative event at Monticello, he was noncommittal on the paternity issue. If theres anything like a party line, its simply this, he told The Washington Post. We cannot prove ... More A frozen pond and a new way to experience an ancient Jewish ritual in MaineWATERVILLE, ME.- Standing on a frozen pond in western Maine one Sunday morning last month, wearing L.L. Bean boots and a hooded sweatshirt, Rabbi Rachel Isaacs paused to consecrate the ice beneath her feet before she commandeered it for a higher purpose. Blessed are you, God, who has brought us to this moment! the rabbi belted out. Austin Thorndike, a member of her congregation at Beth Israel Synagogue in Waterville, Maine, stood beside her. When the prayer was over, he fired up his chain saw and bent to dip it into the hard surface of the pond, deftly making four quick cuts to free a slick, white, cartoon-perfect block of ice. The ice was destined for a highly unusual end. As the blocks multiplied, a crew of Colby College student-athletes sprang into action, pulling them from the pond, pushing them to shore and swiftly loading ... More 'From the Heart to the Hands: Dolce&Gabbana' curated by Florence Müller opens at Palazzo RealeMILAN.- Palazzo Reale, Dolce&Gabbana and IMG today opened From the Heart to the Hands: Dolce&Gabbana, the first ever exhibition of the fashion houses one-of-a-kind creations, that tells the artistic and creative story of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. The exhibition launched at Palazzo Reale in Milan, where it will be open to the public from Sunday 7 April to Wednesday 31 July, and will be followed by an international tour of some of the worlds most prominent cultural centers. Curated by Florence Müller, promoted by the Municipality of Milan - Culture and produced by Palazzo Reale and global events leader IMG, From the Heart to the Hands: Dolce&Gabbana is an unprecedented exhibition project that pays tribute to the values of Fatto a Mano (hand-made), which have been essential to Dolce&Gabbana since its founding. ... More Exhibition features textile artist Bonnie Meltzer and composer Jennifer WrightPORTLAND, ORE.- The Burned Piano Project: Creating Music Amidst the Noise of Hate began with one familys experience of antisemitism and reminds us of the larger context of rising hate crimes today. In spring 2022 a mosque, a Black-owned restaurant, and two synagogues were vandalized in Portland. Following these incidents, a familys home, which shared a Jewish organizations mailing address, was destroyed by arson in the middle of the night. The creation of this exhibition, focused on the familys ruined Steinway piano, celebrates how community can promote healing, build empathy, and grow understanding. Almost every part of the burned piano was incorporated into the artworks on exhibit, including two works, Lifecycle and Pushing the Pedal, contributed by family members. The Burned Piano Project: Creating Music Amidst ... More Exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum examines traditional and innovative designs by Amish women quiltersWASHINGTON, DC.- The exhibition is on view from March 28 through Aug. 26 at the Smithsonian American Art Museums main building in Washington, D.C. It is organized by Leslie Umberger, curator of folk and self-taught art, and Virginia Mecklenburg, senior curator, with support from Anne Hyland, curatorial assistant. Janneken Smucker, cultural historian and professor of history at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania, is the primary author of the exhibition catalog and contributed to the exhibition; she is a fifth-generation Mennonite quilt maker of Amish Mennonite heritage. The exhibition celebrates a major gift announced in 2021 of Amish quilts to the museum by Faith and Stephen Brown. They ... More Rare and limited edition references from luxury watch brands lead Christie's Watches Online: The Dubai EditDUBAI.- This season, Christie's 'Watches Online: The Dubai Edit', a bi-annual curated auction of timepieces, reaffirms Dubai as a pivotal hub in the international secondary watch market. The sale, live for browsing online 9 April and for bidding 16 to 30 April, comprises 158 vintage and modern timepieces spanning mens, womens and unisex references with estimates from US$3,000 - $US400,000, and the finest Swiss watch makers and independents are represented. Highlights include: A rare opportunity to acquire a watch that is testament to the storied history of Patek Philippe (illustrated above) Patek Philippe, ref. 5275P-001, 175th Anniversary. A fine Limited Edition platinum hour strike chiming wristwatch with digital jump hour and jumping minutes and seconds. Limited to just 175 ... More Smithsonian's dinosaur skeleton becomes the scientific standard for prehistoric predatorWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of Natural Historys fossilized skeleton of the Jurassic dinosaur Allosaurus has officially been named the type specimen for the entire species. This distinction makes the specimen, which is displayed in the museums David H. Koch Hall of Fossils Deep Time, the single physical example researchers will refer to when they describe new fossils of Allosaurus fragilis, one of the most iconic species of dinosaurs in the world. The specimens new status was bestowed by members of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). According to paleontologist Matthew Carrano, the museums curator of dinosauria, the change was more than a decade in the making and represents a coveted scientific honor. In 2010, a petition was made to the ICZN to solve ... More Desert drives and sea lion dives: The enduring draws of La Paz, MexicoNEW YORK, NY.- For our last night in La Paz, Mexico, we kept it simple: A couple of cans of cold Pacifico, a bench on the malecón, the citys waterfront promenade, and the sunset glowing orange over the shimmering silver-blue Sea of Cortez. My husband, Alex, and I had spent nearly a week taking scenic desert drives and lazy city strolls, visiting stunning beaches and mountains, and enjoying a steady diet of fish tacos and mezcalitas. But now we were salt-coated and sinking into a blissful exhaustion that comes only after a day spent scuba diving. La Paz is the capital of Baja California Sur, the Mexican state where about 42% of the land and water are natural protected areas, and the city lies on the Sea of Cortez, also known as the Gulf of California, considered one of the worlds most diverse marine environments. ... More Rachel McAdams is not afraid of the darkNEW YORK, NY.- From the outside, you wouldnt know that Rachel McAdams, the thoughtfully charming star of blockbuster rom-coms, rom-drams, a Marvel franchise and the Oscar-winning Spotlight, has been wondering about death. Maybe it has to do with the therapist who said that her indecisiveness and deep curiosity about seeing through someone elses eyes, which shes harbored since childhood, could be chalked up to something called death anxiety. McAdams had long viewed her acting choices as expanding her orbit. Its been a way to live a lot of lives in one, she said. If that was about a fear of dying well, it didnt rattle her. Instead, characteristically, she embraced it. We dont have a lot of great coping mechanisms for death in our culture, she said. So, yeah, I kind of welcome the opportunity to lean into that ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso died April 08, 1973. Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. In this image: Pablo Picasso, Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), December 1937. Courtesy Sothebyâs.
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