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The Glass House, designed by Philip Johnson as his own residence, at Johnsons estate in New Canaan, Conn., on April 7, 2024. It has been called his signature work, but the Brick House, seen through the glass walls, took a turn from modernism to postmodernism. (Frances F. Denny/The New York Times)
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- Diptych, dyad, dialectic: The relationship between the first pair of buildings Philip Johnson designed for his estate in New Canaan, Connecticut, has taxed the metaphorical imaginations of critics and architectural historians since the structures were completed, just months apart, in 1949. On one side, the Glass House, transparent and entirely self-possessed, a work of modernist daring framed in steel and inspired, as Johnson was only too happy to admit, by the designs of his hero, German architect Ludwig Mies van ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Outi Pieski installation view at Tate St Ives, 2024. Photo © Tate (Oliver Cowling).
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| 'STUDIO K.O.S. Where we have gone' opens at Morena di Luna, Hove | | Vivian Maier's vintage work hits the block at Heritage on May 2 | | Renaissance portraits that played hide and seek |
The Scarlet Letter / All About Love (after Nathaniel Hawthorne and bell hooks) Affirmation collage on wood panel, 25.4 Ã 20.3 cm 10 Ã 8 in 2023.
HOVE.- Studio K.O.S. is a multidisciplinary collective of artists from New York, USA, formed by Angel Abreu and Ricardo Savinon. The collective bases their works on literary texts, recognising the emancipation to be found in the process of reading. They often work directly onto the pages of found books or sheet music that they adhere in a grid to the surface of a canvas or board. Standing for Kids of Survival, Studio K.O.S. began ... More | |
Vivian Maier (American, 1926-2009), Smoking in the Street, circa 1955. Gelatin silver print, 4-5/8 x 3-5/8 inches (11.7 x 9.2 cm) (image) 5 x 4 inches (sheet).
DALLAS, TX.- Very few artists whose work is discovered after their death manage to break through the consciousness of the art world, let alone popular culture at large. Vivian Maier is one such rarity; her photographs caught the world's attention by 2013, four years after her death and six years after storage locker sales in Chicago that had unearthed thousands of her photos and negatives. The photographs are so instantly compelling and ... More | |
A visitor studies Wolfgang Beurers Wild Man With von Rückingen Coat of Arms, while another visitor looks at the paintings reverse side, Beurers portrait of Johann von Rückingen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on April 8, 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Mets delightful show Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance illuminates a curious trend in 15th- and 16th-century painting: the slow reveal. The works on view, originally concealed in special cases and behind sliding or reversible panels, gamify the experience of looking at portraiture; they have ... More |
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| UK's first large-scale exhibition of work by Outi Pieski on view at Tate St Ives | | Ezen Collection of Elite Sovereigns offered at Heritage's CSNS World & Ancient Coins event | | Savages! Innocents! Sages! What do we really know about early humans? |
Outi Pieski, Litna máttaráhkku/ The Light Weight of the Foremother, 2021, photo: Tor Simen Ulstein/ KUNSTDOK.
ST IVES.- Tate St Ives presents the UKs first large-scale exhibition of work by Outi Pieski (Čiske-Jovsset Biret Hánsa Outi) (b.1973, Helsinki, Finland). Pieski is a Sámi visual artist whose practice is deeply connected to land. Working primarily with painting and installation, Pieski has gained recognition for her work which explores the spiritual relationship between humans and their environment and raises vital questions around traditional ... More | |
Casascius silver Proof Loaded (Unredeemed) 1 Bitcoin (BTC) 2013 PR69 Deep Cameo PCGS, Ahonen-pg 95.
DALLAS, TX.- One of the finest collections of high-end Sovereigns to come to market in the last decade will shimmer in the spotlight when the collection of Ayden Ezen is sold in Heritage's CSNS World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction May 8-10. What began as a hobby with the purchase of an 1836 Sovereign some four decades ago grew into an elite collection that would provide 250 lots for the auction's ... More | |
An illustration provided by Illustrated London News and published in 1909 that for a long time, was perhaps the most influential representation of a Neanderthal, as Stefanos Geroulanos writes in his spirited new book, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession With Human Origins. (Illustrated London News via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- History may not be bunk, but prehistory is: So argues Stefanos Geroulanos in his spirited new book, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession With Human Origins. Bestselling authors like Yuval ... More |
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| How Gen Zers made the crossword their own | | Hudson Yards' Vessel sculpture will reopen with netting after suicides | | Faith Ringgold, who wove Black life into quilts and children's books, dies at 93 |
Paolo Pasco, winner of the 2024 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, in Brooklyn on April 9, 2024. (Frankie Alduino/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- 30-Across: ___ and dry food (categories I will now be using to describe human food. Oh, so suddenly its weird?) 31-Across: TikTok videos of Family Guy clips accompanied by Subway Surfers gameplay, e.g. 26-Down: Lili ___, one of the first trans women to receive gender-affirming surgery Whos this I cracking jokes ... More | |
The 150-foot-high tourist attraction, which closed in 2021, will be fitted with mesh to stop people from jumping. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Nearly three years after a series of suicides shut down the Vessel, the 150-foot-tall centerpiece of the Hudson Yards complex in Manhattan, the projects developer said Friday that it would reopen this year with new safety measures. The beehive-shaped sculpture, with a labyrinth of about 2,500 steps and 80 landings, opened ... More | |
The artist Faith Ringgold at home in Englewood, N.J., Feb. 21, 2020. (Meron Tekie Menghistab/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Faith Ringgold, a multimedia artist whose pictorial quilts depicting the African American experience gave rise to a second distinguished career as a writer and illustrator of childrens books, died Saturday at her home in Englewood, New Jersey. She was 93. Her death was confirmed by her daughter, Barbara Wallace. For ... More |
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| The Fondazione Querini Stampalia pays tribute to Ilya Kabafiov, one year after his passing | | Gioele Amaro's fourth solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in London | | International loan exhibition examines early empires of Northern and Eastern Africa and their connection with Byzantium |
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Concert for a fly, 1986. Photo: Michele Sereni.
VENICE.- The Fondazione Querini Stampalia of Venice and the Ilya and Emilia Kabafiov Art Foundation are paying tribute to Ilya Kabafiov, one year after his passing, on occasion of the 60th Venice Art Biennale. The Ilya and Emilia Kabafiov Between Heaven and Earth. A tribute to Ilya Kabafiov exhibition at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice from 14 April to 14 July 2024, curated by Chiara Bertola, is commemorating the master of conceptual art, the genius who experimented ... More | |
Portrait of Gioele Amaro © Gioele Amaro / Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.. Photo: Gioele Amaro Studio.
LONDON.- Almine Rech London is presenting Gioele Amaros fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from April 11 to May 18, 2024. Missing Figures is an exhibition to which you will always arrive too late. As we stand, catching our breath before the first of the works, we are met by the radiating aura of a figure just gone. Throughout the show, Amaro teases us with perpetual almost-meetings. Domed structures that call to mind Byzantine iconography glow suggestively, as if the missing ... More | |
Mans Crown, 400s500s CE. Unknown jewelers, X-Group (Ballana) Culture. Nubia, Ballana (Sudan). Silver and gemstones; 20 x 15 cm. Egyptian Museum, Cairo, JE 70453 SR 5/11615. © DeA Picture Library / S. Vannini / Art Resource, NY
CLEVELAND, OH.- Experience nearly 160 works of secular and sacred art from across geographies and faiths in the Cleveland Museum of Arts newest exhibition, Africa & Byzantium. From monumental frescoes, mosaics, and luxury goods such as metalwork and jewelry to panel paintings, architectural elements, textiles, and ... More |
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"Zen and the Open Road" to feature most famous forgotten motorcycleWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of American History will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1974 publication of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig with a special display, Zen and the Open Road, opening April 15. On view in the museums America on the Move exhibition, the display will feature Pirsigs 1966 Honda Super Hawk motorcycle and extends his story from the road to the sea, including his life aboard his sailboat, Arete. With the motorcycle as the centerpiece, visitors also can view Pirsigs leather riding jacket and motorcycle helmet, the bikes keys and the worn motorcycle maintenance manual that accompanied the ride. Pirsigs typewriter, on which he wrote the book, as well as a typed manuscript and a signed first edition of the novel will be on display. Pirsig endured rejection by 121 publishers bu ... More  Solo exhibition by artist, writer and thinker Andrea Fraser opens at The Fondazione Antonio Dalle NogareBOLZANO.- The Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare in Bolzano, «I just dont like eggs!» Andrea Fraser on collectors, collecting, collections is the first solo exhibition ever devoted by an Italian institution to the research of artist, writer and thinker Andrea Fraser (USA, 1965). Curated by Andrea Viliani with Vittoria Pavesi, the exhibition is the first survey solely dedicated to Frasers works investigating collectors, collecting, the art market, and the intersections between private and public collections. The project includes works spanning the artists overall research, from the late 80s to her recent productions, including a new artwork especially conceived for this exhibition. Taken from the script of Frasers performance May I Help You?, the title «I just dont like eggs!» evokes the language and mentality of collecting as an enactment of taste, desire, distinction, possession, categorization, ... More Tess Korobkin receives the 20th Annual Frost Essay AwardWASHINGTON, DC.- Tess Korobkin is the recipient of the Smithsonian American Art Museums Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award for her article Monumental Absence: Augusta Savages Unbuilt Monuments, 19311943, which appeared in the fall 2023 issue (vol. 37, no. 3) of American Art, the museums peer-reviewed journal for new scholarship. Korobkins article focuses on sculptor Augusta Savages proposed monuments to Black American lives and histories, including memorials to transatlantic entertainer Florence Mills, author and civil rights leader James Weldon Johnson and the World War I service of the Harlem Hellfighters. While none of these works were ever constructed, Korobkin argues Savages unrealized public projects raise surprising new questions about how to approach absences in the U.S.-American memorial landscape ... More Lawmaker presses luxury designer after reports of exploiting Indigenous workersWASHINGTON, DC.- A $9,000 designer sweater made out of the ultrarare fur of a South American animal called a vicuna is not exactly a typical area of focus for a member of Congress. But when Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., a first-term Democrat and the first Peruvian-born person to serve in the House, saw reports that luxury design house Loro Piana was not fairly compensating Indigenous workers in Peru who source the rare wool in some of its priciest knit clothing, he decided to use his position to make some noise. As the first Peruvian American member of Congress and co-chair of the Congressional Peru Caucus, I write regarding concerning reports about the sourcing of vicuna wool by Loro Piana, a subsidiary of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, he wrote to company executives last month. He demanded that the fashion house whose ... More Don Wright, editorial cartoonist with a skewer for a pen, dies at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Don Wright, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose pointed work punctured duplicity and pomposity and resonated with common-sense readers, died March 24 at his home in Palm Beach, Florida. He was 90. His death was confirmed by his wife, Carolyn Wright, a fellow journalist. In a 45-year career, Wright drew about 11,000 cartoons for The Miami News, which folded in 1988, and then The Palm Beach Post, where he worked until he retired in 2008. But he reached a readership far beyond Florida: His cartoons appeared in newspapers nationwide through syndication. Wrights readers knew where he stood, and especially what he was against, whether it was the Vietnam War; Israels military support for the pro-apartheid regime in South Africa (he depicted a menorah with missiles in place of candles); sexual ... More Where eclipse seekers flocked and the traffic that followedNEW YORK, NY.- Mondays solar eclipse drew huge crowds to the path of totality, temporarily ballooning the populations of small towns and rural areas across the country. A map shows an estimate of where human activity increased the most Monday, compared with that on an average Monday, according to data from Mapbox, an online mapping company. Some towns in the path of totality expected their populations to double, and the data drawn from mobile-device activity showed such increases in many places. Among the towns with more than 100% increases in activity were St. Johnsbury, Vermont; Lancaster, New Hampshire; and Ste. Geneviève, Missouri. State parks like the Adirondack Park in New York and many areas in the Ozarks region of Arkansas and Missouri were also popular destinations. The data includes activity for ... More Some used to dread readings. Now they sell out.NEW YORK, NY.- When writer and professor Amitava Kumar invited book scout Erin Edmison to his reading at McNally Jackson Books Seaport location in February, Edmison penciled it into her calendar and didnt think twice about it, she said, because I am old, and thats the way things used to work. On the night of the reading, she arrived at the bookstore to discover that she needed a $5 ticket to the event, which was sold out. It didnt even occur to me, said Edmison, 48. She got in eventually. After a brief wait near the cash register with the other walk-ins, Edmison was able to stand in the back of the room. It wasnt a big deal, she said. She was happy to see that Kumar, who is a friend, had a packed house. In the New York of the recent past, readings were events one could wander into, perhaps as a recent college graduate aspiring to be a published ... More Is your garden missing something? You may need a large pot (or several).NEW YORK, NY.- Flower pots, they are not. But Stephen Procters large stoneware garden vessels, some as tall as 5 feet and incorporating 250 pounds of clay, are nevertheless functional pottery even without the soil and the plants. In the clay world, he said, theres always talk about functional versus nonfunctional pottery, attempting to draw a line between the two. Procter, a Vermont-based ceramist, has seen his and other such outsize garden sculptures in action, though. An object that invites contemplation, and inspires, and offers this kind of mysterious sustenance is functional in a deep and important way, he said. Not functional that youre going to drink your coffee out of it, but the work has high purpose in the landscape and in the world. A substantial sculptural element can perform a variety of garden-design jobs, he added, strengthening ... More In 'Symphony of Rats' revival, a darkness goes underexploredNEW YORK, NY.- A president losing grip with reality. Warnings of environmental disaster and apocalypse. An early reference to the COVID vaccine. The Wooster Groups revival of the deliriously trippy Symphony of Rats, a Richard Foreman play from 1988 that originally starred Kate Valk, who directs this production along with Elizabeth LeCompte, invites dark topical readings. Its an election year, after all. So why does this production feel so sweet and escapist? For one thing, the vaudevillian madness onstage which juxtaposes twee songs with violent video, highbrow with Hollywood, the mundane with the alien does not build on its political subject matter. Its only the surface of a far weirder, digressive production whose obsession is not with the real world but what is underneath. The President (a suitably intense Ari Fliakos) does ... More National Art School unveils 'Dale Frank: Growers and Showers'SYDNEY.- The National Art School has unveiled Dale Frank: Growers and Showers, a major solo exhibition by one of Australia's foremost contemporary artists, Dale Frank, presented across two floors of the NAS Gallery until 1 June 2024. The significant survey exhibition presents 45 large-scale paintings, sculptures and installations created by the internationally renowned Australian artist over the past decade, including nine never-before-exhibited works. Renowned for his vivid, glossy, abstract paintings, and highly experimental approach to artmaking, Growers and Showers delves into Franks enduring commitment to experimentation and ongoing investigation into the potentiality of painting, alongside his wide-ranging use of materials and multidisciplinary approach. Recent paintings in his viscous signature poured resin style are presented ... More Netflix's new film strategy: More about the audience, less about auteursNEW YORK, NY.- Back in, say, 2019, if a filmmaker signed a deal with Netflix, it meant that he or she would be well paid and receive complete creative freedom. Theatrical release? Not so much. Still, the paycheck and the latitude and the potential to reach the streaming services huge subscriber base helped compensate for the lack of hoopla that comes when a traditional studio opens a film in multiplexes around the world. But those days are a thing of the past. Dan Lin arrived as Netflixs new film chief April 1, and he has started making changes. He laid off around 15 people in the creative film executive group, including one vice president and two directors. (Netflixs entire film department is around 150 people.) He reorganized his film department by genre rather than budget level and has indicated that Netflix is no longer only the home of expensive ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15, 1452. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. In this image: Agents speak on their phones with their clients while bidding on at the auction of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" during the Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale at Christie's on November 15, 2017 in New York City. The rediscovered masterpiece by the Renaissance master sells for an historic $450,312,500, obliterating the previous world record for the most expensive work of art at auction.
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