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Father Francis Browne, S.J. (Irish, 1880-1960), Full Speed Ahead for
, RMS Titanic Leaving Queenstown (Cobh), County Cork, April 1912, Gelatin silver print, 16 ⁴⁷/₆₄ x 24 ⁷/₃₂ in. (42.5 x 61.5 cm) © Fr Browne SJ Collection / Davison & Associates Ltd. Milly and Fritz Kaeser Endowment for Photography 2024.001.090.
NOTRE DAME, IN.- The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art presents the first major exhibition in the United States of the work of Father Francis Browne, S.J.(1873-1962). One of the best-known Irish photographers of the early twentieth century, his work documents his countrys involvement in some of the most memorable events of the era. Throughout his life Browne was primarily devoted to his religion, and his avocation as a photographer reflected his faith and ideals. As such, he exemplifies the long tradition of artists committed to religious life. Francis Mary Hegarty Browne was the youngest of eight children, born into an affluent family at Cork in 1880. His mother died soon after his birth, and he was an infant and he was educated in Catholic boarding schools. He received his first camera as a gift when he graduated from secondary school. In 1897, Browne joined the Jesuits and entered the novitiate at St. Stanislaus College. When his fath ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Nadia Quinn asks an employee at the City Cafe in Edinburgh, Scotland, to hand out flyers for her show during the Fringe Festival on Aug. 12, 2024. Many people who must self-produce their shows make Fringe plans a year in advance â Quinn, egged on by audiences in June after one of her shows in Los Angeles, decided to go less than two months before. (Kieran Dodds/The New York Times).
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| A French museum has global needs (even if it can't have Jersey City) | | First exhibition of National Gallery Bicentenary year closes with record number of visitors | | Sotheby's and Landmark unveil the largest woolly mammoth public showcase in Hong Kong |
Outside the Pompidou Center in Paris in July 2024. (Sam Hellmann/The New York Times)
PARIS.- The century-old Pathside Building in downtown Jersey City, New Jersey, was originally a transportation hub for streetcar lines, but it took on a new role three years ago: It became the chosen destination for an outpost of the Pompidou Center, the Paris arts complex. In a June 2021 video news conference, the mayor of Jersey City, Steven Fulop, announced the Pompidou Jersey City project, a 58,000-square-foot future museum with full access to the Pompidou collection, Europes largest for modern and contemporary art. Partnerships like this arent ... More | |
'The Last Caravaggio' is the 3rd most visited exhibition of the last 10 years © National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- This spring, the National Gallery displayed the last painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610), not seen in the UK for nearly 20 years. The Last Caravaggio (18 April 21 July 2024), presented 'The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula' (1610), generously lent by the Intesa Sanpaolo Collection (Gallerie dItalia Naples) displayed alongside another late work by the Italian artist from the National Gallery Collection, Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist (about 160910). The free exhibition, the first of NG200 the National Gallery ... More | |
Sothebys unveils a rare and complete 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth skeleton, mammuthus primigenius, Siberia, Russia, late Pleistocene at LANDMARK ATRIUM as part of Sothebys Another World Exhibition. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Hard on the heels of Sothebys Maison opening at LANDMARK CHATER, Sothebys and LANDMARK joined forces to unveil the exhibition of a 12,000-year-old, 3.5 metre-tall, monumental woolly mammoth. Marking Hong Kongs first-ever public display of a mammoth skeleton of this scale in the heart of the city, the exhibition at LANDMARK ATRIUM of this pre-historic marvel from 15 to 29 August is poised ... More |
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| Closing soon 'National Treasures: Vermeer in Edinburgh' | | Exhibition of major works by three titans of 20th century art will open at Michael Werner Gallery | | MoMA announces a comprehensive retrospective of German contemporary artist Thomas Schütte |
Johannes Vermeer, A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal.
EDINBURGH.- For the first time ever in Scotland, this summer, visitors to National Galleries Scotland: National in Edinburgh can enjoy two paintings by world-famous artist Johannes Vermeer. The free display, as part of the National Treasures celebration, sees A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal coming to Scotland from the National Gallery in London. The stunning artwork is being shown alongside Scotlands own Vermeer, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, one of the much-loved artists earliest paintings. National Treasures marks the bicentenary of the National Gallery ... More | |
Joseph Beuys. Photo: Horst Ossinger.
LONDON.- Michael Werner Gallery, London will present Everyone is an Artist, an exhibition of major works by three titans of 20th century art, Joseph Beuys (b. 1921 in Krefeld, Germany, d. 1986 in Düsseldorf), Marcel Broodthaers (b. 1924 in Brussels, d. 1976 in Cologne), and James Lee Byars (b. 1932 in Detroit, d. 1997 in Cairo). Contemporaries and collaborators, Beuys, Broodthaers, and Byars adhered to a similar broad set of ideas: art cannot be separated from life, an object can create narrative, and art is activated by the imagination of the viewer. Everyone is an Artist charts and interweaves the oeuvres ... More | |
Thomas Schütte. Vater Staat (Father State), 2010 (detail). Patinated bronze. 149 5/8 à 61 à 55″ (380 à 154.9 à 139.7 cm). Anne Dias Griffin. Photo: Steven E. Gross. © 2024 Thomas Schütte / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces a retrospective of German contemporary artist Thomas Schütte, which will provide a holistic survey of his career from 1975 to the present. On view in the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions from September 29, 2024, through January 18, 2025, the exhibition will include Schüttes sculptures, drawings, prints, and experiments in architecture. Taking aesthetics, ... More |
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| Battle-hardened poets fuel a literary revival in Ukraine | | Exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery will survey artworks made using or depicting the American flag | | Beloved (XL) on view at the Depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen |
A customer inside Readeat bookstore in Kyiv. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
KYIV.- For several days in March 2022, the battalion of Yaryna Chornohuz, a Ukrainian poet and combat medic, faced fierce attacks from a column of Russian tanks in southeastern Ukraine. Outgunned, the soldiers repelled the first two assaults, but suffered many casualties. As Chornohuz bandaged the head of a wounded platoon commander, she said a third attack broke through, forcing the Ukrainian troops to retreat quickly, leaving behind the commander and ... More | |
Claes Oldenburg, Bunting, 1961, Muslin soaked in plaster over wire frame, painted with enamel 24 x 34 x 4 inches, © Claes Oldenburg. Courtesy the LeWitt Collection, Chester, CT, Photo: Cultural Preservation Technologies.
NEW YORK, NY.- The flag of the United States is a highly potent symbol of patriotism that simultaneously unites and divides the nation it represents and has long been celebrated and disparaged by artists enthralled by its power while remaining wary of its application. This exhibition will survey artworks made using or depicting ... More | |
View of Beloved, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2024. Photo: Lotte Stekelenburg.
ROTTERDAM.- Since March 2024, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen brings together the publics favourite works from the collection in the exhibition Beloved. Presented on the fifth floor of the Depot, the exhibition features almost seventy paintings and ten sculptures by great names such as Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, Rachel Ruysch, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Salvador DalÃ, René Magritte, Charley Toorop, Jean-Michel Basquiat and many ... More |
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| Couraj Production presents: "Earth to Venus" - A provocative new play by Rachel Collignon directed by Mahima Saigal | | James Cohan will open an exhibition of twelve totemic multimedia sculptures by Mestre Didi | | Exhibition of new and recent works by multidisciplinary artist X on view at Gerald Peters Contemporary |
Earth to Venus is a gripping new play directed by Mahima Saigal.
NEW YORK, NY.- Couraj Productions announced the return of Earth to Venus, a gripping new play by Rachel Collignon, directed by Mahima Saigal. This thought-provoking production will run from August 30th through September 8th at Theatrelab, located at 357 W 36th St, New York, NY, 10018. Earth to Venus transports audiences to Venus Villas, a women-only mental health clinic where a seemingly benign documentary project is introduced to the patients. Initially met with skepticism, the project unexpectedly fosters a powerful sense of community and trust among ... More | |
Mestre Didi, Igi nlá ejo meji ati eye kan lori - Big tree with two serpents and a bird in the canopy, 2010. Mixed media, palm tree trunk, painted leather, shells, and beads, 34 1/4 x 14 5/8 x 5 7/8 in. 87 x 37 x 15 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan will present Mestre Didi, an exhibition of twelve totemic multimedia sculptures by the late Brazilian artist, Mestre Didi (Salvador, Bahia, 1917-2013), on view at 291 Grand Street from September 3 through October 26, 2024. This is Didis first exhibition with James Cohan. Deoscóredes Maximiliano dos Santos, better known as Mestre Didi (Master Didi), was an influential Afro-Brazilian artist, spiritual leader, and writer. Didis singular oeuvre ... More | |
X, void_per_capita 2024. Single channel video, refurbished poker machine.
SANTA FE, NM.- Gerald Peters Contemporary is presenting, VOID_STRATA, an exhibition of new and recent works by multidisciplinary artist, X. Harnessing materiality, chromatics, and technology, the exhibition metamorphoses reimagined television test patterns into conduits of collective retrospection and Indigenous prophecy. Each creation, a mosaic of temporal and spatial layers, folding material, time and space into a multidimensional tableau. Through this dynamic striation, it reframes perceptions, urging audiences to ponder ... More |
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Isabelle Huppert believes festivals are crucial to cinema's futureNEW YORK, NY.- Actors often have more than one project on the boil. French actress Isabelle Huppert takes multitasking to the next level. For 11 days (Wednesday through Sept. 7), Huppert is heading up the jury of the Venice Film Festival, watching nearly two dozen movies (together with the other jurors) and handing out awards, including the coveted Golden Lion. In the days and weeks leading up to the festival, Huppert has been working nonstop. For two recent nights in a row, Huppert performed alone onstage at the Ruhrtriennale festival of the arts in Germany, delivering the 100-minute monologue Bérénice (an adaptation by Romeo Castellucci of the 17th-century French tragedy by Jean Racine). Days before that, she was on a film set in Belgium, playing a fictionalized version of Liliane Bettencourt the billion ... More TICK TACK and Kunsthalle Recklinghausen swap exhibition venuesANTWERP .- In 2024, TICK TACK (Antwerp, founded in 2019) and Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (founded in 1950) launch a unique project: both institutions will take over each others exhibition venues for the period from August to November 2024. This joint exchange project bears the Flemish title ROKADE - a reference to castling in chess, where the king and rook swap places on the board. The ROKADE project began on August 24 at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, where TICK TACK is celebrating its fifth anniversary with STREETSPACE BANGER - a group exhibition spanning three floors and featuring more than 80 artists from 20 countries. In return, the collection presentation STORAGE SPACE from the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen will open at TICK TACK in Antwerp on September 13, providing insights into its extensive museum ... More Sotheby's and Fanatics transform the trading card experience with 'Holy Grails'NEW YORK, NY.- This September, Sothebys and Fanatics are set to revolutionize the trading card industry with their inaugural auction, Holy Grails. This groundbreaking event will showcase a curated assortment of over 40 of the rarest and most coveted trading cards from the 20th and 21st centuries, celebrating legendary athletes such as Tom Brady, LeBron James, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente and many more. TheHoly Grails auction concept pays tribute to the collector communitys profound admiration for these rare and elusive treasures. Collectors often spend years in pursuit of these prized items. Now, in response, Sothebys and Fanatics are bringing together the most exceptional and sought-after pieces the ultimate Holy Grails of the collecting world. In that spirit, the exhibition and auction will be held at the Harlem Parish, ... More Opening in Paris, Saturday September 7th: Group show Green is the color, Michel Rein, ParisPARIS.- Michel Rein will present the group show Green is the color with the artists Maria Thereza Alves, Art Keller, Camille Beauplan, Romain Bernini, Sébastien Bonin, Mariana Bunimov, A.K. Burns, Misleidys Castillo Pedroso, Michele Ciacciofera, Jordi Colomer, Abigail DeVille, Thomas Dreyfuss, Jimmie Durham, Edi Dubien, Marine Feuillade, Anne-Charlotte Finel, Didier Fiúza Faustino, Apostolos Georgiou, Piero Gilardi, Marianna Hatzinikolaou, Christian Hidaka, Fabrice Hyber, Armand Jalut, Yann Lacroix, Fernand Léger, Ariane Loze, Didier Marcel, Lilia Medjeber, Julie Navarro, Stefan Nikolaev, Dan Perjovschi, Frank Perrin, Christiane Pooley, Enrique RamÃrez, Mateo Revillo, Claude Rutault, Hugo Ruyant, Mathieu Santori-Lamberti, Edgar Sarin, Anne-Marie Schneider, Franck Scurti, Allan Sekula, Agnès Thurnauer, Wolfgang ... More Russell Malone, acclaimed Jazz guitarist, dies at 60NEW YORK, NY.- Russell Malone, a jazz guitarist whose encyclopedic knowledge of musicians and songs, combined with a precise yet relaxed playing style, earned him jobs with Harry Connick Jr., Diana Krall and many others, as well as a dedicated following as a solo artist, died Friday in Tokyo. He was 60. His death, from a heart attack, was announced on social media by bassist Ron Carter, in whose trio Malone had worked for many years. The trio, with Donald Vega on piano, was touring Japan and had just finished a performance at the Blue Note Tokyo when Malone died. Carter said that he and Vega would continue the tour as a duo. Malone was highly regarded for his versatility: He was able to support a variety of singers and instrumentalists in a range of styles, but he also had his own well-defined sound as a bandleader and soloist. ... More Altman Siegel announces Didier William's second solo show in San FranciscoSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Altman Siegel announced Beyond the Bodies Edge, Didier Williams second solo show in San Francisco. This exhibition shows three copper-etched prints of cypress trees native to the Southeastern and Gulf Coastal Plains. In his artwork, William unpacks the systems, codes, and traditions that mark cultural identity. For this project, William took several research trips to the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana to better understand the direct ancestral relationship between Haiti and New Orleans through the eyes of its unique ecological terrain. The Taxodium distichum, also known as the wood eternal or bald cypress, is naturally resistant to erosion and decay and can adapt to various soil conditions. As a species with a lifespan of 600 - 1,200 years, the bald cypress bore witness to significant historical events, ... More Cristin Tierney Gallery announces a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos)NEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery announced milk and honey, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos). This is the artist's first solo exhibition in New York and with the gallery. Concurrently with this exhibition, Siestreem's work will be featured at The Armory Show in a special joint presentation with Elizabeth Leach Gallery. milk and honey opens on Friday, September 6th, with a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The artist will be present. Siestreem is an Oregon-based multidisciplinary artist and member of the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians. Her work combines the ceremonial traditions of her ancestors with contemporary modes and materials nested at the intersection of social and ecological justice, education, and Indigenous feminism. Her process ... More How to survive (and maybe conquer) the Edinburgh Fringe FestivalEDINBURGH.- Nadia Quinn had been warned about bringing her show of wacky comic songs to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. Facebook groups, Reddit posts and friends suggested that taking on the 77-year-old festival as an unestablished performer was too daunting. One episode of Baby Reindeer, a hit Netflix series that took off at the 2019 Fringe, mines the humiliation that Richard Gadd, the shows creator, faced performing there in a pub. With nearly 3,500 shows and with comics and clowns vying for attention throughout the month of August, how would Quinn find a venue, housing and people to fill her seats for even a week? She had never even been to the festival, which has the potential to turn unknowns into stars. Everyone is telling me you cant understand the Fringe until you go to the Fringe, Quinn ... More Galerie Chantal Crousel to open 'Leidy Churchman: Inner Dialogue' this fallPARIS.- In Inner Dialogue, Leidy Churchmans first show at Galerie Chantal Crousel, images from previous exhibitions come back around amid new narratives, vantages, and technologies. Taken together, the paintings index the everyday in order to transcend it, making the real spiritual, the material magical, and showing us what its like to see, feel, and live in this particular moment. Here, the potent energy of an idea becomes an animal, a sign becomes a refuge, a feeling state a shade of blue, a credit card a meditation on death and transformation; everyday sights and sensations are first themselves and then so much more than themselves. With deft and evocative brushwork, Churchman works with figuration as a means to abstractto help us to see beyond what we seetranslating Buddhist concepts, symbols, and stories into familiar and unfamiliar ... More 'The Union' review: Old flames and spy gamesNEW YORK, NY.- The Mission: Impossible series went missing in action this summer, but thats no reason to settle for Netflixs The Union, a depressing illustration of the wisdom that sometimes you shouldnt buy or stream generic. The movie combines a catalog of elements from the Tom Cruise franchise (supersecret agents, exotic locales, stunts) with a high-concept twist so silly it might as well have been selected by AI: What if hear this out the lead operatives happened to be former high school sweethearts? The Union, directed by Julian Farino, kicks off in Trieste, Italy, with a blatant retread of the first M:I installment: The agents are on a mission to retrieve a traitor with a stolen hard drive. Suddenly, violence breaks out, and almost the whole team is killed. A survivor from the group, Roxanne (Halle Berry), pitches her boss, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo was born August 26, 1899. Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899 - June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences. In this image: Rufino Tamayo's painting "Sandias" or "Watermelons'' is seen in this undated picture. Mexico put out an international alert Sunday, Jan. 31, 1999 for 12 paintings that were stolen from an exhibition last week, including "Sandias" by one of Mexico's most famous painters. The paintings, on loan from private art collectors in Mexico, the United States and Europe, were part of a 43-canvas show the gallery organized to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Tamayo's birth.
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