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Lee Krasner, Lavender, 1942, Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches. Guillermo Gonzales. Courtesy of the Olivia Collection, Los Angeles and Mexico City. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
OGUNQUIT, MAINE.- The Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA) presents the first exhibition in Maine of work by the artist Lee Krasner (19081984). On view August 1 through November 17, Lee Krasner: Geometries of Expression sheds light on the often-overlooked early career of Krasner and places her work within the context of her peers. In the 1930s and early 1940s, Krasner rose to prominence as a dynamic voice within the vanguard circles of contemporary artists living and working in New York City. During a period fraught with socio-economic turmoil and political upheaval, the artist was politically active, taking part in lively debates at the Artists Union and protesting the Museum ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Nationalmuseum is hosting an exhibition on Harriet Backer who was one of Norways most influential artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Backer was one of the most prominent colourists in Scandinavia and portrayers of light and atmosphere in interiors.
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| Corvette bucked a sports car decline. Can it thrive in an EV era? | | The buried book that helped Ukraine's literary revival | | To deter day-trippers, Venice tested a 5 euro entrance fee. Did visitors stay away? |
A Worker inspects a finished Corvette E-Ray at the GM Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, Ky., on June 17, 2024. (Stacy Kranitz/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Sales of sports cars have been steadily declining for about three decades, but there has been one exception to that trend. The Chevrolet Corvette has recently stormed back to near-record popularity. Like the company that makes it, General Motors, the Corvette must now slalom around a trickier obstacle: transitioning to an ... More | |
Volodymyr Vakulenko, father of the writer of the same name who buried a secret manuscript depicting life under Russian control beneath a cherry tree, sits in the bedroom of his late son, who was arrested and later found in a mass grave, in the village of Kapytolivka, Ukraine, May 30, 2024. (Finbarr OReilly/The New York Times)
KHARKIV.- After Russian forces took control of his village in 2022, Volodymyr Vakulenko, a well-known Ukrainian author, sensed he might soon be arrested. So he buried his new handwritten manuscript in his ... More | |
Gondolas on the Giudecca Canal in Venice, Italy, June 7, 2024. (Matteo de Mayda/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When Venice introduced a 5 euro entrance fee in April, officials said the aim was to dissuade day-trippers from visiting at peak times, in a bid to ease the pressure on beleaguered residents forced to share the fragile Italian citys limited space and public resources. So, did the fee work? We are convinced that we limited some peaks, said Luigi Brugnaro, Venices ... More |
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| Exhibition about the Norwegian artist Harriet Backer on view at Nationalmuseum | | Priska Pasquer Paris to show works by Picasso in dialogue with four contemporary artists | | She danced naked at Woodstock. She dated Serpico. At 93, she's not done. |
Carina Rech at the Nationalmuseum. Photo: Anna Danielsson / Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum is hosting an exhibition on Harriet Backer who was one of Norways most influential artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Backer was one of the most prominent colourists in Scandinavia and portrayers of light and atmosphere in interiors. The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between the National Museum in Oslo, Kode in Bergen, Musée dOrsay in Paris and Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. Harriet Backer (18451932) was a ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, La femme qui pleure I, 1937. Drypoint, aquatint, etching and scraper printed on Montval, laid paper 73.6 à 53.34 cm. © Succession Picasso/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
PARIS.- Entitled Timeless Innovation Innovation Intemporelle, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art and Priska Pasquer Paris will present their latest exhibition in Paris featuring works by Pablo Picasso in dialogue with four contemporary artists: Leiko Ikemura, Radenko Milak, Aljoscha, and Zohar Fraiman. The exhibition will take place from October 12 to November 10, 2024, in the ... More | |
Ian Spence at his drawing table in his apartment in New Haven, Conn., on June 12, 2024. (Sarah Blesener/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Gordon is perhaps the worlds most unlikely first-time childrens book author. For decades she lived at the center of a bohemian New York that long ago faded into mythology. A glamorous and witty feminist friends describe her as a modern-day Mae West crossed with Dorothy Parker Betty mingled with artists, writers and entertainers. She even had a romance with one of the most famous undercover ... More |
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| Telling Hawaii's stories, one hand-carved surfboard at a time | | 'Contemporary Asian American Abstraction' on view at Paul Thiebaud Gallery | | Motels are having a moment |
Leleo Kinimaka, who exclusively uses local timbers like monkey pod, maple, mango, milo and cedars for his boards, at his studio in Waimanalo, Hawaii, May 23, 2024. (Jake Michaels/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Leleo Kinimaka grew up in Kauai, the Hawaiian island where the Pacific Ocean provided routine and rhythm to his days. Id wake up and Id go surfing all day, maybe swim or canoe, he recalled. Id only come home for lunch. Its fitting, then, that the Hawaiian native, still vibrantly ... More | |
Mary Ijichi, Assemblage #23, 2023. Colored pencil, mylar, plastic, beads, acrylic, artists tape, museum board, 15 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (frame).
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Paul Thiebaud Gallery is presenting Contemporary Asian American Abstraction, a group exhibition featuring Ekta Aggarwal, Mary Ijichi, Joshua Moreno, Sandeep Mukherjee, Grace Munakata, and Sono Osato. The works on view encompass a variety of materials including oil on panel, ink on mylar, ... More | |
Lisa Lennox, who bought the Interstate Inn motel in 2022, at the motel under renovation in Stephenville, Texas, June 14, 2024. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2022, Lisa Lennox was visiting a friend in Stephenville, Texas, when she stumbled upon the Interstate Inn. The motel, on a highway an hour west of Fort Worth, had seen better days. The building was notorious with local police, and rooms rented for $40 a night. The property ... More |
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| The Phillips Collection announces Tie Jojima as new Curator of Global Contemporary Art | | Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art to open "An Epic of Kings: The Great Mongol Shahnama" | | Kunsthalle Rostock to open an exhibition of over forty works by Leiko Ikemura |
Tie Jojima, Photo by Elizabeth Leitzel
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection announced Tie Jojima (she/her) as the museums new Curator of Global Contemporary Art. Jojima will play a vital role in advancing the museums curatorial initiatives through new acquisitions, art commissions, exhibitions, and programs that broaden the canon of contemporary art to tell more inclusive narratives. Jojima began her new position on July 15. As the Phillips embarks on its next chapter, we are thrilled to welcome Tie, whose scholarship and innovative ... More | |
Detail of Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) by Firdawsi (d. 1020); verso: Ardashir captures Ardavan; verso: text: Kavus Journey to Barbaristan / Credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Collection, PurchaseCharles Lang Freer Endowment, F1942.2
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of Asian Art has announced An Epic of Kings: The Great Mongol Shahnama, an exhibition on the first imperial copy of Irans national epic, Firdawsis Book of Kings. It will open at the museum Aug. 31 and remain on view until Jan. 5 ... More | |
Kunsthalle Rostock.
ROSTOCK.- Leiko Ikemura is a an internationally acclaimed artist. The painter and sculptor has lived and worked in Germany since 1987. The essence of Leiko Ikemuras art is conveyed in her merging of the human and nature in works culminating in surreal phantasmagorical landscape composites. Fusion and alienation simultaneously appear both paradoxical and harmonious, a synthesis that is also reflected in Leiko Ikemuras own biography. She is immersed in western art and culture, which has influenced ... More |
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Touring Girl Group with Arlene Shechet at Storm King Art Center
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How two wandering cows started a culture warNEWFANE, NY.- One summer day, a cow and a steer walked away from their farm. The cow was black and was named Blackee. The steer was golden brown, with two stubby horns. He was named Hornee. Nobody knows when the cows got out, or how. They crossed a field and a road and wandered onto a neighbors yard. This type of thing sometimes happens in rural western New York, where pastures and farms stretch for miles. But Hornee and Blackee had crossed not into another farm but into an animal sanctuary whose owner saves livestock from slaughter and encourages visitors to become vegans. The next morning, Tracy Murphy, the sanctuarys owner, found the cows in her yard. She herded them into a pen, she said, and immediately notified the local animal control agency. Six days later, an investigator with the agency came to check ... More Amy Tan takes a novel approach to bird-watching: 'Be the bird'NEW YORK, NY.- To them, she isnt a bestselling novelist but simply the flightless creature and, most important, a reliable source of food. They would not know her at all, nor she them, if not for the garden created around the home in Sausalito, California, that she and her husband downsized to in 2012. Areas of lawn went away in favor of flowers and some wildness, and the birds came. Now Amy Tan is bird-watching, and the birds are watching, too. They may not have read The Joy Luck Club or any of her other novels, but they have their eyes on her. Im a dependable human, Tan writes in her newest book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles. Every bird says so. She also writes: I am controlled by birds. Not that Tan is complaining. She is grateful for every episode of new bird tachycardia the ... More Delighting in the lavender fields of central SpainNEW YORK, NY.- A day in Brihuega during the lavender bloom requires only one set plan: Get to the fields by sunset, to view an unexpected, lush swath of purple as far as the eye can see, with the orange glow of the Spanish sun directly behind it. Brihuega, a small medieval town in the roughly 4,700-square-mile province of Guadalajara and about an hours drive from Madrid, is surrounded by farmland, villages and nature preserves of brown and soft-green hues. But each year in summer, on fields where some of the bloodiest battles of the Spanish Civil War were once fought, those colors change with the bloom of a thousand hectares of lavender, the equivalent of about 2,500 acres or 3,000 American football fields. In the past decade, the lavender harvest has revitalized Brihuega, drawing welcomed visitors and their euros ... More 36 hours in Izmir, TurkeyNEW YORK, NY.- For much of its history, Izmir, Turkeys third-largest city, was arguably the center of the world. Halfway down the Aegean coast, Smyrna, as Asia Minor ancients called it, was where East met West as an economic and cultural synapse at the end of the Silk Road. Today, the vibrant, 8,500-year-old Pearl of the Aegean flanked to the north and south by the UNESCO World Heritage city ruins of Pergamon and Ephesus, among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World has again redefined itself as a hub for international explorers. The 2,400-year-old bazaar and the ancient Agora remain Izmirs chief attractions. But the city, which played a key role in Turkeys independence 100 years ago, has also reopened a former tobacco factory as a culture and art complex and opened a 300-mile, sea-hugging section of the EuroVelo ... More In 'Twisters,' storm chasers want to disrupt a tornado. Is that possible?NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Waugh holds a laptop with green, red and yellow weather radar looping as his driver rumbles down an Oklahoma highway in their government-issued truck. The vehicle holds 50 gallons of fuel, so they can chase storms all day. A rectangular cage with metal mesh covers the truck in an attempt to protect the team from hail. Hanging off the front of the hail cage are weather instruments that look like the horn of a rhinoceros charging into a storm. The truck, called Probe One, points in one direction, and a companion, Probe Two, points in another. Tall grass flows like ocean waves, and the stop sign at a crossroads wobbles. The sky is dark gray with a hint of green. Lightning flashes on all sides. The radio cracks. Probe One, you want us to go? Yes, go now, says Waugh, a researcher with the National Severe Storms Laboratory. As they disappear into the mist ... More Hong Kong's bouncy 'wonders' leave some wondering, 'Why?'HONG KONG.- With darkness falling along Hong Kongs waterfront against a backdrop of glimmering skyscrapers, carnival music competed with the whine of ventilation blowers as visitors bounced on the inflatable Stonehenge. The puffy white megalithic replica was part of an installation put up this month for SummerFest, a public outdoor festival that continues for several weeks. Like its companions, including Egyptian pyramids and the giant faces of Easter Island, it was based on artificial intelligence-generated images dreamed up by Joann, an Armenian designer who has created whimsical, surreal pop-up exhibits for clients like Gucci, Marc Jacobs and Oatly Ice Cream. The exhibit, Inflatable Wonders, has attracted crowds. It has also elicited mockery, as well as stirred discussion about cultural sensitivity and about what gets to be considered art versus crass c ... More Who's smiling now? Nirvana and Marc Jacobs settle logo lawsuit.NEW YORK, NY.- Oh, that lawsuit Nirvana filed against the fashion line Marc Jacobs for using its smiley face logo without permission? Nevermind. After more than a half-decade of litigation, the sides have agreed to settle. The corporate entity representing Nirvana sued Marc Jacobs International in 2018 after the fashion line announced it would release a Bootleg Redux Grunge collection of clothing that featured a smiley face logo the lawsuit called virtually identical to Nirvanas copyrighted image." Nirvanas smiley face has an uneven head, Xs for eyes and a wavy smile with a tongue sticking out on the right side of its face. Marc Jacobs smiley face, which was part of both clothing designs and ... More Alex Izenberg was almost a teen rock star. His second chance is here.WINNETKA, CALIF.- On his 12th birthday, in April 2003, Alex Izenberg went to Guitar Center to jam. He was the prankster of his Los Angeles public school, a high-strung and mischievous kid who hated class but loved rock n roll. He dressed the part, too a small, cherub-faced boy with a poofy brown mop tucked beneath a top hat, a black Stratocaster slung across a velvet vest. At Guitar Center, his friends marveled at his best Hendrix, and he attracted a famous listener, too. Im checking out, and I think, Whoevers playing has a really cool tone, a great feel, Linda Perry, the former 4 Non Blondes singer and pop songwriter, remembered in a phone interview. Im expecting to see some older dude, seasoned. But I see this dorky little kid in high-water pants and big glasses. I was in love. Perry wanted to know everything: Were ... More Is she the oldest person in the Amazon?JAVARI VALLEY INDIGENOUS TERRITORY.- After more than 100 years in the rainforest, Varî Vãti Marubo walks with a stick and, as she always has, barefoot. So when her Indigenous tribe, the Marubo, gathered for meetings this year in a village that would require a 13-mile hike across streams, fallen logs and dense forest to reach, everyone knew it would be difficult for her to attend. But, as she has for a century, Varî Vãti dealt with the elements. She caught a ride on the only transportation available: her sons back. Be careful with me! she shrieked to her son, Tama Txano Marubo (all Marubo use the same surname), as he climbed down a muddy embankment with a machete in one hand and his mother on his back. Her weight sat on a blue strip of fabric that stretched tight across his forehead. Call a truck to come get me! she shouted to laughing relatives. This is too much. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Edward Hopper was born July 22, 1882. Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 - May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life. In this image: A woman looks at the painting "South Carolina Morning" by American artist Edward Hopper during a press conference in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday, May 7, 2009.
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