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Represented is the brilliant Arnie Zimmerman (1954 2021), a ceramic artist with a cult following, yet to be fully appreciated for his genius. With his self- deprecating humor, Zimmerman places himself squarely in the center of Vanities of Vanities, a work that presages his early death.
CONCORD MASS.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery announces their current exhibition, From the Lucy Lacoste Collection, which features a specially curated selection of works collected by gallery owner Lucy Lacoste, on view July 12 through August 3, 2024. While not the first exhibition containing a selection of works from Lucys collection, this exhibition of ceramics marks a special leap into a new era for Lucy and her Gallery. Looking towards the future and highlighting her favorite pieces, most important works and most notable sculpture. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day View of the exhibition Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks. Photo MMFA, Denis Farley.
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| "Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks" on view in Montreal | | Pace will present its first exhibition of works by Jiro Takamatsu | | In a world of fast fashion, they take pride in taking their time |
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), A Sailor and a Woman Embracing, about 1614-1615 © The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp, Belgium.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is presenting the Canadian premiere of Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks, a major exhibition that showcases The Phoebus Foundations world-class collection of Flemish art. Couched in timeless themes, the show transports audiences to the Southern Netherlands during a dynamic period of social, scientific, economic and artistic development (1400-1700). Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools is organized by the Denver ... More | |
Jiro Takamatsu, Shadow, 1989/1997. © The Estate of Jiro Takamatsu, courtesy Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Pace Gallery, New York and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo: Richard Gary.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace will present its first exhibition of Jiro Takamatsua profoundly influential artist, theorist, and teacher who emerged in postwar Japan in the early 1960ssince its representation of the artists estate this year. From September 20 to November 2, the presentation at the gallerys 540 West 25th Street flagship in New York will focus on Takamatsus Shadow and Perspective conceptsthroughout his entire oeuvre, Takamatsu used the term concept to ... More | |
Janos Papai, who has spent years sharing his knowledge of leather craftsmanship with Evan OHara, creates a leather pouch at OHaras studio in New York, April 12, 2024. (Janice Chung/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In a small workroom on Pell Street in Chinatown in Manhattan, Evan OHara bent over a scrap of skin from an alligators leg and used a large cotton swab to dab it with electric orange dye. Nearby, Janos Papai was pushing a hulking, ancient-looking machine over another scrap of bleached alligator, stitching on a zipper. OHara, 39, is a leather craftsman whose exclusive custom creations range from $1,800 ... More |
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| Jerry Miller, Moby Grape guitarist, dies at 81 | | Norton Simon Museum announces "Plugged In: Art and Electric Light" | | Smithsonian scientists conduct new analyses on ancient 'time capsule' rocks, at least 2.5 billion years old |
He drew praise for his blues-inflected fretwork as his critically acclaimed band rode high, if briefly, during San Franciscos Summer of Love.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jerry Miller, an acclaimed guitarist who emerged from the Pacific Northwest club circuit to make his mark on San Franciscos psychedelic rock scene in the 1960s as a founding member of the lauded, if star-crossed, band Moby Grape, died Sunday at his home in Tacoma, Washington. He was 81. His grandson, Cody Miller, said that he died in his sleep but that the cause was not yet known. Miller, whose fans came to include Eric Clapton and Robert Plant, played lead in the potent three-guitar attack of Moby ... More | |
Robert Irwin, Untitled, 1968. Synthetic polymer paint on metal disc and arm. 60 in. diameter (152.4 cm); white metal arm: 20 x 8-3/8 in. Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Schwartz © Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
PASADENA, CALIF.- The Norton Simon Museum presents Plugged In: Art and Electric Light, an exhibition that explores the emergence of electric light as an artistic medium in the mid-20th century as artists engaged with new technology, mass media and industrial materials. These themes are explored through 11 works of art produced between 1964 and 1970, all drawn from the Museums collections. Presented in the ... More | |
A thin slice of the ancient rocks collected from Gakkel Ridge near the North Pole, photographed under a microscope and seen under cross-polarized light. Field width ~ 14mm. Photo: E. Cottrell, Smithsonian.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A new analysis of rocks thought to be at least 2.5 billion years old by researchers at the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History helps clarify the chemical history of Earths mantlethe geologic layer beneath the planets crust. The findings hone scientists understanding of Earths earliest geologic processes, and they provide new evidence in a decades-long scientific debate about the geologic history of Earth. Specifically, the results ... More |
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| The Estate of Paul Wonner joins Paul Thiebaud Gallery | | NGV announces new exhibition 'Cats & Dogs' at NGV Australia, opening 1 November | | Salzburger Kunstverein opens two new exhibitions |
Paul Wonner, Figure by Window, 1962. Oil on canvas, 59 3/4 x 46 3/8 inches. Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Gift of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence, 2014.1.001. © 2024 Estate of Paul Wonner and William Theophilus Brown, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA .- Paul Thiebaud Gallery announced its representation of the Estate of Paul Wonner (1920-2008). Best known as a member of the then radical Bay Area Figurative Painting Movement of the 1950s, Wonners career ... More | |
Jeff Koons, Balloon dog (Red) 1995. Porcelain, 11.3 à 26.3 cm diameter. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Gift of Eric Harding and Athol Hawke, 2006 © Jeff Koons.
MELBOURNE.- From cattle dogs to lap dogs, divine felines to the black cats of superstition, Cats & Dogs, a new exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia opening November 2024, explores humanitys deep connection to cats and dogs through more than 250 works of art and design. Drawn from the NGV Collection and spanning all periods ... More | |
Exhibition view Philipp Fleischmann. Flashes of Resilience, Salzburger Kunstverein 2024, photo: kunst-dokumentation.
SALZBURG.- Salzburger Kunstverein is presenting its summer program, featuring two new exhibitions. echo*, a collaborative endeavor by Martin Beck and Sung Tieu, fills the Grand Hall and the Ring Gallery, while Flashes of Resilience by Philipp Fleischmann occupies the Studio Space. The summer exhibition echo* interlaces the artistic practices of Martin Beck and Sung ... More |
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| For Billy Joel fans, a New York night to remember | | Toumani Diabaté, Malian master of the kora, is dead at 58 | | Exhibition focuses on diversity in art from the 16th to the 18th century |
A Billy Joel fan waits to enter Madison Square Garden in New York on Thursday, July 25, 2024. (Thea Traff/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Lori Umbrino saw her first Billy Joel concert at Shea Stadium in Queens in 1990. More than three decades later, she stood with her two children outside Madison Square Garden on Thursday evening, each wearing a T-shirt from the singers concerts across the years. Weve been there ... More | |
He believed that music could transcend national borders set by colonialism and restore ancient ties, even as it embraced the changes of a globalizing society.
NEW YORK, NY.- Toumani Diabaté, a virtuoso of the kora, a 21-stringed West African instrument, which he often put into dialogue with other musical traditions from around the globe, died Friday in Bamako, Mali. He was 58. His death, in a hospital, was ... More | |
Petrus Gonsalvus (Born 1556), Unknown painter, around 1580. Oil on canvas, h. 190 cm, w. 80 cm © KHM-Museumsverband.
VIENNA.- We are all different. Diversity has always existed, even in the 16th century. When humans increasingly took centre stage in the Renaissance, it was not just their ideal that was of interest, but also their inexhaustible diversity. With its look back at history, this years special exhibition at Ambras ... More |
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Elizabeth Malaska on the Animal and Human Figures that Characterize Her Artwork
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Collection de l'Art Brut exhibits works by Pascal Vonlanthen and Clemens WildLAUSANNE.- Pascal Vonlanthen is fascinated by typefaces and textual arrangement, although he cannot read. In copying text from newspapers, magazines and advertising materials, he produces his own, distinctive take on a language whose codes he cannot decipher. Over the course of a decade, he produced an original body of asemic writings texts with no syntax but invested with immense formal power. At first glance, Vonlanthens writings bear a certain resemblance to the printed texts on which they are based, as if an article were beginning to take shape on the page. But the eye soon stumbles over inverted letters, jumbled numbers, illogical sequences, endless lines without spaces or punctuation, and individual letters reproduced repeatedly and in an increasingly abstract fashion. In contrast to the rigidity of typefaces, Vonlanthens ... More Leslie Uggams won't get left behindNEW YORK, NY.- Veteran singer and actress Leslie Uggams likes to be busy. Even when Im home and I get to relax, she said in a phone interview from her home in New York, I have to be doing something cooking, doing a puzzle something. The 81-year-old has kept busy since she made her debut at age 6 as Ethel Waters niece in the 1950s sitcom Beulah. The career that followed included an adolescence spent singing and dancing at the Apollo Theater; hosting her own televised variety show in 1969 (Sammy Davis Jr. and Dick Van Dyke were among her guests); winning a lead actress Tony in 1968 for the musical Hallelujah, Baby!; and earning an Emmy and Golden Globe nomination for portraying Kizzy in the 1977 miniseries Roots. Keeping ever current, Uggams appeared in the 2023 film American Fiction, performed ... More Smithsonian American Women's History Museum receives $4 million in donations to continue museum's developmentWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Womens History Museum has announced a $2 million gift from The Coca-Cola Company, a $1 million gift from The Hartford and a $1 million gift from Cassie Arison to support the development of the museum. The donations establish The Coca-Cola Company, The Hartford and Arison as founding donors of the museum, which aims to expand the story of America through the often-untold accounts and accomplishments of womenindividually and collectivelyto better understand the past and inspire the future. Building a national museum requires a national effort from both public companies and private individuals, said Elizabeth C. Babcock, director of the Smithsonian ... More 'Deadpool & Wolverine' review: Nothing ever endsNEW YORK, NY.- Disneys so stupid, Deadpool declares trollishly at the beginning of Deadpool & Wolverine. Its the sort of jab in this case, at the studio distributing the film were watching that weve grown used to from this dude, a potty-mouthed exterminator in a face-obscuring suit vaguely reminiscent of Spider-Man. Not quite a hero, not quite anything else, Deadpool is an answer to the conflicted but upstanding superheroes of 21st-century Hollywood. He kills messily, he makes a lot of inappropriate jokes and, in an industry that practically decrees a profit-boosting PG-13 rating, his movies are always rated R. Despite first appearing in Marvel comics, Deadpool (played by Ryan Reynolds), aka Wade Wilson, also used to stand slightly outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But in the six years since his last big-screen appearance ... More "Designing Motherhood" to explore human reproduction through a design lensHOUSTON, TX.- This fall, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft will present Designing Motherhood, the first exhibition of its kind to consider the arc of human reproduction through a design lens. The exhibition originated in Philadelphia at the Mütter Museum at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Center for Architecture and Design. HCCCs iteration of Designing Motherhood will be the first mounted in the Southern United States and the first to extend the contents to highlight the craft perspective on the topic. Featuring over 60 craft and design objects and prototypes from the past 50 years and the work of more than 20 contemporary artists, the show traverses themes ranging from the DIY culture of parenthood and health activism to reproductive access and equity, parental leave, and the work-life balance ... More 3 members of The Nelons gospel group are killed in a plane crashNEW YORK, NY.- Three members of award-winning gospel band The Nelons and four other people on board were killed in a plane crash in rural Wyoming on Friday, according to authorities and representatives for the band. The plane, an 11-seat Pilatus, crashed at approximately 1 p.m. in a remote area north of Gillette, in Campbell County, the county government said on Facebook. The three band members Jason Clark, his wife, Kelly Nelon Clark, and their daughter Amber Kistler were traveling to perform on a cruise that was set to depart Saturday from Seattle and sail to Alaska, according to a statement from Gaither Management Group, which the band recorded for. Kistlers husband, Nathan, was also killed, as well as the bands assistant, Melodi Hodges, the pilot, Larry Haynie, and his wife, Melissa. ... More Bob Booker, whose JFK parody was a runaway hit, dies at 92NEW YORK, NY.- Bob Booker, a veteran comedy writer best known for The First Family, the 1962 album lampooning President John F. Kennedy and his family, which was such a runaway hit that crowds gathered at record stores to hear it, died July 12 at his home in Tiburon, California. He was 92. The cause was heart failure, his daughter Laura Booker said. Today The First Family, on which stand-up comedian Vaughn Meader voiced a spot-on Kennedy, is a time capsule of somewhat corny humor and political innocence. But the Camelot-hungry public ate up its parodies of a whispery Jacqueline Kennedy conducting a White House tour and Meader as the president, in broad Bostonese, insisting that the rubbah swan a bathtub toy belonged to him, and that he would cross a room with great vigah. Its lines became catchphrases repeated ... More 'The Decameron' review: Laughs in a time of pestilenceNEW YORK, NY.- TV audiences have an appetite for a good class-conscious satire of rich people on holiday in a fabulous location say, a stunning Italian getaway and the servants who attend to them. The new Netflix series The Decameron draws on medieval literature to offer a raucous twist on this premise, heightened with the looming threat of bubonic plague. The White Lotus, meet the Black Death. In the 14th-century work by Giovanni Boccaccio, a precursor to Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales, 10 young people flee to a rural estate from disease-ridden Florence, Italy, entertaining one another by telling stories both dramatic and raunchy. The 10 tales per refugee, as told over 10 days, makes for a cycle of 100 stories, proving that even before streaming media, creators know how to stretch out material to series length. The eight-episode Netflix ... More Suicideboys don't care for the music biz. They got its attention anyway.NEW YORK, NY.- Louisiana rap duo Suicideboys have avoided nearly all the trappings of the contemporary music machine. They rarely grant interview requests and make the occasional public appearance with their faces partially covered. Still, Scott Arceneaux Jr. (known as Scrim) and Aristos Petrou (aka Ruby da Cherry) recently celebrated their biggest opening week yet on the Billboard chart: a No. 5 debut for their fourth album, New World Depression, last month. Its kind of hard, dude, Arceneaux, 35, said of dealing with their ever-growing visibility as one of the biggest independent rap groups in the United States. Its taken on a life of its own. Over the past decade, a passionate and adoring fan base has been drawn to Suicideboys blend of Southern rap rhythms and pop-punk melodies, all cloaked in the lush, depressive ... More You see rubble and garbage. She sees New York's next great park.NEW YORK, NY.- The area under the Brooklyn Bridge in lower Manhattan is a forbidding swath of rubble and construction equipment, cut off from the sky by six lanes of clattering bridge traffic. To most of the world, it communicates a single message: Keep out. To Rosa Chang, it conveyed something different: New York Citys next great park. On a walk around the site last month, Chang peered through a chain-link fence at a few pieces of idle heavy machinery and described what she saw. She wore a bright red dress and high-wedge sneakers and the beatific smile of a true believer. I see opera, she said. I see children playing, I see trees, I see old people sitting down talking to each other. I see skateboarders flying in the air, I see nature, I see one of our most beautiful structures that humanity has ever been able to build anchoring ... More Edna O'Brien, writer who gave voice to women's passions, dies at 93NEW YORK, NY.- Edna OBrien, the prolific Irish author whose evocative and explicit stories of loves lost earned her a literary reputation that matched the darkly complex lives of her tragic heroines, died Saturday. She was 93. Her death was announced on social media by her publisher, Faber, which said only that she had died after a long illness. She had spoken in recent years about being treated for cancer. OBrien wrote dozens of novels and short-story collections over almost 60 years, starting in 1960 with The Country Girls, a book that dealt with the emotional conflicts of two Irish girls who rebel against their Roman Catholic upbringing. Her books often depicted willful but insecure women who loved men who were crass, unfaithful or already married. Much of her early work carried aspects of autobiography, which stirred whisperings about he ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh died July 29, 1890. Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died at the age of 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted (although no gun was ever found). His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still. In this image: Jussi Pylkkanen views Van Gogh's "A Pair of Shoes," as it went on display in the Christie's auction rooms in London, Friday, September 10, 1999. The rarely exhibited and little known painting is the missing link in an important series of five closely related pictures by Van Gogh between 1886 and 1887.
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