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A reproduction of Banksys 2019 pop-up installation Venice in Oil, originally exhibited in Piazza San Marco, representing a cruise ship that looms over tourists and the citys signature gondoliers, at the Banksy Museum in New York on May 22, 2024. Work by the anonymous street artist is hard to find. At a museum devoted to him, its even harder. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- To enter the Banksy Museum, which opened this month above a Bank of America on the lower lip of SoHo, a visitor must wade through the thicket of vendors crowding Canal Street with bootleg Apple products and almost-convincing Prada handbags splayed out on blankets. Its a fitting approach. The Banksy Museum does not own or display any actual Banksys but rather 167 decent-enough reproductions of them, life-size murals and paintings on panels treated to look like exterior walls that stretch through an exhibition space, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kate MacGarry opened Renee Soâs fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition includes a new body of ceramic works from Soâs 'Woman' stoneware series that draw upon early fertility idols and Venus figures celebrating the female form, alongside new Snuff bottle sculptures including a lemon, a nose, a poppy and a Pekingese dog. Kate MacGarry opened Renee Soâs fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition includes a new body of ceramic works from Soâs 'Woman' stoneware series that draw upon early fertility idols and Venus figures celebrating the female form, alongside new Snuff bottle sculptures including a lemon, a nose, a poppy and a Pekingese dog. Photo: Angus Mil.
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| The Hamburger Kunsthalle presents 'The Ephemeral Lake' - A digital installation by Jakob Kudsk Steensen | | Notre Dame rises again ... in Lego | | Ordrupgaard exhibits Ai Weiwei's installation comprised of over 650,000 LEGO bricks |
Installation view of The Ephemeral Lake at Hamburger Kunsthalle © Courtesy the artist © Hamburger Kunsthalle. Photo: Christoph Irrgang.
HAMBURG.- As part of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (17741840) in 2024, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is presenting The Ephemeral Lake, an immersive installation that highlights the unique expressive power of the works of the major Romantic painter ... More | |
Li Xixi purchases Legos new 4,383-brick model of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, on sale in the Lego Store at Les Halles in Paris on June 1, 2024. (Matthew Avignone/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Arnaud Gaudillat, a history teacher in France, recalled bursting into tears as he watched television coverage of flames tearing through the Cathedral of Notre Dame in 2019. We couldnt do anything but just watch it burn, he said. Now, five ... More | |
Ai Weiwei, Water Lilies #1, Ordrupgaard, photo Anders Sune Berg.
CHARLOTTENLUND.- Ai Weiweione of the most significant voices in contemporary artarrived at Ordrupgaard with the installation Water Lilies #1 (2022). This spectacular piece comprises over 650,000 LEGO bricks; with its impressive 15-meter length, it is Ai Weiweis largest LEGO work to date. The immense installation depicts water ... More |
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| Look closer: Searching for New York's hidden art | | The history of Black baseball players, on full display | | Designmuseum Danmark features carefully selected Japanese woodblock prints |
Reproductions of murals by Richard Haas from the 1970s and related to immigration, on a facade near where they once stood, in New York on May 24, 2024. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Standing in front of the Port Authority Bus Terminal on 42nd Street, a person can easily experience sensory overload: red double-decker tour buses, tourists asking which way the M&M store is, flashy neon-colored billboards, and the clanking and whirring of construction sounds. Yet sandwiched in between two buildings both over 10 stories tall ... More | |
A ball at The Souls of the Game: Voices of Black Baseball, a new exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. on Saturday, May 25, 2024. (Patrick Dodson/The New York Times)
COOPERSTOWN, NY.- Octavius Cattos impact was mostly unknown here at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, amid the sports heroic feats of lore and legend, like Joe DiMaggios 56-game hit streak, Ted Williams .406 batting average and Hank Aarons 715th home run to break Babe Ruths record. Catto, born a free Black man, turned to baseball in the shadows of the ... More | |
Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), The Syllable Su: Actor Bandō Mitsugorō VI as Yato Uemon Shichihei Norikane from the series Stories of the True Loyalty of the Faithful Samurai, 1864. Designmuseum Danmark. Photo: Pernille Klemp.
COPENHAGEN.- Pictures of beautiful women and heroic warriors in battle can be experienced at Designmuseum Danmark. The exhibition IN LOVE AND WAR features carefully selected woodblock prints from the museums large collection of Japanese craftsmanship and is both a story about the woodblock print a new popular media in Japan ... More |
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| Sarah Sze transforms ARoS' Level 1-gallery with the site-specific work Metronome | | Collector, historian Roger Hill's legendary assemblage of pre-code comic art debuts at Heritage | | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden opens Children's Biennale "PLANET UTOPIA" |
Sarah Sze, Metronome, 2023. Installation ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum 2024. © Sarah Sze. Photo: Andrea Rosetti.
AARHUS.- American artist Sarah Sze transformed ARoS Level 1-gallery with the site-specific work Metronome. Incorporating video projection and sculpture, the expansive and immersive installation offers an extraordinary model of our fragile, digitalized world. Metronome (2023) is characteristic of Sarah Szes unique approach to art making. Since the late 1990s, her innovative, poetic inquisition of the possibilities of materiality ... More | |
Lee Elias Black Cat Comics #50 Cover Original Art (Harvey, 1954). Current Bid: $97,500.
DALLAS, TX.- There are many comic art collectors for whom the words From The Roger Hill Collection will be more than enough to explain, excite, delight. They know what those five words signify, as Hill was long regarded as one of comicdoms most relentless and revered fans, collectors, historians and authors with an especially boundless passion for EC Comics and other titles that scared the pants off parents in the 1950s. As The Comics Journal wrote upon Hills death ... More | |
Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan, DWELL/IN/PLACE © Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Photo: Oliver Killig.
DRESDEN.- The time has come again! Following the great success of the first two Childrens Biennales, Dreams and Stories (2018/19) and Embracing Nature (2021/22), their long-awaited sequel is being presented under the title PLANET UTOPIA right in time for International Childrens Day. The Biennale revolves around the question of how we want to shape our future and how we can make the world where we live a better ... More |
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| 'Rob Lyon: Also Votives' opens at Adams and Ollman | | Sam Butcher, who gave the world precious moments, dies at 85 | | LAUNCH Gallery exhibits works by Clarisse Abelarde and Ana Rodriguez |
Rob Lyon, Bless, 2023. Oil on linen, 23 5/8h x 21 5/8w in.
PORTLAND, ORE.- Adams and Ollman is presenting Also Votives, a solo exhibition by British painter Rob Lyon, his second with the gallery. On view in the exhibition is a series of new paintings that explore the landscape as a site of spiritual communion and transformation. Included in the show is a group of works on paper, marking the first time Lyons drawings have been on view. Also ... More | |
I Love You Gnome Matter What Figurine.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sam Butcher, the soft-spoken artist whose doe-eyed, pastel-hued porcelain Precious Moments figurines ignited a global collecting frenzy and made him a wealthy man, and whose Christian faith spurred him to build his own version of the Sistine Chapel in Carthage, Missouri, died May 20 at his home there. He was 85. His death was confirmed by his son Jon Butcher. Butcher was the Michelangelo of Missouri, and his ... More | |
Ana Rodriguez, Untitled 4.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAUNCH Gallery is presenting two Los Angeles based artists, both alumni of the Cal State Long Beach undergraduate painting program, and their deeply personal new paintings inspired by memories of the past while simultaneously using the work to contemplate contemporary society and their place in it. Filipina immigrant Clarisse Abelarde uses her oil paintings to navigate themes of displacement ... More |
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Leslye Headland hopes the force is with 'The Acolyte'NEW YORK, NY.- Leslye Headland has been telling Star Wars stories onscreen since she was a teenager. Ostracized at school for being different, she retreated inward, making stop-motion films starring her action figures. So when she found success as an adult in Hollywood Headland helped create Russian Doll, the 2019 Netflix comedy starring Natasha Lyonne and got the chance to create an actual Star Wars show, it was the realization of a lifelong dream. And a chance for humiliating failure. On a galactic scale. I essentially cold-called Lucasfilm and, after a lot of conversations, found myself pitching a show utterly elated, my ultimate career goal, the culmination of my fandom, Headland said. At the same time, I would be lying if I said I wasnt scared. There is so much pressure. Its extreme. I had never done anything this big before. ... More Review: For 'Molly Sweeney,' not seeing was never the obstacleNEW YORK, NY.- Molly Sweeney can identify dozens of plants by touch, catch a lie in a familiar voice and dance ecstatically through a crowd without disturbing a hair. Because she lost much of her eyesight when she was 10 months old except, crucially, her ability to discern light from dark Molly has developed keen powers of sensory perception. Sure-footed though she is, the title character in Molly Sweeney, now running at the Irish Repertory Theater, is treated like a pawn by two men who cant see beyond their own self-interests. Thats one of several conspicuous paradoxes explored in Brian Friels 1994 confessional drama, the final installment of the theaters season devoted to the playwrights work. Like Friels more often revived Faith Healer, Molly Sweeney is told through a series of monologues addressed to the audience. All ... More Richard Ellis, 'poet laureate' of deep-sea creatures, dies at 86NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Ellis, a polymath of marine life whose paintings, books and museum installations especially the life-size blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History in New York revealed the beauty and wonders of the ocean, died May 21 in Norwood, New Jersey. He was 86. His daughter, Elizabeth Ellis, said the cause of his death, at an assisted living facility, was cardiac arrest. Ellis had no formal training in marine biology, conservation, painting or writing. But in fusing his artistic flair with an encyclopedic knowledge of ocean creatures, he became an invaluable, sui generis figure to conservationists, educators and those curious about sea life. Richard was an enthusiast, and he absolutely adored the natural world, especially the sea, said Ellen V. Futter, the former presiden ... More Jaap van Zweden's brief, fraught time atop the New York PhilharmonicNEW YORK, NY.- On a balmy spring morning, after a breakfast of coffee and plain yogurt at a luxury Manhattan hotel, Jaap van Zweden grabbed his bag of conducting batons and scores by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Sofia Gubaidulina and set out for Lincoln Center through the wilds of Central Park. I love the air, I love the trees, he said. Everybody can do whatever they want here. This is freedom, absolute freedom. Van Zweden, 63, will leave the New York Philharmonic this summer after six seasons as its music director, the shortest tenure of any maestro since Pierre Boulez, the eminent French composer and conductor who led the Philharmonic in the 1970s. Van Zweden helped the orchestra emerge from the turbulence of the pandemic; shepherded it through a trying, nomadic season when its home, David Geffen Hall, was undergoing a $550 ... More Amid orchestral waves, the sound of cultures conversingCINCINNATI, OH.- Eleven members of Steiger Butte Drum sat in a circle around a large elk-hide drum at the front of the stage of Cincinnatis Music Hall last Thursday. Washes of sound from the orchestra behind them built and receded in grand waves. The group was the concerto soloist, of a kind, in Natural History by Michael Gordon, one of the Bang on a Can composers who infused minimalism with rough, rebellious energy in the 1980s. A few times over the course of the 25-minute piece, Steiger Butte Drum, a traditional percussion and vocal ensemble of the Klamath Tribes of Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, broke out in a ceremonial song, the members beating the drum in fast, dramatic unison as they made a piercing, tangily pitch-bending, wordlessly wailing chant. They were joined by a full chorus, placed in the first balcony: the men ... More At City Ballet, a once-in-a-generation dancer arrivesNEW YORK, NY.- Mira Nadon was 5 when she took her first ballet class. It was pre-ballet, which meant running around the studio, maybe getting a shot at fluttering like a butterfly. This was not for her. When she found out that students began proper training at 6, Nadon laid it on the line: I told my mom, This isnt serious, she said. Im just going to wait till Im 6. Even then Nadon was levelheaded and unflappable. Now, at 23, she is a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, approaching the close of a momentous season at Lincoln Center, where her versatility, artistry and jaw-dropping abandon have made her seem like a ballerina superhero. This week, she returns to the role of Helena, the rejected young woman determined to win her lover back in George Balanchines A Midsummer Nights Dream. An affinity for drama is in her bones, but something ... More Gagosian exhibits Nan Goldin's 'Sisters, Saints, Sibyls' at former Welsh chapel in LondonLONDON.- Gagosian is presenting Nan Goldins Sisters, Saints, Sibyls, the second presentation of Gagosian Open, a series of off-site projects that allows audiences to experience remarkable artworks in unusual contexts. The exhibition is on view at the former Welsh chapel at 83 Charing Cross Road, London, from May 30 to June 23, 2024. Goldin begins her film Sisters, Saints, Sibyls (200422) with the myth of Saint Barbara, presenting the story of the early Christian martyr as a three-channel projection that echoes the triptych format of classical religious painting. Images of Saint Barbara accompany a voiceover that describes her defiance of her parents beliefs, a transgression for which they tortured her. This is analogous to the real subject of Goldins film and underpins its visual narrative. In 1958, Goldins elder sister, Barbara ... More Pace presents a group show curated by Cy Schnabel at its gallery in SeoulSEOUL.- Pace is presenting Illusive Places: Thomas Chapman, Alejandro Garmendia, Louis Jacquot, Lucy Mullican, Milko Pavlov, a group show curated by Cy Schnabel, at its gallery in Seoul. This exhibition, on view from May 10 to June 15, brings together works by artists who, in one way or another, share an interest in reinventing landscape painting. These five artistsThomas Chapman, Alejandro Garmendia, Louis Jacquot, Lucy Mullican, and Milko Pavlovuse landscape as a point of departure to create nuanced approaches to subject matter, form, and content. Throughout this exhibition, natural settings turn into imaginary realms that suggest new perspectives of the physical world and life in general. An abstracted sense of space in the pictures on view gives way to unstable compositions that are charged with desire, fantasy, and sometimes ... More Kendra Jayne Patrick opens Eva & Franco Mattes latest exhibitionBERN.- Kendra Jayne Patrick is presenting Eva & Franco Mattes first solo gallery exhibition in Switzerland. Since the early nineties, the duo are renowned for prescient artworks that materialize the exchanges between the visible and invisible infrastructures which compose our entirely internet-ed lives. From Net Arts inception - and indeed, the Mattes work is foundational to any understanding of the genre - their sculptural/and/or/video objects rework familiar hard- & softwares to reveal how the omnipresent sequences of zeros and ones in our digitized society shape notions of labor, time, one another, and self. The Mattes objects have always borne witness to the dystopian potential of total visibility. At the same time, the works themselves are methods - however macabre, funny, or questionable - for subverting the precarious conditions ... More How 3 Texas teenagers grew up to be Broadway stars (and stayed friends)NEW YORK, NY.- After a curtain call at a recent performance of Hamilton, Trey Curtis, who stars as Alexander Hamilton, put his arm around J. Quinton Johnson, who had played George Washington. They basked in the applause, shared a laugh and walked together offstage at the Richard Rodgers Theater. A block away, and nearly simultaneously, Vincent Jamal Hooper, who stars as Simba in The Lion King, was absorbing the cheers of the 1,700 theatergoers at the Minskoff Theater. It had been about a decade since the three men, now 29, had spent aimless nights in Austin, Texas, riding around in Johnsons 2007 Jeep blasting show tunes dreaming of plays they were still to perform in and music they were yet to write. Today, they are musical theater stars, appearing in some of the most commercially and critically acclaimed productions on ... More Hamburger Bahnhof presents Marianna Simnett's "Winner"BERLIN.- The Berlin-based artist Marianna Simnett is presenting her new film installation "WINNER" at Hamburger Bahnhof, which deals with the societal impact of soccer. This new production for Hamburger Bahnhof is being shown on the occasion of the 2024 European Football Championship in Germany. In three acts, "WINNER" echoes the dramaturgy of the game and dissects its socially constructed power hierarchies, crowd psychology, and constant pressure to perform. Through the element of dance, the work restages and radically transforms footballs most impassioned moments: elation and triumph, brutality and ferocity, suffering and defeat. The multidisciplinary approach of Marianna Simnett (born 1986 in London, UK; lives and works in Berlin) combines film, dance and music. The five-channel film installation "WINNER" (2024), ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Raoul Dufy was born June 03, 1877. Raoul Dufy (3 June 1877 - 23 March 1953) was a French Fauvist painter, brother of Jean Dufy. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events. He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces. In this image: A woman looks at artworks by late French painter Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) exhibited at the Beaux-Arts museum of Nice, on June 18, 2015, as part of the cultural event "Nice 2015. Promenade(s) des Anglais".
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