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Claremont Rug Company founder/president Jan David Winitz.
OAKLAND, CALIF.- The Magazine ANTIQUES is presenting a two-part podcast hosted by Ben Miller ("Curious Objects") with Claremont Rug Company (www.claremontrug.com) president and founder Jan David Winitz. During the conversational interview, Winitz provides insights into the art of collecting elite-level, antique Oriental rugs woven during the Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving (ca. 1800 to ca. 1910). Miller probes how Winitz works with clients as they embark on the process of discovering their tastes and developing their visual palettes. A highlight of the conversation is an examination of how Winitz guides clients to understand this often-undervalued art form and the educational tools he provides that help them grasp the spirituality that the best-of-the-best rugs offer. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This autumn, Bozar is devoting a major exhibition to one of the most important artist- couples in art history: Hans/Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, two central figures of 20th-century abstract art. With over 250 works, the exhibition offers an overview of their extremely varied artistic oeuvre, encompassing painting, sculpture, drawing, textile, design and literature.
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| Sotheby's to offer a pair of extraordinarily rare Ming dynasty Chinese 'fish jars' | | The forgotten dealer who discovered Picasso and Matisse | | "Hans/Jean Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Friends, Lovers, Partners" opens at Bozar |
Held in a German family collection for a century and removed to safety during the Second World War, the jars are the only complete pair ever to appear at auction. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This autumn, Sothebys will offer a pair of extraordinarily rare 16th-century Ming dynasty Chinese fish jars made for the Jiajing Emperor, marking the first ever appearance at auction of a complete pair with covers. Only one other such pair is known to be preserved, now held in the Musée Guimet ... More | |
Raoul Dufy, 30 ans ou la vie en rose, 1931. Oil on canvas, 38 5/8 x 50 3/8 in. Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: CC0 Paris Musées / Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- A collection of paintings isnt like a stock portfolio, Parisian art dealer Berthe Weill declared in her 1933 memoir, Pow! Right in the Eye! She was lamenting that novice collectors of the era were overly concerned about whether the ... More | |
Installation view. Photo: Julie Pollet.
BRUSSELS.- This autumn, Bozar is devoting a major exhibition to one of the most important artist- couples in art history: Hans/Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, two central figures of 20th-century abstract art. With over 250 works, the exhibition offers an overview of their extremely varied artistic oeuvre, encompassing painting, sculpture, drawing, textile, design and literature. This is the largest retrospective devoted to the Arp and Taeuber- ... More |
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| FOMU - Photo Museum Antwerp opens Belgium's first major solo of the American artist Cindy Sherman | | Cleveland Museum of Art's Ingalls Library and Museum Archives receives monumental gift | | UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents "Mo Yi: Me in My Landscape" |
Untitled #414, 2003, Chromogenic color print © Cindy Sherman, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
ANTWERP.- FOMU presents Belgiums first major solo of the American artist Cindy Sherman. Featuring more than 100 works from the 1970s to the present, the exhibition offers an exciting overview of this leading contemporary artists work. Spanning five decades of work divided over multiple floors, the exhibition Anti-Fashion dives deeper into Shermans fascination for fashion and the nexus between her independent work and commissions in the fashion industry. ... More | |
Terry and the late Ralph Kovel at a flea market in 1980.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art announced the major donation of the late Ralph and Terry Kovel research collection to the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives. For more than six decades, the Kovels have been experts in the field of antiques and collectibles, amassing a remarkable and singular library and archive consisting of more than 15,000 volumes and 50 linear feet of research resources and correspondence. This precious trove not only serves as a chronicle of their long careers but also stands as ... More | |
Installation view of " Mo Yi: Me in My Landscape," UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, 2024. Photograph by Sun Shi, courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art.
BEIJING.- From September 28 to December 29, 2024, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents Mo Yi: Me in My Landscape, the first institutional survey of the Chinese artist, Mo Yi (b. 1958, Shaanxi). An outsider and an autodidact photographer, Mo Yis images of the streets have become iconic for capturing the energy and melancholy of Chinas evolving social fabric at the turn ... More |
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| Painting, drawing and motion-capture images stitched together using digital technology create a surreal universe | | Major mid-career retrospective of painter Cecily Brown premieres at Dallas Museum of Art | | The ultimate celebrity photographer |
Federico Solmi, The Great Farce, 2017, nine channel video installation, color, sounds, 8:11 minutes. [Video still] Image copyright Federico Solmi.
EVANSTON, IL.- Past and present, history and amusement, reality and spectacle are conflated and distorted in Federico Solmis monumental media work, The Great Farce (2017). This immersive video is made up of nine video projections spanning the entirety of The Block Museum's largest gallery. In the multiscreen work, painting, drawing and motion-capture images are stitched ... More | |
Cecily Brown, We didnt mean to go to sea, 2018, oil on linen, 89 x 83 in., The Rachofsky Collection, © Cecily Brown, photo Genevieve Hanson.
DALLAS, TX.- This fall, the Dallas Museum of Art premieres a major mid-career retrospective of pioneering British-American painter Cecily Brownthe first exhibition to fully explore her work through the lens of its groundbreaking reconfiguration of cultural politics. Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations brings together nearly 30 large-scale paintings and drawings from across almost 30 years ... More | |
Photographer Kevin Mazur with Cyndi Lauper at the MTV Video Music Awards in Elmont, New York, Sept. 12, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When Taylor Swift opened her Eras Tour in Glendale, Arizona, in March 2023, Kevin Mazur was granted full access to photograph the show. When Beyoncé opened her Renaissance Tour in Stockholm, Sweden, two months later, Mazur captured the performance from directly in front of the stage. That fall, when Madonna opened her Celebration Tour in London, ... More |
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| Künstlerhaus Stuttgart opens "Brian Holmes: Rivermap" | | Frye Art Museum to open "Hayv Kahraman: Look Me in the Eyes" | | Opera is still obsessed with the suffering of women |
Brian Holmes and Tallmadge Doyle: excerpt from "Biocultural Restoration in the Salish Sea" (2023).
STUTTGART.- Maps are power whether in the colonial era, or in todays imperial system. But how can they be deconstructed, reconfigured, shared among multiple actors and used to chart alternative futures? How can they embrace the processual flow of time and the multiplicity of embodied viewpoints? Can digital maps still reveal the territory? Can maps of power become pathways of liberation? Brian Holmes has spent the last decade developing an online mapkit for issues in political ecology, while simultaneously engaging in his favorite research activity: roaming around the riverine landscapes of the American ... More | |
Hayv Kahraman. Qazwan, 2023. Watercolor and gauche on flax fiber. 22 x 14 in. Courtesy of the artist; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Pilar Corrias, London; The Third Line, Dubai; and Vielmetter Los Angeles. Photo: Courtesy Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. Glen Cheriton, Impart Photography.
SEATTLE, WA.- Featuring all new work, Hayv Kahraman: Look Me in the Eyes explores the powerful visual and conceptual elements that are core tenets of Kahramans practice, while marking a momentous new phase of her career. Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, the Fryes presentation will feature additional works from the artists studio. In her largest solo museum presentation to date, Kahraman ... More | |
Emily DAngelo, standing, as Jess in the opera Grounded at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, on Sept. 19, 2024. Two new works, The Listeners and Grounded, echo the age-old spectacle of female disintegration and show the tension of fitting modern stories into old forms. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Operas job is to show us whats bigger, wilder and more intense than ordinary life. Its a terrarium in which we watch a condensed version of ourselves, with more ecstatic loves and more savage suffering. Its no secret that a disproportionate amount of that suffering has been endured by women. With its bounty of female mad scenes, wasting sicknesses and tragic deaths, ... More |
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Architect Liz Diller: âYou have to be a mind reader"
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Coppola's 'Megalopolis' plays to near-empty theatersLOS ANGELES, CA.- There is no kind way to put it: Francis Ford Coppolas Megalopolis died on arrival over the weekend. Coppola, 85, spent decades on the avant-garde fable, ultimately selling part of his wine business to raise the necessary funds about $120 million in production costs and another $20 million or so in marketing and distribution expenses. But moviegoers rejected the film: Ticket sales from Thursday night through Sunday will total roughly $4 million in North America, according to analysts, slightly below worst-case scenario prerelease projections. Megalopolis played in nearly 2,000 theaters in the United States and Canada. As of Saturday evening, it was on pace to place sixth in the weekend box office derby, behind even Devara Part 1, a poorly reviewed, three-hour, Telugu-language action drama ... More Nick Gravenites, mainstay of the San Francisco rock scene, dies at 85NEW YORK, NY.- Nick Gravenites, a Chicago-bred blues vocalist and guitarist who rose to prominence during the explosion of psychedelia in San Francisco in the 1960s as a founder of hard-driving blues-rock band the Electric Flag and as a songwriter for Janis Joplin and others, died Sept. 18 in Santa Rosa, California. He was 85. His son Tim Gravenites said he died in an assisted-living facility, where he was being treated for dementia and diabetes. Nick Gravenites grew up on the South Side of Chicago, where he was part of a cadre of white misfit kids, as he put it on his website, who honed their craft watching Chicago blues masters like Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf in local clubs. His colleagues included singer and harmonica player Paul Butterfield and guitarists Michael Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop; all four of them would go on to help ... More Cat Glover, who danced with Prince, dies at 62NEW YORK, NY.- Cat Glover, a dancer and choreographer for Prince who added a frenetic flair to the artists late 1980s ensembles, and who danced onstage with him during his Sign o the Times tour, has died at her home in Los Angeles. She was 62. Her death was confirmed by Hayley Drinkall, a former manager, who did not say when she had died or cite a cause. Amid the fevered and color-saturated sets of Princes music videos and stage shows, Glover often appeared to break through a cloud of fog or a group of dancers with her own rhythms and energy. The grace that Prince, a perfectionist in his productions, allowed Glover was palpable in their appearances together. In the video for I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man, Glover is featured as the main character of Princes sonic arc as she circles him onstage, her emotions shifting between bemused and charmed. ... More Caterina Valente, singer who was a star on two continents, dies at 93NEW YORK, NY.- Caterina Valente, a polyglot performer who sang in more than a dozen languages and was a television mainstay on two continents in the 1950s and 60s, died Sept. 9 at her home in Lugano, Switzerland. She was 93. Her death was announced on her website. Valente achieved stardom in mid-1950s Germany in a popular music genre known as schlager: novelty songs, with titles like Ganz Paris Träumt von der Liebe (All Paris Dreams of Love) and Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu Strandbikini. By 1955, her hits had put her on the cover of the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. She had her own television show in Germany in 1957, and she appeared regularly at the Olympia in Paris throughout her career. Her fluid, confident delivery and sure pitch, as well as her skill as both a guitar player and a tap dancer, also ... More Skoto Gallery presents a two-person exhibition of recent works by SoHyun Bae and Choong Sup LimNEW YORK, NY.- Skoto Gallery is presenting Wind, Water, Stone, a two-person exhibition of recent works by Korean American artists SoHyun Bae and Choong Sup Lim. This is their first two-person exhibition at the gallery. This exhibition encourages us to think expansively about the creative process and takes its title from a 1979 poem Wind, Water, Stone by the celebrated Mexican poet Octavio Paz, first published in English in The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz 1957-1987 and put together by the poets English translator Eliot Weinberger. The poem, as summarized by the poet Roger Caillois explores the interconnectedness and transformational qualities of water, wind, and stone. Each element interacts with and influences the others in a perpetual cycle of change. Water erodes stone over time, wind disperses water, and stone ... More Secci Gallery opens a solo exhibition by Daria Dmytrenko titled "Who's Afraid of the Dark"MILAN.- The grandeur of painting, the grandeur of the themes that crawl like veins through a dark side of the psyche, the iconographic grandeur that emanates from the subconscious mind, dragging one into the depths of darkness, of fears, and those fears that instill a resistance we must not wish to escape. There is a majestic dignity to the canvas, which possesses an unusual immersive quality. In this vast dimension of painting, within the daily temporal filter, in that specific hour that marks the birth of the day, Daria Dmytrenko captures the literary hour where the darkness of sleep, the waves of resting consciousness, crash within us, resisting the light and awakening. An hour experienced in the music of Alberto Savinio in his historic composition Chant de la mi mort, where even the title reflects the absence of a vigilant consciousness, ... More Viewfinders make fall foliage pop for the colorblind in VirginiaNEW YORK, NY.- Like so many other leaf-peeping enthusiasts, Tim Yates ventured out to Virginias Smith Mountain Lake State Park late this summer to see the early whispers of the fall foliage, which would soon give way to bright bursts of orange and red. But for Yates, it was a rare opportunity to see the leaves, whether they were just beginning to turn or in their full glory. For his entire life, Yates, 56, has been red-green colorblind, meaning his eyes have trouble distinguishing between certain hues. For him, the leaf-peeping experience can be relatively muted. Clothes or flowers and a lot of different stuff, I just never really knew the color, said Yates, a retired beverage salesman from Bedford County, Virginia. In school, I always struggled with colors. But at Smith Mountain La ... More On 'Downton Abbey,' Maggie Smith made an icy aristocrat irresistibleNEW YORK, NY.- In retrospect, Maggie Smiths brilliant, high-wire career can be seen as a protest against celebrity. As an actor, Smith, who died Friday at 89, favored characters into which she could disappear, and the rare interviews she agreed to were awkward, unrevealing, sometimes deliberately uningratiating. In a 2013 60 Minutes profile, she seems almost physically wracked by the journalists curiosity. There was one personal detail, though, that she had no problem sharing in her final years: how much she despised the fame that her most recognized part had brought down on her. Its ridiculous, she told one reporter. I was able to live a somewhat normal life until I started doing Downton Abbey. I know that sounds funny, but I am serious. Before that I could go to all the places I wanted and see all of the things that I like, but now I cant, ... More Using dance to provoke, delight and tell South Africa's storiesJOHANNESBURG.- The young boy couldnt resist the dance moves he saw being performed around him: the rapid foot taps, the ligament-spraining knee twists, the torso shimmies, all coming together in what some might describe as a sort of urban tap dance. Growing up in an impoverished Black township near Johannesburg in the 1980s, the boy, Vusi Mdoyi, loved watching his father dance with friends, in a style known as pantsula, in the dirt yards of their staid four-room bungalows. It was a sprinkle of joy in the dark days of apartheid. At about 7 years old, Mdoyi began mimicking the dance form. By 10, he was dancing in school festivals. By 14, he had created his own dance crew with neighborhood friends. Now 44, Mdoyi is a celebrated dance and choreographer who has helped to achieve what felt unimaginable during apartheid: ... More Kris Kristofferson, country singer, songwriter and actor, dies at 88NEW YORK, NY.- Kris Kristofferson, a singer-songwriter whose literary yet plain-spoken compositions infused country music with rarely heard candor and depth, and who later had a successful second career in movies, died at his home in Maui, Hawaii on Saturday. He was 88. His death was announced by Ebie McFarland, a spokesperson, who did not give a cause. Hundreds of artists have recorded Kristoffersons songs among them Al Green, the Grateful Dead, Michael Bublé and Gladys Knight and the Pips. Kristoffersons breakthrough as a songwriter came with For the Good Times, a bittersweet ballad that topped the country chart and reached the Top 40 on the pop chart for Ray Price in 1970. His Sunday Morning Coming Down became a No. 1 country hit for his friend and mentor Johnny Cash later that year. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, film star James Dean died in a road accident September 30, 1955. James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were as loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955), and as the surly ranch hand, Jett Rink, in Giant (1956). Dean's enduring fame and popularity rests on his performances in only these three films, all leading roles. His premature death in a car crash cemented his legendary status. In this image: Actor James Dean is seen in a scene from the Warner Bros. 1956 epic, "Giant." Years after the making of the movie, teenagers are still trying for the cool that was James Dean, the poster boy for the tortured netherworld between child and adult.
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