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Claude Monet, Le Bassin aux Nymphéas. Sotheby's Gallery Image. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- One of Claude Monets finest large-scale Water Lilies paintings ever to appear at auction will star in Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 12 May in New York. Estimated in the region of $40 million, Le Bassin aux Nymphéas stands among the most iconic and celebrated Impressionist images. Measuring nearly 40 by 79 inches, this enrapturing canvas from 1917-19 was conceived as part of the artists legendary series of monumental paintings depicting his water lily pond at Giverny, the Grandes Décorations, which he began in 1914 and examples of which can be found today in the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The series took Monets paintings of the tranquil lily pond in a radical new direction and were twice the size of his earlier Water Lilies. Ground-breaking in their nearly abstract treatment of the pond waters surface and its reflections, these late works ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Archaeological officer Elena Stylianou shows a sword thought to be from the period of the crusades, on January 22, 2021, on the site where a chapel of the Knights Templar was built at the Limassol medieval castle, now housing the Cyprus Medieval Museum in the coastal Cypriot city. Fables of the Knights Templar are legend, but deep beneath a castle on Cyprus -- an island once owned by the Crusader brotherhood -- lies a legacy historians say still resonates today. Alex MITA / AFP
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| Farnsworth announces historic bequest of 27 major Wyeth works from Betsy Wyeth | | Exhibition includes museum's five conserved mosaics from the ancient city of Antioch | | Knights Templar legacy lives on in Cyprus | 
Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009), Geraniums, 1960. Drybrush watercolor on paper, 20.75 x 15.5 inches.
ROCKLAND, ME.- The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, announced the receipt of major gifts of art from the bequest of Betsy James Wyeth. All twenty-seven new acquisitions by the three generations of Wyeth painters, N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth, will be on view, beginning Saturday, May 15, as part of a landmark new exhibition entitled Betsys Gift: The Works of N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth. The exhibition will be accompanied by a complementary exhibition of works by Andrew Wyeth, Betsy Wyeth: Partner and Muse, which features five Wyeth works that have never been exhibited in public. Betsy James Wyeth passed away last spring, at the age of ninety-eight. The Farnsworth is so fortunate to have the ongoing support of the Wyeth family and we are deeply grateful for this treasured gift to the museums collection, said Farnsworth Director Christopher J. Brownawell. Along with this stunning gift ... More | | 
Roman, Tetrarchic, Relief from a Sarcophagus with Christ as the Good Shepherd, c. AD 300, Marble, Princeton University Art Museum: Gift of the Friends of the Princeton University Art Museum.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- A new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg is presenting the famed 1930s excavation of the ancient city of Antioch through rare documents, artifacts, and the exquisite mosaics that were discovered during the archaeological dig. Antioch Reclaimed: Ancient Mosaics at the MFA (April 10August 22, 2021) features five geometric mosaic pavements, which date from the 2nd to the 5th centuries AD, from the MFA Collection. The MFA acquired the mosaics from Princeton University in 1964, one year prior to the museum opening to the public. After three of the mosaics were recovered from under the east lawn of the museum in 2018, all five ancient mosaics underwent an extensive conservation and preservation process to restore their original luster. An outdoor conservation lab at the museum allowed the community to observe the process. MFA, St. Petersburg ... More | | 
Archaeological officer Elena Stylianou shows a clay ampoule that used to contain holy water, on January 22, 2021, on the site where a chapel of the Knights Templar was built at the Limassol mediaeval castle, now housing the Cyprus Medieval Museum in the coastal Cypriot city. Alex MITA / AFP.
by Peter Martell
LIMASSOL (AFP).- Fables of the Knights Templar are legend, but deep beneath a castle on Cyprus -- an island once owned by the Crusader brotherhood -- lies a legacy historians say still resonates today. Down steep, narrow and uneven stone stairs in the fort of Limassol is a low-vaulted room lined with tombstones of medieval knights. This is the chapel where England's King Richard the Lionheart is believed to have been married, en route to the Holy Land in 1192. "The architecture and the artefacts here reflect the broad history of Cyprus," said Elena Stylianou, a government archaeologist, brandishing a long Crusader-era sword, rusted and chipped but still sharp. "Cyprus was a place ... More |
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| Holy grails and history-makers abound in Heritage Auctions' staggering spring sports auction | | Asian American artists, now activists, push back against hate | | 25th annual McNay Print Fair goes virtual | 
1909-11 T206 Sweet Caporal Honus Wagner PSA Fair 1.5. Estimate: $2,000,000 - up.
DALLAS, TX.- The Card(s). And The Table. And everything in between. It's impossible to identify just a single centerpiece, or only several handfuls, among the nearly 3,000 lots offered in Heritage Auctions' May 6-8 Spring Sports Catalog Auction; it's more than a little tempting to say the whole thing is a highlight. Already, with some three weeks left before the event goes into extended bidding, two baseball cards have well surpassed the million-dollar mark, with a signed Tom Brady rookie rarity close behind. Here, too, is a once-in-a-lifetime offering: Michael Jordan's game-worn, photo-matched University of North Carolina jersey from his 1982-83 "NCAA Player of the Year" season. And with a boisterous checkmate comes this extraordinary piece: the very chessboard used and autographed! by Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky during 1972's World Chess Championship. Worthy of a queen's ransom, especially in this age of The Queen's Gambit. It is n ... More | | 
From left: Tomie Arai, ManSee Kong and Betty Yu, founders of the Chinatown Art Brigade, an activist group, in New York, April 8, 2021. Jingyu Lin/The New York Times.
by Aruna DSouza
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Early in the pandemic, word started to travel among Asian American artists: Racist attacks were on the rise. Jamie Chan told a fellow artist, Kenneth Tam, about getting kicked out of an Uber pool ride by the driver who noticed her sniffling. Anicka Yi, an artist based in New York, called Christine Y. Kim, a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to talk about being spit at on a Manhattan street; Kim, in turn, recounted being accosted in a Whole Foods parking lot. Tam decided to start recording these incidents in a Google spreadsheet he named We Are Not COVID. It circulated on social media first among arts communities, then to wider audiences. Over the past several months, the document has filled up with reports ranging from ... More | | 
The webpage will be populated with interviews with print dealers from around the country as they highlight works of art available for sale.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay Art Museums highly-anticipated annual Print Fair is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an all-new virtual format. This years event will be held May 12 on the McNays website at www.mcnayart.org/print-fair. Access is free and open to the public. Weve pivoted to a virtual Print Fair experience out of an abundance of caution and care for our patrons, staff, and dealers from around the country, said Lyle W. Williams, McNay Curator of Prints and Drawings, Curator of Modern Art. This years event may be the biggest one yet because we really are opening the experience up to the world, while still bringing those conversations with dealers and artists to attendees through a video format. The webpage will be populated with interviews with print dealers from around the country as they highlight works of art available for sale. Links to each dealers website, ... More |
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| The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona announces new extension to be completed at the end of 2023 | | Rusty Young, country rock pioneer, is dead at 75 | | How many Tyrannosaurus Rexes ever lived on Earth? Here's a new clue | 
A square on three levels, an accessible urban gallery, an access passage through the transept of the MACBA Chapel are some of the proposals of the project that will allow a greater display of the Collection and create a more participatory Museum that will interact with the public space.
BARCELONA.- The General Council of the Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBAs highest governing body, today announced the decision of the jury of independent experts that has resolved, by a large majority, the open call for the extension of the Convent dels Ãngels in favour of the Gallery proposal, from the architecture studio UTE Harquitectes i Christ & Gantenbein. After evaluating the final shortlist of five proposals, all of them of a very high standard, the jury has decided to proclaim the proposal presented under the title Gallery as the winner of the open call for the drafting of the preliminary project for the expansion and reformation of the Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona at the Convent dels Ãngels and, where applicable, the drafting services for the basic and executive project and technical assistance for managing the works at MACBA. The proposal has obtained the ... More | | 
Formed in 1968, Poco originally included singer-guitarists Jim Messina and Richie Furay both formerly of Buffalo Springfield, another pioneering country rock band from Los Angeles along with Young, drummer George Grantham and bassist Randy Meisner, a future member of the Eagles. (Timothy B. Schmit, another future Eagle, replaced Meisner after he left the band in 1969.)
by Bill Friskics-Warren
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Rusty Young, a founding member of the popular country rock group Poco and a key figure in establishing the pedal steel guitar as an integral voice in the West Coast rock of the late 1960s and 70s, died Wednesday at his home in Davisville, Missouri. He was 75. His publicist, Mike Farley, said the cause was a heart attack. Young played steel guitar with Poco for more than a half-century. Along with other Los Angeles-based rock bands like the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, Poco was among the architects of the country rock movement of the late 60s, which incorporated traditional country instrumentation into predominantly rock arrangements. The Eagles and scores of other bands would ... More | | 
Computer simulations indicated, with 97.5 percent probability, that there were at least 1,300 adult tyrannosauruses at any given time but not more than 328,000.
by Kenneth Chang
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Before they were killed off by a meteor that hit Earth 66 million years ago, some 20,000 adults of the iconic ferocious dinosaur predator Tyrannosaur rex roamed North America at any given time, researchers have calculated. Thats not a precise number, and the correct total could be far lower or higher because of uncertainties such as how long they lived, how quickly they grew and matured or the rate of their metabolisms. Still, the research, published Thursday by the journal Science, opens doors in studying long-extinct dinosaurs beyond what can be gleaned from individual fossils. Skeletal features can tell a lot about an animal. For example, someone looking at a human tooth could infer that it is suited for chewing both plants and meat, and the shape of the skeleton could yield an estimate of how fast a person can run. But the physical attributes cannot tell you how many people live in ... More |
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| Taking over Victory Gardens to make a 'theater for all' | | Liam Scarlett, acclaimed British choreographer, dies at 35 | | Tate Britain Commission: Heather Phillipson RUPTURE NO.1: blowtorching the bitten peach | 
Ken-Matt Martin in front of the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, April 9, 2021. The esteemed Chicago theaters first Black artistic director is going in with his eyes open. Nolis Anderson/The New York Times.
by Mark Caro
CHICAGO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ken-Matt Martin, the incoming artistic director of Victory Gardens Theater here, said he never has revealed this publicly before, but he has a Sankofa bird tattooed on his back. This mythical creature, with a name that means return to retrieve in Ghanas Akan language, is depicted with its feet pointing forward and its head turned backward a reminder, Martin said, of making sure you have a reverence and understanding of the past so that as you move into the future, you know what the hell youve come from. Thats key to how I move, how I operate in the world. And thats the delicate balance Martin, at 32, intends to strike as he takes the reins of this 47- ... More | | 
The choreographer Liam Scarlett works with members of the New York City Ballet in New York, Jan. 8, 2014. Scarlett, a British choreographer who won early acclaim both at home and internationally for his ballets, died on Friday at his home in Ipswich, England. He was 35. Andrea Mohin/The New York Times.
by Roslyn Sulcas
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Liam Scarlett, a British choreographer who won early acclaim both at home and internationally for his ballets, died Friday at his home in Ipswich, England. He was 35. His death was confirmed in a statement from his family that did not specify a cause. Scarlett, who was a dancer with the Royal Ballet in London before becoming its artist-in-residence in 2012, was suspended by the company in August 2019 in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct involving students at the Royal Ballet School. An independent seven-month investigation had found no matters to pursue, ... More | | 
Heather Phillipson. Photograph by Rory Van Millingen.
LONDON.- Heather Phillipson (b.1978, London) is the next artist to undertake the annual Tate Britain Commission. This major commission is the latest response to the unique architecture and context of the neo-classical Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain. Audacious and disconcerting, Heather Phillipsons expansive, multimedia projects include video, sculpture, installation, music, poetry and digital media. Described by the artist as quantum thought-experiments, her works often carry a sense of latent threat a feeling that received ideas, images, and the systems that underpin them may be on the verge of collapse. Philipsons commission for Tate Britain, entitled RUPTURE NO 1: blowtorching the bitten peach, coincides with THE END, her 2020 commission for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, on view until spring 2022. Her sculpture for the plinth, a ten-metre-tall dollop of whipped cream ... More |
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 A battle of boos and cheers at the symphonyNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It was 1970, and composer John Adams was tripping on LSD. He was at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, and he wandered into a rehearsal for Beethovens Choral Fantasy, with eminent pianist Rudolf Serkin sitting at a Steinway. Adams saw or thought he saw the piano begin to stretch into a cartoonishly long limousine. A similarly fanciful vision later came to him in a dream: He imagined driving down a California highway as two Steinway grands sped past him, emitting sounds in the heroic vein of Beethovens Emperor Concerto and Hammerklavier Sonata. Both of these surreal episodes contributed to Adams eclectic and playful Grand Pianola Music. The piece, which premiered in 1982, had a turbulent early history, inspiring a rare chorus of boos and drawing criticism as a symptom of American ... More  Hirshhorn presents Yoko Ono's "Wish Tree for Washington, DC" in a virtual activation on InstagramWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, with permission from artist Yoko Ono, awakened her transformational artwork, Wish Tree for Washington, DC (2007, live tree and mixed media) for virtual visitors, April 1531. In acknowledgement of the global pandemic and social distancing, Wish Tree for Washington, DC is being presented on Instagram when virtual visitors post tagged wishes. Inspired by Onos interactive artwork in the museums Sculpture Garden, people are invited to write their wish on a piece of paper, take a photograph of the handwritten wish and post it on Instagram tagging @hirshhorn, #WishTreeDC and #YokoOno. The Hirshhorn will display the virtual wishes from Instagram on its website throughout the two-week activation. Wish Tree for Washington, DC was acquired by the Hirshhorn and ... More  How Helen McCrory shone, even in a haze of mysteryNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Selfishly, my first feelings on hearing that the uncanny British actress Helen McCrory had died at 52 were of personal betrayal. We were supposed to have shared a long and fruitful future together, she and I. Thered be me on one side of the footlights and her on the other, as she unpacked the secrets of the human heart with a grace and ruthlessness shared by only a few theater performers in each generation. I never met her, but I knew her or rather I knew the women she embodied with an intimacy that sometimes seemed like a cruel violation of privacy. When Londons theaters reawakened from their pandemic lockdown, she was supposed to be waiting for me with yet another complete embodiment of a self-surprising life. McCrory had become world famous for dark and exotic roles onscreen, as the ... More  The Oscars are a week away, but will anyone watch?LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Neither intimate looks into stars living rooms nor scantily clad pop stars performing provocative hits have been able to stop audiences from tuning out award shows this year. The ratings for the Grammys were down by 53%. Golden Globes viewership plummeted more than 60%. Now, as Hollywood prepares for a coronavirus-delayed Academy Awards telecast April 25 on ABC, it is faced with the ultimate doomsday scenario: that the viewing public is ready to toss its premier showcase into the entertainment dustbin, plopped next to variety shows. Oscar, meet Lawrence Welk and his bubbles. At a time when the traditional film industry is fighting for its primacy at the center of American culture with at-home entertainment soaring in popularity and pandemic-battered theater chains closing a collective shrug for the ... More  Jewelry from important California philanthropist Janet Salter coming to Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Janet Salter knew, if nothing else, how to capture the attention of those around her. The wife of former Beverly Hills, California mayor Max Salter was a fixture in the Southern California spotlight, a philanthropist, socialite, supporter of the arts, political activist, world traveler, and accomplished cartoonist whose Ms. Bev Hills appeared daily in the Beverly Hills Courier for nearly 40 years. Salter was known for many things, among them her popular cartoon, civic involvement, love of family and many pets, and for her unmistakable style, some of which will be offered May 3 in Heritage Auctions' Spring Fine Jewelry Auction. Salter's Art Deco Diamond, Platinum Convertible Necklace (estimate: $30,000-40,000) is a dazzling piece, with single and full-cut diamonds having a combined total weight of 39.80 carats. "This is an exceptionally ... More  Espace Louis Vuitton München opens a new exhibition dedicated to French artist Cyprien GaillardMUNICH.- The Espace Louis Vuitton München is presenting Wolkengarten, a new exhibition dedicated to French artist Cyprien Gaillard. The works belong to the collection and are presented within the framework of the Fondation Louis Vuitton Hors-les-murs programme. Cyprien Gaillard was born in Paris, France in 1980. In the form of sculptures, videos, engravings, photographs and large-scale urban interventions, Gaillards expanding body of work, which is inspired by architecture and places that reveal the complex histories of the 20th-century utopias, manifests an omnipresent feeling of temporal collision. The artist is particularly fond of writer Vladimir Nabokovs maxim: The future is but the obsolete in reverse. Through the documentation of publicly staged spectacles, such as light shows and demolitions, he showcases disconcerting ... More  Important Ming Dynasty jade water pot to be offered at auction in May for the Alzheimer's SocietyLONDON.- A rare 17th century Ming Dynasty jade water pot is to be offered at auction in May for a very worthy cause the Alzheimers Society. The pot, which is carved in the form of a chimera - a fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head, goat's body and serpent's tail, is one of the highlights of Dreweatts upcoming Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art sale (Part 1) on May 19, 2021. The rare piece, which is estimated to fetch £5,000-£8,000 at auction, was donated at a family members request following their death and all funds will go to the Alzheimers Society. The daughter of the previous owners said: My father became interested in Jade when he worked in the Far East and started collecting Jade from then on. Jade has been in the family all through my life. My father was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease and when he died, he left the Jade ... More  Heritage Auctions' April Monthly Showcase Sports Auction nets an NBA Top Shot record priceDALLAS, TX.- What a moment for Moments. Heritage Auctions' April Monthly Showcase Sports Auction realized nearly $5 million by the time it closed early Friday morning, counting among its top lots the highest-selling NBA Top Shot in the young history of the digital collectible. A 2020 LeBron James NBA Top Shot (Series 1) From The Top - Dunk No. 3/59 brought $387,600 during the sale, besting by a wide margin the previous record sale for the virtual sports cards that have reshaped the collectibles industry. Little wonder this would be the Top Shot to top the list (for now, anyway). This is The Moment, from Feb. 6, 2020, when James paid homage to Kobe Bryant with a breakaway Staples Center dunk that seemingly reenacted an iconic Bryant reverse slam from nearly 20 years earlier. James would later tell EPSN the tribute was unintentional "I ... More  Gustavo Dudamel hasn't conducted much opera. That's OK.NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Conductor Gustavo Dudamel has accomplished so much in his blazing career that its easy to forget hes only 40. The music world has wondered for a while what his future would hold beyond the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a hotbed of adventurousness where he has been the musical leader since 2009. Major orchestras around the world have pursued him. Anything seemed possible. Still, the announcement Friday that he will be the next music director of the Paris Opera was somewhat surprising. Snagging this superstar for a six-year appointment, which roughly overlaps with Dudamels current contract in Los Angeles, is being touted as a coup for the 352-year-old company, which, like classical music institutions everywhere, is grappling with issues of relevance and diversity. Dudamel will bring dynamic musicianship ... More  Marion Fink joins C24 GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- C24 Gallery announced that they are now representing artist Marion Fink. Based out of Potsdam and Berlin, Germany, Fink is known for her life-sized, colorful monotypes depicting young people in various states of connection and disconnection to the elements of the world around them. Marion Fink is an explorer. Her layered works probe the spheres of consciousness we create for ourselves in our own private worlds, an investigation that is surely in step with the personally curated environments many of us inhabit in todays virtual, online culture. As part of a generation that was raised in the digital age, she has experienced, firsthand, the paradox of seemingly limitless access to information along with increasingly fragmented, competing perspectives, exacerbated by the harsh scrutiny of social media. The ... More  Erika Dilday announced as the new Executive Director of American Documentary Inc.NEW YORK, NY.- Erika Dilday has been named the executive director of American Documentary Inc. and executive producer of its award-winning documentary series POV on PBS and America ReFramed on WORLD Channel, the board of directors announced today. Dilday, who is the organizations first Black executive director, begins the job in May and joins AmDoc from Futuro Media Group where she has been the CEO since 2017. Prior to Futuro Media Group, Dilday was the executive director of the Maysles Documentary Center where she oversaw community cinema, filmmaking programs and produced Albert Maysles final film - the award-winning documentary In Transit. A producer, journalist and media executive, Dilday has held strategic planning and financial management roles at The New York Times, National Geographic Television ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Paolo Veronese died April 19, 1588. Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese (1528 - 19 April 1588), was an Italian Renaissance painter, based in Venice, known for large-format history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573). Included with Titian, a generation older, and Tintoretto, a decade senior, Veronese is one of the "great trio that dominated Venetian painting of the cinquecento" and the Late Renaissance in the 16th century. In this image: Left: Paolo Veronese (1528 - 1588), St. Agatha Visited in Prison by St. Peter, 1566 - 67, oil on canvas, 65 1/2 Ã 81 1/2 inches, San Pietro Martire, Murano; photo: Ufficio Beni Culturali del Patriarcato di Venezia. Right: Paolo Veronese (1528 - 1588), St. Jerome in the Wilderness, 1566 - 67 Oil on canvas, 91 Ã 57 1/4 inches, San Pietro Martire, Murano; photo: Ufficio Beni Culturali del Patriarcato di Venezia.
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