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The Backstreet Cultural Museum, ran by Lois Andrews, a cultural historian who died in November and had donated many items to the museum, in New Orleans, Nov. 10, 2021. The Backstreet Cultural Museum served as an enduring tribute to the citys Black culture, as the Tremé neighborhood gentrified around it. Then Hurricane Ida destroyed its home. L. Kasimu Harris/The New York Times.
by Katy Reckdahl and Sophie Kasakove
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- In two small rooms, the Backstreet Cultural Museum chronicled life and death in Black New Orleans. One was filled entirely with elaborate beaded and feathered suits that debuted on Mardi Gras mornings and were designed by makers known as Mardi Gras Indians or Black Masking Indians. The other featured solemn photographs of jazz funerals and memorial T-shirts, displayed in a handmade wooden case, that honored lives lost to gunfire. A rudimentary stand held a red tuba played by Anthony Tuba Fats Lacen, a jazz musician who traveled the world performing but played for tips in the French Quarter anytime he was home. But over the past 16 months, the museum has suffered cataclysmic losses. In late August 2020, Sylvester Francis, its founder, fix-it man and visionary, died of appendicitis at 73. The following months saw a string of venerable artists and performers whose work was featured in the museum died of COVID-19. And then, a year after Francis dea ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Hugh Hayden's Boogey Men at ICA Miami.
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| Gillian Laub's Divided House is still standing. What about yours? | | Roland Auctions NY announces special New Year's Day "Multiple Estates" auction event on January 1st | | Wayne Thiebaud, playful painter of the everyday, dies at 101 | 
In an undated image provided by Alex Fradkin, via ICP, an installation view of Gillian Laub: Family Matters at the International Center of Photography in Lower Manhattan. Family Matters at the ICP captures the inevitability of families fractured over politics. Alex Fradkin, via ICP via The New York Times.
by Yinka Elujoba
NEW YORK, NY.- Someone has left in a hurry. The signs are there in the photograph: the open drawers, the improperly rolled tissue paper, the white electric cable peeking out from underneath the counter. The walls and floors are covered with marble reflecting light, intensifying the rooms emptiness. Through the window, outside, tall slim trees give the house a sense of scale and location it is easy to imagine that this is an outsize property in an area far from where everyday people live. Shot in 2015 after her grandmother died, Emptied House is the most haunting photograph in Gillian Laubs exhibition Family Matters, showing through Jan. 10 at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan. These 62 photographs spanning 1999 to 2021 are records of moments in Laubs ... More | | 
18th C. Tortoiseshell & Walnut Cabinet on Stand. Continental tortoiseshell veneered walnut cabinet on stand, the cabinet fitted with drawers. Estimate $2,000 - $3,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY in Glen Cove, NY will kick off the New Year with their New Years Day auction on January1st, 2022, featuring selections from multiple estates with a spotlight onthe impressive collection of a socialite from European nobility with properties at The Pierre Hotel in Manhattan and in Lloyd Harbor, Long Island. The collection features everything from Louis XIV to Mid- Century Modern, along with art, silver and jewelry. Previews for the New Years Day auction January 1st will be held on Thursday, December 30th from 10:00AM to 6:00PM and Friday, December 31st from 10:00AM to 4:00PM. In the art arena, highlights from the New Years Day auction will include a Josef Floch: "Three Sisters" - Oil PaintingJosef Floch (Austrian-American, 1894-1977) oil on canvas titled "Three Sisters". An important painting with excellent provenance: sold directly from the artist to the consignor. This painting was awarded ... More | | 
Wayne Thiebaud in Capitol Park near his studio in Sacramento, Calif., Sept. 22, 2010. Max Whittaker/The New York Times.
by Michael Kimmelman
NEW YORK, NY.- Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter whose lush, dreamy landscapes and luminous pictures of hot dogs, deli counters, marching band majorettes and other charmed relics of midcentury Americana were complex meditations on life and painting, and represented one of the most affecting and individual variations on 20th-century pop art, died Saturday at his home in Sacramento, California. He was 101. His death was confirmed by his gallery, Acquavella. Truth be told, Thiebaud was not really a pop painter. Detractors sometimes tried to pigeonhole him as one or as an illustrator. In fact, like many of the historical artists he admired, he was a virtuoso of the everyday and its deep, subtle symbolism. In person he was a classic of the old American West, a slender man of Gary Cooperish charm and dry humor soft-spoken, modest, layered, self-assured. Often bathed in Pacific sunshine, ... More |
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| Centre Pompidou presents an all-encompassing exhibition of the work of Georg Baselitz | | The Musée Marmottan Monet presents the first exhibition ever dedicated to Julie Manet | | Exhibition examines the under-told histories of California through maps, caricatures, city views, and landscape scenes | 
Georg Baselitz, B.j.M.C. Bonjour Monsieur Courbet, 1965. Oil on canvas, 162 à 130 cm © Georg Baselitz 2021. Photo Ulrich Ghezzi. Courtesy Collection Thaddaeus Ropac London Paris Salzburg Seoul.
PARIS.- Curated by Bernard Blistène and in association with the artist, the Centre Pompidou presents Baselitz The Retrospective, in Gallery 1. This is the first all-encompassing exhibition of the German artist born in 1938. Six decades of creation are presented along a chronological path highlighting the key periods in the artists work. From his initial paintings to the Pandemonium Manifesto of the early 1960s, the Heroes series or the Fractures series of upside-down motifs, begun in 1969, the exhibition also showcases successive ensembles of works in which Baselitz experimented with new pictorial techniques. Various forms of aesthetics unfold, fuelled by references to art history and Baselitzs intimate knowledge of the work of many artists, such as Edvard Munch, Otto Dix and ... More | | 
Portrait of Julie Manet © Franck Boucourt.
PARIS.- The Musée Marmottan Monet is hosting the first exhibition ever dedicated to Julie Manet (1878-1966). Over one hundred works are on display, featuring paintings, sculptures, pastels, watercolours, and engravings, from museums all around the world, as well as private collections, including many pieces presented to the public for the first time. All serve to retrace the life of Julie Manet, the only daughter of the first female Impressionist artist Berthe Morisot, and niece of illustrious painter Ãdouard Manet. The aim of the exhibition is not only to evoke Julie Manets childhood amongst the Impressionists but also to lift the veil on her own private life and showcase the love of art that she inherited. The exhibition presents the extraordinary collection that she amassed with her husband, Ernest Rouart, and highlights that which was her lifes mission: to ensure that her mother and uncle gained the recognition ... More | | 
Unknown Printer, Sacramento, Early in 1849Front, Between I and J Streets and View of San Francisco, n.d. Chromolithograph, 8 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of the Peter T. Pope Early California Collection, 2019.74.86.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum is presenting Towns, Trains, and Terrain: Early California Prints from the Pope Collection, an exhibition of over 80 works that showcase details of life in the Golden State through printmaking techniques that include etching, engraving, and lithography, on view from October 31, 2021, through January 30, 2022. Towns, Trains, and Terrain examines the history of California through rare historic maps, depictions of Gold Rush towns, urban scenes of San Francisco, and other aspects of daily life. Scenes of the city show urban development, aerial views, social gatherings, caricatures of well-known industrialists, and the destruction caused by the 1865 and 1906 earthquakes. Trains take a central ... More |
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| Master Drawings New York celebrate Mexican Muralism with special in-person panel and exhibition | | The FLAG Art Foundation presents 'In Search of the Miraculous' | | How many books does it take to make a place feel like home? | 
The Mexican Muralism Movement embraced European traditions of drawing and frescoes with social realism and new aesthetics that swept into North America.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Friday, January 28th at 10am, registered participants will enjoy a lively discussion on Mexican Muralism and the artists that impacted that period in both Mexico and the United States. War dominated the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe. New political ideologies -- socialism and communism, also added tensions. Art responded by turning its focus onto the common man and woman in natural and urban environments. The Americas were impacted as well with cries for change. In Mexico, a ten-year revolution offered an opportunity for Mexico to acknowledge its pre-Hispanic past with a new blended population. Art became the medium to spark emotions and share with pride epic tales of how this blended world was to take shape. The Mexican Muralism Movement embraced European traditions of drawing and frescoes with social realism and new aesthetics that swept into North America. Joining the moderator, Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director of the West ... More | | 
Betye Saar, Dr. Damballa Ju Ju, 1989. Mixed media assemblage, 47 x 18 x 17 ½ inches (119.4 x 45.7 x 44.5 cm). Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting In Search of the Miraculous on view from October 16, 2021-January 15, 2022, on the 9th floor. This group exhibition explores belief, believability, and the suspension of disbelief in the form of art objects, talismans, multiples, doppelgängers, spiritual(ish) artifacts, and tales of impossibility. The shows title and concept nods to Dutch artist Bas Jan Aders three-part final performance In Search of the Miraculous (titled after P. D. Ouspenskys 1949 treatise on eastern philosophy of the same name) during which Ader is presumed to have disappeared while attempting a trans-Atlantic crossing in a tiny sailboata leap of faith for both the artist and those who believe his story. Encompassing a range of visual media, conceptual practices, and approaches to artmaking, In Search of the Miraculous assembles a group of artworks that ask viewers to question how we instill ob ... More | | 
Alice Waters in her home library in Berkely, Calif., Dec. 8, 2021. Theres a reason that some people wont let go of their physical books and a new term for it: book-wrapt. Matthew Millman/The New York Times.
by Julie Lasky
NEW YORK, NY.- At the turn of the millennium, Reid Byers, a computer systems architect, set out to build a private library at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. Finding few books on library architecture that were not centuries old and in a dead or mildewed language, he took the advice of a neighbor across the street, novelist Toni Morrison. Morrison once famously said if there is a book you want to read and it doesnt exist, then you must write it, recalled Byers, 74, in a video chat from his current home, in Portland, Maine. The project stretched over a generation and culminated this year in a profusely illustrated, detail-crammed, Latin-strewn and yet remarkably unstuffy book called The Private Library: The History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom (Oak Knoll Press). The opus arrives ... More |
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| Templon announces representation of Jeanne Vicerial | | Boba Fett, intergalactic man of mystery | | How Nicole Kidman learned to love playing Lucille Ball | 
Jeanne Vicerial by Joseph Schiano di Lombo.
PARIS.- Templon announced the representation of Jeanne Vicerial, an unclassifiable visual artist, dressmaker, designer and researcher. A resident of the prestigious Villa Medici program in Rome in 2020, Jeanne Vicerial, became, at not yet 30, the first French Phd Graduate in the practice of fashion design. She develops a protean body of work, forging links between design, crafts, fashion, arts and science. Baroque and unsettling, her creations are designed as works of art rooted in innovative textiles and textures. They address contemporary environmental issues and the question of the ties between ready-to-wear and haute couture. She founded the design and research studio CLINIQUE VESTIMENTAIRE in her quest to use her work to substantially redefine ideas about the body and clothing. In March 2022, the gallery will be holding an exhibition dedicated to her work in its Brussels space. The show will feature around ten brand new creations from t ... More | | 
How did this fearsome Star Wars bounty hunter go from a peripheral player to the star of The Book of Boba Fett? He used the support of fans and a little brute force.
by Dave Itzkoff
NEW YORK, NY.- For many viewers, Star Wars is synonymous with characters like Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, embodiments of heroism and villainy whose actions have steered the course of this long-running fantasy series. Then there are the Star Wars fans whose admiration runs a bit deeper, to the ranks of supporting characters whose intentions are not so easily categorized, and whose screen time can be measured in mere minutes. Take the case of Boba Fett, an armored mercenary introduced to most moviegoers in the 1980 Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back. In that film, he appeared in only a few scenes, as an accessory to Vaders plot to lure Skywalker into a fateful showdown. Fett resurfaced ... More | | 
Nicole Kidman in New York, Dec. 1, 2021. Jody Rogac/The New York Times.
by Dave Itzkoff
NEW YORK, NY.- There are valuable lessons Nicole Kidman has learned each time she plays a real-life figure: how that person was misapprehended by society at the time. How that era of history is more like the present day than she realized. And, crucially, how to maintain her balance while traipsing barefoot through a vat of grapes. Recounting her preparations to play Lucille Ball, the star of I Love Lucy, Kidman suggested that her methodical efforts to learn Balls enduring 1956 grape-stomping routine were not fully sufficient when it came time to reenact it on camera. I had only practiced on a floor, Kidman said with a gentle earnestness. The one thing I didnt count on was that there were going to be real grapes. Theyre actually really slippery, just so you know. In Being the Ricardos, a comedy-drama written and directed ... More |
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Remy Jungerman, Behind the Forest, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
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 Pop-up gallery AD Leb hosts outdoor exhibition at ancient archaeological siteBEIRUT.- Lost in the right direction is the second exhibition from Art Design Lebanon (AD Leb), a cultural space and digital platform dedicated to supporting cultural and artistic production in Lebanon and the surrounding region. Contemporary works by established and emerging artists, designers, and artisans are displayed at an archaeological site in the mountains east of Beirut in a rare, public outdoor exhibition. A combination of sculptures, photography, drawings, textiles, and design interventions are installed across Deir El Kalaa a Roman temple complex in the village of Beit Meri dating back to the first century A.D. with a striking contrast between the contemporary and the ancient. By encouraging organic collaborations between the thirty-seven participating artists, designers, artisans, and collectives, AD Leb aims to dismantle stereotypes ... More  New Orleans Museum of Art presents career retrospective for acclaimed New Orleans artistNEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds, the first comprehensive museum exhibition for the pioneering multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux, on view October 22, 2021 through January 23, 2022. One of the first American artists to connect questions about social justice to emerging environmental concerns, DeDeauxs art responds to an uncertain future imperiled by runaway population growth, breakneck industrial development, and the imminent threat of climate change. Dawn DeDeaux has long grappled with existential questions surrounding earth and humanitys survival, said Susan Taylor, Montine McDaniel Freeman Director of NOMA. Originally scheduled for Fall 2020 but twice postponedonce due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and again because of the recent ... More  Catherine was great. But was she a girl boss?NEW YORK, NY.- Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII, enjoyed embroidery and fasting. Little in the historical record suggests that she was any fun at a party. Unfortunately, Catherine of Aragon just, like, loved church and was always praying and was kind of a bummer, Dana Schwartz, a writer who hosts the podcast Noble Blood, told me recently. Yet there Catherine is, in the Broadway musical Six, vibrating her vocal cords like a Tudor-era Beyoncé, in a thigh-scraping miniskirt and studded boots a girl boss, early modern style. Six, a giddy pop confection about the six wives of Henry VIII, joins recent works like Dickinson, the AppleTV+ comedy just concluding its final season, and The Great, the Hulu dramedy that recently released its second, in revamping notable women of past centuries as the cool girls of today. Its history. ... More  Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire opens an exhibition of works by Tania MouraudCHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE.- The five series exhibited by Tania Mouraud at the Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire bring us face to face with the fragile beauty of the world. The titles Borderland, Balafres, Desolation Row, Nostalgia and Film Noir (unpublished) indicate that, while the experience of these images is one of wonder, that is not the end of the story. For Tania Mouraud, the work exhibited is confessional and an invitation to the viewer. For those who accept it and dive into the space opened up by the photographer, there is something underneath the beautiful interplay of tones and shapes which fights back from within. Sometimes this occurs at first glance, as in the apocalyptically graceful landscape of Desolation Row. Sometimes, it takes a childs patience to probe the image and to unravel what is going on in the apparent calm. From a quasi- ... More  Lafayette Anticipations presents an exhibition of works by Martin Margiela PARIS.- For his first solo show, Lafayette Anticipations invites Martin Margiela to take possession of and transform every one of its spaces. The show presents, for the first time in public, over forty works: installations, sculptures, collages, paintings and films. It also puts forward a hypothesis: that Martin Margiela has always been an artist. Internationally renowned in the fashion world since the late 1980s, throughout his career as a designer, he deliberately upended the conventions of fashion one by one, through runway shows, materials and forms that became conceptual and aesthetic revolutions. With bold conviction, he has pushed art beyond the boundaries usually devolved to it, constantly inventing new zones for experience by endlessly extending the limits of the work. The exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations, which is designed as a total artwork, carries ... More  Asheville Art Museum presents 'Ruminations on Memory' ASHEVILLE, NC.- Ruminations on Memory contends with the act of remembrance and reflection, featuring a rare presentation of all nine prints from Robert Rauschenbergs Ruminations portfolio, Judy Chicagos Retrospective in a Box portfolio, and selections from the Museums Collection. Organized by the Asheville Art Museum and curated by Hilary Schroeder, assistant curator, this exhibition is on view in Appleby Foundation Exhibition Hall at the Museum from November 19, 2021 through March 14, 2022 in conjunction with A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art. Artworks are vessels for processing, recalling, and reflecting on the past. Artists often draw upon materials from their own pasts and grasp at fleeting moments in time in the creation of an object. For the viewer, observation of an artwork can draw out personal memories. ... More  Immersive light and sound exhibition activates Grounds For Sculpture during winter eveningsHAMILTON, NJ.- Night Forms: dreamloop by Klip Collective, presents more than a dozen site-specific light and sound works. The innovative and immersive experience offers a rare opportunity to visit the park both at night and during the winter, transforming Grounds For Sculpture into a year-round destination. Grounds For Sculpture continuously surprises and delights visitors through the interaction of art and the environment, and by design is an experience that changes seasonally. Through this newly commissioned series, we are intentionally experimenting with the possibilities of a nightscape, said Gary Garrido Schneider, Executive Director of Grounds For Sculpture. We are thrilled to collaborate with Klip Collective to bring their vision to life on our grounds and create a unique response to our art that delivers an entirely transformed ... More  The world-renowned Burrell Collection to reopen March 2022GLASGOW.- Its been one of the most talked about cities of the year, now Glasgow is back on the map again for 2022 as it celebrates the reopening of the world-renowned Burrell Collection. Open again to the public in March 2022, The Burrell Collection is home to one of the worlds greatest, single personal collections, with 9,000 works of art amassed over 75 years by Sir William Burrell (1861-1958). Its the UKs biggest museum project at the moment following an extensive £68 million refurbishment and redisplay of a collection that includes paintings from five centuries, and artworks from five millennia, many of which have not been seen for decades, or have never been on permanent display. Visitors can enjoy some of the finest Chinese ceramics in Europe, among the best examples of medieval stained glass and tapestries in the world ... More  The Met Opera spirits 'Rigoletto' to 'Babylon Berlin'NEW YORK, NY.- Bartlett Sher must have logged over a mile inside the Metropolitan Opera as a rehearsal for his staging of Verdis Rigoletto unfolded in fits and starts on a recent morning. Whenever the singers came to a stop, Sher sprinted. Sometimes up stairs near the orchestra pit, with notes for the cast. Sometimes up the aisle of the auditorium to confer with a team working at consoles and laptops. He had a growing list of things to refine: the sets paint job, the lighting, the layering of a party scenes crowded action. I need another month, he said, pausing to scrutinize the stage. Instead, Sher had about two weeks. His Rigoletto opens Dec. 31, part of the Mets annual New Years Eve gala, with Daniele Rustioni conducting and Quinn Kelsey in the title role. This staging, a coproduction with the Berlin State Opera, premiered in Germany ... More  Orange County Museum of Art to open with free admissionCOSTA MESA, CA.- Heidi Zuckerman, CEO and Director of the Orange County Museum of Art announced that general admission will be free when the institutions new building opens on October 8, 2022. The free admission policy is supported for 10 years thanks to a $2.5 million gift from the Newport Beach-based Lugano Diamonds. Designed by Morphosis under the direction of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne and Partner-in-Charge Brandon Welling, OCMAs new home is currently under construction at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, CA. Our goal is to remove as many barriers of entry as possible, and to connect as many people as we can to art and artists, Heidi Zuckerman said. We are deeply grateful to Lugano Diamonds for fostering these connections by supporting the cost of admission for the ... More  Françoise Pétrovitch takes over the Fonds Hélène et Edouard Leclerc in LanderneauLANDERNEAU.- Françoise Pétrovitch takes over the Halle des Capucins to show a world of images, both poetic and disturbing, peopled with human and animal figures. The exhibition, conceived with its curators, Camille Morineau and Lucia Pesapane, tells these narratives around themes recurrent in her work and through a rich selection of pieces. Some works, made especially for Landerneau, are presented for the first time. An invitation to the public of the FHEL to travel in that universe and, with the artist, to look behind the masks! To go off to explore Françoise Pétrovitchs work is to meet a hyper creative artist fully engaged in her time. Lift the masks and look behind the beauty of her painting, at the fragility of the bodies and of the minds, the cracks, the difficulty to confront the world including ones inner world. ---Michel-Ãdouard Leclerc Françoise ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Max Beckmann died December 27, 1950. Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 - December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. In this image: Auctioneer and Global President Jussi Pylkkänen selling Max Beckmann's Hölle der Vögel (Birds' Hell) (1937-38), for £36,005,000. © Christie's Images Limited 2017.
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