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John Baldessari with new work in his studio in Venice, Calif., Feb. 3, 2016. Baldessari, an influential conceptual artist who helped transform Los Angeles into a global art capital through his witty image-making and decades of teaching there, died at age 88 on Jan. 4, 2020. Monica Almeida/The New York Times.
by Jori Finkel
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- John Baldessari, the influential conceptual artist who helped transform Los Angeles into a global art capital through his witty image-making and decades of teaching there, died on Thursday at his home in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. He was 88. His death was confirmed on Sunday by Virginia Gatelein, his studio manager and the chairwoman of his foundation. No cause was given. Baldessari started as a semiabstract painter in the 1950s but grew so disenchanted with his own handiwork as well as the very notion of handiwork that in 1970 he decided to take his paintings to a San Diego funeral home and cremate them. He was ready to embrace a wide range of mediums: videos, photography, prints, sculpture, text-based art, installations and, yes, paintings, but most of all hybrid forms of these, like text painting. While so much early conceptual art tended toward the cold and cerebral, Baldessaris was infused with a droll sense of humor. He employed a sort of dada i ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitor in Medicine The Wellcome Galleries at the Science Museum © Science Museum Group
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 | | Defiant Trump doubles down on threat to Iran cultural sites | | 3D scanning of sandstone fossil reveals oldest known record of amphibian tracks in the UK | | Dippy on Tour on view at National Museum Cardiff | 
In this file photo taken on February 15, 2019 Iranians walk on the "Si-o-Se Pol" bridge (33 Arches bridge) over the Zayandeh Rud river in Isfahan. ATTA KENARE / AFP.
by Elodie Cuzin
WASHINGTON (AFP).- US President Donald Trump doubled down Sunday on a threat to attack Iranian cultural sites despite accusations that any such strike would amount to a war crime. After his top diplomat, Mike Pompeo, had insisted that any military action would conform to international law, Trump said he would regard cultural sites as fair game if Iran resorted to deadly force against US targets. "Theyre allowed to kill our people, they're allowed to torture and maim our people, theyre allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people and we're not allowed to touch their cultural site? It doesnt work that way," Trump told reporters. "If they do anything there will be major retaliation." His comments on his return from a break in Florida followed ... More | | 
Colour image of Hardraw slab © Trustees of the Natural History Museum.
LONDON.- A new paper has revealed an ancient trackway, found imprinted on a block of sandstone from the base of Hardraw Force Waterfall in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, is the oldest record of amphibian tracks in the UK dating back 340 million years. A new paper published 12 December has revealed an ancient trackway, found imprinted on a block of sandstone from the base of Hardraw Force Waterfall in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, is the oldest record of amphibian tracks in the UK dating back 340 million years. The trace fossil, currently on display at the Natural History Museum, was 3D scanned in order to visualise it in further detail as part of a research project by a previous undergraduate student from the University of Birmingham, Hannah Bird. The tracks belong to the earliest relatives of modern amphibians called temnospondyls, specifically the edopoids, or 'glutton-faced animals'. Hannah Bird elaborated: 'We used ... More | | 
Expert conservators have assembled the 292-bone, 21-metre-long skeleton cast in National Museum Cardiffs main hall making sure Dippy looks his best for his Welsh audience.
CARDIFF.- The sixth stop of Dippy on Tour: A Natural History Adventure follows an extremely successful stay at The Great North Museum: Hancock, where 144,876 people came to see the Jurassic giant. The Museum as a whole also saw a 51% increase in visitor numbers on average when compared with the previous decade. Dippy on Tour has been brought to the National Museum Cardiff and visitors across the UK by the Natural History Museum in partnership with the Garfield Weston Foundation, and supported by Dell EMC and Williams & Hill. Director of the Natural History Museum London, Sir Michael Dixon, said, It is with great excitement that we welcome Dippy to National Museum, Cardiff. Dippy has become an ambassador for the natural world, engaging audiences in conversations about our role in the future of the planet. Dippys ... More |
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| | The Met announces celebrations for its 150th-anniversary Year in 2020 | | Rehs Contemporary opens an exhibition featuring paintings that highlight the use of the color red | | Museum scientist contributes to new global report revealing human-driven decline of life on Earth | 
British. Armchair, ca. 1755. Mahogany and needlework. 51 x 31 1/2 x 33 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964 (64.101.980).
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the key components of its 150th-anniversary celebration in 2020, including major gifts of art from around the world; exhibitions and displays that will examine art, history, and culture through spectacular objects; and dynamic programs that will engage The Met's local and global communities. Highlights of the year include the exhibition Making The Met, 18702020, the opening of the newly renovated British Galleries, the display of new works of art given to the Museum in honor of its 150th anniversary, the launch of cross-cultural installations, a robust schedule of programs and events, and more. Daniel H. Weiss, the Museum's President and CEO, said, "As we celebrate this milestone, 150 years since our founding on April 13, 1870, we are grateful for the bold vision of our founders, who included a handful of New ... More | | 
Todd M. Casey, (b. 1979), Strawberry Daiquiri. Oil on panel, 8 x 6 inches. Signed.
NEW YORK, NY.- Opening on January 6th 2020, Rehs Contemporary will present A Dash of Red featuring a selection of paintings that highlight the use of the color. The works on display will include figurative, still life and landscapes ranging from Photorealism to Impressionism a little bit of something for everyone, as long as youre ready for some red. What is color? When you start to think about it, it really is not something so easy to define. Perhaps it is best simply stated as a characteristic of visual perception one of the things we notice when we observe. But color can also be so much more than just part of our observation
it can convey messages and conjure feelings all on its own. Take for instance the use of blue, which is known to express peace, tranquility and calm
or purple, which may indicate nobility, wisdom and enlightenment
and green which symbolizes nature, health and ... More | | 
In this file photo a girl poses with a Blue Morpho butterfly (Morpho peleides). AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL.
LONDON.- The first global-scale assessment of the links between people and nature provides the most comprehensive review to date of the worldwide state of nature. The first paper to be published from the new IPBES Global Assessment Report reveals that ecosystems, the fabric of life on which we all depend, are declining rapidly because of human action. The paper was written by a global team of experts, including Professor Andy Purvis, Research Leader at Londons Natural History Museum. The paper reveals that ecosystems, the fabric of life on which we all depend, are declining rapidly because of human activity. The papers authors state that a reversal of recent declines - and a sustainable global future - are only possible with urgent transformative change tackling the interconnected root causes of natures deterioration. The paper has come from the IPBES Global Assessment ... More |
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| | New art museum adds to Sarasota's cultural heritage | | World's largest medicine galleries open at the Science Museum | | How a forgotten opera made a big comeback | 
The new Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College, which opened last month and is housed in the former home of Sarasota High School, in Sarasota, Fla. Ryan Gamma via The New York Times.
by Michael Adno
SARASOTA (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In Sarasota, the subtropics meet the South. Pressed up against the edge of the Gulf of Mexico in southwest Florida, this city, long home to carnies and cowmen, is best understood as a study in contrast. Now the new Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College, which opened last month, aims to spotlight the citys cultural depth and diversity. A cadre of residents forged the idea for a modern art museum more than 15 years ago, because, while there was a wealth of arts organizations in town, few venues dedicated to contemporary art existed. Their conversations led to a $22 million fundraising effort to reanimate the former site of Sarasota High School as a kunsthalle a noncollecting art institution showing only temporary exhibits. Residents, staff and donors hope the nonprofit ... More | | 
Kymograph for recording body activity, 1925 1935 © Science Museum Group.
LONDON.- We all have our own history of medicine. From birth and broken bones in our adventurous youth to routine trips to the dentist, doctor and optician, visits to loved ones in hospital and experiences of loss. We are deeply invested in our own health and that of friends and family. Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries creates a magnificent new home for the most significant medical collections in the world, providing a rich historical context for our experience of medicine today and featuring moving personal stories from patients and practitioners. Designed by WilkinsonEyre, the vast galleries cover more than 3000m², an area equivalent to 1,500 hospital beds. The five new galleries reveal how the quest to better understand the human body has transformed medicine. They examine treatments that save, improve and sometimes harm lives, highlight the health challenges faced by populations and uncover our hopes and fears about health. Over three thousand medical artefacts from the extraordinary collec ... More | | 
Erich Wolfgang Korngolds DIE TOTE STADT. © Wilfried Hösl.
by Joshua Barone
MUNICH (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- On a recent evening at the Bavarian State Opera here, there wasnt an empty seat in the house. Even if one had opened up, there were people waiting outside in the December chill, eager to fill it. It was one of those nights that felt like the event of the year a fact remarkable if only because the work being performed was Erich Wolfgang Korngolds Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City), which had once all but disappeared from the worlds stages. Popularity is a fickle thing in any art form. The works of Bach were long considered outdated, until a 19th-century resurgence established him as perhaps the essential composer. Grand operas by Meyerbeer are now treated as curiosities, yet during his lifetime they were ubiquitous. You can count Korngold (1897-1957) among the artists whose fame has ebbed and flowed over the past century swept up in the tides of academic taste, the rise and fall ... More |
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| | In Appalachia, crafting a road to recovery with dulcimer strings | | 'The New Pope' looks a lot like John Malkovich | | Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art exhibits work by Tal R | 
Doug Naselroad, a master artisan, plays a mountain dulcimer in his Hindman, Ky. apartment. Mike Belleme/The New York Times.
by Patricia Leigh Brown
HINDMAN, KY (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The heritage of handcrafted stringed instruments runs deep in this tiny Appalachian village (pop. 770) stretched along the banks of Troublesome Creek. The community has been known as the homeplace of the mountain dulcimer ever since a revered maker, James Edward Thomas, known as Uncle Ed, pushed a cartload of angelic-sounding dulcimers up and down the creek roads, keeping a chair handy to play tunes for passersby. Music is the regions lifeblood: Locals like to say that you can toss a rock and hit a musician. But these strong cultural roots have been tested by the scourges that devastated eastern Kentucky, an early epicenter of the opioid crisis. Hindman is the seat of Knott County, one of the poorest regions in the United States and one that continues to grapple with overdose ... More | | 
John Malkovich, the star of HBO's "The New Pope" in Los Angeles on Dec. 15, 2019. Ramona Rosales/The New York Times.
by Phoebe Reilly
LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Oddballs, schemers and psychopaths: In the course of his long career, John Malkovich has convincingly played them all. But whether this makes him an unusual, or unusually perfect, choice for the role of Supreme Pontiff in HBOs The New Pope, he would rather not consider. I dont think about how Im perceived, Malkovich said. Its not my business. You like Jackson Pollock? Im good with The Night Watch. We all have preferences. The series creator, Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty), on the other hand, was unequivocal in his enthusiasm for Malkovich as Sir John Brannox, an English aristocrat and former punk musician who reluctantly takes over for Jude Laws Pope Pius XIII on Jan. 13, when the show returns after a three-year hiatus. The pope is an iconic figure, and John Malkovich ... More | | 
Tal R, Natten, The Night, 2019. Oil on canvas, 349.3 x 776.6 cm. Photo: Noam Preisman.
TEL AVIV.- Magasin III Jaffa, announces: Men Who Can't Sit on Horses, a solo exhibition by artist Tal R, featuring one singular painting, Natten (The Night), commissioned especially for Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art. An artist of international renown, Tal R (Rosenzweig) was born in 1967 in Tel Aviv, Israel and at an early age moved to Copenhagen, Denmark where he currently lives and works. The exhibition opened on October 24, 2019 and will run through March 27, 2020. Tal R is known for his daring use of color and vivacious imagery. Throughout his works, references to historical art movements such as Expressionism, Fauvism and Symbolism can be found alongside influences from Outsider Art and children's paintings. He works across a diverse range of media including painting, collage, sculpture, installation, drawing, print and furniture. His unique vision, self-identification as an outsider and ability to sample ... More |
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 Museo Reina SofÃa opens a retrospective survey of the work of artist Miguel Ãngel CampanoMADRID.- The Museo Reina SofÃa stages a retrospective survey of the work of artist Miguel Ãngel Campano (Madrid, 1948 Cercedilla, Madrid, 2018) by way of a selection in excess of one hundred works made from 1972 onwards. The show, the last exhibition project in which the artist directly took part, parades the problems, processes, and resources Campano focused on. Not ever channeling them into the ditch of any single style, Campanos long cycles of painting succeeded; and so narrating Campanos oeuvre and its many forms always requires enunciating an and then, an après. Sticking to Campanos succeeding interests, the exhibition also renders an account of the constants in a career traversed by emotional impetus and an analytical, learned approach to painting. Campanos work was also referential: when observing and painting ... More VÃctor Erice exhibits his audiovisual installation 'Stone and Sky' at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum BILBAO.- Stone and Sky is an audiovisual installation by VÃctor Erice whose motif is the monument dedicated to the composer and musicologist Aita Donostia (José Gonzalo Zulaika; San Sebastián, 1886Lekaroz, Navarra, 1956). Located at the peak of Mount Agiña (Lesaka, Navarra), it is a work by the sculptor Jorge Oteiza and the architect Luis Vallet. It was made at the request of the Aranzadi Sciences Society and opened on 20 June 1959, and it has two elements: a funerary stele created by Oteiza and a chapel built by Vallet. Erice himself describes the work in this way: 'Located [the stele and the chapel] across from the video camera [...] in Stone and Sky they have been subjected to a process of cinematisation where light, sound and time play an essential role. The daytime view [...] stands in contrast to the night-time view. The former offers images ... More Partnership agreement between Centro BotÃn, Chillida Leku and the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum announcedSANTANDER.- Centro BotÃn, Chillida Leku and the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum have signed an agreement whose purpose is to generate synergies that will contribute to promoting cultural activities geared at society. The new agreement seeks to encourage visits to all three museums and share their respective programming. It will last one year and will be automatically extended for two further years, barring objections from the parties. Opened in 2017, the Centro BotÃn is an art centre that seeks to offer an innovative perspective on the art world. Its mission is to foster the creativity of all audiences through the arts in order to generate economic, cultural and social development and wealth. In turn, with almost two decades of history under its belt, the Chillida Leku represents the living memory of one of the most international Basque artists, Eduardo Chillida, ... More Group exhibition brings together photo sequences whose origins lie in performance artBERLIN.- The new exhibition Body Performance is currently on view at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin with works by Vanessa Beecroft, Yang Fudong, Inez & Vinoodh, Jürgen Klauke, Robert Longo, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Barbara Probst, Viviane Sassen, Cindy Sherman, Bernd Uhlig, and Erwin Wurm. Performance is an independent art form, and photography is its constant companion. For the first time in Germany, this group exhibition brings together photo sequences whose origins lie in performance art, dance, and other staged events, complemented by a selection of street photography and conceptual photography series. With their common focus on the human body, the images document or interpret performances, which in many cases have also been initiated by the photographers themselves. The close connection between ... More Exhibition at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona presents works by the Greek artist Takis BARCELONA.- The Greek artist Takis (Panagiotis Vassilakis; 25.10.1925-9.08.2019) pioneered new art forms using magnetism, light and sound. Takis was born in Athens in 1925, where he died on August 9, 2019. Much of his artistic career and activity was focused in Paris, London and New York, between 1950 and 1970, and then he has being living in Athens. This exhibition is the first solo presentation of his work in Barcelona. Over a 70-year career, Takis has created some of the most powerful, innovative as well as playful works of twentieth-century art. With these he reinvented the formats of sculpture, painting and music in relation to energy. Takis was one of the pioneers of advanced, experimental art of the 1960s and in particular his work investigated the relation between artistic, scientific and philosophical research. While his earliest sculptures make ... More Exhibition explores the drawing practice of famed 20th-century architect Lina Bo BardiPITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition exploring the drawing practice of famed 20th-century architect Lina Bo Bardi. Lina Bo Bardi Draws brings together a selection of nearly 100 drawings, ranging from Bo Bardi's early life to the end of her career, from more than 6,000 drawings in her extensive archives in São Paulo. Bo Bardi was a prolific and idiosyncratic designer. Born in Italy, she was educated in Rome and worked in the Milan studio of the Modernist architect Gio Ponti. Bo Bardi moved to Brazil in 1946, where her interest in local materials and practices enriched her Modernist approach to design. Her most notable projects include the Museu de Arte in São Paulo (MASP) and SESC Pompeia, a factory rehabilitated into a cultural center, also in São Paulo. Her creative work extended far beyond architecture, incorporating ... More Gallery Hyundai celebrates its 50th anniversary with exhibition SEOUL.- Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2020, Gallery Hyundai presents Portrait, Figure and People - Modern and Contemporary Figure Paintings of Korea. This exhibition features a selection of figure paintings from a century of Korean Modern and Contemporary Art from the 1910s through the 2000s, all of which manifest both a spirit of the time and individual ingenuity. Figure paintings, in embodying different human typologies through transformations in era and social circumstances, can be seen as the self-portrait of Korean history itself. They therefore carry not only art historical value but serve as historical documentation where the dress and lifestyle of the subjects depicted yield a view into Koreas modernization. The selection includes special works designated as cultural heritage such as Ko Huidongs Self-Portrait, Kim KwanHos ... More MIA and Miami artist discuss new augmented reality exhibitMIAMI, FLA.- On December 19, Miami International Airport hosted Miami-based artist Felice Grodin for a presentation open to passengers to discuss IM/Movable Assets, her exhibit near gate D31 that employs augmented reality (AR) technology to explore what a travel experience at MIA may be like after 500 years of climate change. After Grodin discussed her process and concept for the exhibit, attendees had the opportunity to interact with the art via iOS devices. As a development of Grodins previous speculation about a not-so-distant future affected by climate change, IM/Movable Assets is an immersive site-specific work that virtually interacts with the airports permanent architecture, altering the way passengers perceive their surroundings and speculate the future of travel. In IM/Movable Assets, Grodin continues to highlight the transformative ... More Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art announces the title and participants for its second editionLATVIA.- Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, a major new biennial in Riga, Latvia, announces the title and participants for its second edition. Entitled and suddenly it all blossoms, RIBOCA2 is curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel and runs from 16 May 2020 11 October 2020 in Riga. In a global context of ecological, economic and political upheavals, RIBOCA2 channels the notion of re-enchantment as both a frame for understanding the present and a mindset for developing desirable futures. Borrowing its title from the Latvian poet Māra Zālīte (b. 1952), the exhibition re-imagines ways of being human and explores other paths for making relationships. Offering alternatives to apocalyptic narratives, RIBOCA2 rails against cynicism and political despair, transforming fear into opportunity and peril into vitality. The project draws ... More The 2020 LA Art Show will kick off the biggest year for culture in the City's HistoryLOS ANGELES, CA.- The LA Art Show, the most comprehensive international contemporary art show in America, will officially kick-off the citys 2020 art season at the Los Angeles Convention Center on February 5, 2020. As LAs largest and longest-running art fair, this year marks a milestone both for the LA Art Show and the entire LA art community. As the LA Art Show celebrates its 25th Anniversary, Los Angeles will be gearing up for the largest lineup of art and cultural programming in the citys historyrivaling New York, the reigning arts capital of the US. This is a turning-point Kim Martindale, who founded LAAS with the Fine Art Dealers Association, has been working toward for decades. 25 years ago when I began the LA Art Show, there werent any big art fairs here, says Martindale. This is one of the most creative cities on ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Gustave Doré was born January 06, 1832. Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832 - 23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist and sculptor who worked primarily with wood engraving. In this image: Gustave Doré, Souvenir of Loch Lomond, 1875. Oil on canvas, 131 à 196 cm. French & Co. LLC.
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