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Works by (l to r) Kehinde Wiley, Jean Michel Basquiat, Marisol, and Judith Shea in Person of Interest at Sheldon Museum of Art.
LINCOLN, NEB.- Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska presents Person of Interest, an exhibition of portraiture from the late nineteenth century to today. The exhibition tests the very definition of the genre through depictions of the literal and abstracted body. It asks open-ended questions about self-fashioning, cultural memory, gender identity, and performance of identity. In so doing, Person of Interest prompts conversations about race and representation, institutional power, lived experience, and other relevant and timely issues. Drawn from Sheldons holdings and the private collections of Karen and Robert Duncan and Kathryn and Marc LeBaron, the exhibition features works by Radcliffe Bailey, Willie Cole, Renée Cox, Lesley Dill, Barkley Hendricks, Robert Henri, Marisol, Zanele Muholi, Catherine Opie, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, John Singer Sargent, Jenny Saville, Cindy Sherman, Roger Shimomura, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Jaune Qu ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors stand by an entrance of the Colosseum monument in Rome after it was closed along with some of the city's other landmarks and museums after the Italian government took drastic steps to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus COVID-19 sweeping the globe, on March 8, 2020. Laurent EMMANUEL / AFP
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 | | From coughing fits to closings, cultural world girds for coronavirus | | Cao Fei and Formafantasma exhibitions now open at Serpentine Galleries | | Rome's Raphael show falls victim to coronavirus | 
A visitor enters the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, March 5, 2020. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ushers in some theaters are wearing latex gloves. Museums are installing hand sanitizer dispensers as if they were pieces of art. Audience members are being told: If you have a cough, please, trade in your tickets and stay home. As the coronavirus spreads in the United States, theaters, museums and concert halls are hyperaware that their establishments could become petri dishes for a virus that is spread person to person through respiratory droplets. These institutions are nervously looking at what has happened overseas in places like China and Italy, where museums have been closed, concerts canceled and movie theaters shuttered. In the entertainment industry, where ticket sales are often critical to financial survival, companies are hoping ... More | | 
Formafantasma, stills from Quercus, 2020. Courtesy Formafantasma.
LONDON.- The Serpentines 50th anniversary year looks to the future with a programme that responds to the urgent issues of today. Key themes include ecology, equality and the impact of digital and new technologies. Cao Feis first major institutional show in the UK, Blueprints features work from 20062020 and includes the premiere of her first virtual reality work, The Eternal Wave, produced in collaboration with Acute Art, and the UK premiere of new film Nova. Cao Fei (born 1978, Guangzhou) is a multi-media artist and filmmaker based in Beijing. Video, digital media, photography and installation all play a role in the artists engagement with an age of rapid technological development. Cao Feis work is underpinned by an ongoing exploration of virtuality, how it has radically altered our perception of self and changed the way we understand reality. At the centre of Cao Fei's exhibition is an impulse for w ... More | | 
A visitor looks at the painting "La Velata" by Renaissance master Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, on March 4, 2020, displayed at the exhibition "Raffaello" at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- Rome's blockbuster exhibition marking 500 years since the death of Renaissance master Raphael fell victim Sunday to a government decree shutting all museums because of the new coronavirus threat. The show at Rome's Scuderie del Quirinale presidential palace opened after years of preparations to great fanfare on Wednesday. It includes 200 works by the prolific painter and architect -- a child prodigy who died aged only 37 in 1520 -- and had been due to run until June 2. But the museum said on its website Sunday that the exhibition was closing until further notice. "As a result of the Prime Ministerial Decree of March 8, 2020, Scuderie del Quirinale will remain closed to the public until new government provisions are issued," the Scuderie del Quirinale ... More |
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| | The Sydney Opera House goes quiet. Finally. | | Exhibition at Staley-Wise Gallery celebrates the work of Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Stephanie Pfriender Stylander | | Exhibition presents an exquisite selection of drawings of important buildings in St Petersburg | 
A rendering of the concert hall at the Sydney Opera House, set for acoustic concerts in Sydney, Australia. Sydney Opera House via The New York Times.
by Bill Wyman
SYDNEY (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Just after dawn one recent morning, Lou Rosicky was walking, slightly stooped, through a covered catwalk tucked just below the tip of one of the famous, towering concrete sails of the Sydney Opera House. Around him was an almost impenetrable mechanical thicket pipes, wires, machinery and conduit, all servicing amplifiers, control boards, lights, sprinkler systems, winches and cooling ducts. The feel? The gullet of a cyborg, circa 1964. The weight of history is everywhere in this building, Rosicky said. He is the opera house complexs point man in a vast renovation project aimed at bringing all those innards up to date. The endeavor, budgeted at close to 300 million Australian dollars (nearly $200 million U.S.), led to the closure of the complexs concert hall for the first time in its history. The hall has in the past been open ... More | | 
Stephanie Pfriender Stylander, Kate Moss (The Face), New York, Italian Harpers Bazaar, 1992 © Stephanie Pfriender Stylander / Courtesy Staley-Wise Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- In this exhibition of fashion photography and portraits, Staley-Wise celebrates the work of two artists whose work appeared in magazines over 30 years apart. Louise Dahl-Wolfes photographs embody the classic elegance that was the hallmark of fashion photography since its earliest days, beginning with Edward Steichen in 1911. She was hired by Harpers Bazaar editor Carmel Snow in 1936 when a formal elegance was the norm. Dahl-Wolfe embodied a fresh, decidedly American spirit in her collaborations at the magazine with Mrs. Snow, Alexey Brodovitch, and Diana Vreeland until 1958. She became an early pioneer of using natural light in her photographs. Harpers Bazaar reflected dramatic changes to the style and content of womens magazines during these 22 years, but Dahl-Wolfes models remained confidently elegant women throughout whether in couture on the banks of the ... More | | 
Jean-François Thomas de Thomon (17541813) Andrei N. Voronikhin (17591814), architect, Saint-Petersburg, Kazan Cathedral, long section, ca. 1800 (detail), pen and grey ink, black pencil, coloured render, 64,3 x 95,2 cm, Hdz. 7888,25 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek/Dietmar Katz.
BERLIN.- Jean-François Thomas de Thomon (1760-1813) is one of the best-known French architects of neoclassicism. Blessed with drawing talent and endowed with the requisite ambition, he left turbulent revolutionary France for distant Russia and commenced a successful career in its capital city of St Petersburg, where he created his most celebrated works. Thomon possessed the social skills and ability to present himself required to gain access to the high aristocratic circles of Russia, including the court of the tsar, and thus to important and well-paid commissions: his most famous projects include the Big Stone Theatre (Bolshoi Theatre) and the design of the eastern tip of Vasilyevsky Island with the Stock Exchange. Founded in 1703, St Petersburg was being intensively developed and was meant ... More |
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| | Voice of the unknown woman: Afghan filmmaker Roya Sadat | | Petzel Gallery opens a solo exhibition of new works by Hiroki Tsukuda | | David Zwirner | 
In this photo taken on February 9, 2020, Afghan film producer and director Roya Sadat speaks during an interview with AFP at the Roya Film House in Kabul. Mariam ALIMI / AFP.
by Elise Blanchard
KABUL (AFP).- For a generation, Roya Sadat has been a voice for Afghan women in one of the world's worst places to be one. One of the first female filmmakers to make her name after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, she has won plaudits at home and abroad for works such as "A Letter to the President", and "Three Dots", and "Playing the Taar". She has lived through the Soviet occupation -- fleeing with her family for their lives at times -- endured the brutality of civil war, and then the violent oppression of Taliban rule, where women existed only in the shadows and basic freedoms were lost. Her great fear is a return to that kind of fundamentalism: The February 29, US-Taliban deal may be a potential first step for peace in a nation that for decades has only known war, but it offers no guarantees the few women's rights set out in the ... More | | 
Hiroki Tsukuda, Vol. 13, 2020. Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel, with silkscreen printed acrylic frame, 68.9 x 49.21 x 1.69 inches 175 x 125 x 4.3 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Petzel Gallery is presenting They Live, a solo exhibition of new works by Hiroki Tsukuda. The show is on view from March 5 to April 18, 2020 and marks Tsukudas second exhibition at the gallerys Chelsea location. In reference to John Carpenters 1988 cult classic film with the same name, They Live presents a dystopian reality whereby current society has become surreptitiously controlled by humanoid extraterrestrials. Enamored by sci-fi since early childhood, Tsukuda has drawn inspiration from dystopic thrillers, apocalyptic novels, and cyberpunk manga. These fictions have percolated into the artists consciousness, transforming his ideas and artistic practice. Working in the realms of drawing and digital collage, Tsukuda creates multi-dimensional pictures by compositing a profusion of found and created images and coding them with computerized characters and ... More | | 
Al Taylor, Bondage Duck, 1998 © The Estate of Al Taylor. Courtesy The Estate of Al Taylor and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of sculptures, drawings, and prints by the American artist Al Taylor at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location in New York. Spanning the last decade of his career, the works on view focus on Taylors fascination with Hawaiiits scenic beauty, history, oceanic culture, and the daily lifestyle of the Hawaiian people. Taylor first traveled to Hawaii in 1987, working as an art handler for a hotel developer on Maui and then again on Kauai in 1988. These initial visits sparked the artists curiosity and became an important source of study and inspiration in his work over the ensuing years. Using his characteristic humor and unique sense of perspective, these works examine ordinary objects such as plastic leis, broomsticks, and foam fishing net floats, and explore a range of the natural phenomena that he observed, including reflected sunlight and the flow patterns of oc ... More |
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| | Carpenters Workshop Gallery opens a thematic solo exhibition of works by Joep Van Lieshout | | mumok opens an exhibition of works by Steve Reinke | | Feminist, fashionable and fighting for sustainability: India's Anita Dongre | 
Walking Stick (VI) Death, 2018 (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery | New York is presenting The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a thematic solo exhibition of works by the visionary Joep Van Lieshout / Atelier Van Lieshout. Curated by Natalie Kovacs, the exhibition brings together sculptures, video work, and functional artworks, revealing the full scope of transgressive artist Joep Van Lieshouts experimental and multidisciplinary practice. The presentation debuts new and recent works that exemplify Van Lieshouts ongoing commitment to exploring boundaries and inventing new ways to sculpt the future. World-renowned for his immense and visionary projects, Van Lieshout gained international recognition for pioneering a practice that straddles the boundary between art, architecture, and design. Since the beginning of his career Van Lieshout has continued to explore the borders of what art can be, even when this approach was unprecedented or taboo. Fr ... More | | 
Exhibition view of Steve Reinke. Butter March 6 to June 21, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin. Photo: Stephan Wyckoff, © mumok.
VIENNA.- My work wants me dead, I know. It is all it ever talks about, writes Steve Reinke in a correspondence on the occasion of his exhibition at mumok. Death and life, empathy and cruelty, sex and intimacybut also the uneasy relationship between the author and his workare the kind of topics that Reinke (born 1963 in Eganville, Canada; lives in Chicago, USA) engages with in his work. In the best Nietzschean manner, however, he considers human beings not political or moral entities but puppets of microbiotic agendas: instead of the Freudian ego and id, it is bacteria, placentae, and plankton that rule the world in his more recent videos, and culture designates not humanistic achievement but life in a petri dish. Butter, Reinkes first ever solo museum show, presents his new video, An Arrow Pointing to a Hole, as well as a selection of his sinister text images and absentminded ... More | | 
In this photo taken on February 14, 2020, fashion designer Anita Dongre reacts during an interview with AFP at her factory on the outskirts of Mumbai. Laurène Becquart / AFP.
by Ammu Kannampilly
NAVI MUMBAI (AFP).- With stores in India and New York, multiple clothing brands and a global celebrity following, fashion designer Anita Dongre is a feminist powerhouse in a male-dominated industry. But her true ambition is to create an environmentally sustainable company, she says. "Sometimes I wish I could just give up design and focus on sustainability full-time," the Mumbai-based Dongre tells AFP during an interview at her factory outside India's financial capital. "Time is running out. Climate change is right at our doorstep and we all have to do something," says the 56-year-old, whose clothes have been worn by some of the world's most high-profile women including Hillary Clinton, Kate Middleton, Ivanka Trump, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Beyonce. ... More |
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 Steve Weber, guitarist in oddball folk band, dies at 76NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Steve Weber, the guitarist of the Holy Modal Rounders, a cult psychedelic folk group that grazed the pop-culture mainstream with a song featured in the 1969 film Easy Rider and influenced generations of underground musicians, died on Feb. 7 at his home in Mount Clare, West Virginia. He was 76. His death was announced by the Davis Funeral Home in nearby Clarksburg, which did not give a cause. The Holy Modal Rounders emerged in New York in 1963 as a duo, with Weber on guitar and Peter Stampfel on fiddle and banjo. Like countless others swept up in the folk revival of the time, they were inspired by the traditional songs in the Anthology of American Folk Music, compiled by the filmmaker and historian Harry Smith in 1952. But while most of their peers approached old material with reverence, Weber ... More Art Gallery of NSW redresses history with announcement of new facade commission for its iconic entranceSYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales announced that cross-cultural Wiradjuri woman Karla Dickens, one of Australias most exciting artists, has been invited to create a new contemporary work for the Gallerys entrance. The work will be launched in 2021 to coincide with the Gallerys 150th anniversary celebrations. Located in the empty niche above the front door for a period of three years, Dickens work will be one of the first visitors encounter as they cross the threshold into the Gallery. Dickens preliminary concept for the facade, To see or not to see 2019, is a powerful exploration of her female and Aboriginal identity and the continuing legacy of colonialism. The concept has been on display at the Gallery for the past five months in the free exhibition, Dora Ohlfsen and the facade commission. It is on view until 5pm on Sunday 8 March, International Womens Day and the final day of the ... More Exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Rudolf Polanszky opens at GagosianNEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting paintings and sculptures by Rudolf Polanszky dating from 2014 to 2019. This exhibition inaugurates his representation by the gallery. An important contributor to the artistic landscape of Vienna, Polanszky makes cerebral multidisciplinary works that embrace chance occurrence. His fundamentally improvisational practice marries conceptual philosophies with varied modes of production, resulting in compositions that oscillate between dual identities as concrete objects and symbols of subjective perception. Growing up in the immediate wake of the Viennese Actionist movement of the 1960s, Polanszky began his practice making satirical films, paintings, and performance art pieces that mischievously countered the Actionists graphic focus on living bodies in their own notorious performance works. ... More After inquiry, Domingo withdraws from London performancesLONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Royal Opera House in London announced Friday that opera star Plácido Domingo had withdrawn from his upcoming performances there this summer. It was his latest European engagement to be called off since a U.S. opera unions investigation found last week that Domingo had engaged in inappropriate activity with women. The company said that Domingos withdrawal from a production of Verdis Don Carlo there in July had been mutually decided. We would like to confirm that we have received no claims of misconduct against Maestro Domingo during his time at the Royal Opera House and are sympathetic of his reasons for stepping down, said a statement emailed by Ben Oliver, a spokesman for the Royal Opera. Plácido is an outstanding singer and artist, and we are hugely grateful for his support and commitment ... More 303 Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Gina FischliNEW YORK, NY.- Most often, you bake a cake for someone you love. You mix all the stuff together and put it in the oven and wait. Sadly, when you open the oven again and look inside, the cake doesnt look how you feel about that person at all. Its a disappointment. Still, you can try and fix it with icing sugar and food coloring and marzipan. You are doing the best you can. Sometimes you dont bake for someone you love specifically but, for instance, a bake sale or a get-together. A cake can be made to impress or even intimidate your guests. The most unfortunate bakers cook in an outspoken competition like on TV. You believe the most exquisite cakes must have only been witnessed by a handful of people, because their life span is so short. (Unless you are thinking of some kind of practical German fruit loaf, which lasts for a week, but thats ... More When classical composers did the fox trotNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Near the end of his 1933 novel Romance in Marseille, newly and belatedly published for the first time by Penguin Classics, Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay moves toward an operatic climax by steering several characters into a bar. While his cast is diverse girls and men, white and brown and black, mingled colors and odors come together McKay assigns them a shared pastime: drinking, gossiping, dancing and perspiring to the sound of international jazz. But then he predicts an imminent end to all that: The craze of the Charleston and Black Bottom was about dead and buried. This whiplash trajectory from popularity to dead and buried wasnt unusual when classical musicians of the time ventured into pop styles. While jazz-inspired music by the likes of Stravinsky and Weill has never ... More Rare fully functional Apple-1 computer among items in Steve Jobs auctionBOSTON, MASS.- An extremely rare fully functional Apple-1 computer will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The Apple-1 was originally conceived by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as a bare circuit board to be sold as a kit and completed by electronics hobbyists, their initial market being Palo Alto Homebrew Computer Club. Seeking a larger audience, Jobs approached Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, one of the first personal computer stores in the world. Aiming to elevate the computer beyond the realm of the hobbyist, Terrell agreed to purchase 50 Apple-1 computers, but only if they were fully assembled. The Apple-1 thus became one of the first computers which did not require soldering by the end user. Altogether, over a span of about ten months, Jobs and Wozniak produced about 200 Apple-1 computers ... More Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego to host art auction 2020 on May 2SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will host the 12th biennial Art Auction at the Jacobs Building at MCASD Downtown at 6:00 PM on Saturday, May 2. The highly anticipated event will feature live and silent auctions of approximately 100 works by early career and internationally recognized artists, including Leonardo Drew, June Edmonds, Luchita Hurtado, Jean Lowe, Kim MacConnel, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Trevor Paglen, Helen Pashgian, Ed Ruscha, Marnie Weber, and James Welling. The event is the Museums largest fundraiser, providing vital support for educational programs, exhibitions, and art acquisitions. All works are carefully considered by MCASDs Director and Curators. MCASDs Art Auction allows visitors to switch from being observers of art to being active collectors of it, says Kathryn Kanjo, MCASDs David C. ... More Exhibition features contemporary Aboriginal artists, includes more than 100 worksCHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The Fralin Museum of Art and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection partnered to present The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles. The Inside World, on view at the Fralin Jan. 24-May 24, 2020, presents 112 memorial poles by 55 artists from remote Aboriginal communities in the tropical northern region of Australia known as Arnhem Land. With this collaboration, which illustrates the potential impact that partnership could have on serving students, faculty and visitors, the two museums are exploring the possibility of sharing a larger space on University Grounds in the future. The Inside World is an exciting opportunity for the Fralin Museum of Art and Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection the only museum dedicated to Aboriginal art outside of Australia to serve students, faculty and visitors ... More What José Parlá, JR and Kunle Martins learned from graffitiNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Its been refreshing to see the recent bursts of full-car subway graffiti in New York, a kaleidoscopic jolt of anarchy that recalls the city before glass towers, before subway countdown clocks, before the street-art gallery at Hudson Yards. The huffing and puffing that greeted these trains also served as a reminder that graffiti is both a disruptive aesthetic choice and a disruptive social practice where it happens is just as crucial as what it looks like. Thats especially important to remember given that five decades or so after the first taggers raided New York, graffiti or at minimum, its spirit is finding its way into museums. The often electric José Parlá: Its Yours, at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the overly blunt JR: Chronicles, at the Brooklyn Museum, demonstrate the vastly differing shapes that ... More An astute choreographer stumbles (and rises) to hopeNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Oona Dohertys entrance would have been better had it been a surprise; it wasnt, but it was still a doozy. This contemporary choreographer and performer from Belfast, Ireland, is astonishing not merely raw, as she is often described, but exactingly articulate. She is in possession of a body with as much flexibility as her mind, as was revealed in her arresting exploration of the young men of her hometown. On Friday, at the start of Dohertys Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus, spectators huddled around the entrance of the 92nd Street Y in a cold drizzle and waited for a car to pull up to the door. It was a desperate-looking thing, with a garbage bag taped over the back window; one of its occupants, Joss Cotter, got out, lit a rolled cigarette and surveyed the crowd with hunched shoulders before walking around ... More SFER IK Museion in Tulum wins LCD Berlin Award for New Culture Destination of the Year - Latin AmericaBERLIN.- SFER IK Museion has won the LCD Berlin Award for New Culture Destinations of the Year in the Latin America category, fending off impressive competition from Museum of Image and Sound (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Museo Regional Aysen (Patagonia, Chile). Now in their sixth edition, the LCD Awards highlight the worlds best established and emerging cultural destinations, recognising their exceptional contribution to cultural life. The New Culture Destinations of the Year awards highlight the significant role of culture in changing the perception of towns and cities and influencing their future development. Founded by Eduardo Neira Roth in 2018, SFER IK Museion is a transdisciplinary creative sphere comprising exhibitions of some of the worlds finest visual artists, cutting-edge artisanal workshops linking ancestral practices with ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and sculptor Eric Fischl was born March 09, 1948. Eric Fischl (born March 9, 1948) is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and educator. He is known for his paintings of depictions of American suburbia from the 1970s and 1980s. In this image: Eric Fischl, Family, 2018.
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