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The anthopologist Valeria Amoretti examines a skull in her lab at Pompeii, Italy, on Feb. 23, 2022. Amoretti leads Pompeiis laboratory of applied research. Roberto Salomone/The New York Times.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
POMPEII.- On a recent morning at the necropolis of Porta Sarno, just outside Pompeiis eastern edge, Mattia Buondonno gingerly raised a protective tarp covering a tomb discovered last year. According to the inscription on the tombs pediment, its occupant was a freed slave named Marcus Venerius Secundio, who became rich and organized performances in Greek and Latin that lasted four days, Buondonno, a Pompeii tour guide, read, translating from the Latin. Inside the tomb, believed to date to just decades before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that smothered Pompeii in A.D. 79, archaeologists had discovered one of the best preserved skeletons ever found. Its odd for that time. Normally adults were cremated, Buondonno said. But the tomb was important for other reasons, too. Recent finds like this show us new insight into the lower classes of Pompeii, said Luana Toniolo, a former Pompeii staff archaeologist, who excavated the site. In particular, an ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Camille Norment: Plexus is the second exhibition at the renovated Dia Chelsea. For this new, large-scale commission, Norment has united two sculptural installations in the postindustrial spaces of 541 and 545 West 22nd Street through a single sonic composition, with each space forming a dynamic and reflective acoustic environment. Photo: Don Stahl.
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| Police ID suspect in stabbing of MoMA employees | | New exhibition reunites Van Goghs paintings of olive trees for the first time | | Met Museum names a Mexico City architect to lead a new major project | 
First responders transport a women from inside of the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, on Saturday, March 12, 2022. Two women were stabbed Saturday afternoon inside the museum resulting in a chaotic scene that had patrons running for the exits. C.S. Muncy/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- A man who was denied entry to the Museum of Modern Art because his membership had been revoked jumped over the reception desk and stabbed two employees Saturday afternoon, police said. The attack was captured by surveillance video from the museum on West 53rd Street that police released Sunday along with photos of the suspect, Gary Cabana, 60, who was still being sought. The victims, a 24-year-old woman stabbed in the back and neck and a 24-year-old man stabbed in the left collar bone, were listed in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital, police said. The video shows the man barrel through a revolving door and climb across the wooden counter with a knife in his hand, cornering three people behind the desk. After stumbling into a wall, he begins jabbing and swinging the knife while the employees ... More | | 
Vincent van Gogh, Olive Grove, September 1889 (detail). Oil on canvas, 53,5 Ã 64,5 cm, private collection.
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum presents an exhibition focusing on the fifteen paintings of olive groves that Vincent van Gogh made in 1889 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. The painter himself believed these works to have been amongst the best he had made in the South of France. Thanks to exceptional loans from museums in the United States and Europe, this important group of paintings is now reunited and exhibited together. Highlights of the exhibition include Olive Trees (Minneapolis Institute of Art), Olive Grove (Gothenburg Museum of Art) and Women Picking Olives (Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens). Van Gogh and the Olive Groves is a collaboration with the Dallas Museum of Art. Emilie Gordenker (Director of the Van Gogh Museum): This exhibition is the result of years of intensive research and is a rare opportunity to see this group of works together. These extraordinary paintings convey Van Goghs love of nature and h ... More | | 
Serpentine Pavilion 2018 Designed by Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura, Design Rendering, Interior View © Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura, Renderings by Atmósfera.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, who at 38 was the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion in 2018, has been selected to design the Metropolitan Museum of Arts new $500 million modern and contemporary art wing, the museum announced Sunday. Its a very important commission, museum director Max Hollein said in a telephone interview. This collection will continue to grow more significantly than any other area. She is a strong voice in the architectural discourse, he said of Escobedo. She produces very contemporary buildings that are rooted in a modern canon. Escobedo, 42, is a surprising choice for such a major assignment, given that she is relatively young, has mostly designed temporary structures and is not a household name. But she said she felt undaunted and excited by the task. I like challenges, she said in a telephone interview from her ... More |
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| Looking beyond disaster for clues to contemporary life | | Manhattan's Chinese street signs are disappearing | | Pangolin London now representing Angela Palmer | 
A still from News From Nowhere: Freedom Village by Ms. Moon and Mr. Jeon, which will be shown in May at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. Photo: The artists and Gallery Hyundai.
by Andrew Russeth
SEOUL.- At a time when artists can sell paintings and sculptures for dizzying sums, Jeon Joonho and Moon Kyungwon embody a somewhat contrary approach. We dont want to make just artwork, Moon said in an interview at their studio, which was designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito in Seouls Seochon area. We try to listen to other voices to rethink our position. Over the past decade, Moon and Jeon, as they are widely known, have established a multifarious artistic partnership that frequently involves collaborations with architects, fashion designers, actors and scientists, among others. Dreamy, meticulously crafted short videos are their trademark, and they do sometimes make discrete ... More | | 
B.F. Yee and Y.T. Huang from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce pose with Theodore Karagheuzoff, then Commissioner of Traffic, and the citys first bilingual street name signs on Jan. 15, 1969. Carl T. Gossett/The New York Times.
by Aaron Reiss and Denise Lu
NEW YORK, NY.- As with many neighborhoods in New York City, Chinatown has a history that is legible in layers. Here in lower Manhattan, Republic of China flags still flutter above the offices of family associations that were founded before the Communist Revolution. Job posting boards covered in slips of paper cater to recent immigrants. Instagrammable dessert shops serve young locals and tourists alike. For Rent signs are everywhere, alluding to the shrinking number of Chinese businesses and residents. And above a dwindling number of intersections hang signs declaring the names of the street in English and in Chinese. Bilingual street signs have hung over the bustling streets ... More | | 
Race Track 8: Silverstone Circuit, 2017, in 'Jackie Stuart Blue', Edition of 6.
LONDON.- Pangolin London announced the representation of British artist Angela Palmer, whose unique mapping process has created deeply inquisitive artworks that interrogate their subjects from the inside-out. She is set to have her first solo show at the gallery in Spring 2023. Palmer's subjects are wide ranging from her work with Egyptian mummies, first seen in her 2011 exhibition Unwrapped: The Story of a Child Mummy, to her 2018 portrait of Eclipse, the undefeated Georgian racehorse sired in the bloodline of an estimated 95% of modern racehorses. Palmer's technical ability, too, is broad: the artist is as at-home working with American black walnut as she is in polished bronze, demonstrated in her 2015 work Lifejacket. Palmer's signature technique is, however, something wholly her own. Utilising modern imaging technology, Palmer reveals the internal topographies of her subjects which she then charts with the aid of an electric ... More |
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| Carpeaux Recast: A sculptural gem with a knotty backstory | | Legendary photographer David Bailey stages exhibition at Sotheby's London | | Exhibition of newly commissioned, site-specific work by Camille Norment opens at Dia Chelsea | 
Bust of a Woman by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier, which came to be identified only as African Venus, in the exhibition Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 7, 2022. The exhibition, organized around Jean-Baptiste Carpeauxs marble bust Why Born Enslaved! re-examines works of art representing slavery and abolition. Clark Hodgin/The New York Times.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK, NY.- Traditional museums are literally conservative places. Theyre built to freeze objects in time, to shield them from change. Too often, the conservative impulse extends to institutional thinking, which leaves cultural ideals and values embodied in objects embalmed in Beauty and Greatness, and left at that. In reality, of course, everything about art is changing all the time. In the material realm, molecules never stop moving. And values, benign and poisonous, expressed ... More | | 
From his iconic 1960s portraits to the "Overpainted Photographs" and Vanitas Still Lifes Series created during the noughties and beyond. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Baileys Parade, an exhibition of works by the legendary British photographer David Bailey, is open until 16 March 2022 at Sothebys London. Curated in close collaboration with the artist and Imitate Modern, the show not only features some of Baileys most iconic pin-up portraits of the 1960s, but his vibrant still life series from the late 2000s, as well as a series of rarely-seen overpainted photographs created a decade later during the 2010s. Comprising 30 works, the exhibition provides an insight into the mind of one of the worlds greatest image-makers, whose career has spanned more than half a century. Hailed a sixties icon by Esquire Magazine, Bailey is undoubtedly one of the rare photographers who is as celebrated as his subjects. Born in Londons East End in 1938, it ... More | | 
A two-part, large-scale sculptural and sonic work spans both galleries.
NEW YORK, NY.- Camille Norment: Plexus is the second exhibition at the renovated Dia Chelsea. For this new, large-scale commission, Norment has united two sculptural installations in the postindustrial spaces of 541 and 545 West 22nd Street through a single sonic composition, with each space forming a dynamic and reflective acoustic environment. This project culminates a four-year-long, in-depth engagement with Norment, which began with preparations for her Artists on Artists lecture on Max Neuhaus in 2019. Dia has a long history of facilitating Minimal sound and site-responsive investigations, and this new commission extends these interests into the present day, said Jessica Morgan, Dias Nathalie de Gunzburg Director. Through her rigorous, socially engaged sound practice, Norment ... More |
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| More art than science | | Taymour Grahne Projects opens an online solo exhibition by Belgium-based artist Tessa Perutz | | As museums become her ally, Suzanne Lacy brings her activism inside | 
With his children Jonathan and Layla to either side, Alex Lugo, who learned to trade cryptocurrencies and flips NFTs for profit, wears an Oculus headset at his home in Lindenhurst, N.Y., Feb. 27, 2022. Lila Barth/The New York Times.
by Alyson Krueger
NEW YORK, NY.- Late on a Friday last spring, Izzy Pollak decided to buy two Bored Ape NFTs, which means he bought unique digital images (in this case, of apes). As the owner of a Bored Ape, he now has commercial rights over the digital image to do with as he wishes. Many people choose to display their NFTs as their profile picture on social media accounts. (And if youre wondering how ownership of a digital asset can be proven: Every NFT, or nonfungible token, has a distinct serial number, and the transaction history of each NFT is stored on the blockchain, so people can see who the real owner is.) Pollak, 29, who bought three more a few months later, obtained these from a collection of 10,000 NFTs known as the Bored Ape Yacht Club. Some of the apes are wearing ... More | | 
Tessa Perutz, Path in Cream with Split Trees and Violet Sky (Upstate NY), 2022. Gouache and pencil on paper, 48 x 36 cm . / 19 x 14 in.
LONDON.- Taymour Grahne Projects is presenting Miroir Miroir, an online solo exhibition by Belgium-based artist Tessa Perutz. Life cycles or sequences are the stages that begin from the start of life, through growth, degeneration, and decay. These rhythms are intrinsic to plants, humans, animals and nature. When death, the closing chapter occurs, there are the tangible consequences: physical matter that enriches the land for new life, and the societal implications: lessons that are learnt and passed on from one generation to the next. Perutz is strongly influenced by this cycle, finding the cues in nature and human life evocative and uplifting. This dialogue was heightened during her recent time as artist in residence at Fondation CAB, Saint- Paul-de-Vence, in France. Where Perutz's studio was situated in a 1950's building, in one of the oldest medieval towns on the French Riviera and very close to the sea, surrounded by a bounty of pla ... More | | 
Suzanne Lacy, the pioneering social-practice artist who orchestrates projects that can involve hundreds of people, at the corner of Highland Avenue and Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Feb. 27, 2022. Lacy has become recognized as a pioneer of social practice a genre of art that, some argue, is so widespread that it almost ceases to be a meaningful category. Yudi Ela/The New York Times.
by Jonathan Griffin
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On a cold day last December, sitting outside her studio in Santa Monica, California, artist Suzanne Lacy talked excitedly about the coming year. In Manchester, England, exhibitions of her work were already open at the Whitworth Art Gallery and the Manchester Art Gallery. She looked forward to a prestigious fellowship at the University of Manchester in the spring. Lacy, 76, was also preparing for The Medium Is Not the Only Message, a survey of her art at the Queens Museum, in New York, opening March 13. The exhibition features work made since the 1970s in what Lacy once termed new genre public art politically engaged projects ... More |
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 'Wozzeck,' the 20th century's most influential opera, turns 100NEW YORK, NY.- Theodor Adorno had to commiserate with Alban Berg late into the night on Dec. 14, 1925, after the premiere of Wozzeck at the Berlin State Opera. The problem was not that Bergs first opera had been a disaster, that this unknown student of Arnold Schoenbergs was poised to be sent back into his former anonymity and abject poverty. The problem for Berg was that his musically abrasive, politically unsparing work based on a Georg Büchner play that he had seen in 1914 and immediately thought of setting to music had been such a triumph that he started to question the works true worth. Adorno later recalled literally consoling him over his success. A success Wozzeck has remained in the 100 years since Berg finished revising the manuscript on July 16, 1922. The most radical opera of its time, still sounding strikingly modern ... More  Brent Renaud, crusading filmmaker, is killed at 50NEW YORK, NY.- Brent Renaud, who with his brother Craig formed a Peabody Award-winning documentary film team that drew attention to human suffering, often working with major news organizations like The New York Times, was fatally shot in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday. He was 50. Renaud was the first journalist on assignment from an American news organization to be killed while reporting on the war in Ukraine. It also appeared likely that he was the first foreign journalist killed during the conflict. Juan Arredondo, a photographer and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, told The Associated Press that he was traveling with Renaud and that he was injured in the same attack. Capt. Oleksandr Bogai, deputy chief of police in Irpin, said Renaud was shot in the head when Russian forces fired ... More  William Hurt, Oscar-winning leading man of the 1980s, dies at 71NEW YORK, NY.- William Hurt, who burst into stardom as the hapless lawyer Ned Racine in Body Heat and won an Oscar for best actor for Kiss of the Spider Woman, portraying a gay man sharing a Brazilian prison cell with a revolutionary, died at his home in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday. He was 71. A son, Alexander Hurt, said the cause was complications of prostate cancer. Hurt, tall, blond and speaking in a measured cadence that lent a cerebral quality to his characters, was a leading man in some of the most popular films of the 1980s, including The Big Chill (1983), Children of a Lesser God (1986), Broadcast News (1987) and The Accidental Tourist (1988). In later years, Hurt transitioned from leading man to supporting roles, and was nominated for an Academy Award a fourth time for A History of Violence (2005). Janet Maslin ... More  The FLAG Art Foundation opens Peter Uka's first solo exhibition in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting Peter Uka: Remembrance, the artists first solo exhibition in New York, on view March 12-June 4, 2022, on the 10th floor. Born in 1975 in Nigerias Benue State and based in Cologne, Germany, Uka paints large-scale portraits and group scenes that draw inspiration from childhood memories, including 70s-era fashion and hairstyles, wallpaper patterns, and dance moves. Elucidating the richness and joyfulness in both the solitary and shared moments of Black life, the artist offers a counternarrative to outmoded perceptions of both his home country and non-Western culture at large. A text by artist and curator Folakunle Oshun below accompanies the exhibition. Checkered tiles in barbershops, bell-bottom trousers, afro hairstyles, and vibrant colours are just some of the recurring elements ... More  JD Malat Gallery opens a new display of works Georgia DymockLONDON.- JD Malat Gallery is presenting the solo exhibition Under our Together by Georgia Dymock, open from 11th March until 9th April 2022. In this new display of works, the young female British artist engages the audience with captivating art deco-esque surrealist figures, which bridge the physical and digital realms. In honour of International Womens Day, JD Malat Gallery has also partnered with the public art platform W1 Curates to showcase Dymocks work across Flannel's flagship store on Oxford Street from 7th until 20th March. The collaboration displays her new body of work on a monumental scale, allowing the London public to engage with the intricacies of her captivating work. Born in Derbyshire and based in London, contemporary artist Georgia Dymock (b.1998) is currently pursuing her MFA in painting at UCL, Slade School of Fine Art. With ... More  Exhibition explores how a dystopian consciousness permeates the work of a new generation of contemporary artistsLONDON.- The Artist Room is presenting Inside Out, a group exhibition including works by Sophie Mei Birkin, Max Boyla, Sonya Derviz, Antoine Leisure, Kin-Ting Li, Ding Shilun and Scott Young. This exhibition explores how a dystopian consciousness permeates the work of a new generation of contemporary artists. From subverting the so-called natural to envisioning surreal cosmologies and carnal futures, this exhibition brings together a group of emerging artists that imagine life turned inside out. By rendering visible the imagined, unseen and yet felt, a new generation of artists are responding to our hyper-transient and image-centric age by building new visual languages to form alternative paths to perception. ... More  Oscar rewind: When Rita Moreno made history and thanked no oneNEW YORK, NY.- It was the night that cemented her place in history, and Rita Moreno almost skipped it. In February 1962, Moreno, then 30, was in the Philippines, shooting Cry of Battle a black-and-white World War II film in which she played the English-speaking leader of a band of Filipino fighters. So when she found out that she had been nominated for her first Academy Award for best supporting actress for her performance as Anita in West Side Story she took a moment to celebrate. And then, she got pragmatic. As a star of Cry of Battle, she would still be needed on set 7,300 miles from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, where that years Oscars ceremony would take place in April. I was absolutely positive Judy Garland was going to win for Judgment at Nuremberg, Moreno, now 90 and still vivacious and irreverent, ... More  Yuriko, keeper of Martha Graham's flame, is dead at 102NEW YORK, NY.- Yuriko Kikuchi, who under the single name Yuriko was a leading dancer in Martha Grahams company from the 1940s to 1967 and then a keeper of Grahams flame through her demanding teaching and outstanding revivals of early Graham works, died Tuesday in New York. She was 102. Her death was confirmed by her daughter, Susan Kikuchi Kivnick, a former dancer who has held several positions with the Graham organization. An ultimate multitasker, Yuriko was associated with the Graham fold for more than 50 years. She founded a student company, the Martha Graham Ensemble, in 1983 and ran it until 1993. (Graham died in 1991.) She also carved out a career as an independent modern dance choreographer whose themes were sometimes related to her Japanese heritage. She was imbued with a powerful clarity in her dancing, ... More  Confederate Congress gavel Lincoln discussed before assassination heads to auction March 15DENVER, PA.- April 15, 1865 is a date that will forever be associated with the assassination of Americas 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. While volumes have been written about shooter John Wilkes Booths cowardly act, and the subsequent effort to save Lincolns life, not as much is commonly known about the hours leading up to the presidents fateful visit to Fords Theatre. A unique and historically significant item entered in Morphy Auctions March 15-17 Collectible Firearms & Militaria Auction helps to shed light on Lincolns final hours and his composed state of mind following the Confederacys surrender. It is the gavel that was used at the Richmond, Virginia, chambers of the Congress of the Confederate States of America. After the fall of Richmond in April 1865, the gavel was retrieved from the disarray of the former Confederate governments venue ... More  Alison Bradley Projects opens an exibition of works by Tadaaki KuwayamaNEW YORK, NY.- Alison Bradley Projects is presenting Tadaaki Kuwayama, curated by Gabriela Rangel. Tadaaki Kuwayama (b. Nagoya, 1932) arrived in New York in 1958, shortly after his graduation from Tokyo University of the Arts where he trained in the Japanese traditional painting style of nihonga. Rejecting nihongas strict aesthetic principles, Kuwayama came to eschew all modes of representation, instead dedicating his career in the United States, now in its seventh decade, to the creation of pure art without history. Acclaimed as a pioneer of Minimalism in the 1960s, Kuwayama never thought of his work as such. Despite formal affinities with what later came to be critically constructed as the minimalist mode of post-painterly abstraction, Kuwayamas commitment to non-compositional works and investigation of color, material, and space have ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler was born March 14, 1853. Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 - May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism he called "parallelism". In this image: Ferdinand Hodler, The Reaper, c. 1910 © Christoph Blocher Collection, Photo: SIK-ISEA, Zürich.
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