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The American Museum of Natural History in New York, on June 7, 2022. The American Museum of Natural History is planning to overhaul its stewardship of some 12,000 human remains, the painful legacy of collecting practices that saw the museum acquire the skeletons of Indigenous and enslaved people taken from their graves and the bodies of New Yorkers who died as recently as the 1940s. (Evelyn Freja/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Museum of Natural History is planning to overhaul its stewardship of some 12,000 human remains, the painful legacy of collecting practices that saw the museum acquire the skeletons of Indigenous and enslaved people taken from their graves and the bodies of New Yorkers who died as recently as the 1940s. The new policy will include the removal of all human bones now on public display and improvements to the storage facilities where the remains are now kept. Anthropologists will also spend more time studying the collection to determine the origins and identities of remains, as the museum faces questions about the legality and the ethics of its acquisitions. Figuring out the answers to exactly what we have here, and how to actually describe that as completely as we can, is something that is important to do moving forward, said Sean Decatur, who became the museums president in April. The effort, which was announ ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Designing the Beautiful Game installation view at the FIFA Museum
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| Portraits of members of one of the oldest & most important Gloucestershire families head to auction | | Almine Rech opens Kenny Scharf's second solo exhibition at the gallery in Paris | | White Cube Paris opens an exhibition of works by TARWUK | 
A portrait of Matthew Estcourt (1701-1762) by George Allen. Dated 1735, it is estimated at £1,200-1,800 (Lot 794).
GLOUCESTER.- Chorleys auctioneers will be offering a true slice of Gloucestershire history in their upcoming auction of Fine Art & Antiques on October 17,2023. The sale contains portraits of members of an important Gloucestershire family, the Estcourts, whose tenure in the region lasted for 700 years - from 1300 until 1996. Among them is a painting of one of the original MPs for Gloucestershire ,Sir Thomas Estcourt (1571-1624), who fiercely represented the county in Parliament. Such was his impact that he was knighted by James I for his service. (He sadly died of the plague in Cirencester in 1624). His oil portrait, which dates from the 17th century, carries an estimate of £800-£1,200 (Lot 792). The Estcourt family played integral parts across the counties of Gloucestershire and ... More | | 
Portrait of Kenny Scharf, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris is presenting Kenny Scharf's second solo exhibition in Paris and fourth with the gallery, on view from October 14 to November 10, 2023. Kenny Scharf is enjoying life as best he can. Hes keenly aware of the charmed perch on which he is situatedprofessionally, as a pioneering artist thats been celebrated for four decades, and personally, as a family-oriented patriarch, an off- kilter personality, and one of the few still standing from his moment of comeuppance in 1980s downtown New York. Concurrently, and unlike so many of us living today who as a means of survival block out our planets abundance of ongoing macro-level destructions, Scharf ponders daily the unfortunate state of the world and its likelihood of getting much worse rather than better. Though living within this duality is a sh ... More | | 
Working as a single entity, TARWUK [Bruno Pogačnik Tremow (b. 1981, Zagreb, Croatia) and Ivana Vukić (b. 1981, Dubrovnik, Croatia)], form part of a generation who came of age during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.
PARIS.- Opening during Paris+ par Art Basel, White Cube Paris presents Conceived for the Stage, an exhibition by TARWUK featuring paintings, works on paper, sculptures and newly fabricated illuminating orbs. In this installation, the duo reimagines the formal conventions of traditional theatre, transforming the gallery into a metaphysical domain of real-time performance, where both objects and visitors assume roles of a troupe of performers and the audience. Within the dramatic framework of Conceived for the Stage, TARWUK explore the inherent fiction of realism through expressions of heightened artifice and sprawling metamorphosis. Evoking previous engagements with the constitution ... More |
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| Kennedy Yanko's 'She is a Verb' opens at Salon 94 | | Piper Laurie, reluctant starlet turned respected actress, dies at 91 | | Special exhibition "Designing the Beautiful Game" officially inaugurated at The FIFA Museum in Zurich | 
While Yankos mangled scraps of metal may locate her in the realm of sculpture, she chooses to see herself instead as a painter.
NEW YORK, NY.- Salon 94 in collaboration with Devals is presenting She is a Verb by Brooklyn-based artist Kennedy Yanko (b. 1988, St. Louis, Missouri). This will be her first solo exhibition in France. While Yankos mangled scraps of metal may locate her in the realm of sculpture, she chooses to see herself instead as a painter. In her hands, metal assumes the gestural quality of a paint stroke, seemingly weightless as it drips down walls or spurts across its base. She overlays these salvaged forms with her signature paint-skinsflat stretches of lush acrylic which, when dried, luxuriate over and between the crevices of their metallic frames. While Yankos mangled scraps of metal may locate her in the realm of sculpture, she chooses to see herself instead as a painter. In her hands, metal assumes the gestural quality of a paint stroke, seemingly weightless as it drips down ... More | | 
She began as just another product of the studio system, but she went on to receive three Oscar nominations, win an Emmy and appear on Broadway.
by Anita Gates
NEW YORK, NY.- Piper Laurie, who escaped the 1950s Hollywood starlet-making machinery to become a respected actress with three Oscar nominations and an Emmy Award, died Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 91. Her manager, Marion Rosenberg, confirmed the death, The Associated Press reported. Lauries first Academy Award nomination was for best actress in The Hustler (1961), in which she played a lonely alcoholic who hooks up with a dissolute pool player played by Paul Newman. After a 15-year break from making movies, she earned a comeback nomination for her performance as the deranged religious mother of a telekinetic teenager (Sissy Spacek) in Carrie (1976). She received her third nomination for her role as the estranged mother of a ... More | | 
Designing the Beautiful Game installation view at the FIFA Museum.
ZURICH.- The FIFA Museum in Zurich is opening its doors for the next milestone in its history: Designing the Beautiful Game, an exhibition from the Design Museum in London. The special exhibition explores the story of how design has been used to push the game to new limits. 'Designing the Beautiful Game' has been opened to visitors at the FIFA Museum in Zurich today. Football: Designing the Beautiful Game premiered at the Design Museum in London last year and marked the first major exhibition focusing on the design aspects of the sport, mesmerizing audiences with captivating narratives and immersive displays. The exhibition has now been developed in collaboration with the FIFA Museum, bringing additional objects from the museums own collection, to create an experience tailored to the special exhibition space in Zurich. The exhibition explores defining moments of football history through three main ... More |
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| Craft in America Center presents 'Influences/Influencers: California Fibers' | | Double exhibition at Strawberry Hill House shows the past and present of woodcuts | | Scottish artist duo Beagles & Ramsay exhibition of new work opens at Glasgow's GoMA | 
Debra Weiss, Mae watches over the homestead, 2022. Yarn, knit, crochet, fabric, metal, beads, sewn macrame (medley of materials and techniques), 19 x 16 x 10. Photo: © Debra Weiss.
LOS ANGELES, CA .- California has driven the fiber arts since the mid 20th Century. Countless schools, college programs, workshops, guilds, and artist collectives have led experimentation and development of this artistic medium. The desire to formulate a language for sculpture and expression through fiber has been a core driving force. The artists in this exhibition are part of a historic organization that has been at the forefront of contemporary fiber art in Southern California, across the state, and far beyond. The work in this exhibition represents some of the vast influences that are shaping fiber art today. It is simultaneously a celebration of how fiber has become a beam of influence on the broader contemporary art world in recent years. Established in 1970, California Fibers started in San Diego as a work study ... More | | 
Albrecht Durer, The Harrowing of Hell - Christ in Limbo - The Large Passion - Germany - 1510. Courtesy of The Schroder Collection.
TWICKENHAM.- This Autumn, two exhibitions at Strawberry Hill House & Garden give viewers the opportunity to see a range of expert woodcut printmaking, from the German Renaissance to the modern day. The Devil is in the Detail displays one of the most important series of woodcuts in Albrecht Dürers career, the Great Passion, which is rarely seen in its complete set, as well as several other key works from the era. At the same time, There Goes the Sun shows at least 5 modern woodcuts by fellow German artist Christiane Baumgartner (b.1967). The works are being displayed at Strawberry Hill House & Garden, where centuries earlier Horace Walpole had kept a vast collection of woodcuts and engravings, including over 300 by the German Renaissance master. The Schroder Collection works on display chart the meteoric rise of the woodcut technique in ... More | | 
Beagles & Ramsay have worked as a collaborative duo since 1996 and are based in Glasgow.
GLASGOW.- A major exhibition of newly commissioned work by Glasgow-based artist duo Beagles & Ramsay (John Beagles and Graham Ramsay) sees GoMAs Gallery 1 undergo a radical transformation. The space most recently the venue for Banksys Cut & Run has become a flagship store as the artists three new NHOTB & RAD fashion lines are unveiled, alongside numerous sculptures and videos. The title refers to Beagles & Ramsays long-standing alter egos, New Heads on the Block and Rope-a-Dope. This exhibition continues the artists exploration of the politics and tensions within consumerism and the contemporary workplace. The exhibition is presented by Glasgow Life, the charity which promotes mental, physical and economic wellbeing in the city through culture and sport. For the latest NHOTB & RAD collections, presented from 14th October 2023 until 28th April 2024, the gallery has ... More |
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| New exhibition at Orlando Museum of Art explores the essence of motherhood | | A play revisits the making of 'Death of a Salesman' in Mandarin | | NGV launches new podcast Connecting the Dots: First Peoples Art from the NGV with Tony Armstrong | 
De Scott Evans, At the Kitchen Window, 1889, Oil on canvas, 29 9/16 x 19 1/2 in. Purchased with funds provided by Martha Ellen Brumback and Frances Marie Brumback in honor of the OMA's 75th Anniversary, 99.11
ORLANDO, FLA.- Motherhood has been immortalized in art, embodying a universal figure transcending diverse cultures and eras. The archetype of the mother, depicted as an art object, serves as a reflection of societal values, beliefs, and norms of the time period it hails from, carrying the profound psychological and cultural legacy of past representations. a Mother, Possibly, hosted by the Orlando Museum of Art, delves into this enduring theme, portraying the Mother as the quintessential nurturer - underscoring her role as the giver of life and protector, even amidst challenging circumstances. Drawing inspiration from the German art historian Aby Warburg, the aim is to visually map the migration ... More | | 
Bilingual scripts in Salesman之死, at Connelly Theater in New York on Oct. 7, 2023. A new Off-Broadway production explores how Arthur Miller led a 1983 collaboration in Beijing that brought his work to a new audience. (Ye Fan/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1983, Arthur Miller faced a herculean task: staging his 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Death of a Salesman, in Chinese, with an all-Chinese cast and crew, in Beijing. But questions kept popping up: Would this drama about the American dream translate for a Chinese audience? Would concepts like traveling salesman or life insurance make sense to a people who had little exposure to either? Rehearsals became exercises in cross-cultural exchange. At one point, Miller instructed his cast to abandon the wigs he didnt need them to impersonate Americans. The way to make this play most American is to make it most Chinese, he told them, according to his 1984 book about the ... More | | 
Portrait of Tony Armstrong inside Wurrdha Marra on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 12 October 2023. Photo: Tim Carrafa.
MELBOURNE.- Conceived and produced by the National Gallery of Victoria, Connecting the Dots: First Peoples Art from the NGV with Tony Armstrong is a four-episode podcast series that delves into the stories, works and artists in the NGVs globally significant collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and design. Inspired by the new ground floor galleries Wurrdha Marra, located at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 12 October, the podcast series features interviews between Armstrong and trailblazing figures of First Peoples creativity who are challenging stereotypes and pushing contemporary discourse into new and surprising contexts. These include Destiny Deacon, Tony Albert, Keemon Williams and Amrita Hepi. Through further conversations with ... More |
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 Related Group unveils Andare Residences by PininfarinaFORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.- Leading real estate firm Related Group, in partnership with legendary Italian design house Pininfarina, has launched sales for Andare Residences by Pininfarina (Andare), a new boutique condominium development in the heart of Fort Lauderdale's Las Olas Boulevard. Featuring a collection of 163 bespoke residences, the 45-story tower is the first luxury condominium development set to rise above Las Olas Boulevard in nearly 20 years. Located just two miles from Las Olas Beach, Andare will offer residents the best of coastal and metropolitan living, providing unobstructed ocean views and seamless connectivity to the citys urban core. "Las Olas embodies timeless allure and urban evolution," shared Nick Pérez, President of Related's Condominium Division. "With a unique pedestrian lifestyle, ... More  Smithsonian adds visionary leaders Byron Lewis and Lillian Vernon to landmark "American Enterprise" exhibitionWASHINGTON, DC.- Collections from groundbreaking entrepreneurs Byron Lewis and Lillian Vernon will be showcased in a new display within the landmark American Enterprise exhibition at the Smithsonians National Museum of American History beginning Oct. 17. The two stories, Lillian Vernon, Kitchen Table Millionaire and Byron Lewis, Ad King Extraordinaire, will be featured in the exhibitions Consumer Era (1940s1970s) section. The exhibit will feature selected objects from across both entrepreneurs career trajectories, including Vernons original yellow Formica kitchen table and Lewis antique French provincial desk and chair. Her kitchen table served as a foundation for Vernons home business- ... More  In an opera about Civil War spies, dancers help drive the dramaNEW YORK, NY.- In a theater at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan one recent afternoon, a rehearsal for the coming opera Intelligence, about Civil War-era spies, was about to begin. But as the stage lights came on and the music blared, there were no singers in sight. Instead, six dancers from Urban Bush Women, a dance troupe in Brooklyn, were front and center, locking arms, jumping into the air and improvising movements inspired by African traditions. I want to see if we can find that physical charge, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, the founder of Urban Bush Women, who is directing and choreographing the opera, told the dancers. Let it breathe. Let it flow. Intelligence, which opens the season at Houston Grand Opera on Friday, tells the story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a member of an elite Confederate family, who operates a pro-Union spy ring with the help of Ma ... More  Ballet thrives on live coaching. Her roots extend to the source.NEW YORK, NY.- Irina Kolpakova was intently watching two dancers rehearse in an American Ballet Theater studio on a September afternoon when she abruptly jumped up from her seat, clapping to stop the action. SunMi Park and Cory Stearns had just reached the moment in the beginning of the grand pas de deux in Alexei Ratmanskys Nutcracker when they join hands and rush forward, raising their arms to the sky. You must take all sky and all world in your arms! Kolpakova said to them, lifting her own arms and enraptured face to the sky. And at that moment Kolpakova, who turned 90 in May, seemed like a young girl ecstatically holding the universe in her arms. Kolpakova is Ballet Theaters principal répétiteur, working especially with its leading dancers. Dance, more than any other art, is an oral tradition; it thrives on live ... More  Chen Ke opens 'Bauhaus Gal - Theatre' at Perrotin in ParisPARIS.- Perrotin is presenting Bauhaus Gal Theatre, Chen Kes first solo exhibition at Paris gallery. For this new exhibition, the artist created a series of portraits of young Bauhaus students and architectural photographs presented in a theatrical scenography. Chen Ke has been creating paintings based on photographic portraits for several years. Some feature celebrities like Marilyn Monroe or Frida Kahlo, while others show lesser-known people like painter Helen Torr (1886-1967), who inspired Chen Kes 2020 exhibition The Anonymous Woman Artist. Torr exhibited very little and received mostly negative critics unlike her husband, the American painter Arthur Dove. Yet their works shared many formal similarities. Torr stopped painting entirely after Dove's death in 1946. And like so many other women artists, her so far under- ... More  Solo show by Wang Keping opens at Domaine national de Chambord CHAMBORD.- At Chambord, Wang Keping is showing nineteen mainly large-scale sculptures, variations on the theme of the couple, very present in his work. Inspired by the duality of the great staircase at the centre of the château, Wang Keping gives his own vision of the duo, of twinship, of human duality. Wang Keping has selected three oak trunks from the estates woodlands which he will carve directly in public, in the châteaus formal gardens during his residency (from 28 to 30 October). These three new pieces will be displayed in the château courtyard. "Great works of architecture are unique and unrivalled. They have in common a sense of beauty, a special charm, their humanity. At the heart of the Château de Chambord is the two-directional spiral staircase, a unique creation from Leonardo da Vincis imagination epitomizing ... More  Survey of artists from Robert Curcio's 30-year career on view at LichtundfireNEW YORK, NY.- The exhibit is a survey of artists from Curcios over 30-year career that exemplifies the meaning of the title being dedicated to doing something for a long period of time, especially when done with considerable effort or difficulty. This is not an exhibit of the newest, hottest, whats trending now, but of artists and their work that will pass the test of time. The artists Curcio curated into the exhibition reflect a life in art with a persons relationship to an artist and their art. The exhibits as well as the curators history begins with Neil Jenney whom Curcio learned of in an Art in Americas Summer 1982 article and has followed Jenneys career ever since. In 1989 at Ward-Nasse Gallery, Soho NYC, William Graef exhibited with Curcio when he was still making art. That same year an amazing performance artist, Andre Stitt, came ... More  Jack Hanley Gallery opens an exhibition with new works by Sophie TreppendahlNEW YORK, NY.- Jack Hanley Gallery is presenting Chromotherapy, an exhibition with new works by Sophie Treppendahl. This is the artist's first solo show with the gallery and also her first in New York City. Chromotherapy is a new body of work including paintings, encaustics, and miniatures. This work is an investigation into color, homes, and the art of self-care. These themes are consistent in Treppendhal's practice, but here they are more intentional and playful. Speaking about the exhibition, Treppendahl says: "The process of making this work over the last seven months coincides with my personal understanding and treatment of my struggles with mental health. The work chronicles my journey back to feeling like myself thanks to my supportive surroundings and modern medicine. This work tracks good days and bad days, coping ... More  Conservation of "Border Crossing": Iconic sculpture at ISU is undergoing specialized treatmentsAMES, IOWA.- Border Crossing (Cruzando el Rio Bravo), a totem-like sculpture of a man carrying a woman on his shoulders as she holds a crying infant, was temporarily removed from Iowa State Universitys (ISU) Central Campus in December of 2022 for conservation. The polychrome fiberglass sculpture by renowned artist Luis Jiménez (American, 19402006) is more than ten feet tall and requires specialized treatments to repair and fill voids that have formed in the fiberglass due to weathering. The inner portion is being filled with an epoxy to prevent future cracking and deterioration of the clear coat. The failing clear coat is being removed and areas of concern or loss are being repainted to bring Border Crossing back to its original state. Treatments are being handled by McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory, Inc. in Oberlin, Ohio. ... More  Smithsonian acquires collection of work attributed to poet Phillis Wheatley PetersWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture has acquired the largest private collection of items to bring new context and perspective to the life and literary impact of poet Phillis Wheatley Peters (c.17531784), including one of the few manuscripts written in the poets hand. Born in West Africa and captured by slave traders as a child, Wheatley Peters became the first African American to publish a book of poetry with the 1773 release of her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in London. A rare and exciting highlight of this acquisition is a four-page autograph manuscript of a poem, Ocean, written in ink by Wheatley Peters own hand, the only copy that exists today and previously unpublished before 1998. The poem was likely composed on her ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Paul Strand was born October 16, 1890. Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 - March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa. In this image: Wall Street, 1915.
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