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Pierre Soulages, Peinture 71 x 181 cm, 13 juillet 2011 (2011). In his explorations of black, Pierre Soulages found a link to our sorrows, despair, regrets our deepest selves. (via Lévy Gorvy Dayan via The New York Times)
by Seph Rodney
NEW YORK, NY.- Some darknesses refuse to fade, poet Danielle DeTiberus observed after contemplating Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi. Having recently seen the dark paintings by Pierre Soulages at the Lévy Gorvy Dayan gallery in Manhattan, the poets lyric resonated. DeTiberus, in The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly, sees in Gentileschis depiction of a revenge killing the assertion of her agency. Sometimes we come to a fuller reckoning of ourselves through the most Stygian passageways. The work of Soulages, a French artist who died last year at age 102, after more than 70 years of persistent investigation of black paint, convinces me that, for him, the truth was not only that the darknesses didnt fade but that his curiosity and conviction that he would continue to make discoveries in the dark also didnt wane. Other artists have made similar excursions. Lee Bontecou created sculptures in which a black, seductive vo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Under the programmatic title No Fear, No Shame, No Confusion, the internationally renowned artist Andrea Büttner (b. 1972 in Stuttgart) has developed a site-specific exhibition for K21 â Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. On view are new works created especially for this presentation as well as works from the recent past.
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| Her anxious approach to décor | | 'No Fear, No Shame, No Confusion': Andrea Büttner exhibits at K21 | | Yoko Ono and the women of Fluxus changed the rules in art and life | 
Roz Chast, a longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker and author of the new graphic narrative I Must Be Dreaming, at her desk in Ridgefield, Conn. on Sept. 5, 2023. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
by Joanne Kaufman
NEW YORK, NY.- For years after she moved to Connecticut from New York, Roz Chast had recurring dreams about her beloved post-college apartment on West 73rd Street. The storyline and set design of those reveries varied, but she was always on the street where she had lived. There would be things like, I would go into the building and the lobby was a newsstand, said Chast, 68, whose face you may sort of recognize from her celebrated cartoons in The New Yorker she has been contributing to the magazine since 1978 and whose latest book, a graphic narrative called I Must Be Dreaming, came out Tuesday. Or the building had been turned into a hotel. Or there was a marble staircase. Or I had an apartment that had this giant hole in the middle where I could look into the apartment below. Or the floor slanted. Or my apartment had a balcony, but then I would go out on the balcony and know that I wasnt in ... More | | 
Andrea Büttner, Beggar, 2016. Holzschnitt auf Papier, 126,5 x 90 cm © Andrea Büttner / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023; courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London; David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, Jan Mot, Brüssel, und Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz. Photo: Flying Studio.
DUSSELDORF.- Under the programmatic title No Fear, No Shame, No Confusion, the internationally renowned artist Andrea Büttner (b. 1972 in Stuttgart) has developed a site-specific exhibition for K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. On view are new works created especially for this presentation as well as works from the recent past. For more than twenty years, the artist, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2017, has been dealing with complex themes: shame, poverty, work, and the practices of religious communities, as well as the historical continuities of right-wing ideologies in the ecology movement and the fetishization of craftsmanship, which she explores in a field of tension between aesthetic and ethical questions. Andrea Büttner uses a wide range of media, including large-format woodcuts, paintings, drawings, video installations, silkscreen prints, textiles, and glass objects. With their resistant aesthetics, the works o ... More | | 
A photo by Minoru Niizuma of Yoko Ono in Cut Piece, a performance at Carnegie Hall in 1965 during which audience members were invited up to snip off her clothing. (Minoru Niizuma via The New York Times)
by Martha Schwendener
NEW YORK, NY.- Squatting over a large paper surface with a paintbrush dangling between her legs. Sitting onstage at Carnegie Hall while audience members come up to snip her clothing off with scissors. Blowing soap bubbles to make musical sounds. These are some of the actions taken in the name of art in Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus at the Japan Society, an exhibition that focuses on four revolutionary women, Shigeko Kubota, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi and one youve probably heard of before, Yoko Ono. Fluxus was founded in the early 1960s and paved the way for conceptual art, minimalism, performance and video. It saw the future in other words. Rather than create traditional paintings or sculpture, these artists did things such as play games, mail postcards, cook meals and offer instructions inspired by notated musical scores. (Composer John Cage was a central figure.) There was ... More |
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| Matthew Perry, star of 'Friends,' dies at 54 | | Visit the library from the comfort of your own phone | | Yankee fans can buy Mickey Mantle's childhood home. The price: $7. | 
The actor Matthew Perry, in Los Angeles on June 20, 2002. (Monica Almeida/The New York Times)
by Orlando Mayorquin and Matt Stevens
NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Perry, who portrayed Chandler Bing in the acclaimed sitcom Friends, has died. He was 54. The death was confirmed by Capt. Scot Williams of the Los Angeles Police Departments Robbery-Homicide division. He said the cause of death was not likely to be determined for some time, but there was no indication of foul play. Perry was well known to American television audiences, featuring in over 200 episodes in all 10 seasons of Friends, the hit NBC show that followed a group of young professionals living in Manhattan. Perry starred alongside prominent actors including Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow. Perrys character, Chandler Bing, was notable for his sardonic wit. Friends has endured decades after it first aired in 1994, gaining popularity among young audiences in recent years. Though best known for Friends, Perry ... More | | 
Information for signing up for a New York Public Library card right on your phone. With a free library card and the right app, you can check out e-books, audiobooks and more from your local branch. (New York Public Library via The New York Times)
by J.D. Biersdorfer
NEW YORK, NY.- Public libraries have lent e-books to patrons for more than 20 years, but many have widened their electronic offerings with digital audiobooks, magazines, comics, videos and other services, even before the pandemic helped shift collections online. If you are curious about what your local library can lend from its digital shelves but never got around to signing up for a free library card or connecting your existing card to an account heres how to get started. If you are not sure where to find your nearest library, search online or enter your towns name into the Library Finder website or the Find Libraries and Archives page at USA.gov. Once you find a library, check its website for information about signing up for a library ... More | | 
An old stove in Mickey Mantles two-bedrom, one-bathroom childhood home in Commerce, Okla. (Courtesy of Rally via The New York Times)
by Debra Kamin
NEW YORK, NY.- Long before he was switch-hitting for the New York Yankees, a young Mickey Mantle was taking swings against his right-handed father and his left-handed grandfather in front of a shed next to his familys humble 670-square-foot house in tiny Commerce, Oklahoma. More often than not, the young slugger would knock the pitches clear over the houses roof. Sometimes hed smack line drives into the side of the rusted shed, where visible dings in the walls remain to this day. Starting Friday, fans of the Commerce Comet, arguably the most beloved Yankee of all time, can own a piece of Mantles childhood home for just a few dollars $7 to be precise. Rally, a collectibles company that offers buyers fractional ownership in everything from sports cars to classic comic books, is getting into the real estate game. The company ... More |
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| Why has this 258-year-old mansion been left to fall apart? | | 'The Nightmare Before Christmas': A hit that initially unnerved Disney | | How California became America's contemporary music capital | 
The historic Morris-Jumel Mansion, the crown jewel of Sugar Hill in Manhattan and a victim of bureaucratic and financial neglect, on Oct. 24, 2023. (Sara Hylton/The New York Times)
by Ginia Bellafante
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morris-Jumel Mansion, designed in the neo-Palladian style, is the oldest surviving house in Manhattan, an irreplaceable artifact described by Duke Ellington as the crown jewel of Sugar Hill, one of the places where Lin-Manuel Miranda composed songs for Hamilton. In its current life, it supplies a strange and unwelcome souvenir pieces of itself. The building has been so badly maintained that it is possible to touch it and walk away with a moist, splintered clump of wood siding in the palm of your hand. The mansion was built in 1765 as a summer place for a British loyalist, and its age alone might have indemnified it against all too obvious neglect. But the house also serves as a monument to the highest ideals of the American Enlightenment era and some of its most exquisite gossip. Once a base of operations for George ... More | | 
The filmmakers look back on its 30th anniversary and recall how uncomfortable it made executives. They didnt expect the celebrations around it today.
by Carlos Aguilar
NEW YORK, NY.- Whats this? Jack Skellington sings excitedly when he first comes across Santa Claus snowy, colorful village in The Nightmare Before Christmas. Thats also what Disney executives asked with concern about the idiosyncratic stop-motion animation musical when they saw a rough cut. Anytime youre doing something like that, which was unknown: stop motion, the main character doesnt have any eyeballs and its all music, whats to feel comfortable about? Tim Burton said during a video call from London. Of course they would be nervous about it. Burtons Nightmare, currently back in theaters to commemorate its 30th anniversary, is now more popular than ever: This weekend the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles is holding a series of live concerts around the film, Disney theme parks feature seasonal attractions inspired by its characters, and merchandise, from board games to ... More | | 
Michael Tilson Thomas leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Mahlers Ninth Symphony, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Jan. 15, 2023. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)
by Joshua Barone
NEW YORK, NY.- Nobody will be able to take in the entire California Festival, a statewide series of classical music events spanning 650 miles with such density that some nights will have 10 or more performances happening at once. The festival, from Nov. 3-19, was conceived by the music directors of the states three largest orchestras: Esa-Pekka Salonen of the San Francisco Symphony, Gustavo Dudamel of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Rafael Payare of the San Diego Symphony. But it grew to involve nearly 100 organizations, which are presenting a host of world premieres and programs of contemporary music under the festivals banner. Its an overdue pat on the back for a state that has long encouraged new music, providing freedom and a sense of possibility that has made it the center of gravity for composers who work with a spirit of innovation, a long list that ... More |
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| 36 hours in Glasgow, Scotland | | Overlooked no more: Adefunmi I, who introduced African Americans to Yoruba | | Writing 'Maid' pulled Stephanie Land out of poverty. She's fine now, right? | 
Inside the Burrell Collection, a glass-roofed art museum that rises out of a meadow like a vast, gleaming greenhouse, in Glasgow, Scotland, Oct. 10, 2023. (Robert Ormerod/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Glasgow, Scotlands largest city, crackles with character. Its a hub of grassroots energy where art shows, plant sales and film screenings pop up in tenement flats, railway waiting rooms and disused buildings. Once known as the second city of the British Empire, Glasgow struggled to reinvent itself after the closure of its shipyards. Now, cultural hot spots have sprung up in outlying neighborhoods like pockets of the Southside, for example, or Dennistoun in the East End and plans are underway to revive the city center. Glasgow has a full global banquet (yes, so much more than deep-fried Mars bars, the battered-chocolate invention of Scottish fish-and-chip shops) and a love of live music (check the roster at classic venues such as Barrowland Ballroom). Another thing youll get to know in Glasgow is its infinite variations of rain. Be waterproof top ... More | | 
Walter King, who took the African name of Ofuntola Oseijeman Adelabu Adefunmi I for himself, works on his village, Oyotunji, a place meant to bring the African religion of Yoruba to African Americans in the U.S., near Sheldon, S.C., Dec. 19, 1973. Adefunmi Is life became a quest to understand African history and create a one-of-a-kind village, which his son says currently receives about 20,000 visitors annually, for practitioners of the Yoruba religion. (Gary Settle/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When he was growing up in Detroit, Walter King wondered why his family didnt celebrate cultural holidays the way his Jewish and Polish classmates did. So he went to his mother. Who is the African God? Thats what I want to know, he asked her when he was 15. His mother didnt have the answer. Blacks didnt really have any knowledge of their history and culture before slavery, she explained, as recounted in the book Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism (2012), by scholar Tracey E. Hucks. The exchange was pivotal: King began a quest to answer his own question. He read everything he could about ... More | | 
Stephanie Land, author of Maid and the new book Class, in Missoula, Mont., on Sept. 25, 2023. (Rebecca Stumpf/The New York Times)
by Ron Lieber
NEW YORK, NY.- What do you do with the money you earn from a story you wrote about not having much for too many years? As a single mother cleaning houses, Stephanie Land dusted and polished a catalog of possible answers to this question and chronicled them in her memoir Maid. Her new book, Class, which comes out Nov. 7, picks up where Maid left off, recounting her struggle to use food stamps to feed herself and her daughter while going deep into student loan debt. When Maid became a surprise bestseller in 2019 and then a hit Netflix series in 2021, it looked to the world like she had become rich. A local nonprofit requested a donation in the range of $25,000 to $30,000. Friends asked for loans, large ones. A fan seemed surprised and not exactly approving to see her sitting in first class. The reactions were a lot to a ... More |
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 New book: PaJaMa, George Platt Lynes, and the role of photography in constructing the worlds of queer AmericansOAKLAND, CA.- Body Language is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely readings of how their practices of staging, collaboration, and psychological enactment through the body arced across the boundaries of art and life, private and public worlds, anticipating contemporary social media. Using the camera not to capture, but to actively perform, they renounced photographys conventional role as mirror of the real, energizing forms of world-making via a new social framing of the self. "Body Language retrieves a visual archive of desire from the 1930s and 1940s that exceeds any simple binary of gay/straight, male/female, or individual/collective. Photographs by George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa encompass lavish pleasures and possibilities that can only be understood as 'queer'as beautifully non-normative and knowingly performative. Nick Mauss and ... More  Now open: Zarina Bhimji: Flagging it up at Fruitmarket EDINBURGH.- British artist Zarina Bhimji makes photographs, films and installations which engage with themes such as institutional power and subjectivity. Her work grows from observation and felt sense and is rooted in a careful use of colour and light. Embracing slippages and ambiguities, it is evocative rather than descriptive or documentary in its pace, setting and mood. The exhibition spans Bhimjis career. It begins with She Loved to Breathe Pure Silence (1987), a photo-text installation that explores politics, voice, beauty and love as forms of resistance. This is joined by her most recent work, a new film, Blind Spot (2023). Shot in London this summer, it engages with ideas of home. Also included in the exhibition is Bhimjis first film, Out of Blue (2002), an allusive exploration of the extermination and erasure of particular groups ... More  Giulia Andreani presents a cohesive body of new work at Collezione MaramottiREGGIO EMILIA.- For her first solo show at an Italian art institution, Giulia Andreani is presenting L'improduttiva, a project that features a cohesive body of new work, with large-scale paintings and watercolours, conceived for the South Room of Collezione Maramotti. Andreanis work grows out of collective memories, fragments of history at risk of being lost, which the artist recovers and transforms into complex pictorial compositions, visual collages constructed through correspondences. Archives, and the pre-digital objects they hold, are her primary source of inspiration: faded letters, yellowed documents, and above all, black-and white-photographs that the artist selects, gathers and filters in a non-linear way, sifting out their key elements. Andreanis work is guided by an unorthodox approach to research, in which images of the past are ... More  Third and final installment of 'Artists Choose Parrish' opensWATER MILL, NY.- On Sunday October 29, the Parrish Art Museum opened Artists Choose Parrish, Part III: the third installment of a landmark exhibition series featuring 41 internationally renowned contemporary artists with deep roots on the East End of Long Island, presenting their work alongside their selections from the permanent collection. Artists Choose Parrish Part III highlights 9 artistsRichard Aldrich, Joanne Greenbaum, Virginia Jaramillo, Rashid Johnson, KAWS, Mel Kendrick, David Salle, Sean Scully, Amy Sillmanand is on view through February 18, 2024. The artists were invited to delve into the Museums 3,600-volume holdings online and at the Parrish to select works. As in Part I and II, the artists reminisce on the relevance of the East End in their lives and approach to art. The exhibition series continues and deepens ... More  PinkPantheress' music broke the internet. Up next? Everything else.NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent September evening at Nickelodeon Universe, the cavernous indoor theme park tucked into an East Rutherford, New Jersey, mall, the 22-year-old British pop musician PinkPantheress was perched 10 stories above the ground, gleefully waiting to ride Shredder, billed as the worlds tallest free-spinning roller coaster. Pink who values her privacy so much that she wont reveal her real name to journalists, even ones prone to motion sickness riding the worlds tallest free-spinning roller coaster with her wore a lacy white cardigan, flared black pants and boots that seemed designed to traverse the surface of the moon. Eighty-five feet below, a patient bodyguard held her small, crescent-shaped purse. Over the past two years, PinkPantheress has risen to similarly vertiginous heights at thrill-ride speed. Once ... More  Review: Slow poses and clouds of white powderNEW YORK, NY.- Men with shaved heads, their bodies caked in white powder, move with exacting slowness. Their motions and poses are often inscrutable, but their faces are sometimes telegraphic, contorting into open-mouthed expressions of amusement or agony as readable as the masks of comedy and tragedy. Sankai Juku, the all-male Japanese company, which has been touring the world for nearly 50 years with a popularized version of the Japanese style Butoh, returned to the Joyce Theater on Tuesday for a two-week run. The groups 80-minute show, Kosa, is a bit of a greatest-hits program, a series of excerpts strung together from older works. Sankai Juku is usually known for its spare yet spectacular set design, but Kosa has almost no décor. As a result, the choreography and essential vision of the artistic director, Ushio ... More  Rock Brynner, son of Hollywood royalty who cut his own path, dies at 76NEW YORK, NY.- Rock Brynner, whose life as a road manager for the Band, bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, farmer, pilot, street performer, novelist and professor of constitutional history overshadowed what, for a lesser mortal, might be a more than sufficient laurel on which to rest he was the son of actor Yul Brynner died Oct. 13 in Salisbury, Connecticut. He was 76. Maria Cuomo Cole, a close friend, said the cause of his death, at a hospice, was complications of multiple myeloma. Like many children of the rich and famous, Brynner led a charmed life. His father, a Russian émigré, was best known for his starring role in both the stage and screen versions of the musical The King and I, and later played lead Hollywood roles as a gunfighter, a Russian general and, in The Ten Commandments, Pharaoh Rameses II. A-list glamou ... More  Back to the future: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden's theme and programme for 2024DRESDEN.- At its annual press conference, the Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden presented the highlights of the 2024 exhibitions. The overriding theme for the year is Zurück in die Zukunft (Back to the future). A new institution, the Archiv der Avantgarden Egidio Marzona (ADA), will move into the recently converted Blockhouse on 5 May, 2024. The building, with its mighty, free-hanging cube, a progressive and aesthetically bold design created by the architects at Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, will be home to the entire collection. This extraordinary piece of architecture creates a flexible space for research, exhibitions, discussions or simply to linger. The opening exhibition Archive of Dreams (5.05 - August 2024) is dedicated to the reinterpretation of the archive: from an outdated, obsolete, 19th century concept ... More  Exhibition explores the numerous links between science and the artsBOURNEMOUTH.- In collaboration with SEISMA Magazine, GIANT presents SEISMIC: Art Meets Science, a group exhibition which draws on a broad scope of scientific themes to explore the numerous links between science and the arts. Curated by Paul Carey-Kent, SEISMIC: Art Meets Science runs from 28 October 2023 to 20 January 2024. In SEISMIC: Art Meets Science, ten artists present works inspired by or connected to specific scientific ideas, in an intriguing and dynamic exhibition that comprises painting, photography, film, sculpture and installation. The exhibition presents a diverse collection of mediums, styles and aesthetics bringing to light fresh angles from which to approach the work, and raising surprising, often fascinating questions. The works themselves do not set out to explain the science, but instead take ... More  Last chance to see: Juraci Dórea's first solo show at Galeria Jaqueline Martins in Brussels BRUSSELS.- Galeria Jaqueline Martins is presenting Juraci Dóreas first solo show at the Brussels gallery. The exhibition is accompanied with a text by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti. Juraci Dóreas background is unparalleled when it comes to the Brazilian art scene. Born in 1944 in Feira de Santana, BA, where he still lives, he lived and studied in Salvador in the early 1960s, where he came into contact with a vibrant, dynamic scene across all fields of culture. He returned to Feira de Santana with a cosmopolitan outlook on artmaking. In the decades that followed and until this day, with utmost autonomy and independence, he has created a radical output that is aware of contemporary trends and debates, yet deeply and programmatically rooted in Brazilian Backlands living and culture. One of his most iconic series, known as Estandartes ... More  US debut of 'Korea In Color' exhibition at San Diego Museum of ArtSAN DIEGO, CA.- The San Diego Museum of Art is presenting the special exhibition Korea in Color: A Legacy of Auspicious Images which sheds light on the use of color in Korean paintingknown as polychrome painting (chaesaekhwa)and its role in Korean culture. On view from October 28, 2023, through March 3, 2024, the exhibition makes its U.S. debut at The San Diego Museum of Art after traveling from the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon in South Korea (MMCA). Exploring the continued influence of polychrome painting and its legacy of auspicious imagery, the exhibition showcases contemporary works in dialogue with historical masterpieces. Fifty works of art from multiple lenders span a variety of media, including paintings, videos, and installations, many of which have ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Anglo-French artist Alfred Sisley was born October 30, 1839. Alfred Sisley (30 October 1839 - 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He never deviated into figure painting and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, never found that Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs. In this image: French businessman Pierre de Gunzbourg, flanked by his son Vivien, left, looks at the painting, "Soleil de Printemps, Le Loing, " (Spring Sun, Le Loing) by impressionist Alfred Sisley at the Paris courthouse, Friday, June 18, 2004.
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