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A drawing that once hung in the kitchen of the Sernesi familys villa, centuries after it was Michelangelos home, at the secure facility where it is stored near Florence, Italy, on Feb. 27, 2024. Tradition has it that the work was drawn by a young Michelangelo, though scholars are not as sure. The familys intent to sell the work will fuel a debate over its provenance. (Stephanie Gengotti/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- For half a century, the Sernesi family lived in a storied villa overlooking Florence, Italy, in which Renaissance artist Michelangelo was raised and later owned. The property came with several buildings, an orchard and a drawing of a muscular male nude etched on the wall of a former kitchen. Tradition has it that the work was drawn by a young Michelangelo, though scholars are not as sure. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Lyndon Barrois Sr. with his sculpture of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes at his home studio in Los Angeles, Feb. 7, 2024. Barrois, whose day job is high-tech animation, uses gum wrappers to create detailed portraits of historical figures and athletes in flight. .CREDIT: (Jessica Lehrman/The New York Times).
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| Sculpture doesn't get much smaller than this | | Ancestral sculpture Balot temporarily returned to country of origin | | Gaetano Pesce, designer who broke the rules, is dead at 84 |
Lyndon Barrois Sr. with his sculpture of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes at his home studio in Los Angeles, Feb. 7, 2024. (Jessica Lehrman/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- At his day job, Lyndon J. Barrois Sr. uses high-tech software to create visual effects for movies such as Happy Feet and The Matrix: Revolutions. But in his free time, he prefers working with a decidedly less sophisticated medium: discarded gum wrappers. The wrappers are a nostalgic choice for Barrois, who started sculpting as an antsy 10-year-old with a Hot ... More | |
Chief's or Diviner's Figure Representing the Belgian Colonial Officer, Maximilien Balot, circa 1931, Unknown artist (Pende, Democratic Republic of the Congo), wood (possibly Alstonia Boonei) with metal repair staples. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Aldine S. Hartman Endowment Fund, 2015.3. Photo by Travis Fullerton © 2015 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
BERLIN.- On Tuesday 19 March DRC-based artist collective Cercle dArt des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC) organised a special ceremony to welcome back the sculpture Balot: a carved wood ancestral power-figure made in 1931. ... More | |
Radical Italian Designer and multidisciplinary artist Maestro Gaetano Pesce. Photo: Mark O'Flaherty.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gaetano Pesce, who for more than 60 years created eccentrically shaped, brightly colored furniture, art objects and, occasionally, buildings, remaining the enfant terrible of the design world even as he became its grand old man, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 84. The death, at a hospital, was caused by a stroke, his daughter Milena Pesce said. Gaetano Pesce, who was born in Italy but spent much of his life in New York City, may be best known ... More |
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| Back in the '90s, this eclipse webcast put the cosmos on demand | | Asia Week New York announces 'A Collecting Dynasty: The Rockefeller Family' panel discussion | | Michael Singer, sculptor who used nature as his medium, dies at 78 |
Rob Semper, the chief learning officer of the Exploratorium, and Robyn Higdon, the museum's executive producer, at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, March 28, 2024. (Christie Hemm Klok/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- On Feb. 26, 1998, hundreds of people gathered to watch a total solar eclipse. The crowd gasped as the moon gobbled up the sun. They oohed and aahed as the feathery streams of the top of the solar atmosphere burst into view. Applause erupted moments later, when the sun peeked back out from behind the lunar ... More | |
Vase, Flowers of the Four Seasons. Porcelain with famille verte enamels. China, Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, Kangxi era, 1662-1722
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Week New York announced that A Collecting Dynasty: The Rockefeller Family was recently selected as a Critics Pick by The New Criterion, the prestigious literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism. Presented in partnership with The Winter Show in January 2024, this fascinating panel discussion on the legacy of the Rockefeller family, their remarkable collections, ... More | |
Michael Singer in his Vermont studio. Singer, a sculptor whose work, beginning in beaver bogs and pine forests and proceeding at an increasingly grander scale, eventually blurring the lines of art, landscaping, architecture and urban planning, died on March 14, 2024, at his home in Delray Beach, Fla. (via Michal Singer Studio via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Singer, a sculptor whose work, beginning in beaver bogs and pine forests and proceeding at an increasingly grander scale, eventually blurring the lines of art, landscaping, architecture and urban planning, died on March ... More |
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| Alexander Gray Associates opens an exhibition of recent work by Bethany Collins | | Antiquarian Book Fair: From Sylvia Plath's papers to vintage matchbooks | | Miller & Miller announces results of March 23rd & 24th online auction |
The Battle Hymn of the Republic: A Hymnal, 2023, Artist book, 1 x 7 x 9 1/2 in (2.5 x 17.8 x 24.1 cm), Edition of 10.
GERMANTOWN, NY.- Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents Bethany Collins: Years, an exhibition of recent work by the artist that maps the interconnection between loss and identity. Building on Collinss first exhibition with the Gallery in 2023, this focused presentation foregrounds her Years seriesblack, blind embossed prints of public notices placed by formerly ... More | |
An undated image provided by Honey & Wax of one of several 19th-century poison books for sale at this years New York International Antiquarian Book Fair volumes so named for the toxic arsenical green dye included in their bindings. This years fair features plenty of quirky items amid the high-ticket treasures. (Honey & Wax via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- For those who love a chance to inspect stunning decorative bindings and rare volumes (or just ogle the people who can afford them), the annual New York International Antiquarian ... More | |
This brass Canadian National Locomotive Number plate #6057 was for a Class U-1-e train built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1930 and scrapped in 1960 (CA$14,160).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- The 1914 brass shipbuilders plate #41 for Collingwood Shipbuilding Company for the S.S. Pelee sold for $15,340, and Canadian National Locomotive plates #6057 and #4006 brought $14,160 and 11,210, respectively, in the online-only auction of the William Robert Wilson collection held March 23rd ... More |
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| "FreezerBurn Factory" presents over 100 works by New York artist FRIDGE | | Bellmans to sell the Anthony Gardner Collection in April | | In Zen painting, it takes years of practice to do almost nothing |
For this new exhibition, the artist transforms the gallery space into a fully immersive factory, taking viewers into a hypothetical scenario of what would happen if AI took over and converted it into a robot facility.
NEW YORK, NY.- CLLCTV.NYC presents the solo exhibition of New York artist FRIDGE, "FreezerBurn Factory," from April 5 to 30, 2024. Featuring over 100 new and old handmade mixed-media works, this exhibition explores the artist's wide-ranging repertoire. For this new exhibition, the ... More | |
The main part of the auction will be his private collection of jewellery, including examples by Cartier, including a very rare watch, Liberty & Co, Faberge, Boucheron and others.
LONDON.- Bellmans to sell the Collection of the late Anthony Gardner, the notable London-based jewellery dealer and collector, who specialised in the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts periods. The auction will take place on 16th April 2024 in Sussex, but there will be a preview in London at ... More | |
The show is scattered with memorable demonstrations of unburdened artistic spontaneity. (Gitter-Yelen Collection via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Two longtime painters recently told me how joyful their studio practices had become in their 40s once they took their minds off their ambitions, stopped trying to impress anyone and just let the paintings paint themselves. Ive been dabbling with working that way myself, so I was thrilled to find the memorable ... More |
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'Ripley' review: The con man gets the art house treatment
NEW YORK, NY.- Patricia Highsmiths 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley sets its dark action in a succession of colorful Italian locales: the Amalfi coast, San Remo, Rome, Palermo, Venice. Movies based on the book, like René Cléments Plein Soleil (released in the United States as Purple Noon) and Anthony Minghellas The Talented Mr. Ripley, have taken the opportunity Highsmith gave them to capitalize on sun and scenery. The audience gets its brutal murders and brazen deceit wrapped in bright visual pleasure. For Ripley, an eight-episode adaptation of the book that premiered on Netflix on Thursday, Steven Zaillian has decided to do without the color. Shot beautifully in sharply etched black and white by Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood), Ripley offers a different sort of pleasure: ... More
Turning dancers into aliens one step at a time
NEW YORK, NY.- Emily Molnar, the artistic director of Nederlands Dans Theater, is committed to giving her dancers, as she has said, creative agency and a greater sense of belonging. That matters in the studio. You want it to matter onstage. But without substantial dances to dance, it cant help but to matter very little especially not in promoting the individuality that comes, one hopes, from having creative agency in the first place. The company, under Molnars artistic direction since 2020, returned to New York City Center on Wednesday with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels and three works, including N.N.N.N. (2002) by the esteemed William Forsythe. (As a dancer, Molnar was a member of his Frankfurt Ballet.) It isnt Forsythe on his best day its too knowingly playful to really soar but at least it was ... More
How does Dev Patel become an action star? By directing himself.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ten years ago, when Dev Patel started thinking about making the film that would eventually become his feature directing debut, Monkey Man, he was not getting offered roles that, in his words, had any sort of ass kickery involved or coolness. I think if I was to feature in an action film back then, the roles I was getting were more akin to the comedic relief, sidekick, the guy that can hack the mainframe, he said in a phone interview. (Indeed in 2014, he was playing a tech-savvy character on the TV series The Newsroom and was about to reprise his role as the sweet but goofy romantic hero in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.) In Monkey Man, however, Patel is not relegated to the sidelines. He plays Kid, a young man who slashes, punches and shoots his way through elite circles in a fictional Indian ... More
As Heartbeat Opera reaches a milestone, so does its musical leader
NEW YORK, NY.- For the past decade, Heartbeat Opera has treated the classics like rough drafts: The scores of Carmen, Madama Butterfly, Fidelio and Der Freischütz have been starting points for something fresh, urgent and immediate. In New York, a city with fewer and fewer spaces for opera, Heartbeat sits harmoniously between the Prototype Festival, which stages new music theater at a chamber scale, and the grand tradition of the Metropolitan Opera. Heartbeat draws from the canon but re-imagines it with an avant-garde spirit and an eye toward the issues of our time: gun violence, Black Lives Matter, the #MeToo movement. Performed on intimate stages, the resulting productions smartly elicit strong reactions, whatever those may be. I havent liked all of Heartbeats shows, but Ive never walked away with ... More
Welcoming underexposed Black photographers into the canon
NEW YORK, NY.- Elegant in a burnt-orange linen dress and wearing necklaces of her own design, Coreen Simpson, 82, said that because she was raised in foster homes, I have always felt like an outsider which is a good thing for a photographer. But as a Black artist of an older generation, she was made to feel like an outsider in other ways, too. Ive wanted my own book for a long time, she said, during an interview in her New York apartment. I just wanted a serious book on my work, because I think I deserve it, to tell you the truth. Thanks to the Vision & Justice project, that deficit is about to be corrected. Vision & Justice is an enterprise founded by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, an art historian who believes, she said recently, that images can be powerful in pushing back against entrenched injustice. In 2016, she guest edited an issue ... More
National Gallery of Art appoints Natalia Ãngeles Vieyra as associate curator of Latinx art
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art announced that Natalia Ãngeles Vieyra will join the museum as associate curator of Latinx art. She will begin on June 30. This position is made possible thanks to a $500,000 grant from the Getty Foundation as part of the Advancing Latinx Art in Museums (ALAM) initiative with the support of the Mellon, Ford, Getty, and Terra Foundations. Vieyra will play a vital role in supporting the museums work in collecting, researching, and exhibiting masterpieces across the broad spectrum of American art. As part of the department of modern and contemporary art, Vieyra will join a team of seven curators devoted to the museums 20th- and 21st-century collections and exhibition program. As a specialist and advisor in Latinx art, she will contribute to the museums continued acquisitions, ... More
Groundbreaking conservation project at National Gallery of Ireland hopes to unearth new discoveries
DUBLIN.- The National Gallery of Ireland and the Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Netherlands, are set to embark on a collaborative new conservation project, delving into the world of Dutch artist Paulus Potter (1625-1654). Potters lesser-known work Head of a White Bull (c. 1650), in the Gallerys collection, will be researched by a multidisciplinary team of conservators, curators and scientists. It will be studied alongside the iconic The Bull (De Stier, 1647) in the Mauritshuiss collection. Visitors to the Mauritshuis will be able to follow in person the multi-analytical examination of De Stier and Head of a White Bull. The subsequent results will go on to inform a major restoration of The Bull in front of the public at the Mauritshuis over the next two years. Preliminary research into Head of a White Bull has revealed that it is a fragment of a large painting by Potter that once ... More
First museum exhibition by Brussels-based artists and filmmakers Sirah Foighel Brutmann opens at S.M.A.K.
GHENT.- In April 2024, S.M.A.K. presents the first museum exhibition by Brussels-based artists and filmmakers Sirah Foighel Brutmann (b.1983) and Eitan Efrat (b.1983). Titled LÃ , the multifaceted audio-visual presentation engages in an imaginary dialogue with Chantal Akerman, who died in 2015. Primarily featuring new moving image and sound works, LÃ is an expansive environment that invokes a layered perception of place. The title affectionately refers to LÃ -bas, the 2006 film by Akerman. Phonetically, LÃ (meaning there in French) means different things in Arabic and Hebrew: in Arabic, ل means no specifically here regarding the negation of hegemonic narratives of the land. In Hebrew, לה means ... More
Koster Fine Art Gallery presents Astrid Verhoef in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- In collaboration with Atelier K84 in Amsterdam, Koster Fine Art Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Dutch photographer Astrid Verhoef from 5 April until 11 May 2024. For the first time, the gallery showcases a large overview of her award-winning series 'Human//Nature' with serene, surrealist black-and-white photographs on locations in the Netherlands, Spain, and the USA. Atelier K84 is an inspiring art space in the heart of Amsterdam. As a Fine Art photographer Astrid Verhoef explores her personal connection to the natural world. The complicated relationship between human and nature is a common thread throughout her work. Once she places herself in desolate landscapes, an anonymous character arises that wants to connect with her surroundings. However, her roots in contemporary modern ... More
'Self-Portraits' opens at GRIMM New York
NEW YORK, NY.- GRIMM is presenting Self-Portraits, a group exhibition on view in New York and next Saturday, 13 April, in Amsterdam. The exhibition draws together a group of 22 international artists with the provocation to create a self-portrait in the classical sense: a window into the soul of the maker for the viewer to experience. Featuring artists from across GRIMMs network and beyond, Self-Portraits presents a challenge to this selection of acclaimed contemporary artists to apply their distinctive style to the framework of self-portraiture. The resulting work enacts a shared moment of recognition between artist and viewer, reflecting the spectrum of emotion from introspective to joyful encounters throughout the exhibition. For some artists, the exhibition marks their first self-portrait; Matthias Weischer and Alex Dordoy among them. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor and designer René Lalique was born April 06, 1860. René Jules Lalique (6 April 1860, Ay, Marne - 1 May 1945, Paris) was a French glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments. In this image: René Lalique, vase Trois figures d'hommes. © Artcurial.
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