| Georgia Museum of Art receives Helen Frankenthaler Foundation gift | | Sale features nearly 300 lots of items by famous designers and makers | | This filmmaker saw war everywhere, and so can you |
Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928 2011), Altitudes, 1978. Lithograph on paper, 22 1/4 Ã 30 5/8 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Extended loan from the University of Georgia Foundation, Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. GMOA F.2023.5.
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is a recipient of the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative, which supports education in visual arts and art history. The gift includes 22 prints by Helen Frankenthaler as well as a $25,000 grant to develop a program based on the works of art. The museum aims to use this gift to reconsider ... More | |
Bold 18kt yellow gold mythical dragon bracelet, meticulously detailed with blue, amber, green and black enamel, with gemstones for eyes, in a gift box (est. $6,500-$15,000).
BROOKLYN, NY.- A group of 12 repousse sterling silver goblets from A.G. Schultz in Baltimore, a pair of Cartier multi-gemstone 18kt gold interchangeable bar cufflinks, and two spectacular Tiffany & Company sterling silver flatware sets will headline SJ Auctioneers online-only Black Americana, Jewelry, Silver & Toys auction slated for Sunday, August 18th. The auction, starting at 6 pm Eastern time, features nearly 300 lots of ... More | |
Harun Farockis Inextinguishable Fire, 1969. (via Harun Farocki Filmproduktion and Greene Naftali, New York via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- For Harun Farocki, even as visual media raced from film strips to computers, one thing remained constant: Pictures reveal more than they intend. Naming the ideologies embedded in workaday images was Farockis lifes work. The German filmmaker and artist was born in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1944 to an Indian father and German mother, lived in a divided Germany, and died in 2014, in a booming, unified Berlin. He spent six decades ... More |
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| At Sundance lab, movie economics can't be ignored this year | | Lars Eidinger, Yoko Ono, and Katharina Sieverding: The Fall Highlights at K20/K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen | | Largest exhibition to date of the acclaimed Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto opens in Sydney |
Carmen Madonia, an actor on the set of Here for the Weekend by Casey Modderno, at the Sundance Directors Lab in Estes, Colo., May 15, 2024. (Jimena Peck/The New York Times)
ESTES PARK, COLO.- The storied Sundance Directors Lab has helped develop the early films of Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler and Chloé Zhao. But when this years cohort of filmmakers arrived for the intensive workshop, the setting could easily have felt ominous. ... More | |
Yoko Ono with Glass Hammer, 1967, from HALF-A-WIND SHOW, Lisson Gallery, London, 1967. Photo: Clay Perry © Yoko Ono.
DUSSELDORF.- Lars Eidinger is one of the most famous German actors of our time. From August 31, K21 is presenting his first solo museum exhibition, O Mensch, with around 100 photographs and objects. Just as Hamlet, skull in hand, philosophizes about to be or not to be, Eidinger holds his cell phone camera up to a thoroughly designed world ... More | |
Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1948.
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia today opened Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine, the first survey of the internationally renowned artists work to be presented in Australia. The exhibition brings together close to 100 of the artists most important works dating from the 1970s through to the present day. Over the last 50 years, Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. Tokyo, 1948) has created some ... More |
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| Champagne, soft piano and no lines: Luxe life at the Olympics | | Thomas Dane Gallery announces second solo exhibition of works by Terry Adkins | | Icon or eyesore? Palm Springs to move divisive Marilyn Monroe statue |
People watch the 2024 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony from a hospitality venue on a boat on the Seine in Paris, on July 26, 2024. (James Hill/The New York Times
VERSAILLES.- Getting to the Olympics equestrian arena at Versailles a multihour metro, train and bus extravaganza culminating in a mile-long trek down a dusty thoroughfare is so arduous and enervating that it almost qualifies as an athletic achievement in itself. But theres another way. Its called the Golden Garden Hospitality Experience, and it begins with door-to-door taxi service and a queue-free entrance. It includes Champagne, ... More | |
Terry Adkins, Norfolk, 2012 (detail) © The Estate of Terry Adkins. Photo: Roberto Salomone.
LONDON.- Thomas Dane Gallery will present Disclosure, the gallerys second solo exhibition of American musician, scholar, composer, performer and sculptor Terry Adkins (b. 1953, Washington, D.C., d. 2014, New York). The exhibition brings Adkinss early sculptures from the 1980s into conversation with work produced in the last decade of his life, drawing out the persisting themes developed, elaborated and refined throughout his career, before his untimely death in 2014. After taking up printmaking as his initial foray ... More | |
A visitor at the statue Forever Marilyn by the artist Seward Johnson of Marilyn Monroe outside the Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Springs, Calif., Aug. 20, 2023. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF.- It was a sweltering day in Palm Springs, and a few intrepid tourists braved the unforgiving sun to snap selfies at the stilettoed feet of a colossal Marilyn Monroe, her white dress seeming to billow up in the hot dry wind. Some of them had heard she was not likely to be standing there much longer. Thats why we came today to take pictures, said Lauri Hatcher, who used to live in Palm Springs and returns each year. ... More |
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| New portrait of human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell goes on display at the National Portrait Gallery | | Hannah Kendall writes music with a vocabulary of her own | | Tolarno Galleries announces representation of Raymond Tan |
Peter Tatchell by Sarah Jane Moon, oil on canvas, 1500mm x 1000mm (unframed). Given by an anonymous donor, 2024 © Sarah Jane Moon.
LONDON.- A never-before-seen, full-length portrait of human rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell, has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery for its Collection, and is now on display as part of the Gallerys ground-floor History Makers display. Painted by the artist Sarah Jane Moon to coincide with Tatchells 70th birthday on 25 January 2022, the portrait celebrates the sitters determination and leadership through nearly ... More | |
The composer Hannah Kendall. (Braylen Dion/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Violent congestion, inexpressible terror, failure of breath, momentary unconsciousness these overtake me in quick succession, though I am better than I was, composer Robert Schumann wrote in a letter to his mother in 1833. He was 23, and the recent deaths of his older brother and sister-in-law surely cast a pall on his state of mind. If you had any notion of the lethargy into which melancholia has brought me, he continued, you would forgive my not ... More | |
Raymond Tan, Celebrate 2024. Confectioner sugar, egg whites, epoxy resin, gelatine, paint, acetate, board, food colouring, polystyrene foam, acrylic shelf: painted particle board. 46 x 30 x 30 cm.
MELBOURNE.- Breaking away from the conventional notion of cakes as purely edible treats, Raymond Tans exhibition titled A piece of
expands the horizons of creative expression by presenting cake sculptures designed not to be devoured but to be viewed as works of art. Raymond Tans story begins in Selangor, where he spent his formative years before relocating to Australia ... More |
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Some final notes from the 'voice of god'RIO DE JANEIRO.- In 1955, Milton Nascimento was 13, learning to sing and, devastatingly to him, hitting puberty. When I began to see my voice deepening, I said, I dont want to sing anymore, Nascimento, one of Brazils most important musical figures, recalled last week in an interview. Because men dont have heart. He was crying, he said, when a smooth, soulful croon came from the radio. It was Ray Charles singing Stella by Starlight. After I heard that, I said, Now I can sing. Over the next six decades blossomed one of musics great voices, an ethereal force that spanned octaves with emotion and verve, gliding seamlessly between a velvety baritone and a celestial falsetto. Nascimentos singular sound and ascent to the highest notes helped influence a generation of artists. In an interview, Paul Sim ... More £1.5m grant to transform energy efficiency at Glasgow Museums Resource CentreGLASGOW.- Glasgow Life has been awarded a grant of just over £1.5m for important upgrading works which will enhance energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre the unique facility which houses millions of precious objects in the citys Collections. The funding has been granted through Scotlands Public Sector Heat Decarbonisation Fund, which helps public buildings tap into investment for environmentally sustainable solutions. In line with its climate change action commitment to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2045, the Scottish Government made £20m grant funding available within the 2024/25 financial year through Scotlands Public Sector Heat Decarbonisation Fund. The Glasgow Museums Resource Centre grant is one of more than a dozen awarded ... More Lisa Kudrow brings her daffy charm to 'Time Bandits'NEW YORK, NY.- Lisa Kudrow doesnt particularly like to travel. Raised and based in Los Angeles, she mostly hasnt had to. Even the quintessential New York sitcom Friends was shot in Burbank. I like LA, she said in a video call from her home there. I guess vacations are nice, but I feel like I live in a vacation spot so, where am I going? I can watch a video. But when filmmaker Taika Waititi sent her a message on Instagram asking if she would come to New Zealand to star in a series-length adaptation of the 1981 Terry Gilliam movie Time Bandits, she said yes. It was a six-month commitment, but in one of the few places on Earth that Kudrow had always wanted to visit. And, as she said with a laugh, no ones putting me in a Hobbit movie. There are bigger departures from Middle-earth than Time Bandits, a 10-part adventure-fantasy based on a movie ... More Bennington to revive dance program of Philadelphia arts schoolNEW YORK, NY.- Two months after the University of the Arts in Philadelphia closed, the schools dance program will be revived at Bennington College in Vermont, which will absorb the dance school, three staff members and nearly 50 students, the college announced Thursday. What they are doing is the future of dance, said Laura Walker, president of Bennington College, who helped raise nearly $1.3 million from philanthropists to make it happen. The money included a donation of $1 million from Barbara and Sebastian Scripps, who run a nonprofit focused on arts education. Its a tough time, and we hope this will be a model for others, Walker said. Nearly 1,150 students and 700 employees were left adrift after the University of the Arts president, Kerry Walk, abruptly closed the school in June, citing financial woes, and then resigned. ... More Baldwin's 'Blues for Mister Charlie,' 60 years after it hit BroadwayNEW YORK, NY.- One spring day in 1964, among the glittering theater marquees of Times Square, James Baldwin was en route to rehearsal for his new Broadway production, Blues for Mister Charlie, and hed had a lot on his mind. Four little girls had been killed in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, just months earlier, and the white producers of his play had been after him to soften the script, suggesting it might be inappropriate for Broadway. By the time he reached the theater, he was furious. David Leeming, Baldwins friend and biographer, recently recalled that days horrible rehearsal, in which Baldwin stormed in and climbed a ladder. Towering over the cast and crew, he went on a tirade, Leeming, 87, said in an interview, essentially accusing them of failing to see his vision. Besides cutting a swear word or two from ... More Meshell Ndegeocello could have had stardom but chose music insteadNEW YORK, NY.- A good musicians relationship with the past is tricky. You want to move forward without entirely forsaking what youve already done. You dont want it defining you when so much future defining lies ahead. Its a dilemma Meshell Ndegeocello was thinking through at her dining room table in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, on a recent afternoon. Ndegeocello happens to be much more than merely a good musician. Shes been playing professionally since the early 1990s and, at 55, is about to release her 14th album, a collection of songs that excites her. The past the repertoire, the old stuff, the hits can start to feel like karaoke of myself, she said, even if thats never what its been like for us folks in the audience. Take her performances earlier this year at the Blue Note, the essential Greenwich Village jazz club. Over ... More Asian Art Museum of San Francisco presents "Rhythmic Vibrations" first-ever American pavilion at the Gwangju BiennaleSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From Aug 30 Dec 1, 2024, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco presents Rhythmic Vibrations, a history-making group exhibition that is the first time both the museum and the United States have been invited to organize a national pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, South Korea. For the 15th iteration of this globally significant gathering of 30 countries entitled PANSORI, A Soundscape of the 21st Century, the Asian Art Museums head of contemporary art Abby Chen fresh from her groundbreaking curation of the Taiwan Pavilion at this years Venice Biennale partnered with the museums Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Naz Cuguoglu, to stage an investigation ... More Changes at the helm of Australia's leading international arts festivalADELAIDE.- It was announced today that Ruth Mackenzie CBE, Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival, has accepted an exciting new opportunity from the South Australian Government as Program Director, Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy within the Department of Premier & Cabinet. In this pivotal role for the State, Ruth will oversee the development and delivery of the South Australian Governments new arts and culture strategy, policy and action plan. She brings a wealth of skill and expertise in the arts to this role, as well as a depth of international experience, to help deliver this landmark state cultural policy. The Adelaide Festival Board also announced that Brett Sheehy AO will return as Artistic Director of the 2025 Adelaide Festival, a role he held previously from 2005 to 2008. Brett will finalise and oversee the delivery of the 2025 ... More Only CGC-graded Pokémon Charizard playtest card is in play at Heritage's Trading Card Games AuctionDALLAS, TX.- An exceedingly rare playtest card that represents one of the most significant steps in the creation of the Pokémon Charizard card will become an instant centerpiece of a collection when it is sold in Heritages Trading Card Games Signature® Auction August 16-17. The Pokémon Charizard Japanese Beta Playtest CGC Trading Card Game NM/Mint+ 8.5 (Media Factory, 1996) Mounted on Cardthat will be in play in the event was one of the earliest in the process of creating the most powerful and desirable cardsin the enormously popular game. Every creation goes through various stages between the initial concept and the eventual finished product, says Jesus Garcia, Consignment Director for Trading Card Games at Heritage Auctions. Playtest cards contained much of the same information as the cards released in the Base ... More Heritage celebrates the entire history of animation in its Glad Museum Collection eventDALLAS, TX.- Rarely does a single auction encompass the entire history of an art form. But on August 16-19, Heritage will do just that when it presents The History of Animation: The Glad Museum Collection Signature® Auction. The Glad Museum, a vast collection built over decades by one man with impeccable taste and encyclopedic knowledge of animations international trajectory, is on offer over four days and more than 1500 lots that, in a sense, chronicle the entire rollercoaster of the 20th century and show us the rich and fascinating landscape of animations greatest artists and titles from Winsor McCays earliest outings just after the turn of the century and Ub Iwerks introduction of Mickey Mouse, to UPA and Warner Brothers smart and stylish mid-century masterpieces to The Simpsons Homer and Bart (and everything in between). ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson died August 03, 2004. Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 - August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed. In this image: USA. New York City. Manhattan. 1947. Near the Hall of Records. © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos.
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