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When a director envisioned a museum you couldnât walk by, Snohettaâs architects and designers added bright entryways, varied landscaping and impossible-to-miss âpetalsâ on campus.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Simone Wicha took over as director of the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin, in 2011, she inherited a complex of two buildings â completed just three years earlier â that, by her own description, was ânestled perfectly into campus.â Its Mediterranean-inspired architecture fit with UTâs historic palette, and its tree-filled plaza, designed by landscape architects Peter Walker and Partners, tied in to the campusâs thick green canopies and long pedestrian walkways. But while it worked as a campus museum, it didnât match Wichaâs vision for a world-class one. It fit in too well. The Blanton literally looked inward (its two front doors faced each other across the plaza), and the plazaâs trees blocked views of the entrances. âIt was really just a couple of banners announcing here ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Gustavo Dudamel, the renowned conductor, leads the National Childrenâs Symphony of Venezuela as part of World Orchestra Week at Carnegie Hall in New York on Aug. 2, 2024. âThis is the Venezuela that we want,â he said from the podium. (Graham Dickie/The New York Times).
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| Artists find beauty and darkness in child's play | | SJ Auctioneers announces online-only Designer Jewelry Estate Collection auction | | Ship brings rocky clues to life's origins up from ocean's 'Lost City' |
Sable Elyse Smiths Coloring Book 66, 2020, a cartoony painting that the artist got from a coloring book that prepares children for a courthouse visit. (Sable Elyse Smith; via JTT, New York, and Carlos/Ishikawa, London; Charles Benton via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Its not easy being a kid. Hungry? Dirty? Want to go to the playground? You are at the mercy of others. In the 1970s, though, a Polish child named Maksymilian Dobromierz had it especially rough: His parents, conceptual artists who went by the name KwieKulik, had him ... More | |
Pair of Graff platinum tulip chandelier earrings. Dropping from the earlobe is a 2 ¾ inch long platinum strand with floral motif and 3-carat diamond embellishment (est. $13,500-$20,000).
BROOKLYN, NY.- Jewelry, jewelry and more jewelry will be on the menu in SJ Auctioneers online-only Designer Jewelry Estate Collection & More auction scheduled for Sunday, August 25th, starting promptly at 6 pm Eastern time. The 598-lot catalog represents SJ Auctioneers finest selections to date of fine jewelry collectibles from famous-name artists and designers. The list includes ... More | |
Kuan-Yu Lin of the University of Delaware aboard the JOIDES Resolution research vessel with a rocky sample recovered from beneath the Lost City complex of seabed features. (Lesley Anderson, Exp. 399, JRSO/IODP via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Researchers have long argued that regions deep in the Earths oceans may harbor sites from which all terrestrial life sprung. In the Atlantic, they gave the name Lost City to a jagged landscape of eerie spires under which they proposed that the life-preceding chemistry may have churned. And now for the first time, specialists ... More |
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| Oysters and martinis at Rashid Johnson's pool party in The Hamptons | | First major exhibition of Southern photography in more than 25 years comes to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | | Mary Wings, pioneering creator of queer comics, dies at 75 |
Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepians pool party, in East Hampton, N.Y. on Aug. 3, 2024. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- On a quiet road in East Hampton, New York, on Saturday evening, cars pulled up outside artist Rashid Johnsons home as a pool party kicked off inside the property. Exiting the cars, handing off keys to valets, was a procession of art-world players, philanthropists and socialites wearing sun hats. The gathering at Johnsons ... More | |
Walker Evans, Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, 1936. Gelatin silver print, 9 5/8 x 7 7/8 in. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, Gift of Norman Selby (PA 1970) and Melissa G. Vail, 2020.31.
RICHMOND, VA.- The first major exhibition of Southern photography in more than 25 years, A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, will be on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond from Oct. 5, ... More | |
Mary Wing. (via Kathleen Mullen via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Mary Wings didnt know what lesbian meant until she was in her late teens but as soon as she found out, she knew it described what shed been feeling for years. As a footloose illustrator who moved among creative scenes on both coasts and even in Europe in the late 1960s, she hoped to find fellow artists whose work represented her experience especially ... More |
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| Tourists accused of defacing Joshua Tree National Park with paintballs | | Rare Pogonodon skeleton stalks bids in Heritage's Nature & Science auction | | The secret to Debbie Harry's style |
A photo provided by the National Park Service shows paintball markings on a sign in Joshua Tree National Park, east of Palm Springs, Calif. (National Park Service via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Three tourists from Germany who were accused of firing paintballs at signs, bathrooms and dumpsters in Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California were cited for defacing property, according to park officials. The damage was discovered Sunday on a patrol of a campground ... More | |
This most incredible vertebrate skeleton is a product of outstanding fossilization and very talented preparation skills.
DALLAS, TX.- An extraordinary skeleton of an extinct carnivoran often referred to as a false saber-toothed cat will be on the prowl for a new home when it heads to the auction block August 28 in Heritages Nature & Science Signature® Auction. The event is bursting with must-have treasures for natural history collectors of all kinds, with ... More | |
Debbie Harry in New York, Aug. 27, 2019. (Celeste Sloman/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A designer lives inside Debbie Harry. Shell tell you so herself. As the lead singer of the pop-punk band Blondie, iterations of which have been performing for six decades, Harry has assembled her own stage wardrobe, a rough-hewn bricolage of shredded prom dresses, spandex bodysuits, fishnet arm warmers and skin-baring vintage castoffs. Ive always fiddled around ... More |
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| New series of six architecture exhibitions at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | | Gloriously noisy Latinas are coming to Lincoln Center | | A Gentil Carioca opens its first exhibition of works by Vinicius Gerheim |
Atelier Luma, Bioplastic stools and light fixture made with rotational molding. Photo: © Joana Luz.
HUMLEBAEK.- Architecture Connecting is a new series of six architecture exhibitions at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Opening 8 November 2024, the first show in the series presents three different architecture studios. ecoLogicStudio, Atelier LUMA and Jenny Sabin Studio work at the intersection of algorithms and nature, using new methods to push the boundaries of architecture. The series Architecture Connecting is exploring architectures connections and ... More | |
Bebel Gilberto. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- In Spanish, ruidosa means noisy, loud, roaring, rumbling and attention-grabbing. The final a makes it a feminine adjective. Its the name that Francisca Valenzuela, an American-born Chilean songwriter, chose when she decided to create a festival, and an organization, dedicated to getting Latina musicians heard and defying the gender imbalance across the music business. Since 2016, Ruidosa Fests have taken place across Latin America, presenting female-led acts from multiple ... More | |
Vinicius Gerheim, Madona, 2024. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 66 7/8 x 51 1/8 x 1 3/8 in.
10.5 kg each. © The artist.
SÃO PAULO.- A Gentil Carioca announces Tororó, the first exhibition by Vinicius Gerheim at A Gentil Carioca São Paulo, opening on August 10th, Saturday, at 2pm. The critical text is signed by Felipe Molitor, who observes: Tororó presents a powerful set of landscapes that vacillate between interior and exterior scenarios, in which even the most apparent figures are sufficiently fleeting to be released into a flood of abstractions. ... More |
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LaJuné McMillian explores Black freedom and movement through new digital media and performanceNASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents LaJuné McMillian: The Portals KeeperOrigins, an exhibition of multimedia projections, sculptural installations, and holographic self-portraits by the New Yorkbased artist LaJuné McMillian. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, the exhibition will be on view in the Gordon Contemporary Artists Gallery from September 27, 2024 through January 5, 2025. LaJuné McMillian uses 3D-modeling technology, motion-captured performances, and multisensory elements to create immersive, dynamic environments where they explore and celebrate Black bodily movement as an expression of liberation. With their use of motion-capture software, McMillian depicts Black dancers, performers, and the artist themself as avatars whose intense colors and exuberant bodies move within fantastic environments ... More Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah wins Kluge Humanities PrizeNEW YORK, NY.- Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah is this years winner of the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, a $500,000 prize awarded by the Library of Congress recognizing work in disciplines not covered by the Nobel Prizes. Appiah, a professor of philosophy and law at New York University, is an author of more than a dozen books and is known for scholarly contributions to philosophy relating to ethics, language, nationality and race. His books include In My Fathers House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1992) and The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen (2010). He is also, as The Ethicist, the columnist for The New York Times Magazine who responds to reader-submitted moral dilemmas and interpersonal arguments with ethical frameworks. Recent columns have responded ... More Cashing in on her cultural influenceNEW YORK, NY.- Guided tours of Rockefeller Center dont usually start with cocktails and bar snacks at the upscale French restaurant Le Rock. Nor do they typically end with pasta and a 30-layer chocolate cake at Jupiter, a popular Italian restaurant at the plaza in midtown Manhattan. But Beverly Nguyen, who led a group around Rockefeller Center on a recent Tuesday evening, is not your standard tour guide. For the group of marketing and public-relations executives from brands like Ralph Lauren, Cartier and Versace that she was showing around, Nguyen had arranged access to some special spaces, she said, while standing in front of Isamu Noguchis plaque sculpture News, carved into the facade of one of the plazas art deco-style buildings. Though not a household name, Nguyen, 33, has, through a multihyphenate career, ... More At 50, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' still cuts deepNEW YORK, NY.- The movies never recovered after The Texas Chain Saw Massacre hit theaters in 1974. Focused on a family of cannibalistic, butcherous crazies living in a rural house of horrors, Tobe Hoopers sleaze-oozing film rattled audiences and was banned in some places. It also inspired filmmakers to take horror in new, more brutal directions. Fede Ãlvarez, director of the forthcoming Alien: Romulus, said that the unapologetic savagery of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre influenced his work. Its a humbling reminder of how a hard dose of unsolicited anarchy on screen is a key ingredient for any horror movie that hopes to endure the test of time, he said. Beginning Aug. 8, the Museum of Modern Art in New York will offer a weeklong run of the film timed to its 50th anniversary, and will follow that with a retrospective ... More How the Olympics mascot went from bizarre to belovedPARIS.- Some think its a cross between the Eiffel Tower and a beret. Others see it as a goofy, red French Smurf. Most people cant even pronounce its name. Its Phryge (pronounced freej), the official mascot of the Paris Olympics. Mocked by the French when it was unveiled, it has become the hottest-selling item in town and a symbol of the transformation of Frances perception of the Games from an unwanted nuisance to an unqualified triumph. At the Olympics megastore on the Champs-Ãlysées, 15,000 shoppers stand in a line nearly five blocks long every day to snap up Phryge in its many iterations (Posing as the Mona Lisa! Running with the Olympic flame!) and to buy millions of euros worth of official Olympic-branded merchandise. Jadore! said Jenny Prudhomme, a native of southern France who works as a volunteer ... More How Post Malone went country (carefully, with a beer in his hand)NEW YORK, NY.- Post Malone emerged from a porta-potty on a recent Wednesday afternoon to meet his new Nashville public. The face-tattooed pop chameleon had been cruising slowly across downtown, hidden on the back of an 18-wheeler that carried just a couple of speakers, some beers, two to-go toilets and a pair of superstars. As usual, Post born Austin Post and known as one or the other, or the cuter variation, Posty had brought a friend along as a local emissary. So when the trucks flatbed cover fell and the bathroom doors opened, revealing both him and the burly country hitmaker Luke Combs, everyone in sight giddy children and grizzled grandfathers, wasted tourists and jaded locals lost their minds as planned. Posty, we love you! fans shouted ... More How 'Head Hunters' shook up jazz (and Herbie Hancock's world)Herbie Hancock still vividly recalls the night, 51 years ago, when the Pointer Sisters skated circles around him. We came up and played our weird stuff, and when they came out, they were wearing roller skates, he said in a video interview in June, recalling a show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California. The audience went insane. That humbling experience in the spring of 1973 sparked a major change in Hancocks thinking. After establishing himself as one of the leading jazz pianists of the 60s, he had embraced electric keyboards and homed in on the so-called weird stuff with the Mwandishi band, a sextet that was both fearlessly exploratory and largely oblivious to the tastes of the average listener. We need to learn from them, he remembered thinking of the Pointers. Maybe theres something that can emerge from us that would ... More Anna Marie Tendler knows you think her book is about John MulaneyNEW CANAAN, CONN.- In the summer of 2021, Anna Marie Tendler went on a first date at Ernestos, a Spanish restaurant on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and made small talk about the menu with a man she had met online and vetted on a FaceTime call. Then she launched into an unexpected monologue. She told him that six months earlier, she had checked into a psychiatric hospital for suicidal thoughts, self-harm and disordered eating. Her germophobia had kept her from eating indoors since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, she was in the middle of a divorce. An absolute slam dunk, Tendler writes of the date in her new memoir, Men Have Called Her Crazy, out Tuesday from Simon & Schuster. Tendler, 39, an artist whose work includes Victorian lampshades and morose photography, may be most widely ... More Hotly anticipated 'Dallas-Fort Worth Collection' makes its auction debut NEW YORK, NY.- Plenty of folks have a bug for collecting. Coins, comics, baseball cards, art those who are wired to acquire often figure this out about themselves at an early age. Theres another type who recognizes the unlikely objects that may become highly collectible, even if hardly anyone else shares their vision. They see a hole in the collectibles market and bet on it. And still another type with an amped-up impulse to gather about them the things they are passionate about, yet dont predict how their burgeoning collections could one day amount to a gold mine. On that note: Only recently have vintage home video games most especially those with their original seal intact exploded as a market category. This astonishes more than a few: When you tell a newbie to the collecting sphere that a pristine, sealed 1996 copy ... More Opening 14 September at Michael Werner Gallery, Beverly Hills - Florian Krewer: strike the dustBEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.- Michael Werner Gallery, Beverly Hills will present strike the dust, the first West Coast exhibition of new paintings by prominent German-born, New York-based painter Florian Krewer. Full of rampant desires and fervent dreams, Krewer chronicles his recent travels, experiences, and revelries on the canvas. He celebrates community and love, while at the same time documenting his profound feelings of injustice, isolation, loneliness, and loss. Deeply personal and autobiographical, Krewers visceral and impassioned paintings are also universal. They offer up a world in which everyone has the freedom to love without barriers and bask in the fullness of nature and humanity. Florian Krewer (born in Gerolstein, Germany in 1986) has exhibited around the world. Recent solo exhibitions include Nice Dog, M WOODS ... More Facing turmoil at home, young artists find a musical haven in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- As the tour boat in New York Harbor approached the Statue of Liberty, Miranda MarÃn, a 12-year-old violinist from Venezuela, turned to a group of friends gathered near the bow and jumped up and down. Were here! she shouted, taking pictures of the statues crown. Can you believe it? MarÃn, along with more than 160 members of the National Childrens Symphony of Venezuela, had come to New York City for a weeklong festival at Carnegie Hall. The festival, known as World Orchestra Week, featured more than 700 student musicians from 38 countries, including China, Nigeria, Germany, Afghanistan, Israel, Ukraine and the United States. When they were not practicing Beethoven, Ginastera or folk music, the young artists toured the city by boat, bus and subway, venturing out for pizza and ice cream. The Venezuelans held a dance ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, The Smithsonian Institution was chartered by the U.S. Congress August 10, 1846. The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, and licensing activities. In this image: "The Castle," the building on the National Mall that is home to the Smithsonian's administration, is seen. Photo: Smithsonian Institution.
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