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Visitors watch a video of Xi Jinping speaking in the national security exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of History, in Hong Kong, on Aug. 11, 2024. The new exhibit calls for the citys residents to be patriotic, loyal to the Chinese Communist Party and ever vigilant to supposed threats to the state. (Anthony Kwan/The New York Times)
HONG KONG.- The Hong Kong Museum of History was the place to go to understand the citys transformation from fishing village to a glittering metropolis. It housed a life-size replica of a traditional fishing boat and a re-creation of a 19th-century street lined with shops. That exhibit, known as The Hong Kong Story, is being revamped. People have instead been lining up for a splashy new permanent gallery in the museum that tells a different, more ominous story about the city that Hong Kong is constantly at risk of being subverted by hostile foreign forces. The exhibit features displays about spies being everywhere and footage of anti-government street protests in the city that were described as instigated by the West. As he kicked off the exhibition this month, John Lee, the Beijing-backed leader of Hong Kong, made clear that its overarching ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of ASPECT Studios' designs in Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070, on display from 23 August - 2 February 2025 at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. Photo: Sean Fennessy.
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| Exhibition celebrates the enduring vitality of the still life tradition for contemporary artists | | MFAH will open the first community-curated Native American exhibition at the museum | | Maruani Mercier announces the debut exhibition of their newly represented artist Victor Ehikhamenor, |
Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #8, 1962. Mixed media and collage on board, 42 x 48 in. 106.7 x 121.9 cm (unframed), 53 x 59 x 3 in. 134.62 x 149.86 x 7.62 cm (framed).
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan will present The Superfluity of Things, a group exhibition that celebrates the enduring vitality of the still life tradition for contemporary artists. This exhibition presents an intergenerational cross-section of artists working within and against the genre to plum its expressive possibilities across a variety of media, including painting, photography, and sculpture. The Superfluity of Things will be on view at ... More | |
Pueblo (Acoma), Water Jar, c. 18901910, clay, slip, and paints, Indian Arts Research Center, Indian Arts Fund purchase for the permanent collection, 1924, IAF.330. Photo © Peter Gabriel Studio.
HOUSTON, TX.- Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery will foreground Pueblo voices and aesthetics and will offer a visionary understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience. On view at the MFAH from October 20, 2024 through January 12, 2025, the exhibition is the first Native-curated exhibition at the Museum and features more than 100 historical, modern, and ... More | |
Victor Ehikhamenor, Pope Pius XII in Benin Kingdom (1692), 2021. Rosary beads, thread and gemstones on lace textile.
BRUSSELS.- Maruani Mercier announced the debut exhibition of their newly represented artist, Victor Ehikhamenor, marking his inaugural solo exhibition in Europe. Opening on October 24th, 2024, at their Brussels gallery, The Enigma of Time Remembered showcases a comprehensive body of work, including intricately patterned paintings, installations, and works on paper. This exhibition will delve into the artists culture and heritage, its global diaspora, and the lasting ... More |
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| The entire history of animation stole the show in Heritage's spectacular $4 million Glad Museum Collection auction | | 'Close Your Eyes' review: The case of the unfinished film | | Gallery Wendi Norris expands team |
Superman (The Mad Scientist) Superman and Daily Planet Building Production Cel with Key Master Background (Max Fleischer, 1941).
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage now claims the six most successful animation art auctions ever held, with the addition of its latest four-day event which wrapped up on August 19: The History of Animation: The Glad Museum Collection Signature® Auction realized $4,043,971 in total sales across more than 1500 lots with every lot sold. This extraordinary collection, built by visionary ... More | |
For his latest, the Spanish director Victor Erice, known for the classic The Spirit of the Beehive, weaves a meta tale of a director looking for an absent actor.
NEW YORK, NY.- A mystery wends through Close Your Eyes, a drama in which the past, present and cinema converge. Its the latest from Spanish director Victor Erice, whos best known for the art-cinema paragon The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), a dream of a movie about a girl who is deeply troubled by the original Frankenstein film. Set around 1940 in the aftermath of the Spanish ... More | |
Melanie Cameron.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In response to the evolving needs of its vibrant artist roster and collector base, Gallery Wendi Norris is pleased to welcome Ye-Bhit Hong as Assistant Director and Anya Udovik as Executive Assistant. Additionally, Melanie Cameron has been promoted to Senior Director in recognition of her exemplary work with artists such as Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, and Alice Rahon, among others. "I take great pride in building an exceptional ... More |
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| Ruby City announces fall 2024 exhibition, 'Irrationally Speaking: Collage & Assemblage in Contemporary Art' | | Heritage Auctions offers the world's most fantastic copy of 'Fantastic Four' No. 1 | | A film festival founded in a war zone, still going strong |
Martha Rosler, Nature girls (Jumping Janes), 1966, Photomontage, edition 4 of 10, 27 x 40 in, Linda Pace Foundation Collection, Ruby City San Antonio, Texas.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruby City announced the opening of its newest exhibition, Irrationally Speaking: Collage & Assemblage in Contemporary Art which will open to the public on Saturday, September 21, 2024, and be on view through August 31, 2025. Irrationally Speaking highlights two art formscollage and assemblageas artistic techniques and conceptual approaches. With ... More | |
Fantastic Four #1 (Marvel, 1961) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages.
DALLAS, TX.- None higher the clarion call of the collector for whom only the perfect and pristine will suffice. None higher. The very best of the very best. Its a phrase that will be heard almost 200 times during Heritage Auctions September 12-15 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction, applied to mint-condition moments spanning some of comics and pulp fictions most significant, revered and recognizable offerings. Among ... More | |
Press screening: My Late Summer by Danis Tanović, National Theatre, 30th Sarajevo Film Festival, 2024 © Obala Art Centar.
SARAJEVO.- From 1992 to 1996, Serbian forces laid siege to the city of Sarajevo, relentlessly bombarding it and cutting off electricity, heat, running water and regular food supplies. Because of snipers perched on hillsides and constant shelling, going outside was a life-threatening act. Yet these were the conditions under which the Sarajevo Film Festival came to life. Now ... More |
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| Missouri woman charged in scheme to defraud Presleys and sell Graceland | | Alison Bradley Projects announces Motohiro Takeda's debut solo exhibition in New York City | | 36 hours in Provincetown, Massachusetts |
Elvis Presleys home at Graceland, in Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 28, 2006. (Rollin Riggs/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Federal authorities arrested a Missouri woman Friday and accused her of orchestrating a brazen effort to shake down the Presley family by threatening to fraudulently foreclose on Graceland, Elvis home in Memphis, Tennessee, a popular tourist attraction. Authorities said they had arrested Lisa Jeanine Findley, 53, of Kimberling City, Missouri, on charges of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. The defendant orchestrated a scheme to conduct a fraudulent sale of Graceland, falsely claiming ... More | |
Motohiro Takeda, Hanaikada (2024) Concrete, cherry blossoms, delphinium, 60 x 32 in. Detail image, courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alison Bradley Projects announced Motohiro Takeda: Something To Remember You By, the artists debut solo exhibition in New York City. On view from September 5th, the exhibition runs until November 2nd, with an artist reception on September 12th from 6:00 - 8:00pm. The work of Motohiro Takeda (b. 1982, Hamamatsu, Japan) resists the speed, spectacle, and excess of contemporary life by channeling a deeply interdisciplinary mode ... More | |
Sculptures outside the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the towns cultural flagship since 1914, in Provincetown, Mass., Aug. 13, 2024. (Jesse Burke/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Located at the tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown has overlapping and sometimes competing identities: one of Americas oldest art colonies, nature preserve, thriving LGBTQ+ resort and historic Portuguese fishing village. Among the few points of agreement in P-town, as locals call it, is that soaring housing costs and a creeping sense of Hamptons-style gentrification present an existential threat to this self-styled ... More |
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Through the Lens: Gordon Parks's Empathetic Approach to Image Making
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Zoè Kravitz needed a place to put her frustrations. So she made a movie.NEW YORK, NY.- In the summer of 2017, Zoë Kravitz, on a break from shooting a movie, posted up at a cafe in London with her laptop and began drafting her first full screenplay. It wasnt immediately clear to her what it would become, she said: At first I wrote this kind of stream-of-consciousness novella, where the characters came to life. They eventually inhabited Blink Twice, her directorial debut, which revolves around a tech billionaire with a private party island, and the guests whether unsuspecting or complicit who are lured there. Its a bacchanalia with shades of Lord of the Flies and Adam and Eve. At once a psychosexual thriller, a horror-mystery, a revenge fantasy, a dark comedy and a commentary on gender and class, Blink Twice was not inspired by any one event, or by her professional trajectory, Kravitz said in a recent ... More Coveted serial No. 1 banknotes headline Heritage's Long Beach Expo US Currency auctionDALLAS, TX.- The Ronald R. Gustafson Collection, a trove teeming with high-denomination treasures and banknotes bearing the coveted serial number 1, will take center stage in Heritages Long Beach Expo US Currency Signature® Auction September 11-13. This is the seminal collection of notes, starting with the first few new small size Series of notes introduced in 1928. In that year, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing reduced the size of our banknotes, from a larger size of notes affectionately called horse blankets, to the size we use today, says Dustin Johnston, Vice President of Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. Collectors in many departments are naturally drawn to the first of anything they pursue, and that definitely is the case with currency. This collection is packed with a remarkable rarities, including finest knowns and an array ... More Cash Cobain is steering drill rap's sexy swerveNEW YORK, NY.- Drill music hasnt always been this fun. The subgenres ominous beats and menacing lyrics infiltrated mainstream hip-hop over a decade ago, but its ascendant stars have been stalled by violence, police surveillance and the flattening effect of at-home copycats. Cash Cobain, the 26-year-old breakout rapper and producer from the Bronx, is helping to raise its trajectory. With lusty rhymes and unorthodox samples, hes become a central figure of sexy drill, a more lascivious offshoot, and one that has tilted the sound of rap nationally. En route to a Coney Island performance in early August, sitting in the passenger seat of a new Mercedes sedan, Cobain rapped along to Rump Punch, a song from his upcoming album, as it oozed through the speakers. In between doo-wop-esque lines of flattery for a paramour ... More Group exhibition will present artists whose works address and reinterpret mythological referencesSANTA FE, NM.- Gerald Peters Contemporary announced Among Monsters, a group exhibition of artists whose works address and reinterpret mythological references. The thematic presentation will include paintings, sculptures, textiles, and works on paper from Nanibah Chacon, Esther Elia, Angelica Racquel, Gil Rocha, Peter Rogers, and Hank Saxe. Throughout history, mythologies have provided explanations for humankinds existential surroundings through collective beliefs and shared verbal and visual narratives. The artists included in this exhibition preserve and evolve this tradition, drawing on mythological references to explore identity, fear, nostalgia, and socio-political conditions. Nanibah Nani Chacon (b. 1980) is a Diné (Navajo) and Chicana artist, most recognized as a painter and muralist. Her work, recognized for its unique ... More 'Rings of Power' returns, with more creatures and more evildoingWINDSOR.- What does it take to bring Tolkiens Middle-earth to life? In part, ambition on a scale to rival the fantasy writers epic tales, if the set for Amazons The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is any indication. In April last year, the production for Season 2 sprawled across several sites around Windsor. Shuttle cars sped hundreds of crew members and craft makers between vast studios and forests. For about eight months, nearly 90 cast members spent hours in hair and makeup to be transformed into elves, dwarves, orcs and other Middle-earth dwellers. A building housed racks of costumes and specially molded or 3-D-printed trinkets and armor. Outdoor sets the size of playgrounds plunged the actors into a court in Númenor or the trenches of an orc camp. And nearby, machinery waited in a muddy field to film a gritty battle ... More Silvio Santos, provocative Brazilian television host, dies at 93NEW YORK, NY.- Silvio Santos, a Brazilian media mogul and television personality who built one of the countrys biggest entertainment empires, died Saturday in São Paulo. He was 93. His death, in a hospital, was caused by bronchopneumonia related to a case of H1N1 flu, according to a statement by SBT, the television channel he owned. Santos spent more than six decades in front of the camera. He created and hosted several popular variety shows, including Brazils homegrown version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. His best-known show, Programa Silvio Santos, has been on the air since 1963. (His daughter PatrÃcia became the host in 2021, although he continued to appear occasionally.) Every Sunday night, viewers watched Santos shimmy with dancers, hand out prizes to a mostly female audience, and showcase a range ... More Rick Steves, TV travel guide, says he has prostate cancerNEW YORK, NY.- Rick Steves, a travel writer who has built an empire of guidebooks, radio shows and television programs that focus on Europe, said on Wednesday that he had recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Steves, 69, has written dozens of guidebooks over four decades and hosted programs such as Rick Steves Europe, a series that began in 2000 and has now aired for 12 seasons on public television in the United States. He also hosts a radio show and podcast called Travel with Rick Steves. He announced the diagnosis in a social media post Wednesday. In an interview from his home in Seattle on Wednesday, Steves said that his years of travel had taught him to seek experiences that broaden his perspectives, including culture shock, and his cancer diagnosis was not very different. You learn a lot more about your home ... More John Lansing, who guided NPR through tumultuous times, dies at 67NEW YORK, NY.- John Lansing, who as CEO from 2019 until earlier this year guided NPR through a global pandemic, an imploding media landscape and widening political polarization that called into question some of its journalistic principles, died Aug. 14 at his home in Eagle River, Wisconsin. He was 67. An NPR representative confirmed the death but did not cite a cause. Lansing, who had been in the news business since he graduated from high school, arrived at NPR with a mission to broaden its reach beyond traditional radio into media including podcasts and newsletters. He also announced what he considered his North Star: a commitment to expand NPRs audience to include a younger and more diverse demographic, and a parallel commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion ... More MC Grammar raps his way toward a 'global classroom'LONDON.- Jacob Mitchell started out as a star student. At Foulds School, just north of London, he did his homework, enjoyed the perks of being a teacherâs son and discovered rap while performing âBoom! Shake the Roomâ in an âepicâ talent show when he was 9. But once Mitchell was a teenager, his sparkle started to fade. âI just sort of lost my way,â he said. âI could remember all the lyrics to songs â Tupac, Biggie, Big L â but I couldnât remember basic facts for science.â Bored and discouraged, Mitchell talked back to teachers. He landed in detention and stopped caring about his studies. He said, âI just felt, at one point, âI donât want to do this anymore.ââ At 16, Mitchell dropped out of school and went to work for his fatherâs party business, then at a hardware store. He was writing his own music, mostly rap, but felt as if all the promise had drained out of his life. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-born photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt died August 24, 1995. Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 - August 24, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his photograph of the V-J Day celebration and for his candid photographs, frequently made using a 35mm Leica camera. In this image: Harold Gray, chairman of the board of United Technologies Corp., points to a print as he discusses the photo with photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt at Manhattanâs International Center for Photography in New York in Jan. 22, 1981. The display of photographs titled âEisenstaedt Germanyâ was organized by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington and made possible by United Technologies.
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