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An oil on canvas by Guillaume Lethière, The Homeland Is in Danger, 1799, depicting a celebration of the French revolutionary army, on display at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., July 8, 2024. The exhibition of Lethière, a Neoclassical painter of mixed race who was born, almost certainly into slavery, in the French Caribbean and ultimately became one of Frances most decorated painters, provides a full view of his scenes of love and war. (Richard Beaven/The New York Times)
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Liberté, égalité
and that third one, what is it again? On July 14, 1789 (exactly 235 years ago this Sunday), some idealistic Parisians stormed a not especially crowded prison. They overthrew the kings guard. They set in train a three-pronged revolution: for individual liberty, for civil equality, and, last and rarest, for communal obligation. That July fraternity passed from the realm of genealogy into politics and this Julys startling French legislative election, fought over race, migration and national belonging, confirms ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view "Städel | Women. Women Artists between Frankfurt and Paris around 1900" Photo: Städel Museum - Norbert Miguletz.
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| Exploring material life and transformation: Giovanni Ambrosio's "Eject-a" exhibition | | Magnificent Haradin Family Collection of American antique toys and banks to be auctioned RSL's N.J. gallery | | 'Frans Hals: Master of the Fleeting Moment' opens at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin |
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NOLA.- In the heart of Italy, where the shadows of history and the tremors of the earth intertwine, Giovanni Ambrosio invites us to a profound exploration through his exhibitions and performative installations. Curated by Christian Taranto, this body of work delves into the essence of materials, their transformations, and the stories they carry. As Ambrosio presents "Eject-a. Migration of forms," he challenges us to consider the life within materials ... More | |
Of unknown manufacture, the circa-1880s cast-iron Yankee Schoolmaster, also known as The Alphabet Man, was acquired by the Haradins at Noel Barretts 1991 auction of the Tom Anderson collection. Fewer than 10 of these toys are thought to exist. Estimate: $35,000-$75,000.
WHITEHOUSE STATION, NJ.- On Saturday, August 3 at RSL Auctions New Jersey gallery, Pittsburghs revered Haradin family will bid farewell to a 149-piece legacy collection of American toys and banks that literally has no rival. Richly historical and boasting one peerless rarity ... More | |
Frans Hals, Der Evangelist Matthäus, um 1625, Odesa Museum für Westliche und Ãstliche Kunst. Photo: Odesa Museum für Westliche und Ãstliche Kunst.
BERLIN.- Berlin celebrates one of the greatest portrait painters of all time: along with Rembrandt and Vermeer, Frans Hals ranks among the most outstanding Dutch painters of the 17th century. In addition to unconventional, expressive portraits of the Haarlem elite, he was the first artist in Holland to paint social outsiders as individuals in life size. More than any other artist of the early modern period, the rediscovery of the Haarlem ... More |
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| Judd Foundation to open Donald Judd's Architecture Office in September 2025 | | 8 revelations from Louis Kahn's last sketchbook | | MoMA PS1 presents major outdoor installation by Yto Barrada |
Architecture Office, Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Photo Matthew Millman © Judd Foundation.
MARFA, TX.- Judd Foundation today announced plans for completing the restoration and rebuilding of Donald Judds Architecture Office. One of eleven buildings associated with Judd in Marfa recognized on the National Register of Historic Places, the Architecture Office will open to the public in September 2025. Following three years of historic restoration initiated by Judd Foundation in 2018, the Architecture Office ... More | |
A bust depicting President Fraklin D. Roosevelt in Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, on Roosevelt Island in New York City, is stabilized by a temporary support system on Sept. 9, 2012. (Robert Wright/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When architect Louis Kahn, who designed some of the 20th centurys most notable buildings, appeared in public, he could generally be seen carrying a dark-red hardcover Winsor & Newton sketchbook. In a time well before digital supremacy, the designer of soaring modern icons, ... More | |
Portrait of Yto Barrada. Photo: Marissa Alper.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Artist Yto Barrada (Moroccan-French, b. 1971) transforms the MoMA PS1 courtyard with a large-scale installation titled Le Grand Soir, a two-year commission that continues PS1s history of inviting artists to respond to its unique campus. Barradas first major outdoor work is composed of colorful concrete blocks stacked into pyramidal towers whose lower levels visitors can sit on and explore, providing an interactive experience ... More |
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| At Margaret Mitchell's house, 'Gone With the Wind' gets a rewrite | | Danziger Gallery celebrates the centenary of Robert Frank with online exhibition | | 'Eno' review: Creativity, 52 billion billion ways |
The Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta on July 8, 2024. (Lynsey Weatherspoon/The New York Times)
ATLANTA, GA.- The handsome Tudor Revival mansion set on a shaded lot in the bustling heart of Atlanta has long been known as the Margaret Mitchell House. Yet, in truth, Mitchells time there a span of seven years, during which she wrote Gone With the Wind was confined to a 650-square-foot first-floor apartment she so lovingly named The Dump. Over time, Mitchell and the ... More | |
Robert Frank, Paris, 1952. 14 x 11 inch silver gelatin print.
NEW YORK, NY.- Danziger Gallery celebrates the centenary of Robert Frank with an online exhibition comprised of 20 prints from the years 1948 1968. Born in Zurich in 1924, Frank started his photographic career as a European photojournalist but drawn to the more poetic possibilities of the medium and the opportunities he hoped would emerge he emigrated to America in 1947. ... More | |
Brian Eno in his studio, in Norfolk, England on Oct. 7, 2020. (Kalpesh Lathigra/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The key to Eno comes near the beginning of the film at least, the beginning of the first version I saw. Musician Brian Eno, the documentarys subject, notes that the fun of the kind of art he makes is that its a two-way street. The audiences brain does the cooking and keeps seeing relationships, he says. Most movies are made up of juxtapositions of scenes, ... More |
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| Kasmin announces Nengi Omuku's first solo exhibition in New York | | Heritage posts the most successful midyear figures in company history | | Covering on spire of a cathedral that Monet painted catches fire |
Nengi Omuku in her studio. Photo by Anny Robert
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin announced Nengi Omukus (b. 1987, Nigeria) first solo exhibition in New York, titled Wild Things and Perennials. This new body of eight oil paintings, each uniquely realized on the traditional Nigerian textile sanyan, develops Omukus vision of painting as a constant and sustaining force in a perpetually changing world. Omukus impressionistic landscapes and distinctive, rich palettes provide enveloping spaces for the artists loosely rendered ... More | |
Star Wars Prototype Rocket-Firing Boba Fett L-Slot / Hand-Painted AFA 60 (Kenner, 1979).
DALLAS, TX.- Add another to its ever-expanding list of auction records: Heritage Auctions recorded more than $924.9 million in total sales through the first half of 2024, the highest midyear total in Heritages 48-year history. Only 48 months ago, that would have been a record sales total for an entire year. Heritage is now on pace for its fourth record-setting year in a row, following 2023s $1.76 billion year. That surge in sales ... More | |
The cathedral, Notre-Dame de Rouen, about 70 miles northwest of Paris, was evacuated, and several dozen firefighters sent in to extinguish the blaze, local officials said.
LONDON.- A tarp and scaffolding covering the spire of a cathedral in Rouen, France, that inspired artist Claude Monet caught fire Thursday, city officials said. The cathedral, Notre Dame de Rouen, about 70 miles northwest of Paris, was evacuated, and several dozen firefighters sent in to extinguish the blaze, local officials said. ... More |
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The Lowe Art Museum presents 'A Collector's Journey: Susan Grant Lewin and the Art Jewelry World'CORAL GABLES, FL .- The Lowe Art Museum is presenting A Collector's Journey: Susan Grant Lewin and the Art Jewelry World. This exhibition, which has been brought to fruition by consulting curator Ursula Ilse-Neuman, features the extraordinary collection of one of the worlds preeminent collectors. It is on view at the Lowe through September 14, 2024. Author of One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today, Susan Grant Lewin has been a keen observer of the field for decades. Lewin notes: "It is hard to believe that 30 years have passed since I wrote One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today. It has been an incredible ride. Along the way, I have learned so much about the field and developed lasting friendships with many talented jewelers. The field has grown substantially and is now thriving internationally, allowing me to encounter amazing artists ... More Miles McEnery Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Elliott GreenNEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Elliott Green, on view 11 July through 23 August 2024. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated digital publication featuring an essay by Phoebe Hoban. Over the course of four decades, Elliott Green has made paintings that transcend genres to explore relationships between the material world and abstract elements. In the last dozen years, he has given his full attention to visualizing a new kind of imagined landscape. His second exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery continues the pursuit in this direction with a greater emphasis on the concept of flowing time, which he makes palpable in vistas of ethereal terrains and mercurial skies. In these fictional places, free of human influence, the viewer is confronted by the sheer magnitude of nature; a primarily blue p ... More Anthea Sylbert, costume designer who became a producer, dies at 84NEW YORK, NY.- Anthea Sylbert, an Oscar-nominated costume designer of the films Chinatown and Julia, who left Hollywood fitting rooms to be a studio executive and, later, Goldie Hawns producing partner, died June 18 at her home on the Greek island of Skiathos. She was 84. Robert Romanus, her stepson, said the cause was complications of emphysema. Sylbert began designing costumes for films in 1967. Over the next decade, she collaborated with A-list directors like Mike Nichols, Roman Polanski and Elaine May and conceived what Jack Nicholson wore when he starred in Chinatown, The Fortune and Carnal Knowledge. Jack Nicholson actually gave me the best compliment I ever got as a costume designer, she said in My Life in 3 Acts, a forthcoming documentary about Sylbert directed by Sakis Lalas. He said, When The ... More For this drama, some actors returned to prison by choiceNEW YORK, NY.- Between the jangle of keys and the beeps of walkie-talkies, the men watched. The occasion was an advance screening of the new A24 film Sing Sing, and at the prison its set in, the men were taking in a fictional version of their lives. Amid a heat wave, the audience a mix of the studios guests and incarcerated men in hunter-green pants crowded into the correctional facilitys chapel-turned-cinema. With the sun streaming through a stained-glass window of Christ kneeling before the cross, the viewers fanned themselves with paper plates. It was the first time Clarence Divine Eye Maclin had been to the prison in Ossining, New York, since 2012, when he finished serving more than 17 years for robbery. While incarcerated, Maclin had starred as Hamlet in the prisons makeshift auditorium. Now he was free and returning ... More This soprano sings 'the sound of the soul'AIX-EN-PROVENCE.- Un bel dì, the title characters great aria in Madama Butterfly, begins with the soprano singing a hovering G flat. Giacomo Puccini writes in the score that the note is to emerge not just pianissimo, or very soft, but also come da lontano: as if coming from far away. The opera is about a young Japanese woman convinced that the American naval officer who abandoned her will return, and Un bel dì narrates her fantasy of seeing his ship sailing back into the harbor at Nagasaki. At the Aix-en-Provence Festival in France, Ermonela Jaho condenses that desperate illusion into a haunting filament of tone. Whats more, she sings the note while lying on her back on the floor in this bracingly intimate new production of the beloved work. The attack on the G flat, its like hope is being suspended in midair, its a sound like ... More National Portrait Gallery names Diana Movius its next Choreographer-in-ResidenceWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery has announced Diana Movius as the museums next choreographer-in-residence. During the 18 month residency, Movius will create new works inspired by the Portrait Gallerys collection and exhibitions. The new dances will be performed by the Washington, D.C.-based Moveius Contemporary Ballet in the museums Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard. Movius will also participate in public discussions about art and dance. The residency will launch with a world premiere of Seasons inspired by Rachel Carson whose portrait is in the museums Forces of Nature: Voices That Shape Environmentalism exhibition (on view through Sept. 2). Set to a modern musical rendition of Vivaldis The Four Seasons, the new ballet contemplates Carsons transformative ... More Magnificent double-struck 1794 S-28 Cent turns heads at Heritage's ANA US Coins AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Just because something is an error does not mean it is not in high demand. Consider the case of the 1794 S-28 Head of 1794 Cent, MS66 Brown NGC, a magnificent double-struck early large cent that will be up for grabs when it crosses the block in Heritages ANA US Coins Signature® Auction August 13-18. Double-strike errors are exactly what they sound like: a coin that has two (or more) images because the planchet was impressed (at least) twice, says Todd Imhof, Executive Vice President at Heritage Auctions. This example is breathtaking, and exceptionally rare in this grade, as one of just four S-28 cents that Del Bland grades MS60 and are tied for the finest examples of the S-28 pair. The double strike is important, exceeding its census position as one of the four finest existing S-28 cents. The combination of the two strikes, ... More Summer horror movies to send a chill down your spineNEW YORK, NY.- Horror movies can be great summertime escapes because, unlike soaring temperatures and global political upheaval, their terrors are temporary and, at least for fans of the genre, a ton of fun. Heres a look at new movies and beloved classics that will (metaphorically) scare your pants off in theaters, at home and under the stars this summer. Whether its date night or a solo Summer Friday afternoon, movie theaters are chockablock with new scares. They include MaXXXine, the final entry in a slasher trilogy starring Mia Goth; A Quiet Place: Day One, a prequel to the hit franchise about bloodthirsty creatures with really good hearing; and The Exorcism, a supernatural drama starring Russell Crowe as an actor who unravels playing the role of an exorcist. ... More BLUM opens the gallery's fourth solo exhibition with painter March AveryLOS ANGELES, CA.- BLUM presents Quiet Inside, the gallerys fourth solo exhibition with painter March Avery. With a selection of still lifes from the 1960s-2010s, this exhibition offers a glimpse into the artists mastery of color, hue, and spatial relationships. In these oil paintings variously portraying flowers and plants in vases, placed on tabletops, alongside animals, or growing from the earth, the New York-based artist celebrates the pleasures of domesticity, nature, and the everyday. Known for her intimate depictions of family members, her social circle, and the interpersonal moments that accumulate into a full life lived, March Avery has also prolifically documented the landscapes, interiors, and objects that surround these subjects. Just as the artist articulates a multitude in a portrait of a mother patiently reading to her child at bedtime, ... More Galerie Eva Presenhuber now representing Liesl RaffZURICH.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber announced the representation of Vienna-based artist Liesl Raff. Liesl Raff's sculptures explore the nuances of physical and social interactions through a profound appreciation of diverse materials and persistent experimentation. Her work features a semiotics of materials that begins where words fail. Recently, she has used natural rubber to showcase its adaptable and shape-shifting properties. Standing near or within Raff's pieces, you experience a transition into a warm, cozy, and calm state, feeling a sense of dependability and safety. Her sculptures integrate seamlessly with their surroundings, promoting contact and interaction. Raff creates gathering spaces that encourage connections between people, her works, and their environment. Her art is about living with and learning from her materials, ... More The Beastie Boys sue Chili's over use of 'Sabotage'NEW YORK, NY.- The Beastie Boys sued Chilis Grill & Bar in federal court Wednesday, accusing the restaurant chains main operator of infringing on their copyright of the 1994 hit Sabotage by using it in advertisements without permission. According to the complaint, Brinker International, which operates more than 1,600 Chilis and other restaurants worldwide, rolled out promotional videos on social media beginning in November 2022 that used significant portions of the song and parodied its music video, directed by Spike Jonze. The music video playfully pays homage to 1970s television crime dramas and features a fictitious opening credit scene and the groups members dressed in fake wigs, mustaches and sunglasses of the era. In the Chilis video advertisement, three characters dressed in similar 70s attire rob ingredients from a Chilis restaurant sc ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Piero Manzoni was born July 13, 1933. Meroni Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo, better known as Piero Manzoni (July 13, 1933 - February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa, 1967. In this image: Piero Manzoni (1933â1963), Milano et-mitologiaa (Milan and mythology), 1956. Oil on board. Private Collection Milan© Fondazione Piero Manzoni, Milano, by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2013, 95 x 130 cm.
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