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Philip J. Deloria, great-nephew of the artist Mary Sully and author of the only critical study of Sullys work, visits the exhibition Mary Sully: Native Modern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, July 18, 2024. Sully rarely spoke on the record about her art, left no paper trail of letters or journals. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Dakota Sioux artist who called herself Mary Sully is having an enchanting first survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but she came close to being swept off the stage of history. When she died in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1963, at age 67, her primary output of around 200 color-pencil-and-ink drawings lay hidden in a cardboard box kept by her older sister, with whom she had lived most of her adult life. When that sister herself died a few years later, the box ended up among piles of ephemera waiting to be sorted through. Time ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day [Installation View] SURFACE TROUBLE. Yossi Milo, New York. June 27 - August 16, 2024. © Yossi Milo. Photo: Thomas Barratt.
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| Dance Artist Xi Chen: Bridging Classical Chinese Dance and Physical Creativity | | Rarity and condition fueled above-estimate prices at Morphy's July 11 Automobilia & Petroliana Auction | | Doused by rain, Paris opens its games with a boat party on the Seine |
One of the most striking aspects of Xi Chen's work is her ability to fuse the fluidity and grace of classical Chinese dance with the dynamic and often abstract nature of contemporary choreography.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the vibrant world of contemporary dance, dance artist Xi Chen's unique approach to choreography has captivated audiences worldwide, showcasing the profound impact that elements of classical Chinese dance can have on contemporary dance creations. Xi Chen, originally from Jiangxi China, has dedicated her life to the exploration of dance, drawing inspiration from her rich cultural heritage. Trained extensively in classical Chinese dance, ... More | |
The sales top lot was a rare and exceptional circa-1940s Harbor Petroleum Products single-sided porcelain advertising sign with an exciting seaplane graphic. Outstanding color and gloss. Size: 39in x 35in. Condition: 8.75. Sold with estimate range for $46,740. Image courtesy of Morphy Auctions.
DENVER, PA.- Collectors of high-end gas and oil collectibles know where to go for the good stuff, and to many that means Morphys Automobilia & Petroliana auctions. The most recent edition of Morphys motoring-focused specialty sale, held July 11 at the companys Pennsylvania gallery, featured 650 lots of choice petroleum-related advertising signs, elusive gas pumps and ... More | |
The U.S. team is displayed on a screen during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics along the Seine in Paris, on Friday, July 26, 2024. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
PARIS.- In a blaze of French style blending history and artistic audacity, the Paris Olympic Games opened beneath plumes of blue, white and red smoke, as thousands of athletes defied a downpour to sail through the citys heart, down the Seine toward the Eiffel Tower. Steady rain and rising security concerns could not deter the athletes from more than 200 delegations. They laughed, they danced and they waved national flags, some from the decks of converted sightseeing ... More |
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| Helen Marden, grieving in bright colors and on her own terms | | Pop the cork? A shipwreck brims with unopened sparkling wine | | Major retrospective exhibition brings together more than 150 works by Elizabeth Catlett |
Helen Marden in her studio in Tivoli, N.Y., June 24, 2024. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The grief of losing a partner has been evoked by artists as various as Francis Bacon, with his Black Triptychs in the 1970s, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, whose billboard photograph Untitled (1991) lets the absence of figures in an empty bed be a reference for a giant loss. With The Grief Paintings, an exhibition of 23 new works on view through Sept. 14 at the Gagosian gallery on Park Avenue at 75th Street, Helen Marden adds her own entry to the tradition a painter mourning another painter with works in their shared medium. The show comes a year after the death of her husband, Brice Marden, who was 84 and ranked among ... More | |
Bottles resembling those used for Champagne discovered on a 19th-century shipwreck in the Baltic Sea off the Swedish coast. Photo: Tomasz Stachura/Baltictech.
LONDON.- The Baltic Sea floor is full of secrets. Untold thousands of sailors have died beneath its cold waves, some lost to battle, some to weather and rocks. With them sank their ships and their treasure. This month, a Polish diving team slipped below the seas surface to check out a small wreck, just a few miles off Sweden. A first pass revealed a small, seemingly unremarkable merchant ship about 58 meters (190 feet) beneath the surface. But Tomasz Stachura, who leads the Baltictech diving group, had a hunch. The next morning, he returned. This time, he ... More | |
Elizabeth Catlett. Black Unity, 1968. Cedar. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.11. © 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. (Photo: Edward C. Robison III)
BROOKLYN, NY.- The retrospective exhibition Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies showcases the enduring legacy of Elizabeth Catlett (19152012) as a visionary artist and an unwavering activist. As the most comprehensive presentation devoted to Catlett in the United States, it features more than 150 works, including well-known sculpture and prints, rare paintings and drawings, and important ephemera. The exhibition is co-organized by the Brooklyn ... More |
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| Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin to open 'Expanded Horizons: American Art in the 70s' | | 104 shows. $260 million. After 10 years, Billy Joel closes a chapter. | | Monica Bonvicini, 'Put All Heaven in a Rage' to open in September at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York |
Joan Brown, The Kiss, 1976. Enamel on canvas, 243,8 x 198,1 cm (96 x 78 in). © Joan Brown. Photo: Studio Sébert © Courtesy TAJAN SA.
PARIS.- Assembling major works by 20 of the most influential artists working in the United States of America in the 1970s, Expanded Horizons: American Art in the 70s retraces the radical artistic developments of this tumultuous decade. Bringing into conversation works across mediums that challenged the limits and expanded the horizons of artmaking, whether in scale, material, or subject matter, this landmark exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin encourages a re-examination of an often overlooked decade, and ... More | |
Billy Joel embraces his daughters Della and Remy as they join him onstage after a soundcheck at Madison Square Garden in New York on Thursday, July 25, 2024. (Thea Traff/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Theres a pause before Billy Joel steps onstage each night when he makes the subtle transition from low-key Everyman to world-renowned Piano Man. Its just a few minutes of not talking to anybody, not seeing anybody, he said, mimicking waving off potential distractions. He makes sure he can hit his high notes. Then the roar of the crowd does the rest. When you walk onstage and they go, Ye-ahhhhhh, that psyches you out, he added, bellowing into ... More | |
Monica Bonvicini, You to Me, 2022. 20 sculptures, each steel chains, black steel rings, black steel handcuffs. Dimensions variable.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery will present Put All Heaven in a Rage, the gallerys first solo exhibition with Monica Bonvicini, opening on Wednesday, September 4th in New York. Among the most important artists of her generation, Monica Bonvicinis evocative and thought-provoking works explore the relationship between architecture, gender, and power. As a strong female voice, Bonvicinis multifaceted practice addresses issues of institutional critique and the politics of space through a feminist ... More |
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| You can't escape this color | | Lincoln Center's audiences deserve music worthy of them | | A military leader to his people: 'Fight or you disappear' |
Brat green, aka hex #8ACE00. The intentionally repulsive color used in the branding for Brat, the album released in early June by the British pop provocateur Charli XCX won over the internet, and then the summer, and then, at a pivotal moment, an entire presidential campaign. (via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When we look back on the summer of 2024, what will we see? Green. Not just any green, but a hue so affronting that fashion news media has described it as noxious, abrasive and the color of bilious sludge. Picture Gumby with jaundice. Picture a Bottega Veneta handbag, dipped in Nickelodeon slime. The color entered the zeitgeist as the branding ... More | |
Award winners and nominees fill the David Geffen Hall at the Tony Awards after-party at Lincoln Center, in New York, June 16, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- I love the classical music canon, and I hate it. To be precise, I hate the way we assume audiences will invariably choose it over whats new and unusual. If you listen to marketing departments, there may be grudging tolerance for some fresh sounds at the start of a concert, but basically, people want the standards more than ever, as their ticket-buying behavior over the past few years suggests they are only more enamored of chestnuts like The Planets ... More | |
A demonstration at the Armed Forces Museum during a national cultural festival that often seemed more like a mobilization campaign in the all-out war against the Islamist terrorists, in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, May 2, 2024. (Guerchom Ndebo/The New York Times)
BOBO-DIOULASSO.- Teenagers toyed with guns at a museum exhibit. Young men posed in front of posters of the countrys military leader. Over dinner in restaurants, families watched television monitors showing footage of drone strikes. The event was billed as a national cultural festival in the West African nation of Burkina Faso. But it often resembled a mobilization campaign in the all-out war against the Islamic terrorists who ... More |
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An Act of Translation: Adam Pendleton on Painting and Exhibition Making
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Exhibition presents works by artists from the Yale Painting and Printmaking MFA class of 2024NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo presents SURFACE TROUBLE, a two-part group exhibition of artists from the Yale Painting and Printmaking MFA class of 2024. SURFACE TROUBLE will take place in two phases. The first part opened on Thursday, June 27th, and will be on view through Friday, July 19th, 2024. The second will open with a reception on Thursday, July 25th from 6-8 PM, and will be on view through Friday, August 16th, 2024. Featuring artists from the MFA programs graduating class, SURFACE TROUBLE showcases a diverse set of approaches to the problem of painting as a contemporary medium, with a range of treatments and troubles, each as singular as the individual artists themselves. The exhibition takes Cyborg Feminist Donna Haraways use of the term trouble in Staying with the Trouble as a jumping off point. In the text, ... More Hollywood actors to go on strike against video game companiesLOS ANGELES, CALIF.- The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists called a strike Thursday against video game companies that use actors images or voices in games, echoing its broader strike against television and movie studios last year. The strike will start at 12:01 a.m. Pacific time Friday, after more than a year and a half of negotiations. Until the latest strike is resolved, members of the 160,000-person union will no longer act in video games produced by Activision Blizzard, WB Games, Electronic Arts and seven other companies covered by an interactive-media agreement. The agreement expired in November 2022, and last summer the union terminated an extension. (Games that were in production as of September 2023, including so-called live service games like Fortnite, which are updated ... More A smartphone can't help you now: How horror movies solve their cell problemNEW YORK, NY.- A cellphone lies in a rustic Airbnb, smashed by an intruder. Then, when another is procured, a faulty connection interrupts a call to 911. A navigation map on a smartphone glitches as a driver plunges deep into the woods. Criminals on a kidnapping job are ordered to surrender their phones to be completely certain that you cant be tracked. An exasperated partier in rural Ontario wonders aloud to a member in his group, How long is it going to take for you to realize theres no reception out here? These are some of the ways that recent horror movies have gotten around what is at this point an age-old problem: the cellphone. In working order, they can render predicaments more solvable and certain situations easier to escape potentially. Before the late 90s, there was little need to make such a show of connectivity ... More This year's BroadwayCon raises the curtain on mental healthNEW YORK, NY.- Watching a Broadway musical can be an overwhelming experience to say nothing of the actors performing in it. If you die onstage or your characters screamed at, your body believes thats really happening to you every night, said Hannah Cruz, who made her Broadway debut this spring in the womens suffrage musical Suffs. For decades, the industry fostered a suck it up culture of steely toughness. But one focus of this years BroadwayCon, which will draw thousands of theater lovers to the New York Hilton Midtown from Friday through Sunday, is to facilitate conversations about how performers deal with mental health, both on and off the stage. The planned discussions and events address a variety of topics, including staying sober while working in the business and increasing accessibility for autistic audiences. Here are six events youll want to catch. ... More The collapse of Romance Writers of AmericaNEW YORK, NY.- Romance novels are dominating best-seller lists. Romance bookstores are multiplying. And romance writers, who often self-publish and come with a devoted fan base, are changing long-entrenched dynamics in the publishing industry. And yet, even as the genre is reaching new highs, the Romance Writers of America, a group that called itself the voice of romance writers, has suffered an enormous drop in membership 80% over the past five years and has filed for bankruptcy. This years annual gala and awards ceremony, slated to begin on July 31 in Austin, Texas, was first canceled, then rescheduled for October. The organizations collapse comes after internal accusations of discrimination and exclusion systemic problems that have divided the group for decades, said Christine Larson, author of Love ... More 'Joker: Folie à Deux' to compete at Venice Film FestivalNEW YORK, NY.- Joker: Folie à Deux, Todd Phillips comic-book sequel starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, will compete for the Golden Lion at this years Venice International Film Festival. The movies participation, which festival organizers announced during a news conference Tuesday to reveal the lineup, comes five years after Phillips Joker which told the Batman villains origin story won the same prize at Venices 76th edition, paving the way for its two Oscar wins. Phillips movie will face starry competition for the Golden Lion, including from Pedro Almodóvars first English-language feature, The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, and Pablo LarraÃns Maria, a biopic of opera singer Maria Callas with Angelina Jolie in the lead. Also in competition will be Luca Guadagn ... More Norton Museum of Art trustees elect Walker, DiPaula to boardWEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Arts Board of Trustees has elected two new members, Francine Walker and James Chip DiPaula. Francine Walker is a nonprofit board director and marketing and events professional who has worked across the luxury fashion, beauty, jewelry, and corporate sectors. Walker provides strategic and creative event and marketing consulting, design, and management services to a diverse clientele, including charitable organizations, corporations, fine jewelry purveyors, art galleries, and hotels. Walkers professional experience includes serving as the Area Marketing Manager for Saks Fifth Avenue, where she developed and executed strategic marketing plans across multiple locations. For a decade, she ran FA Walker Designs/Decor and You, conceptualizing and executing interior design plans, m ... More A new Batman is less a dark knight than a 'weird and creepy' oneNEW YORK, NY.- The story of Batman has been told in comic books and on-screen many times. But if theres one person who should get the chance to tell it again, it is Bruce Timm. Timm is a veteran artist, animator and producer who helped create Batman: The Animated Series, which made its debut in the Fox Kids programming block in 1992. Following on the heels of Tim Burtons hit 1989 film, this Batman show often abbreviated as BTAS brought a somber atmosphere and sophisticated storytelling to the adventures of Gotham Citys costume-clad vigilante. The show dove deep into the colorful rogues gallery of its title hero and helped stoke the flames of Bat-fandom when the movie franchise started to run aground. There were more than 100 episodes in its initial Fox Kids run and further installments titled The New Batman Adventures ... More Koozies, key chains and T-shirts: Who's buying all that Billy Joel merch?NEW YORK, NY.- Its been nearly 51 years since Billy Joel recorded the song Piano Man five decades of performing and merchandise for all occasions. Thats a lot of T-shirts more than 10 million, in the estimation of Claire Mercuri, a spokesperson for Joel and thats just the count for licensed wear. The musician doesnt have a favorite item theyre all his children, Joel said, through Mercuri, which he also says when asked to pick his favorite song. On Thursday, Joel, 75, performed his 150th show at Madison Square Garden, the final performance of his 10-year-residency, and fans were gearing up. There are Wayfarer-style sunglasses with Joels name on the frame; a beer Koozie; a boxing glove key chain; and a $300 special-edition leather and wool letterman jacket. Collectors, devoted to every wave of memorabilia ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer William Eggleston was born July 27, 1939. William Eggleston (born July 27, 1939) is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries. Eggleston's mature work is characterized by its ordinary subject-matter. In this image: William Eggleston. Untitled (Leg with Red Shoe, Paris), 2007. Pigment print, 22 x 28 in. Edition of 7. © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York.
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