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View of the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State from the H.O. Smith Botanic Garden. Photo: © Jeremy Bittermann/JSBA.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- The Palmer Museum of Arts new 73,000-square-foot building opens to visitors on June 1. The state-of-the-art facility, located within The Arboretum at Penn State, boasts unique design elements that bring the outside in, fostering a sense of connection with the landscape and inspiring visitors to reflect on the relationship between art and nature. Designed by Allied Works, the new building nearly doubles the Palmers footprint and includes 20 light-filled galleries, new educational and event spaces, a museum ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Conservators Sophie Gurjanov and Kristina Mösl at work, © Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation / photothek / Thomas Im.
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| Trading art for politics, former Uffizi chief runs for mayor of Florence | | Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles plans an upgrade | | Delays and allegations cool off Africa's hottest art event |
Eike Schmidt, the former director of the Uffizi Galleries, walks through the Chiostro dei morti of the Basilica of Santo Spirito in Florence, Italy, May 23, 2024. (Clara Vannucci/The New York Times)
FLORENCE.- It was only midmorning, and Eike Schmidt was already way off schedule. As he strolled to an appointment at a market in Florence, Italy, well-wishers repeatedly stopped him to shake his hand, take a selfie or share a gripe, further upsetting his timetable. All of Florence is my natural habitat and has been for years, said Schmidt, who, after being the first foreigner to run the citys ... More | |
Anne Ellegood, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on May 30, 2024. (Michelle Groskopf/The New York Times)
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In a statement of its commitment to artists and to downtown, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is planning to buy the East Seventh Street building it occupies and improve it with a cafe, outdoor space and studios for a new artists-in-residence program. I want to make sure that this institution is here for generations to come, Anne Ellegood, the museums director, said in a recent interview, making ... More | |
A visitor looks at a portrait of Nana Akufo-Addo, the president of Ghana, in the American painter Kehinde Wileys solo exhibition A Maze of Power at the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal, May 17, 2024. (Carmen Abd Ali/The New York Times)
DAKAR.- Artists were putting the final touches to their works. Visitors had bought tickets long in advance. Everyone was counting on a big splash for the 15th edition of the event rapidly becoming Africas most prominent cultural gathering the biennale in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, which had been set to start May 16. So when the West ... More |
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| (Un)seen Stories. Looking, Locating, Illuminating: A special exhibition of the trainees of Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin | | Christie's announces first sales at new Asia Pacific headquarters at The Henderson in Hong Kong | | Kenturah Davis' debut solo exhibition in the UK opens at Stephen Friedman Gallery |
Conrad Felixmüller, The Speaker No. I Otto Rühle, Fragment, 1920, © National Museums in Berlin, Old National Gallery / Andres Kilger.
BERLIN.- The collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin contain countless objects with surprising, hidden histories and provenances. The exhibition (Un)seen Stories. Looking, Locating, Illuminating focuses on these stories and the methods museologists use to research and tell them. In the cross-collection special exhibition, 26 trainees from 20 collections and institutes of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation present more ... More | |
External rendering of Christie's new Asia Pacific headquarters at The Henderson building.
HONG KONG.- Christies has officially announced that sales at its new Asia Pacific headquarters at The Henderson building in Hong Kong will commence on 26 and 27 September 2024 with 20th and 21st Century Art, followed by a series of Luxury sales in October, and Asian Art sales in November. The inaugural sales will unveil the premier, one-stop hub for art and luxury to the world and kick-start a dynamic new year-round calendar of sales, exhibitions, and events. ... More | |
Kenturah Davis, duration I (jada), 2024. Lenticular print , 48.9 x 68.3cm (19 1/4 x 26 7/8in). © the artist. Courtesy the artist; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York, and Matthew Brown, Los Angeles and New York.
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery is presenting clouds, Kenturah Davis debut solo exhibition in the UK. The drawing series that comprise this show are united by a common textan essay penned by Davis that explores perception as an expressive and existential state. The artists writing flows through themes of dance, African diaspora, ... More |
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| Victoria Miro opens exhibitions of works by Boscoe Holder and Geoffrey Holder | | Kathleen Ryan's first museum exhibition in Germany on view at the Hamburger Kunsthalle | | Ernie Barnes paints what it feels like to move |
Boscoe Holder, Folded Arms, 1993. Acrylic on board, 50.6 x 40.7 cm. 19.5 x 16 in © Boscoe Holder. Courtesy the Boscoe Holder Estate and Victoria Miro.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro is presenting exhibitions by Boscoe Holder and Geoffrey Holder. Shown in tandem for the first time, exhibitions by Boscoe (19212007) and his younger brother Geoffrey (19302014) foreground the siblings as painters against the significance of their achievements in theatre, dance and film. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Boscoe and Geoffrey Holder were true polymaths whose ... More | |
Kathleen Ryan (*1984), Bad Cherries, 2021. 250,19 x 254 x 280,67 cm. Private Collection of Timothy C. Headington © Kathleen Ryan. Courtesy the artist and Karma. Photo: Lance Brewer.
HAMBURG.- Kathleen Ryan at the Hamburger Kunsthalle is the US artists (b. 1984) first museum exhibition in Germany. A selection of 30 sculptural works traces the evolution of Ryans artistic practice from 2014 to the present. Ryan crafts fascinating, mostly larger-than-life, monumental objects, including flowers, fruit, vegetables, jewellery, spider webs and flocks of birds, out of found, ... More | |
Ernie Barnes, Full Boogie, 1978 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm). Courtesy of the Ernie Barnes Estate, Ortuzar Projects and Andrew Kreps Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The second thing you notice about an Ernie Barnes painting might be its vibrant color scheme. Anchored in earthy reds and browns, it perfectly complements the artists virtuosic, almost musical mastery of space and composition. Or it could be the overflowing warmth with which he depicts Black American life that catches your eye. If the painting is The Sugar ... More |
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| Christie's Hong Kong Spring Luxury sales running total: US$93 million | | Nye & Co. announces highlights included in the Gentleman's Collector Auction, June 12-13 | | Excavating Jerry Garcia's crucial bluegrass roots |
92% sold by lot | 127% hammer over low estimate. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
HONG KONG.- Christies Luxury auctions in Hong Kong from 25-27 May, spanning handbags, watches, and jewellery, achieved a running sale total of HK$722,729,720 / US$92,991,248, with a hammer price 127% of the pre-sale low estimate. Collectors from 44 countries and 6 continents responded to the sales meticulous curations and astute pricing, driving the running sell-through rate to 92% by lot and close to half of lots ... More | |
This Babe Ruth-signed baseball from circa 1942-1945 is a must-have for the dedicated Yankee fan. Signed on the sweet spot, the ball is conservatively estimated at $10,000-$15,000.
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers will hold a two-day, online-only Gentlemans Collector auction on Wednesday and Thursday, June 12th and 13th, beginning promptly at 10 am Eastern time both days. The auction includes 650 lots sure to satisfy disparate collecting interests. A wide range of collectible categories will ... More | |
In 1964, the guitarist took a road trip, hoping to become Bill Monroes banjo player. The journey, and his longtime love of the genre, shaped the Grateful Dead.
OWENSBORO, KY.- Just off the lobby of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum is the picking room a cozy, glass-enclosed corner where visitors are encouraged to grab any of the guitars, banjos and fiddles hanging on the wood-paneled walls and play. Located on the Ohio River 35 miles northwest of Rosine, the small farming community that produced bluegrass pioneer Bill ... More |
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Africa Fashion: Showstopping exhibition of fashion from the V&A features 50+ designers from more than 20 countriesMELBOURNE.- Africa Fashion the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of fashion from the African continent ever mounted in Australia presents a dynamic survey of historical and contemporary designs from some of the most influential fashion designers in the region. Coming to Melbourne from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and on display from 31 May 2024, the Australian premiere of Africa Fashion features nearly 200 works, including couture, bespoke and ready-to-wear fashions, and body adornments, from over 50 designers from more than 20 countries and regions on the African continent. With works drawn from the collection of the V&A, NGV Collection as well as the personal archives ... More The V&A and Art Jameel announce shortlisted projects for the 7th edition of the Jameel PrizeLONDON.- The V&A and Art Jameel announce the shortlisted projects for the 7th edition of the Jameel Prize, the V&As international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition. The triennial competition, founded in 2009 and worth £25,000, focuses this year on moving image and digital media. The shortlisted artists for Jameel Prize: Moving Images are: Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, Jawa El Khash, Alia Farid, Zahra Malkani, Khandakar Ohida, Marrim Akashi Sani, and Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian (as a collective). Their works engage with aspects of Islamic culture, society and ideas, and their relevance to contemporary life, covering a wide range of themes from domesticity and spirituality to ecology and revolution. Applicants were sought through an open call in 2023, which invited artists ... More Kate MacGarry opens Renee So's fourth solo exhibition at the galleryNEW YORK, NY.- The exhibition includes a new body of ceramic works from Sos 'Woman' stoneware series that draw upon early fertility idols and Venus figures celebrating the female form, alongside new Snuff bottle sculptures including a lemon, a nose, a poppy and a Pekingese dog. Inspired by the use of ceramics and glass in architecture and public spaces, she presents wall-based tiled works and has introduced stained-glass as a medium into her practice. Renee So was born in Hong Kong in 1974 and grew up in Melbourne, Australia. So lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include Provenance, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia and UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia (2023); Effigies and Elginisms, Cample Line, Thornhill, Scotland, UK (2022); Ancient and Modern, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, ... More Chinese coins celebrating invention of seismograph and compass shake up Heritage's HKINF World & Ancient Coins AuctionDALLAS, TX.- A gold Chinese coin celebrating one of the most significant inventions in the study of natural history could send shockwaves through Heritages HKINF World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction - Hong Kong June 19-21. A Peoples Republic gold Proof Seismography 2000 Yuan (1 Kilo) 1992 PR68 Ultra Cameo NGC, from the Shenyang Mint, is from the Scientific Inventions and Discoveries of Ancient China Series. The certificate indicates that it hails from a tiny mintage of just 10 pieces, although Chan suggests the mintage actually included 16; a record has been found of just one other example being offered at public auction, in 2003. It was issued in recognition of the seismoscope, ... More Latvian National Museum of Art opens an exhibition of Sigita Daugule's paintings RIGA.- An exhibition of Sigita Daugules paintings under the title Walls is presented in the 4th Floor Exhibition Halls of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1) from 1 June to 4 August 2024. As a painter, Sigita Daugule is inspired by the urban environment with everything that humans have created there. In the city she gathers impressions, paying particular attention to walls, their textures and colours brought by the ravages of time and human hands. Anything can serve as an impulse for a painting boards with layers of peeling paint, damp stains and their rough texture on the wall of a building, a writing or drawing on a facade that has not been painted for years, and other everyday details that many do not notice. The artist preserves it all in memory and later uses ... More When the stage harnesses the power of the moviesNEW YORK, NY.- A passing glance at this years Tony nominations might trick the viewer into thinking the wrong artistic medium has crept onto the list. Among the nominees are The Notebook, The Outsiders and Days of Wine and Roses, based on three movies: a 2004 Nicholas Sparks romance, a 1983 coming-of-age crime drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola and a 1962 Blake Edwards melodrama about alcoholism. (They were, in turn, based on bestselling novels and a TV play.) Its not that movie adaptations are uncommon in theater; a number of mega-budget shows have been driven by silver-screen nostalgia, whether its Back to the Future and Aladdin or that stalwart of the Broadway economy, The Lion King. Splashy musicals, in particular, often come from recognizable cinematic sources: Theres Mean ... More PinchukArtCentre opens the exhibition 'Insubordinate'KYIV.- The PinchukArtCentre presents the Insubordinate exhibition, which showcases the practice of two Odesa-based venues: the NOCH gallery and the art community located at the SRZ-2. The exhibition is a part of the Research Platform and PAC UA programme. Insubordinate highlights a historical process in the unofficial art movement that avoided power ties in the cultural field. Running parallel to the exhibition Oleksandr Roitburd: Power Theory, it offers an insightful view into the Odesa art scene. Like the Research Platform, these exhibitions are aimed to show the connections within the art community. "Insubordinate" archives phenomena that have recently ceased to exist due to the full-scale war. Insubordinate is an exhibition about the possibility of thinking separately and uncoordinated in moments of powerful social ... More Sarah McLachlan is resurfacingVANCOUVER.- Sarah McLachlan was just 30 hours from beginning her first full-band tour in a decade, and she could not sing. She was in the final heave of preparation for eight weeks of shows stretching through late November that commemorate Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, the sophisticated 1993 album that turned her into an avatar for the sensitive, mysterious singer-songwriters of 90s radio. But three days into a string of seven-hour rehearsals, her voice collapsed, the high notes so long her hallmark dissolving into a pitchy wheeze. So onstage in a decommissioned Vancouver, British Columbia, hockey arena, a day before a sold-out benefit for her three nonprofit music schools, McLachlan only mouthed along to her songs, shaking her head but smiling whenever she reached for a note and missed. It only goes away when I project, push ... More What if the disabled characters were just going about their day?NEW YORK, NY.- A bizarre thing happens when actors Madison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez are out and about in public together, using mobility aids to get around: she a scooter, he a wheelchair. Inevitably, she said, strangers approach, presuming that the two are somehow in distress. People will be like, Are you OK? Whats going on?, Ferris said the other afternoon at the Pershing Square Signature Center in Manhattan, where they are starring in the New Groups off-Broadway production of Laura Winters romantic comedy, All of Me. And if several wheelchair users should roll down the street together, Gomez said, then its like the circus is in town. Such as the night a few friends of his from the Los Angeles dance team the Rollettes came to the play, and he and Ferris left with them afterward. Everywhere we went, he said, just stares, left and right. ... More Collection of Apollo astronaut Fred Haise touches down in Heritage's Space Exploration Auction June 14-15DALLAS, TX.- A nearly catastrophic explosion derailed the Apollo 13 mission on its way to a planned lunar landing is the only reason its crew members names were not added to the list of 24 who have walked on the moon. When the seventh crewed mission of the Apollo space program was launched April 11, 1970, from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the plan was that it would be the third to land on the lunar surface, putting crew members Fred W. Haise, Jr., James A. Lovell, Jr., and John L. Swigert, Jr., on the same tier of universal identification as the likes of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. But about 56 hours after launch, and more than 200,000 miles from Earth, Haise was completing the shutdown of the lunar module when the crew members heard an explosion. Communication back to Earth was lost ... More Jac Venza, who delivered culture to public television, dies at 97NEW YORK, NY.- Jac Venza, a shoemakers son who almost single-handedly delivered to the proverbial vast wasteland that was American television in the 1960s and 70s an oasis of cultural programming, including Great Performances, Masterpiece Theater and Live From Lincoln Center, died on Tuesday at his home in Lyme, Connecticut. He was 97. His death was confirmed by his spouse, Daniel D. Routhier. Venza never attended college. As an actor, he pronounced himself dreadful. As an aspiring artist, he began his career in Chicago by designing scenery for the Goodman Theater and window displays for the Mandel Bros. department store. But while still in his 30s, he began playing a vital role in bringing art to public television. He was working as a television producer when he was asked to collaborate with other ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English illustrator and animator Gerald Scarfe was born May 01, 1936. Gerald Scarfe, CBE, RDI (born 1 June 1936) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker. In this image: Gerald Scarfe, Famous old bag, 336 by 353mm, pen, ink and watercolour drawing. Estimate: £2,000-3,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
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