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Salvo, Chiaro di luna, 2007. Courtesy of Mazzoleni, London Torino. Copyright The Artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Many relationships need a breather here and there, and that includes those between galleries and art fairs. This year, New York dealer Edward Tyler Nahem returns to showing at Art Basel Hong Kong after eight years away. Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art does not have a gallery branch in Asia, and Nahem said he felt hampered by not having boots on the ground there. He added that with so many fairs around the world, I dont want to spread myself too thin. Nahem has hired some local talent to help him prepare for the fair ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This striking image of Maharana Jagat Singh II and Thakur Sirdar Singh stalking deer is one of the gems in the exhibition Gods, Gardens and Princes: Indian Works on Paper at Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd. Mewar, India, dated V.S. 1800 / 1743 A.D. Opaque colours with gold on paper, 11 3/8 by 18 ½ in., 28.8 by 47 cm. folio. Asia Week New York.
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| The Met highlights American literary posters in new book and exhibition | | Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art opens an exhibition of works by Gary Stephan | | A painter who taps into a human need for worship |
Lafayette Maynard Dixon, Overland Monthly: July, 1895. Commercial relief press. Sheet: 19 11/16 Ã 14 3/4 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Leonard A. Lauder Gift, 1989 (1989.1108.1)
NEW YORK, NY.- During the 1890s, a new type of poster emerged in the United States, one that more closely resembled a work of art than an advertisement. These sleek, sophisticated posters ... More | |
Gary Stephan, 20, 2019. 18 x 24 inches Tape on paper. Signed on verso.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art is presenting Gary Stephan: Tape on Paper. This is Stephans first exhibit with the gallery. On view are eleven tape drawings on paper that employ Stephans formalist painting practice all while posing questions that challenge the conventions of drawing and image-making. Throughout ... More | |
Louise Giovanelli, Maenad, 2023. © DACS. Photo © White Cube (David Westwood).
LONDON.- One morning in late February, inside a vast storage facility in London, painter Louise Giovanelli glanced over half a dozen of her works as they were crated up for a solo show at the White Cube gallery in Hong Kong. The outsize canvases pictured film stars with their eyes closed and their mouths open, and billowing green curtains. ... More |
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| At long last, a gold medal for America's World War II 'Ghost Army' | | Francesca Woodman: Hidden work from a brief, mysterious life | | Pace Gallery appoints Kyoko Hattori as Vice President to lead Tokyo expansion |
An enamel Ghost Army pin on the jacket of Bernie Bluestein during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony to honor members of the WWII-era "Ghost Army" on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 21, 2024.
WASHINGTON, DC.- For most of his life, Bernie Bluestein was not allowed to say anything about what he did during World War II in Western Europe. Bluestein was a sophomore at Cleveland School of the Arts in 1943 when he left to join the U.S. ... More | |
Francesca Woodman. Untitled, c. 197778. Lifetime gelatin silver print, 11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in. © Woodman Family Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Gagosian and The Woodman Family Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the year before she jumped to her death in January 1981, Francesca Woodman toiled furiously on her most ambitious project, Blueprint for a Temple. A soft-focus blue ... More | |
Most recently, Hattori worked as Regional Director of Phillips in Japan.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace announced that its gallery in Tokyos new Azabudai Hills development, which will begin welcoming visitors this year, will be helmed by Kyoko Hattori. Working closely with Paces international leadership in her new role, Hattori will introduce the gallerys artists and clients to the fast-growing arts scene ... More |
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| With an eye on war at home, a Ukrainian conductor arrives at the Met | | Prehistoric amphibian ancestor is named for Kermit the Frog | | Tired of streaming? Free blockbuster libraries offer an alternative. |
The conductor Oksana Lyniv at the Metropolitan Opera House, where she is conducting Puccinis Turandot, in New York, March 15, 2024. (Dina Litovsky/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv was preparing for a performance of Giacomo Puccinis Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera this month when she saw the news: A Russian drone had hit a building in Odesa, not far from the ... More | |
Arjan Mann (right), a Smithsonian postdoctoral paleontologist and former Peter Buck Fellow, and Calvin So (left), a doctoral student at George Washington University, holding the fossil skull of Kermitops in front of the Kermit the Frog puppet display in the Entertainment Nation exhibition at the Smithsonians National Museum of American History. Photo: James D. Tiller and James Di Loreto, Smithsonian.
WASHINGTON, DC.- One crawled across the rain-drenched ground ... More | |
A selection of DVDs and VHS tapes at a Free Blockbuster location in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, Feb. 29, 2024. (Jenna Schoenefeld/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Streaming services have transformed the way we view film and television, leaving us isolated on our couches, subject to the suggestions of an algorithm. But a small group of film buffs with a fondness for physical media are hoping to lure people back into the real world one abandoned ... More |
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Fondazione Museo del Tessuto di Prato presents 'Walter Albini. The Talent, the Designer'
PRATO.- With the great exhibition Walter Albini. The talent, the designer, curated by Daniela Degl'Innocenti and Enrica Morini, from 23 March to 22 September 2024 the Museo del Tessuto di Prato Foundation pays tribute to the genius of the designer and absolute pioneer of Made in Italy Walter Albini (1941-1983), just over 40 years from his untimely death. Walter Albini. The talent, the designer seeks to offer a reinterpretation of the entire professional career of an absolute protagonist of Italian fashion between the late 1960s and early 1980s, created through extensive research carried out by the curators to outline a complete and expertly documented portrait of the designer. For the first time, the exhibition combines graphic materials drawings, sketches, designs, photographs, fashion magazines and archival documents with ... More
Sculpture celebrating superpowers of seaweed unveiled on the York shire coast
SCARBOROUGH HARBOUR.- Invisible Dust and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust revealed first images of Sea Oak, a new public sculpture by internationally-renowned artist Paul Morrison, unveiled this week in North Yorkshire as part of the Wild Eye coastal art and nature trail. Made from water-jet cut stainless steel, the newly-commissioned work has been installed in Scarborough Harbour, overlooking the North Sea. Created in the shape of Fucus Vesiculosus or Bladderwrack - an ecologically-important seaweed species common to the UK - the highly-polished structure reflects both the viewer and the ever-changing coastal conditions, celebrating the important role that seaweed plays in contributing to the health of the ocean, whilst inviting audiences to reflect on their own interconnection with the natural world. Bladderwrack ... More
Looking for love with Burt Bacharach, and finding a prayer
NEW YORK, NY.- In most parts of the world, its true that love the sweeter the better is the only thing that theres just too little of. In Mark Morris The Look of Love, set to music by Burt Bacharach with new arrangements by Ethan Iverson, love is the fuel, the pursuit, the ultimate destination. There are hugs, there are outstretched arms to say a little prayer for you, Morris-style and there is heartbreak. In some moments the dancers bodies wilt, as if caught in a sigh. The work, set to 14 songs and running at just over an hour, opened with the curtain down and an instrumental overture of Alfie by Iverson, whose piano playing was delicate but still cut through the air, quieting the energy of the crowd. When the curtain rose to What the World Needs Now, it felt apt, setting the tone for a dance in which love is the wellspring for ... More
Alan Cumming's outsider Cabaret
NEW YORK, NY.- I hope you dont mind Ill have a coterie of boys coming in all night, Alan Cumming joked as he sidled into a banquette at an Upper West Side wine bar last week. A director had messaged him on Instagram, hoping to get Cumming to act in his short film, and theyd agreed to meet directly after this interview. Already that day, the 59-year-old Scottish actor had filmed a television appearance in Manhattans Meatpacking District, posed for two photo sessions and gone for a swim. Later, he was seeing comedian Alex Edelmans one-man show at the Beacon Theater before driving up to Boston the next day to perform his cabaret, Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age. The show, which hes been touring since 2021, made its New York premiere earlier that week at Studio 54. Cumming knows the space well; he reprised his role ... More
Tony Cragg's new exhibition 'New Sculptures' opens at Thaddaeus Ropac
SALZBURG.- Focusing on his most recent bodies of work, this exhibition offers a view into the breadth of Tony Craggs latest formal developments, which are defined by the British artists continual investigation into the possibilities of a wide range of materials and his exploration of both the natural and the man-made worlds. His work has the accumulated effect of subtly unsettling the certainties of such categories, whilst allowing us to think through sculpture about the complex material connectivities between [ ] culture and nature, writes art historian Jon Wood. Craggs abstract sculptures manifest entirely unprecedented forms that nevertheless spark a sense of recognition as they gesture to the world around us. The monumental work Karst (2020) evokes geological patterns of erosion. The artist has stated, although ... More
Black pop artists have long gone country. Here's a brief history.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Beyoncé confirmed that she would be going all-in on country music with Cowboy Carter, the second part of a project that began with her 2022 album Renaissance, conversation about pop artists turning to the genre and how Black artists are received in Nashville began to heat up. Country remains a cloistered segment of the music industry where Black performers continue to face an especially challenging path despite the fact that Black pioneers have been essential to the genre, including Lesley Riddle, known as Esley, a guitarist and folklorist who taught the Carter Family in the 1930s and Charley Pride, who scored more than 50 Top 10 country hits from the 1960s through the 80s. In the past few years, Lil Nas X sparked cultural debate and hit chart gold with Old Town Road, a country-rap mashup ... More
Julie Robinson Belafonte, dancer, actress and activist, dies at 95
NEW YORK, NY.- Julie Robinson Belafonte, a dancer, actress and, with singer Harry Belafonte, one half of an interracial power couple who used their high profiles to aid the civil rights movement and the cause of integration in the United States, died on March 9 in Los Angeles. She was 95. Her death, at an assisted living facility in the Studio City neighborhood, was announced by her family. She had resided there for the last year and nine months after living for decades in New York City. Belafonte, who was white and the second wife of Harry Belafonte, the Black Caribbean-American entertainer and activist, had an eclectic career in the arts. At various times she was a dancer, a choreographer, a dance teacher, an actress and a documentary film producer. Julie Belafonte traveled the nation and ... More
Joan Jonas' island home as canvas and stage
NEW YORK, NY.- The view never ends from the weathered porch of Joan Jonas summer home on a hill in Cape Breton Island, on the tip of Nova Scotia. Just beyond a thicket of treetops, the Gulf of St. Lawrence sways in a gradient of blues, a cobalt horizon line hovering where sea meets sky. For decades, the vista has served as the summer backdrop for New York City artists including Richard Serra, Philip Glass, Robert Frank and June Leaf seeking rugged beauty, anonymity and temperate weather. For Jonas, 87, who arrived with friends in the 70s, it has been a canvas. I performed in it, she said of the landscape in a recent interview, her voice gruff and blunt but not unkind. It inspired me. What can I say? Many honorifics have been heaped on Jonas in an attempt to sum up her trailblazing legacy and elusive spirit: vanguard, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was baptized March 23, 1609. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (baptized 23 March 1609 - 5 May 1664) was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping. He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le Benédette. In this image: Presumed Self-Portrait, ca. 1648, etching, British Museum.
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