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Previously unseen snippets of Robert Frankâs diaristic film and video footage, assembled by Alex Bingham and Laura Israel, on view at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan on Sept. 9, 2024. The exhibition âRobert Frankâs Scrapbook Footage" focuses on the photographerâs work in the decades after his early acclaim. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Frank never recovered from the success of The Americans. On its publication in the United States in 1959, the book was initially excoriated as un-American, particularly in the photography magazines, for its sour, disillusioned take on life in this country. The rich looked bored, the poor desperate, the city fathers fatuous, and the flags threadbare or soiled. Whats more, specialists in photography faulted his technique for muddiness, grain and blur. But in a slow burn, Franks willful violation of the conventional rules of photography was understood to serve the purpose of personal expression, and his dissection of national alienation and social divides was deemed prophetic. The smoke blew away, and The Americans stood clearly as a towering monument, one of the most important and influential books in the history of photography. Frank hated that. In the early 60s, he renounced still photography in favor of filmmaking. When he went back in ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Design Museum today unveiled a new free display, Tomorrow's Wardrobe, which celebrates a more sustainable future for fashion. Photography by Aaron Parsons for the Design Museum.
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| Exhibition includes a group of 20 choice landscape prints by the 20th century shin-hanga master Kawase Hasui | | The Strawser Auction Group (The Leberfeld Collection, Oct. 12 | | Met exhibition to explore how photographers across generations capture views of Florida |
Kawase Hasui (18853-1957), Honmon Temple in Ikegami, 1931, woodblock print, 15 3/8 by 10 3/8 in., 38.9 by 26.2 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Scholten Japanese Art opened their Asia Week Autumn 2024 exhibition, TREASURED VIEWS: The Neil Stipanich Collection of Kawase Hasui Woodblock Prints. The exhibition includes a group of 20 choice landscape prints by the 20th century shin-hanga master, Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) selected from the collection of Neil Charles Stipanich (1948-2019). ... More | |
The expected top lot of the auction is a rare and monumental Minton majolica Victorian wine cooler designed by Pierre Emile Jeannest (1813-1857), shape no. 631 (est. $30,000-$40,000).
WOLCOTTVILLE, IND.- The Leberfeld Collection of majolica a collection so vast and important it was featured in one of the first coffee-table books on the subject (Majolica by Nicolas Dawes) will come up for bid at an auction planned for Saturday, October 12th, by the Strawser Auction Group, online and live in the Wolcottville gallery at 200 ... More | |
Anastasia Samoylova (American, born Russia, 1984), Venus Mirror, 2020. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Diana Barrett and Bob Vila Gift, 2024 (2024.320) © Anastasia Samoylova.
NEW YORK, NY.- A popular tourist destination since the early 20th century, Florida is a place where fantasy and reality collide. On October 14, 2024, The Met will open Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans, an exhibition bringing together photographs and paintings of Florida by Anastasia Samoylova (born 1984), a Russian-American ... More |
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| Rebecca Horn, enigmatic artist with theatrical flair, dies at 80 | | 'Gen One: Innovations from the Paul G. Allen Collection' totals $16,816,840 | | A tease to a writer's hidden depths |
Rebecca Horn, White Body Fan (video still), 1972. Performance. © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rebecca Horn, an artist who channeled theatrical flair, a distinctive if paradoxically self-serious sense of humor and an undertone of dread into sculpture, performance, drawing, poetry and film, died Sept. 6 at her home in Bad König, Germany. She was 80. Her gallerist in New York, Sean Kelly, confirmed her death, saying her health had been in decline since she had a stroke in 2015. One of Horns best-known pieces was Einhorn, or Unicorn (1970), which she conceived while she was ... More | |
A Cray-1 Supercomputer, Cray Research, Inc., 1976-8. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- The groundbreaking and historic sale series Gen One: Innovations from the Paul G. Allen Collection concluded September 12, 2024 with the closing of two online sales: Firsts: The History of Computing achieved $3,635,982highest total ever for a history of computing auctionand Over the Horizon: Art of the Future achieved $2,927,358. Both sales exceed expectations, selling 100% by lot and well over their estimates. Together with the live auction on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, the collection totaled ... More | |
James Baldwins 1964 datebook containing his doodles of fish and a human face on display in Jimmy! Gods Black Revolutionary Mouth at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Among the 20 artifacts at the 42nd Street Public Library commemorating the centenary of James Baldwin, the novelist, essayist and playwright who died in 1987, two typewritten sheets seem startlingly site-specific. They suggest that had Baldwin given in to his childhood fears, Americas great watchman of race and alienation might never have stepped foot into the Manhattan building at all. In one of these pages, from a draft ... More |
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| Christie's announces 'François-Xavier Lalanne Sculpteur: Collection Dorothée Lalanne' | | Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood opens 'L.A. Story' | | The song that connects Jackson Browne, Nico and Margot Tenenbaum |
François-Xavier Lalanne, ANE BATE, 2005. Patinated bronze, polished metal, leather. Estimate: $700,000 - $1,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present the upcoming auction François-Xavier Lalanne Sculpteur: Collection Dorothée Lalanne, featuring an exceptional selection of works by the revolutionary French artist François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008), from the collection of his daughter, Dorothée Lalanne. This single-owner live sale will take place on October 10, following an exhibition at Christies Rockefeller Center which will open to the public on October 4. In celebration of this event, Simon ... More | |
Allen Ruppersberg, Greetings from L.A.: A Novel, 1972. Offset lithograph on paper, paperback, 20.3 x 13.3 cm / 8 x 5 1/2 inches (closed), pp. 240 © Allen Ruppersberg. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Keith Lubow.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Titled for and inspired by the 1991 film beloved for its playfully satiric and unabashedly romantic foray into the land of Los Angeles swimming pools, Hollywood machers, earthquakes, freeways and extravagant sunsets, Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood will present the group exhibition L.A. Story. Co-organized by Ingrid Schaffner, senior curatorial director, and Mike ... More | |
Browne wrote These Days at 16. Now 75, he and some famous admirers reflect on his unexpected mainstay: If a song is worth anything, its about the life of the listener.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- When he was 16, Jack Browne sat down at his parents kitchen table in Fullerton, California, and started picking out a tune on an old Kay guitar. In 1965, the fledgling songwriter and high school junior inspired by books, records and his own suburban disaffection began weaving together an existential number about loss and regret called These Days. It would be a year until he finished the song, ... More |
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| Ludwig Forum Aachen presents 'On the Volcano' | | Thomas Dane Gallery announces a solo exhibition of Jean-Luc Moulène's work | | 'View of the City: Vedute and Panoramas from the Albertina' to open at the Museum for Architectural Drawing Berlin |
On the Volcano, exhibition view Ludwig Forum Aachen, 2024, photo: Mareike Tocha.
AACHEN.- In the second half of 2024, Ludwig Forum Aachen critically reflects on its own collections, especially in light of socio-political and technological change currently facing our world, related questions of justice and freedom within our global community, and the grave challenges posed by climate change. Five exhibition, collection, and research projects focusing on works of art from the 1960s through to the 1990spredominantly loans and gifts from the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundationprovide insight ... More | |
Jean-Luc Moulène, Ressort flou, Le Buisson, 2022. Bronze, silver patina (Fonderie de Coubertin), 50 x 20 x 19.5 cm. 19 3/4 x 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. © Jean-Luc Moulène/ADAGP Paris. Courtesy the artist, and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: M3 Studio srl.
NAPLES.- Thomas Dane Gallery announced a solo exhibition of Jean-Luc Moulène, opening in September 2024. The exhibition, Enlightenments, will be the artists sixth with the gallery and his first solo exhibition in Naples. In the eight years since Moulène last exhibited with the gallery, his Objets/Objects have been central to the current narratives and discourses on sculpture. Included in ... More | |
Carl Schütz. View of Vienna from the Upper Belvedere (Canaletto view), 1784, pen and black ink, watercolour, 39 à 58,5 cm, Inv. GSA 14.937 Credit: ALBERTINA, Vienna.
BERLIN.- In the exhibition View of the City, the Tchoban Foundation presents vedute, panoramas and views from the renowned graphic collection of the Albertina in Vienna. The show covers exactly 400 years, spanning from 1561 to 1961. It comprises miniatures and large- format panoramas, drawings with tonal colour palettes and depictions full of chromatic intensity, realistic views and abstract cityscapes. The exhibition ... More |
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Artist Asta Gröting: Bringing Things Out Into the Light
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Michael Kiwanuka makes the simple profound. The world is listening.NEW YORK, NY.- A song can make you hear or understand things that you dont know how to say, English singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka said. I think of songs as ways to communicate without conversation. For more than a decade, Kiwanuka, 37, has been creating songs that speak directly and soulfully. Most often, he uses just a handful of chords and succinct, open-ended lyrics. But his words often turn into incantations over lush, organic grooves that reach back to vintage R&B, psychedelia and trip-hop. The songs offer questions and life lessons, mingling the personal and the political, balancing sorrow and solace. Music heals me, Kiwanuka said in a video interview from his home in England. So thats what I try and do. Kiwanukas fourth studio album, Small Changes, is due in November, while in September and October he will ... More The Design Museum opens display exploring fashion's more sustainable futureLONDON.- The Design Museum today unveiled a new free display, Tomorrow's Wardrobe, which celebrates a more sustainable future for fashion. Opening to the public tomorrow to coincide with London Fashion Week and London Design Festival, Tomorrows Wardrobe explores the potential for a more environmentally conscious fashion industry. Visitors will see textiles, technology, and garments that showcase initiatives to reduce the industrys environmental and social impact across the production, design, and use of clothes. Highlights include an Ahluwalia upcycled polo shirt, a bag produced in collaboration with Stella McCartney and Ponda, garments from Toasts recent visible repair line, and a pair of Salomon shoes made with Ranra for disassembly. This is the second display in the museums new Future Observatory display space on its second ... More Dulwich Picture Gallery acquires first artwork in 12 yearsLONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery announces the acquisition of Bronze Oak Grove (2017) by Rob and Nick Carter, the first artwork to become part of the Collection since 2012. This significant addition joins Peter Randall Pages Walking the Dog as the second sculpture in the world-famous Collection, and names Nick Carter as the sixth woman to be represented in the Gallerys permanent works. Bronze Oak Grove sets the tone for the Gallerys vision to create a free-to-access sculpture garden with a difference, currently taking shape through the major redevelopment project Open Art. This acquisition forms a focal point on an evolving trail of interactive sculptures, through which audiences will be invited to connect with art and nature in innovative and engaging ways. The sculpture garden includes a series of long-term loans ... More A new solo exhibition by Swiss artist Andy Denzler pens at KÖNIG BergsonMUNICH.- KÃNIG Bergson is presenting The Goya Project, a new solo exhibition by Swiss artist Andy Denzler. 16 oil-on-canvas paintings form a suite in which Denzler has appropriated, reimagined, and ultimately transformed works by the late 18th, early 19th-century Spanish master. Francisco de Goya. The individual works in The Goya Project are striking for the degree to which they blur, abstract, and obfuscate the visual language of the original works after which they are taken. In particular, the almost total lack of color is immediately apparent, turning what might have been nuanced areas into pure value contrasts of black and white, introducing a significant element of visual noise into the pictorial equation, and allusion to the binarism of the digital age in which these newer works were produced. This effect drowns the compositional clarity ... More A soprano who despises encores interrupts her co-star'sNEW YORK, NY.- It was the third act of Giacomo Pucciniâs âToscaâ at a theater in Seoul, and South Korean tenor Alfred Kim, responding to enthusiastic applause, was singing a rare encore of âE lucevan le stelle,â one of the operaâs most beloved arias. Then the unexpected happened: Celebrated soprano Angela Gheorghiu, who was singing the title role in a performance Sunday, stormed onstage and demanded that he stop, according to local media reports and accounts by audience members. âExcuse me,â she said, signaling to the orchestra to pause. When the orchestra continued playing, she also refused to stop. âItâs a performance; itâs not a recital,â Gheorghiu said. âRespect the audience. Respect me.â Gheorghiu, 59, a diva of the old school known for her preternatural voice and strong-willed demeanor, faced an immediate backlash. ... More Numismatic Literary Guild honors Heritage Auctions for Best Software, Podcast and CatalogsDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions, the worlds leading auctioneer of coins and currency, has won three 2024 Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG) awards and shared two more, tying for the most such honors for any auction house. Heritages website, www.HA.com/Live, was named the Best Software or App. Heritages Heritage Auctions Unlocking the secret of the World & Ancient Coin Market: What You Need To Know Now! was honored as the Best Podcast, while Platinum Session: World & Ancient Coins won Best World Coins Auction Catalog. The Harry W. Bass, Jr. Core Collections, Part IV and The Sydney F. Martin Collection Part IV tied for the Best U.S. Coins Auction Catalog, while The Ibrahim Salem Banknote Collections of World Penninsulas and Islands and The London Chelsea Collections of Peoples Bank Banknotes 1948-1980 tied for Best ... More 'Counting and Cracking' review: One family's tale fit for an epicNEW YORK, NY.- Some shows use an extended running time to challenge the audience and its perceptions. Pulling viewers into a trance state and testing their endurance is the ultimate artistic gambit. Then there are the shows that are long simply because they have a lot to tell. Such is the case with âCounting and Cracking,â which fills its 3 1/2 hours with an absorbing tale of family ties and national strife, from Sri Lanka to Australia, across almost five decades. When the first of two intermissions arrived, I had barely recovered from a head-spinning plot twist. And the production, which is at NYU Skirball in partnership with the Public Theater, had more in store. Itâs that kind of good yarn. Written by S. Shakthidharan, who drew from his own family history and is also credited with associate direction ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian architect Renzo Piano was born  September 14, 1937. Renzo Piano, Ufficiale OMRI (born 14 September 1937 in Genoa) is an Italian Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff said of Piano's works that the "...serenity of his best buildings can almost make you believe that we live in a civilized world." In 2006, Piano was selected by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was selected as the 10th most influential person in the "Arts and Entertainment" category of the 2006 Time 100. In this image: Italian architect Renzo Piano, right,waits to receive the Danish Sonning Prize and its 1 million kroner (US$190,000) award during a ceremony Wednesday Oct. 1, 2008, at Copenhagen University in Copenhagen. His wife, Emilia Rossato, left, was seated next to him during the ceremony. The architect received the award for "commendable work that benefits European culture" and Piano's works include the New York Times building and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
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