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The Mauritshuis museum, home to masterpieces including Vermeers Girl With a Pearl Earring and Carel Fabritiuss The Goldfinch, in The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 15, 2018. Abraham Bredius ran the Mauritshuis and bequeathed it 25 paintings, but said they must always be on display today, only five are on show, so the descendants of his close friend say the artworks should be theirs. (Michel de Groot/The New York Times)
AMSTERDAM.- Rembrandts 1661 double portrait Two African Men is a rare depiction of free Black men in 17th-century Amsterdam and a particularly prized work in the collection of the Mauritshuis, a jewel-box museum of Golden Age masterpieces in The Hague, Netherlands. Art historian Abraham Bredius, the museums former director, bequeathed the painting to the Mauritshuis upon his death in 1946, along with two dozen other paintings by Rembrandt and other painters. But Bredius heirs are demanding the return of all 25 of those paintings, saying that the Mauritshuis has not complied with a condition of the bequest, which stipulates that all of the artworks must always be on permanent ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The first ever Maarten van Heemskerck (Heemskerk, 1498 - Haarlem, 1574) retrospective will be held at the Frans Hals Museum, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar and Teylers Museum from 28 September 2024 to 19 January 2025. 450 years after the artists death, masterpieces by Heemskerck will travel to the Netherlands from 12 different countries.
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| Van Gogh 'Sunflowers' targeted again as protesters are sentenced to jail | | An exclusive peek at the Met's reimagined Rockefeller Wing | | A library that holds its own among museums |
Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888. Oil on canvas, 92.1 à 73 cm © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- When a London judge handed down prison sentences Friday to two climate activists, who threw soup on Vincent van Goghs Sunflowers, he said he wanted to deter protesters from trying similar stunts. Judge Christopher Hehir sentenced Phoebe Plummer, 23, to two years in jail for damaging the paintings frame during the 2022 attack at the National Gallery in London. Anna Holland, 22, received 20 months for the same offense. Their actions were criminally ... More | |
A small item on display in the Arts of the Ancient Americas gallery at the newly renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Manhattan, Sept. 23, 2024. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has been closed and under renovation since 2021, is not scheduled to open until May 2025. But a recent early peek at the wings refurbished galleries already reveals brighter, more open exhibition spaces for the museums storied collection ... More | |
Inside the Qatar National Library, designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, in Doha, in November 2018. (Andreas Meichsner/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- With the look of a jagged-edge spaceship brought to Earth and illuminated from almost every angle by the ever-present Gulf sunshine, the Qatar National Library stands out among the growing number of celebrity architect-designed libraries. The 485,000-square-foot building, which opened in 2018, houses more than 1 million books and the countrys Heritage Collection, including more than 235,000 centuries- ... More |
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| ALBERTINA Museum exhibits the entire fascination of Marc Chagall's world of themes and motifs | | Exhibition of sculptures and works on paper by David Rabinowitch opens at Peter Blum Gallery | | Masterpieces by Maarten van Heemskerck in the Netherlands for the first time |
Marc Chagall, Rabbi in Black and White (The Praying Jew), 19141922. 104 x 84 cm, Oil on canvas. Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Galleria Internazionale d′Arte Moderna di Ca Pesaro © Bildrecht, Vienna 2024.
VIENNA.- Back in 2004, the ALBERTINA Museum presented an exhibition on Chagall's exploration of the Bible as one of the first exhibitions under the direction of Klaus Albrecht Schröder. 20 years later, around the 40th anniversary of the artist's death, the ALBERTINA Museum is showing ... More | |
David Rabinowitch, Construction of Vision/ 2 Sheets- Horizontal- 3 colour properties/ 2 scales- 4 tangent conics, 1974, pencil and colored pencil on paper, 50 1/8 x 19 1/8 inches (127.3 x 48.6 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Gallery is presenting an exhibition of sculptures and works on paper by David Rabinowitch entitled, Works from 1962 2018. This memorial survey exhibition of selected bodies of work spans six decades of Rabinowitchs artistic output. It is the eighth solo exhibition of the artists work with the gallery; his first being ... More | |
Installation view.
HAARLEM.- The first ever Maarten van Heemskerck (Heemskerk, 1498 - Haarlem, 1574) retrospective will be held at the Frans Hals Museum, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar and Teylers Museum from 28 September 2024 to 19 January 2025. 450 years after the artists death, masterpieces by Heemskerck will travel to the Netherlands from 12 different countries. Institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid), The ... More |
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| V&A gains support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to transform its historic South Asia gallery | | Casemore Gallery opens an exhibition of works from artists Sungho Bae, Efrat Hakimi, Thomas Kong, Ed Oh and Guanyu Xu | | Works by Antonio de Guezala enter the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum by purchase, donation, and long-term loan |
Conservation inspection being carried out on frieze panel from Kochi ceiling, polychromed wood, Kochi, south-west India, 19th century © Victoria and Albert Museum.
LONDON.- Rarely seen objects from the V&A collection to go on display including the newly restored Kochi Ceiling suspended at height, which will be shown for the first time in over 70 years. It was announced today that the V&A has received initial support* from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for plans to transform its historic South Asia Gallery to create a major new gallery for one of the worlds ... More | |
Originally conceived as a solo show of Thomas Kongs work, his passing in 2023 led to a more expansive approach, reflecting and celebrating his place within Chicagos growing and tight-knit community of artists and artist-run spaces.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Casemore Gallery partnered with Chicago, Illinois, gallery 062 to present Chicago, an exhibition of works from artists Sungho Bae, Efrat Hakimi, Thomas Kong, Ed Oh and Guanyu Xu. Originally conceived as a solo show of Thomas Kongs work, his passing in 2023 led to a more expansive approach, reflecting ... More | |
Cake walk ballerina figurine, 1927. Pencil, watercolor and black ink on paper, 20.6 x 14.4 cm Donation from the heirs of Julia de Guezala in 2024.
BILBAO.- A significant part of the valuable artistic and documentary assets owned by the family of painter Antonio de Guezala (Bilbao, 18891956) has entered the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum by purchase, donation, and long-term loan, making this institution the leading centre for the conservation and research of the artists oeuvre. Preserved by Guezala himself, who kept his distance from the art market throughout his career, the ... More |
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| Royal College of Art announces the winners of the Helen Hamlyn Design Awards for 2024 | | Pristine, precious first edition of 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy rises in Heritage Auctions event | | A photo booth downtown draws a nostalgic crowd |
Branches, Image courtesy of Yiming Pang and Jialu Hou.
LONDON.- The annual Helen Hamlyn Design Awards, organised by the Royal College of Arts Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (HHCD) - a global leader in inclusive design, design thinking and creative leadership, endowed by the Helen Hamlyn Trust - have been announced. The awards focus on celebrating the most visionary, inclusive and innovative RCA graduate projects. This years cohort of award winners propose innovative and transformative solutions to ... More | |
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954-1955.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions sojourn to the rare-books realm over the summer was one for the history books, with the initial offering of significant selections from William A. Strutzs library setting numerous records and realizing $5.65 million. Another eagerly awaited Strutz auction will take place in December but only after the October 10-11 Rare Books Signature® Auction, which ... More | |
Zoë Lazerson and Brandon Minton, the couple behind the Old Friend Photobooth, outside the analog photo booth on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Sept. 21, 2024. (Graham Dickie/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent Saturday afternoon, a group of four giddy young women dressed in miniskirts and baggy pants took turns cramming behind a brown curtain and into an apparatus three decades older than they were. It was an analog photo booth from the 1970s, enclosed within a wood panel structure and nestled within a suitcase shop on Orchard Street on the Lower ... More |
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Grace Weaver at Galerie Max Hetzler, London, 2024
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Philadelphia's BalletX shows variety but little depthNEW YORK, NY.- In many ways, contemporary ballet is a wide-open frontier, brimming with possibilities. But with so many options, the work it generates can tend toward the generic even when there is an obvious concept at play. On Wednesday at The Joyce Theater, that was the case with the program by BalletX, a Philadelphia company dedicated to presenting new work. Yes, there are premieres, but do they push the form? Are they built to last? No and no. BalletX, formed in 2005 and led by Christine Cox, brought three New York premieres to the Joyce with disparate premises. One explored the healing power of relationships; another was a celebration of queer culture; and the third was a look at the resilience of Japanese people after World War II. Instead of a well-rounded, complex dance experience, the choreography and the impetuses ... More Production linked to Neil Gaiman is halted amid sexual assault claimsNEW YORK, NY.- The production of a movie based on a book by noted British author Neil Gaiman has been paused by Disney amid allegations that five women have made against him relating to conduct from 1986 to 2022, including one woman who said Gaiman groped her on a tour bus in 2013 and later paid her $60,000. The women shared their allegations, which included claims of sexual assault, groping and kissing, on the podcast Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman. Gaiman, 63, has told the podcast he denies any wrongdoing. The allegations played a role in pausing the production of The Graveyard Book, an adaptation of the eponymous young adult novel by Gaiman, according to a person at Disney. ... More Lhasa's music captivated audiences everywhere but hereNEW YORK, NY.- Montreals wide-ranging music scene has been one of its calling cards for decades, with border-crossing success stories like ambitious rock band Arcade Fire, arty electro-pop artist Grimes and renowned post-rock modernists Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Yet one of the musicians most beloved there is the spellbinding Lhasa de Sela, who wrote and sang in English, French and Spanish, but remains largely unknown in the United States. She was usually referred to simply as Lhasa, and before she died of breast cancer in 2010 at 37, she became a platinum-selling recording artist in Canada, with genre-busting albums that synthesized Romani music, Mexican rancheras, Portuguese fados, Americana, chansons française and South American ballads, marrying them with mystical, romantic and intensely personal lyrics. ... More Francis Ford Coppola reenters a changed Hollywood. It could be rough.LOS ANGELES, CA.- Lionsgate executives say they have done all they can. Theyve booked 1,700 theaters, deployed guerrilla marketers to college campuses and pushed to flip negative reviews to their advantage. They have tied the films themes to the presidential race in TV ads. And now it is up to moviegoers. Will people plunk down dollars and turn Francis Ford Coppolas majestically bonkers Megalopolis into an against-all-odds success when it arrives Friday? Or will the $120 million epic in keeping with months of negative prerelease headlines go down as a hall-of-fame flop? Most box office analysts are predicting disaster. Megalopolis could arrive to as little as $5 million in weekend ticket sales in North America, according to surveys that track audience interest. Ticket sales are split roughly 50-50 with theater owners. ... More Maggie Smith, grand dame of stage and screen, dies at 89NEW YORK, NY.- Maggie Smith, one of the finest British stage and screen actors of her generation, whose award-winning roles ranged from a freethinking Scottish schoolteacher in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to the acid-tongued dowager countess on Downton Abbey, died Friday in London. She was 89. Her death, in a hospital, was announced by her family in a statement issued by a publicist. It did not specify the cause of death. American moviegoers barely knew Smith (now Dame Maggie to her countrymen) when she starred in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), about a teacher at a girls school in the 1930s who dared to have progressive social views and a love life. Vincent Canbys review in The New York Times described her performance as a staggering amalgam of counterpointed moods, switches in voice levels ... More NAACP Legal Defense Fund records newly digitized and now available online from the Library of CongressWASHINGTON, DC.- A major portion of the processed records of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress. Spanning the years 1915-1968, with most dating from 1940 to 1960, these records document the organizations work as it combated racial discrimination in the nations courts, establishing in the process a public interest legal practice that was unprecedented in American jurisprudence. About 80% of the approximately 80,000 items have been digitized thus far resulting in approximately 210,300 images in the digital collection. The digitization will greatly expand research access to this significant collection of primary source materials for scholars and students studying the civil rights movement. The organizations records cover a h ... More New York Film Festival pitches its ever-expanding, global tentNEW YORK, NY.- Every year, the New York Film Festival sets up a big tent at Lincoln Center and invites its hometown to the greatest show on Earth, or at least to watch some of the finest movies from across the world. This year is no different, with standout selections that include the opening-night attraction, Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross tender, beautifully expressionistic adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel; All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadias delicately observed, stirring drama about three women living in Mumbai; and Dahomey, Mati Diops intellectually electrifying documentary about the fraught complexities of repatriation. Over the decades, the festivals tent has grown larger and its attractions more expansive. The main lineup and the Spotlight section feature a mix of established and lesser-known auteurs, as well as a smattering ... More Clarice Rivers, earthy muse of two artists, dies at 88NEW YORK, NY.- In 1961, Clarice Rivers and her husband, Larry, an outlandish proto-pop artist and jazz musician, spent nearly a year in Paris, living on the Impasse Ronsin, a tiny cul-de-sac and artistâs enclave that was home to Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle and her husband, Jean Tinguely, a Swiss-born sculptor of kinetic, self-destructing contraptions. There, Rivers, an effervescent Welsh expatriate, and de Saint Phalle became fast friends. At the time, de Saint Phalle was known for her âshootingâ paintings â pieces embedded with bags of paint that she would blast with a rifle so they would explode in a spectacular fashion. But her work changed dramatically when she saw a drawing that Larry Rivers had made of his pregnant wife. Her voluptuous form inspired de Saint Phalle to make what would become her most enduring work, the Nanas â ... More Neil King Jr., who wrote of a long walk of 'renewal,' dies at 65NEW YORK, NY.- Neil King Jr., a journalist whose book, âAmerican Ramble,â told of his 330-mile trek from his home in Washington, D.C. to New York City while in remission from cancer, an account that lyrically evoked the people, history and back roads of the mid-Atlantic region, died Sept. 17 in Washington. He was 65. His death, in a hospital, was from complications of esophageal cancer, his wife, Shailagh Murray, said. Kingâs travelogue-cum-memoir, whose subtitle is âA Walk of Memory and Renewal,â was based on a 26-day hike he began in late March 2021, when the country was emerging from the COVID-19 lockdown. (He modestly called it a âhumdrum feat by any measure.â) It crystallized for many readers how the pandemic had heightened a sense of lifeâs urgency and fragility. âI had set out with a wonder ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Alexandre Cabanel was born September 28, 1823. Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 - 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of L'art pompier, and was Napoleon III's preferred painter. In this image: Cabanel's workshop at the School of Fine Arts., 1883, painting by Tancrède Bastet, Museum of Grenoble.
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