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Ashley Vernon, left, who helped deliver dozens of protest letters to the Valparaiso presidents office, and Sophia Duray, who orchestrated a letter to the student senate, on the Valparaiso University campus, in Valparaiso, Ind. on March 1, 2023. Valparaiso, a Lutheran university in northwestern Indiana that is struggling with the declining enrollment seen at many schools, is planning to sell several works from the collection of its Brauer Museum of Art to raise $10 million for the renovation of two freshman dormitories, which it sees as key to securing its future. (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times)
by Kalia Richardson
NEW YORK, NY.- During his decades teaching literature at Valparaiso University, John Ruff looked beyond words, bringing his students to the schools art museum to help them acquire what he called emotional wisdom. While discussing stories that originated in the Southwest, he would point out Georgia OKeeffes Rust Red Hills. When he wanted to draw parallels to 19th-century American literature, Frederic E. Churchs Mountain Landscape was right there. But those paintings may not hang on campus much longer. Valparaiso, a Lutheran university in northwestern Indiana that is struggling with the declining enrollment seen at many schools, is planning to sell several works from the collection of its Brauer Museum of Art to raise $10 million for the renovation of two freshman dormitories, which it sees as key to securing its future. The announcement angered many arts organizations and has divided the university: Last week the faculty senate approved a nonbinding reso ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Desert X, the recurring site-specific, international art exhibition, opened its fourth edition at sites across the Coachella Valley, California. The exhibition is free and open to all and will remain on view through May 7, 2023.
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| Noonans sell the Haconby Celtic Fertility Figure for a hammer price of £2,200 | | 'What is this thing?': How a Jurassic-era insect was rediscovered in a Walmart | | Eugene Kohn, architect of skyscraping ambitions, dies at 92 |
Estimated to fetch £800-1,200, the figure which measured 5.5cm high by 1.2cm wide, was sold to a UK buyer.
LONDON.- After much competition and media interest, the Haconby Fertility figure (a bronze nude figure holding in his right hand an oversized phallus which is hinged for movement) sold for a hammer price of £2,200 at Noonans yesterday (Thursday, March 9, 2023) in a two-day sale of Ancient Coins and Antiquities. Estimated to fetch £800-1,200, the figure which measured 5.5cm high by 1.2cm wide, was sold to a UK buyer. Discovered at a detector rally in Haconby in Lincolnshire in 2022 by Paul Shepheard, who was searching a stubble field with his wife Joanne. She had just found a Medieval penny and he was hoping his luck would change when he got a signal on his new XP Deus II. Digging down 10 inches he uncovered what he thought was a large steel split pin commonly used to retain wheels on farm carts, which Paul knew as he loved to restore farming equipment when he was younger. After looking more closely, he saw the outline of a face and realised ... More | |
A giant lacewing found at an Arkansas Walmart in 2012 is being heralded as the first specimen of its kind seen in eastern North America in more than 50 years. Photo: Michael Skvarla / Penn State.
by Emily Schmall
NEW YORK, NY.- It took the COVID-19 pandemic and a class held on Zoom for the entomologist to give a long-forgotten insect specimen another look. With the world in lockdown in autumn 2020, Michael Skvarla, an assistant research professor at Penn State University, turned to his private collection, the two cabinets full of insects he kept at home, to show students how to compare insect characteristics. He unearthed for the camera-connected microscope a specimen he had found back in 2012 clinging to the outside wall of a Walmart in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and asked students to examine the characteristics of the antlion, a dragonflylike predator. Except that this bug, with its nearly 2-inch wingspan, was way too big to be an antlion. It didnt have clubbed antennae like it should. It didnt have lots of cross-veins in the wing ... More | |
One Vanderbilt, center right, designed by the firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, next to Grand Central Terminal in New York, Sept. 23, 2022. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
by Paul Goldberger
NEW YORK, NY.- Eugene Kohn, an architect who co-founded the firm Kohn Pedersen Fox in 1976 and whose ambitions led it to become, within a few years, a rival to long-established international architectural firms and one of the most prolific designers of skyscrapers in the world, died Thursday at his home in Montecito, California. He was 92. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his wife, Barbara Shattuck Kohn. At last count, KPF, as the firm is known, had designed more than 250 skyscrapers around the globe, including some of the tallest. Among them are the World Financial Center in Shanghai; headquarters for Unilever and Amazon in London; the World Bank headquarters in Washington; the Abu Dhabi International Airport; the International Commerce Center in Hong Kong; the headquarters of Procter & ... More |
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| Cooper Hewitt announces formal establishment of the Digital Curatorial Department | | Leila Heller Gallery presents John Clement's exhibition "Speedway" | | Rediscovered Leighton masterpiece offered at Bonhams 19th century art sale |
Andrea Lipps. Photo by Maxime Quoilin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum today announced the formal establishment of the Digital curatorial department, which will collect and care for born-digital work. This new collecting department will be led by Andrea Lipps, the founding head of digital, who will frame, build and manage the digital collection and its stewardship. The Digital department is the first entirely new collecting department at Cooper Hewitt in more than 125 years. Founded in 1897, the museums collection has historically been organized in four curatorial departments: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design; Product Design and Decorative Arts; Wallcoverings; and Textiles. Digital design will continue to radically change how we interact with the world and with each other in critical ways, said Maria Nicanor, director of Cooper Hewitt. Museums need to be at the center of this conversation, so I am delighted to establish Digital a ... More | |
Daytona, 2023, 51.5 x 48 x 37 in, Aluminum Pipe, Aluminum Plate, Auto Paint.
DUBAI.- Leila Heller has opened John Clements solo exhibition, Speedway, on view in New York since February 16th, and will continue until April, 2023. Speedway, Clements debut exhibition with Leila Heller, consists of five sculptures, two wall works, and a set of lithographs and photographs. The show itself is titled after one of the sculptures in the exhibition, Speedway, for embodying the overall feeling of the show and the themes of speed, racing, and cars. Although Clement does not obsess over surfaces, he does appreciate the use of bright, fast colors to help see the overall form of a work. My process as a sculptor has me forever thinking of three dimensional space and how we (us and the objects all around) exist within it. Positive and negative space, tangents, points of contact and separation, all factor into an unknown visual language silently spoken ... More | |
Forget-Me-Not by Sir John Everett Millais. Estimate: £200,000-300,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- In the early 1860s, the painter Frederic Leighton was seeking a new source of inspiration. His narrative paintings of the mid-1850s which had proved so popular were losing their market appeal. Drawing on his knowledge of developments in French art hed been living in Paris before establishing himself in London in 1859 Leighton began to explore a new and personal style. The story-telling aspect of his work was replaced with figurative compositions that depended entirely on mood. Sea Echoes from 1861, which is to be offered at Bonhams 19th Century and British Impressionist Art Sale in London on Wednesday 29 March 2023, is a triumphant early example of his mastery of what came to be known as Aestheticism. Untraced since 1960, this rediscovered work is estimated at £250,000-350,000. Charles OBrien, Bonhams Director of 19th Century Painting, ... More |
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| ICA San Francisco opens an exhibition of works by Liz Hernández and Ryan Whelan | | Cottone Auctions announces Important Timepieces & Decorative Arts Auction | | Caitlin Murray named new executive director of The Chinati Foundation |
Through this exhibition, Hernández and Whelan seek to [Address] the historical, ongoing instability and uncertainties in the Bay Area arts community.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- A Weed By Any Other Name, an exhibition of collaborative work by Liz Hernández and Ryan Whelan, is now on view at ICA San Francisco through June 25, 2023. Weeds, generally described as unwanted amongst foliage, can be unusually persistent in the most neglected spaces. In this exhibition, Hernández and Whelan consider the humble blackberry, ubiquitous in the Bay Area, a symbol of resilience - a weed by any other name. These modest, yet staunch, plants hold power not just in the fruits they bear, or the thorns they wield, but in their presence beneath the soil. A blackberry bush can be cut down, but with every fracture its intricate root system generates more growth. The Bay Area possesses a similar defiance in its commitment to support networks between communities, allowing many people to thrive ... More | |
Exceptional Louis XVI regulator with Remontoir dégalité Royal Model, circa 1785, clockmaker Robert Robin (1741-1799), the polychrome dial by Joseph Coteau (1740-1801), case attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1757-1843) est. $100,000-$150,000.
GENESO, NY.- Cottone Auctions Important Timepieces & Decorative Arts auction, on Friday, March 31st, will feature the incredible collection of Dr. William Thomas of Naples, Florida, showcasing 50 of the finest examples of French and European clock masterpieces. The auction, starting promptly at 12 oclock Eastern time, features 220 choice lots. Both rarity and condition were important to Dr. Thomas. Highlighting his collection, assembled over a period of 50 years, is an extremely rare Raingo orrery clock and music box, with original matching pedestal. The clock and music box are in fine running order with beautiful patina and gilt bronze mounts, in remarkably original condition, possibly one of the finest known examples. An orrery is a mechanical ... More | |
Caitlin Murray. Photo by Alex Marks.
MARFA, TX.- The Board of Trustees of The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati announced today the appointment of Caitlin Murray as its new executive director. Murray was previously director of archives and programs at Judd Foundation, where she has worked since 2008. Murray, who was chosen after an international search, will begin her position at Chinati in mid-May. The board is extremely pleased to welcome Caitlin Murray as Chinatis next executive director. The museums mission is to continue to implement and preserve Donald Judds vision for art, landscape and architecture in Marfa. We believe that Murray will fulfill that mission with excellence, passion, and enthusiasm. We are also certain that Murrays leadership will continue to enhance audiences experiences with Judd in Marfa, said Mack Fowler, chair, and Annabelle Selldorf, co-chair, of the Board of Trustees of Chinati. We ... More |
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| Karma, LA opens exhibition of recent paintings by Henni Alftan | | Michaan's Auctions to offer fine art, jewelry, furniture, decorative arts, and Asian art in two events | | Recently discovered first ever colour photos of Magnum's Werner Bischof displayed for the first time |
Henni Alftan Dike Blair, Text by Linda Norden, 72 pages, hardcover, 12 1⁄2 Ã 10 1⁄2 inches.
LOS ANGELES.- Karma is opening today Visitor, an exhibition of recent paintings by Henni Alftan. The exhibition is Alftans first in Los Angeles and will run from March 11th through April 29th at 7351 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles. Visitor extends from Alftans ongoing investigation into the construction of image and narrative sequence. She utilizes the constituent elements of paintingcolor, line, texture, shape, compositionto create complex tableaux out of restrained gestures. In The Lake (2022), Alftan assembles simple geometric forms into a kaleidoscopic image of a pink canoe and forest, reflected across the surface of a lake. Subtly shifting the color palette at the point where land meets water, Alftan transforms the abstract blocks of color into a recognizable landscape. She is equally deliberate in her application of paint, oscillating between flat and textural brushwork. In Pink Bathrobe (2022), she ... More | |
Large Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Dragon Moon Flask Vase.
ALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans Auctions will hold two auctions in March, beginning with the monthly Annex Auction from Monday, March 13 through Wednesday, March 15. The March Gallery Auction will follow on Friday the 17th, featuring a unique variety of lots such as a Steinway baby grand piano, a pastel on canvas by Suzanne Eisendieck (German, 1906-1998), jewelry from designers like Tiffany & Co. and David Yurman, and Japanese tansu cabinets. The Gallery Auction will open with a wide variety of furniture and decorative arts, including a Walter and Berge pate de verre vide poche ($1,000-$1,500). Pate de verre glass, produced by melting powdered glass with binding and coloring agents into a paste, is an Ancient Greek technique that saw a prolific revival in the Art Nouveau period. Walter and Berge are known for producing beautiful floral and faunal pate de verre wares, with this vide-poche featuring dark red ... More | |
Werner Bischof, Model with rose, Zurich, Switzerland, 1939. Archival Pigment Print digitally remastered, 2022. © Werner Bischof Estate / Magnum Photos.
LUGANO.- MASI Lugano launched its 2023 exhibition season with a show of previously unexhibited works by one of the absolute masters of twentieth century reportage and photography, Werner Bischof (Zurich, 1916 - Trujillo, Peru, 1954). Presenting around 100 colour digital prints from original negatives dating from 1939 to the 50s, the show that will end on July 2nd is the first complete exploration of the Swiss photographer's colour work. Best known for his black and white reportage work, shot all over the world, Bischof was an artist renowned for iconic images that bear witness to war and capture humanity at its truest. As the title suggests, the exhibition in MASI highlights an alternative, lesser-known aspect of his work, expanding our knowledge and image of this illustrious photographer. In a period in which colour photography was often snubbed, relegated to the realm of ... More |
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'Phantom' ends. For musicians, so does the gig of a lifetime.
NEW YORK, NY.- Last fall, as show No. 13,781 of The Phantom of the Opera came to a close, the applause overpowered the thundering music. The members of the orchestra, packed into the pit under the stage, could not see the crowd, but they could hear and feel them. The standing ovation brought Kristen Blodgette, the shows associate conductor, to tears. She held her red-nailed hands in prayer, in gratitude to the musicians. Andrew Lloyd Webbers smash hit the longest-running musical in Broadway history is scheduled to give its final performance at the Majestic Theater next month. These days, since the announcement of the closing last September, the musical feels more like a rock concert, said Kurt Coble, a violinist with the show. Coble is part of Broadways largest pit orchestra, which will disappear along with the show. It holds ... More
Rebeca Romero announced the winner of the OGR Award 2023
TURIN.- Rebeca Romero represented by Copperfield gallery based in London is the winner of the OGR Award 2023 with the project Semilla SAGRADA. Organised by Artissima and Fondazione per lArte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, the OGR Award has been created to identify an artist who effectively conveys the complex, sophisticated relationship between art, technology and innovation, with a particular focus on digital. This year, the prize was awarded by an international jury composed of Amira Gad, curator and writer, Rotterdam, Lars Henrik Gass, director, Festival Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Samuele Piazza, senior curator, OGR Torino, and Domenico Quaranta, art critic, curator and lecturer specialised in media art, Milano. The jury expressed the following statement: We decided unanimously to award Rebeca Romero, represented ... More
Highlights from RR Auction include rare photos and document signed by Ben Franklin amongst other items
BOSTON, MA.- A Ben Franklin signed document ordering a loan to support Pennsylvania's new currency sold for $39,928, according to Boston-based RR Auction. As president of Pennsylvania's Supreme Executive Council, Benjamin Franklin signs a handwritten document headed: "For £15,000.0.0 of the new Emission of paper money." Franklin orders Treasurer David Rittenhouse to "Pay to the Trustees of the General Loan Office or order the sum of Fifteen thousand pounds in Bills of Credit of the New Emission according to two Acts of Assembly passed the 16th of March and 4 of April 1784to emit on Loanfor which the said Trustees are to be accountable." Prominently signed at the conclusion by Franklin, endorsed along the left side by Comptroller General John Nicholson, and dated December 6, 1785. The first state to push through ... More
'Dark Disabled Stories' review: When the world isn't built for you
NEW YORK, NY.- Near the start of Dark Disabled Stories, playwright-performer Ryan J. Haddads richly provocative new show at the Public Theater, he tells a funny, sexy anecdote about a hookup at a gay bar that didnt go the way hed hoped. Haddad has cerebral palsy and uses a walker. In the story, he finds himself stranded without it a plot twist that caused his audience, the other night, to breathe a soft sound of sympathy. Haddad must have been expecting this, because his reaction is right there in the script. He invites anyone who regards him as sad or pitiable to leave. I am not here to be pitied and I am not a victim, he says. Is that clear? Then, with startling sternness, an unscripted repetition: Is that clear? Quite. But one other thing needs to be made clear immediately, which is that Haddad is an actor and writer of extraordinary charm. ... More
Review: Jessica Chastain plots an escape from 'A Doll's House'
NEW YORK, NY.- Many plays end with a breathtaking coup, but Jamie Lloyds incisive Broadway revival of A Dolls House, which opened Thursday at the Hudson Theater, also begins with one. After all, its not every day you find Jessica Chastain rotating on a turntable like an angry bird in a giant cuckoo clock. Yet there she is for 20 minutes as you take your seat and peel off your coat. Nor is she alone: The five other cast members gradually join her, seated on plain wooden chairs nearby. You cant help seeing them through her steely gaze as she circulates from one to another, her blazing red hair pulled back and her arms and legs crossed as if sizing up suspects. Clearly, this Dolls House is going to be a procedural. The forbidding, throbbing music by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto suggests an episode of CSI: Norway. But pay attention to something ... More
Topol, star of 'Fiddler on the Roof' on the screen and the stage, dies at 87
NEW YORK, NY.- Topol, the Israeli actor who took on the role of the patriarch Tevye, the soulful shtetl milkman at the center of Fiddler on the Roof, in his late 20s and reprised the role for decades, died Thursday at his home in Tel Aviv. He was 87. His son, Omer Topol, confirmed the death. He said in an email that his father had Alzheimers disease, which had caused his health to deteriorate over the past year. Topol born Chaim Topol, he used only his surname throughout much of his professional life came to international renown heading the cast of the 1971 film version of Fiddler. Its director, Norman Jewison, had chosen Topol, then a little-known stage actor, over Zero Mostel, who had created the part on Broadway. The film, for which Topol earned an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award, made him a star. For ... More
A photographer turned the tables on his parents to learn about himself
NEW YORK, NY.- Parents photograph children to create a lasting record of ongoing changes. In the 1950s, when Larry Sultan was growing up in Los Angeles, it seemed that every middle-class father was shooting home movies with a Super 8 camera. Watching reels of long-forgotten footage one evening while visiting his parents, Sultan, by this time a professional photographer who would soon have a wife and kids of his own, was inspired to compile a sequel. Turning the tables, he scrutinized his elderly parents in the belief, as he readily admitted, that by learning more about them, and especially his father, he would resolve unanswered questions about himself. The result, Pictures From Home, a book of photographs and text that he published in 1992, is recognized as a highlight of his distinguished career. Ten of the photographs ... More
Dance's communal ethos is moving into the office and boardroom
NEW YORK, NY.- At the end of January, three dancers gathered for a retreat at a rural Northern California compound. In a bare-walled studio, they improvised as a group, taking turns sharing movement prompts and passing ideas from body to body. Sometimes they paused to write questions they hoped to answer through dance; sometimes their explorations spilled into the surrounding woods. Cherie Hill, Hope Mohr and Karla Quintero had spent many months jointly directing the San Francisco company Bridge Live Arts, hashing out a new collective leadership structure for the organization formerly known as Hope Mohr Dance. They had talked exhaustively about how best to reallocate the responsibilities previously held mostly by Mohr, the groups founder and choreographer. At their gathering in January, the Dancing Distributed Leadership ... More
A dancer and chaplain illuminates the invisible with patience
NEW YORK, NY.- Keely Garfield is used to the questions. How is a dancer a chaplain? How is a chaplain a dancer? For her they are intertwined. Its all centered in the body, she said, and a deep curiosity about what it means to be embodied and in a body, which is a weird, weird thing. In her dance life, Garfield has long created works dreamlike, full-bodied, strikingly unruly that have often focused, no matter how indirectly, on what it is to be human. Beyond dance, she has explored an array of mind and body traditions including yoga and Zen Buddhism, which has led to her current position as a chaplain in end-of-life and trauma care at a community hospital in Brooklyn. Garfield knows there is some confusion around just what a chaplain is: a person who supports the spiritual and emotional needs ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer David LaChapelle was born March 11, 1963. David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963) is an American commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, and film director. American photographer David LaChapelle looks on during the media preview of his exhibition "After the Deluge" at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni on April 29, 2015 in Rome.
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