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Kehinde Wiley at An Archaeology of Silence at the de Young Museum with his monumental 2022 painting, Femme piquée par un serpent (Mamadou Gueye)," in San Francisco, Calif., on March 14, 2023. An Archaeology of Silence opens in San Francisco, after a string of police killings of Black men. Along with powerful art, it offers a respite room to those needing a break. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
by Dionne Searcey
NEW YORK, NY.- When Kehinde Wileys exhibition, An Archaeology of Silence, opens in the United States on March 18, the most important room some viewers might enter is one with no artwork at all. The respite room at the de Young Museum in San Francisco will be an area where visitors can take a breath and regain their composure after viewing the display of almost billboard-size paintings and huge sculptures of Black men and women in sometimes crumpled positions struck down, resting, wounded or dead in settings that reference iconic Western paintings of religious and mythological subjects. Among the 25 pieces is Reclining Nude in Wooded Setting (Edidiong Ikobah), a painting of a woman in a white tank top, cutoff jean shorts and white sneakers who lies across grassy terrain, her braids bunched atop her head. One 17.5-foot-tall sculpture, titled the same as the exhibition, depicts a limp, shirtless man in jeans and high-tops draped over a majestic hor ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day For Asia WeekNew York (March 16-24) Runjeet Singh offers a magnificent Bhutanese Royal Guard's Shield, Bhutan, mid 19th-early 20th century, leather, copper alloy, white metal, textile, and lacquer. Photo: Runjeet Singh.
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| It's not a stretch: This dinosaur had a 50-foot neck | | This dress survived for more than three centuries at the bottom of the sea | | Museum of Fine Arts, St. Pete announces Anne-Marie Russell as Executive Director and CEO | 
An artists impression of Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum. Researchers developed a new estimate of the neck length of Mamenchisaurus, which foraged for foliage more than 150 million years ago in what is now China. (Júlia d'Oliveira via The New York Times)
by Jack Tamisiea
NEW YORK, NY.- Few creatures have pushed anatomy to its limits like sauropods. These supersized dinosaurs moved on pillar-like limbs that supported massive girth, wielded whip-like tails to ward off predators and used long necks to vacuum up foliage. While this entire group of dinosaurs is commonly referred to as long necks, Mamenchisaurus, which roved around what is now China during the late Jurassic period, would have given other sauropods neck envy. In a study published Wednesday in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, researchers estimate that Mamenchisaurus neck stretched to a length of nearly 50 feet. Longer than the average school bus, its neck is the longest estimated of any sauropod species. It may be the longest neck on an animal ever observed. In 1987, paleontologists discovered ... More | | 
One of the top pieces in the collection at Museum Kaap Skil is a seventeenth century dress of royal allure, surfaced from the bottom of the Wadden Sea.
by Claire Moses
NEW YORK, NY.- The year is roughly 1650. A merchant ship carrying goods, passengers and a highly expensive silk satin dress that will centuries later become a topic of fascination sinks, like so many other ships at the time, in the North Sea, off the Dutch island of Texel. Sand soon covered the shipwreck, which was largely forgotten until 2014, when Dutch amateur divers found the dress, almost perfectly preserved, and brought it to dry land. The divers also found a different, silver dress, book covers and what appeared to be 17th-century womens toiletries, among other things. The wrecked ship, known as the Palmwood because of the type of wood found in the remains, has since been the subject of a museum exhibit, as well as an upcoming multimedia project that includes a podcast, a television show and a digital reconstruction. But despite the surge of interest, the mystery of the silk dress has not been solved. Who owned the clothes? Where was the ship ... More | | 
nne-Marie Russell, named Executive Director & CEO effective immediately, brings entrepreneurial experience and a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and passion to the MFA and St. Petersburg community.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg today announces Anne-Marie Russell as Executive Director and CEO. Russell joined the MFA in September 2022 as Interim Executive Director. As Executive Director and CEO, Russell will be responsible for continuing the successful momentum of the MFA, providing leadership and support to the accomplished staff to ensure the museum maintains the high-quality experience for which it's celebrated, from curating exciting exhibitions to delivering engaging community programs to preserving works of art for generations to come. In her first six months at the MFA, Russell has been pivotal in reshaping the museums structure, processes, and focus to support the core mission. Her keen leadership and experience as a museum director have proven invaluable during her short time with the MFA. Anne-Marie brings a highly informed understanding of professional art museum practice, an inclusive, community ... More |
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| Cool for Katz: Work by Alex Katz tops Bonhams Post War & Contemporary Art Sale | | As plundered items return to Wounded Knee, decisions await | | The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opens a major retrospective devoted to the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka | 
Alex Katz (B. 1927), Yvonne with Flowers, 2001. Sold for £756,300. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Yvonne with Flowers, a signature work by Alex Katz (b.1927) topped Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale on Thursday 16 March in London. The work, which had never before been offered at auction, achieved £756,300. The 42-lot sale made a total of £3,242,153 with 81% sold by lot and 99% sold by value. Leonie Grainger, Head of Department for Post-War & Contemporary Art, commented: Yvonne with Flowers was a fresh to market work by one of the definitive American artists of the 20th century: the wonderful Alex Katz. The painting featured many of the most recognisable elements employed of his signature works and given the recent career-spanning retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, it was no wonder it captivated collectors. We are also delighted to have achieved such an impressive result for J.Y.M. Seated V, 1989 by Frank Auerbach, further adding to our particular strength in offering works by the artist. ... More | | 
Young people are asked to carry boxes holding artifacts to the mass gravesite in Wounded Knee, S.D., on Dec. 29, 2022. (Tara Rose Weston/The New York Times)
by Julia Jacobs and Kayla Gahagan
NEW YORK, NY.- At a hilltop cemetery in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, the site of one of the bloodiest massacres by American soldiers against Native Americans, a small crowd gathered around a cluster of boxes that had been laid reverently atop 2 feet of snow. Inside were Lakota cultural objects and belongings that had been returned after more than a century on the other side of the country: moccasins, sacred pipes, ritual clothing, beaded leather bags. Some are believed to have been taken from Wounded Knee immediately after the 1890 massacre, when U.S. troops killed as many as 300 or more Lakota men, women and children. Since the 1890s the collection had been kept in a small-town library museum in Barre, Massachusetts, now known as the Founders ... More | | 
Oskar Kokoschka, Self-Portrait of a "Degenerate Artist (Selbstbildnis eines Entarteten Künstlers), 1937. Oil on canvas, 110 x 85 cm. National Galleries of Scotland, on loan from a private collection © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka, 2023, VEGAP, Bilbao.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Musée dArt Moderne de Paris, Paris Musées present Oskar Kokoschka. A Rebel from Vienna, a major retrospective devoted to the Austrian artist considered one of the fathers of Viennese modernism. The exhibition is sponsored exclusively by BBVA Foundation, Strategic Trustee of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Oskar Kokoschka (b. 1886; d. 1980) garnered early success in Viennas art scene, where he was backed by Gustav Klimt, exerted an influence on Egon Schiele when the latter was young, and achieved international renown at the end of his career after the two world wars. By the waning days of World War II, Kokoschka was calling for a united Europe, and his late production left its mark on the Neue Wilde, the new painting in Austria and Germany. Even though he ... More |
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| First-ever playable basketball court in an art museum, CAMH COURT with artist Tren | | Chiswick to auction MI5 spy's Breitling diver's watch, BBC chronograph, March 22 | | 'Inside' Review: Tortured artist, meet tortured man | 
Backboard (Becoming the Toymaker).
HOUSTON, TX.- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and adidas Basketball announce CAMH COURT, the first-ever playable basketball court in an art museum, commissioned and designed by Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. CAMH COURT is on view, and playable, from March 18April 27, 2023. The NCAA Mens Final Four® lands in Houston this spring. In celebration of this, one of the United States oldest non-collecting contemporary art museums will transform into a basketball court. CAMH COURT is a unique envisioning of a basketball court conforming to the signature dimensions of CAMHs Brown Foundation Gallery through the canting of a regulation-size court into a parallelogram. Emerging from Hancocks hyper-imagination, the court is an immersive and uniquely spirited playing environment where audiences can dunk from the three-point line or lose themselves in the embrace of Hancocks striped Bringback characters, which swarm ... More | | 
18K gold Breguet manual watch with skeleton champagne hour ring and black numerals and hands. Originally sold on Nov. 29, 1972 in London. Original strap with gold Breguet buckle. Estimate: £15,000-£20,000 ($18,105-$24,140).All images courtesy of Chiswick Auctions, London.
LONDON.- A rare 1960s wristwatch made for the BBC comes up for sale at Chiswick Auctions in London on March 22. Made by Lemania, the stainless steel manual chronograph was chosen by the British television network for its great accuracy. In the pre-digital era, program staff and producers relied on a good timekeeper during live broadcasts. The watch has the BBC initials engraved to the back and the BBC inventory number 4269. It is expected to bring £1,500-£2,500 ($1,810-$3,015). Chiswicks specialist Watches sale includes a number of very special issues. An extremely rare Breitling stainless steel automatic divers watch is from the estate of a spy who worked with MI5, Britains domestic counter-intelligence ... More | | 
Willem Dafoe stars as an art thief who gets trapped in a penthouse in this drama.
by Amy Nicholson
NEW YORK, NY.- The art thief (a brutish Willem Dafoe) trapped in a megamillionaires extravagant loft knows the value of the bronze wedge hes damaging in a desperate attempt to pry open the door. Its one of the few pieces he intended to steal from the smart home before its security pad failed and the exits locked shut. But Vasilis Katsoupis, the director of the stark survival thriller Inside, deliberately withholds that the makeshift crowbar is meant to be the Lynn Chadwick piece Paper Hat, last auctioned at 2.5 million pounds. Katsoupis prefers his moral challenge incalculable: Do we want the art to endure or the criminal? Playing fair, the filmmaker also refuses to share details about the burglar. Blessedly, there are no flashbacks to the robbers mother, no panic about a spouse or cat, and not much voice-over aside from a couple ... More |
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| Biden plans to name Nevada's Spirit Mountain area a national monument | | 1865 manuscript broadside of the 13th amendment signed by the vice president and 111 congressmen leads sale | | 2023 Adelaide Festival cements itself as nation's pre-eminent international arts festival | 
The Spirit Mountain area, also known by the Mojave name Avi Kwa Ame and home to some of the largest and oldest Joshua Trees, in the Mojave Desert, Nev., on Jan. 6, 2023. (John Burcham/The New York Times)
by Coral Davenport
WASHINGTON, DC.- President Joe Biden plans next week to designate nearly a half-million acres of the Spirit Mountain area in southern Nevada as a national monument, according to two people familiar with the matter, protecting some of the most biologically diverse and culturally significant lands in the Mojave Desert. The area, also known by the Mojave name Avi Kwa Ame, represents the largest such monument that Biden has designated to date. But it could also put some of the most potentially productive land in Nevada off limits to wind and solar projects. Avi ... More | | 
Manuscript broadside of the 13th Amendment signed by the Vice President and 111 congressmen.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Thursday, March 30 auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana at Swann Galleries will feature 300 lots dedicated to the African American experience in North America. The sale includes material spanning from the seventeenth century documenting the dark days of slavery and the Civil War through the modern era with ephemera related to the Civil Rights movement, artists, performances and concerts, Black-owned businesses, and more. Leading the sale is an outstanding original 1865 manuscript broadside of the 13th Amendment ending slavery, signed by the Vice President and 111 congressmen. It is one of a handful of commemorative copies circulated in the halls of Congress for signatures. ... More | | 
Sopolemalama-Filipe-Tohi- BoS. Pier2-3. April 22-1.
ADELAIDE.- The 2023 Adelaide Festival has been abundant in exclusive events, standing ovations and critical acclaim as it heads towards its final weekend. In the first full-strength international program in two years, Adelaide Festival has welcomed 893 artists from 18 countries, bringing with them global voices, brave new visions and contemporary theatre classics. With two days still to go, the Adelaide Festival has exceeded its box office target, reaching $5,886,972 (figure excludes WOMADelaide). A total audience of 239,280 attended all Adelaide Festival events both ticketed and free (including WOMADelaide). The total number of tickets sold to Adelaide Festival performances was 83,312. Interstate audiences remained committed to their annual festival pilgrimage, snapping ... More |
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A Life Less Ordinary: Guest Curator Lous and the Yakuza
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 VCE excellence shines at Top Arts 2023MELBOURNE.- Yesterday, the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Top Arts 2023 opened for its 29th year, showcasing the talent of Victorias emerging creatives who have excelled in VCE art subjects. Top Arts 2023 celebrates the creativity, vision and commitment of 38 emerging artists and designers from across the state who have used art to bring their passions and concerns into sharp focus. The exhibition, which will end on July 9th, showcases works that are provocative and introspective, spanning themes of cultural and gender identity, vulnerability, society and nature. Highlights from the exhibition include Minh Dangs striking portrait Sorrow 2022 which depicts the artists friend and reflects on the challenges of a young queer man growing up in rural Victoria. Dagoman, Wardaman and Gurindji woman Jasmine Glass has produced ... More  Review: A pageant of love and antisemitism, in 'Parade'NEW YORK, NY.- You do not expect the star of a musical about a man lynched by an antisemitic mob to be his wife. Especially when that man, Leo Frank, who was murdered in Georgia in 1915, is played, with his usual intensity and vocal drama, by Ben Platt. Yet, in the riveting Broadway revival of the musical Parade that opened Thursday at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, its Micaela Diamond, as Lucille Frank, you watch most closely and who breaks your heart. With no affectation whatsoever, and a voice directly wired to her emotions, she makes Lucille our way into a story we might rather turn away from. True, this alters the balance of the show as originally staged by Harold Prince in 1998, further tipping it toward the marriage instead of the miscarriage of justice. Also toward the rapturous score by Jason Robert Brown, which won a Tony Award ... More  Lewis Spratlan, who took winding route to music Pulitzer, dies at 82NEW YORK, NY.- Lewis Spratlan won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in music for a chunk of an opera that he had completed in 1978 and that no one had ever staged. Then he waited another decade before someone actually put the full opera in front of an audience. It was awful, not hearing this piece, he told The New York Times in 2010, when his long wait was about to come to an end. Its like a woman being pregnant forever. The opera, Life Is a Dream, with a libretto by James Maraniss, was finally staged by the Santa Fe Opera in July 2010, 35 years after Spratlan and Maraniss had begun writing it. Anthony Tommasini, reviewing the premiere in the Times, called it an important opera, the rare philosophical work that holds the stage and gives singing actors real characters to grapple with. Spratlan, whose long road to the Pulitzer ... More  Final Sondheim musical will be staged in New York this fallNEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Sondheims long-in-the-works Luis Buñuel musical, which he described as unfinished just days before his death, will be staged in New York this fall, giving audiences the chance to see the final show by one of the most important artists in musical theater history. The musical, now titled Here We Are, is inspired by two Buñuel films, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel. Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics, the book is by playwright David Ives (Venus in Fur), and Joe Mantello (Wicked) will direct. The show, scheduled to begin performances in September, will be a commercial off-Broadway venture, produced by Tom Kirdahy (Hadestown) in a 500-seat theater at the Shed, a multidisciplinary arts venue in Hudson Yards. The Shed, a nonprofit, is being described as a co-presenter. ... More  TRANSFIX, the world's largest touring immersive art experience, launching at Resorts World Las Vegas this April 2023LAS VEGAS, NV.- TRANSFIX, the worlds largest touring immersive art experience, is pleased to announce its inaugural edition, launching this April on the Las Vegas Strip at Resorts World Las Vegas. TRANSFIX will present over 50 interactive, kinetic, illuminated, and fire-breathing artworks by international artists across a 200,000 square-foot multi-level venue. TRANSFIX will open to the public on April 21, 2023, and will run through Fall 2023. Following its Las Vegas residency, TRANSFIX will roll out globally, with plans to tour across major US cities and abroad. Designed to be an experience unlike any other, participants are invited to embark on their own 90-120 minute journey through a two-acre labyrinth. The venue, ... More  Galerie 1900-2000 and Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois open in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Paris based galleries Galerie 1900-2000 and Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois open a joint space at 1018 Madison Avenue in New York. David Fleiss along with his partner Sylvain Rouillon, and Georges-Philippe Vallois, Nathalie Vallois, and their partner Marianne Le Métayer, are pleased to announce the opening of their New York gallery space. Together, these longtime friends bring more than 40 years of knowledge and experience in important 20th century French and International avant-garde movements such as DADA, Surrealism, Nouveau Réalisme, and Photorealism. Located in the historically renowned building at 1018 Madison Avenue, the galleries will occupy the 5th and 6th floors and will be operated by Natalia Sacasa, Senior Director, and Cassie Legg, Junior Director. The galleries are currently ... More  Vintage Computer Mouse created by pioneer Douglas Engelbart sold for $178,936 at auctionBOSTON, MASS.- An early mouse and coding keyset created by computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart sold for $178,936 at auction, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The pair of early input devices like those used in his iconic 1968 'Mother of All Demos.' The rare, early three-button computer mouse designed by Engelbart, utilizes two metal discs which correspond to the X-axis and Y-axis on the bottom to locate the position of the cursor, rather than a ball or optical light that came to be used later. The coding keyset, features five keys, permitting 31 key-press combinations, for typing and entering commands. As demonstrated in the 'Mother of All Demos,' this hardware configuration allowed a user to point and click using the mouse in the right hand, while entering commands using the keyset on the left. The keyset was meant to ... More  UK creative artist Karen Palmer wins South by Southwest 2023 Award for innovation XR experienceLONDON.- Future Art and Culture is delighted to announce that UK creative artist Karen Palmers project CONSENSUS GENTIUM has won the XR experience competition at this years South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. The award-winning international artist and TED Speaker uses interactive storytelling to explore race, bias in technology and social justice. An immersive, interactive experience exploring the implications of A.I., her latest work, Consensus Gentium, incorporates film, surveillance and facial recognition technology, and the Parkour philosophy of moving through fear, in a branching narrative that is responsive to its audiences emotions and their compliance or dissidence. Consensus Gentium, which was made with the support of the BFI (awarding National Lottery funding), and produced by Tom Millen, ... More  Finding a voice (and bodies) for an untold South African storyLONDON.- In the summer of 1891, a group of singers from the Cape in South Africa embarked on an unlikely enterprise. Calling themselves the African Choir, they sailed to England to earn money to build a school for their community. On a two-year tour, they performed traditional African songs, Christian hymns and English ballads, drawing large crowds and an invitation to sing for Queen Victoria at her residence on the Isle of Wight. They even did a stint in North America. But by the time they returned to South Africa in 1893, they had been worn down by rapacious tour managers, discrimination and internal dissent. Then they were forgotten for over a century. In Broken Chord, which opens at Sadlers Wells here on Friday, the South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma and the composer Thuthuka Sibisi evoke the physical and spiritual ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Cornelis Ketel was born March 18, 1548. Cornelis or Cornelius Ketel (18 March 1548 - 8 August 1616) was a Dutch Mannerist painter, active in Elizabethan London from 1573 to 1581, and in Amsterdam from 1581 to the early 17th century, now known essentially as a portrait-painter, though he was also a poet and orator, and from 1595 began to sculpt as well. In this image: Woman Aged 56 painted in 1594.
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