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The Rubin Museum of Art, housed in what was once the womens wear wing of Barneys New York, in Manhattan, Jan. 31, 2024. The Rubin, with its Tibetian-centered collection that is mostly ancient and mostly religious, will leave its wonderful physical space in October and transition to being, in its own vague words, a museum without walls. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A brick-and-mortar presence can be, often is, a crucial part of an art museums allure. The Guggenheims mother ship interior is such a thrill that it prepares you to love whatevers on view. The interiors of the Frick and the Morgan are intimate enough to make you feel proprietarily, and fabulously, at home. The Rubin Museum of Art also has design and art going for it. Housed in what was once the womenswear wing of Barneys New York, it retains the stores six-story steel-and-marble spiral staircase, and turns spaces conceived for ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day See art by Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol plus rare concept cars in "Eyes on the Road: Art of the Automotive Landscape" at Petersen Automotive Museum.
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| A 'Taxi Driver' remix recasts the climax | | Kasmin opens an exhibition in homage to the acclaimed French sculptors Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne | | Longtime journalist Bob Schieffer bares his soul in a new art exhibition |
Artist Arthur Jafa at the Gladstone Gallery in New York, April 2, 2024. (Laylah Amatullah Barrayn/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Call it a return to his roots. Arthur Jafa began his career as a cinematographer, working with his then-wife, Julie Dash, on the acclaimed Daughters of the Dust (1991) and with Spike Lee on Crooklyn (1994) before garnering art world fame, including a Golden Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, for The White ... More | |
Claude Lalanne, Candélabre (sans feuilles), 1999/2014. Bronze, 35 1/2 x 22 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches, 90.2 x 56.5 x 54 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin opened Les Lalanne: Zoophites, an exhibition in homage to the acclaimed French sculptors Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, drawn entirely from the collection of their eldest daughter, Caroline Hamisky Lalanne. The exhibition includes major works by these inventive artists who consistently defied art- ... More | |
Bob Schieffer in his dining room/art studio in Washington, on March 27, 2024. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)
WASHINGTON, DC.- Bob Schieffer retired from the anchor desk nearly a decade ago, but he never walked away from the news. Confronted with the startling global and political developments of the past several years, the television journalist who spent more than a half-century at CBS, including almost 25 years as the moderator of Face ... More |
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| Documentary filmmaker explores Japan's rigorous education rituals | | The unstoppables: Sharing the secrets of a lifelong career | | Women who made art in Japanese internment camps are getting their due |
Half-British, half-Japanese documentary filmmaker Ema Ryan Yamazaki, whose movies show both the upsides and downsides of Japans commonplace practices, at a classroom in Tokyo, March 9, 2024. In her newest film, Yamazaki focuses on the countrys schools. (Andrew Faulk/The New York Times)
TOKYO.- The defining experience of Ema Ryan Yamazakis childhood left her with badly scraped knees and her classmates with broken bones. During sixth grade in Osaka, Japan, Yamazaki now a 34-year-old documentary filmmaker practiced for weeks ... More | |
Artist Betye Saar, 97, who has more work than she knows what to do with, in Los Angeles, Feb. 9, 2024. (Kayla James/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- What does ambition look like at 90? How do you explain the drive that makes people like Giorgio Armani, fully in command of his global design empire as he approaches his 10th decade, tick? When artist Betye Saar wakes every day, she sets to work on creating the assemblages that are widely exhibited and avidly sought by collectors and major museums artworks ... More | |
Hisako Hibi, Eastern Sky 750 A.M., Feb. 25, 1945. Japanese American National Museum 96.601.47.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ibuki Hibi Lee remembers waking up to the sounds of her mothers paintbrush hitting the canvas in their small New York City apartment. After World War II, during which their family was incarcerated at an internment camp in Utah, they moved to New York City in 1945 so that Hibi Lees parents, Hisako and George Matsusaburo Hibi, could pursue art. Hisako Hibi would always find time to paint, often early in the ... More |
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| Phaidon to release The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 6 | | On April 21, a secret vault opens at Turner Auctions + Appraisals | | Judd Foundation announces 'Robert Irwin' at 101 Spring Street |
The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné (Volume 6) Paintings and Sculptures mid-1977-1980. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York Edited by Neil Printz, Executive Editor Sally King-Nero. Two hardback volumes in a slipcase | $750.00 | July 2024 | 804 pages | 1,500 col. and B&W illus. | phaidon.com
NEW YORK, NY.- This stunning, lavishly illustrated tome traces an enormously inventive and productive period of Warhols career. It includes the entirety of Warhols famous and enigmatic Shadows series, an epic project comprising 273 paintings, which are reproduced together here for the first time. According to Neil Printz, ... More | |
Mexican 50 Pesos Gold Coin, Dated 1947. Gold coin, Mexico 50 Pesos, 1821-1947, 37.5 Gr. Oro Puro 37mm Dia. 41 grams. Estimate $2,000-$2,500.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will open for bidding A Secret Vault on Sunday, April 21, 2024. The sale features intriguing items recently discovered, or rediscovered, by the owners, a couple from Northern California. The 95 lots include autographed letters from famous people, postage stamps from Great Britain, and an assortment of gold coins from the 19th-20th centuries. Auction highlights include signed correspondence by the late ... More | |
Robert Irwin (b. 1928, Long Beach, California; d. 2023, La Jolla, California) was a pioneering figure of the Los Angelesbased Light and Space movement of the 1960s.
NEW YORK, NY.- Judd Foundation presents Robert Irwin, an exhibition of three works at 101 Spring Street in New York. The exhibition marks the first posthumous presentation of Robert Irwins work in the United States and extends inquiries into visual perception made by the artist in the same space more than fifty years ago. Sculpture/Configuration 2T 3L (2018), a column of layered acrylic units, features a material and form first utilized ... More |
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| Fondazione ICA Milano presents 'Ritratto di città 20/20.000Hz' at Centre Pompidou-Metz | | The Contemporary Jewish Museum announces artist list and modified exhibition plans for the California Jewish Open | | Major Hiroshi Shimizu film retrospective in NYC in May 2024 |
Cloe Piccoli. Photo: Delfino Sisto Legnani.
METZ.- Fondazione ICA Milano presents the second appointment part of the international tour of the project Ritratto di città (Portrait of a city). 20/20.000Hz by MASBEDO, curated by Cloe Piccoli. The project is supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (11th edition, 2022), which aims to promote Italian ... More | |
Holly Wong, Lost Language II, 2018. Courtesy the artist.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Today, The Contemporary Jewish Museum has announced the artists included in the first edition of the California Jewish Open. The exhibition is The Museums first major open call-based exhibition, and invited any Jewish-identifying artist living in California to respond to the question: How are artists ... More | |
Sound in the Mist © KADOKAWA 1956.
NEW YORK, NY.- Japan Society and Museum of the Moving Image will co-present a 27-film retrospective devoted to Hiroshi Shimizu, an unsung master of Japanese cinema, from May 4 through June 1. Co-organized with the National Film Archive of Japan and the Japan Foundation, New York, the two-part series will offer the first New York survey of the major, yet ... More |
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Making films about outsiders, increasingly in the mainstream
NEW YORK, NY.- Periods of personal crisis have often yielded writing sprees for Goran Stolevski, a Macedonian filmmaker who has made three critically acclaimed features in three years. Although his recent spate of theatrical releases all by Focus Features could make it seem as if success has been quick to come by for the filmmaker, it has been proceeded by long seasons of debilitating professional uncertainty. Right after turning 30, Stolevski wrote four feature screenplays in a nine-month period he spent living in Bristol, England. Writing gave shape to his days as an unemployed artist who couldnt get any of his projects off the ground. Two of those screenplays became his recent features You Wont Be Alone and Housekeeping for Beginners. Then, after his 2017 short film Would You Look at Her won a prize at the Sundance ... More
A niche Indian actress is thrust into Hollywood's spotlight
NEW YORK, NY.- Sobhita Dhulipala considers herself an outsider wherever she is. She grew up in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, making her an outsider in the countrys financial and fashion capital, Mumbai. Her native tongue is Telugu, making her an outsider in predominantly Hindi-speaking Bollywood. And now, with the release Friday of the high-octane, Jordan Peele-produced Monkey Man, in which she stars alongside Dev Patel, she is again an outsider, thrust into Hollywoods limelight. In fact, the premiere of the film at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, last month was the first time Dhulipala, 31, had ever set foot in the United States. In India, Im South Indian, Dhulipala, who lives in Mumbai, said in a video interview from her hotel room in Los Angeles. When I come to America, Im Indian. Its amazing ... More
'Zone of Interest' Oscars speech is defended by Jewish film artists
NEW YORK, NY.- More than 150 Jewish actors, filmmakers and other artists signed an open letter that was published Friday in defense of remarks about Jewishness and the war in the Gaza Strip that director Jonathan Glazer made in his Oscars acceptance speech for The Zone of Interest, his film about the Holocaust. Glazers speech has become one of the most hotly debated in Oscars history, drawing an open letter of strong denunciation from other Jewish film professionals last month and now one of support. Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, Glazer, who is Jewish, said at the Academy Awards on March 10. Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all ... More
Petersen Automotive Museum's newest exhibit showcases unique concept cars and artwork
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Petersen Automotive Museum's latest exhibit, Eyes on the Road: Art of the Automotive Landscape, is now open in the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery. The exhibit showcases a curated selection of futuristic concept cars and artwork from renowned artists, including Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol and David Hockney. The display explores the relationship between art, automotive innovation and the motoring environment. Eyes on the Road: Art of the Automotive Landscape presents the work of artists and designers whose imaginative creations transformed the motoring environment and the automobile itself from mundane facets of daily life into subjects of wonder and beauty. The display is divided into five sections: vehicle concepts, sign language, at the pump, highways and street art. Vehicle concepts showcases rare, fantastical concept ... More
Howard Atlee, showman who promoted dramas and dogs, dies at 97
NEW YORK, NY.- Howard Atlee, an eclectic publicist who represented award-winning shows during a now-bygone Broadway era and, as an avocation, also bred dachshunds that won best in show at dog competitions, died March 15 in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was 97. His death, in a hospital, was announced by his friend and caregiver Harpreet Singh. Transplanted from an Ohio city of 10,000, Atlee set his sights on Broadway after attending his first professionally staged production while serving in the Navy in Boston. After he was discharged, he was a theater major in college. As a publicist, he would help launch the career of playwright Edward Albee by promoting his first full-length play, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, at the Billy Rose Theater in 1962. Some critics dismissed it as salacious, but Howard Taubman raved in The New ... More
Lynne Reid Banks, author of 'The Indian in the Cupboard,' dies at 94
NEW YORK, NY.- Lynne Reid Banks, a versatile British author who began her writing career with the bestselling feminist novel The L-Shaped Room but found her biggest success with the popular childrens book The Indian in the Cupboard, died on Thursday in Surrey, England. She was 94. Her death, at a care facility, was caused by cancer, said James Wills, her literary agent. Banks was part of a generation of writers, including Shelagh Delaney and Margaret Drabble, that emerged in postwar Britain and whose books explored the struggles of young women seeking personal and financial independence, in sharp contrast to the contemporaneous angry young men literary movement defined by John Osborne and Kingsley Amis. Over her long career, Banks character portrayals were often called insensitive and her language offensive, par ... More
A Willy Wonka event ended in disaster. From its ashes rose a budding star.
NEW YORK, NY.- On one chilly evening in March, after the sun had set and when most school-age children were begrudgingly starting their homework, Felicia Dawkins, 16, enthusiastically hopped on the phone from Scotland to share that her life had changed for the better. She introduced herself with the kind of bubbly energy and giddiness that only a teenager can radiate. It is the same energy that drew millions of viewers to her TikTok account, where she unveiled herself as a key participant in a Willy Wonka-themed event that had gone so poorly that its memes briefly took over large portions of the internet and international news coverage went on for days. That event, in Glasgow, Scotland, in late February, failed to create the dazzling experience it promised. The fallout in true internet fashion was swift and brutal. Organizers ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian-French painter Gino Severini was born April 07, 1883. Gino Severini (7 April 1883 - 26 February 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order" in the decade after the First World War. In this image: A visitor looks at paintings, 'Femme a la Mandoline' (L) and 'Les joueurs de Cartes' (R) by Italian futurist and neo-classic artist Gino Severini,1883-1966, at the Orangerie Museum in Paris.
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