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The artist Maurizio Cattelan at Gagosian in New York with a wall of his new work, Sunday, its gold-plated steel panels riddled with bullets from pistols, rifles and semiautomatic weapons at a New York firing range, April 23, 2024. One of todays foremost artists, with a reputation that pervades well beyond the art world, Cattelan, 63, has a new bullet-riddled exhibition in New York that is bound to raise even more questions and some eyebrows. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
MILAN.- You should never ask an artist about their art, Maurizio Cattelan said, immediately on arrival. The best art raises lots and lots of questions, he added. Not answers. One of todays foremost artists, with a reputation that pervades well beyond the art world, Cattelan, 63, has a new bullet-riddled exhibition in New York that is bound to raise even more questions and some eyebrows. He grants vanishingly few ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Radical Playgrounds. Ein Kunstparcours am Gropius Bau, The Playground Project. Photo: Camille Blake.
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| Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art opens an exhibition of works by Liv Mette Larsen | | At the Louvre, the Olympics are more French than you might think | | Christie's to offer Property from the Collection of Mary & John Pappajohn |
Liv Mette Larsen, Milori Blue 57th Street I, 2023. Egg tempera on linen, 24 x 18 inches. 18 x 24 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art is presenting Liv Mette Larsen: Milori Blue. This is Larsens second solo exhibit with the Gallery. On view are twenty-six egg tempera paintings created entirely in 2023 from three distinct seriesMilori Blue 57th Street, Raw Umber, and Open Strokes, as well as some watercolors from the Arma Scrap Metal series. While this body of work slightly ... More | |
Statuette de coureuse. Laconie (Grèce). The British Museum, London © The Trustees of the British Museum.
PARIS.- The flame is coming home, the director of the Paris Olympics, Tony Estanguet, told a crowd of reporters and critics gathered in the Louvres interior sculpture garden Tuesday. The sun streamed through the vaulted glass roof, lighting up a bronze sculpture of a discus thrower installed beneath a lapis blue arch emblazoned with ... More | |
Bruce Naumans Hanged Man ($4,000,000 6,000,000) transforms simple neon lines into a frenetic, sexual image. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced Property from the Collection of Mary & John Pappajohn which will be offered as a group of highlights during the Spring Marquee Week of sales in New York. The collection includes an incredible array of artworks by leading names in post-war and contemporary art including Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, ... More |
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| Titanic's treasures captivate collectors, but they'll need deep pockets | | MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons opens an exhibition at Galerie Barbara Thumm | | 36 hours in Munich |
A pocketbook from among the items up for sale at an auction of Titanic memorabilia and other shipping artifacts. (Henry Aldridge & Son via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Tony Probsts passion for the Titanic is unwavering. Since the mid-1990s, he has amassed hundreds of artifacts from the ships maiden voyage in 1912, including a lifeboat plaque, china, sheet music and an array of personal documents. I believe Im the only person on planet Earth who has every piece of paper for one individual to get on board Titanic, Probst, 64, said proudly this week. His collection is ... More | |
MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons: My Mother Told Me I Am Chinese: China Porcelain, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm.
BERLIN.- Born in Matanzas province, Cuba, the renowned interdisciplinary artist MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons works with performance, painting, photography, video, music, and sculpture. Campos-Pons explores themes of identity, race, gender, diaspora, and spirituality in her work, impulsed by her transcultural Nigerian, Chinese, and Spanish heritage. With an artistic career spanning over four decades, MarÃa Magdalena Campos-Pons returns to Berlin with her ... More | |
A visitor at the the Lenbachhaus Museum, which boasts the worlds largest collection of paintings by Der Blaue Reiter, or the Blue Rider, group of Expressionist artists, in the museum quarter of Munich, April 4, 2024. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
MUNICH.- Munich is giving Berlin, its longtime cultural rival, a run for its money. Shedding its reputation as the conservative Bavarian capital, Munich is emerging as a younger, laid-back hub thats balancing tradition and innovation in unusual ways. Look to the Schlachthofviertel, a rapidly evolving cultural district centered on an active ... More |
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| Pin-ups, spicy pulp and Patrick Nagel's playmate take Heritage's illustration Art Auction to nearly $3 million | | Preserving Black history, on T-shirts | | Mickalene Thomas takes Los Angeles |
Gil Elvgren (American, 1914-1980), Your Choice - Me?, 1962. Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches.
DALLAS, TX.- The wide-ranging appeal of blue-chip Illustration Art and Heritages reputation as the industry leader in the category continues to expand and explode. On April 23, in its latest Illustration Art Signature® Auction, the auction house nailed its highest-grossing Illustration Art event in years, landing $2,935,858 over approximately 500 lots and a number of artist records broken. It was a great day all around at the auction ... More | |
Tremaine Emory at his store Denim Tears in New York, March 19, 2024. (Nate Palmer/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Not long after Tremaine Emory resigned his position as Supremes creative director last summer, he came across an image of an old hoodie from the brand emblazoned with one of its familiar biting slogans: Illegal business controls America. The hoodie is part of the Supreme canon, an embodiment of its middle-finger approach to appropriation, with its use of the signature Futura font lifted from ... More | |
Mickalene Thomas, Din avec la main dans le miroir et jupe rouge, 2023. Rhinestones, acrylic and glitter on canvas mounted on wood panel. 90 x 110 in (228.6 x 279.4 cm). © Mickalene Thomas.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Mickalene Thomas has been getting into neon. But then, the artist is constantly exploring new materials and methods, which is why her practice includes painting, collage, sculpture, printmaking, photography and video. Now the scope of her work will be captured by a sweeping exhibition in Los Angeles at the Broad, ... More |
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| Did Richard III kill the princes in the tower? | | Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Rugs and Carpets achieves £10,021,672 | | Exhibition features new embroidered photographic collages from Joana Choumali's "Alba'hian" series |
Philippa Langley, an independent historian who is perhaps King Richard IIIs most dedicated defender, author of The Princes in the Tower, Solving Historys Greatest Cold Case, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Feb. 8, 2024. (Robert Ormerod/The New York Times)
EDINBURGH.- For more than 400 years, Richard III has been seen as Britains most infamous king a power-hungry usurper who killed his young nephews to clear the way to the throne. In Shakespeares Richard III, the king tells an assassin, I wish the bastards dead, referring to the princes Edward V and Richard. And I would have ... More | |
A silk and metal-thread Koum Kapi Prayer Rug signed Zareh Penyamin, Istanbul, Turkey, circa 1920. Realised £277,200 (Estimate £50,000-70,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
LONDON.- Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Rugs and Carpets sale took place live at Christies London on 25 April 2024, realising a total of £10,021,672. This season the sale comprised 261 lots including paintings, ceramics, metalwork, works on paper, arms and armour, textiles and rugs and carpets from across the Islamic world with works dating from the 10th ... More | |
IF WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DANCE, WHY ALL THIS MUSIC?, 2024. Mixed media, embroidery, paint, manual collage, sheer fabric, and digital photograph printed on canvas, triptych; 56 7/8 x 38 1/2 inches (144,5 x 97,8 cm) 58 5/8 x 40 1/8 x 2 1/4 inches (148,9 x 101,9 x 5,7 cm) frame
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater is presenting Joana Choumalis second solo at the gallery, I am not lost, just wandering, featuring new embroidered photographic collages from the artists Albahian series. Every morning, Choumali wakes at 5am and walks for long stretches ... More |
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Deep beneath London, onetime bomb shelters will become a tourist attraction
LONDON.- Theres a locked door on the eastbound platform of the Chancery Lane station of the London Underground. The door is unassuming, sturdy and white. Behind it is a wide set of stairs leading to a roughly mile-long maze of tunnels built in the 1940s that were first intended to serve as a World War II shelter and later used for espionage, the storage of 400 tons of government documents and telecom services. Welcome to the Kingsway Exchange tunnels, set roughly 100 feet below street level in the center of London, sprawling beneath the Undergrounds Central Line. Soon they could enter a new chapter: Angus Murray, the owner of the complex, who bought the tunnels last summer, has applied for planning permission to local authorities together with architecture firm WilkinsonEyre to turn the tunnels into a tourist destination ... More
Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson lead 'D.C.-Palooza'
WASHINGTON, DC.- The early arrivals at a party thrown by the Hollywood powerhouse Creative Artists Agency on Friday night seemed to be weighing the same question: Just how much could they expect to let loose during this yearâs White House Correspondentsâ Association Dinner weekend? Their game of chicken did not go on long. By 8 p.m., guests at the talent agencyâs event, held at La Grande Boucherie in Washington, were applying temporary tattoos to one anotherâs necks and trying to prevent their drinks from sloshing onto a baby grand piano. The weekendâs main event, known as ânerd prom,â is a Saturday night banquet at the Washington Hilton Hotel. There, Colin Jost of âSaturday Night Liveâ plans to gently roast President Joe Biden, who is expected to take the dais and attempt some zingers of his own. In addition to the annual dinner, the i ... More
From a heavy metal band in Hijabs, a message of girl power
JAKARTA.- The drummer crashed her cymbals. The bass player clawed at her guitar. The crowd raised index and pinkie fingers in approval. The lead singer and guitarist stepped up to the mic and screamed, Our body is not public property! And dozens of fans threw themselves into a frenzy for the hijab-wearing heavy metal trio. We have no place for the sexist mind, the lead singer, Firda Kurnia, shrieked into the mic, singing the chorus of one of the bands hit songs, (Not) Public Property, during a December performance in Jakarta, Indonesias capital. Nearly a decade after first emerging, Voice of Baceprot (pronounced bachey-PROT, meaning noise in Sundanese, one of the main languages spoken in Indonesia) has earned a large domestic following with songs that focus on progressive themes like female empowerment, pacifism and ... More
A novelist who finds inspiration in Germany's tortured history
BERLIN.- She became a writer because her country vanished overnight. Jenny Erpenbeck, now 57, was 22 in 1989, when the Berlin Wall cracked by accident, then collapsed. She was having a girls evening out, she said, so she had no idea what had happened until the next morning. When a professor discussed it in class, she said, it became real to her. The country she knew, the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, remains a crucial setting for most of her striking, precise fiction. Her work, which has grown in acuity and emotional power, combines the complications of German and Soviet history with the lives of her characters, including those of her own family members, whose experiences echo with the past like contrapuntal music. Her latest novel to be translated into English, Kairos, has been a breakthrough. It is ... More
Noche Flamenca, raising the dead with Goya
NEW YORK, NY.- As models for choreography, even the greatest painters are of limited use. Dance, for all of its concern with stage compositions, is an art of motion; painting, even when it implies action, is static. But painters can provide choreographers with an angle of vision, a way of looking at the world. Each section of Searching for Goya, the program that Noche Flamenca is performing at the Joyce Theater this week, takes its title from a work by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. Most sections start or start and finish with a tableaulike staging of the image in question. The dancing doesnt exactly bring it to life. Its more that the image is a frame for the flamenco. Searching for Goya is in many ways a typical Noche Flamenca program. It has the companys signature virtues: excellent musicians (especially the core singers, ... More
Retrospective of Niki de Saint Phalle opens at Nelson-Atkins
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The first full-career U.S. retrospective of French American avant-garde artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) opened April 27 at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Saint Phalles highly accessible works in two- and three-dimensions resonate with visitors of all ages and sophistication levels. Most of the pieces that are on view have never been seen before in the U.S. Niki de Saint Phalle: Rebellion and Joy closes July 21, 2024. Saint Phalle is one of the late twentieth centurys great creative personalities who was ahead of her time, said Julián Zugazagoitia, Director & CEO of the Nelson-Atkins. This exhibition presents the arc of her career from societal rage to communal joy and celebration. Saint Phalles magic is the multiplicity of her work and her ability to discuss serious issues ... More
'Forbidden Broadway' scraps summer Broadway run, citing crowded season
NEW YORK, NY.- In a sign that there are not enough investors and ticket buyers to sustain all of the Broadway shows now onstage and in the works, the producers of Forbidden Broadway said Friday that they were canceling a planned summer run. The scrapped production, Forbidden Broadway on Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song, was announced in February and was to be the first Broadway venture for the satirical revue, which has been performed periodically since 1982, mostly off-Broadway but also on tour. The show, consisting of comedic sketches that parody Broadway hits (and misses), has been frequently rewritten to remain reasonably timely and topical; the Broadway run was to feature a number of Stephen Sondheim spoofs, reflecting the heightened interest in his work since his death. In a statement, the producers, Ryan ... More
A wanderer, Ravel and Suzanne Farrell: Life is good at City Ballet
NEW YORK, NY.- With certain dancers, there is an interior drama, an intimate dialogue between movement and music that manages to quiet the air around them, pulling them into greater focus. Mira Nadon, the young New York City Ballet principal, is growing into that place of spellbinding luminosity. Weve seen her unflappable elegance, her cool sensuality and her creamy elasticity. But dancing in Errante, on the opening program of the companys spring season that began Tuesday, she displayed a new kind of dancing courage. The ballet, originally known as Tzigane after its score by Maurice Ravel, was revived this season with a staging by Suzanne Farrell and a new name, Errante, or wandering. Created for the companys 1975 Ravel Festival, it was the first ballet George Balanchine choreographed for Farrell upon ... More
PEN America cancels World Voices Festival amid Israel-Gaza criticism
NEW YORK, NY.- The free expression organization PEN America has canceled its annual World Voices Festival after a wave of participants withdrew, spurred by a boycott campaign led by writers who say the groups response to the war in the Gaza Strip has been insufficiently critical of Israel. The festival, which was supposed to begin May 8, was canceled Friday, days after PEN America canceled the prize ceremony for its literary awards after nearly half of the nominees withdrew in protest. The festival, held in New York and Los Angeles, was to have included writers from around the world and dozens of panels, readings and events. In a news release, PEN America said it made the decision because a growing number of writers had pulled out, some because of differences with the group as well as some who said they had felt pressured to do so and felt genuine fear. ... More
Anthony Roth Costanzo, star countertenor, to lead Opera Philadelphia
NEW YORK, NY.- Anthony Roth Costanzo, the celebrated American countertenor who is one of operas biggest stars, will lead Opera Philadelphia as its next general director and president, the company announced Thursday. Costanzo, 41, whose tenure starts in June, will be a rare figure in the classical music industry: an artist in his prime who is also working as an administrator. He said he would continue to perform widely even as he works to reshape Opera Philadelphia, which has struggled to recover from the disruption of the pandemic. Im really interested in how I can have the most impact, Costanzo said in an interview. And theres only so much you can do as an individual artist. Stephen K. Klasko, the chair of Opera Philadelphias board of directors, said Costanzo rose to the top of a list of 40 candidates because of his eagerness ... More
Richard Gordon's 18K Gold Omega Speedmaster sells for $138,908 at auction
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction, a Boston-based auction house, is thrilled to announce the sale of Richard Gordon's 18K gold Omega Speedmaster Professional for $138,908. This exquisite timepiece is part of Omega's limited 'Tribute to Astronauts' series, which consists of only 26 watches. Each is uniquely numbered and features special engravings that reflect the astronaut's significant contributions to space missions. Marked as "No. 20," Gordon's watch includes an engraving that reads, "Astronaut Richard R. Gordon, Gemini 11 - Apollo 12," along with a quote celebrating humanity's space achievements: "To mark man's conquest of space with time, through time, on time." The design features a burgundy-red aluminum inlay on the gold bezel, onyx hour markers, and a Lemania-based copper-colored chronograph ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Yves Klein was born April 28, 1928. Yves Klein (French pronunciation: (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. In this image: Yves Klein, âUntitled Fire-Color Painting (FC 1),â 1961. Private Collection. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Image courtesy Yves Klein Archives.
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