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Alice Ginsburg, 93, is interviewed for a new installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York on July 24, 2024. The installation will use artificial intelligence to allow visitors to interact with prerecorded images of survivors of the Holocaust. (Danielle Amy/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan, like other institutions that memorialize the Holocaust, has long relied on survivors to provide firsthand accounts of the cruelties imposed by the Nazis and the various paths people took to endure. But with the ranks of survivors thinning almost all are in their 80s or 90s the museum has been working to find the most effective ways to convey to future generations how easily a civilized society can descend into almost incomprehensible barbarism and systematic mass ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is jointly organising with the Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia an exhibition on the Spanish figurative painter Rosario de Velasco (Madrid, 1904 - Barcelona, 1991).
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| 'Millions of cats' and prints for grown-ups: Wanda Gág at the Whitney | | In Aspen, a new art fair follows the money | | Judge awards Schiele drawing to heirs of merchant killed by the Nazis |
Wanda Gág, Lamplight, 1929. Lamplight , 1929 Lithograph 13 1/2 à 10 1/16 in. (34.3 à 25.6 cm) Purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund 96.68.115
NEW YORK, NY.- If you plan to catch the tail end of the Whitney Biennial, there is an amuse-bouche nestled in the museums permanent collection that grounds the palate after that cerebral and political display. At only 20 works 18 prints and two books under glass Wanda Gágs World is hardly a world at all. Its a window into one. But ... More | |
Zanele Muholi, the South African photographer who is an artist in residence at the Aspen Art Fair, in Aspen, Colo., July 30, 2024. (Kristin Braga Wright/The New York Times)
ASPEN, COLO.- A down art market? Depressed dealers? Fatigued buyers? None of that matters in Aspen, Colorado. At least that is the theory behind a new art fair in the city when the global arts industry is in a slump. Aspen is both rich and spendy, with one of the highest concentrations of ultrawealthy homeowners in the country. Even the worst ... More | |
The heirs to a former textile merchant murdered by the Nazis were awarded ownership of an Egon Schiele portrait of his wife in a ruling on Thursday. (via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- For three weeks in May a judge in Rochester, New York, heard evidence meant to solve the mystery of who really owns a drawing of a smiling woman by Austrian artist Egon Schiele. For years, the drawing has been in the possession of a foundation named after Robert Owen Lehman Jr., who said he had received the work, Portrait ... More |
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| Manfred Kirchheimer, 'indispensable' New York filmmaker, dies at 93 | | Liverpool Cathedral to present an exciting and UK-first exhibition by the internationally acclaimed sculptor | | Golf course atop ancient Native American earthworks to be removed |
Manfred Kirchheimer, a filmmaker who documented New York City, edits a film project at his home in Manhattan, Oct. 3, 2014. (Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Manfred Kirchheimer, a filmmaker who was drawn to stickball, jazz, subway graffiti, gargoyles on old buildings and the memories of aging immigrants, and who after decades of slowpoke perfectionism earned a reputation as a master of nonfiction cinema, died July 16 at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 93. The cause was cancer, his son Gabe ... More | |
Anish Kapoor. Sectional Body Preparing for Monadic Singularity, 2015. Photo: D.Saulnier. Interior view: Jonathan Leijonhufvud. © Anish Kapoor. All rights reserved, DACS 2024.
LIVERPOOL.- To celebrate its centenary in 2024, Liverpool Cathedral will present an exciting and UK-first exhibition by the internationally acclaimed sculptor Anish Kapoor. One of the most innovative and influential artists of our time, Kapoor is renowned for his iconic works, such as Cloud Gate in Chicago and the Orbit Tower at the Olympic Stadium in London. ... More | |
A viewing platform for earthworks at Moundbuilders Country Club in Newark, Ohio, on Sunday, April 4, 2021. (Seth Moherman/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- After more than a decade of at-times acrimonious back-and-forth, Ohios state historical society has reached a deal with a country club that operates a golf course on land it owns that contains ancient Native American earthworks that were built as sacred sites about 2,000 years ago. Under the agreement, the society, known as the Ohio History Connection, will acquire the clubs long-term lease on the property ... More |
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| Come see St. Petersburg as a great composer saw it | | Pace to present an exhibition of new work by Mary Corse in New York | | Exhibition brings together around 30 paintings by Spanish figurative painter Rosario de Velasco |
Samuel Friedrich Deitz (German, 1803 1873), Imprimeries Lemercier (French, active 1803 1901), Daziaro Publishing House (Russian, active 1827 1918), Bolshoi Theater in St. Petersburg, ca. 1840. Lithograph, 14 13/16 Ã 20 5/16 inches (sheet). Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Promised gift from the Parker Collection. GMOA E.2018.208.23.
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition Saint Petersburg as Franz Liszt Saw It from August 10 to December 1, 2024. The exhibition consists of lithographic prints that show St. Petersburg in the mid-19th century and overlaps with the American ... More | |
Mary Corse, Untitled (White Diamond), 2024. Glass microspheres in acrylic on canvas, 70-3/4" à 70-3/4" à 4" (179.7 cm à 179.7 cm à 10.2 cm) © Mary Corse, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace will present an exhibition of new work by Mary Corse at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view from September 13 to October 26, this presentation marks Corses first solo show in the city since 2019 and follows several recent institutional exhibitions by the artist at the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai and the Amorepacific Museum of Art in Seoul, as well as her 2018 traveling retrospective ... More | |
Rosario de Velasco, Portrait of Doctor Luis de Velasco, circa 1933. Oil on canvas, 114 à 84 cm. Colección José A. de Velasco. © Rosario de Velasco, VEGAP, Madrid, 2024.
MADRID.- The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is jointly presenting with the Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia an exhibition on the Spanish figurative painter Rosario de Velasco (Madrid, 1904 - Barcelona, 1991). Curated by Miguel Lusarreta and Toya Viudes de Velasco, the artists great-niece, the exhibition brings together around 30 paintings from the 1920s to the 1940s - the earliest and the most important from Velascos career - and ... More |
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| Words provide supporting lines to vivid images | | Christie's presents An Eye Towards the Real: Photographs from the Collection of Ambassador Trevor Traina | | Amid heavy industry, Canada's newest (and tiniest) national park |
The Chicana activist Dolores Huerta, a founder with Cesar Chavez of what became United Farm Workers, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on May 21, 2024. (Laila Stevens/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- For a documentary photographer who seeks to change the world, images go only so far. Dorothea Lange, a pioneer in the field, put it simply: All photographs, she said, can be fortified by words. Photographs raise questions; they rarely provide answers. In the face of suffering and injustice, they are far ... More | |
Robert Adams, Longmont, Colorado, 1979. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced the upcoming single-owner auction An Eye Towards the Real: Photographs from the Collection of Ambassador Trevor Traina, set to take place live at Christies Rockefeller Center on Thursday, October 3rd. The sale features an array of iconic Post-War and Contemporary photographic works by leading artists including Diane Arbus, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, ... More | |
A yellow sign sports the beaver logo of Parks Canada at Ojibway Prairie Complex, the future site of Canadas new urban national park, in Windsor, Ontario, March 26, 2024. (Tara Walton/The New York Times)
WINDSOR.- The beach is more about broken glass from generations of illicit parties than sand. The roar and squeal of a nearby railway locomotive compete with the birdsong. The wind carries a sweet chemical scent from a cooking oil processing plant to the west. And just across the Detroit River, the skyline offered up by the United States is dominated ... More |
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The Babylonian Map of the World with Irving Finkel | Curator's Corner S9 Ep5
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Smithsonian Associates honors Henry Winkler with John P. McGovern AwardWASHINGTON, DC.- Smithsonian Associates has named actor Henry Winkler the recipient of the 2024 John P. McGovern Award, which will be presented Monday, Oct. 21, at 6:45 p.m. in the Baird Auditorium at the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History. The presentation will highlight an evening in which Winkler discusses topics from his New York Times bestselling 2023 memoir, Being Henry: The Fonz
and Beyond, including his career and his path to stardom and how the issues and causes for which he advocates connect to his roles as an actor, author, comedian, producer and director. Winkler is receiving the John P. McGovern Award for using his voice to amplify important discussions about dyslexia and other issues that touch American lives. McGovern, a noted physician, educator, author and philanthropist, established ... More He Xiangyu opens September 6 at 22 Cortlandt AlleyNEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery announced The Radiance of Liberty, an exhibition of new work by He Xiangyu at 22 Cortlandt Alley. Drawing on the artists own relocation to China in 2023, He Xiangyus new works continue his interest in utilizing traditional craft to explore social, and political themes, as well as the ways in which material itself carries cultural signifiers. Working in Jingdezhen, a region that has been a major site for ceramic production in China for over one thousand years, He builds his sculptures using the coil method, a technique in which repeated coils are stacked to build form. Undergoing an intensive, weeklong firing process, the resulting works take the form of anonymous dwellings. Combined with elements made of poured, molten aluminum throughout the gallery, their uncanny architecture is defined by ... More Benjamin Luxon, British baritone thwarted by hearing loss, dies at 87NEW YORK, NY.- Benjamin Luxon, a warm-voiced British baritone who was admired for his singing of German and British song and his robust opera performances, but whose flourishing career was cut short by encroaching deafness, died July 25 at his home in Sandisfield, Massachusetts. He was 87. His son Daniel said the cause was colon cancer. At the height of his career, in the 1970s and 80s, Luxon was one of the most sought-after singers on British, American and continental operatic stages, in roles like Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin and Falstaff, as well as in the operas of Benjamin Britten. Britten created the title role of the 1971 television opera Owen Wingrave, based on a Henry James short story, specifically for Luxon. Luxons thoughtful singing of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf and English song was praised by critics in England ... More A 'love activist' DJ opened the Olympics. Then came a wave of hate.PARIS.- The Paris Olympics opening ceremony made French DJ Barbara Butch famous and infamous around the world. Already known in France as an outspoken lesbian and activist for fat people, Butch her stage name, of course appeared with a crown and her mixing board in one of the last scenes, called Festivity. For 45 minutes, dancers, including drag queens, showcased their talent along a raised catwalk that stretched down the stage before, at the very end, French singer Philippe Katerine emerged from under a giant silver dome, painted entirely in blue and wearing little clothing, to sing part of Nude, one of his songs. The scene incited an almost instant public fury, particularly among those who interpreted it as parodying Leonardo da Vincis The Last Supper and, by extension, mocking Christianity. Even after the ceremonys ... More Yvonne Furneaux, cosmopolitan actress in 'La Dolce Vita,' dies at 98NEW YORK, NY.- Yvonne Furneaux, a French-born English actress known for her icy beauty and Continental air who brought jet-setting panache to critically acclaimed films including Federico Fellinis La Dolce Vita and Roman Polanskis Repulsion, died July 5 at her home in North Hampton, New Hampshire. She was 98. Her son, Nicholas Natteau, said the cause was complications of a stroke. Furneaux, an Oxford University graduate who studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, got her start on the British stage, including in productions of The Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth. Despite her credentials, however, she was often singled out more for her fashion model looks than for her acting prowess. In a review of a 1955 production of Jean Giraudouxs Ondine, British theater critic Kenneth Tynan wrote Furneaux off as a ... More 36 hours in Nice, FranceNEW YORK, NY.- A weekend in Nice, the French Rivieras unofficial capital and a magnet for European aristocracy since Queen Victorias reign, could happily be spent simply enjoying its world-famous beach and promenade. But Nissa la Bella, or Nice the Beautiful, is more than sipping a floral Hugo spritz or splashing on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Frances second-most-visited city, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2021, brims with the unexpected, including a wealth of prehistory and ancient ruins and newer attractions like a summer-only bar hidden in the back of a church. What can be anticipated is a busier peak season, thanks to spillover from the Paris Olympics (listen for the roars of soccer fans coming from Nice Stadium). Nice, most likely settled around 350 B.C. by Greek mariners called Phocaeans, has been ... More Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter to star in 'Waiting for Godot' on BroadwayNEW YORK, NY.- Call it Bill and Teds Existentialist Adventure. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, the actors who incarnated a pair of slacker musicians for three Bill & Ted films, are planning to reunite for a Broadway revival of Waiting for Godot. The production, planned for the fall of 2025, will be directed by Jamie Lloyd, one of the hottest directors of the moment, whose work is characterized by a spare aesthetic and an emphasis on psychological intensity. Lloyd said the project was Reeves idea, but that as soon as the actor approached him, it was a no-brainer that this needed to be done. Their instant chemistry and their shorthand and their friendship is going to be so valuable, Lloyd said of Reeves and Winter in an interview. This is a very deeply complex play, as we all know, b ... More Danziger Gallery announces Corinne Vionnet's "Paris Paris Paris"NEW YORK, NY.- As the Olympics unfold in their various venues around Paris, Corinne Vionnet has just completed the latest series in her ongoing Photo Opportunities body of work focusing on re-imagined images of Paris. Beginning in 2004 (before many other contemporary artists began layering j-pegs pulled from the internet) what both struck and interested Corinne Vionnet was that when tourists went to a popular travel destination they generally tried to take a picture of the picture they had already seen or that is in the collective imagination rather than seeing it freshly through their own eyes. It occurred to Vionnet that if she searched various online tourist travel sites she could find multiple variations of the same iconic views and if she collected and layered approximately 100 of these images on top of each other she would ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French designer Louis Vuitton was born August 04, 1821. Louis Vuitton (4 August 1821 - 27 February 1892), was the founder of the world-famous Louis Vuitton brand of leather goods now owned by LVMH. Prior to this, he had been appointed as trunk-maker to Empress Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoleon. In this image: In the courtyard of the Asnières workshops, around 1888, Louis, Georges and Gaston L. Vuitton (sitting on a Bed trunk) © LOUIS VUITTON ARCHIVES.
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