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David Hockney (born 1937), Looking at Pictures on a Screen, 1977 Oil on canvas, 188 x 188 cm. Private collection © David Hockney.
LONDON.- I must tell you that I love the collection of the National Gallery. (David Hockney in a letter dated 5 March 1979 to the then Director of the National Gallery, Michael Levey) Two masterpieces by David Hockney (born 1937) that feature reproductions of Piero della Francescas The Baptism of Christ (probably about 143745) are on display at the National Gallery alongside the original Renaissance painting from 8 August until 27 October 2024. This focused exhibition explores the figurative painter David Hockneys lifelong association with the National Gallery and passionate interest in its collection in general and with the 15th-century Italian painter Piero della Francesca (1415/201492) in particular. Indeed, on one occasion, Hockney confessed of 'The Baptism of Christ', I'd love to have that Della Francesca just so I could look at it every day for an hour. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Simon Goodman, heir to the Gutmann family, photo: Aad Hoogendoorn.
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| National Gallery UK touring exhibitions set to reach 1 million visitors | | Nathalie Joachim, Saloni Mathur, and Joseph M. Pierce join MoMA for a one-year residency | | MoMa to open Nour Mobarak's first museum exhibition in New York City |
Visitors view Constables 'The Hay Wain' at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery as part of 'National Treasure' Photo: Jamie Woodley.
LONDON.- The National Gallery is celebrating one million people in the UK visiting a National Gallery touring exhibition over the last decade. This comes as its flagship touring series the The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour turns 10 years old and the Gallery announces its open call for partners for its 202527 iteration. 1,004,763 visitors have now attended National Gallery exhibitions across the UK since the launch a decade ago of the ... More | |
Joseph Pierce. Photo: Sebastián Freire.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces the 202425 cohort of the MoMA Scholars in Residence program, supported by the Ford Foundation: Nathalie Joachim, Saloni Mathur, and Joseph M. Pierce. The program invites three acclaimed, inspiring thinkers to join the Museum for a one-year term to pursue projects and research initiatives that contribute to new understandings of modern and contemporary art. This is the third class of MoMA Scholars, following the 202324 cohort, which included C. Ondine ... More | |
Installation view, Nour Mobarak, Dafne Phono, Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, 2023. Photograph: Stathis Mamalakis. Courtesy the artist and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Nour Mobarak: Dafne Phono, the artists first museum exhibition in New York City and their most ambitious project to date. Dafne Phono, a large-scale installation reinterpreting the first opera, Dafne, which was staged by Jacopo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini in 1598 and inspired by Ovids myth of Apollo and Daphne, will be on view from October 26, ... More |
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| Pace announces an exhibition of new, never-before-exhibited paintings by Maysha Mohamedi | | The Gerald Peters Gallery presents a thought provoking and timely exhibition of new work by Penelope Gottlieb | | For a 'citizen artist,' creativity is a matter of survival |
Maysha Mohamedi with sketchbook and corresponding painting (Bait, 2023) at her Los Angeles studio. Photo by Megan Cerminaro © Maysha Mohamed.
TOKYO.- Pace will present an exhibition of new, never-before-exhibited paintings by American artist Maysha Mohamedi to mark the grand opening of its Tokyo gallery in the citys Azabudai Hills. On view from September 6 to October 16, the show, titled Maysha Mohamedi: yesterday I was a tiny tube of toothpaste, will showcase the artists ability to use color and calligraphic abstraction as means for storytelling. To accompany this exhibition, Pace Publishing will produce a facsimile of the studio sketchbook she used for the works in her Tokyo show, featuring a new text ... More | |
Penelope Gottlieb, Hemerocallis fulva 2024. Acrylic and ink over a digital reproduction of a John James Audubon print, 38 x 26 inches.
SANTA FE, NM.- The Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe is presenting A Delicate Balance, a thought provoking and timely exhibition of new work by Penelope Gottlieb exploring the relationship between humans and the natural world. Through the lens of John James Audubons iconic bird paintings, Gottlieb highlights the impact of invasive plant species on native ecosystems and the delicate balance that must be maintained to sustain life on earth. Gottliebs appropriation of Audubons work highlights the enduring relevance of his artwork and the ways in which our relationship with the natural world has changed ... More | |
Altar of Grief and Transformation by the artist vanessa german. (vanessa german/Robert Chase Heishman/Robert Salazar/Kasmin, New York/ Logan Center Exhibitions/The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago via The New York Times)
CHICAGO, IL.- When I sat down to interview artist vanessa german in her bright, airy temporary studio at the University of Chicago, she was the one who asked the first question. And the second, and the third. She wanted to know who I was and what motivated me in my work and life. She listened to my answers so intently that I was momentarily unnerved. When I finally asked her how she became an artist, she said, I might cry, but Ill just keep going. The exchange with german ... More |
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| Hallyu! The Korean Wave makes a pop culture splash at Asian Art Museum this fall | | Can this woman save the United States? | | The Museum Ludwig team mourns the loss of Kasper König |
The Peong dress by Miss Sohee, 2020 graduation collection 'The Girl in Full Bloom'. Photo: Daniel Sachon.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Splash-landing on September 27, 2024, Hallyu! The Korean Wave celebrates the irresistible charm of an unprecedented global pop culture phenomenon, surfing its evolution across cinema, drama, music, fashion, beauty, and the passionate embrace of fandoms on and offline, from Gen Z to go-go ... More | |
Susan Gibbs by the historic ocean liner named the United States, docked on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, July 11, 2024. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times)
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Susan Gibbs needs to find a new parking spot, fast. And not just any parking spot will do. It needs to be big enough for an ocean liner. Its for a ship bigger than the Titanic, one that is nearly as long as the Chrysler Building is tall. A ship so luxurious that it was the first choice of presidents ... More | |
Kasper König. Photo: Albrecht Fuchs.
COLOGNE.- Kasper König (1943 - 2024) was one of the most important internationally networked exhibition organizers; he was co-founder of Skulptur Projekte Münster, curator of the major exhibitions Westkunst and von hier aus as well as Manifesta in St. Petersburg. He has shaped the art discourse of the last five decades like no other. Kasper König was Director of the Museum Ludwig from 2000 to 2012. "Guided by the will to ... More |
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| Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center presents "Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond" | | Hammer Museum to present 'Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice' | | Derek Eller Gallery announces the passing of Thomas Barrow |
Safety Jacket: A Mourning in Chinatown, 2018. Terence Nicholson. Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, 2022.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC) will present its first museum exhibition in a decade with Sightlines: Chinatown and Beyond, opening Sept. 7 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The exhibition considers Washington, D.C.s Chinatown as both a geographical focal point and a historical nexus, inviting audiences to take a closer look into Asian Americans contributions ... More | |
Jin-me Yoon, Turning Time (Pacific Flyways), 2022. 18-channel video installation. 9:33 to 15:23 min. Installation view. Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery; courtesy of the artist.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum is pleased to announce Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, a groundbreaking exhibition that centers environmental art practices addressing the climate crisis and anthropogenic disasters, and their inescapable intersection with issues of equity and social justice. Part of Gettys region-wide initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide, ... More | |
Barrow pioneered new photographic methods and challenged the structural limits of photography.
NEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery announced the passing of Thomas Barrow (1938-2024). Barrow lived and worked in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and had solo exhibitions with the gallery in 2013, 2015, 2019, and 2020. Since the 1960s when he was a student of Aaron Siskind, Barrow pioneered new photographic methods and challenged the structural limits of photography by pushing the medium into unprecedented forms. As such, he holds a firm place in the ... More |
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Artist Trevor Paglen: At the Expense of Everybody Else
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Breaking's key player is a DJ from New York CityPARIS.- Stephen Fleg has been training much of his life for his Olympic moment. Except he hasnt. Well, not really. Like many Olympic athletes, Fleg, known as DJ Fleg, has devoted years to perfecting his craft. But he is not an athlete in pursuit of a medal. Fleg has been tasked with creating the soundtrack for the Games newest and most hyped event: breaking. And that role comes with more power than you think. Unlike gymnastics or figure skating, where performances are honed over months and sometimes years of practice, breaking lets the DJ pick the music, and competitors have to react to it. The music comes from an Olympic-approved playlist of more than 400 songs. But in each head-to-head battle, the breakers have no idea whats coming. Its very odd, feeling like we have this middle ... More The Paris bridge of Olympic joy and its violent pastPARIS.- If the Olympic Games have made of Paris a midsummer nights dream, perhaps the Pont du Carrousel has been its heart: a dimly lit bridge over glittering water, a merry-go-round of incarnations as the weeks have passed. The broad bridge spans the center of Paris, leading from the Quai Voltaire on the Left Bank of the Seine River to three vaulted openings into the Louvre courtyard on the Right Bank. It has always been a place for lovers to linger, joggers to pause, selfie seekers to snap and Paris wanderers to succumb to wonderment. There are few better places to drink in the city. The Grand Palais and Eiffel Tower rise to the west. To the east loom the domed Académie Française and, in the distance, Notre-Dame Cathedral, now almost restored after the 2019 fire. The cleaned-up river is ever-changing, now churning after ... More Iowa law requiring schools to remove books with sexual content to take effectNEW YORK, NY.- A law in Iowa that bars public schools from having books that depict sexual acts can take effect, following a ruling by federal appeals court judges on Friday. The ruling overturned a preliminary injunction issued in December by a federal judge. The case will now go back to District Court. The law, known as Senate File 496, was signed by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds in May 2023, and bans any titles that describe sexual acts from K-12 schools, with the exception of religious texts. The law also limits instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity before seventh grade, which has led some schools to remove books that address those issues. After the law was passed, thousands of books were banned from schools around the state, according to The Des Moines Register. Titles that have been removed ... More MÃsia, who brought a modern flair to fado music, dies at 69NEW YORK, NY.- MÃsia, an acclaimed singer who helped modernize fado, a traditional Portuguese music known for wistful songs of fate, loss and regret, with a runway-ready style sense and an eclectic approach that earned her the label anarchist of fado, died July 27 in Lisbon. She was 69. Her death was announced by Dalila Rodrigues, Portugals minister of culture, who called MÃsia a fundamental voice in the renewal of fado. News reports said the cause was cancer. Fado the name is derived from the Latin word fatum, meaning fate is an urban folk music spiced with Arabic and other global influences that arose in the 19th century in the grittiest quarters of Lisbon. Marked by a minor-key plaintiveness, the music is rich with feelings of longing and resignation. Like the American blues, fado long functioned as the song of the disenfranchised, ... More The Australian professor who turned breaking on its headPARIS.- Breaking made its debut as an Olympic sport Friday, and among the competitors was Rachael Gunn, also known as B-girl Raygun, a 36-year-old professor from Sydney, who stood out in just about every way. By day, her research interests include dance, gender politics, and the dynamics between theoretical and practical methodologies. But on the worlds stage in Paris, wearing green track pants and a green polo shirt instead of the street-style outfits of her much younger fellow breakers, she competed against 21-year-old Logan Edra of the United States, known as Logistx. During the round robin, as Raygun and Logistx faced off, Raygun lay on her side, reached for her toes, spun around and threw in a kangaroo hop a nod to her homeland. She performed a move that looked something like swimming and another that could ... More Confident, like her character: Myha'la arrivesNEW YORK, NY.- On a humider-than-humid afternoon in July, Myhala stepped into a teahouse in her Brooklyn neighborhood and joined the line leading to the front counter. She was wearing a khaki skirt and a matching cropped jacket that revealed the panther tattoos on either side of her abdomen. Her nails were red she had politely rejected her stylists suggestion to paint them brown and her pixie cut was slick with gel. The menu seemed endless, with lists of flavors and foams that slowed down several customers placing their orders. Myhala, a star of HBOs Generation Z financial drama Industry, knew what she wanted: An oolong latte with almond milk, boba and grass jelly. The woman she plays on the show, Harper Stern, is similarly decisive. As her fellow bright, young overachievers crumble beneath the fluorescent lights ... More Howie Cohen, whose Alka-Seltzer ads spawned catchphrases, dies at 81NEW YORK, NY.- Howie Cohen, an advertising copywriter, often said he was congenitally familiar with indigestion. So perhaps it was only natural that in the 1970s, he, along with an ad agency colleague, would conjure up a catchy slogan that would not only sell more Alka-Seltzer but also become an American pop culture punchline: I cant believe I ate the whole thing. That bedside lament, spoken by comedian and dialectician Milt Moss he actually said that thing on camera vaulted from a 30-second TV commercial to sweatshirts, supermarket windows and even church marquees. It proved even more popular than Try it, youll like it, the first catchphrase for Alka-Seltzer that Cohen coined with his business partner, Bob Pasqualina, an art director at the Manhattan agency Wells Rich Greene. Cohen, who helped popularize products and companies ... More 36 hours in Salzburg, AustriaNEW YORK, NY.- Summer is when Salzburg, the compact Austrian city of medieval alleys, majestic Alpine views and just 150,000 residents, bursts to life. The century-old Salzburg Festival, a six-week celebration of classical music, opera and theater, is in full swing until the end of August, giving music lovers yet another reason to make a pilgrimage to Mozarts birthplace. The neo-baroque Salzburg State Theater, one of the festivals main stages, is fresher after a renovation, and more historic sites are undergoing renewal. What may well be Europes oldest restaurant is rejuvenated every year with stylish, contemporary decor. And a 17th-century palace, with a new restaurant offering contemporary Austrian dishes under the stars, shows how comfortably tradition and innovation coexist in Salzburg. Start your weekend exploring the area ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Jackson Pollock died August 11, 1956. Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his uniquely defined style of drip painting. In this image: Former Museum of Fine Arts, Houston director Peter Marzio poses near works by Jackson Pollock on display Friday, Oct. 17, 2003, in Houston. The works are titled, from left to right, "Echo (Number 25, 1951)," "Number I, 1948" and "Gothic."
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