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Gemma Sudlow auctioneering Hindmans inaugural New York auction, Time & Space: Watches from the Collection of Glen de Vries.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindmans first ever New York auction season and a record number of single-owner sales drove Hindman to one of its most memorable years. The firm held 17 single-owner auctions throughout the year across a wide variety of collecting categories including Fine Art, Furniture & Decorative Arts, Watches, Books & Manuscripts, and more. All told, the sales accounted for more than $14 million of the companys $99.7 million total in 2023. This past year the team redoubled our focus on showcasing remarkable single-owner collections at auction, said Alyssa Quinlan, CEO of Hindman. Im proud our efforts resulted in the presentation of property with truly outstanding provenance driving multiple white glove collections and a record number of single-owner sales in 2023. After opening a New York office in the fall of 2022, Hindman ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day George Miller tries to open Lee Krasnow's famed clutch box in Scottsville, N.Y., March 15, 2023. Earlier this year, the Millers relocated the worldâs largest collection of mechanical puzzles from their home in Florida - but first they took a road trip. (Lauren Petracca/The New York Times).
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| Brooklyn Museum, courting pop-culture icons, readies for Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz | | Happy puppies and silly geese: Pushing the limits of AI absurdity | | Moderna Museet Malmo presents Moki Cherry: A Journey Eternal | 
A handout photo shows Arthur Jaffas Big Wheel 1 (2018), a huge tire adorned with chains. (Arthur Jaffa/The Dean Collection/Gladstone Gallery via The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- Call it an embarrassment of riches: Musician Alicia Keys and her husband, Kasseem Dean, the producer and DJ known professionally as Swizz Beatz, have purchased such massive artworks that only a few could squeeze inside their homes in California, New York and New Jersey. Some colossal paintings by artists including Kehinde Wiley, Derrick Adams and Titus Kaphar eventually got through the door and became staples of the couples daily routine backdrops to movie nights and family parties. We have never seen all these artworks in one room, Keys said in a recent interview. That will change Feb. 10 when monumental artworks from their collection star in a major exhibition at the Brooklyn Museums ... More | | 
A handout image generated by artificial intelligence and provided by AISafetyMemes shows a puppy in outer space. (AISafetyMemes via The New York Times)
by Emmett Lindner
NEW YORK, NY.- What is the happiest dog you can imagine? Is it beaming with joy on a celestial plane or frolicking in a field of psychedelic flora? If those images are hard to conjure, have no fear, or perhaps a healthy dose of it: Artificial intelligence can vivify even the most absurd scenarios in vibrant color, and on social media, some are seeing how far it can be pushed. Though AI-generated images can often unsettle with their uncanny realism think the pope in a Balenciaga puffer jacket many are finding joy in a new form of low-stakes image tinkering. This fall, ChatGPT released an update that allowed people to enter prompts for more detailed images than before, and it wasnt long before some began to push the chatbot to its limits. In November, Garrett Scott McCurrach, ... More | | 
Moki Cherry, Title Unknown, 1968 ©️Cherry Archive, Estate of Moki Cherry Bildupphovsrätt 2023.
MALMO.- Moderna Museet Malmö opened the exhibition Moki Cherry A Journey Eternal. The exhibition is the largest presentation to date of the artists works. Moki Cherrys colorful art unites painting, sculpture, textiles, and scenography. Everyday life and art are linked together; a musical instrument case forms the base for a painting, bags for packing are reworked into textile collages, and a philosophy with nature at the center is formulated in drawings. Moki Cherry herself commented on this transgressive approach with the description the stage is a home, and the home is a stage. Her art could be included as an element of concerts in Paris, Copenhagen, or the Scanian countryside. By presenting her art outside of art galleries and theater stages, in places such as her own home, Moki Cherry dissolved hierarchies between public and private and between creator and viewer. Children, her own and oth ... More |
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| Beautiful European ski posters at Lyon & Turnbull's Jan. 11 Ski Sale in Edinburgh | | Marilyn Monroe, Playboy & Hugh Hefner together for the first time in historic Julien's Auctions event | | Upper West Side church championed by celebrities won't be razed for now | 
Alex Walter Diggelmann (Swiss, 1902-1987), Gstaad, Berner Oberland. Estimate: £15,000-£20,000 ($19,080-$25,440).
EDINBURGH.- One way to gaze upon a winter wonderland this year, no matter where you happen to be, is by taking part in The Ski Sale at Lyon & Turnbull. The January 11 auction of original winter sports posters, presented in partnership with specialists Tomkinson Churcher, features more than 80 lots promoting Alpine hotspots such as Davos, Zermatt, St Moritz, Chamonix and Val d'Isere. Top of the tree for collectors are the original Art Deco lithographic posters promoting Switzerlands most exclusive resorts. They celebrate a golden age of travel when the first ski resorts commissioned some of the finest designers and artists of the day to create stylish posters urging holidaymakers to visit. Estimated at £15,000-£20,000 ($19,080-$25,440), a classic design by Swiss graphic artist Alex Walter Diggelmann (1902-87) depicts a party on a gondola lift in Gstaad a new addition to the landscape on the Berner O ... More | | 
An ensemble consisting of Hugh Hefners classic smoking jacket, silk pajamas, slippers and tobacco pipe ($2,000-$3,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Rebel. Entrepreneur. American Icon. Goddess. Legend. Hollywood Icon. Hefner. Marilyn. Two of only a handful of legends known by one name, these important figures of twentieth-century America and Playboy Enterprises will come together for the first time in a one-of-a-kind auction, Property from the Playboy Archives and The Hugh M. Hefner Foundation, and Property from the Life and Career of Marilyn Monroe taking place Thursday, March 28th, Friday, March 29th and Saturday, March 30th in Los Angeles live and online at julienslive.com. This stunning and fascinating collection of over 1,000 artifacts from the early life of the legendary magazine founder to the Playboy eras heyday, direct from the Playboy Headquarters and Mansion, and personal property consisting of film wardrobe, photographs, documents and ephemera from the incandescent life of Marilyn Monroe, provokes a gaze at the two icons lives and times part ... More | | 
West Park Presbyterian Church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on July 18, 2022. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
by Mihir Zaveri
NEW YORK, NY.- An Upper West Side congregation that sought to tear down its church building, a Manhattan landmark, and sell the property to a developer to the consternation of some neighbors, including a growing list of celebrities has put the plans on hold. The congregation, members of West Park Presbyterian Church, had said for decades that it did not have the money to fix the crumbling 19th-century Romanesque Revival building. Instead, its members hoped the sale of the property, to a developer who planned to turn it into a high-end apartment building, would help to sustain the broader work of the church, including serving people in need. But the building was designated a landmark in 2010. To demolish it, the church needed permission from the citys Landmarks Preservation Commission, which members sought in 2022. The request ... More |
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| 36 hours in Hong Kong | | David Soul, a star of the hit cop show 'Starsky & Hutch,' dies at 80 | | Willa Cather and Yehudi Menuhin: An unlikely, unwavering friendship | 
A table at Kwok Kee Wood Ware Sculpture in the Yau Ma Tei district of Hong Kong on Dec. 21, 2023. (Anthony Kwan/The New York Times)
by Tiffany May
NEW YORK, NY.- In director Wong Kar-wais nostalgic films about neon-tinged 1960s Hong Kong, characters yearn for loves lost. Today, many Hong Kongers are looking at their city with a similar longing as the Chinese territory (handed over by the British colonizers in 1997) undergoes a tumultuous political transformation. After giant pro-democracy protests in 2019, an ongoing crackdown on speech and dissent has dismantled civil society groups and set off a wave of emigration. Famous restaurants shuttered under pandemic restrictions, and locals are flocking to small businesses operating as they did generations ago, not knowing when these living relics could also disappear. It is a meaningful time to visit this glittering, international metropolis in a moment of collective soul-searching, as residents take stock of diminished freedoms, vanishing landmarks and what still makes the city special. Travel back ... More | | 
An actor and singer, he rose to fame in the 1970s as one half of the popular television crime-fighting duo. He also notched a No. 1 hit single in the U.S.
by Alex Williams
NEW YORK, NY.- David Soul, the doleful-eyed blond actor and singer who rose to fame portraying half of a cagey crime-fighting duo on the hit 1970s television show Starsky & Hutch and scored a No. 1 hit single in 1977 with Dont Give Up on Us, died Thursday. He was 80. His death was confirmed in a statement by his wife, Helen Snell, who did not specify a cause or say where he died. He had been living in Britain since 1995 and became a British citizen in 2004. A Chicago-born son of a Lutheran minister, Soul had spent nearly a decade appearing on television shows like Star Trek and I Dream of Jeannie; he also had a regular role on the ABC Western comedy series Here Come the Brides before he won his career-defining role of Detective Ken Hutchinson, known as Hutch, also on ABC. The part would make him a regular presence in American living rooms, as well as a recognized heartthrob, from 1975 ... More | | 
These two titans of 20th-century literature and music formed a profound, yearslong relationship across generations and backgrounds.
by Joshua Barone
NEW YORK, NY.- Early in 1935, a blizzard blew through New York City. The storm was so fierce, it virtually emptied Central Park. But Willa Cather spent her morning there, sledding with violin prodigy Yehudi Menuhin and his sisters. Afterward, they all went to the Ansonia Hotel on the Upper West Side, where the Menuhins were living, for an intimate lunch just the family, violinist Sam Franko and Cather, along with her companion, Edith Lewis. It was a lovely party, with the whole world outside lost in snow, Cather, the author of American classics like My Ãntonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop, wrote to her friend Carrie Miner Sherwood. Inside, perfect harmony! This idyll gets a passing mention in Benjamin Taylors brisk new biography, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather, though it was one of many in the yearslong friendship of Menuhin and Cather, two titans of 20th-century culture he a musician ... More |
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| Jennifer Brosnahan McIntyre named Smithsonian Chief Legal Officer | | Mixtapes, t-shirts and even a typeface measure the rise of hip-hop | | National Portrait Gallery reveals a newly commissioned portrait of Oprah Winfrey by Shawn Michael Warren | 
McIntyre will serve as the principal legal advisor to the Secretary; the Board of Regents, the Smithsonians governing body; and other Smithsonian senior officials.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Jennifer Brosnahan McIntyre, the current chief counsel for strategy and policy at Boeing Defense Space and Security, has been named chief legal officer for the Smithsonian Institution, effective March 11, 2024. McIntyre will serve as the principal legal advisor to the Secretary; the Board of Regents, the Smithsonians governing body; and other Smithsonian senior officials. The Smithsonians chief legal officer advises on legal issues arising from the broad scope of operations of the Institution, is responsible for overseeing representation of the Smithsonian in litigation and administrative matters, serves as the Smithsonians chief ethics officer and leads the Office of the General Counsel, which consists of 14 lawyers and six support staff. As a member of the Smithsonians senior leadership team, the chief legal officer also works in collaboration with the Institutions senior leaders and other museum, research ... More | | 
New books collecting objects central to raps physical history demonstrate the importance of celebrating these relics before they vanish.
by Jon Caramanica
NEW YORK, NY.- For the past year, celebrations of hip-hops first five decades have attempted to capture the genre in full, but some early stars and scenes all but disappeared long before anyone came looking to fete them. Three excellent books published in recent months take up the task of cataloging hip-hops relics, the objects that embody its history, before they slip away. In the lovingly assembled, thoughtfully arranged Do Remember! The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes, Evan Auerbach and Daniel Isenberg wisely taxonomize the medium into distinct micro-eras, tracking innovations in form and also content beginning with live recordings of party performances and DJ sets and ending with artists using the format to self-distribute and self-promote. For more than a decade, cassettes were the coin of the realm in mixtapes, even after CDs ... More | | 
Oprah Winfrey by Shawn Michael Warren, oil on linen, 2023. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Acquired through the generosity of Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia; Taylor and Wemimo Abbey; Anonymous; Deon Jones and Cameron J. Ross; Lisa Opoku and Loki Muthu; Mack Wilbourn; Charles Young and Andrea Wishom Young.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Oprah Winfreys portrait is now on display at the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery. Chicago-based artist Shawn Michael Warren painted Winfrey in a purple taffeta dress amidst a lush garden at her California home. The full-length portrait with the frame, approximately 6 feet 10 inches by 5 feet 8 inches, is commissioned for the museums permanent collection. It is on view on the museums first floor. As a global media leader, philanthropist, producer, actor, author and entrepreneur, Winfrey has made significant contributions to American popular culture, which earned her a place in the National Portrait Gallery. The painting was revealed in a ceremony the morning of Dec. 13 in the museums Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard. Speakers included ... More |
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Jaume Plensa joins Raclin Murphy Museum of Art director and curator Joe Becherer in dialogue
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 Where downtown poets go to church to greet the New YearNEW YORK, NY.- On the morning of New Years Day, along the sleepy streets of the East Village in Manhattan, scarf-bundled crowds trickled into St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery to attend a 12-hour poetry reading that has been a spiritually cleansing downtown tradition since the 1970s. To its devotees, the gatherings hypnotically lengthy programming of readings and avant-garde performances provides a dependably radical initiation into the new year. Hosted by the Poetry Project, a nonprofit organization that has operated out of the historic church since the 1960s, the marathon serves as its biggest annual fundraiser. About 150 writers, artists and dancers take their turns onstage until about midnight. Its performers have included William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Yoko Ono, Amiri Baraka and Patti Smith. Years ago, poet ... More  Museum announces Stephen Burks as the 2023 Design Excellence Award HonoreePHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced that Stephen Burks, an internationally renowned industrial designer, has been honored with Collabs 2023 Design Excellence Award during a celebration at the museum. Collab, the PMAs affiliate group for modern and contemporary design, presents this annual award, now in its 37th year, to design icons in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the field of design. In conjunction with the award, the PMA showcases Burkss work in the new exhibition, Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place, which surveys the past ten years of his craft-centered, workshop-based design practice and features a specially commissioned speculative project. The exhibition will be on display at the PMA in the Collab Gallery through April 14, 2024. For nearly twenty years, Stephen Burks has forged ... More  Exhibition extended: Ed Atkins with Steven Zultanski at Gladstone GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone is presenting an exhibition of new works by British artist Ed Atkins. The dual-venue installation is mounted in the 21st and 64th Street locations and marks the artists first New York show with the gallery. Known for creating videos in which computer-animated proxies reflect on themes of loss, intimacy, abjection and melancholy, the artists multidisciplinary approach to artmaking examines the increasingly permeable boundaries that separate life from its digital simulations. Addressing contemporary cultures fetish for media that painstakingly mimics the aesthetic contours of reality but fails to accommodate the burden of its subject, Atkins mines performance, theater, cinema, literature, and himself to examine the alive/dead dichotomy that ricochets between all bodies and their cybernated doppelgangers. ... More  How a drag queen event that never happened forced a library to shut downNEW YORK, NY.- Lake Luzerne, in upstate New York, is a small mountain town of weathered clapboard houses, with a spired church on Main Street and a public library that offered internet access, a food pantry and twice-weekly story hours for children. In April, the library announced a one-time addition to its childrens lineup: Drag Queen Story Hour. We knew it would probably be controversial, recalled Amanda Hoffman, who was the librarys director of youth services. We didnt expect it to be what it became. Over the coming months, someone called in a bomb threat to the library, a board meeting ended in punches being thrown and the library itself became so tense that Hoffman was hospitalized with stress-induced vertigo. Neighbors denounced one another as fascists or predators and complained of being doxxed, threatened ... More  In a land of primary colors, home is where the bounce house isNEW YORK, NY.- What makes a house a home? And what constitutes an American home? Planted dead center on the stage in This House Is Not a Home, a slippery, ever-shifting work by Nile Harris, is a house a bounce house. But its more than an inflatable plaything. It is at the heart of a web of ideas that touch on national politics, arts funding and a local New York scene the tiny slice of lower Manhattan known as Dimes Square. You get a sense of where Harris stands on that bit of geography: In This House, there is a fight. Over a vape. Beginning Saturday as part of the Under the Radar festival, This House sad and boisterous, dark yet at times blisteringly funny will be reprised at Abrons Arts Center, where it was first presented with Ping Chong and Co. last summer. (Harris is a member of Ping ... More  'Kimberly Akimbo' will end its Broadway run in AprilNEW YORK, NY.- Kimberly Akimbo, a quirky show that combined pathos and comedy to win last years Tony Award for best musical, will end its Broadway run in April, nearly 19 months after it began performances. The shows final performance will be April 28, at which point it is expected to have played 32 previews and 612 regular performances on Broadway. Small and zany, Kimberly Akimbo was often overshadowed in a contemporary Broadway dominated by established titles, jukebox scores and celebrity performers. But it has outlasted most of the other productions from the 2022-23 season. Set in a New Jersey suburb in 1999, the musical is about a high school girl with a rare genetic disorder, a criminally dysfunctional family and an anagram-loving friend. Adapted from a play with the same title, Kimberly Akimbo opened ... More  Richard Gaddes, opera impresario who spotted young talent, dies at 81NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Gaddes, a British-born opera impresario who nurtured young talent as director of companies in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and St Louis, died Dec. 12 in New York City. He was 81. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by the Santa Fe Opera, where he served as general director for eight years, and by the Opera Theater of Saint Louis, of which he was a founder. The executor of his estate, Maria Schlafly, said he died after a brief illness. Leading the two companies over several decades, Gaddes (pronounced GAD-iss) helped spur the careers of younger stars such as Thomas Hampson, Christine Brewer and Frank Lopardo and brought prominent artists well known in Europe, including soprano Kiri Te Kanawa and conductor Edo de Waart, to audiences in the United States. His generous, open-minded embrace ... More  Lily Gladstone won't let Hollywood put her in a boxNEW YORK, NY.- In college, Lily Gladstone studied the history of Native American actors in Hollywood. Now, shes making it. This 37-year-old actress has been checking off all sorts of awards-season firsts thanks to Killers of the Flower Moon, the Martin Scorsese-directed period drama in which she plays Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman whose relatives are systematically murdered by her husband (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his uncle (Robert De Niro) in a bid to seize her familys oil-rich Oklahoma land. If Mollie is the movies conscience, Gladstone is its center of gravity: Even when she shares scenes with A-listers such as DiCaprio and De Niro, the film bends to her. That portrayal has so far earned Gladstone a best actress win from the New York Film Critics Circle and nominations from the Golden Globes and Critics Choice ... More  Rage Against the Machine says (Again) that it will stop touringNEW YORK, NY.- Rock band Rage Against the Machine is done touring and playing live shows, its drummer said in a social media post Wednesday. The band previously canceled the remaining performances of a reunion tour of Europe and North America that had been delayed by the pandemic and were planned for 2022 and 2023. They will not be rescheduled. While there has been some communication that this may be happening in the future, the drummer, Brad Wilk, wrote on Instagram, I want to let you know that RATM (Tim, Zack, Tom and I) will not be touring or playing live again. Im sorry for those of you who have been waiting for this to happen, he continued. I really wish it was. He added in the caption: Thank you to every person who has ever supported us. The band, which was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ... More  Tokyo International Foto Awards announces the winners of 2023TOKYO.- After receiving thousands of outstanding photographic submissions from around the world, the Tokyo International Foto Awards takes great pride in unveiling the Photographer of the Year and Discovery of the Year 2023, alongside the 20 category winners in this year's competition for both Professional and Non-Professional/Student photographers. Renowned photography experts, curators, and international gallery owners, serving as jury members, meticulously evaluated entries in ten categories: Advertising, Architecture, Book, Editorial, Events, Fine Art, Nature, People, Portfolio, and Science. Through their discerning eye, they carefully selected the most inspiring and impactful images, showcasing how creativity can thrive and manifest into beautiful visuals for audiences worldwide. Program Director Hannah Lillethun ... More  Vinie Burrows, acclaimed actress who became an activist, dies at 99NEW YORK, NY.- Vinie Burrows, a Harlem-born stage actress who made her mark on Broadway in the 1950s, but who grew frustrated by how few choice roles were available for Black women and turned her focus to one-woman shows exploring the legacies of racism and sexism, died Dec. 25 in Queens. She was 99. Her death, at a hospice facility, was confirmed by her son, Gregory Harrison. Burrows made the first Broadway appearance of her seven-decade career in 1950 alongside Helen Hayes and Ossie Davis in The Wisteria Trees, a reimagining of Anton Chekhovs The Cherry Orchard by writer and director Joshua Logan that shifted the drama from an aristocratic Russian estate to a 19th-century Louisiana plantation. Her Broadway career continued to blossom into the mid-1950s. Among the high-profile productions ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter and educator Thomas Lawrence died January 07, 1830. Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (13 April 1769 - 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. In this image: Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830) Portrait of the Hon. Emily Mary Lamb (1787-1869), 1803. ©The National Gallery.
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