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The Hall of the Great Plains at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, Jan. 25, 2024. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Museum of Natural History said it was making progress on returning the human remains of nearly 2,200 Native Americans and thousands of tribal funerary objects, which became a top priority earlier this year in the wake of new federal regulations. In a staff letter Thursday afternoon, the museums president, Sean Decatur, provided an update. He said that the institution has held more than 400 consultations, with approximately 50 different stakeholders, including hosting seven visits of Indigenous delegations, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Justine Neuberger: Static from the Angelic Waveband, 26 July â 23 August, 2024, Hales New York.
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| Unlikely heroes and heroines in these gems from Mexico cinema's golden age | | Gagosian to present "Helen Frankenthaler: Painting on Paper, 1990-2002" in Rome | | Heirs of Jews who fled the Nazis return art to heirs whose family could not |
The Unknown Policeman by Miguel Melitón Delgado, 1941. Mexico, 108 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles. © Courtesy of Filmoteca UNAM.
NEW YORK, NY.- Charitable charlatans, clumsy womanizers, enigmatic dames and even a monster-fighting paladin captured the imagination of Mexicos audiences during the mid-20th-century golden age of the countrys film industry. An era of prolific production in all genres and of stars with exclusive studio contracts, it rivaled the Hollywood system in the quality and variety of its output. Today, most homegrown Mexican productions struggle to find screens amid the ubiquitous ... More | |
Helen Frankenthaler, Contentment Island, 2002. Acrylic on paper, 74 1/8 x 60 1/8 in. Photo: Maris Hutchinson © 2024 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
ROME.- Gagosian announced Helen Frankenthaler: Painting on Paper, 19902002, an exhibition opening at the gallery in Rome on September 30, 2024. It features eighteen large-scale paintings on paper from the later part of Frankenthalers career, many of which have never before been exhibited. Helen Frankenthaler (19282011) was one of the most highly regarded American artists of her time. Over her last decade ... More | |
Seated Nude Woman, a drawing by the Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele that was owned by Fritz Grünbaum. Grünbaum died in a concentration camp. Photo: Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
NEW YORK, NY.- Seated Nude Woman, a drawing by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, was returned Friday to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, a Jewish art collector and Viennese cabaret performer who was killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The drawing had been held by the heirs of a Jewish couple who fled the Nazis just before World War II and later unknowingly bought the work, which investigators for the Manhattan ... More |
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| Fredrik Værslev opens at Andrew Kreps September 6 at 394 Broadway | | Celebrities support plan to reopen New York City movie theater | | He wrote Michael Jackson's 'Human Nature' and has 2 more in the vault |
Fredrik Værslev, work in progress, 2024
NEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery announced, Fredrik Værslev's New Curtain Bangs, an exhibition of new works by Fredrik Værslev at its 394 Broadway location. In his text accompanying the exhibition, Dieter Roelstraete writes: Fredrik Værslevs latest body of work consists of large strips of painted cotton (i.e., canvas) arranged and displayed as sets of curtains. On the basic level of biography, these works reference one of the artists oldest aesthetic experiences: a primal, prelingual sense that his mothers ... More | |
The facade of the Metro Theater, in New York on July 4, 2008. (Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- After almost two decades of failed attempts to reopen, a landmark Upper West Side movie theater may be resurrected with a plan from a potential new buyer and celebrity support. Independent film producer Ira Deutchman is spearheading the project, along with Adeline Monzier, the U.S. representative of French film promoter Unifrance and a programmer at the Metrograph, a Lower East Side theater. They have formed the Upper West Side Cinema Center, ... More | |
The musician and songwriter Steve Porcaro of the band Toto at his home studio in Los Angeles on July 11, 2024. (Clara Mokri/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- After more than four decades, Steve Porcaro is still amazed that his song ended up on the biggest-selling album of all time. In 1982, when he was a keyboardist in Toto the band of studio insiders that dominated rock radio with sleekly crafted hits including Africa and Hold the Line Porcaro was tinkering with a new tune, a mid-tempo ballad inspired by his attempt to comfort his young daughter after ... More |
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| Dolby Chadwick Gallery to open 'Elizabeth Fox The Trouble with Flowers' | | Aliza Nisenbaum to open exhibition at Regen Projects | | MOCA announces $1 million gift from The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation |
Eureka in Pineland, 2023. Oil on panel, 13 x 9 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery will present The Trouble with Flowers, an exhibition of new paintings by Elizabeth Fox. This exhibition is a theatrical treat as Foxs narrative paintings seamlessly merge pop culture and art history. She playfully blends pop art with Botticelli, 50s sex icons with contemporary drag, queer culture with Americana. Her surreal scenes hum with a coy overtone as fine-lined figuration and blooming buds fuse in this singular suite of paintings. Jayne Mansfield, actress ... More | |
Aliza Nisenbaum, La Bruja, 2024. Oil on linen, 95 x 75 inches (241.3 x 190.5).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects will present Altanera, Preciosa y Orgullosa, New York-based artist Aliza Nisenbaums first exhibition with the gallery and in Los Angeles. The exhibition will feature a new body of work depicting dance troupes, studios, and teachers local to Southern California, including Teresita de Jesús of Studio 10, Folklorico Revolución, Mariachi Tierra Mia, and Amelia Muñoz Dancers. Informed by her origins in Mexico and prior work with immigrant ... More | |
CAS Schools will also receive STEM and music grants from the foundation.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art today announced an extraordinary $1 million gift from The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation (TCLFF) to support the museums nationally-renowned and longest-standing Los Angeles schoolbased learning initiative, Contemporary Art Start (CAS). Additionally, MOCA is partnering with TCLFF to expand the reach of the foundations innovative Young Sheldon Science, Technology, Engineering ... More |
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| Opening ceremony misses the boat | | Three new exhibitions open at the Whitney Museum this August | | When AI fails the language test, who is left out of the conversation? |
The U.S. team during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics along the Seine in Paris, on Friday, July 26, 2024. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- About six hours before Celine Dion gutted out the final number of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, streaming service Peacock emailed a promo for its coverage with the headline, Well all be crying by the end of this. So maybe it knew more than it was letting on. The homestretch of the marathon four-hour broadcast, when the celebrating athletes and dance extravaganzas and speeches were out of the way, had some starkly lovely images and moving ... More | |
Rick Bartow, Autobiographical Hawk, 1991. Pastel and graphite on paper, 46 5/8 à 59 7/8 in. (118.4 à 152.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Richard E. Bartow Trust 2022.69. © Richard E. Bartow Trust.
NEW YORK, NY.- This August, the Whitney Museum of American Art debuts three exhibitions featuring new and rarely seen photography, drawing, public art, and more. On view in the Museums free-to-visit Lobby gallery, Mark Armijo McKnight: Decreation is the photographers first solo museum exhibition. What It Becomes explores drawing as a way to shape and redefine the self. Presented on the building ... More | |
Pelonomi Moiloa, chief executive of Lelapa AI, who said her organization is seeking community-specific solutions to improve A.I. functionality in African languages, at offices in Johannesburg, July 9, 2024. (Cebisile Mbonani/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Stanford researchers gave a popular artificial intelligence chatbot a language test. They asked the bot in Vietnamese to write a traditional poem in the form known as song thất lục bát that follows a pattern of lines made up of seven, seven, six, then eight words. When the bot spit out an answer, it wrote a poem but didnt follow the format. The team tried a different prompt, asking what the proper ... More |
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Vermeer's 'Young Woman Standing at a Virginal'
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Biggs Museum of American Art announces election of three new members to Board of TrusteesDOVER, DE.- The Biggs Museum of American Art announced the appointment of Dr. Wilma Mishoe as the new President of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Mishoe transitions into this role after serving as Vice President, bringing a wealth of experience and dedication to the museum. Alongside Dr. Mishoe, three distinguished new trustees, Andre Swygert, Daniel Thompson, and Janell Upton, have joined the Board, each bringing unique expertise and leadership to the organization. "I am honored to be appointed as the President of the Board of Trustees for the Biggs Museum of American Art," said Dr. Wilma Mishoe. "We are entering an exciting new renaissance phase with a comprehensive growth plan, including the recently approved Building Master Plan. This plan will significantly expand and enhance our facilities, creating a community pavilion ... More NHMLAC announces leadership changes to Board of TrusteesLOS ANGELES, CA.- Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga, President and Director of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC), today announced leadership changes to the Museums Board of Trustees for the next fiscal year, effective July 1, 2024. Former Board of Trustees President Heather de Roos has been named Board of Trustees Chair, succeeding Shannon Faulk, who held each of those roles before Ms. de Roos. Former Board of Trustees Vice President Megan McGowan Epstein has been named Board of Trustees President, and Alex Kendall has been named Board of Trustees Vice President. We are always incredibly thankful and fortunate to have a Board of Trustees committed to the vision and values of NHMLAC, said Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga. As an organization dedicated to building and uplifting our local community ... More If Artificial Intelligence is coming for comedy writers, Simon Rich is readyNEW YORK, NY.- Author Simon Rich believes its only a matter of time before artificial intelligence will be able to outwrite any human. Specifically, four years. So, whats the twist? Thats what you wait for in a Simon Rich story, one of pop cultures most consistently funny genres, with a foundation built like a classic joke: a tight premise developed in clear language, some misdirection and then a pivot, delivered as quickly as possible. Rich, whose 10th collection of short stories, Glory Days, was released this week, said his dark view of the future was informed by a longtime friendship with an AI scientist, who recently showed him a chatbot that the public hasnt seen. Its more raw, unpredictable, creative. Even though I dont know anything about AI really, Ive been processing it emotionally for several years longer than everyone, he said ... More A rarely seen David Bowie rom-com gets a new lifeNEW YORK, NY.- Even David Bowies biggest fans might be unaware of his solitary foray into romantic comedy and for good reason: It was barely released in 1992 and has been all but impossible to see since. Now, its director has restored, reclaimed and recut the film in question, The Linguini Incident, which made its Blu-ray debut this week. Richard Shepard was only 25 when he directed the quirky, New York-set indie, which was his solo feature directorial debut. (He directed an earlier film, Cool Blue, alongside Mark Mullin.) As was typical of the era, the low budget was gathered from multiple sources. The whole movie was financed very weirdly, Shepard said in a Zoom interview. We had home video money and foreign sales money and mysterious money a lot of mysterious money. His first casting coup came early, ... More 36 hours in San DiegoNEW YORK, NY.- Dripping with flowers, adorned in murals and fronted by gorgeous beaches, San Diego is almost too pretty to be taken seriously. It excels at being underrated and overlooked. But thats changing fast, as new hotels, restaurants and arts institutions, including the $85 million Rady Shell, the San Diego Symphonys summer stage, add depth to a city already flush with arty neighborhoods. Despite the changes, tradition holds strong in the birthplace of California (San Diego was the first permanent European settlement on the West Coast). The beloved Balboa Theater, a former vaudeville venue, turns 100 this year, and Balboa Parks Spreckels Organ the worlds largest outdoor pipe organ, over a century old continues to draw crowds for free public concerts (every Sunday at 2 p.m.). Start at one of the citys best happy ... More The most stylish Olympics opening ceremony everNEW YORK, NY.- Even before the XXXIII Olympiad officially began, the litany of firsts was enormous. The first Olympics in Paris in a century. The first with equal gender participation. The first opening ceremony en pleine air. The first sponsored by a global luxury behemoth. The first Olympics in which fashion was so central to the identity of the host country itself. The opening ceremony featured not only a red carpet at the entrance but offered a full-blown runway show in the middle of vignettes devoted to the history and spirit of the country, including the French Revolution and the reconstruction of Notre Dame. As the monuments of Paris the Eiffel Tower, the Grand Palais, the Place de la Concorde provided the backdrop to the event, style was at its heart. The bar was set as soon as it was announced that LVMH would be a premium partner. ... More Snoop Dogg, NBC's new voice of the peopleNEW YORK, NY.- Once Snoop Dogg had waded through electrical cords on the floor and ambled his lanky frame around the disorderly equipment in a partially constructed television studio in Paris, he was able to peer out over a balcony overlooking the Eiffel Tower and survey the city he hopes to conquer during the Olympics. This is my home, he said triumphantly to himself. Below, a handful of people flashed their phones. The man whom NBCUniversal hopes will become the breakout star of the Paris Games was right where he wanted to be. The Olympics are always about the athletes, and as usual the focus this year will be on the brightest ones: Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, Noah Lyles, Novak Djokovic, LeBron James. But the events billing as the pinnacle of athletic achievement has not been ... More Solo exhibition of new paintings by Justine Neuberger opens at HalesNEW YORK, NY.- Hales opened Static from the Angelic Waveband a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York based artist Justine Neuberger (b.1993 Brooklyn, NY), in partnership with 15 Orient. Neuberger paints scenes which ebb and flow between distinct representations of figures, objects and ambient fields of color, creating a space for narrative possibility. Clusters of people emerge from hazy backgrounds, creating a dreamscape for interactions which slowly reveal themselves. Thinking about history as non-linear, there are a constellation of events in the works where history, memory and imagination coexist in a liminal space. Her approach to painting is philosophical, the medium itself becomes a physical representation of a metaphor for being in the world - a way of knowing by touching, looking, measuring and responding. The ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Marcel Duchamp was born July 28, 1887. Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 - 2 October 1968) was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art during this period. In this image: Marcel Duchamp's wanted poster is seen as part of the exhibit, "Inventing Marcel Duchamp:The Dynamics of Portraiture," at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, on Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
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