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In an undated image provided via Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Unloading the Hay Wagon by Isaac van Ostade. A Dutch panel ruled in 2007 to return Unloading the Hay Wagon to a Jewish family, but a notary handling the restitution for the government says he still doesnt have all the right documents. (via Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In a museum storage depot in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, a 17th-century painting by a Dutch old master is packed away, unseen and unappreciated. Once the property of an elderly British Jewish couple living in France, it was seized ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Loewentheil Photography of China Collection presents Dragon Women: Early Photographs of China, which offers a rare occasion to view some of the earliest photographs of Chinese women, most taken in the 1860s and 1870s including John Thomsonâs Portrait of Three Women in Beijing, circa1868, Albumen silver print, 4 x 4 inches.
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| This treasure hunter's latest find? A 1,000-year-old Viking sword. | | Norman Zammitt, Californian Modernist, had his eye to the sky | | Themes such as religion, remembrance, and memory explored in new exhibition |
An undated photo provided by Trevor Penny of himself with the Viking sword he found while magnet fishing in central Englands River Cherwell. An archaeological group that tracks public finds has identified the sword as most likely dating to a period between 850 A.D. and 975 A.D., making it more than 1,000 years old. (Trevor Penny via The New York Times)
LONDON.- The long, thin piece of metal looked like a scaffolding pole when Trevor Penny saw it on the banks of an English river in November. That would not have surprised Penny, who, while practicing his ... More | |
In a photo provided by Estate of Norman Zammitt and Karma shows, Green One, 1975, evokes the colors of the sky when seen from deep beneath the surface of a clear ocean. (Estate of Norman Zammitt and Karma via The New York Times)
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF.- Aesthetically, Los Angeles is mostly a mess. Unplanned, mismatched buildings sprout like fungus among the grid of its streets, whose orderly classicism is often disrupted by tectonically induced hills. Curbs crumble and sidewalks crack beneath telegraph poles festooned ... More | |
Goldenes Reliquienkreuz, sog. Krönungskreuz, Prag, 1360er-1370er Jahre.
DRESDEN.- The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, in cooperation with the Metropolitan Chapter of St Vitus in Prague and the Archbishopric of Prague, is presenting the exhibition Fragments of Memory. The Treasury of St Vitus Cathedral in Prague in Dialogue with Edmund de Waal, Josef Koudelka and Julian Rosefeldt, which is on display at the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau until 8 September 2024. The exhibition is divided into ... More |
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| Oppenheimer signed Manhattan Project Report sold for $53,594 at auction | | Pirelli HangarBicocca presents exhibition by artist Chiara Camoni | | Thaddaeus Ropac announces representation of Hans Josephsohn Estate |
Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb Report Signed by (24), with Oppenheimer, Fermi, Chadwick, and Lawrence. Sold For: $53,594 (w/BP).
BOSTON, MASS.- A rare and historic report detailing the development of the atomic bomb, signed by J. Robert Oppenheimer and 23 other eminent minds behind the Manhattan Project, has been sold for $53,594, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The report, penned in 1945 by Henry D. Smyth and titled ... More | |
Chiara Camoni, Sister (Hut), 2022. Iron, black terracotta, fresh and dry flowers, 220 x 140 x 150 cm. Courtesy the artist, Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection. Photo Camilla Maria Santini.
MILAN.- Since February 15, and through to July 21, 2024, Pirelli HangarBicocca has been presenting Call and gather. Sisters. Moths and flame twisters. Lioness bones, snakes and stones., a solo exhibition by Chiara Camoni: an imaginary landscape to immerse ... More | |
Hans Josephsohn, Untitled (Lola), 2002. Brass, 170 kg. 151 x 84 x 62 cm (59.45 x 33.07 x 24.41 in). © Josephsohn Estate.
LONDON.- Thaddaeus Ropac has announced their representation of the Hans Josephsohn Estate, working in collaboration with the Kesselhaus Josephsohn, the archive and exhibition space in St. Gallen where the artist's sculptural estate is conserved and catalogued. Thaddaeus Ropac gallery ... More |
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| Authors withdraw from PEN World Voices Festival over its response to Gaza war | | Flying boat glass sculpture by Lino Tagliapietra soars past estimate | | IMMA opens a dynamic new community space The Matheson Creativity Hub in Memory of Tim Scanlon |
The writer Susan Muaddi Darraj in Bel Air, Md., on July 7, 2019. (Daniel Michael Vasta/The New York Times)
by Alexandra Alter
NEW YORK, NY.- A group of prominent authors announced that they have withdrawn from this years PEN World Voices Festival over what they described as PEN Americas inadequate response to the war and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. In an open letter dated Wednesday that ... More | |
Beautiful flying boat art glass sculpture by Lino Tagliapietra (Italian, b. 1934), titled Flying Boat (2002), crafted from blown and hot worked glass and battuto-cut glass ($19,680).
(BEACHWOOD, OHIO ).- A beautiful flying boat art glass sculpture by Lino Tagliapietra (Italian, b. 1934) sold for $19,680, oil paintings by Joseph B. OSickey and Max Kuehne each realized $12,300, and a Neoclassical style carved white marble mantelpiece blasted through its $800-$1,200 estimate ... More | |
Annie Fletcher, Director, IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) and Michael Jackson, Managing Partner, Matheson LLP, pictured at The Matheson Creativity Hub in Memory of Tim Scanlon.
DUBLIN.- Today IMMA and Matheson LLP, announced the opening of a new community space created by Studio Makkink & Bey, The Matheson Creativity Hub in Memory of Tim Scanlon. Designed by internationally-renowned design practice, Studio Makkink & Bey, who were selected as the winning ... More |
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| 18th C. Gobelins tapestry of Marriage of Cupid and Psyche scheduled for March 20 sale in UK | | Michael Culver, 'Star Wars' actor and victim of Darth Vader, dies at 85 | | 'Dune: The Popcorn Bucket' has a surprise ending |
Closeup view of Cupid from a Louis XV Gobelins mythological tapestry of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche. Estimate: £25,000-£35,000 ($31,850-$44,585). Sworder image.
STANSTED MOUNTFICHET.- An important tapestry made at the French royal factory in Gobelins is the featured highlight of Sworders' Fine Interiors auction on March 19-20. The monumental weaving depicting ... More | |
Mr. Culver, who was best known for his demise as Captain Needa in The Empire Strikes Back, was also a familiar actor on British TV and in theater.
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Culver, a British actor best known for one of the memorable death scenes in the Star Wars franchise, died Feb. 27. He was 85. Culvers death was confirmed by Alliance Agents, which posted a statement to social media ... More | |
The Dune popcorn bucket in New York on Feb. 27, 2024. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In the Dune movies, a gigantic sandworm can rise from the desert and devour soldiers and military vehicles in its gaping maw. In real life, humans watching movies devour popcorn. These two ideas have been combined to spawn the Dune popcorn bucket, a sandworm-shaped ... More |
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Attempts to ban books accelerated last yearNEW YORK, NY.- After several years of rising book bans, censorship efforts continued to surge last year, reaching the highest levels ever recorded by the American Library Association. Last year, 4,240 individual titles were targeted for removal from libraries, up from 2,571 titles in 2022, according to a report released Thursday by the association. Those figures likely fail to capture the full scale of book removals, as many go unreported. The American Library Association, which has tracked book bans for more than 20 years, compiles data from book challenges that library professionals reported to the group and information gathered from news reports. I wake up every morning hoping this is over, said Emily Drabinski, the president of the organization. What I find striking is that this is still happening, and its happening with more intensity. The stark rise ... More Dancing and jumping over fire, Iranians use holiday to defy rulesNEW YORK, NY.- Iranians have looked for opportunities in recent months to display defiance against the rules of the clerical government. In Tuesday nights annual fire festival, many found a chance. Across Iran, thousands of men and women packed the streets as they danced wildly to music and jumped joyfully over large bonfires, according to videos on social media and interviews with Iranians. Police said the crowds were so large in Tehran and other cities that traffic came to a standstill for many hours and commuters had difficulty reaching public transportation, according to Iranian news reports. Dancing, especially for men and women together, is banned in public in Iran and has long been a form of protest. In many places, the gatherings turned political, with crowds chanting, Freedom, freedom, freedom, Death to the dictator ... More Marikit Santiago receives 2024 La Prairie Art AwardSYDNEY.- Marikit Santiago has been named the recipient of the 2024 La Prairie Art Award, an acquisitive award championing Australian women artists, founded in 2022 and presented by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Swiss luxury skincare house, La Prairie. Now in its third year, this prestigious award consists of the acquisition of new work for the Art Gallerys collection and a residency for the artist in Europe. As part of the residency, Santiago will travel to Switzerland in June 2024 to attend the Art Basel International Art Fair 2024 as a guest of La Prairie. Western Sydney-based FilipinaAustralian artist Santiago was selected by the Art Gallery and La Prairie and her two paintings A Seat at the Table (Magulang) and A Seat at the Table (Kapatid) will enter the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection. These tender portraits ... More Thomas Adès takes a step toward the classical music canonNEW YORK, NY.- Pity living composers, toiling away in a field that has long favored dead ones. If they get a precious commission, the cycle tends to go something like this: The work premieres, and then travels to any other ensemble or company that helped to pay for it. After that, who knows. The fate of contemporary music typically comes down to marketability hits still exist! and to that strange, slippery thing called legacy. One recent work that is worthy of the canon yet seemed doomed to obscurity is Thomas Adès opera The Exterminating Angel. It had a prestigious start, premiering at the Salzburg Festival in 2016, then playing at the Metropolitan Opera the next year. But it was immense: written on a grand scale, with more than a dozen principal roles, a chorus and an orchestra equipped with idiosyncratic sounds like that of the spooky, ... More Welcome to the London Book Fair, where everyone knows their placeLONDON.- Everybody knows that the publishing industry is a rigorously stratified world, characterized by a reverence for hierarchy and a near-fanatical observance of ritual. Or maybe we suspect as much but for those who would like to have those beliefs starkly confirmed, I would recommend a visit to the London Book Fair, which took place in the citys Kensington district this week. The fair, which this year had over 1,000 exhibitors and something like 30,000 visitors, is one of the biggest events of the international publishing calendar. For three days, agents, editors, publishers, scouts and many other people whose jobs are harder to explain gather in a frenzied fashion, primarily to sell and buy foreign rights for English-language books, but also to take temperatures, observe prevailing winds and scheme. For those who werent there to close ... More  Garment District Space for Public Art presents exhibition by New Jersey-based artist Léni Paquet-MoranteNEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance announced the latest in its ongoing series of public art exhibits, showcasing Sky on Water, a series of paintings that explore the interplay of light and structure within shallow water systems by New Jersey-based artist Léni Paquet-Morante. The installation is part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, which showcases artists in unusual locations and has produced more than 200 installations, exhibits, and performances over the past 18 years. Located inside the Kaufman Arcade building on 139 W 35th Street, in the heart of the Garment District, the free exhibit is accessible to the public through May 17, 2024. Were proud to present Sky on Water to the public as part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. Filled with rich, earthy tones, Lénis works are the perfect ad ... More Dalila Scruggs named inaugural Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art at Smithsonian American Art MuseumWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced today that Dalila Scruggs will join its curatorial team as the Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art. Scruggss expertise ranges across different types of mediaincluding painting, prints, sculpture and photographyfrom the 19th- and 20th centuries. In her new role, Scruggs will help shape the museums exhibition program and collecting priorities as they relate broadly to African American art, a longstanding area of strength of the museums holdings distinguished by its depth and range. She will also contribute to American Voices and Visions, a major cross-departmental initiative to comprehensively reinstall the museums ... More Making a scene on the radioNEW YORK, NY.- Do you think about your organs, Timmy? asked Moriah Evans, an experimental choreographer. How often do you commit yourself to trying to sense the bodies within your body? She was live on air, speaking to artist and teacher Timothy Simonds on Montez Press Radio, an online station based in Manhattans Chinatown. Simonds hosts a show called Miss Othmars Meeting with Teachers, a reference to Charlie Browns teacher, who is only ever heard as a disembodied voice. Every month, he asks people with wildly varying expertise to educate him on something new. That winter afternoon, Evans was instructing him in the art of dancing with his internal organs. They stood facing each other on opposite ends of the stations sparse recording studio. I want you to try to draw with your esophagus, she said, asking him to picture ... More "Errant Gestures": Drawing Room opens an exhibition with a film installation by Maya SchweizerHAMBURG.- In her second solo exhibition at the Drawing Room, Paris-born, Berlin-based artist Maya Schweizer presents her latest video Errant Gestures in a film installation. In her eight-minute video, Schweizer shows a selection of intentional and unintentional movements in sound and image that oscillate between standstill and permanent movement. Her gaze focusses on the beginning or end of a movement, expressed by our extremities, hands and feet. Mimic and gestural movement patterns have deep cultural roots that go back to the beginnings of human communication. Long before language developed, they already served as instruments of communication. Against this background, the simultaneous translation of expressive movements is already ingrained in us. We are constantly exchanging non-verbal messages - whether we ... More Soho House is weirding out PortlandNEW YORK, NY.- In a very particular corner of Portland, Oregon, there is a dive bar whose vending machine dispenses tarot cards and a dessert joint with a white-water kayak in its bathroom. On a nearby block, for vaguely environmental reasons, a dozen goats used to roam free. The goats are gone now, replaced by an apartment complex with a Chipotle. Many Portland residents have grown to expect this kind of development; what they were not expecting was a Soho House. That London-based chain of exclusive members clubs, known as a posh hangout for jet-setters and celebrities, will open a new outpost this week in the gentrifying stretch of Portland known as the Central Eastside. Its arrival introduces a rooftop pool, a two-story gym and a restaurant serving steelhead tartare to a freshly renovated industrial building that once housed one ... More 'Entangled Pasts 1768 - Now: Art, Colonialism and Change' opens at the Royal Academy of ArtsLONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts presents Entangled Pasts, 1768now: Art, Colonialism and Change, an ambitious exhibition bringing together over 100 major contemporary and historic artworks as part of a conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives around empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism. Spanning over 250 years, from the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768 to the present and informed by the RAs ongoing research into its links with colonialism, the exhibition engages over 50 artists connected to the institution to explore the relationship between art and our understanding of the past. An exceptional variety of art has been brought together including important international and UK loans as well as works from the RAs collection and archive, ranging from large-scale painting, sculpture, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English fashion designer Alexander McQueen was born March 17, 1969. Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 - 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen died by suicide in 2010, at the age of forty, at his home in Mayfair, London. In this image: Burning Down the House, 1996 by David LaChapelle. ©David LaChapelle Studio.
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