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In recent years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art sold a luxury apartment in this building across Fifth Avenue, pictured on Aug. 1, 2023, that had been used by its top executive. Amid sensitivity over income inequality in their ranks as well as post-pandemic financial strains, several cultural organizations have reduced the housing benefit they provided former directors. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- For years, New York Citys Metropolitan Museum of Art housed its directors in a $5 million apartment on Fifth Avenue, where they lived for free and paid no taxes on that benefit. The president of the citys American Museum of Natural History also lived for decades in a rent-free, tax-free luxury East Side apartment owned by the museum that is just down the block from Central Park. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art long provided its director with a Tudor home valued at more than $6.5 million, and later a more modest mansion valued at $2.4 million. But in recent years, as art organizations contend with financial struggles at a time of heightened sensitivity around issues of income inequality, cultural institutions have begun to revisit and in some cases roll back the perks they give top executives. The Met sold its apartme ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day 'AI: Who's Looking After Me?' at Science Gallery London, King's College London, 21 June 2023 - 20 January 2024. © George Torode.
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| British Museum Director resigns after worker fired for theft | | Bruce Davidson digs deep and finds gems he had overlooked | | Condolences of the Museo Picaso Málaga on the death of Claude Ruiz-Picasso | 
Hartwig Fischer, the director of the British Museum, in London on Aug. 27, 2020. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times)
by Alex Marshall
LONDON.- Just days after the British Museum announced that it had fired an employee who was suspected of looting its storerooms and selling items on eBay, the museums director announced Friday that he was resigning, effective immediately. Hartwig Fischer, a German art historian who had led the world-renowned institution since 2016, said in a news release that he was leaving the post at a time of the utmost seriousness. Fischer, 60, said that it was evident that under his leadership, the museum did not adequately respond to warnings that a curator may be stealing items. The responsibility for that failure must ultimately rest with the director, Fischer said. A few hours after Fischers resignation, the museum announced that its deputy director, Jonathan Williams, had also agreed ... More | | 
Coney Island, New York, 1966. © Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos. Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
Arthur Lubow
NEW YORK, NY.- Breathtakingly fast and painstakingly slow: Before the introduction of the digital camera, a photographer worked in those parallel time frames. The click of the shutter was instantaneous, but then the film had to be developed, the contact sheets or color slides reviewed, and the selections made for printing. Pressed for time, a working photographer typically made these decisions hurriedly. In old age, there is time for reconsideration. Bruce Davidson, who turns 90 next month, has been reviewing his archive for the past eight years. In The Way Back, the title both of an exhibition now at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in Manhattan, and a more compendious book to be published this fall, he is presenting photos he overlooked, putting them on public view for the first time. In a 2015 interview, ... More | | 
A visitor viewing Claude in Brown and White (Vallauris, 1960) in the exhibition rooms of the Museo Picasso Málaga.
The Board of Trustees, management team and staff of the Museo Picasso Málaga wish to express their condolences to the RUIZ-PICASSO family on the death of Claude, Pablo Picassos son, in recognition of the crucial work Claude did in managing his fathers legacy, especially during the years 1989 to 2023 as administrator of the Succession Picasso. Claude Ruiz-Picasso, the son of Pablo Picasso, has died at the age of 76 in Switzerland. A photographer, director of photography and film director, he administered the Succession Picasso, the body that manages the intellectual property and reproduction rights of his fathers works, from 1989 to July this year, when he passed the responsibility on to his sister Paloma. Claude was the third of Picassos four children. Born on 15 May 1947, he was the son of the artist and Françoise Gilot, who died in June this year at the age of 101. ... More |
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| In push to modernize Cairo, cultural gems and green spaces razed | | Mickey Mantle still smashing records as his 1958 Yankee pinstripes sell for $4.68 million at Heritage | | Heritage unlocks significant private collections for its Fine & Decorative Asian Art Signature Auction | 
Moataz Nasreldin, the founder of Darb1718, a cultural center slated for demolition in the Fustat neighborhood of Cairo, on Aug. 12, 2023. (Sima Diab/The New York Times)
CAIRO.- Ancient tombs have been shattered. Gardens have vanished, and with them many of Cairos trees. A growing number of historic but shabby working-class neighborhoods have all but disappeared, too, handed over to developers to build concrete high-rises while families who have lived there for generations are pushed to the fringes of the sprawling Egyptian capital. Few cities live and breathe antiquity like Cairo, a sun-strafed, traffic-choked desert metropolis jammed with roughly 22 million people. But President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi is modernizing this superannuated city, fast. He is trying to buff its unruly complexity into a place of efficient uniformity the traffic tamed, the Nile River promoted as a tourist attraction, the slums cleaned up and their residents rehoused in modern apartments. And he considers the construction as one of the major accomplishments of his tenure. There is not a single place in Egypt ... More | | 
1958 Mickey Mantle Game Worn New York Yankees Jersey, SGC Superior/Superior-Excellent with Multiple Photo Matches.
DALLAS, TX.- "No man in the history of baseball had as much power as Mickey Mantle," Billy Martin famously said of his best friend and New York Yankees teammate. "No man." The Mick proved that yet again over the weekend at Heritage Auctions, where his Yankees home jersey worn throughout the 1958 season sold for $4.68 million to become by far the most valuable Mantle jersey ever sold at auction. This photo-matched pinstriped gamer saw significant action in '58, when The Commerce Comet was coming off back-to-back MVP seasons and spent time starring on television's Home Run Derby. On Saturday night, during Heritage's $34-million Summer Platinum Night Sports Auction, it more than doubled the previous record for a Mantle gamer set at Heritage in February 2022, when the jersey Mantle wore in his final game as Yankee on Sept. 28, 1968, sold for $2,190,000. Not far behind that record-shattering jersey was a 1952 Topps Mantle graded Mint 9 by Spo ... More | | 
A Chinese Yellow Glass Elephant Snuff Bottle, late 19th century, 3-1/4 x 2-1/4 x 1-3/4 inches (8.3 x 5.7 x 4.4 cm). Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Prominent collectors have long taken keen interest in historic Chinese treasures: carved jade and hardstones, complex cloisonné, ceramics and porcelains, paintings and religious objects. On September 20, Heritage presents a sweeping Signature® auction encompassing works from a handful of important American private collections, with highlights from the estate of Mrs. Amon G. Carter, Jr., an outstanding selection of snuff bottles from the Tappan Family Collection, works from the collection of Morton and Myriame Leviloff, and works from the collection of Angela Gross Folk. These eagle-eyed collectors honed in on the timeless beauty, historical significance and endless charm of Chinese objects, and with an event that kicks off Heritage's fall auction season, the public finds its opportunity to take in these collectors' scholarship and impeccable taste. "This September, we're delighted to present a carefully curated auction ... More |
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| 36 hours in Palermo, Italy | | Moran's first Comics and Pop Culture Memorabilia auction packs a punch | | A golden age for Heritage as historic Batman and Robin, 'Star Wars' and 'X-Men' covers take a spin Sept, 14-17 | 
The elaborate interior of the Santa Caterina dAlessandria church in Palermo, the capital of the Italian region of Sicily, on Aug. 2, 2023. (Francesco Lastrucci/The New York Times)
PALERMO.- Sicily is not Italy, reads stenciled graffiti around Palermo, a sign that some in the Sicilian capital view the city as both a physical and cultural outlier from the mainland. Influenced by Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Norman and Spanish conquerors, the port city has long been known for its distinctive dialect, original street food, medieval churches, faded Baroque buildings and less happily a historical association with the Mafia. But recent years have seen remarkable developments: Ambitious restaurants, a crop of natural wine bars and compelling new museums have upped the profile and allure of Palermo, whose historical intrigue and low prices (relative to north and central Italy) remain largely intact. These places also provide refuges from the heat Palermo has had a scorching summer that ignited deadly wildfires, ... More | | 
An Autographed Kobe Bryant (1978-2020) Los Angeles Lakers Framed Jersey, 2000. Chest: 25.5"; Length: 32.75" est. $8,000-10,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Calling all collectors! On Tuesday September 19th, 2023, John Moran Auctioneers will present their first-ever Comics and Pop Culture Memorabilia auction at noon PST. The selection will feature over 200-lots of comics (some dating back to 1940!), figurines, original art, posters, and sports memorabilia. Leading the sports collectibles is a framed, autographed Kobe Bryant Lakers jersey along with a signed photo collage. The Incredible Hulk comic featuring the first appearance of Wolverine highlights the enormous and impressive comic offerings, and a 24-lot Tintin figurine collection is sure to catch attention. Fine art will include works by John Romita Sr., SHAG, Charles Fazzino, Carl Barks, Mischa Richter, and over 30 Disney posters by Eric Tan and Stacey Aoyama. With a wide range of collectibles, there is sure to be something for every comic, cartoon, and ... More | | 
Rick Hoberg and Dave Cockrum Star Wars #5 Cover Original Art (Marvel, 1977).
DALLAS, TX.- Anyone who has ever spent their free hours spinning a comics rack or opening their newspaper to the comics page will find something in Heritage's Sept. 14-17 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction that jogs the memory, quickens the pulse, stirs the soul. Among the event's more than 1,330 offerings are significant works handmade by celebrated titans and unsung heroes, valuable titles both famous and forgotten, and countless panels that have provided enduring pleasures. Randomly scan the lots, as one might have done as a child, and you will find no shortage of Major Works. Among their venerable and valuable lot are scant survivors from DC Comics' Golden Age: Mort Meskin's original cover for 1941's Leading Comics No. 1, featuring the Seven Soldiers of Victory, and Fred Ray and Jerry Robinson's blessedly preserved cover for Batman and Robin's Detective Comics No. 58, inside of which The Penguin ... More |
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| In 1918, this banknote was worth $1,000. in September, it could sell for $250,000+ at Heritage Auctions | | Woody Auction to auction The Sidlinger Collection September 23rd | | Cube Art Fair, world's largest public art fair, returns to New York City with an innovative AI edition | 
Fr. 1133-D $1,000 1918 Federal Reserve Note PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ. Estimate: $250,000 - up.
DALLAS, TX.- Think of the criteria that make specific banknotes appeal to serious collectors, a list that includes rarity, grade, high denomination and limited times being available to the public. All of those factors come together in a Fr. 1133-D $1,000 1918 Federal Reserve Note PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ from the Thomas Collup Collection, a magnificent note that is tied for the finest-graded of all large-size thousands, regardless of type, that is among the top attractions at Heritage Auctions' Long Beach Expo US Currency Signature ® Auction September 13-15. This auction marks the first time Heritage ever has offered a 1918 $1,000 at this grade level. "This is an exceptional note, one that has been off the market for about 30 years and will become an immediate centerpiece in a new collection," says Dustin Johnston, Vice President of Currency at Heritage Auctions. Large-denomination banknotes are prized by many collectors, and the rarity and grade put t ... More | | 
Pairpoint Rose Bouquet shade: Electrified single-bulb table lamp marked Pairpoint with a Puffy reverse painted shade, the glass Rose Bouquet shade showing green, pink and dark red roses (est. $2,000-$4,000).
DOUGLASS, KAN.- The outstanding estate collection of David and Ann Sidlinger of North Carolina, mostly gorgeous lamps and fine furniture pieces, will come up for bid on Saturday, September 23rd, at 9:30 am Central time, by Woody Auction, online and live in the Douglass auction hall located at 130 East Third Street. All of the 381 lots will be sold to the highest bidder, absolute, with no reserves. An automated online auction slated for the day prior Friday, September 22nd, starting at 8 am Central time will kick off the weekend of Sidlinger collection items. That sale will consist of 244 total lots. The Sidlingers incredible lamp collection features examples by makers like Pairpoint, Moe Bridges, Handel and others, said Jason Woody of Woody Auction. It also features some of the finest American Brilliant Cut Glass (ABCG) lamps to be found anywhere. The furniture beautifully ... More | | 
The center stage of the fair will take place in Times Square, where a range of international artists such as Philippe Shangti, Noir Artist, Robert Leone, and Andreas Anastasis will be featured among others on a giant 15,000 sq/ft billboard.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cube Art Fair, marking its 10th edition with the debut of an AI Art Fair, returns to New York City as a staple satellite fair during the highly anticipated Armory week. In a previous adaptation, prompted by covid, the internationally acclaimed fair shifted from its traditional in-person format to become a digital art exhibition held in public spaces. Also widely known as the Worlds Largest Public Art Fair, its transformative displays on iconic buildings and on hundreds of billboards in cities including New York, Miami, and Brussels have redefined conventional art exhibition norms. Once again, the fair takes an innovative turn, this time by introducing the first-ever Art Fair dedicated to AI. "Cube Art Fair is a platform to showcase artists creativity in bold and impactful ways" said Gregoire Vogelsang, founder of Cube Art Fair." In this edition, we ... More |
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Ferdinand Hodler: Drawings---Selections from the Musée Jenisch Vevey
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 Léa Garcia, who raised Black actors' profile in Brazil, dies at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Léa Garcia, a pioneering actress who brought new visibility and respect to Black actors in Brazil after her breakout performance in the Academy Award-winning 1959 film Black Orpheus, died Aug. 15 in Gramado, a mountain resort town in southern Brazil. She was 90. Her death, of cardiac complications, was confirmed by her family on her Instagram account. At her death, in a hospital, she was in Gramado to receive a lifetime achievement award at that towns film festival. Her son Marcelo Garcia, who was also her manager, accepted the honor in her place. Over a prolific career that began in the 1950s, Léa Garcia amassed more than 100 credits in theater, film and television, from her early years with an experimental Black theater group to her later prominence on television productions, like the popular 1976 telenovela Escrava ... More  David Jacobs, who turned soap opera into prime-time gold, dies at 84NEW YORK, NY.- David Jacobs, who more than anyone invented the modern prime-time soap opera when he created Dallas, the long-running CBS series about an amoral oil baron and his feuding family, and followed it a year later with Knots Landing, died Sunday in Burbank, California. He was 84. His son, Aaron, said he died in a hospital from complications of a series of infections. Jacobs had also recently received a diagnosis of Alzheimers disease. Jacobs had written for several television shows when, in 1977, he pitched CBS on what he called an American version of Scenes From a Marriage, Ingmar Bergmans 1973 miniseries, which was later turned into a film. His story shifted the location from Sweden to a Southern California cul-de-sac with a focus on four middle-class couples. CBS showed some interest but passed, asking him to write ... More  A creator (Me) made a masterpiece with AINEW YORK, NY.- Ive got 99 problems with AI, but intellectual property aint one. Media and entertainment industries have lately been consumed with questions about how content generated by artificial intelligence systems should be considered under intellectual property law. Last week, a federal judge ruled against an attempt to copyright art produced by a machine. In July, another federal judge suggested in a hearing that he would most likely dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by artists against several AI art generators. How AI might alter the economics of the movie and TV business has become one of the primary issues in the strike by writers and actors in Hollywood. And major news companies including The New York Times are weighing steps to guard the intellectual property that flows from their journalism. In the face of all the ... More  After the fires, Native Hawaiians seek revival through ritualWAILUKU, HAWAII.- The week after devastating wildfires swept across Maui, Hōkūlani Holt walked to the center of a grassy courtyard about 12 miles from Lahaina, just over the islands steep mountains. A kumu hula, or hula teacher, Holt gathered about 50 listeners into a half-circle, and exhorted them to lift your voice. They each held a cup of water, a connection between the body, soul and ʻāina, Hawaiians expansive idea of the land. Several men and women blew hollowed-out bamboo pipes called pū ʻohe, producing a deep, trumpetlike sound. Then, led by Holts voice, the group began to chant. After the countrys deadliest fire in more than a century at least 115 people have been confirmed dead, with hundreds still missing practical recovery responses were clicking into place: food distribution, debris cleanup, a visit from the president. ... More  Ishara Art Foundation presents 'Only Life, Myriad Places', a major solo exhibition of Sudarshan ShettyDUBAI.- Sudarshan Shettys practice traverses the inner and outer realities of everyday life. Blurring the boundaries between dreams and wakefulness, memories and fantasies, objects and spectres, his works foreground the transient and ever-changing nature of all things. In Only Life, Myriad Places, one is taken on a journey into the labyrinths of the mind, captured through moving images and elaborate mise en scènes. Places, people and stories that seem familiar become estranged. Viewers are invited to contemplate whether the films are a depiction of someones dream, or if they are within the dream of the films characters. The exhibition at Ishara Art Foundation features eight significant works from Shettys vast oeuvre, presenting his rare and deep interest in the musical and literary traditions of South Asia. In the unique form of interdisciplinarity ... More  University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum hosting "Native America: In Translation" TAMPA, FL.- The USF Contemporary Art Museum, part of the Institute for Research in Art in the USF College of The Arts, presents Native America: In Translation. Curated by Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star and organized by Aperture, Native America: In Translation assembles the wide-ranging work of nine Indigenous artists who pose challenging questions about identity and heritage, land rights, and histories of colonialism. Probing the legacies of settler colonialism, and photographys complex and often fraught role in constructing representation of Native cultures, the exhibition includes works by lens-based artists Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe, Lac Seul First Nation), Nalikutaar Jacqueline Cleveland (Yupik), Martine Gutierrez (American), Koyoltzintli (Ecuadorian-American), Duane Linklater (Omaskêko Ininiwak from Moose Cree First Nation), Guadalupe ... More  'Posing Beauty in African American Culture' now open at Kent State University MuseumKENT, OH.- The Kent State University Museum is hosting a special exhibition of over 100 photographs entitled, Posing Beauty in African American Culture. The images spanning the 20th and 21st centuries explore the ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, video, fashion and advertising. Included in the exhibition are many renowned artists and photographers including Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Lyle Ashton Harris and Gordon Parks, among others. "This powerful collection of images engages us in important conversations around beauty and representations of Black and non-Western bodies. The images allow visitors of color to see themselves and then question how others may seem ... More  ICA/Boston presenting Tammy Nguyen's first solo museum exhibition in the United StatesBOSTON, MA.- On August 24, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opened Tammy Nguyen, the artists first solo museum presentation in the United States. Tammy Nguyens (b. 1984, San Francisco) gilded paintings are composite images that reconsider lesser-known histories against the backdrop of lush landscapes and varied symbols of violent conquest or soft power. For the ICA, the artist has created an interconnected body of 14 paintings, works on paper, and artist books. Inspired by East Asian landscape painting, these works are all related to the relationship between people and nature, landscape and wilderness, as articulated in Ralph Waldo Emersons influential 1836 essay Nature, written in Concord, Massachusetts. Nguyen maps how ideas Emerson penned nearly 200 years ago have echoed across time and space to influence U.S. ... More  2022/2023 WAP Fellow Ato Ribeiro now on view at The Museum of Contemporary Art of GeorgiaATLANTA, GA.- Marking the 20th anniversary of my relocation to Atlanta from Accra, Under Her Canopy serves as a reflection of the people, the histories, and the cultural fabrics that I continue to learn from and share in. These works are a collection of stories, fragmented and fused together with room for the addition of narratives to come. This exhibition also celebrates the many ways that womenwithin my family, and beyondcontinue to enable and inspire my creative practice. This assemblage of histories pays homage to my great (x3) grandmother Priscilla (Marshall) Young, interactions with griots and my desire to share space and stories with Madan Sara in Haiti. The materials that make up these works are the same ones that make up the hard and soft woods hidden behind white gallery walls. Here, they are optimistic for the future because they know from whence they came. -Ato Ribeiro ... More  Australian contemporary artist Lynda Draper presents 'Drifting Moon' at Sullivan+StrumpfSYDNEY.- Direct from her major Campbelltown Art Centre exhibition, Talismans for Unsettled Times, presented as part of The National 4: Australian Art Now, Lynda Draper shares an extended new body of ethereal ceramic sculptures in a new solo show inspired by memories of the magical family roadtrips of her childhood, DRIFTING MOON. A celebration of the curiosity and imagination of youth, DRIFTING MOON invites audiences to physically experience Drapers dreamscapes on view since Saturday 26 August, at Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney. On the eve of her fathers ninetieth birthday Lynda Draper began to reflect upon childhood memories of travelling through the Australian landscape, and the influence of this experience on her art practice. From suburban Sydney to snow-tipped peaks, red deserts, coral-rich coastlines and tropical ... More  Mark Linkous died in 2010. His final album is a family affair.NEW YORK, NY.- The last time Mark Linkous visited his younger brother, Matt Linkous, in Richmond, Virginia, he was excited about making albums again. By that point, in late 2008, two years had passed since Mark Linkous band, Sparklehorse, released its fourth and final album for Capitol Records. Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, a set of uncannily warped pop gems and warbled solitary hymns, had performed much like its predecessors: critically praised, commercially stillborn. Mark Linkous, though, seemed at the edge of an independent resurrection. He had capped a batch of electronic abstractions with Austrian experimentalist Christian Fennesz and was in the closing stages of a star-studded project alongside producer Danger Mouse, where the likes of Iggy Pop and David Lynch would sing their songs. After an introduction from ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Titian died August 27, 1576. Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 - 27 August 1576) known in English as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth. In this image: A woman looks at Titian's painting "Mary Magdalene in Penitence" during a press preview of an exhibition of 16th and 17th century Italian painting at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece, on Monday Sept. 22, 2008. The exhibition "From Titian to Pietro da Cortona: Myth Poetry and the Sacred," ran until Dec. 20. On display were 24 works by Titian and other Italian masters, on loan from a score of Italian galleries and collections.
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