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The Leon Levy and Shelby White Court as a centerpiece of the Mets Greek and Roman galleries in New York, April 13, 2007. The court features Roman sculptures from the first century B.C. to the second century A.D., Roman portraits, Roman architecture and sarcophagi, and Roman and Greek funerary art. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
by Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK, NY.- The exhibition was a major one, featuring nearly 200 ancient artifacts from around the world, including Neolithic marbles and imposing Roman bronzes, and its title, Glories of the Past, was appropriately grand. These are not the holdings of a large museum, Philippe de Montebello, then the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, wrote in his introduction to the 1990 show, but, in fact, a panoply of treasures assembled with relentless perseverance, according to a very personal vision. Indeed, they had all come from a single private collection owned by Shelby White and her husband Leon Levy, who would soon play even larger roles in the life of the museum. White became a Met trustee that year and later joined the committee that advises the museum on what pieces to acquire. Most notably, she and her husband gave the Met $20 million, and in 2007, four years a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Richard Saltoun Gallery is presenting the visionary work of British architect Sir Peter Cook. Drawing on his work over the past 60 years, the exhibition features a site-specific architectural environment produced especially for the gallery, together with a selection of drawings and paintings that trace the radical conceptual vision underpinning the artistâs oeuvre. Courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery London and Rome. © Peter Cook.
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| Four charged in gold coin theft from German museum | | Instagram sensation Dan Lam presenting his work in 'Beyond Reality' at the McNay Art Museum | | 'Edward Hopper & Cape Ann' exhibition now open at Cape Ann Museum | 
Lively and living archaeology: the kelten römer museum manching is the showcase of the spectacular archaeological finds from the Celtic town of Manching and the Roman castell of Oberstimm.
by Michael Levenson
NEW YORK, NY.- The break-in looked like the work of professionals. It began after midnight on Nov. 22, 2022, when someone cut fiber optic cables at a telecommunications center in the small German town of Manching, in Bavaria, knocking out internet and telephone connections in 13,000 households. Then, just before 1:30 a.m., the Celtic and Roman Museum was broken into. Within nine minutes, thieves had pried open two locked doors and a display case, police said. When museum staff members arrived in the morning, they found the most valuable artifacts in the building were gone: a cache of 483 ancient gold coins, which were believed to date back to roughly 100 years before the birth of Jesus. One official said the coins, along with ... More | | 
Installation View of 'Beyond Reality' at the McNay Art Museum.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Instagram sensation Dan Lams fantastical, technicolor sculptures are on exhibit at the McNay Art Museum show Beyond Reality. Lams eye-catching sculptures use unconventional materials to playfully yet thoughtfully explore the space between allure and repulsion. Made of painted polyurethane foam and often covered in spikes, her blob-like pieces that appear to melt and drip. Dan Lam manipulates foam and resin to create otherworldly sculptures inspired by nature and the human body. Brilliantly colorful and alluringly tactile, Lams sculptures are reminiscent of enticing, candy-colored desserts or mysterious, toxic sea creatures. The McNay Art Museum is showing an array of my work from 2017 to present, which includes wall pieces, shelf pieces, and free standing sculptures. I'm so excited to be exhibiting with such a strong group of Texas artists. - Dan Lam. Internationally acclaimed, prom ... More | | 
Edward Hopper, House in Italian Quarter, 1923. Watercolor. Smithsonian American Art Museum. ©2023 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
GLOUCESTER, MASS.- The Cape Ann Museum opened Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape, an exhibition of the critically acclaimed American artist during a turning point in his life and career when he came to Cape Ann from 1923-1928. July through October is your chance to see the American artist Edward Hoppers early works painted on number of visits to Cape Ann at the start of his fame. Though Hopper (1882-1967) had painted for years in relative obscurity, selling only one painting before the age of 40, it was on Cape Ann, with the encouragement of his eventual wife, Josephine Jo Nivison, that he began the iconic watercolor landscapes and houses that launched his success. This major exhibition is the first dedicated to Hoppers formative development on Cape Ann, marking the pivotal summer ... More |
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| The de Young opens 'Crafting Radicality' first in series of 3 exhibitions drawn from the Svane Family Foundation | | Gagosian publishes new monograph surveying ten years of work by Richard Wright | | Tony Bennett, champion of the great American songbook, is dead at 96 | 
Woody De Othello. Fountain, 2021. Bronze and clear lacquer topcoat over patina. 117 x 107 x 54 in. (297.181 x 271.781 x 137.16 cm). Museum purchase, a gift from The Svane Family Foundation. Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. Photograph by Randy Dodson, courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Opening today at the de Young, Crafting Radicality: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift launches a series of exhibitions drawn from the Fine Arts Museums of San Franciscos unprecedented Svane Family Foundation acquisition. In 2022, the Svane acquisition brought 42 artworks by 30 emerging and mid-career Bay Area artists and collectives into the Museums permanent collection. Representing a broad range of media, the foundations generous gift encapsulates the concerns and approaches at the forefront of artistic practice throughout the region over the past decade. Crafting Radicality unites 12 of those artists who reconfigure the hierarchies of the past and the material processes of art-making ... More | | 
Richard Wright, No Title, 2020. Leaded handmade glass, 58 x 65 1/4 in, 147.3 x 165.6 cm
Private residence, London. © Richard Wright. Photo: Lucy Dawkins. Courtesy The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow.
LONDON.- Gagosian announced the publication of a long-awaited monograph on Richard Wright, surveying works made between 2010 and 2020. The book documents projects made for both well-known public spaces and otherwise inaccessible private residences around the world and is now available for purchase. Richard Wright is known for large-scale and site-specificbut often temporarypainted and applied metal-leaf installations and leaded window works that invest architectural spaces with new optical and associative complexity. Shifting between illusionism and abstraction, his projects alter the viewers perception of space. Incorporating graphic and ornamental elements, his work often alludes to Minimalism and Renaissance art as well as to commercial images. In his stylistically diverse wor ... More | | 
Tony Bennett in New York on May 12, 1994. (Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times)
by Bruce Weber
NEW YORK, NY.- Tony Bennett, a singer whose melodic clarity, jazz-influenced phrasing, audience-embracing persona and warm, deceptively simple interpretations of musical standards helped spread the American songbook around the world and won him generations of fans, died Friday at his home of many decades in Manhattan. He was 96. His publicist, Sylvia Weiner, announced his death. Bennett learned he had Alzheimers disease in 2016, his wife, Susan Benedetto, told AARP The Magazine in February 2021. But he continued to perform and record despite his illness; his last public performance was in August 2021, when he appeared with Lady Gaga at Radio City Music Hall in a show titled One Last Time. Bennetts career of more than 70 years was remarkable not only for its longevity, but also for its consistency. In hundreds of concerts ... More |
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| Only early birds will see Acropolis as workers strike over heat | | He foiled Benedict Arnold. His medal is now out from under the bed. | | Roald Dahl Museum calls author's racism 'undeniable and indelible' | 
Tourists visit the Parthenon Temple at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, Jan. 19, 2015. (Eirini Vourloumis/The New York Times)
by Niki Kitsantonis
ATHENS.- The suffocating heat in Athens has forced its top attraction, the Acropolis, to close to tourists in the afternoons for the second time this month, with plans to open up in the cooler hours of the evening. But a strike by workers at that site and others, over dangerous working conditions, will likely keep it closed in the afternoons while the extreme temperatures endure. Greece is suffering through its second heat wave in as many weeks, and temperatures are expected to reach 111 degrees Fahrenheit, or 44 Celsius, in Athens on Sunday. Workers say the heat poses a potential risk to them and to visitors, and they stopped working at noon Thursday and Friday and plan to continue doing so until at least Sunday. Their union says they will reassess the situation Monday. Speaking to Greek radio Friday morning, the head of the union, Ioannis Mavrikopoulos, said the temperature on the site of ... More | | 
An undated photo provided by the New York State Museum shows one side of a medal that was awarded to Isaac Van Wart by the Continental Congress for his role in capturing the head of British secret intelligence in 1780. (New York State Museum, Gift of the Estate of Rae Faith Van Wart Robinson via The New York Times)
by Christopher Kuo
NEW YORK, NY.- The American militia men were hidden in the bushes having lunch and playing cards when they heard the horse galloping toward them. Springing from their lookout post near Tarrytown, New York, they confronted a stranger who was seemingly in a great hurry. He was Maj. John André, head of British secret intelligence. But on this day, Sept. 23, 1780, he was disguised as a civilian, John Anderson. Stuffed in Andrés boot were papers that laid out how to successfully take the U.S. fort at West Point. He had received the information two days earlier from Benedict Arnold, the commander of the fort, and André now was riding south in the hope of getting back behind British lines. But the militia men, John Paulding, David Williams and ... More | | 
Willy Wonka with a Golden Ticket at the Charlie 50th annivesary celebrations, Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.
by Derrick Bryson Taylor
NEW YORK, NY.- A museum devoted to Roald Dahl, the bestselling British author, has condemned his antisemitic views and said his racism was undeniable and indelible. In a statement published on its website this week, the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Center near London said that it condemns all racism directed at any group or individual and that it fully supported a statement by the authors family and estate in 2020 that apologized for his antisemitism. Dahl, who wrote numerous beloved childrens books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and Fantastic Mr. Fox, was a self-avowed antisemite, who made disparaging remarks about Jewish people on multiple occasions. He died in 1990 at 74. The museum, in his former home of Great Missenden, England, is an independent charity that Dahls widow, Felicity Dahl, founded in 2001. The organization said it was wor ... More |
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| National Gallery of Australia presents 'Nan Goldin: the ballad of sexual dependency' | | LAMA announces new Photographs Auction | | Kestner Gesellschaft is currently presenting the exhibition 'Ella Walker: Chorus' | 
Nan Goldin, Cookie at Tin Pan Alley, New York City, 1983 from the series The ballad of sexual dependency, 1973-86, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2021 in celebration of the National Gallery of Australia's 40th anniversary, 2022 © Nan Goldin.
CANBERRA.- The ballad of sexual dependency is a defining artwork of the 1980s. Nan Goldins extended photographic study of her chosen family her tribe began life as a slide show screened in the clubs and bars of New York where Goldin and her friends worked and played. The slide show was then distilled to a series of 126 photographs, which has recently become part of the National Gallerys collection. Goldin takes photographs to connect, to keep the people she loves in her memory. She is committed to the idea that photography can faithfully record a time and place, and do so in a way that has real social purpose. Using a documentary, snapshot style, she lays bare her life in the manner of a family album. We see her alongside her friends and lovers as they live their lives hanging out, falling in and out of love, having children ... More | | 
Irving Penn's platinum-palladium print Cigarette No. 37, New York (est. $20,000 - 30,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAMA announced the addition of Photographs to their roster of auction categories, with the first auction set to take place August 2nd, 2023. This dedicated auction expands on LAMA's success with photographs and photography-based works, offering a larger breadth of material across time periods and genres. The inaugural Photographs auction features nearly 200 lots, ranging from the birth of the art form, with Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion, Plate 733 (est. $800-1,000), to contemporary works such as Alex Prager's 4:01 PM, Sun Valley And Eye #3 (House Fire) (from the Compulsion series) (diptych) (est. $7,000-9,000). A wide range of genres are represented in both black and white and color, including still life, landscape, documentary, and portraiture, with works from masters of the discipline from the early 20th century to today, including Eugene Atgèt, Berenice Abbot, Weegee, Robert Capa, Barbara Morgan, Ansel Adams, Irving Penn ... More | | 
Ella Walker, Chorus, 2023 (detail). Acrylic dispersion, pigment, chalk and pencil, on unstretched canvas, 107.5 x 212.6 / 273 x 540cm. Photo: Eva Herzog.
HANNOVER.- Kestner Gesellschaft is presenting the first institutional solo exhibition of British artist Ella Walker (b. 1993, Manchester, UK). Within the intersection of medieval and contemporary spaces, Ella Walker moves freely, interchanging histories with invented scenes that are both referential and dream-like. By creating imagery that merges art historical iconography from the Trecento and Renaissance periods, theatrical sets and stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte, contemporary ballet, and costume design inspired by 1960s cinematic scenes and fashion magazines, Walker translates ritual into innovation, refitting old narratives into contemporary plots of unfolding tragedy, comedy, and love. The resulting meeting challenges viewers understanding of the sacred and profane, while simultaneously encouraging the rethinking of binaries of old and new, high and low culture. Walker ... More |
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Kehinde Wiley conversation on sex, gender + identity
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 Transmitting Shakespeare to the next generationNEW YORK, NY.- On a recent Wednesday, a dozen members of the cast of Camelot gathered in a circle in a rehearsal room in the basement of Lincoln Center Theater. Fergie Philippe, who plays Sir Sagramore and understudies as King Arthur, sat on a chair in the middle, staring quizzically at a sheet of paper with a monologue from Act V, Scene 1 of Shakespeares Titus Andronicus. Next to him stood Dakin Matthews, who plays both Merlyn and Pellinore, dressed in cargo shorts and a purple polo. As Philippe began speaking, Matthews squinted his eyes shut and silently mouthed the words. Even now I curse the day ..., Philippe said before he was quickly cut off by Matthews, who jabbed a finger in the air. You went down on day, Matthews said, referring to Philippes incorrect inflection. Over ... More  Bel canto rarities, delivered with unflashy, revelatory styleNEW YORK, NY.- Opera fandom is often built around a preoccupation zealous, territorial, absolute with distinctive voices. Maria Callas, Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Luciano Pavarotti theyre all immediately identifiable by timbre alone. Not coincidentally, all of these singers have been major recording artists. Teatro Nuovo, the brainchild of bel canto specialist Will Crutchfield, inverts that value system. It asks: What would happen if all of the singers onstage shared a particular school of singing and even a certain vocal quality? In semistaged concerts of Gaetano Donizettis Poliuto and Federico and Luigi Riccis Crispino e la Comare at the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center on Wednesday and Thursday, Teatro Nuovo found manifold beauties in a brand of homogeneity that aims to ... More  Forget what the song says. Tony Bennett's heart never left New York.NEW YORK, NY.- There were the famous New York places where he was celebrated, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where his 75th birthday party wasnt referred to as a birthday party. (The Met didnt allow such things.) There were the canvases he painted in every Manhattanites backyard. He knew just where to set up his easel in Central Park from looking out a window in his apartment and watching the reds pop in the fall or the greens in the spring. And there were the New York stages he appeared on, from the Paramount Theater when he was in his 20s to Carnegie Hall in his 30s to Radio City Music Hall in his 90s. Tony Bennett may have become famous for I Left My Heart in San Francisco, but his own heart was unquestionably a New Yorkers. He had that New York cool, decade after decade ... More  M+ presents new special exhibition 'Madame Song: Pioneering Art and Fashion in China'HONG KONG.- The first-ever museum exhibition in the world dedicated to the legendary Song Huai-Kuei, who shaped the landscape of art, fashion, and popular culture in China from the 1980s to 2000s featuring more than 320 objects including rare archival materials, garments from prominent fashion designers, movie costumes and footage, artworks, and large-scale tapestry installations is now on view at M+. M+, Asias first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, will soon be opening the museums new Special Exhibition Madame Song: Pioneering Art and Fashion in China, which will open to the public on Saturday, 29 July 2023 in its West Gallery, following the success of M+s first Special Exhibition Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now. Cen ... More  Hoor Al Qasimi appointed as Artistic Director of Aichi Triennale 2025AICHI.- The Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the appointment of Hoor Al Qasimi (President and Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation) as the Artistic Director of Aichi Triennale 2025.Hoor Al Qasimi was selected for the following reasons: Extensive Experience and Achievements: With a wealth of experience and accomplishments as an international curator, including the renowned Sharjah Biennale, Hoor Al Qasimi is poised to create art festivals of international acclaim. Global Network: Hoor Al Qasimi possesses a robust global network in the art world. Serving as the president of the International Biennial Association (IBA), she will strengthen Aichi's presence on the world stage. Fresh Perspective: As the first foreign Artistic Director of the Aichi Triennale, Hoor Al Qasimi will ... More  The largest single owned Disneyland collection ever to hit the auction block yielded big resultsLOS ANGELES, CA.- The largest individually owned Disneyland/Disney Park collection in the world, amassed big results at this weeks The Joel Magee Disneyland Collection auction at Van Eaton Galleries this week. The three-day auction followed an extraordinary public exhibition of over 1,500 rare and unusual items chronicling the history of Walt Disney and his beloved parks. The owner of the collection, Joel Magee, collected the unique items for decades. Many of the items at auction exceeded the estimates originally projected. Bids were received from around the world during three days of competitive bidding by fans and collectors across the globe. Among the many highlights were extremely rare and iconic pieces. Some of the highlighted results include the Original Walt Disney Global Van Lines Truc ... More  Holabird will hold an online-only timed auction July 28-30thRENO, NEV.- Some auction houses choose to take the summer off, but not Holabird Western Americana, Collections, LLC. Fresh off a High-Grade Auction held June 15th-18th, the firm will host a three-day Time Flies in July auction, July 28th, 29th & 30th, a special timed event that will feature nearly 2,200 lots of Western Americana, numismatic, philatelic and dealer items. Start times all three days will be 8 am Pacific time. The timed auction will be hosted exclusively on iCollector.com (Holabirds preferred online bidding platform) and will contain collectibles in over ten categories, including postcards and stamps, mining, art, general Americana, books, bottles, stocks, numismatics, railroad, tokens, Native Americana and more a collectors dream. Every lot will have a start price of just ten dollars. But sta ... More  The Henry opens two new exhibitions: Sophia Al-Maria: Not My Bag and A/political RocksSEATTLE, WA.- Sophia Al-Maria (b. 1983, Tacoma, Washington; lives in London) is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker whose work interrogates the enduring orientalist gaze and residual histories of resource extraction and colonial authority in the context of contemporary culture and society. Not My Bag brings together Al-Marias recent trilogy of films and new collages that grapple with the violence of empire across individual and generational time scales, and animate the persistence of the rebellious, creative spirit amid the ruins of crisis. This is Al-Marias first exhibition in the Pacific Northwest, a region central to shaping the artists youth and the trajectory of her art practice. Al-Marias film trilogy includes BEAST TYPE SONG (2019), TENDER POINT RUIN (2021), and TIGER STRIKE RED (2022), and featur ... More  Solo exhibition by Hannah Van Bart on view at the Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd until mid AugustBUNNIK.- A solo exhibition of Hannah Van Bart's atmospheric portraits, still lifes, and landscapesorganized by the Centraal Museumopened at the Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd, a historic country estate in Utrecht, the Netherlands, this past spring. The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication featuring essays by Allie Biswas, Hans den Hartog Jager, and Bart Rutten. Van Bart paints portraits, still lifes and landscapes in a drawing-like handwriting and with subdued use of colour. Penetrating, atmospheric works in which beauty and discomfort go hand in hand. Although she works figuratively, Van Bart rarely starts from an existing image. Usually the starting point is a type of light, a shine, a mud trail, a reflection. She then tries to reproduce that sensation while searching. What does this feeling look like? W ... More  RAF Museum presents Horrible Histories Up in the Air AdventureLONDON.- Fasten your seatbelts because the RAF Museum Horrible Histories Up in the Air Adventure is now open. Get ready to experience the (sometimes gruesome) history of flight in the Horrible Hangar. Meet fearless and foolish flyers and solve the clues in this fully interactive experience for all the family. Based on the Horrible Histories book, Up in the Air, written by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown, the RAF Museum brings characters from the book to life with some of the truly brainless blunderers pursuing the desire to fly! Legendary aviation pioneers from throughout history are on hand to steer you around six amazing zones for one fantastic adventure, including the Engineers Workshop; Barnstorming Braves; Creation Station; Meet the Inventor; Selfie Zone and the Up in the Air Challenge. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Philipp Otto Runge was born July 23, 1777. Philipp Otto Runge (23 July 1777 - 2 December 1810) was a Romantic German painter and draughtsman. He made a late start to his career and died young, nonetheless he is considered among the best German Romantic painters.
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