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Beeple, the artist known for blockbuster NFT sales, mingles with guests at a show of his physical artwork in New York, March 3, 2022. The digital artist known for NFTs is showing paintings and prints IRL at a Manhattan gallery. Will the art establishment finally take notice? Landon Nordeman/The New York Times.
Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- A cavalry of crypto enthusiasts funneled into Manhattans Tribeca neighborhood Thursday evening, waiting outside Jack Hanley Gallery for a chance to meet their online art messiah in the flesh. In the mix were celebrities such as Jimmy Fallon. It was a rock-star welcome for Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist known as Beeple, who was putting the final touches on his images of decapitated tech executives and haywire science experiments. Last year, Winkelmann, 40, introduced the world to NFTs (or nonfungible tokens), starting with the $69 million sale of his Everydays The First 5000 Days at a Christies auction, which set cryptocurrency on a crash course with culture. Now, he is seeking approval from the art establishment with his first gallery exhibition, called Uncertain Future, which intends to convince critics that his work has more substance than what they see on screen. Im kind of in a weird position, Winkelmann said at the ga ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sabrina Amrani is presenting HYPERMOODY, the first solo show in Spain of the artist duo :mentalKLINIK, presenting works that defy the definition of 'Paintingâ. Tempered glass, polished aluminum panels, water-based emulsion, liquid polyurethane with different glitters, silver confetti, robot vacuum cleaners, ASMR audio and air diffusers spritzing champagne scented essence.
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| New exhibition of artists' perceptions of war opens at Clark Art Institute | | Sotheby's presents one of the world's great natural treasures │ The De Beers Cullinan Blue Diamond | | 'Dawoud Bey: An American Project' travels to the The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | 
Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, An Uhlan (Mounted Soldier with a Pike), 1870s. Etching on wove paper,
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institutes latest exhibition presents four centuries of war imagery from Europe and the United States in As They Saw It: Artists Witnessing War, on view March 5May 30, 2022. Spanning European and American art from 15201920, the exhibition of prints, drawings, and photographs shows how artists have portrayed periods of military conflict, bringing war off the battlefield and into the homes and lives of those who were often at a far remove from the scene. The exhibition is on view in the Eugene V. Thaw Gallery of the Clarks Manton Research Center. Visual media have long played a key role in documenting war. Especially for those far from the front, eyewitness imagery is crucial to understanding what may be happening on the battlefield. Yet artists depictions of the wrenching conditions and consequences of warfare may even transcend their historical origins to become lasting monuments to suffer ... More | | 
The De Beers Cullinan Blue anchors Sothebys Hong Kong Luxury Week. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys announces today that it will present The De Beers Cullinan Blue, an extraordinary natural treasure and one of the most valuable blue diamonds ever to be offered at auction. Estimated in excess of US$48 Million / HK$380 million, this extraordinary 15.10-carat step-cut blue has been recently cut from an exceptional rough stone discovered in April 2021. In its masterfully crafted, newly formed state, it now re-emerges as the largest vivid blue diamond ever to appear at auction and the largest internally flawless step cut vivid blue diamond that the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has ever graded. Blue diamonds of this importance are exceptionally rare, with only five 10-carat+ examples ever having come to auction, none of which have exceeded 15 carats, making the appearance of this flawless gem a landmark event in itself. The De Beers Cullinan Blue anchors Sothebys Hong Kong Luxury Week, and will be offered ... More | | 
A Girl with a Knife Nosepin.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will host Dawoud Bey: An American Project, a retrospective of the influential photographers career. Co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the exhibition will be on view at the MFAH from March 6 to May 30, 2022. Bey (b. 1953) has dedicated more than four decades to portraying underrepresented communities and histories. From portraits in Harlem to nocturnal landscapes, classic street photography to large-scale studio portraits, his works combine an ethical imperative with an unparalleled mastery of his medium. Featuring approximately 85 works, the exhibition spans the breadth of Beys career, from the 1970s to the present. Organized both thematically and chronologically, it ranges from his earliest street portraits in Harlem (197578) to his most recent historical explorations, of the Underground Railroad (2017) and, unique to the H ... More |
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| Chatsworth announces details of two major new exhibitions | | Modern Art Oxford opens a major solo exhibition by Jesse Darling | | How a national movement toppled hundreds of Confederate symbols | 
Duke and Duchess of Devonshire in front of Chatsworth House.
CHATSWORTH.- Living With Art We Love: An exhibition presented by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire taking place in the house from 26 March to 9 October features favourite items from their acquisitions over the past 40 years, few of which have been on public display, including paintings, sculpture and furniture, and including some works from the historic collection with a section dedicated to Lucian Freud in that artists centenary year. Radical Horizons: The Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth is a large-scale exhibition in the publicly accessible 1000 acre park surrounding the house, which sees 12 monumental sculptures from Burning Man, held in Nevadas Black Rock Desert, going on display in the UK for the first time from 9 April to 1 October. The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, said: Were delighted to be announcing this celebratory programme for Chatsworth. The exhibition in the house is a marker in time ... More | | 
Jesse Darling, Gravity Road, installation view, Kunstverein Freiburg, 2020. Photo: Marc Doradzillo.
OXFORD.- Modern Art Oxford presents No Medals No Ribbons, a major solo exhibition by Jesse Darling (b. Oxford, lives and works in Berlin) and the largest presentation of the artists influential work to date. Bringing together new and existing pieces made over the past decade, the exhibition presents artworks thematically, creating new narratives around Darlings work. Through installation, video, drawing, text, and sculpture, Darling works to expose how the systems of power - government, religion, ideology, empire and technology - can be as fragile and contingent as mortal bodies. From this perspective, they envisage forms of resistance to control, both individual and collective, using the phrase Nothing is too big to fail both as a call-to-arms and cause for hope. Gravity Road (2020), Darlings most ambitious steel sculpture, is the exhibitions centrepiece, taking over the largest gallery at Moder ... More | | 
A vandalized monument to Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson in Richmond, Va., Aug. 12, 2020. Nichelle Dailey/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- An unsparing examination of systemic racism has unfolded throughout America since the murder of George Floyd almost two years ago, leading to critical conversations about long-standing inequities. But perhaps the most physical transformation has come from the removal, relocating or renaming of at least 230 Confederate symbols since his death. Nearly 157 years after the last battle of the Civil War was waged, the United States is reevaluating how or even if the Confederacy should be memorialized. Every symbol erected and every symbol dismantled speak to the political calculations and struggle between enshrining heritage and enduring hate. From Virginia to California, symbolism has been removed, relocated or renamed: statues of horse-mounted soldiers, the names affixed to schools, the names of streets coursing through cities large and ... More |
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| The Vancouver Art Gallery presents 'The Imitation Game: Visual Culture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence' | | Hove Museum & Art Gallery opens an exhibition celebrating the fun, quirky and anarchic jewellery brand Tatty Devine | | Too close to Putin? Institutions vet artists, uncomfortably. | 
Sougwen Chung, Omnia per Omnia, 2018. Video (still) Courtesy of the Artist.
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Imitation Game: Visual Culture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence surveys the extraordinary uses (and abuses) of artificial intelligence (AI) in the production of modern and contemporary visual culture around the world. This dynamic exhibition examines the development of artificial intelligence, from the 1950s to the present, through a historical lens. Building on this foundation, it emphasizes the explosive growth of AI across disciplines, including animation, architecture, art, fashion, graphic design, urban design, and video games, over the past decade. Featured artists, designers and architects include *airegan, Stafford Beer, BIG, Ben Bogart, Gui Bonsiepe, Sougwen Chung, Muriel Cooper, DeepDream, Stephanie Dinkins, Scott Eaton, Epic Games, Amber Frid-Jimenez, Neri Oxman and Patrick Pennefather, and WETA, among others. This exhibition ... More | | 
Harriet Vine and Rosie Wolfenden.
HOVE.- Tatty Devines statement jewellery disrupted the fashion world with their unique designs which tell stories and generate conversation. This spring Misshapes: The making of Tatty Devine, considers the power of creativity and innovative British design and making, alongside the glamour and humour that Tatty Devine are known for. The exhibition celebrates design duo, Harriet Vine MBE and Rosie Wolfenden MBE, who met at Chelsea College of Art and founded Tatty Devine when they graduated in 1999. They soon started trading from a market stall in east London and developed a signature style that saw them lauded in Vogue and stocked in Harvey Nichols and Whistles within the year. They discovered laser-cut acrylic on a trip to New York in 2001. On their return, they invested in a laser-cutting machine, rarely used in jewellery at that time, which gave them a creative freedom to push the boundaries. In the early ... More | | 
Russias invasion of Ukraine has led arts organizations to reconsider who performs, forcing them to confront questions about free speech and policing political views.
NEW YORK, NY.- In Canada, an acclaimed 20-year-old Russian pianists concert was canceled amid concerns about his silence on the invasion of Ukraine. The music director of an orchestra in Toulouse, France who is also chief conductor at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow was instructed to clarify his position on the war before his next appearance. In New York, Anna Netrebko, one of operas biggest stars, saw her reign at the Metropolitan Opera end after she declined to denounce Russian President Vladimir Putin. As global condemnation of Russias attack on Ukraine grows, cultural institutions have moved with surprising speed to put pressure on Russian artists to distance themselves from Putin, a collision of art and politics that is forcing organizations to confront questions ... More |
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| Tim Considine, young star of 'My Three Sons,' dies at 81 | | Andrei Belgrader, Director who influenced future stars, dies at 75 | | Nilüfer Yanya's music is a family affair | 
He played the oldest son, Mike, after gaining fame in the Spin and Marty serial on Disneys The Mickey Mouse Club. But after his 1960s heyday, he faded as an actor.
by Anita Gates
NEW YORK, NY.- Tim Considine, who was a television star at the age of 14 in Disneys Spin and Marty and went on to wider fame in the family series My Three Sons, died Thursday at his home in the Mar Vista section of Los Angeles. He was 81. The Walt Disney Archives website announced his death. Spin and Marty was an 11-minute serial shown on The Mickey Mouse Club from 1955 to 1958 and in reruns through 2002. The young Considine was originally cast in what was supposed to be the lead as Marty Markham, a snobbish rich kid spending the summer at the Triple R dude ranch. But he told his agent that he didnt want the part that hed rather play Spin Evans, the more athletic and more popular character, the city boy with the cool flattop haircut, he said. The ... More | | 
His Yale Rep and American Repertory Theater productions included early work by Cherry Jones, Mark Linn-Baker and more, and he directed starry Off Broadway shows.
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK, NY.- Andrei Belgrader, who directed numerous high-profile stage productions off-Broadway and in regional theaters and was an important influence in the careers of John Turturro, Cherry Jones, Tony Shalhoub and other respected actors, died Feb. 22 in Los Angeles. He was 75. His wife, Caroline Hall, said the cause was lung cancer. Belgrader emigrated in the 1970s after chafing at the artistic censorship in his native Romania. He caught the eye of Robert Brustein, founder of the Yale Repertory Theater, who by the end of the 1970s had him directing there. When Brustein, who had also been dean of the Yale School of Drama, moved to Harvard University and founded the American Repertory Theater there in 1980, Belgrader began directing productions there as well. Both ... More | | 
The artist Nilufer Yanya in London, Feb. 25, 2022. Adama Jalloh/The New York Times.
by Lindsay Zoladz
NEW YORK, NY.- Sometime last year, while on vacation with her two sisters, British musician Nilüfer Yanya was listening to the mastered recording of her second album, Painless, for the first time. We were getting really excited, her older sister, Molly Daniel, recalled on a recent video call, especially about Stabilise, an antic number built atop a guitar riff as intricate and tightly wound as a labyrinth. I was like manically dancing around and directing the video, Daniel said, Like, then you run here, then youre on a bike, then you do this, then youre in a car. Eventually, Daniel did direct the video, in which Yanya jogs and cruises around London while insisting defiantly, Im not waiting for no one to save me. The collaboration was an extension of the powerful role family has played in Yanyas music since she first picked up the guitar a gift for a teenage Daniel that landed ... More |
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 Actress Morena Baccarin cooks a Brazilian stewNEW YORK, NY.- If I take these home to my kids and they dont like them, Im going to kill them, actress Morena Baccarin said. This was on a sopping morning at Rio Supermarket, a Brazilian grocery in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens. Baccarin, an Emmy-nominated actress, moved from Rio de Janeiro to New York City at 10. She still craves the foods of her childhood, like coxinhas, chicken and potato croquettes, formed into a golden-brown kiss. She placed two orders one for her, one for her children in rapid Portuguese and then bit into a croquette, somehow managing not to smear her lipstick. Its not part of my diet, but I cant not eat these, she said. Its deep fried and its heaven. Baccarin, 42, had come to Rio Market on a recent Friday at the suggestion of two of her cousins, the same cousins who had given her the flamingo ... More  Tony Walton, award-winning stage and screen designer, dies at 87 NEW YORK, NY.- Tony Walton, a production designer who brought a broad visual imagination to the creation of distinct onstage looks for Broadway shows over a half-century, earning him three Tony Awards, died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. His daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, whose mother is Julie Andrews, said the cause was complications of a stroke. In more than 50 Broadway productions, Walton collaborated on designing the sets (and sometimes, the costumes) with directors like Mike Nichols, Bob Fosse and Jerry Zaks, winning Tonys for Pippin, The House of Blue Leaves and Guys and Dolls. He also worked in film, where he shared the Oscar for the art and set decoration of Fosses All That Jazz (1979); years earlier, Walton designed the interior sets and the costumes for Mary Poppins (1964), starring Andrews, ... More  Mitchell Ryan, who played the villain in 'Lethal Weapon,' dies at 88NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell Ryan, an actor known for his role in the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows and who played a heroin-dealing retired general in the action movie Lethal Weapon, died at his home in Los Angeles on Friday. He was 88. The cause was heart failure, Ro Diamond, who represented Ryan for more than 40 years, said Saturday. With his square jawline and slicked-back hair, Ryan entertained moviegoers and television fans in a career that spanned more than 50 years, beginning with an uncredited part in the movie Thunder Road (1958). His breakout performance came in 1966 when he landed a role in Dark Shadows, a popular soap opera about the adventurous lives of the affluent Collins family. Set in the fictional town of Collinsport, Maine, the family experiences supernatural events and is tormented by strange beings, such ... More  A musician's turn to improvisation bears fruitNEW YORK, NY.- A few years ago, as his 40th birthday loomed, pianist Eric Wubbels had reasons to be content. He had a steady career as a performer and composer in New York, where he gave frequent concerts with the Wet Ink Ensemble the celebrated contemporary classical group he had directed with a close crew of collaborators for more than a decade. But he could also see another route for himself, one that led outside the city. What would it be like to have a grand piano at home? Getting off the treadmill of commissions and performances seemed worth considering, too. Still, he wasnt looking for a holiday. The idea I came to around that time is that this is the last moment to do the big growth, Wubbels said in a recent interview. Whatever growth is going to happen as a musician, as an artist psychologically, like in my ... More  OKCMOA opens largest ever retrospective of sports photography by Walter Iooss Jr.OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.- A new, original exhibition of over 80 photographs by iconic sports photographer Walter Iooss Jr. opened on March 5 at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The Perfect Shot: Walter Iooss Jr. and the Art of Sports Photography spans 50 years of Iooss career and features athletes as diverse as Hank Aaron, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Arnold Palmer, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Bart Conner, Serena Williams and many more. OKCMOA has an incredibly strong collection of photography, and our works by Walter Iooss Jr. are no exception, said OKCMOA President and CEO Michael Anderson, Ph.D. Iooss blurs the line between fine art and sports photography, and we are honored to organize and present this important retrospective of his work. 'The Perfect Shot will take visitors through many of the most inspiring and memorable ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo was born March 06, 1475. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. In this image: A portrait painting (ca. 1544) of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra hangs on the wall at the Michelangelo exhibit titled 'Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 13, 2017 in New York City.
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