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The Supreme Court decision over Andy Warhols use of Lynn Goldsmiths Prince photograph was decided on the narrow grounds of a licensing issue. But it could still have a chilling effect.
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Eric Doeringer remembers that his mother was worried, last year, when the Supreme Court took up a case about Andy Warhols right to use someone elses photograph to make his own silk-screened image of pop star Prince. As one of Warhols most committed descendants, Doeringer makes appropriation art that most often copies images made by other artists including, often, by Warhol himself so his mother wondered what might be in store for her son (now 48) if the court ruled that Warhols signature move had been out of line all along. Museums and artists foundations shared her concerns, as some had expressed to the court. A judgment against Warhol, said one of their early briefs, might expose artists, as well as the institutions that display their works, to new and dramatically expanded liability for copyright infringement. It even threatened to impose a deep chill on artistic progress, as creative appropriation of e ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Chosen Memories: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift and Beyond, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 30-September 9, 2023. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.
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| Sotheby's provenance disputed in claim by heirs for art lost in Nazi era | | 'A bit spooky': The new shark species with bright, white eyes | | A centuries-old mystery: Did this elusive Viking city exist? | 
St. Francis of Paola Holding a Rosary, Book, and Staff, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, thought to have been painted in the 1730s. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2019, Sothebys sold a work by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, the master painter, that was left behind in Austria when a Jewish gallery owner fled the Nazis in 1938. Sothebys says that at the time of the sale it didnt know that history, and so the auction catalog only mentioned that the work came from a distinguished private collection and had once been in the possession of the Galerie Wolfgang Böhler in Bensheim, Germany. But, according to court papers filed Friday, the painting had actually passed through the hands of Julius Böhler, a separate and unrelated art dealer in Munich whom American authorities described in 1946 as someone who had been implicated in art looting activities. Now three heirs of the Jewish gallery owner, Otto Fröhlich, are saying in the court papers that Sothebys misled the public by attributing the painting to the wrong gallery. This had the effect, the heirs said, of making a sale easi ... More | | 
In an image provided by CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection shows, Apristurus ovicorrugatus, a newly discovered species of deepwater catshark. (CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection via The New York Times)
by Lauren McCarthy
NEW YORK, NY.- What has long, bright white eyes, swims along the deep waters off Australia and attaches its eggs to coral? A new species of shark, called Apristurus ovicorrugatus. The discovery process began several years ago, when researchers were going through uncataloged materials in the Australian National Fish Collection, housed in Hobart, where they found a mysterious egg that they were unable to assign. That led to a fact-finding mission that eventually revealed a new species of demon catshark. The researchers announced their discovery in a paper published in the Journal of Fish Biology titled What came first, the shark or the egg? The Apristurus genus, the second-most diverse group of sharks that counts about ... More | | 
Archaeologist Wojciech Filipowiak in the forest in Wolin, Poland, on March 28, 2023. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
by Andrew Higgins
WOLIN, POLAND.- After the local government decided to build an observation tower atop a sandy hill on Wolin, an island in the Baltic Sea, a Polish archaeologist was called in to check the site before construction and look for buried artifacts from the spots macabre past. Hangmens Hill, a public park, had in earlier times been an execution ground, a cemetery and, some believe, a place for human sacrifices so who knew what grisly discoveries were in store? But what the archaeologist, Wojciech Filipowiak, found when he started digging caused more excitement than distaste: charcoaled wood indicating the remains of a 10th century stronghold that could help solve one of the great riddles of the Viking Age. Was a fearsome fortress mentioned in ancient texts a literary fantasy or a historical reality? It has long been known ... More |
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| Graffiti artists tag Jenny Holzer exhibition at K21 | | Site-specific, immersive sound and light installation: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: Machine Auguries, Toledo | | Discover Serge Charchoune, a Hidden Gem of Modern Art, at Rosenberg & Co | 
Exhibition view: JENNY HOLZER, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2023. © 2023 Jenny Holzer, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: Andreas Endermann.
DÃSSELDORF.- A major exhibition by American artist Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) is currently on view until August 6th, 2023, at K21. At Holzers invitation, stars of the German graffiti sceneECB, FOOL, IBES, SMASH 137, MOSES & TAPS, and L. BOEhave applied text in their signature styles over her striking installation of Truisms (197779) and Inflammatory Essays (197982) posters.The new graffiti features excerpts from United Nations reports on war crimes and human rights abuses in Ukraine, the result of on-the-ground investigations and interviews with civilian victims and witnesses. These reports document accounts of rape, torture, killings, and indiscriminate attacks ... More | | 
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Northern Cardinal, Digital painting, 2023.
TOLEDO, OHIO.- The Toledo Museum of Art and Superblue are presenting Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Machine Auguries: Toledo at the Toledo Museum of Art. The installation, on view through Nov. 26, marks the artists first solo presentation in the United States and her largest indoor installation to date. The site-specific, immersive installation simulates a natural dawn chorus, the daily call and response performed by birds in the spring and summer to defend their territory and call for mates. In Ginsbergs artwork, the natural dawn chorus is slowly taken over by artificial birds, whose calls are generated using machine learning. Drawing on the significance of the regions location on spring migration flyways, Machine Auguries: Toledo reflects on the decline of bird populations ... More | | 
Serge Charchoune, (18881975), CompositionGuitare puriste, 1929. Oil on canvas, 39.4 x 31.9 in, 100 x 81 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rosenberg & Co. is now presenting Serge Charchoune: The Early Years, the first posthumous solo exhibition of the artists work in New York. The exhibition brings together thirty-six paintings from the artists foundational periodranging from classically Cubist compositions with Dada influences to richly Purist canvases that were celebrated by Le Corbusier himself. Assembled together for the first time and organized chronologically in a museum-style exhibition, the collection of works provides a compelling case for Charchounes undeniable place in the history of Modern art. Focusing on the period between 1916 and 1930, Serge Charchoune: The Early Years highlights the artists stylistic experimentations as he navigated ... More |
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| Portland Museum of Art announces new assistant curator of modern and contemporary art | | Woven steel and distressed denim feature in Design Museum's landmark sari exhibition unveiled | | Bozar appoints Zoë Gray as Director of Exhibitions | 
Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
PORTLAND, ORE.- The Portland Museum of Art welcomed Sayantan Mukhopadhyay as the museums new Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. With an extensive background in contemporary art research and education, Mukhopadhyay brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the museum and will be an influential addition to the PMA team. Before joining the PMA, Mukhopadhyay was a lecturer in Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also earned both his MA and PhD in Art History. His research and teachings focus on modern and contemporary South Asian art, queer studies, the history of photography, and the intersection of these subjects. His PhD dissertation in 2022 was entitled Making Worlds, Making Way: Queer Belongings in Contemporary Art from India (1980-2000). The PMA welcomes ... More | | 
Ashdeen. Photo Hormis Antony Tharakan
LONDON.- The Design Museum unveiled the major exhibition The Offbeat Sari examining one of the worlds most recognisable items of clothing, which will remain on view until September 17th, 2023. The sari which has enduring appeal and is ubiquitous across India and South Asia today has experienced a radical 21st century overhaul. It is experiencing what is conceivably its most rapid reinvention in its 5,000-year history. The Design Museum explores this reinvention in its summer exhibition, shedding a rare spotlight on contemporary Indian fashion for UK audiences. Todays unveiling of the exhibition reveals a show that includes saris made of woven steel, distressed denim and the very first sari worn to the famed Met Gala, which is being shown in Britain for the first time. The Offbeat Sari is the first large-scale exhibition in the UK to focus on the contemporary sari in India. It is curated by the Design Mus ... More | | 
Zoë Gray © photo: Alexandra Bertels.
BRUSSELS.- The Belgian-British curator and art historian has built up an impressive track record in both national and international contemporary art institutions. She has a strong European network, while the Brussels context holds no secrets for her either. As from 1 September she will take up her new role at Bozar Centre for Fine Arts. Zoë Gray (°1978, UK) lives and works in Brussels, where she has been appointed senior curator at WIELS since 2015. There, she developed a programme of innovative and engaged exhibitions that is both locally anchored and has international appeal. She previously worked in France as artistic director of the Rennes Biennale (2014) and as project manager for the LUMA Foundation in Arles (2012-2013). She also worked as a curator at Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly known as Witte de With) in Rotterdam (2006-2012) and organised several international exhibitions as a guest curator. She writes ... More |
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| The 1-54 Art Fair brings Africa and its diaspora into the global mainstream | | Rites of Passage: New Works by Cheryl Molnar and Christian Vincent at C24 Gallery | | Salman Rushdie makes surprise appearance at PEN America Gala | 
Lulama Wolf, Nomalizo, 2023.
by Seph Rodney
NEW YORK, NY.- Touria El Glaoui is the founding director of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which is held every year in London, New York City and Marrakech. The daughter of a Moroccan artist father and a French mother, El Glaoui was working in telecommunication sales when she founded the fair to give voice to art and artists from the continent and the diaspora, and it remains among the most important on the contemporary scene, introducing talents such as Amadou Sanogo, of Mali, and Johanna Mirabel, of Paris. This years edition of the fair, which runs through Sunday, is mounted in Manhattanville, at 439 W. 127th St. (1-54.com), with a pop-up exhibition of Caribbean artists, called Sparkling Islands, Another Postcard of the Caribbean, at High Line Nine, 507 W. 27th St., through Saturday. I recently spoke with El Glaoui about her vision and how it has grown. Here are edited excerpts from the conversation. Q: Why did you start with the focus on Africa? A: When I started in 2013, ... More | | 
Cheryl Molnar, Boulevard, 2023, Archival digital print and gouache painted paper on wood panel, 6 x 48 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- We are proud to announce Rites of Passage, featuring work by C24 Gallery artists, Cheryl Molnar and Christian Vincent. The exhibition will be on view through July 14th, 2023. Cheryl Molnar and Christian Vincent, while working with different methods and mediums, each blend representational imagery in unusual ways to create surreal, layered compositions. Their immersive paintings and collages embody complex narratives about family, coming of age and other personal milestones, spanning parallel histories that encompass both the east and west coasts of the United States. Cheryl Molnars collage paintings combine photographic and digitally rendered images with painted elements to illustrate memory-driven, unlikely landscapes. Her depictions incorporate elements of eastern Long Island topography, combined with recognizable features of the mountains and deserts of southern California, hearkening back to her time spent growing up on both ... More | | 
The author Salman Rushdie chats with Diane von Furstenberg during the cocktail hour at the PEN America gala in New York on Thursday night, May 18, 2023. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times)
by Jennifer Schuessler
NEW YORK, NY.- Salman Rushdie walked onstage at PEN Americas annual gala Thursday night, his first public appearance since he was stabbed and gravely wounded in an attack in August at a literary event in western New York. His appearance at the gala, which had not been announced, was a surprise. But no surprise, to those who know him, was that he began his speech with a joke. Well, hi everybody, Rushdie said, as the crowd at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan greeted him with whoops and a standing ovation. Its nice to be back as opposed to not being back, which was also an option. Im pretty glad the dice rolled this way. His remarks, just a few minutes long, in accepting an award for courage may have been uncharacteristically terse. But Rushdie, who lost sight in one eye because of the attack, was his ... More |
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 A poet of the night whose muses have 9 livesSEOUL.- Most nights, Hwang In-suk pushes a shopping cart up and down the steep alleys of her Seoul neighborhood, trailed by stray cats that emerge from shadows to greet her under glowing streetlamps and convenience store marquees. Her neighbors tend to think of Hwang, 64, merely as someone who feeds cats in the street. Only a few know that she is a celebrated poet whose work explores loneliness and impermanence in the South Korean capital. Her decades of writing span a time in which South Korea has cycled through a dizzying number of identities, including those of a country ruled by repressive military dictatorships, a fledgling democracy and, most recently, an economic power and international cultural juggernaut. Hwang said her nocturnal cat-feeding routine allows her to quietly observe not only cats, her favorite muses, ... More  A surrealist 'Titanic' - featuring an octopus, a wiggly dance and Mark ZuckerbergNEW YORK, NY.- In some ways, turning the movie Titanic into a farce about climate change makes a lot of narrative sense. Instead of an iceberg which has melted, of course the ship goes down because it hits a mountain of underwater garbage. In other ways, Titanic Depression, a new multimedia performance, could have come from only the madcap brain of Dynasty Handbag, the queer vaudevillian with punk origins and questionable taste in unitards. The 1997 movie was a blockbuster, sure, but Dynasty Handbags vision may be even more epic than James Camerons. Clad mostly in frilly underwear, with a recalcitrant therapist on speed-text, shes a bawdy version of Rose (Kate Winslets character in the movie). Jack, the Leonardo DiCaprio love interest, is played by an octopus, who sneaks aboard the vessel disguised ... More  Meet Bob's Dance Shop, 'world-class vibe curators'NEW YORK, NY.- If you lived through the early 2000s, the phrase flash mob might arouse a vague feeling of dread. The seemingly spontaneous gatherings, often involving some kind of performance, began as a cool-kid phenomenon and devolved with disheartening speed into a corporate marketing tool. By the end of the decade there was a creeping sense, when witnessing a mob or a video of a mob, that something was being sold to you. Then, several years and several vibe shifts later, came flash Bobs. Like their older cousins, flash Bobs involve fake-impromptu gatherings in public spaces. But as orchestrated by Bobs Dance Shop a group of five performers that its founder Vince Coconato describes as an immersive dance crew the mobs lean silly, colorful and joyfully queer. Featuring routines with disarmingly simple choreography ... More  A vigilant Steve McQueen, a misguided Maïwenn and other Cannes scenesCANNES.- If you are ever at a festival thats showing a new movie from British director Steve McQueen and he happens to be in the theater and youre tempted to look at your phone, dont. Theres a chance that McQueen will get out of his seat, cross the aisle and persuade you to redirect your attention to the big screen, which is exactly what he did Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival when a mystery offender (not me!) fired up a bright little screen during the premiere of his documentary, Occupied City. I wanted all my attention on McQueens movie, which is being presented out of the main competition. The documentary is heroic in scope and ambition, with a nearly 4-1/2-hour run time, intermission included. With formal rigor and adamant focus, it maps street by street, address by address the catastrophe that befell Amsterdams Jewish ... More  Shermane Billingsley, guardian of the Stork Club's legacy, dies at 78NEW YORK, NY.- Shermane Billingsley was barely 2 years old when Broadway gossip columnist Dorothy Kilgallen revealed that Shermane was bedridden with a fever of 104. Less than a year later, Walter Winchell reported that Shermane had vamped to an inquiring columnist, I will break your heart someday with my big blue eyes! She was still a tot when Johnny Weissmuller, the Olympic swimmer and movie Tarzan, was about to present her with a bunny on live television but froze; she filled the void by ad-libbing, You know, my father once gave me two rabbits, and in a short time I had 200. Shermane Billingsley, who died April 16 in a Manhattan hospital, was the last living link to the storied Manhattan nightspot that made her such endearing fodder for the society pages, the Stork Club. She was the youngest daughter of its impresario, Sherman Billingsley, and after the ... More  Robin Guenther, architect of healthy hospitals, dies at 68NEW YORK, NY.- Robin Guenther, an architect and environmental health advocate who designed green, sustainable health care facilities and co-wrote the first guide to building them, died on May 6 at a hospital in Manhattan. She was 68. The cause was ovarian cancer, said her husband, Perry Gunther. (The couples surnames shared a pronunciation but not a spelling.) Guenther, a New York City-based architect who started designing health care facilities after graduating from architecture school in the late 1970s, was among a group of environmentalists and architects who in the 1990s began to campaign against the use of toxic materials in construction. She was particularly focused on PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, one of the worlds most ubiquitous plastics used in everything from pipes to flooring to medical devices and a known human ... More  Exhibitions and events at the Fondation Beyeler during Art BaselRIEHEN.- During Art Basel 2023, the Fondation Beyeler will be offering a varied program of exhibitions, including Doris Salcedo and Basquiat. The Modena Paintings, a new collection presentation, and a number of special events. The major retrospective devoted to Colombian artist Doris Salcedo comprises eight central series of works from various phases of Salcedos career. In Basquiat. The Modena Paintings, eight large-format paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, created in 1982 in Modena, Italy, are exhibited together for the first time. The collection presentation THE MINDS EYE. Images of Nature from Claude Monet to Otobong Nkanga focuses on the different ways in which artists engage with the natural world, and offers a first chance to see some of the museums recent major acquisitions. The show is supplemented by a display ... More  Matthias Schaller presents LAGUNENWALZER at Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo, VeniceVENICE.- The Civic Museums of Venice presents at the Museum Palazzo Mocenigo - White Room an installation by Matthias Schaller consisting of two independent photographic series "Tessuto Urbano" (2022) and "Lagunenwalzer" (2012) until November 26th, 2023. Through the 53 works on display, the german photographer synthesizes his own imagery of the contemporary city, inspired by De Barbari's famous 16th-century veduta. The series "Tessuto Urbano" portrays the seven Sestieri of Venice through a succession of seven shots obtained from the same seventeenth-century lace belonging to the Burano Museum Collection. Each photograph reproduces, according to a reduced scale reproduction, a Venetian Sestiere, guiding the viewer among the intricate finishes of the fabric that become the calli and campielli of the city. The lace, ... More  Whitney Museum independent study program presents 2023 annual exhibitions and symposiumNEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Arts Independent Study Program (ISP) marked the culmination of the 202223 academic year with a symposium at the Whitney on May 12, and two exhibitions at the ISP and Artists Space which will take place between May 1728. These presentations showcase the work of the 202223 ISP cohort across three areas of concentration: Critical Studies Program, Curatorial Program, and Studio Program. The 202223 Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellows presented their current research at the annual ISP Critical Studies Symposium on Friday, May 12, in the Museums Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater. The fellows, Maddie Hampton, Sophia Larigakis, Dahlia Li, JazmÃn López, Sonya Merutka, and Max Tolleson, shared short papers that address critical topics ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Flemish painter and illustrator Jacob Jordaens was born May 19, 1593. Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 - 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day. In this image: Jacob Jordaens, The Tribute Money - Peter finding the silver coin in the mouth of the fish, 1630-1645, Collection Rijksmuseum.
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