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In a photo provided by Channel 4, Grayson Perry an artist, made a plate portrait of his wife, the psychotherapist Philippa Perry, in the first episode of his TV series about art that people created during the pandemic lockdown. Perry talks about his latest TV series, Graysons Art Club, which showcases art made by a British public trapped at home. Channel 4 via The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- If any British artist has reached the status of a national treasure, its Grayson Perry, who is adored both by art critics and by those who rarely step into a gallery. He won the Turner Prize in 2003 for his subversive pots, and has since become known as much as a television personality as an artist, presenting documentaries on the changing nature of masculinity in Britain and the countrys persistent class divides. Now Perry, 60, has turned his attention to how the British public is dealing with lockdown, hosting a show called Graysons Art Club on Channel 4. Each week, Perry chooses a theme and asks viewers to send in art they have made. He and his wife, the psychotherapist Philippa Perry, also make works themselves, and talk to celebrities and members of the public about their output over video calls. At the end of the pandemic, a selection of the works will be exhibited. The show, which gets over 1.3 million viewers a week, has received almost 10,000 subm ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on Septembre 14, 2017 shows the interior of the first temple of Hera at the Paestum and Velia archeological park which contains three of the most well-preserved ancient Greek temples in the world, in Capaccio-Paestum, near Naples. Guillaume BAPTISTE / AFP
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This aerial view shows The Second Temple of Hera also known as Temple of Neptune at Paestum near Naples on May 22, 2020. Charles ONIANS / AFP.
CAPACCIO-PAESTUM (AFP).- Ahead of the Colosseum and Pompeii, the towering Greek temple complex at Paestum near Naples is the first Italian archaeological site to reopen to tourists after the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. This ancient Greek colony dating back to the 6th century BC reopened on May 18 with temperature checks at the entrance and other health measures implemented around the site as lockdown eases. A limited number of people are allowed on the site at the same time, they must disinfect hands and wear masks, and one-way routes have been marked out, said site director Gabriel Zuchtriegel. "But at the same time we also wanted to give cultural content which does not make visitors experience this situation as a limitation but as a chance to finally return to live with beauty, culture, freedom," said Zuchtriegel. It has also developed a free app to guide visitors through the sprawling site and send an alert when too many people are gathered in the ... More | | 
This file photograph taken on March 24, 2015, shows a section of marble frieze sculpture (438-432 BC) from The Parthenon in Athens. LEON NEAL / AFP.
ATHENS (AFP).- Greece on Saturday urged Britain to return the Parthenon Marbles -- often known as the Elgin Marbles -- as one of the world's greatest ancient sites the Acropolis re-opens after the coronavirus shutdown. The ancient friezes, which include depictions of battles between mythical ancient Greeks and centaurs, were taken by British diplomat Lord Elgin in the early 19th century and are now on display at the British Museum in London. Britain has always refused to return them, arguing that they were taken with the permission of local Ottoman rulers at the time. "The reopening of the archaeological sites with the Acropolis among them, is an occasion for the international (groups) supporting the return of the Parthenon Marbles to reaffirm their constant demand as well as that of the Greek government for the definitive return of the marbles to their homeland," Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said in a statement. Greece reopened the Acropolis in Athens ... More | | 
Francis Bacon, Portrait of Michel Leiris, 1976, oil on canvas, Musée national d'art modern-Centre de création industrielle, Paris. © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. / DACS, London / ARS, NY 2019.
by Michael Hardy
HOUSTON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- They waited patiently in line in 80-degree heat, standing on large blue stickers placed six feet apart, to enter the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston the first major American art museum to reopen since the country went into lockdown in March. The 20 or so mask-wearing visitors who queued up on Saturday morning had already waited more than two months to visit, so what were a few more minutes? First in line was Joan Laughlin, a nurse who has been coming to the museum since moving to Houston in 1970. She was here to see Glory of Spain, an exhibition of works from New Yorks Hispanic Society Museum and Library. Its good to be out of the house, she said. Ive been looking for something uplifting, something beautiful. It was Sara Patels ... More |
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| | Renowned Egyptian sculptor Adam Henein dies at 91 | | M Leuven opening great success: Sold out first week and visit from Minister-President Jan Jambon | | Museo Picasso Málaga will reopen its doors on May 26 | 
In a picture taken in 2014, Egyptian sculptor Adam Henein smiles as he stands by some of his works in the capital Cairo. Bassam ALZOGBY / AFP.
CAIRO (AFP).- Prominent Egyptian sculptor Adam Henein, who led the restoration of the Great Sphinx in Giza, died on Friday at the age of 91, the culture ministry announced. The acclaimed artist, who passed away after a struggle with illness, leaves behind a rich legacy of artwork, much of which draws inspiration from Egyptian heritage. "The Egyptian visual arts scene lost a genius," Culture Minister Inas Abdel-Dayem said in a statement, describing Henein as "unique". Henein was born in 1929 in the Bab al-Shaaria district in Cairo to a family of silversmiths and jewellers. He demonstrated artistic talent from an early age, modelling a clay figure of ancient Egyptian King Ramses II at eight years old. "My father used to display my work in the window of his silver workshop and it received wide acclaim," Henein said in a 2019 documentary by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Henein studied at Cairo's School of Fine Arts, graduating with a Bachelor ... More | | 
Curator dr Peter Carpreau gives Minister-President Jan Jambon a tour in 'Rodin, Meunier & Minne' © Jasper Jacobs.
LEUVEN.- M Leuven reopened and was one of the first museums to do so. It is presenting the brand-new exhibition Rodin, Meunier & Minne. Online ticket sales opened on Friday 15 May. It was a great success because all the timeslots up to and including 24 May are sold out. Minister-President of Flanders Jan Jambon was one of the reopened museums first visitors. A lot of hard work has been done behind the scenes to ensure that visitors can be welcomed in the safest possible circumstances, without the museum feeling constricting. We currently provide more square metres per person than the legal minimum. We allow a maximum of four people into the museum per timeslot. A new timeslot begins every quarter of an hour and we provide the exhibition room folders digitally with the e-tickets, chair of the board of governors Denise Vandevoort says. Since ticket sales opened on Friday 15 May, almost 900 tickets have been sold. Th ... More | | 
Composition with Red, Black, Yellow, Blue and Gray (1921) by Piet Mondrian © Museo Picasso Málaga.
MALAGA.- As from Tuesday 26th May 2020, Museo Picasso Málaga will be reopening its doors every day and with the same opening hours (10.00am - 7.00pm, with the ticket office closing at 6.30pm). Visitors will be able to see the exhibition Genealogies of Art or the History of Art as Visual Art, free of charge. This show brings together over 100 works by Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Paul Cézanne, Robert Delaunay, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Juan Gris, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Georges Braque, Paul Klee and Henry Moore, amongst other major artists. As this magnificent exhibition finally closes on 31st May, the management of Museo Picasso Málaga have decided that admission should be free of charge to all visitors. The museum recommends visitors buy their tickets in advance online, via the museum website www.museopicassomalaga.org. We also recommen ... More |
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| | Brooklyn, before it was a global brand: Walk its history | | Rare photo negatives from WWII Japanese surrender ceremony head to auction | | A Philip Glass score was lost. 50 years later, here it is. | 
The Federal Building and Post Office, by the architect Mifflin E. Bell, in Brooklyn, May 12, 2020. Officially incorporated in 1834, Brooklyn is now a global brand. Zack DeZon/The New York Times.
by Michael Kimmelman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Officially incorporated in 1834, Brooklyn was already the third largest city in America by the Civil War. Just over a century later it was in shambles, hemorrhaging jobs. Now its a global brand, a glorious, complex megalopolis of thriving streets, gentrification and poverty, its booming neighborhoods illuminated by a million twee Edison bulbs, its enduring emblems a parachute jump and an old, beloved roller coaster. Thomas J. Campanella teaches city planning and directs the Urban and Regional Studies program at Cornell University. Historian-in-residence for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, a fourth-generation Brooklynite, he is the author of Brooklyn: The Once and Future City. This is the latest in a series of (edited, ... More | | 
Original Folder of Negatives Showing Japanese Surrender Aboard the U.S.S. Missouri.
DALLAS, TX.- A album of negatives of images showing one of the most important moments in military history will be offered in Heritage Auctions' Arms & Armor, Civil War & Militaria Auction June 7 in Dallas, Texas. The Original Folder of Negatives Showing Japanese Surrender Aboard the U.S.S. Missouriis a leatherette binder containing large-format negatives, as well as one small-format example, in 19 individual sleeves (some of which contain two negatives), all dated Sept. 2, 1945. The negatives chronicle the ceremonies attendant upon the signing of the Instrument of Surrender by the Japanese representatives, formally ending World War II. Shot by a Navy photographer, the selection includes at least 16 unique negatives, as well as five that appear to be duplicates and three that likely are too light to yield prints of the images. "These negatives capture extraordinary images of one of the most significant events in military history," Heritage Auctions His ... More | | 
The composer Philip Glass in New York on Oct. 30, 2019. The final manuscript for Glasss 1970 work Music in Eight Parts performed just a handful of times and later thought lost before it resurfaced at an auction in late 2017 has now been realized anew by his ensemble, and released on a recording by Orange Mountain Music. Eva O'Leary/The New York Times.
by Joshua Barone
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the early 1970s, Philip Glass was already writing masterpieces and performing them with his ensemble in lofts, galleries and museums. But he wasnt quite making a living as a composer yet. He made ends meet by working as a mover, plumber and taxi driver. And by selling autograph scores including, it is believed, the one for his 1970 work Music in Eight Parts, which was performed just a handful of times and was later thought lost. For decades, it seemed, to Glass circle, to exist only as fragments in his archive. Then the final manuscript for Music in Eight Parts resurfaced near the end of 2017 ... More |
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| | Georgia Museum of Art highlights military artists | | Dynamic painter and masterful colorist Emma Amos passes away of natural causes | | The Giacometti Institute reopens its doors with the exhibition "Searching for the Lost Works" | 
Howard Cook (American, 1901 1980), The Indomitable One, 1951. Charcoal on paper, 21 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Howard Cook. GMOA 1967.1951.
ATHENS, GA.- Every summer, the Georgia Museum of Art participates in Blue Star Museums, program, a program organized by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) that offers free admission and special discounts to military personnel and their families from Armed Forces Day through Labor Day. Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the NEA, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense and museums across the United States. Each summer since 2010, Blue Star Museums have offered free admission to the nations active-duty military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve. This years version of Blue Star Museums is understandably canceled, due to COVID-19, but the museum decided to create a new online exhibition to take its place. Recognizing Artist Soldiers in the Permanent Collection goes on view on the museums website over Memorial Day weekend and will run indefinitely. ... More | | 
Emma Amos in her studio with Valued, 2006. Photo by Becket Logan.
BEDFORD, NH.- It is with deep sadness that we share the news of Emma Amos's passing. Amos, a pioneering African-American feminist artist, educator, and activist died in Bedford, NH on May 20, 2020 of natural causes, after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease. She will be remembered as a dynamic painter and masterful colorist whose commitment to interrogating the art-historical status quo yielded a body of vibrant, sumptuous and intellectually rigorous work. Amos was born in 1937 in Atlanta, Georgia. She began drawing as a child, attending public schools in the segregated South, and at age sixteen she enrolled in a five-year program at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Amos spent her fourth year abroad, studying printmaking, painting, and weaving at London's Central School of Art. After completing her BA at Antioch, she returned to London, earning a diploma in etching from the Central School in 1959. Amos's first solo exhibition took place in 1960 at Atlanta's Alexander ... More | | 
Alberto Giacometti, Femme, tête et arbre en plâtre, 1930, photo Marc Vaux, Archives de la Fondation Giacometti.
PARIS.- Following the government guidelines, allowing small museums to resume their activities from 11 May, the Giacometti Institute reopened its doors on 15 May 2020 with the exhibition Searching for Lost Works, which was very popular with the public before it closed and which will be extended until 21 June. With this reopening, the team at the Giacometti Foundation wishes to reaffirm, in solidarity, the role of art in society and in our individual lives, especially in these difficult times. At the end of the war, Giacometti created his most iconic sculptures, Walking Man. Its symbol is all the stronger today as it guides us towards the future. A future where we believe and hope that culture will play a large part in the process of reconstructing our social life. The reopening of the Giacometti Institute takes place in the strictest respect for the health and safety of the public and the employees, compelled by todays health crisis. Since its opening, the Giacometti Institut ... More |
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 PEER transforms windows with message of hopeLONDON.- Hoxtons PEER has transformed its street-facing windows with a bold and colourful message of hope while the health crisis and its wider impact continues. The ten-metre glazed façade at 97 & 99 Hoxton Street, East London combines rainbows with Mirandas lines from Shakespeares The Tempest: O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in t! Acclaimed for its public realm and community engagement projects, and delivered with the conviction that art should be part of everyday life, PEER has used the ubiquitous symbol of gratitude and support for UK care workers with striking graphics by Fraser Muggeridge Studio. Mirandas quotation also appears in Turkish, Polish, Spanish, French, Chinese and Bengali, reflecting some of the more widely spoken languages ... More John Macurdy, stalwart bass in roles large and small, dies at 91NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- John Macurdy, an American bass who belonged to the select group of solo singers tallying more than 1,000 performances at the Metropolitan Opera, died on May 7 in Stamford, Connecticut. He was 91. His death was confirmed by his wife, Justine Macurdy. She did not specify the cause. During a career that spanned 38 years and encompassed 1,001 appearances at the Met, Macurdy was admired for his rich, firm voice and poised, dignified stage presence. He sang 62 roles in works of wide stylistic diversity, including notable world premieres. Though he achieved success in key roles like Gurnemanz in Wagners Parsifal, King Marke in Wagners Tristan und Isolde and Sarastro in Mozarts The Magic Flute, Macurdy proved essential to the house for his standout performances of supporting ... More The artisans behind Italian fashion tremble at their futureNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Until recently, some of most intricately embroidered fabrics in the world, like those found in garments designed by Giorgio Armani, Valentino, Etro and Prada, have come out of a duplex apartment complex in Milan, the home of a small business called Pino Grasso Ricami. Under the watchful eye of Pino Grasso and his daughter, Raffaella Grasso, several designers and 10 seamstresses created lavish fabrics emblazoned with impossibly detailed crochet stitching, beading and lace. That came to a crashing halt at the end of February as the coronavirus took hold in Italy. One by one, the brands all closed their doors. The phone stopped ringing, Raffaella Grasso said. Suddenly, everything stopped. Almost three months later, the lockdown has started to ease, and the skilled seamstresses with decades of experience ... More Guggenheim arts education initiative, Learning Through Art, presents A Year with Children 2020NEW YORK, NY.- Today Learning Through Art, the Guggenheim Museums pioneering arts education program, launches A Year with Children 2020. The annual presentation, now in its 49th year, has been adapted to an e-book format since the museum is currently closed. The multimedia e-book features over 1,000 artworks created by students in grades two through six from the 12 public schools across New York Citys five boroughs who participated in LTA during the 201920 school year. The e-book may be viewed and downloaded free of charge. The Guggenheims Learning Through Art program was founded in 1970 by Natalie Kovner Lieberman in response to the elimination of art and music programs in New York City public schools. LTA encourages curiosity, critical thinking, and collaborative investigation at ... More Tate Enterprises appoints Tom Avery as Publishing DirectorLONDON.- Tate Enterprises announced the appointment of Tom Avery as Publishing Director. Avery will take up the new role on 1 June 2020. Tom Avery is currently Editorial Director at William Heinemann and has previously worked at Jonathan Cape and Vintage Books. In addition to his role at Heinemann, Avery is Editorial Director at #Merky Books, a new imprint set up together with British rapper, singer and songwriter, Stormzy - dedicated to publishing new and under-represented voices in fiction, non-fiction and poetry. In his new role, Avery will be developing key areas of Tate Publishings list, including Tate of Mind, childrens and Tate Collective titles. Tom Avery said, I am enormously excited to be joining Carmel and the team at Tate Publishing. It is a list I have admired for many years, and as someone with an active interest in art and ... More Joel M. Reed, 86, director of horror movies, diesNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Joel M. Reed loved gore and sex, and his fans loved him for it. Reed, the director of one of the most notorious exploitation films, Blood Sucking Freaks (1976), died in a hospital in Queens, New York, on April 14 of the novel coronavirus, his brother Elliott Reed said. He was 86 and had lived in Manhattan. John Bloom, a writer who uses the pseudonym Joe Bob Briggs as a self-styled Drive-In Movie Critic, eulogized Reed last month on the podcast The Movies That Made Me as one of the strangest filmmakers, who made some of the most disturbing films in history. And Blood Sucking Freaks, the most disturbing of them all, became a cult hit. The film came out under that title in 1976 but had previously been released as Sardu: Master of the Screaming Virgins and The Incredible Torture Show. ... More New vision for Edinburgh's Inverleith House revealed and programme announcedEDINBURGH.- Inverleith House Gallery, Edinburgh, is set to embark on a new phase in its illustrious history as it transforms into Climate House as part of a three year project supported by the award of the Outset Contemporary Art Funds Transformative Grant announced this week. The largest annual grant of its kind in the UK is to be given by Outset is awarded jointly to Inverleith House at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the Serpentine Galleries, marking a major new partnership as both organisations look to build a place to explore the future of our planet through contemporary visual art. This new award has played a role in allowing Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to reimagine Inverleith House as a gallery for the 21st century, ignite a new arts strategy across the Garden and to highlight RBGE as a visionary institution within the Climate Crisis. Climate House will highlight the g ... More 'Real Lord of the Flies' shipwreck to become Hollywood movieLOS ANGELES (AFP).- The remarkable story of six boys stranded on a remote island that has been dubbed the "Real Lord of the Flies" is to become a Hollywood movie, it was announced Friday. Dutch historian Rutger Bregman pieced together the true tale of how a group of Tongan teenagers ended up shipwrecked together in the Pacific for 15 months, after stealing a fisherman's boat in the 1960s. A newspaper article Bregman penned to promote his book "Humankind" went viral two weeks ago, sparking a fierce bidding war among Tinseltown studios. "The Real Lord of the Flies will become a movie!! The last two weeks have been a crazy rollercoaster," tweeted Bregman Friday. "Lots of Hollywood studios suddenly wanted to buy the rights to the story of Sione, Luke, Mano, Tevita, Fatai and Kolo," he added. Unlike in William Golding's classic novel ... More Making massssks from Florida python skinDELRAY BEACH (AFP).- A Florida craftsman has come up with a novel way of tackling both the coronavirus pandemic and the problem of invasive pythons and iguanas that damage the state's fragile ecosystem. Brian Woods, the 63-year-old owner of All American Gator Products, has turned his hand to designing face masks made out reptile skin. "I took something that's very serious and turned it into a fashion statement," he said at his workshop in Dania Beach, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Miami. Woods got his inspiration from a curious source -- a meme he saw of a horse wearing a woman's bra as a face mask. He asked his wife if he could borrow one of hers to test if the concept would work. He now sells python skin face masks on his Facebook page for $90. Snake hunter Amy Siewe arrived at Woods' home with a giant python for skinning. ... More 73rd annual 57th St. Art Fair goes virtualCHICAGO, IL.- While the 57th Street Art Fair Committee officially canceled the 73rd annual in person Art Fair, the show will go on
online that is! By visiting www.57thstreetartfair.org, art aficionados will have the opportunity to learn about 57th St. Art Fair artists while being directed to their individual artist sites with works available for purchase. As the Midwests oldest juried art fair featuring nearly 200 artists, we aim to continue efforts in supporting our incredible artists, says board member Catherine Slighton. When the COVID-19 crisis hit, we had confirmed 200 artists. We know that this art season of cancellations will be hard hitting for them and its our utmost goal to support them while continuing to engage our community. This format will offer art lovers a fantastic opportunity to indefinitely view and shop art from around the country. Its important to note that while the C ... More HOTA, Home of the Arts announces commissioning opportunity for 20 artists to be presented in new galleryGOLD COAST.- Contemporary cultural precinct HOTA, Home of the Arts has today announced it will commission up to 20 Australian artists to create a suite of new work for a major exhibition to be presented in its new Gallery opening in 2021. The new AUD$60.5 million HOTA Gallery is currently under construction within HOTA precinct on the Gold Coast in Queensland and once completed will be the largest public gallery outside a capital city in Australia. HOTA Gallery will become the permanent home for the $32 million City Collection, whilst presenting international exhibitions exclusive to Australia alongside an ongoing commitment to present the work of local artists. The newly commissioned works will be presented in an exhibition within the new HOTA Gallerys AAA rated 1000m2 main exhibition space, with some works to be placed around the surrounding ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Pontormo was born May 24, 1494. Jacopo Carucci (May 24, 1494 - January 2, 1557), usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. In this image: Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo (1494-1557), Portrait of a Bishop (Monsignor Niccolò Ardinghelli?), c. 1541-1542. Oil on panel; 102 x 78.9 cm. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.83.
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