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A view of the Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection at the Forest Lawn Museum, which houses the colossal painting The Crucifixion by the Polish artist Jan Styka, in Glendale, Calif., June 29, 2023. Forest Lawns museum director and resident art historian, James Fishburne, has re-envisioned the storied panorama painting, with a theatrical show and slick animations. (Coley Brown/The New York Times)
by Ethan Tate
GLENDALE, CALIF.- Small armies of landscapers tend to lush grass and rolling hills, where private roads with names such as Memory Lane and Baby Land lead upward past maximalist mausoleums, columbaria and replica Renaissance statuary. At the top is the quaintly named Mount Forest Lawn, a hill housing a theater named the Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection, built for just a single work: Polish artist Jan Stykas 195-foot-by-45-foot The Crucifixion, one of the largest religious paintings in the world. A turn-of-the-20th century marvel, the artwork is part of the short-lived genre of panorama painting canvases hung in near-360 degrees that provided viewers an affordable immersive journey, often to vistas of Christendom or crowded battle sequences. The theater and adjoining art museum are part of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, a 300-acre cemetery that has been a Los Angeles landmark since it was founded by Hubert Eaton in 1917. A medley of architecture, art and artifa ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The artist Alina Zamanova, whose work explores themes related to the war, in her studio in Kyiv on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
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| 4 days, 690 miles, countless stalls: Behold the 'World's Longest Yard Sale' | | Preeminent landscape photographer Alan Ward gifts his photographic archive to The Cultural Landscape Foundation | | A ship captain's house in Seattle, via Norway, finds new life |
In an image provided by Kendall Waldman, piles of costume jewelry were moved to the $1 table at golden hour in Pikeville, Tenn. (Kendall Waldman via The New York Times)
by Kendall Waldman
NEW YORK, NY.- To the visitor driving in from out of state, the 127 Yard Sale seems like a kind of Ironman for thrifters. The worlds longest yard sale is a test of endurance and attention. Spanning six states, 690 miles and thousands of stalls, it traverses dramatic landscapes, delicate cultural terrain and two time zones. Seeing it all in the four allotted days Aug. 3-6 this year is enough to induce vertigo in even the most stable-minded deal hunter. But some of us are foolish enough to try anyway. The event was designed to promote cultural and economic exchange. In 1987, Mike Walker, then a 28-year-old county executive in Jamestown, Tennessee, conceived of it as a way to lure travelers off the Interstate and into the small towns along U.S. Route ... More | |
Alan Ward. Photo: Alan Ward. Courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
WASHINGTON, D.C..- The Cultural Landscape Foundation announced that it has been gifted the digital photographic archives of the preeminent landscape photographer and landscape architect Alan Ward, a principal at the Boston-based firm Sasaki and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The Alan Ward Portfolios of Designed Landscapes (Portfolios), currently will include 110 individual Portfolios, each averaging fifteen to 30 images, for a total of approximately 2,500 photographs of parks, estates, memorials, gardens, university campuses, cemeteries, museums, botanical gardens, and other sites throughout the United States and twelve countries Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, and Slovenia taken over the space of nearly 50 years. The initiative begins with the posting of twenty Portfolios (detailed below), and it continues to grow Ward recen ... More | |
Andrew Trotter, left, and Marcel Martinez, at Casa Soleto, a centuries-old house they have restored in Soleto, Italy, in the southern region of Puglia, on Aug. 3, 2023. In Italys rustic heel, an unoccupied house in poor condition received a loving restoration. (Roberto Salomone/The New York Times)
by Wendy Moonan
NEW YORK, NY.- Six years ago, Sonya Schneider and her husband, Stuart Nagae, bought a federally designated historical landmark in Seattle, a 5,000-square-foot, two-story home sheathed in dark, old-growth Western cedar shingles, with multiple gables, dormer windows and a cedar-shake roof. It sat on an unusually large 3/4-acre lot with mature maples, Douglas fir and a hemlock tree, in Ballard, an old Seattle neighborhood on Puget Sound. The house, for which the couple paid $2.5 million, according to public records, was built in 1933 by a Norwegian ship captain, Ole E. Nilsen, reportedly as a replica of his childhood home in Bergen, Norway. In the early 20th century, Ballards shipbuilding, ... More |
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| Frieze Seoul settles in for its sophomore edition | | Some old-fashioned home-design manuals are worth revisiting | | Maestro accused of striking singer withdraws from performances |
Extructed Mountain (Single Peak), 2020, by Hyun Nham. In its second edition, the art fair Frieze Seoul will celebrate art from around Asia. (Yang Ian via The New York Times)
by Ted Loos
SEOUL.- After a buzzed-about debut in 2022 that even attracted K-pop stars, art fair Frieze Seoul will be back at the Coex center in the South Korean capital for its sophomore outing, running from Thursday to Sept. 9 and featuring 121 galleries. It was explosive, Seoul-based contemporary dealer Jason Haam said of the inaugural edition, which came as pandemic restrictions and collectors travel habits were loosening up. It came at just the right time. We had this prestigious international fair, Haam added, and it gave us a lot of pride. A prestigious showcase is important for dealers, but given the cost of showing at fairs especially to travel from far away they expect to see results. We sold out our presentation, said Kurt Mueller, a senior director of David Kordansky Gallery of Los Angeles and New York. It could not have gone better. ... More | |
Vintage home-design manuals arranged for a photo in New York, Aug. 22, 2023. (Patricia Wall/The New York Times)
by Alexandra Lange
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1868, designer Charles Eastlake published Hints on Household Taste, a popular guide to outfitting the home in good taste, from the street front to the china cupboard and all the rooms in between. In his introduction, rather than taking a supportive tone, he chastises the reader. When did people first adopt the monstrous notion that the last pattern out must be the best? Is good taste so rapidly progressive that every mug which leaves the potters hands surpasses in shape the last which he moulded? He blames it on the housewife, said Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, the author of Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office and an associate professor at Purdue University. The message is, Women have terrible taste, and we need to correct them, Kaufmann-Buhler said, adding that she does a very lively reading ... More | |
John Eliot Gardiner leads the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in a cycle of Beethovens symphonies at Carnegie Hall in New York, Feb. 18, 2020. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- Renowned conductor John Eliot Gardiner, who drew criticism in recent weeks when he was accused of hitting a singer in the face after a performance in France, said Thursday that he would withdraw from performances for the rest of the year as he sought counseling. I am taking a step back in order to get the specialist help I recognize that I have needed for some time, Gardiner said in a statement. I want to apologize to colleagues who have felt badly treated and anyone who may feel let down by my decision to take time out to address my issues. I am heartbroken to have caused so much distress and I am determined to learn from my mistakes. Intermusica, the agency that represents Gardiner, said he would withdraw from all concerts until next year to ... More |
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| The photographer who immortalized British Viceroys and Maharajahs | | Keeping Company: Debut exhibition by Laetitia Yhap opens at Hales | | When advertisements were art |
His Highness Maharaja of Rewa, c. 188587. Raja Deen Dayal (Indian, 18441905). Albumen print; 26.7 x 20.3 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2016.266.17.
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1887, a photographer named Lala Deen Dayal took a picture of Frederick Temple-Blackwood, First Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. The men were in Shimla, in the foothills of the Himalayas, because the British colonial government in India moved there every summer to escape the heat of Kolkata. Dufferin was the British viceroy, and Dayal, who had worked as a surveyor for the colonial government before leaving to pursue his passion as a freelancer, was his official photographer. Dayal posed Dufferin, a short, balding, goateed, intelligent-looking man, at the center of the photo, behind a round table covered in a patterned cloth. ... More | |
Laetitia Yhap, Boy Tossing Water Over His Rowboat, 1981-1984. Image courtesy the Artist and Hales Gallery. Copyright the artist.
LONDON.- Hales has opened 'Keeping Company', Laetitia Yhaps debut exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition displays work for which Yhap is best known intricate and inventive paintings of fishermen, each crafted on unusually shaped panels, individually hand made by Yhap for each piece. The exhibition spans a ten-year period from 1981 to the early 1990s and takes its title from one of Yhaps most prominent works, Keeping Company, which defines her relationship with the fishing community in the seaside town of Hastings, UK. Although rooted in Hastings, the paintings speak to universal themes of the nature of human relationships, togetherness and loneliness alike, and see the social side of the fishing beach, the moments which are filled with both lively conversation and contemplative labour. ... More | |
In an image provided by the museum Poster House, a poster ad for the French aperitif Dubonnet by A.M. Cassandre. Poster House in New York City is hosting a show of commercial Art Deco posters from around the globe. (William W. Crouse and Poster House via New York Times)
by Eve M. Kahn
NEW YORK, NY.- Between the 1920s and World War II, illustrators and designers slashed bands of color across advertisements to tempt consumers with ever faster modes of travel and cleverer machinery. The eras frenetic pace of change is vividly represented in posters hung throughout the homes of collectors William and Elaine Crouse, and they have partly denuded their walls to lend 58 pieces to Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde, an exhibition that opens Sept. 28 at Poster House in New York City. Angelina Lippert, Poster Houses chief curator and director of content, described the show as ... More |
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| How to eat, drink and gallery hop like a Seoul local | | Traditional Korean garments inspire a designer's homecoming | | Worcester Art Museum transfers ownership of bronze bust |
David Salle, Tree of Life, Couple, 2023. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 78 x 54 x 2.5 inches (artwork) 198.1 x 137.2 x 6.35 cm. 79.75 x 55.75 x 2.63 inches (framed) 202.6 x 141.6 x 6.7 cm © David Salle/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Matthew Herrmann.
SEOUL.- South Koreas capital, Seoul, is electric. Among its neon lights, K-pop and fast-paced energy, you can feel the current, the hum of activity moving through the streets. Nowhere is this more evident than in Itaewon, Samcheong-dong and Hongdae, neighborhoods popular with the citys creatives. The sprawling city isnt always the easiest to navigate for visitors with mostly Korean signs and a complex transportation system, but chef Mingoo Kang of the two Michelin-starred Mingles; contemporary artist Wona Cho; and Hakjun Lee, the general manager of Christies Korea, take some of the work out of it for tourists by sharing their favorite places in these neighborhoods and the surrounding areas. As Seouls art scene grows more international, galleries like Lehmann Maupin and Pace have established outposts in this foreigner-friendly part ... More | |
Christina Kims updated designs of the traditional Korean clothing known as hanbok are displayed in a show at the Arumjigi Culture Keepers Foundation in Seoul. (Arumjigi Foundation/Guru Visual/Jongkeun Lee via The New York Times)
SEOUL.- One recent rainy afternoon, Los Angeles-based fashion designer Christina Kim was standing in a traditional-style Korean house and excitedly pointing out details on elegant white garments that were floating around her, perched on hangers attached to black bamboo rails near the wood ceiling. They were examples of the jeogori the sleeved top layer of the hanbok, the term for traditional Korean clothing made by copying pieces from throughout the first half of the 20th century, as its form changed with the times. I thought itd be really wonderful to kind of see the progression, said Kim, who conceived slight alterations for some of them. Around 1920, a Western influence became apparent, she said, motioning to a garment with a round neckline, whose body she had lengthened. This looks like a Chanel jacket! she said with a laugh. The ... More | |
Portrait of a Lady (A Daughter of Marcus Aurelius?), 160180 CE. Roman bronze bust.
WORCESTER, MA .- The Worcester Art Museum has transferred ownership of the bronze bust Portrait of a Lady (A Daughter of Marcus Aurelius?) to the New York County District Attorneys Office so it can be repatriated to its country of origin after receiving new information about the objects history of ownership. The Roman bronze bust dates to 160180 CE and is thought to have come from a large family shrine in Turkey of an emperor, possibly Marcus Aurelius or Septimus Severus, likely a life-sized representation of one of their daughters. The Museum purchased Portrait of a Lady (A Daughter of Marcus Aurelius?) in October 1966. At that time, the Museum was provided with limited information about the objects history. The Museum was informed by the vendor that it had been found in southwestern Anatolia (the Roman Province of Lycia) that same year. Although the Museum conducted its own research at that time, it now acquires objects ... More |
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'Unset Texts' considers how experimentation with printed text and book pose new possibilities for storeytelling
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announces the opening of Unset Texts, an exhibition that explores books as objects. Books are often thought of as containers for language, narrative, and thought. But what happens when we view them as aesthetic objects as well? Books can take on new and expanded meanings in the hands of artists such as Nayland Blake, Julie Chen, Robert Gober, Guerrilla Girls, Martine Gutierrez, Leslie Hewitt, David Hammons, Yoko Ono, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., and Kara Walker. Unset Texts presents sculpture, photographs, collage, painting, prints, and artists books from the Tang collection and Scribner ... More
Museum welcomes visiting artist and Outwin finalist, Donna Castellanos
ORLANDO, FL.- Donna Castellanos, mixed-media artist and finalist of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallerys sixth triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, will conduct a series of workshops for youth and adults in September at the Orlando Museum of Art. The tactile tours and workshops are a partnership between OMA and Lighthouse Central Florida, funded by a project grant from United Arts of Central Florida. This project represents a renewal of a previous partnership between Lighthouse Central Florida and the Orlando Museum of Art. OMA has a history of serving special populations through its Community Access suite of programs, and workshops for people with visual or auditory challenges are an excellent addition to these offerings. Lighthouse Central Florida believes that people of any age can and should seek to fulfill their highest ... More
Exhibition of works by Lawrence Abu Hamdan opens at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
MEXICO CITY.- Yesterday, Lawrence Abu Hamdans exhibition Cross-Border Crimes opened at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City. A performance of Natq coinciding with the exhibition opened on Friday 1 September 2023. The exhibition presents works including 45th Parallel (2022). Through the history of the Haskell Free Library & Opera House, this work addresses the volatile character of borders, as well as the porosity and fluidity of limits and their contrast with the final and sometimes lethal nature of national borders. Abu Hamdan's work is characterised by his explorations of the intersection between sound, space and politics. He questions the political dimension of voice and listening, capturing ... More
'Liliana Porter: Unfinished Tales' Opens September 5 at Hosefelt Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Hosfelt Gallery presents a solo exhibition of the work of one of the most significant Latin American artists working today the 81-year-old Argentinian, Liliana Porter. In photographs, video, drawings, and sculptures Porter creates artworks at the intersection of object and image. By mixing the absurd with the philosophical, she creates extraordinary situations which lure us into the realm of an idiosyncratic cast of characters drawn from an eclectic collection of figurines, knickknacks, toys, and souvenirs. Porter places these characters in unexpected combinations and circumstances, creating scenarios tinged with humor and pathos involving incongruous events and unlikely protagonists. Conceptually rigorous in spite of their playfulness, Porters artworks invite a range of political, philosophical, and existential interpretation, as well ... More
Franne Lee, Tony winner who also costumed Coneheads, dies at 81
NEW YORK, NY.- Franne Lee, a costume and set designer who while doing Tony Award-winning work on Broadway in the 1970s also made killer-bee suits and cone-shaped headwear for early Saturday Night Live sketches, helping to create some of that eras most memorable comic moments, died Sunday in Atlantis, Florida. She was 81. Her daughter, Stacy Sandler, announced the death, after a short illness that she did not specify. Lee did some of her most high-profile work in the 1970s while in a relationship with set designer Eugene Lee. She collaborated with him on productions including an acclaimed Candide, directed by Harold Prince at the Chelsea Theater Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York City in 1973. It moved to the Broadway Theater in midtown Manhattan the next year and ran there for 740 performances. The production has ... More
Nancy Buirski, award-winning documentary filmmaker, dies at 78
NEW YORK, NY.- Nancy Buirski, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose eye was honed as a still photographer and picture editor, died Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 78. The cause had not yet been determined, her sister and only immediate survivor, Judith Cohen, said. After founding the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 1998 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and directing it for a decade, Buirski (pronounced BURR-skee) made her own first documentary, The Loving Story, in 2011. The film explored the case of Mildred and Richard Loving, who faced imprisonment because their interracial marriage in 1958 was illegal in Virginia. (She was part-Black and part-Native American, and he was white.) Their challenge to the law resulted in a landmark civil rights ruling ... More
'Daisy Jones & the Six' and the ballad of making rock 'n' roll TV
NEW YORK, NY.- It was the 36th day of what was supposed to be a 30-day shoot in New Orleans, but the cast and crew of the rock drama Daisy Jones & the Six were still at it. They were filming a scene, set in 1977, in which actors Riley Keough and Sam Claflin, as the lead singers of the band Daisy Jones & the Six, unwind backstage after performing on Saturday Night Live for the first time. Half-empty liquor bottles, wood paneling, smoke-machine haze and framed photos of the Coneheads and Gilda Radner surround them. Claflin, who plays Billy Dunne, asks Keough, in the title role of Daisy Jones: Howd it feel? It felt good, yeah, she says, I mean, not as good as cocaine. Before New Orleans, the cast and crew had filmed for 69 days in the Los Angeles area, and afterward some of them headed to Athens and the Greek island of Hydra for a key ... More
Review: In Central Park, 'The Tempest' sings farewell to magic
NEW YORK, NY.- The isle is full of noises, sings Caliban, and Tuesday night, it certainly was. Helicopters, radios, sirens and birdsong were competing to be heard in the Manhattan air. Yet, all of them melted away, as they usually do, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where the Public Theaters new musical version of The Tempest was giving its opening-night performance. (It runs through Sunday.) The seventh in the Publics series of Public Works productions, it will also be the last for the time being; this fall, the Delacorte begins much-needed renovations that will put it out of commission until 2025. The Tempest makes for a fitting farewell, having opened the series, in a different adaptation, in 2013. That Tempest introduced the innovative Public Works idea: civic theater made for everyone, with members of local community organizations ... More
Landmarks earns National Public Art Award for commission by Sarah Oppenheimer
AUSTIN, TX.- Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin, received a national CODAaward for its commission C-010106 by New York-based artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Selected from among 411 international entries, the project received a merit award for public art at an educational institution. The award marks Landmarks seventh recognition from CODAworx, a national organization that celebrates outstanding projects which integrate commissioned art into interior, architectural, or public spaces. Commissioned by Landmarks for UTs Cockrell School of Engineering, C-010106 consists of two structures positioned at opposite ends of a new pedestrian footbridge on the Texas Engineering campus. Each structure features four panes of glasstwo reflective diagonal sheets sandwiched between two vertical sheets. At the intersection ... More
BRUTUS Art Space in Rotterdam says goodbye to oil age
ROTTERDAM.- The Petromelancholia exhibition curated by Alexander Klose of research group Beauty of Oil, is nowon show at BRUTUS in Rotterdam. Across the 6,000 m2 complex, Petromelancholia deals with the enormous consequences of life after oil, the scope of which many people are, as yet, unaware of. In contrast to the many exhibitions spreading visions of doom or stating the obvious about the climate crisis, Petromelancholia contemplates the legacy of the oil era and the new meaning that past will undoubtedly acquire in the future. Petromelancholia consists of existing and new installations, videos, sculptures and other works by artists from around the globe including Monira Al Qadiri, Yuri Ancarani, Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck, Kevin van Braak and Ipeh Nur, Diann Bauer, Tanja Engelberts, Christoph Girardet, Rumiko Hagiwara, ... More
'Cloud Games' by artist and textile designer Teresa Roche, and inspired by Picasso, now on view
GREENVILLE, SC.- Art & Light Gallery has opened Cloud Games, a solo exhibition of recent work by Art & Light founder, artist, and textile designer, Teresa Roche. Inspired by travel and the beauty of the ever-changing landscape, the body of work included in Cloud Games explores the various modes of expression of the sky and the observation of clouds. Roche sees the work as a narrative of many skies, both remembered and imagined. Each piece in the series offers a particular psychic perspective and serves as an amalgamation of moments from travel and from memory. Roches sky landscapes connect past and present, combining memories of playing cloud games with her son in the past and now with her grandchildren. A recent trip to Barcelona heightened the artists interest in observation of the clouds and sky. After flying into Barcelona ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Ruth Orkin was born September 03, 2023. Ruth Orkin (September 3, 1921 - January 16, 1985) was an American photographer, photojournalist, and filmmaker, with ties to New York City and Hollywood. Best known for her photograph An American Girl in Italy (1951), she photographed many celebrities and personalities including Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Ava Gardner, Tennessee Williams, Marlon Brando, and Alfred Hitchcock. In this image: Crowd watching parade, NYC, 1947 © Ruth Orkin.
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