| What to see at 5 top art museums? We asked guards for their favorite works. | | New Frontier lassos the best of the West for its Aug. 24 Cheyenne auction | | Growing up in a broken home - how Legos brought this artist comfort and influenced his latest works |
Mohammed Boukhrouf, a security guard at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, with Van Goghs The Potato Eaters, painted in Nuenen in 1885. (Noëlle de Leeuw via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Early in the morning, on the verge of opening up, art museums around the world await visitors. In the galleries, in hallways lined with portraits, paintings, sculptures and statues, unobtrusive, uniformed security guards take their positions. Standing this close for hours at ... More | |
Pat Gill fully silver-mounted saddle with matching bridle and martingale. Estimate: $10,000-$14,000. Image courtesy of New Frontier.
CHEYENNE, WYO.- Collectors of Old West, cowboy and Native American antiques will soon be making the annual pilgrimage to Cheyenne for the best buying-and-socializing event of the season: the Cheyenne Firearms & Western Collectibles Show & Auction. Held at the Laramie County Event Center at Archer, the popular three-day gathering ... More | |
Father & Child. 48 x 36 inches. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- As a young boy growing up in a broken home, Adam Umbach frequently turned to building Lego structures for comfort and a form of stability. As a child of divorce, he also clung to drawing favorite characters as a form of control in an ever-changing environment. As an adult, painting requires the same focus and precision that these tasks took during childhood. You can ... More |
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| Yossi Milo to open 'Cameron Welch: Labyrinth' in September | | Bark Salon hang on display in Wurrdha Marra this October | | The Baltimore Museum of Art adds more than 200 new works to collection |
Cameron Welch, Garden Feast, 2024. Marble, Glass, Ceramic, Stone, Spray Enamel, Oil, and Acrylic on Panel, 96" x 80" (244 x 203 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo announced Labyrinth, a solo exhibition of new mosaic works by New York-based artist Cameron Welch (b. 1990; Indianapolis, IN). The exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, September 6 from 6-8 PM, and will be on view through Saturday, November 9, 2024. Labyrinth is Welchs second exhibition with the gallery, and coincides with the release of the artists debut monograph ... More | |
Barrupu Yunupingu, Untitled (Ancestral fire) 2010. Earth pigments on Stringybark (Eucalyptus sp.), 105.8 x 68.2 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased with funds donated by Lou and Mary Senini, 2010 © The Estate of Barrupu Yunupingu, courtesy of Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala.
MELBOURNE.- Featuring more than 160 bark paintings hung en masse from floor to ceiling, Bark Salon is a large-scale display of First Nations bark painting that references and subverts the traditional European salons of the 18th and 19th centuries. On display from 12 October within the Ian ... More | |
Henriette Daux. Young Girl with Headscarf. c.1885. Baltimore Museum of Art: Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Fund, BMA 2024.217.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art today announced that it has acquired more than 200 works across its encyclopedic collection. The acquisitions reflect the BMAs ongoing commitment to expanding its holdings with works that represent global voices, across time and culture, as well as those by artists with ties to the Baltimore region. This approach to collection growth ensures that the museum can share with its audiences a depth ... More |
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| Fotohof will present photo series from the 1980s by Lillian Birnbaum and Heidi Harsiebaum | | Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais to presents new sculptures by Tony Cragg | | Smithsonian's National Postal Museum to open voting by mail exhibition |
Lillian Birnbaum, aus der Serie: »Der Selbstmensch von Günter Brus«, Greisbach, 1987.
SALZBURG.- With photo series by Lillian Birnbaum and Heidi Harsieber, the FOTOHOF>STUDIO presents collaborations that these two artists created in the 1980s with fellow artists who were active in the field of Actionism. In line with the concept of the FOTOHOF>ARCHIVE, we have worked with the two photographers to republish early projects, which are now difficult to access, in order to make them available again for the art discourse. In collaboration ... More | |
Tony Cragg, Masks, 2023. Bog oak, 298 kg. 140 x 111 x 55 cm (55,12 x 43,7 x 21,65 in) © Tony Cragg / ADAGP, Paris, 2024. Photos: Michael Richter. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul.
PARIS.- Focusing on his most recent bodies of work, this exhibition offers a view into the breadth of Tony Cragg's latest formal developments, which are defined by the British artists continual investigation into the possibilities of a wide range of materials and his exploration of both the natural and the man-made worlds. His work has ... More | |
Post Office Department poster for a 5c stamp issue carries a slogan for registering and voting, 1964. Credit: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Voting by mail did not start during the Covid-19 pandemic. It began in various forms during the Civil War when soldiers could not get home to vote, and it picked up steam again during World War II for the same reason. Mail has been and continues to be a method for providing citizens with access to election information and materials. Today, every state has some form of voting by mail. The National Postal ... More |
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| New portrait of Sam Smith from the singer's own art collection unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery | | An immersive collage of sound and colour, Sonia Boyce's Feeling Her Way opens in Toronto this fall | | Brighton Museum & Art Gallery to close for essential restoration work |
Gloria (2023) by Pierre et Gilles, courtesy Galerie Templon.
LONDON.- Today, the National Portrait Gallery announces the display of Gloria (2023), a portrait depicting the British singer and songwriter, Sam Smith. Created by artist duo Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, also known as Pierre et Gilles, the portrait combines painting and photography in Pierre et Gilles distinctive style. On loan to the National Portrait Gallery from the singer themselves, ... More | |
Sonia Boyce, Feeling Her Way - Leeds Art Gallery (May 2023) © Rob Battersby.
TORONTO.- A vibrant installation centered on the vocal performances of four Black female musicians, Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way opens on Sept. 19, 2024, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in partnership with the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Recipient of the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, stepping into this immersive exhibition is to become a part of the rehearsal process, as visitors ... More | |
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, part of Brighton & Hove Museums, is one of Britains oldest public museums.
BRIGHTON.- Brighton & Hove Museums (B&HM) will be closing Brighton Museum for a brief period this summer for essential repairs to the roof to take place. The museum and art gallery will close to the public from Monday 5 August until Thursday 12 September. Contractors will start the work to repair the 220-year-old roof to bring the Grade II listed building up to 21st century ... More |
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A celebration of New York City in needles and inkNEW YORK, NY.- With roots stretching back to the mid-19th century, the history of tattooing in New York City is bloodstained and a bit battered. Creativity has often flourished, but even through the 1990s, acceptance of the practice grew slowly, with tattoos seen by many as a calling card for renegades, criminals, sideshow performers, bikers and punks. New York City is the birthplace of modern American tattooing, said Michelle Myles, 52, a tattoo artist who got her start in New York City in 1991. She is the co-owner, along with Brad Fink, of Daredevil Tattoo on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and she is a licensed New York City tour guide, offering walking history tours about Bowery tattooers. The first electric tattoo machine was patented in 1891 on the Bowery, she said, sharing her love of the citys ink-stained history at the New ... More Richard Crawford, leading scholar of American music, dies at 89NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Crawford, a longtime professor of musicology at the University of Michigan who helped legitimize and popularize the study of American music, died July 23 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was 89. His wife, Penelope (Ball) Crawford, said the cause was congestive heart failure. He was a pioneer who shaped the scope of American music research, Mark Clague, a musicologist and professor at Michigan who studied with Crawford, said in an interview. It wasnt about celebrating an unchanging canon, but about opening up the magic of musical experience. While studying at Michigan in the early 1960s, Crawford began examining a trove of papers that had been acquired by the schools library concerning 18th-century musician Andrew Law, who taught singing and compiled hymnals in Connecticut. The study of American music was a m ... More 'Job' review: The psychopath will see you nowNEW YORK, NY.- How long would you like to spend with a psychopath? If 80 minutes sounds good, you can take my seat at the Helen Hayes Theater, where the extremely effective, often funny and quasi-sadistic Job opened Tuesday. Ill just tiptoe away. But if youre not a fan of relentless thrillers, youre likely to feel that the gun the psychopath is aiming at her shrink when the lights come up and keeps handy for the entirety of their supersized session is really aimed at you. Admittedly, the shrink would quibble with my diagnosis: Jane, the patient, is probably not a psychopath. Or not just. Having apparently swallowed the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders whole, she at various times displays symptoms of paranoia, post-traumatic stress, obsessive-compulsive disorder, narcissism and sn ... More 'Earthalujah!': A rebel 'pastor' preaches for the planetNEW YORK, NY.- The preacher stood wild-eyed before his flock, swaying to a gospel choir. His pompadour stood tall, his voice was thunderous, and his all-white suit perfectly matched the heeled white loafers he was wearing on his feet. Behind them hung a 14-foot-high photo of Earth, the very reason this preacher, choir and congregants had gathered in a converted storefront in Manhattans East Village one Sunday in July. This was Earthchxrch, also known as Earth Church, the latest iteration in the ever-evolving mashup of performance art, satire, protest and song from the Rev. Billy Talen, a self-anointed preacher and ersatz clergyman, and the Stop Shopping Choir. Were all aware at some level in our bodies that the Earth is off the charts, Talen intoned to the 70 or so people there. We are living inside of the time right now that they have been warning us about. ... More High Museum of Art announces three new board membersATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art announced the appointment of three new board members today to serve three-year terms: David Neal, Caryl Smith and Sunda Uzzell. Each of our new board members is actively engaged in the museum and our progress, so its fitting to leverage that leadership with an expanded commitment to our mission, said the Highs Director Rand Suffolk. They each bring a unique perspective on the Highs role in the community, and we look forward to their increased involvement as we collectively shape the museums future. David Neal is president of Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC, overseeing more than 2,000 employees and 13 gypsum mills manufacturing building products in the United States and Canada. He was named to the role in 2023, having previously served as vice president of operations ... More In 'Swan Song,' a ballet company confronts a painful legacyNEW YORK, NY.- Ballet makes a great documentary subject, with its rarefied, glamorous world thats hidden from most viewers. What you see on the stage is just a tiny bit of the whole story. All that beauty and grace is the product of something so arduous that some fiction filmmakers have depicted it as physical and psychological torture (think of Suspiria or Black Swan or The Red Shoes). Even when its not that extreme, every ballet is the product of extraordinary commitment and work, and that means there are all kinds of stories to tell. Those tales provide excellent fodder for nonfiction filmmakers; any ballet documentary is equally about the dance and the dancers. Swan Song (in theaters, directed by Chelsea McMullan) takes that to heart. Its a film with a lot on its mind, one in which you can sense the filmmakers discovering the story ... More Smithsonian scientists devise method to secure Earth's biodiversity on the moonWASHINGTON, DC.- New research led by scientists at the Smithsonian proposes a plan to safeguard Earths imperiled biodiversity by cryogenically preserving biological material on the moon. The moons permanently shadowed craters are cold enough for cryogenic preservation without the need for electricity or liquid nitrogen, according to the researchers. The paper, published today in BioScience and written in collaboration with researchers from the Smithsonians National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI), Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum and others, outlines a roadmap to create a lunar biorepository, including ideas for governance, the types of biological material to be stored and a plan for experiments to understand and address challenges ... More Essays by distinguished contemporary women celebrate the trailblazers who founded MoMANEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announced the forthcoming publication of Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art, a revelatory account of the Museums earliest years told through newly commissioned profiles of 14 women who had a decisive impact on the formation and development of the institution. Inventing the Modern comprises illuminating new essays on the women who, as founders, curators, patrons, and directors of various departments, made enduring contributions to MoMA during its early decades (especially between 1929 and 1945), creating new models for how to envision, establish, and operate a museum in an era when the field of modern art was uncharted territory. The publication, which will be available in September 2024, is edited by Ann ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American installation artist Jason Rhoades died  August 01, 2006. Jason Rhoades (July 9, 1965 - August 1, 2006) was an installation artist who enjoyed critical acclaim, if not widespread public recognition, at the time of his death, and who was eulogized by some critics as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Better known in Europe, where he exhibited regularly for the last twelve years of his life, Rhoades was recently celebrated for his combination dinner party/exhibitions that feature violet neon signs with African, Caribbean, Creole and hip-hop slang for the female genitalia. His work remains part of the permanent collection in the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, where he was a part of exhibit "Beg Borrow and Steal" at the time of his death. In this image: Jason Rhoades, Installation view, 'Perfect World', Deichtorhallen , Hamburg, Germany , 1999. © The Estate of Jason Rhoades. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner, New York. Photo: Jens Rathmann.
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