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The installation Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinema, Amplified Voices, a film and video installation that coincides with this years Venice Biennale, includes excerpts from movies and videos in 10 galleries in the palazzo from more than 40 artists from around the world. Each gallery in Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinema, Amplified Voices has a theme, ranging from deserts as cradles of civilization and places of rebirth to borders as the lines between both free and forbidden places. (David Levene/Qatar Museums via The New York Times)
DOHA, QATAR.- The future of art is very much the theme of Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinema, Amplified Voices, a film and video installation that coincides with this years Venice Biennale. Organized by Qatar Museums and featuring some 40 artists from the region, it speaks to the emergence of the Middle East as a force in various art forms, not to mention a force in changing the narrative on how the region is portrayed in film and art. The future is on the mind of Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, chair of Qatar Museums and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Fashion City East End © Museum of London.
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| Eli Wilner announces expansion into contemporary framing | | Expertly curated ancient treasures selected for Apollo's special June 11 online-only auction | | University of the Arts President resigns after school announces closure |
Large painting by KAWS framed by Eli Wilner & Company, at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Known for historic framing projects such as Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and framing 28 paintings for The White House, Eli Wilner & Company has recently announced an expansion of their studio offerings to include contemporary framing. Contemporary frames are now also included among the many categories of projects that are eligible for Wilner's frame funding program that covers a portion of the costs of framing ... More | |
Circa 30 BC-323 AD Egyptian polychrome ceramic funerary mask of youthful female with braided hair and painted eyebrows, hair, lips, earrings and eyes, which have inset glass panels. Opening bid: £5,000 ($6,400)
LONDON.- Collectors of ancient art and antiquities who never miss an Apollo Art Auctions live gallery sale wont have to wait till the next big in-person event (slated for July) to acquire rare and fascinating treasures for their collections. On June 11, the London-based firm will host a special 495-lot online-only sale of well-provenanced and carefully authenticated artifacts from Classical Europe, ... More | |
The University of Arts main building in Philadelphia, June 2, 2024. The nearly 150-year-old University of the Arts in Philadelphia will close its doors June 7. (Hannah Yoon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- University of the Arts President Kerry Walk has resigned only a few days after her administration said that the nearly 150-year-old institution in Philadelphia would close because of declining revenue and enrollment, union officials representing school employees told The New York Times on Tuesday. News of the resignation, which earlier appeared in The Philadelphia ... More |
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| Abell Auction Company presents Fine Art, Jewelry, Antiques and Design sale on June 8-9 | | Yossi Milo announces representation of Samuel Fosso | | Can AI rethink art? Should it? |
A Vintage Candy Machine Mad Men Prop.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Abell Auction Co. presents an important fine art, jewelry, antiques and design auction on June 8-9 promising to captivate a global audience of collectors, designers and art connoisseurs. Live bidding for the highly anticipated online sale, showcasing over 800 lots, starts at 9 a.m. PST each day. At the heart of the auction is a curated collection of South American Mid-Century Modern treasures sourced from Adesso Imports, nestled on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. This exquisite ... More | |
Samuel Fosso at the Menil Collection, Houston, TX. Photo by Sarah Hobson.
NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo announced representation of prominent Cameroonian-Nigerian photographer Samuel Fosso (b. 1962; Kumba, Cameroon). A solo exhibition of Fossos work will be held at Yossi Milo in 2025. In advance of this presentation, works by Fosso will be exhibited at the upcoming edition of the Armory show. Known for his self-portraits in which he inhabits a vibrant array of personas, photographer Samuel Fosso examines African identities and histories through costume ... More | |
Pierre Huyghe, Camata, 2024, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Marian Goodman Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Esther Schipper, and TARO NASU © Pierre Huyghe, by SIAE 2023.
VENICE.- The skeleton seems to be at the epicenter of a mystifying ritual. In a new work by French artist Pierre Huyghe, robots powered by artificial intelligence film the unburied remains of a man, and periodically position objects next to it in a ceremony that only they seem to understand. The scene takes place in the Atacama Desert in Chile, one of the planets oldest and driest deserts. ... More |
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| Important works by S H Raza and Gulam Mohammed Sheikh lead Saffronart's Summer Online Auction | | Important celebrity photography auction set to dazzle collectors worldwide | | The Fahey/Klein Gallery opens 'Anatomy of Devotion: Works by Günter Blum and George Platt Lynes' |
Arpita Singh, Untitled, 1999. Estimate: USD 200,000 - 300,000, INR 1.66 - 2.49 crores).
MUMBAI.- Saffronarts Summer Online Auction 2024 will take place online on 2627 June 2024 with a catalogue of 130 lots by prominent modern and contemporary South Asian artists. These include early paintings by S H Raza, Ram Kumar, and M F Husain, as well as significant works by Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, F N Souza, Nalini Malani, Arpita Singh, and Subodh Gupta, many of which belong to reputed private collections ... More | |
Marilyn Monroe, original transparency, signed by photographer, Andre de Dienes, 1949.
CLEARWATER, FLA.- A breathtaking collection of investment-quality, original celebrity photographs and memorabilia is set to go under the hammer in an eagerly anticipated sale on June 8 at Blackwell Auctions. Featuring iconic images of legendary figures such as Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn, Salvador Dali, Jimi Hendrix and many others, this event will offer fresh-to-the-market, original ... More | |
George Platt Lynes, (Model in Hat), n.d. © George Platt Lynes Estate, courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents the two-person exhibition Anatomy of Devotion: Works by Günter Blum and George Platt Lynes. The photographs on display explore varying relationships between artist and muse and the intimate and complex interactions that fuel creative expression. Both Platt Lynes and Blum utilize photography to investigate a more profound ... More |
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| Laetitia Catoir joins Thaddaeus Ropac as Senior Director in Paris | | Hauser & Wirth presents Rita Ackermann's latest series of paintings and prints | | Heather Gaudio Fine Art opens 'Yoona Hur: Moving Stillness' |
Portrait of Laetitia Catoir by Charles Duprat.
PARIS.- Thaddaeus Ropac shared the news with you that Laetitia Catoir has joined the gallery as a Senior Director, based in Paris. Her new position encompasses global leadership of the gallery's Secondary Market Department, as well as working in primary market sales. Over the course of almost three decades in the industry, she has established a reputation for her exceptional expertise in post-war and contemporary art and curating, ... More | |
Rita Ackermann, Mouchettes Manners, 2023. Oil, acrylic and carpenters pencil on canvas. 233.7 x 218.4 cm / 92 x 86 in/ Photo: Sarah Muehlbauer. © Rita Ackermann. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting Rita Ackermanns latest series of paintings and prints in simultaneous exhibitions spanning the gallerys two West Chelsea locations. At 542 West 22nd Street, the artist debuts a suite of new canvases expanding upon the techniques, themes ... More | |
Yoona Hur, Moon-eyed, I see you 3, 2024. Stoneware 18 x 18 x 18 inches.
GREENWICH, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art presents Yoona Hur: Moving Stillness, her solo exhibition at the gallery. The show will open June 6th with a reception for the artist 6-8pm and will be on view through July 20th, 2024. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Hur is a New York-based artist who explores cultural identity, spirituality and materiality through ceramics and paper. For this exhibition, ... More |
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A changing of the guard at the Royal OperaNEW YORK, NY.- After 22 years as the music director at the Royal Opera House in London, Antonio Pappano has a tried-and-true recipe for creating traction around the art form. The choices you make and the energy which you share with audiences will keep them coming, he said. The British-born conductor, 64, has left his mark on the house through a strong work ethic and an in-depth understanding of the voice. His final production is a David McVicar staging of Umberto Giordanos Andrea Chénier, starring Jonas Kaufmann, that is onstage through Tuesday. He then leads the company on tour to Japan, from June 22 to July 2, with productions of Giuseppe Verdis Rigoletto and Giacomo Puccinis Turandot. Pappano, whose parents were Italian immigrants, gravitates naturally toward the works of that tradition. But he ... More 'The singer in the village' who became an opera starLONDON.- Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina only just turned 28. Yet she already has a couple of operatic records under her belt: Shes the youngest artist ever to have sung Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera and at the Royal Opera House in London. Her trajectory began about 2,700 miles east of London. Akhmetshina was born in the village of Kirgiz-Miyaki in the Republic of Bashkortostan region of western Russia, closer to Kazakhstan than Moscow. She is one of three children of a single mother who worked in the passport office at the police station, whose own mother was a police officer in Soviet times. She was 3 years old when she first sang onstage, and 14 when she decamped to the nearest city, Ufa, to study music. Scouted in her teens at a voice competition in Moscow, she was invited to try out for the Royal Operas ... More AstaGuru showcases the evolution of Indian art with two auctions: 'Stroke And Structure' and 'Visionaries'MUMBAI.- After the outstanding success of the milestone 100th auction and The Exceptionals Jewellery, Silver and Timepieces auction, AstaGuru is set to host two consecutive auctions dedicated to Modern & Contemporary Indian art. The Modern Indian Art Auction titled Stroke & Structure is scheduled to be held on June 20-21, 2024 and will showcase a wide collection of works belonging to the oeuvre of important modernist figures. The contemporary art auction titled Visionaries will be held on June 23-24, 2024 will offer works by leading contemporary artists. Talking about the auction, Sunny Chandiramani, Senior VP - Client Relations of AstaGuru says: "We are thrilled to curate these two back-to-back auctions, which provide a comprehensive perspective on the evolution of Indian art from the 20th to the 21st century. The 'Stroke ... More Last chance to see Fashion City at Museum of London Docklands before it closes on 7 JulyLONDON.- A red coat worn by Princess Diana and a tweed coat worn by EastEnders Dot Cotton is on display alongside clothing from M&S, Moss Bros and Wallis at Museum of London Docklands in an exhibition showcasing the role of Jewish designers, makers and retailers in making London an iconic fashion city. From East End tailors to the couture salons of the West End, Fashion City tells the stories of Jewish makers who became leaders in their industries, created some of the most recognisable looks of the 20th century, founded retail chains still on the high street today, and dressed the rich and famous- from David Bowie and Princess Diana to Mick Jagger and Muhammad Ali. Featuring fashion and textiles, oral histories, objects, ephemera and photography, Fashion City uses the places and spaces of London to weave individual stories together ... More Philipp Modersohn installs sculptures in the garden of the Landesvertretung NiedersachsenBERLIN.- In the garden of the Landesvertretung Niedersachsen (State Representation Lower Saxony) in Berlin, just around the corner from Potsdamer Platz, there is a group of statues with a golden patina on gray concrete pedestals, which appear explicitly historical against the backdrop of the building's modern architecture. In fact, they are copies of early modern sculptures based on models from the Herrenhaeuser Gardens in Hanover. The baroque park is one of the most important of its kind in Europe and contains the oldest and only preserved Hedge Theater in Germany. At the end of the 17th century, a total of 27 life-size, gilded lead figures of Greek gods and their mythological attendants were erected there, a small group of which found their way to Berlin in 1974 in the form of exact copies. It is these replicas that can be seen today ... More Tapping art's power to heal wounds and open 'spaces of connectedness'LEEDS.- Using her arms as a makeshift clapboard, a Sudanese woman in a black hijab and black-and-white caftan clapped her hands together, signaling the beginning of the rehearsal. The other amateur thespians, wearing comic stick-on mustaches, moved to their marks, improvising a scene in a womens beauty salon where one patrons hair is accidentally dyed blue. As the scene ended, all the women were in hysterics, ribbing each other over how they could better play their parts next time. Scenes like this are common at the Kuluhenna Creative Workshop, which is held at a community clubhouse on the outskirts of this Yorkshire city. The workshop is open to all local women, but with a focus on immigrant communities, including refugees and asylum-seekers. The 90-minute class, which the Mafwa Theater has held since 2019, is a happy ... More In 'Breaking the Story,' all's unfair in love and warNEW YORK, NY.- If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. So Chekhov instructed playwrights, and so they are taught in drama schools everywhere. But perhaps there should be a corollary: If you start your action with a bang, a gun had better follow. In Alexis Scheers Breaking the Story, which opened Tuesday at Second Stage Theater, the initial bang is an earsplitting doozy: an explosion that throws a war journalist and her videographer to the ground. Nor is it the first life-threatening attack that the journalist has experienced. We quickly learn that in her 20 years on the front lines, Marina (Maggie Siff) has been knocked down, knocked out, cut up and resewn many times over. A scar runs up the right side of her face like a cherry gummy worm. Arresting and alarming though that is, ... More Nonny Hogrogian, 92, honored illustrator of children's books, diesNEW YORK, NY.- Nonny Hogrogian, an illustrator who mined her Armenian heritage to bring diversity and wonder to her woodcuts and watercolors an approach that helped expand the world of childrens literature and made her a two-time Caldecott Medal winner died May 9 at a hospital in Holyoke, Massachusetts. She was 92. Her husband, poet David Kherdian, said the cause was cancer. Hogrogian was among a small number of illustrators to win multiple Caldecotts, considered one of the highest honors in childrens literature. She received her first medal in 1966 for the book Always Room for One More, written by Sorche Nic Leodhas, and her second in 1972 for One Fine Day, based on an Armenian folk tale that she retold and illustrated. She also received a Caldecott Honor, an award for distinguished runners-up, ... More Public Theater takes Shakespeare in the Park out on the townNEW YORK, NY.- On a small stage, three actors practiced a sword fight slowly, then faster. Behind them, board operators ran a sound check, and a wardrobe assistant shook out costumes. This is the part of theater you never get to see, Rebecca MartÃnez said. MartÃnez was speaking Saturday in the southeast corner of Bryant Park. Behind her, the cast and crew of the Public Theaters bilingual musical version of The Comedy of Errors, performed in Spanish and English, accomplished their preshow rituals. MartÃnez, who adapted the production with Julián Mesri, is also the shows director and choreographer. Typically, routines like these are performed backstage, out of sight. But at Bryant Park, amid the birders, the tourists and the library patrons, a backstage was not available. For more than 60 years, the Public Theater has offered ... More Finding refuge on 'Mars,' for the characters and the writersNEW YORK, NY.- The animated film Mars about a ragtag group of civilians visiting the red planet on a trip financed by a billionaire with an asteroid-sized ego will premiere Thursday at the Tribeca Festival. It will mark the end to a bittersweet journey for the films writers that began more than a decade ago. Mars was written as a live-action film in 2012 by Trevor Moore, Zach Cregger and Sam Brown, the founders of the comedy group The Whitest Kids U Know. They met thanks to living in the same dormitory at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where they performed lots of gigs. From there came tours of the citys comedy clubs and a television show that ran from 2007 to 2011. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they decided animation was the best way forward for the feature and opted to crowdfund the film. But ... More The story of 'how Liza became Liza'NEW YORK, NY.- A new documentary celebrates the life of the singer and actress Liza Minnelli. And it kicks off with the death of her mother, Judy Garland. Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (which premieres at the Tribeca Festival on June 12) opens with the vision of Garlands rose-covered coffin being carried past thousands of mourning fans in New York in 1969. With that somber start, the director Bruce David Klein is making a point. Rather than dwell on Minnellis childhood years in the orbit of her prodigiously gifted mother, he sets out to show that Minnelli, 78, shot to fame almost immediately after her mothers passing as if it were a catalyst of her success. Klein includes interviews with Minnellis artistic mentors, stage partners and close friends, including actress Mia Farrow, who speaks of her with affection and insight. There are also glimpses of the media nastiness she faced ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Yves Klein died June 06, 1962. Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. In this image: Yves Klein, âUntitled Fire-Color Painting (FC 1),â 1961. Private Collection. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Image courtesy Yves Klein Archives.
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