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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Ã Fontainebleau, c. 1823-24, Oil on board, 8 5/8 x 13 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Throughout the ages, the humble rock has been a favorite subject for landscape painters, providing the anchor for a composition, or a palette for the artists experiments with color, light and texture. This was particularly true for plein-air painters in 19th century France where painting outside became a popular alternative to the more laborious, and less realistic, work of constructing landscape tableaux in the studio. The spontaneity and freshness of these preliminary studies would eventually become the end goal, as artists sought ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Dive into the fascinating world of our feathered companions at the Natural History Museum in London, where bizarre behaviours and brilliant adaptations await your discovery.
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| Tiffany lamps, glitterling jewels and an antique Wurlitzer music machine were crowd-pleasers at Morphy's | | Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. announces results of Automobilia, Petroliana & Advertising auction | | Hake's to auction world-renowned Jeff Jacob action figure collection starting in January 2025 |
Tiffany Studios Peony leaded-glass lamp with multicolored background of mottled cobalt blues and streaked sky blues. Sold within estimate range for $110,700.
DENVER, PA.- Stunning jewels, art-glass lamps, a Wurlitzer Pianorchestra and a 1906 Amphora vase whose design foretold the future were among the highlights of Morphys June 11-12 Fine & Decorative Arts Auction. The $1.53 million sale offered ... More | |
1920s two-sided, three-dimensional lighted Garage sign from the Ancaster Ford-Essex Garage in Canada, an important North American treasure in advertising (CA$70,800).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- A 1936 Chevrolet half-ton pickup truck in untouched original condition sped away for $118,000; a circa 1880 Ives, Blakeslee & Co. Pegasus toy mechanical locomotive chugged off for $18,880; and multiple lots of vintage sales ... More | |
Hake's to auction world-renowned Jeff Jacob action figure collection starting in January 2025.
YORK, PA.- Veteran collectors of action figures may think theyve seen it all, but the team at Hakes Auctions says wait theres more. Much more! Starting in January 2025, the Pennsylvania-based company, which holds numerous world records in pop culture categories, will auction the internationally renowned Jeff Jacob action ... More |
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| Hidden under George Washington's home: 35 glass bottles of cherries | | The Lenbachhaus restitutes a silver sculpture from the former collection of Dr Max Meirowsky | | Ancient shipwreck preserves a deep Bronze-Age time capsule |
Archaeologists working delicately under the glow of bright lights below George Washingtons Virginia mansion in the fall had discovered the first of 35 glass bottles in the cellars storage pits.
NEW YORK, NY.- There it was, in the cellar of Mount Vernon, a relic of the last decades of colonial America: the top of a glass bottle, standing vertically and holding some kind of liquid. The contents suggested the bottle was intact, unlike the fragments ... More | |
The silver statue "Diana on a Doe" is counted among the early works of the Munich artist Georg Wrba (18721939).
MUNICH.- On June 26, 2024 The Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau Munich (Lenbachhaus Munich) restituted the Georg Wrba statue "Diana on a Doe", returning it to the Geneva-based Bona Terra Foundation, which administers the inheritance of industrialist Dr. Max Meirowsky (1866 ... More | |
Dr. Karnit Bachartan and Yaakov Sharvit with the ancient jars. Photo: Emil Eljam, Israel Antiquities Authority.
NEW YORK, NY.- Remains of the oldest shipwreck ever discovered in deep water, and perhaps the oldest complete wreck in any water, have been located in the Mediterranean Sea about 56 miles off the coast of northern Israel. The Israel Antiquities Authority, which announced the find last ... More |
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| A court ruled an exhibit discriminated against men. Now it's in the women's restroom. | | Chus MartÃnez appointed Artistic Director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts | | Berlinische Galerie exhibits works by the winner of the Hannah Höch Prize 2024 |
The Museum of New and Old Art, or MONA, in Hobart, the capital of the Australian state of Tasmania, on Nov. 13, 2019. (Fred and Hannah/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When an Australian court ruled that a museum exhibition could not be exclusive to women, its curator decided to move the paintings to the womens restroom. The curator, Kirsha Kaechele, had opened the exhibition Ladies Lounge at the Museum of New and Old Art in Hobart, the capital of the Australian state of Tasmania, ... More | |
Chus MartÃnez was born in Spain and has a background in philosophy and art history. Photo: Gina Folly.
LJUBLJANA.- MGLC, the International Centre of Graphic Arts, announced the appointment of renowned curator, lecturer and researcher Chus MartÃnez as Artistic Director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025). Chus MartÃnez was born in Spain and has a background in philosophy and art history. She is currently Head of the ... More | |
Installation view "Akinbode Akinbiyi. Being, Seeing, Wandering" © Photo: Harry Schnitger.
BERLIN.- Akinbode Akinbiyi (*1946 Oxford, England) has won the Hannah Höch Prize for 2024. The photographer and author of global renown, who has lived and worked in Berlin since 1991, wanders the megacities of this world capturing life on the streets. Berlin, BrasÃlia, Durban, Lagos urban space is his workstation. He experiences it as an interminal labyrinth or, as he phrased ... More |
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| South London Gallery opens a solo exhibition by Dominican American artist Firelei Báez | | Flock to the Natural History Museum's "Birds: Brilliant & Bizarre" | | London's Kew Gardens has long links to Japan. Now the Emperor is set to visit. |
Firelei Báez, Memory Board Listening (June 7th), 2015. Acrylic and Sennelier ink on Yupo paper Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York.
LONDON.- This summer, New Curators present the first U.K. institutional solo exhibition by Dominican American artist Firelei Báez (b. 1981, Dominican Republic) at the South London Gallery (SLG). Báez's visually striking practice explores themes such as folklore, gender, power, ecology and resilience. She delves into the relationship ... More | |
Installation view.
LONDON.- Let the Natural History Museum take you under their wing as the museum embarks on an avian adventure into the wonderful world of birds. A hoot for all the family, this new exhibition invites you into their world like never before. Swirl amongst the amazing spectacle of a murmuration, immerse yourself in the dawn chorus and see if you have the stomach to sniff a stinky seabird egg. Uncover the mind-blowing ... More | |
The Japanese Gateway, a scaled-down replica of a gate at a Kyoto temple, at Kew Gardens in London, June 24, 2024. (Andrea DiCenzo/The New York Times)
LONDON.- When Emperor Naruhito and his wife, Empress Masako, of Japan visit Kew Gardens on Thursday as part of a state visit to Britain, the links between their island nation and the famed London landmark will be on full display. Dotted through the botanic gardens 330 acres are constant reminders of that long-standing relationship. In a ... More |
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'I might be real-life good at this': Shooting for Broadway at the Jimmy AwardsNEW YORK, NY.- Shortly after Damson Chola Jr. sang the powerful Ragtime anthem Make Them Hear You, in a commanding performance that drove the Minskoff Theater to delirium Monday night, the young singer accepted the Jimmy Award for best actor. He gave an equally poised acceptance speech, expressing gratitude with a calm cadence and the occasional wry chuckle of someone whos seen and heard it all. Is he 40? my neighbor mused. Hardly. The Jimmys celebrate excellence in high school musical theater, and Chola, a recent graduate, is 18. The winner for best actress, Gretchen Shope, perhaps more expected for their age group, included in her thanks the girl on TikTok that said I looked like Chappell Roan. Then again, Shope had just killed with The Music That Makes Me Dance, from Funny Girl, so whos to say whats typical when it comes to theater kids? ... More Eric Hazan, publisher and historian on France's left, dies at 87NEW YORK, NY.- Eric Hazan, an influential publisher who brought to Frances attention some of the countrys most incendiary left-wing writers and who was himself a distinctive historian of Paris, died there June 6. He was 87. His death was confirmed by the publishing house he founded, La Fabrique, which released no other details. Hazan had been treated for cancer. From an old building in a working-class neighborhood of Paris, Hazans tiny firm wielded an outsize influence, publishing provocative writers such as leftist philosophers Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, scholar Edward Said and historian Enzo Traverso. La Fabrique has tackled colonialism, the rights of Palestinians, Israeli politics and the Holocaust, all guided by the hostility that Hazan, a son of immigrant Jews who had been forced into hiding during World ... More Seth Binzer, Crazy Town's lead singer, 'Shifty Shellshock,' dies at 49NEW YORK, NY.- Shifty Shellshock, the lead singer of the late-1990s rap-rock band Crazy Town known for the hit song Butterfly, whose legal name was Seth Binzer, died at his home in Los Angeles on Monday. He was 49. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner confirmed his death, the cause of which was still being investigated. Crazy Town rose to prominence after the band released its debut album, The Gift of Game, in 1999. In 2001, the record reached No. 9 on the Billboard album chart ranking the most popular albums, in large part because of the success of Butterfly. The song, which Rolling Stone magazine described as a sweetly floating ballad thats atypical for these hard-rocking B-boys, gained wide acclaim, holding the top spot on Billboards Hot 100 ranking for two weeks. Binzer was open about his struggles ... More Fundación La Nave Salinas opens Mai Blanco's first institutional exhibitionIBIZA.- Fundación La Nave Salinas presents A Garden Within, a solo exhibition of works by Spanish artist Mai Blanco this summer. Founded by Lio Malca nearly a decade ago, Fundación La Nave Salinas is committed to presenting diverse artistic languages to new audiences. The dynamic, reimagined 1940s salt warehouse along Las Salinas beach in Ibiza is an ideal space to present Mais largest body of work to date. Born in Asturias, a picturesque province in the north of Spain, Blanco has harbored an unwavering conviction of being an artist for as long as her memory serves. Blanco's oeuvre comprises self-portraits that delve into the quest for meaning, often threading through the labyrinth of nature. In the natural world, she discovers an inexhaustible wellspring of primordial beauty, forging a profound connection with the transcendental. ... More Tate Modern opens an exhibition of 'solid light' installations by Anthony McCall LONDON.- Tate Modern presents an exhibition of solid light installations by British-born, US-based artist Anthony McCall (b. 1946). An early pioneer of experimental cinema and installation art, McCall is known for his material film installations where projected light is visibly enhanced using a thin mist to produce solid light forms, bringing together film, sculpture, and drawing. Visitors are invited to interact with each of the four solid light works, offering an unforgettable immersive encounter. The exhibition also includes film, photography and archive material documenting McCall's extraordinary practice. McCalls practice developed during his early career in the early 1970s when he was involved in Londons independent film community. Tate Moderns exhibition features photographs and film footage of the artists earliest performances, ... More Vivienne Westwood: The Personal Collection achieves £465,192 at Christie'sLONDON.- Christies have paid tribute to the revolutionary British fashion designer and activist Vivienne Westwood, with Vivienne Westwood: The Personal Collection raising funds for the charitable causes she championed during her lifetime. Part I, the live auction, realised a total of £465,192 with proceeds from the sale benefitting The Vivienne Foundation, Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières and Greenpeace. The auction was 100% sold, attracting both institutional buyers and new participants to Christies, with 33% of registered bidders Millennials and 9% Gen Z. Spanning four decades of one of the most influential designers of modern times, 95 lots were sold in Vivienne Westwood: The Personal Collection Part I, each of them representing a significant moment in Vivienne's life and career. THE BIG PICTURE Viviennes Playing Cards, a project by The ... More High Museum announces curatorial promotionsATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art announced promotions for two of its curators today. Katherine Jentleson, who has served as the Merrie and Dan Boone curator of folk and self-taught art since 2015, will continue in that role and now also serve as senior curator of American art, overseeing the American art program. Michael Rooks, who joined the High in 2010, is now the Wieland Family senior curator of modern and contemporary art. To support the growth of their respective departments, Jentleson and Rooks will expand their staff with new curatorial hires. Jentleson is directing the effort to fill the vacant post of Margaret and Terry Stent curator of American art, and Rooks has begun a search for the new position of assistant curator of modern and contemporary art. These promotions reflect ... More Pace opens the first solo exhibition of works by Latifa Echakhch in AsiaSEOUL.- Pace presents Les Albatros, the first solo exhibition of works by Latifa Echakhch in Asia, and her second-ever with Pace, running from June 28 to August 17. Echakhchs presentation will feature five new paintings that explore the question: What does it mean to paint a landscape in our times? Les Albatros will be staged on the gallerys ground floor, which will be transformed into an immersive installation space. The unstretched and draped canvases, shown only on the verso, will interact with these surroundings to complicate the boundaries between interiority and exteriority, and nature and artifice. Known for a practice that incorporates painting, sculpture, and sound into site-specific interventions, Latifa Echakhch explores issues of power and socio-political realities by interrogating their representative symbols and structures. The ... More Exhibition at Joan B Mirviss LTD focuses on contemporary masters of Hagi and OribeNEW YORK, NY.- This summer, Joan B Mirviss LTD presents a new exhibition that focuses on a small selection of recent and current masters of Hagi and Oribe wares, traditions that originated during the first golden age of Japanese ceramics, the Momoyama era (1573- 1615). Created in a small town on the Japan Sea in western Honshu, the monochromatic aesthetics of Hagi were derived from Korean traditions learned from potters brought to Japan. Oribe, on the other hand, is completely a Japanese invention that favored bright asymmetrical patterning and brilliant green coloring. It was developed in central Japan in the Mino region. The elegant simplicity of form coupled with the unctuous white Hagi glaze or the deep black or green vibrancy of Oribe have made these ceramic wares popular for use in tea ceremony for centuries. ... More pascALEjandro joins BLUMLOS ANGELES, CA.- BLUM announced the representation of pascALEjandro, the creation of Alejandro Jodorowsky (b. 1929, Tocopilla, Chile) and Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky (b. 1972, Paris, France). An act of psychomagic in its own right, this existential and artistic project is the love child of two artists who are separated in age by over forty years. Manifested in extraordinary works on paper, the collaboration is comprised of the masculine: Jodorowskys illustrations, and the feminine: Montandon-Jodorowskys vivid colors. Trained as a painter with a dedicated practice for the last twenty-five years, Pascale Montandon-Jodorowskys work also traverses the mediums of photography and stage and costume design. Alejandro Jodorowsky has been at the forefront of every genre he has engaged withfrom ... More Russell Morash, 'This Old House' and 'The French Chef' producer, dies at 88NEW YORK, NY.- Russell Morash, a public television producer and director who helped turn a cookbook author, Julia Child, into Americaâs chef and transformed bathroom tile replacement and roof repair into addictive TV with âThis Old House,â died on June 19 in Concord, Massachusetts. He was 88. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his wife, Marian Morash, who said the cause was a brain hemorrhage. Hailed as the âfather of how-to televisionâ by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which gave him a lifetime achievement Emmy Award in 2014, Morash helped usher in the DIY era with the enduring instructional shows that he helped create for the Boston PBS station WGBH. âThe French Chef,â which debuted in 1963, with Morash as director and producer, and which became Childâs vehicle to mass-m ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Philip Guston was born June 27, 1913. Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein (June 27, 1913 - June 7, 1980), was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In this image: Philip Guston, "Untitled", (book, ball and shoe), 1971. Oil on paper, 50.2 x 70.5 cm., 19 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches. (T004167) ©The Estate of Philip Guston. Courtesy: Timothy Taylor Gallery, London.
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