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Vajrapani Mandala, Tibet, 14th/15th century. Distemper on cloth 25 5/8 by 19¾ in. (65 by 50 cm.) Courtesy Carlton Rochell Asian Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- When the 2024 edition of Asia Week New York opensfrom March 14th-22ndit will mark fifteen years of international galleries and auction houses displaying Asian art from the many corners of the Far East. United by their shared passion for the regions diverse art and culture, this eagerly awaited annual event has become a must-attend destination for collectors, curators, and Asian art aficionados of all stripes. Says Brendan Lynch, chairman of Asia Week New York: I cant think of a more appropriate time to celebrate this milestone ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Indian Paintings: Latest Acquisitions at Art Passages is the galleryâs latest presentation of Indian paintings exhibiting a wide array of schools and subject matter. From Mughal portraiture to Company School, these paintings reflect the taste and interest of their patrons: Nobles, devotees, and English resident rulers of India. Wedding Celebration, a Company School watercolor, circa 1788. Folio 12 1/4 x 17 3/4 in (31.1 x 45 cm) Painting 10 5/8 x 16 1/4 inches (27 x 41.2 cm) Asia Week New York
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| Museum of Chinese in America names new leader | | Princess Catherine apologizes, saying she edited image | | Nations agree to refine pact that guides the return of Nazi-looted art |
Outside the Museum of Chinese in America in New York, March 8, 2020. The museum, which has been the site of protests in recent years, has chosen Michael Lee as its director as it focuses on rebuilding trust.(Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Chinese in America in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan has experienced protests and resignations, a fire and legal problems. Now, the board has chosen a new leader who wants to move the institution forward and reconnect with the local community. Michael Lee, a nonprofit executive, will be the ... More | |
This version of an official handout Mothers Day portrait of Catherine, Princess of Wales, with her three children has been annotated by The New York Times to show a range of anomalies indicating it had been digitally altered. Note: Zoomed photos of zipper and hair have been lightened to show detail. (Original photo source: Prince of Wales/Kensington Palace. Annotations by The New York Times)
LONDON.- Catherine, the Princess of Wales, apologized on Monday for doctoring a photo of her with her three children, which was recalled by several news agencies on Sunday after they determined the image had been manipulated. The decision to recall the ... More | |
Stuart Eizenstat, the secretary of states Special Adviser on Holocaust Issues, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Twenty-five years after 44 countries endorsed the landmark Washington Principles on returning Nazi-looted art, a smaller group of nations led by the United States has signed an agreement designed to reinforce those guidelines by clarifying ambiguities that have allowed for differing interpretations and spurred disputes. The new agreement, called Best Practices for the Washington ... More |
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| Smithsonian American Women's History Museum names new director | | Final known work of Maria Cosway given to Nelson-Atkins from James and Virginia Moffett Collection | | Bard Graduate Center honors Eli Wilner with the Iris Foundation Award |
Elizabeth C. Babcock. its founding director only to have the candidate withdraw before her official start date the museum is trying again. (Del Mar Photographics, via Smithsonian via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Second times the charm? A year after the Smithsonian American Womens History Museum in Washington named its founding director only to have the candidate withdraw before her official start date the museum is trying ... More | |
Rachel Ruysch (Dutch, 1664 - 1750) Still Life of Exotic Flowers on a Marble Ledge, , 1735. Oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 27 3/4 inches (89.54 x 70.49 cm). Gift of James and Virginia Moffett. 2017.62
KANSAS CITY, MO. .- A major painting by an esteemed 18th-century female artist was gifted to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Realized in 1801-1802, A Religious Allegory on the Death of a Young Woman is the last known work by celebrated painter ... More | |
Eli Wilner artisans apply gold leaf to the frame for "Washington Crossing the Delaware." (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- The Bard Graduate Center has selected Eli Wilner to be one of four recipients of the 27th Annual Iris Foundation Award. The award will be presented at a luncheon on April 3, 2024. The other honorees this year are Marilyn Friedland, Diana Scarisbrick, and Dr. Wayne Modest. Founded by Dr. Susan Weber in 1993, ... More |
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| The Met receives gift From Pinkowitz Collection of more than 300 prints by Mexican artists and 31 Chinese woodcut prints | | Audience snapshot: Four years after shutdown, a mixed recovery | | 'Ancient Egypt & the Napoleonic Era: Masterworks from the Dahesh Museum of Art' at Vero Beach Museum of Art |
Elizabeth Catlett (American and Mexican, Washington, D.C. 19152012 Cuernavaca). Sharecropper, 1952 (published 19681970). Linocut printed in green and black. Image: 17 1/2 Ã 16 9/16 in. (44.5 Ã 42 cm); Sheet: 20 1/16 Ã 18 7/8 in. (51 Ã 48 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Richard and JoAnn Edinburg Pinkowitz, 2024 (2024.69.94)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art today that it has received a gift from JoAnn Edinburg Pinkowitz and Richard Pinkowitz of more than 300 prints by artists from or working in Mexico. Created ... More | |
The New York Philharmonic, at its Lunar New Year concert, which has been averaging 85 percent attendance compared with 74 percent prepandemic, at the David Geffen Hall, in New York on Feb. 20, 2024. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- It was four years ago on March 12, 2020 that the coronavirus brought the curtain down on Broadway for what was initially supposed to be a monthlong shutdown but which wound up lasting a year and a half. The pandemic brought live events and big gatherings to a halt, silencing ... More | |
Ernst Karl Eugen Koerner, The Temple of Karnak, The Great Hypostyle Hall, 1890. Oil on canvas, 51 1/4 x 18 1/2 in., Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, 1995.114
VERO BEACH, FL.- The Vero Beach Museum of Art is now showing in celebration of the centennial of archaeologist Howard Carters discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922 'Ancient Egypt & the Napoleonic Era: Masterworks from the Dahesh Museum of Art' on through to April 28, 2024. Western encounters with the Orient date back many centuries, but the Industrial ... More |
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| Frick to launch video series, online programs, and more | | Independence Seaport Museum to unveil new entryway and introductory gallery exhibition | | A 'Perfect Monolith' appears in Wales |
Still from the March 12 episode of Renovation Stories, "Honoring the Past and Enhancing the Future" © 2024 The Frick Collection, All rights reserved.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection today announced a roster of robust digital offerings and partnerships that provide opportunities for the public to engage with the New York institution between the closure of its Frick Madison residency and the reopening of its upgraded East 70th Street home in late 2024. Among the initiatives are a new video series exploring exciting aspects ... More | |
Medal Commemorating the Battle of Manila Bay, Tiffany & Co., 1899, New York, bronze, Gift of Benjamin L. LaGarde, 1998.022.003; River Scene of the Delaware at Beverly, New Jersey, George Robert Bonfield (1805-1898), circa 1850, New Jersey, oil on canvas, Gift of James McCelland, 2021.017.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- When the doors open to the public on Friday, March 22, at the Independence Seaport Museum (ISM), visitors will step inside through a newly designed and welcoming entrance that will be more accessible to the community. Facing ... More | |
A monolith embedded in the rock in southeastern Utah, Nov. 18, 2020. Utah Department of Public Safety via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Not one to let horrific weather stop him, Craig Muir left his house in Hay-on-Wye in Powys, Wales, early Tuesday to take his usual walk up Hay Bluff when he spotted something large, shiny and new. Standing there in the distance, like a beacon, was a silver monolith with no apparent trace as to how it got there or what it was doing in that spot. It looked like it had ... More |
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With pride and hope, Ukraine celebrates Oscar win for Mariupol documentary
KYIV.- Streets and squares are being changed from Ukrainian names to those from the Soviet era. Only Russian passport holders will have access to health care and social services. Teachers have been forced to switch to Russian curriculums. The Ukrainian port city of Mariupol has been a symbol of Russias brutal invasion and occupation of vast areas of Ukrainian territory. But as the war drags on and Moscow tries to turn the city into a model of Russification, Mariupols fate risks slipping away from the worlds consciousness. So it was with satisfaction and hope that Ukraine on Monday celebrated winning its first-ever Oscar for the documentary 20 Days in Mariupol, which recounts the ferocity of the Russian siege of the city in spring 2022. The Oscar for the film, Ukrainians said, may help refocus attention on the martyred city ... More
Marnia Lazreg, scholar of Algeria and the veil, dies at 83
NEW YORK, NY.- As a young girl growing up in colonial Algeria, Marnia Lazreg was enjoined by her grandmother to wear a veil, to protect herself. Lazreg refused. She didnt feel the need for such protection, and the veil wouldnt provide it anyway. Decades later, as a Hunter College sociologist, she looked more deeply into an aspect of Muslim society that had haunted her since that childhood moment: Was the veil imposed on women really necessary, from either a religious or a security perspective? The answer she came up with in a collection of five essays, Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women, published in 2009, was the same she had given her grandmother so many years before: a firm negative. Lazreg died Jan. 13 in New York City. She was 83. Her death, in a hospital where she was being treated for cancer, was confirmed by her son Ramsi Woodcock. ... More
Kahil El'Zabar, spiritual jazz's dapper bandleader, keeps pushing ahead
NEW YORK, NY.- Upon first glance, you might not think Kahil ElZabar, 70, is a spiritual jazz musician. Tall and sprightly with taut skin and a thick mustache, wearing dark sunglasses and a stylish black suit on a January afternoon, he looked more like a fashion model or a recently retired athlete. Thats not to say avant-jazz guys cant be chic, but rarely do they look this dapper. My mother owned a bridal formal-wear business, so fashion was always a part of my life since I was a little kid, he said over cups of green tea at the Moxy Hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I have friends that are 70, and theyll look at me and say, Why you got those little silly clothes on? Its like, We wore wingtips and khakis in 69. This is 2023, and just because Im a senior citizen does not mean I cant be current. For the past 50 years, ElZabar has toed the line between fashion and music, the present and the future, Americ ... More
It's never too late to be a style influencer
NEW YORK, NY.- Lyn Slater will be the first to tell you her life has been a series of happy accidents and purposeful metamorphoses. Because Im constantly reinventing myself, my life is always a surprise, said Slater, 70, a former professor of social work at Fordham University in New York. Im an improvisational person. I dont plan. Im very in the moment. That thinking has served me well. It has created endless adventures, surprises, incredible friendships and profound learning. Indeed. In 2014, she was taking a handful of creative classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. Her professor in a class on how to open a vintage clothing store suggested she start a fashion blog. Slater, who is from Dobbs Ferry in suburban Westchester County and moved to New York City in the mid-1990s, thought, Why not. She had always had a passion and flair for style and was often m ... More
$1,780 to spend the night in a 'Cocoon'? Hotels are betting on sleep tourism.
NEW YORK, NY.- To sleep, perchance to dream. Or if not dream, at least to feel vaguely rested the next day, especially on vacation. Is that too much to ask? For many people, yes. The United States is tired, according to the National Sleep Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, and there is a link between poor sleep and depression, the NSFs 2023 Sleep in America poll found. In the hospitality world, thats a business opportunity. Hiltons 2024 trends report revealed that the main reason people travel is to rest and recharge. Hotels locked in a death match with Airbnb have begun to explore ways in which to compete by offering services and amenities around the primary purpose of a hotel stay: a restful nights sleep, said Chekitan Dev, a distinguished professor at the Cornell ... More
First building of axially loaded portico system by Jean Prouvé, 1939-1940, for auction
PARIS.- For its one-year anniversary, NEO Enchères is delighted to offer at auction at Hôtel Drouot on March 26th the SCAL Direction and Design building, an iconic work by Jean Prouvé and Pierre Jeanneret (estimate: 200,000-300,000). Built around 1939-1940, it is one of the oldest and rarest examples in France of a specific type of construction: one that is prefabricated, equipped, and furnished with the intention of being easily transported and assembled. This ambitious project, initiated in wartime, marked a pivotal milestone in the history of modern architecture. Through it, the designers demonstrate the feasibility of having a building prefabricated at a factory to be easily assembled on-site. Constructed in 1940 on the SCAL premises to quickly, rapidly accommodate the factorys engineers and workers, many of these prefab buildings ... More
Fighting through art: A Kurdish dancer's journey to New York stages
TARRYTOWN, NY.- When Hussein Smko was 9, the U.S. military arrived in his hometown, Irbil, the capital of Iraqs Kurdish region. It was 2003, and Smko, already a survivor of the Kurdish civil war, would chase the American Humvees with other kids. One day a soldier beckoned him over and demonstrated a simple, beguiling gesture: He held out a straight arm then made it ripple like water, a classic hip-hop move. I thought it was like a big sparkle, Smko, 30, said in an interview. And I was like, How could you break your bones like that? That brief encounter loomed large for Smko, starting him on an unlikely dance journey that eventually brought him to a small, sun-dappled theater in Tarrytown, New York, where he was rehearsing with Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg last week. The dance they were preparing, On the Nature of Rabbits ... More
Juli Lynne Charlot, creator of the Poodle Skirt, dies at 101
NEW YORK, NY.- Whats a nice Jewish viscountess to do when she has a title but no money, a party invitation but no clothes and a pair of scissors but no sewing skills? Invent the poodle skirt, of course. That, quite by accident, is what Juli Lynne Charlot did in late 1947, in the process creating a totem of midcentury material culture as evocative as the saddle shoe, the Hula-Hoop and the pink plastic lawn flamingo. Charlot, a New York native who died at 101 Sunday at her home in Tepoztlán, Mexico, had been a Hollywood singer before her marriage in the mid-1940s to a viscount, or British nobleman. Fashion conscious but hopeless with a needle, she stumbled by necessity onto a pattern for a striking skirt that involved no sewing: Take a large swath of solid-colored felt, cut it into an expansive circle, adorn it with jaunty appliquéd figures in contrasting ... More
Baronian opens new exhibition entitled 'Trickle-down Economics'
BRUSSELS.- The gallery Baronian is presenting a new exhibition by Mitja Tuek, entitled Trickle-down Economics. In this exhibition, the artist presents three new series of paintings that highlight the diverse aspects of his artistic practice. By exploring the interspaces of visual representation with remarkable ingenuity and depth, his work unfolds into a subtle dialogue between form and colour, capturing the essence of the challenges of daily life and human experience. His works transcend the borders of traditional representation, inviting the observer to engage in an introspective reflection on the nature of reality and perception through an immersive experience in which reality merges with fantasy. The first series comprises a collection of works on paper. Microspheres have been meticulously affixed to each of the twenty sheets ... More
James Cohan Gallery announcing the representation of Kelly Sinnapah Mary
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan has announced the representation of Guadeloupe-based artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary. The artist will have her first solo exhibition with the gallery in Spring 2025. Kelly Sinnapah Mary creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that draw upon the complex interrelationships between folklore, literature, inheritance, history, and the natural world. Sinnapah Marys work is rooted both materially and narratively in the artists immediate environment of the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, a French overseas department, and her own evolving understanding of her ancestral origins. As a child, the artist identified as Afro-Caribbean but later discovered that she is a descendant of indentured workers from the South Indian state Tamil Nadu, who were brought to the Caribbean following the abolition of slavery to replace ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler was born March 14, 1853. Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 - May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism he called "parallelism". In this image: Ferdinand Hodler, The Reaper, c. 1910 © Christoph Blocher Collection, Photo: SIK-ISEA, Zürich.
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