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An artists concept of Labocania aguillonae, a long-legged Mexican tyrannosaur, confronting a Coahuilaceratops. Photo: Rivera-Sylva and Longrich, Fossil Studies 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- The pile of crumbling dinosaur bones languished in a drawer at the Museo del Desierto in Saltillo, Mexico, for two decades. When you see that thing sitting in a museum drawer, it looks pretty underwhelming, said Nick Longrich, a paleontologist from the University of Bath in England. It looks like a pile of rubble. But the dire condition of the bones, discovered in 2000 in the Chihuahuan desert in northern Mexico, concealed a secret: They belonged to a close relative of Tyrannosaurs rex. Unlike its heavily built cousin, this animal was long- ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift, de Young museum, San Francisco, 2022. Photograph by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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| Free public art exhibition transforming Los Angeles after dark returns on October 5 | | Rare Harlem Renaissance sculpture and Tiffany silver among estate goods offered at Sterling Associates | | Bellmans to sell rare study by Sir John Lavery |
Alice Bucknell, still from The Alluvials Extended Cut, 2024, four-channel video installation.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- This October 5, 2024, from 7 PM to 11:30 PM, LUMINEX 3.0: Landscape Frequencies will bring art and community together in an engaging outdoor exhibition using the LA cityscape as a canvas. Multimedia artists JOJO ABOT, Refik Anadol, Alice Bucknell, Nao Bustamante, Petra Cortright, Marc Horowitz, Carole Kim, Alan Nakagawa, Sarah Rara, and LAVA (Los Angeles Video Artists) will transform a five-block radius in the South ... More | |
Augusta Christine Fells (Moore) Savage, painted red clay/terracotta relief bust of an infant. Signed and dated 1942. Size: 9in x 12in x 10in. Estimate: $4,000-$6,000
NORWOOD, NJ.- Whatever might be found inside a tastefully-decorated New Jersey residence is also likely to appear eventually at an auction produced by Sterling Associates. Owned and operated by Stephen DAtri, Sterlings roots go back to a family business established seven decades ago. Over the years, the focus on estates and collections has never wavered, as reflected most recently in the discoveries chosen for the ... More | |
The Ratification of the Irish Treaty in the House of Lords, December 1921 by Sir John Lavery (Irish, 1856-1941). Oil on canvas-board, 25 x 35 cms.
LONDON.- Sir John Lavery (Irish, 1856-1941) is best known for his portrait painting, but he was also well-respected for his 'painting of contemporary history' of which this is one of the most famous examples. The Ratification of the Irish Treaty in the House of Lords, December 1921 is not only one of his most important paintings, but also depicts one of the most significant moments in early 20th Century history. Bellmans will be selling ... More |
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| The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art receives major gift from the estate of Ernestine Morris Carmichael Raclin | | MAGMA Gallery announces a new collaboration with the French artist Jules Dedet Granel, alias L'Atlas | | ICA London opens Geumhyung Jeong's Under Construction |
Hubert Robert (French, 17331808), The Washerwomen of Charenton, 176770. Oil on cradled panel, 15 x 11 in. 2024.008.011.
NOTRE DAME, IN.- The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art is the beneficiary of a significant gift of paintings, sculptures, and decorative art objects from the estate of Ernestine Morris Carmichael Raclin (1927-2024). Iconic masters from Gainsborough and Reynolds, Houdon to Guillaumin, among many others, are included. A life-long supporter of the arts, Raclin began collecting in earnest in ... More | |
L'Atlas, Nocturnal Nebulae, 2023. 135 x 135 cm.
BOLOGNA.- MAGMA Gallery will present the new collaboration with the French artist Jules Dedet Granel, alias L'Atlas, on the occasion of the solo exhibition "Dichotomy" at the gallery's headquarters in Bologna. Born in Toulouse in 1978, LAtlas lives and works in Paris and is considered one of the historic names of street art; his artistic career began by painting in the streets of Paris in the 90s. The techniques of graffiti, poster art, stencils and adhesive tape, combined with a strong interest ... More | |
Geumhyung Jeong, Under Construction [ICA London installation], 2024. Photo: Rob
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LONDON.- Under Construction, a solo exhibition by Geumhyung Jeong (b. 1980, Seoul) features a newly commissioned installation of sculpture and video, and series of live performances. Working from her background in choreography and a studied interest in the role of objects and technology in our lives, Jeong uses her body and animatronic figures built from DIY parts ... More |
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| Christie's to offer the Danute and Alain Mallart Collection | | Contemporary Bay Area artists featured in exhibition 'About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift' | | T.I. and Tiny awarded $71 million over L.O.L. dolls' likeness to R&B group |
Auctioned during the Paris Art Basel week fair. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
PARIS.- On Thursday, 17 October 2024, with the auction of the Danute and Alain Mallart, Brussels Paris Vilnius the epicenter of which will be Art Basel, at the recently restored Grand Palais in Paris. Long kept confidential and only known to the personal and professional network of collectors, the Danute and Alain Mallart Collection is of the kind that dreams are made of. The fruit ... More | |
Installation view of About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift, de Young museum, San Francisco, 2022. Photograph by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift presents contemporary works by Bay Area artists from the Fine Arts Museums of San Franciscos collection. The ten Bay Area artists featured in About Place, Guillermo Galindo, Postcommodity, Chris Johanson, ... More | |
L.O.L. Surprise Dolls at the MGA Entertainment campus in Chatsworth, Calif., Dec. 9, 2019. (Kendrick Brinson/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The dolls are small. The award is big. The dolls in question are L.O.L. Surprise! O.M.G. dolls, several-inch-tall plastic dolls with big eyes and colorful hair part of a line of L.O.L. Surprise! dolls that often come in opaque packaging and that have been among the most popular toys of the past decade. But these particular L.O.L. dolls, ... More |
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| The Cleveland Museum of Art acquires Ancient Greek helmet and works by Dorothea Tanning and Rembrandt | | Galerie Lelong & Co., New York presents a solo exhibition by Leonardo Drew | | His father is leaving office. Is Hunter Biden's art market also over? |
Musical Chairs, 1951. Dorothea Tanning (American, 19102012). Oil on canvas; overall: 116.2 x 88.9 cm (45 3/4 x 35 in.). Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund. 2024.68
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art announced the acquisition of three new pieces including an ancient Greek helmet, an oil painting by Dorothea Tanning, and a drypoint etching by Rembrandt van Rijn. Used by hoplite warriors fighting in phalanx formations, Corinthian helmets were designed to cover nearly the entire face ... More | |
Installation view: Leonardo Drew, Number 427, 2024 in Leonardo Drew at Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, 2024. © Leonardo Drew. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, opened a solo exhibition by Leonardo Drew, the artists third with the gallery. As with all of Drews exhibitions and artworks, the presentation remains untitled, allowing viewers to complete the work themselves by forming a highly individual understanding ... More | |
Hunter Biden at his studio in Los Angeles, Nov. 1, 2019. (Elizabeth Weinberg/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- After an ambitious New York gallery announced in 2021 that it would sell Hunter Bidens paintings for as much as $500,000, some ethics experts and House Republicans expressed concern that such high-priced works from a novice artist could become a conduit for those seeking to influence his father, the president. Now, as Joe Biden leaves the White ... More |
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Artist Darja Bajagic: âMy work is a provocative exploration of societyâ
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She found a home in music. Now she's the composer for the king.LONDON.- The call from Buckingham Palace came on a summer morning, when Errollyn Wallen, wearing a pink onesie with pom-pom trim, had just finished a breakfast of toast and marmalade at her seaside home in Scotland. A private secretary for the British royal family had phoned with momentous news: King Charles III wanted Wallen to serve as Master of the Kings Music, an honorary position roughly equivalent to that of poet laureate. Wallen, a composer and a pianist who was born in Belize, a former British colony, has spent her career challenging conventions in classical music. I was astonished, Wallen, 66, said in a recent Zoom interview. I paused for a few moments, then cheerfully accepted. Wallen, whose appointment was announced in August, is the first Black woman to ... More The mushroom kingdom that Shigeru Miyamoto builtKYOTO.- Shigeru Miyamoto has been making the same request of all new employees at Nintendo for at least the past decade: For the love of all things Super Mario, please design games that might sell 30 million copies. The request for smash hits that can generate upward of $1.5 billion sounds almost reasonable coming from Miyamoto, a smiling septuagenarian with arched eyebrows and a trove of beloved cultural properties that would make Walt Disney blush. Despite creating mascots like Super Mario, Princess Zelda and Donkey Kong that have earned billions for Nintendo, Miyamoto dresses like a humble salaryman, wearing company merchandise beneath his blazer. He has consulted on dozens of games and was instrumental in the development of the Wii and Switch consoles, but in recent years has focused on the movies and ... More Kathryn Crosby, actress and Bing Crosby's widow, dies at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Kathryn Crosby, a Texas-born beauty queen and aspiring actress who put aside her movie career when she married Bing Crosby, the movie star and honey-voiced baritone, died Friday at her home in Hillsborough, California. She was 90. Harlan Boll, a publicist speaking for her family, announced her death. The couple met cute on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles in 1953. Kathryn Grant, as she was then known, was a new contract player rushing to deliver a load of petticoats to the wardrobe department while on her way to a tennis game. Crosby, the laconic, blue-eyed heart throb, was already an American institution. Whats your rush, Tex? Crosby asked, standing in the door of his dressing room. She stopped short, and down went the petticoats and her tennis racket. They kept colliding, though less dramatically, ... More Jack DeJohnette, one of Jazz's great drummers, has a surpriseNEW YORK, NY.- In the early 1960s, Jack DeJohnette, a pianist from Chicago, took a weeklong gig at the Showboat club in Philadelphia with saxophonist Eddie Harris and played his second instrument: the drums. (A bandmate had left a set at his house.) At one point, Harris, an older player whose career was starting to gain steam, took DeJohnette aside. Eddie said to me, he said, Man, you play nice piano, DeJohnette recalled last month, sitting at the kitchen table of the cabin-style home near Woodstock, New York, where he and his wife, Lydia, have lived for around 50 years. But something about your drumming youre a natural on drums. And youve got to decide which ones going to be your main instrument. To anyone who has followed jazz for the past 50-plus years, his eventual choice will be obvious. DeJohnette, now ... More Exploring the roots of Mideast turbulence onstagePARIS.- Theater-makers Lina Majdalanie and Rabih Mroué have grown accustomed to life in exile. In 2013, the duo, who are creative as well as life partners, left their home country of Lebanon to settle in Berlin out of fatigue, Majdalanie said recently. The corruption and the frequent crises that rocked the Middle Eastern country had become too draining, she added. When you see the same problems repeating themselves over and over again, you need distance to find peace, she said. The move worked until the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel last year. Israels subsequent offensive in the Gaza Strip had a devastating knock-on effect on its relations with Lebanon, which is home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees and their descendants. Majdalanie and Mroué, who have long investigated Middle Eastern conflicts onstage, were critical of Israels retaliation. Tha ... More Naftali Herstik, renowned and influential cantor, dies at 77NEW YORK, NY.- Naftali Herstik, whose soulful, resonant tenor and elegant interpretations of Jewish liturgical music made him one of the most renowned and influential cantors of his time, died Sept. 1 at his home in Raanana, Israel. He was 77. His son Netanel, the cantor of the Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, New York, said the cause was kidney disease. In many ways, Herstik was a throwback to the period between World War I and the 1960s, when cantors like Yossele Rosenblatt and Moshe Koussevitzky would fill thousand-seat temples on a Sabbath or a Jewish holiday, drawing connoisseurs eager to hear lyrical prayers delivered by glorious and powerful voices. Known for his silken-voiced tenor, Herstik had an extraordinary range of three octaves, comfortable in deep bass, the high-C register or falsetto. Equally important ... More moniquemeloche presents David Antonio Cruz's third solo exhibition with the galleryCHICAGO, IL.- moniquemeloche is presenting David Antonio Cruz: come close, like before. This is the artists third solo exhibition with the gallery. come close, like before is a continuation of Cruzs chosenfamily series exploring the non-biological bonds between queer people that are based in mutual love and supportand centers this structure within the historical canon of western art, specifically maritime and landscape painting. Cruz produced this body of work after extensive travel during the last year and a half, having undergone an artist residency in Laguarres, Spain and visiting his grandparents land in Humacao, Puerto Rico. Reflecting on themes of lineage, family, and home, as well as the complex history between Spain and Puerto Rico, Cruz contemplates ideas of drift and voyage rendered through a distinctly queer, ... More What's eating Trump? The singing 'Ghost of John McCain'NEW YORK, NY.- Usually, critics wait until a show is running to slam it, but Meghan McCain broke the embargo. By more than five months. This is trash, she posted on social media on April 2. Nothing more than a gross cash grab by mediocre desperate people. I hope it bombs. Perhaps she can be forgiven her haste for distaste. Ghost of John McCain, the show she was preemptively attacking, is about her father, who died in 2018. A musical satire that pictures him in purgatory bedeviled by Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton and a pole-dancing Lindsey Graham in a studded pink dog collar probably seemed unlikely to be reverent. If only irreverence were the problem! But the show that opened Tuesday at SoHo Playhouse turns out to be, in its muddled way, something of a love letter. Its just a bad one. Start with the title, which promises a p ... More Britain's National Theater director takes a final bowLONDON.- When Rufus Norris became the director of the National Theater in 2015, he said he had one main aim: to make the playhouse representative of Britain. Almost a decade later and as Norris prepares to leave the role, he said he had made progress toward that goal, especially by prioritizing new works. Many of the theaters most acclaimed recent productions have centered people of color, including an adaptation of Andrea Levys Small Island, directed by Norris, about Caribbean immigrants to Britain. On Tuesday, Norris, 59, unveiled a typically diverse final season, including Inter Alia, Suzie Millers follow-up to her hit legal play Prima Facie; Shaan Sahotas The Estate, about a British Asian politicians downfall; and a revival of Michael Abbensetts Alterations, about immigrants struggling to establish a tailoring business in 1970s London. Norris will be hoping some ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer and director Michael Dweck was born September 26, 1957. Michael Dweck (born September 26, 1957) is an American visual artist and filmmaker. Best known for his narrative photography, Dweck's work "explores ongoing struggles between identity and adaptation in endangered societal enclaves." In 2003, he became the first living photographer to have a solo exhibition at Sotheby's, and in 2012, he was the first American photographer to exhibit his work in Cuba since the beginning of the United States embargo in 1960. In this image: Michael Dweck, Jack's Flag, Blunderbust, 2023. Paint, pumice, rubber, metal on aluminum, 60 x 42 x 2 in. 152 x 106 x 5 cm.
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