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Array Collective is a group of 11 artists who create collaborative actions in response to socio-political issues affecting Northern Ireland.
COVENTRY .- The Turner Prize 2021 has been awarded to Array Collective, it was announced this evening at a ceremony at Coventry Cathedral, in partnership with Tate and Coventry UK City of Culture 2021. The £25,000 prize was presented by Pauline Black, the lead singer of 2 Tone pioneers, The Selecter, during a live broadcast on the BBC. A further £10,000 was awarded to each of the other nominees. This year the Turner Prize exhibition is being held at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry as a highlight of its City of Culture year. The jury awarded the prize to Array Collective for their hopeful and dynamic artwork which addresses urgent social and political issues affecting Northern Ireland with humour, seriousness and beauty. The jury were impressed with how Belfast-based Array Collective were able to translate their activism and values into the gallery environment, creating a welcoming, immersive and surprising exhibition. The jury commended all five nominees for their socially engaged art ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction, on view from November 21, 2021 through March 12, 2022 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar.
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| With Armory show, the world is catching up to Carrie Mae Weems | | This dinosaur found in Chile had a battle ax for a tail | | Hindman offers a seminal work from the Golden Age of illustration, awe-inspiring abstracts & iconic posters | 
Carrie Mae Weems during the installation of her new exhibition, The Shape of Things, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, Nov. 29, 2021. Flo Ngala/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1992, amid a spate of violence against Black men around the country, including Rodney King, the artist Carrie Mae Weems made a decorative dinner plate that read, Commemorating Every Black Man Who Lives to See Twenty-One. In 2006 she began her Museum Series, standing in front of major cultural institutions with her back to the camera, challenging historical traditions of exhibition and collecting. Ten years later, she inserted her own image on the sets of television shows that feature Black characters. Now, of course, the entire nation is confronting issues of police violence against Black people; the exclusion of people of color from the museum canon; and the lack of Black and brown representation in Hollywood. But those who have followed Weems over the 40 years ... More | | 
Sergio Soto-Acuña, one of the two leading authors of the team of paleontologists. Alexander Vargas via The New York Times.
by Asher Elbein
NEW YORK, NY.- Its not every day you find a dinosaur that defended itself from predators with a completely unique weapon. In a study published Wednesday in Nature, Chilean researchers announced the discovery of a new species of ankylosaur, a family of dinosaurs known for their heavy armor, from subantarctic Chile. The animal, which they named Stegouros elengassen, offers new clues about where these tank-like dinosaurs came from and features a bizarre, bony tail shaped like a club that was wielded by Aztec warriors. Its lacking most of the traits wed expect from an ankylosaur and has a completely different tail weapon which shows theres something very idiosyncratic happening here in South America, said Alexander Vargas, a professor at the University of Chile and a co-author on the study. A diverse collection ... More | | 
N.C. Wyeth, When Drake Saw for the First Time the Waters of the South Sea, 1906 (detail). Estimate: $200,000 - $400,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- This month, Hindman will present three days of fine art sales featuring more than 300 works of art. The trio of auctions begin with American and European Art on December 13, followed by Post War and Contemporary Art on December 14 and ending with Prints and Multiples on December 15. Remarkable collections and artworks will be featured, including major works by N.C. Wyeth, Winslow Homer, Orville Bulman, Hans Hofmann, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, Julie Mehretu, Roy Lichtenstein and Jeff Koons. Notable collections that will be offered include Property belonging to the JFM Foundation Collection, (Denver, Colorado), Property from the Trusts of Barbara V. and William K. Wamelink, (Gates Mills, Ohio) and Property from Palm Springs Art Museum Sold to Support the Care of Collections and the George Montgomery Fund for Acquisitions. The December American and European Art auction will offer ... More |
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| After 110 years, an overdue book is returned to a library in Idaho | | This extinct eagle may have gulped guts like a vulture | | OPEN Architecture unveil monolithic concert hall | 
An image provided by the Boise Public Library in Idaho shows the spine of an early edition of New Chronicles of Rebecca. The book was checked out of the Boise Public Library in 1911 and returned in 2021. Boise Public Library via The New York Times.
by Alyssa Lukpat
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1911, someone checked out a copy of the book New Chronicles of Rebecca from a library in Boise, Idaho. For the next 110 years, the citys libraries would survive pandemics, recessions and world wars all without that copy of the 278-page series of stories by Kate Douglas Wiggin about an imaginative girl named Rebecca. Then, the volume turned up in November at Boises main library. The circumstances of its recovery, however, remain a mystery, said Lindsey Driebergen, the interim communications manager for the Boise Public Library system. We dont have any info about where it was from, she said. All thats known, she said, is that the book was returned either in late October or early November ... More | | 
A rendering of a 3-D model shows what researchers say the eagles vulture-like skull suggests that the birds were more gulpers rather than rippers or scrappers. Anneke van Heteren via The New York Times.
by Sabrina Imbler
NEW YORK, NY.- At Craigmore Station in Canterbury, New Zealand, an ancient Maori painting decorates the limestone overhang of a cave. Thought to depict an extinct eagle, the painted raptor gives the cave its name: Te Ana Pouakai, or the Cave of the Eagle. But this wasnt just any bird it may have been a Haasts eagle, which had wingspans between 6 and 10 feet, making the species the largest known eagle. The Maori artist painted the bird with a dark body and an outline of a head and neck that is more reminiscent of the bald head of a vulture than the feathery dome of an eagle. Now, a group of scientists suggest the extinct eagle may have looked just like its painted form. By creating 3D models of the extinct birds skull, beak ... More | | 
Outdoor stage facing to a gentle slope © Jonathan Leijonhufvud.
BEIJING.- Nestled in a mountainous valley two hours away by car from the center of Beijing, The Chapel of Sound is a monolithic open-air concert hall with views to the ruins of the Ming Dynasty-era Great Wall. Designed by Beijing-based architecture office, OPEN, to look as a mysterious boulder that had gently fallen into place, the building is built entirely from concrete that is enriched with an aggregate of local mineral-rich rocks, and encompasses a semi-outdoor amphitheater, outdoor stage, viewing platforms, and a green room. While designed to capture the unfamiliar and deeply touching experience of music performed in the cradle of nature, the architects also wanted people just to calm down and listen to the sound of nature, which they believe is profoundly inspiring and healing. When there is no performance, the concert hall is also a tranquil space for contemplation and community gatherings with stunning views of the sky and the surroun ... More |
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| The Wolfsonian-FIU and designer Bas van Beek bring Dutch dazzle to Miami Art Week | | At 80, Robert Wilson holds on to a singular vision for the stage | | Looking again at Amy Winehouse, 10 years after her death | 
Mathieu Lauweriks (Dutch, 18641932), Teakettle design drawing, 1907. Düsseldorf, Germany. Gouache, graphite, and watercolor on paper. The WolfsonianFIU, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection, TD1989.317.39.
MIAMI, FLA.- Marking his U.S. debut, the Rotterdam-based designer and artist Bas van Beek created an immersive, jewel-box exhibition for The WolfsonianFIU in an expansive Miami Art Week takeover of the museums South Beach site. Shameless, on view November 29, 2021, through April 24, 2022, presents Van Beeks new work and installations derived from the Wolfsonian collection as well as recent career highs at Dutch institutions like Het Nieuwe Instituut, Boijmans van Beuningen, Van Abbemuseum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and Kunstmuseum Den Haag. Looking back at our historical heritage, Van Beek brings to life credited and anonymous designs, said Wolfsonian chief curator Silvia Barisione, who organized the exhibition. By reshaping and improving them using new materials and techniques, he is shameless in his provocative approach that goes beyond time, genre, and geographic boundaries. ... More | | 
Director Robert Wilson at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, on Nov. 22, 2021, where his staging of Puccinis Turandot opens Wednesday. Slowed but not stopped by the pandemic, Wilson has had a busy fall that continues with his production of Turandot at the Paris Opera. Julien Mignot/The New York Times.
by Laura Cappelle
PARIS.- American director Robert Wilson has one of the most recognizable styles in modern theater. Honed over decades, his starkly drawn tableaus of abstract lines and shapes, lit with minute precision, have adorned Shakespeare plays and Philip Glass operas alike. And Wilson, who turned 80 in October, isnt about to depart from that formula. Last week, as the Paris Opera put the finishing touches on his production of Puccinis Turandot, which premiered at the Teatro Real in 2018 and opens here with a preview for young audiences Wednesday, Wilson zeroed in on the minuscule imperfections, nudging performers centimeters closer to their marks. A misshapen reflection of the moon on the stage brought rehearsal to a stop. As the lighting team scrambled to fix the spot, he turned to them ... More | | 
Dresses on display in the exhibition Amy: Beyond the Stage, at the Design Museum in London. Winehouse wore the yellow dress to the BRIT Awards in 2007. Ed Reeve via The New York Times.
by Desiree Ibekwe
LONDON.- On the wall of a museum here hangs a handwritten page from Amy Winehouses teenage notebook, listing her fame ambitions. There are 14 goals, including to be photographed by David LaChapelle (the photographer who would later direct the music video for her song Tears Dry on Their Own) and to do a movie where I look ugly. A decade after her death at 27, the exhibition Amy: Beyond the Stage at the Design Museum displays both intimate items like the goal list and objects that point to the singers influences in an attempt to add new dimensions to how we understand Winehouses short career and legacy, both of which are often overshadowed by her struggles with addiction. Winehouses memory has been shaped, in part, by documentaries like Amy from 2015, which won an Oscar, and by artists who cite her as an influence I owe 90% ... More |
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| Solo exhibition of works by Salvatore Scarpitta opens at A arte Invernizzi gallery | | Dave Hickey, iconoclastic art critic, dies at 82 | | 'I was skeptical.' How Sondheim agreed to change 'Company.' | 
Salvatore Scarpitta, Acolytes, 1960. Canvas and mixed media on board, 67x57 cm. Courtesy A arte Invernizzi, Milano.
MILAN.- On Thursday 2 December 2021 at 6 p.m., the A arte Invernizzi gallery presents a solo exhibition of works by Salvatore Scarpitta. The exhibition curated by the German artist Günter Umberg with the advisory of Luigi Sansone, editor of the Catalogue raisonné of Salvatore Scarpittas works investigates the relationship that comes about between the thirty works on display retracing Scarpittas artistic career from his debut through to 1992. The works themselves are arranged in such a way as to interact not only with each other but also with the viewer, offering an unique vision of the artists work. On the upper floor of the gallery, the works on display in the first room illustrate Salvatore Scarpittas shift from a material-expressionist form of painting to a new figuration that he created in his everted canvases, such as the two Senza titolo [Untitled] (1957), and in bandages ... More | | 
Dave Hickey at a museum opening in 1972. Via Olivia Lumpkin via The New York Times.
by Clay Risen
NEW YORK, NY.- Dave Hickey, who at various points in his life owned an art gallery in Texas, hung out with Andy Warhol in New York, wrote country music in Nashville, Tennessee, and, finally, settled into a career as one of the countrys leading and most divisive art critics, died Nov. 12 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 82. His wife, art historian Libby Lumpkin, said the cause was heart disease. Drawing on his decades of disparate and often debauched living, Hickeys criticism was at once erudite and quotidian. He dashed from Derrida to Liberace, zone defense to Cezanne, rejecting any distinction between high and low culture and insisting on the extreme subjectivity of aesthetic standards. Theres no difference between the highest art and the lowest art except for the audience it appeals to, he told The Los Angeles Times in 2002. ... More | | 
Marianne Elliott at Stephen Sondheims home in Roxbury, Conn., Nov. 21, 2021. Days before he died, Sondheim and the director chatted about a Broadway revival of his 1970 musical. With a gender swap, it has a different flavor, he said. Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times.
ROXBURY, CONN.- Had I known what was about to happen, I would have asked so many different questions. But I didnt, and, presumably, neither did he. It was Nov. 21, a lovely fall Sunday, and I had driven to rural Connecticut to talk with one of the greatest figures in musical theater history, Stephen Sondheim, about a Broadway revival of his seminal concept musical, Company. We chatted about the show with its director, Marianne Elliott, who joined us for the interview. We talked too, about an unfinished musical he was hoping to complete (Square One, adapted from two Luis Buñuel films), his work habits (Im a procrastinator) and his health (Outside of my sprained ankle, OK). And he showed us a few rooms in the ... More |
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 Rebecca Coates to step down as Director of Shepparton Art MuseumVICTORIA.- Shepparton Art Museum Artistic Director and CEO, Rebecca Coates, announced today that she was stepping down from the role after six transformational years at the helm. Dr Coates is departing following the triumphant opening in November 2021 of the new SAM building designed by acclaimed Australian architectural firm Denton Corker Marshall and its nine inaugural exhibitions. I had three goals when I commenced in the role. First, to build the artistic exhibitions, collection, and engagement so that it earnt the participation of the local community and a national reputation. Second, to build a genuinely world-class new building that would attract visitors, enable a first-class museum operation, and be a symbol of civic pride. And third, to build a stronger community in Shepparton, with the museum as an agent for social change, celebrating diversity and fostering inclusion. ... More  Toledo Museum of Art selects Gary Gonya as first director of brand strategy TOLEDO, OH.- Gary Gonya has been selected as the Toledo Museum of Arts first director of brand Strategy, in a role that will report to the Museums director. His appointment began on Monday, Nov. 29. TMAs strategic plan aims to make the Toledo Museum of Art the model art museum in the United States for its commitment to quality and its culture of belonging. One crucial dimension of implementing the strategic plan is the Museums new focus on shaping and managing a memorable and inclusive brand experience. An integrated brand experience requires seeing the world from the view of a diverse community of visitors anticipating their needs and delivering an encounter that makes people feel invited and fulfilled and that inspires repeat visitation. To accomplish this, the new TMA brand strategy department will integrate internal and external communications, retail, visitor services and ... More  A monumental installation celebrating 100 years of CHANEL N°5 opens during Miami Art WeekMIAMI, FLA.- In celebration of 100 years of CHANEL N°5, CHANEL has commissioned artist and designer Es Devlin to create a new sculptural installation in response to the iconic fragrance. Free and open to the public from November 30 through December 21, 2021, FIVE ECHOES by Es Devlin transforms Miami Design District's Jungle Plaza into a temporary forest surrounding a monumental, sculptural labyrinth, animated by light, color, and sound. Conceived as a synesthetic translation of the fragrance, FIVE ECHOES illuminates the invisible through its dynamic, multi-sensory environment. After the installation closes, the forest of over 1,000 plants, shrubs, and trees will be replanted in parks throughout Miami-Dade County. CHANEL N°5 is the expression of Coco Chanel's deep sensory connection to nature. Growing up in the Abbey of Aubazine, Chanel was surrounded by forests. ... More  Alvin Lucier, probing composer of soundscapes, is dead at 90NEW YORK, NY.- Alvin Lucier, an influential experimental composer whose works focused less on traditional musical elements like melody and harmony than on the scientific underpinnings of sound and of listeners perceptions, died Wednesday at his home in Middletown, Connecticut, where he had taught for decades at Wesleyan University. He was 90. His daughter, Amanda Lucier, said the cause was complications after a fall. Unlike composers who have the goal of painting an aural picture, evoking particular emotions, creating a dramatic narrative or exploring carefully plotted rhythmic interactions, Lucier seemed to approach his works as experiments that might yield unpredictable soundscapes. A finished work could sound like howling feedback, electronic crackling or in the case of his best-known piece, I Am Sitting in a Room (1969) a spoken text that with repetition becomes ... More  Joanne Shenandoah, leading Native American musician, dies at 64NEW YORK, NY.- Joanne Shenandoah, the most critically acclaimed and honored Native American musician of her generation, known for infusing ancestral melodies with the sound of contemporary instruments, died Nov. 22 at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was 64. Her husband, Douglas M. George-Kanentiio, said the cause was complications of liver failure. Shenandoah reshaped American Indigenous music by taking ancient songs and blending them with her own accompaniment on flute, piano, cello and guitar. She recorded 15 albums and numerous singles, and collaborated with many other musicians. She won a Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album for two tracks on the 2005 album Sacred Ground: A Tribute to Mother Earth: Seeking Light, a solo track, and Mother Earth, which she performed with Rita Coolidge, also a Native American musician ... More  OGR Torino presents 'Vogliamo tutto. An exhibition about labor: can we still want it all?'TURIN.- Until January 16, 2022 OGR Torino presents Vogliamo tutto. An exhibition about labor: can we still want it all?, curated by Samuele Piazza with Nicola Ricciardi: a group exhibition on the transformation of labor in the post-industrial and digital era, between awareness and disillusion, precariousness and empowerment. Inside OGR Torino, a symbolic site of transition towards new models of productivity, the installations, sculptures, videos, and performances of thirteen artists invite us to observe the remains of a recent industrial past and the ambivalence of new working conditions. Vogliamo tutto takes its title from a novel by the artist and writer Nanni Balestrini, We Want Everything, published in 1971. The book recounts the sweltering autumn of 1969 in Turin, and the changes the Italian society underwent in those years. The exhibition investigates our contemporary condition, without ... More  Simon Hope transfers ownership of H&H Classics to employee ownership trustLONDON.- Simon Hope, the Chairman of H&H Classics, announced today that he has transferred his complete 100% shareholding in H&H to a trust owned in its entirety by the employees. This development means that H&H Classics, after 28 years, is now completely employee owned and on the next stage of its continued development as a business. The model of Employee Ownership Trust is similar to that of Richer Sounds, a passion business like H&H, where it has proved to be extremely successful. The structure means there is a Board of Trustees, of which Simon is the Chairman, to ensure the company is run in the best interests of the employees. The day-to-day management of the company will remain with the team that has been running the company for the past two years, led by Colette McKay and Damian Jones, but of course it now means that clients dealing ... More  Custer's Civil War gun holster rig brings $37,500 at Holabird's Nov. 18-22 auctionRENO, NV.- Legendary U.S. Army Captain George Armstrong Custers gun holster, dispatch case, belt and brass buckle from the Civil War climbed to $37,500, taking top lot honors in a five-day, 3,100-lot November Wonders: Western Americana Auction held November 18th-22nd by Holabird Western Americana Collections, online and live at the gallery in Reno, Nevada. The holster was standard issue for officers during the Civil War to fit the Colt model 1860 Army revolver. There are two photos in the book Custer in Photographs (Katz, 1985, paged 12 and 13) depicting Custer wearing this rig, about 1863. Close examination reveals that the same holster is worn with the same cut-away in the army issue holster, where the captain has carved out a notch. The auction was loaded with Western Americana, mining, numismatics, stock certificates, rare books, art and more. This was supposed to be an ... More  Daylight Books publishes Hanford Reach: In the Atomic Field, Photographs by Glenna Cole AlleeNEW YORK, NY.- In Hanford Reach: In the Atomic Field, interdisciplinary artist Glenna Cole Allee explores the resonances of the Hanford nuclear reservation upon people and landscapes, past and future. The book includes a series of fifty photographs, and excerpts from an archive of twenty-two original oral histories recorded with residents of communities living within the long temporal and geographic shadow of this nuclear territory. Hanford created plutonium for the Trinity test and for the Fat Man bomb dropped upon Nagasaki on August 9 1945, and over four decades created two-thirds of the plutonium in the US nuclear arsenal. Today, the vast region encompasses a decommissioned nuclear reactor reimagined as a museum; multiple nuclear reactors and processing plants in various stages of demolition, entombment, preservation, and active production; abandoned pioneer townships ... More  Mills College Art Museum adds 14 artworks from NIAD Art Center to its permanent collectionOAKLAND, CA.- Mills College Art Museum announced the acquisition of 14 works of art by contemporary artists associated with NIAD Art Center in Richmond, California: Heather Hamann, Shana Harper, Serena Scott, and Jonathan Velazquez. These additions to MCAMs collection are part of a newly launched student acquisition project to identity, research, and justify specific artworks that help diversify the museum's permanent collection. Mills students identify specific works to propose for acquisition to the permanent collection, research the works, and present proposals justifying their choices to the class and a small collections committee of faculty and museum staff. MCAM Director Stephanie Hanor explains, This acquisition project allows students to really understand how art museum collections are built, and the opportunities and responsibilities that come with being a museum curator. ... More  Nobel Prize awarded to scientist who developed bone marrow cancer treatment to be auctionedLOS ANGELES, CA.- The 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to E. Donnall Thomas will be auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on December 9, 2021. Thomas won the Nobel Prize for his use of bone marrow transplants to treat leukemia and other blood cancers. Thomas first published his theory on BMT treatments in ''The New England Journal of Medicine'' in 1957, and then worked methodically throughout the 1960s and 70s to turn the theory into a clinical treatment, despite it being dismissed at the time as implausible and experimental. In the latter half of the 20th century, the treatment slowly gained acceptance, with approximately 60,000 transplants now occurring each year, bringing the survival rate for some cancers from zero to near 90%. Bone marrow transplants are now considered one of the greatest success stories in cancer treatment. Most of Thomas' career ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Georges Seurat was born December 02, 1859. Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising a technique of painting known as pointillism. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884 - 1886), Seurat's most famous painting, altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of 19th century painting. In this image: A staff member holds the artwork titled 'La Tour Eiffel' (The Eiffel Tower) by French painter Georges Seurat at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, 01 February 2010.
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