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Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein in Lichtensteins Washington Street studio, circa 1992. Artwork © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein, courtesy the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Archives. Photograph © Christine de Grancy.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dorothy Lichtenstein, widow of Roy Lichtenstein, and Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, today announced that the Lichtenstein family has promised to donate the late artists studio building to the Museum. The Whitney, which since moving downtown in 2015 has been a neighbor of the studio, operating four blocks north on Gansevoort Street, will adapt the space to serve as the first permanent home of its widely influential Independent Study Program, which was founded in 1968. Dorothy Lichtenstein said, Thanks to Roy, this building has been the site for artistic and intellectual endeavors, both for himself and for the people who have long gathered here. I cant think of a more meaningful use for the studio than for the Whitney to carry his legacy far into the future, building on and expanding the role of the Foundation in supporting contemporary art and artists. Adam D ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art, Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia's Sacred Mountain presents the story, context and new restoration of Cleveland's Krishna. The exhibition transports visitors to the dramatic floodplains of southern Cambodia and illustrates the history of the sculpture, spanning 1,500 years and three continents In this image:Angelina Jolie visits Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan in the CMA's objects conservation lab with director William M. Griswold and Sonya Rhie Mace, George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art. Photo: Loung Ung, 2019. Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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| From Einstein to couture, this 96-year-old captured it all | | The dinosaur age may have ended in springtime | | The Met acquires exceptional Renaissance bronze roundel attributed to Gian Marco Cavalli | 
Marilyn Stafford, 96, in Shoreham-by-Sea, England, Feb. 15, 2022. The electrifying career of the photographer is the subject of a retrospective at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in England. Charlotte Hadden/The New York Times.
by Saskia Solomon
NEW YORK, NY.- Picture this: Youve never really used a camera before, but there you are, zipping along in a car bound for Princeton, New Jersey, from New York City to take a portrait of the most famous physicist in the world: Albert Einstein. Thats exactly what happened to Marilyn Stafford, and it marked the beginning of her unusual career. Now 96, Stafford worked as a photographer for more than 50 years, in a career that took her to India, Bangladesh, Tunisia, London and Paris, capturing cutting-edge prêt-à -porter fashion; the realities of urban poverty; and the impact of conflict. Her greatest skill was portraiture: singer Ãdith Piaf, writer Italo Calvino, actress Sharon Tate and architect Le Corbusier were among the many she shot with her Rolleiflex camera. And yet she never achieved the level of fame as her male counterparts, like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. A retrospective in England, where Stafford lives, has collected all these ... More | | 
An undated handout photo shows a paddlefish fossil from the Tanis site in North Dakota, prior to scanning at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. European Synchrotron Radiation Facility via The New York Times.
by Kenneth Chang
NEW YORK, NY.- The dinosaur-killing meteor hit in spring. That is the conclusion of scientists who examined the bones of fish that died on that day when a 6-mile-wide asteroid collided with Earth. These fishes died in spring, said Melanie During, a graduate student at Uppsala University in Sweden and lead author of a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The reign of dinosaurs ended in spring. Scientists have known when the meteor hit just over 66 million years ago, give or take 11,000 years and where it hit, off the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. That ended the Cretaceous period of Earths geological history, but even though three-quarters or more of the species of plants and animals disappeared in the mass extinction that followed, it has been hard to pinpoint fossils of anything directly killed by the meteor. But in 2019, paleontologists published the discovery in southwestern North Dakota of what appeared to be a mass graveyard of creatures ... More | | 
Attributed to Gian Marco Cavalli (Italian, ca. 1454after 1508, activity documented 14751508). Mars, Venus and Cupid with Vulcan at his Forge (The Mantuan Roundel), ca. 1500. Parcel-gilt bronze with silver inlay. Integrally cast gilt frame with suspension loop. Diameter: 16 9/16 inches (42 cm); Depth: 11/16 inches (1.7 cm); Height with suspension loop: 18 3/8 inches (46.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it has acquired an extremely rare bronze relief attributed to Gian Marco Cavalli, an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, print engraver, and medalist who worked for the Gonzaga court in Mantua. Created around 1500, it is both the largest and one of the most technically sophisticated examples of a bronze roundel known from the early Renaissance. Lavishly embellished with gilding and silver inlay, the beautifully rendered configuration shows four figures from Roman mythology and provides new insights into the experimentation and impeccable craftsmanship that are the hallmarks of early north Italian bronzes. The bronze roundel is an absolute masterpiece, standing apart for its historical significance, artistic virtuosity, and unique composition, said Max Hollein, the Museums Marina Kellen French Director. It is a truly ... More |
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| Court painting and Polonaise carpet lead Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Oriental Rugs and Carpets Sale | | Phillips' March New Now Sale to introduce sought after artists to auction | | Thaddaeus Ropac opens an exhibition of works by Jason Martin | 
The Adolphe von Rothschild silk and metal-thread Polonaise carpet, probably Isfahan, Central Persia (late 16th/early 17th century), is another lead lot, highly prized and an example of magnificent Safavid weavings under Shah Abbas I, (estimate £1,000,000 1,500,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Christies announce the Spring Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds Including Oriental Rugs and Carpets auction taking place live at King Street, London, on 31 March. Two rare masterpieces lead the sale, exemplifying the height of artistic production in Iran under the Safavid dynasty. The first is a single folio from the most opulent and poetic manuscript produced in the Islamic world; Rustam kicking away the boulder pushed by Bahman, from the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, attributed to Aqa Mirak, assisted by Qasim ibn Ali, circa 1530. Painting 20.8 x 21.2 cm.; leaf 47.2 x 31.1 cm. (Estimate £2,500,000 4,000,000). The Shah Tahmasp Shahnama was the result of several decades of collaboration between a small number of leading artists in the royal atelier in Tabriz. The Shahnamah ... More | | 
Sarah Slappey, Yellow Touch (detail). Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips New Now sale on 9 March is set to kick off the auction houses spring season in New York, featuring 195 lots. Taking place at 432 Park Avenue, the sale will introduce several artists to the secondary market, including Anthony Cudahy, Sarah Slappey, Angela Heisch, Caleb Hahne and legendary tattoo artist Dr. Woo. Their works will be exhibited alongside those by established names with the likes of Eddie Martinez and Mary Heilmann. Avery Semjen, Phillips recently appointed New Now Sale Head, said, The highly anticipated New Now sale at Phillips have come to serve as a barometer of the ever-changing tastes of collectors around the world. Over the years, we have seen artists introduced in these sales go on to become tremendously significant forces in the secondary market, like Milo Matthieu and Alex Gardner. Im delighted to present an exciting group of artists in conversation with one another in our f ... More | | 
Jason Martin, 2022. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery | London Paris Salzburg Seoul. Photo: © Mustafa Hulusi.
SEOUL.- Jason Martins new series of works on aluminium mark his return to oil painting with brushes, a method the artist has not used for the past decade. A new phase in his ongoing exploration of painterly possibilities, these recent works are based on repeating inward movements with the brush that converge at a central point. He likens this to a merging of place and time or a threshold encounter, as well as drawing parallels with the Korean tradition of bojagi wrapping. Continuously experimenting with new materials and methods, Martin often develops his own tools, such as the combs used to shape dense striations of pigment in previous works. Created using traditional brushes, his most recent paintings exhibit a lightness of touch and delicacy of tone that set them apart from the thick impasto and highly saturated colours of earlier series. The aluminium pictorial grounds capture and reflect light, lending the paintings ... More |
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| Friedman Benda opens an exhibition of works by Leo Orta and Victor Miklos Anderson | | Frist Art Museum Board of Trustees names Dr. Seth Feman new Executive Director and CEO | | Restoring 'The Godfather' to its original (still dark) glory | 
Leo Orta, Phoenix, Courtesy of Friedman Benda and Leo Orta. Photo: Bertrand Huet.
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda presents, Relations, an in-depth look into the creative duo OrtaMiklos and the designers Leo Orta and Victor Miklos Anderson. The exhibition offers insight into Orta and Miklos, who decided to separate this past year to develop their individual studio practices. Divided into three separate sections, works by OrtaMiklos alongside pieces from Orta and Miklos Andersons independent studios. Relations captures this rare moment in the careers of these emerging designers by looking at how their approach to design has evolved while working as part of a collective and how that experience continues to shape their approach since leaving the partnership. Orta and Miklos Anderson founded OrtaMiklos in 2015 while studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven and spent their formative years working in collaboration while ... More | | 
Seth Feman. Photo by Echard Wheeler.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum Board of Trustees has announced Nashville native Seth Feman, PhD, as its new Executive Director and CEO. As a scholar, educator, and curator with a decade in several leadership roles at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, Dr. Feman returns to Nashville to direct the Frist into its next chapter of growth and service to the community. His appointment follows the retirement of Dr. Susan H. Edwards, who has served as the Frists Executive Director and CEO since 2004. After an extensive international search managed by trustee and human resources committee chair Deborah Story, the Board of Trustees is delighted to share the news that Dr. Seth Feman has unanimously been appointed the Frist Art Museums new director, said Frist Art Museum Board of Trustees Chairman and President Billy Frist. Seth brings a wealth of experience, expertise, and compassion to further execute our ... More | | 
Francis Ford Coppola discusses a repaired 50th-anniversary edition of his classic, one that aims to be as vivid and shadowy as it was in 1972.
NEW YORK, NY.- After 50 years, Francis Ford Coppola still isnt finished with The Godfather and it isnt finished with him, either. Coppola made his bones with that crime epic, which won three Academy Awards, including best picture; made untold millions of dollars for Paramount Pictures; and influenced a half-century of filmmaking in the process. But times have changed. Its not like the old days. And yet The Godfather continues to age like a satisfied don sitting blithely in his garden. In efforts to preserve The Godfather for future generations, Paramount, Coppola and his colleagues at American Zoetrope previously worked together on repaired and revitalized versions of the film as recently as 15 years ago, in what was then billed as The Coppola Restoration. Now for the 50th anniversary of The Godfather, which opened in New York on March 15, 1972, Coppola ... More |
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| First major survey exhibition of works by Anthea Hamilton, opens at M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp | | Portrait of Arthur Rimbaud by Valentine Hugo leads Bonhams Surrealist sale | | Tomás Saraceno: Following the airborne lives of spiders | 
Anthea Hamilton
, Kabuki Chef (detail), Installation view, Anthea Hamilton: Sorry Im Late, Firstsite, 2012 © Anthea Hamilton. Courtesy the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery and Kaufmann Repetto. Photo: Andy Keate.
ANTWERP.- For nearly two decades, Anthea Hamilton has developed a complex practice that spans sculpture, installation, film and performance. Hamilton dives without restraint into the meandering history of visual and cultural production, using her eye as a both subjective and productive lens through which to view (and recreate) the world. Her installations which combine unexpected materials, scale and humour propose an alternative and fragmented reality where gender roles, sexualities, food, domestic life, nature, and the traditions of different cultures, all rescind their status of firmly established clichés and become fluid notions. Hamiltons practice therefore relies on a strong belief in cohabitation, complexity and, by extension, imagination, positing the artworks ontological ambiguity as a means to constantly challenge our perceived realities. Using the mash up ... More | | 
Valentine Hugo (1887-1968), Portrait d'Arthur Rimbaud (Painted in 1933). Estimate: £400,000 - 600,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Valentine Hugo (1887-1968) is considered to be one the great forgotten women of the Surrealist movement. Despite her close relationships within the group and participation in some of the earliest Surrealists exhibitions, she was notably excluded by André Breton from his seminal book Le Surréalisme et la Peinture (1928). Their love affair years later seemed to seal her fate ending in a punch in the face for him, a suicide attempt by her. Breton did however encourage Hugo to produce one of her best works Portrait dArthur Rimbaud, which leads Bonhams The Minds Eye / Surrealist Sale on Tuesday 8 March in London. The work has an estimate of £400,000-600,000. Hannah Noel-Smith, Head of UK & Europe Impressionist & Modern Art, commented: Arthur Rimbaud was a huge source of inspiration for the Surrealists, and is even considered by some to be the true father of the movement a title more ... More | | 
Detail of a web in a section of the show called Webs of At-tent(s)ion, (2020) at the Shed in New York on Feb. 12, 2022. George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- The Shed has gone all out for the multitasking Tomás Saraceno a visionary Argentine artist and environmentalist celebrity who ranks among the worlds greatest spider-whisperers by giving him the run of three of its four public spaces, or about 28,000 square feet. And Saraceno seems to have returned the favor, mounting a revelatory if high-minded survey of his work in makeshift galleries, as well as two inspiring installations elsewhere in the building. The totality is titled Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s). The most ambitious of these is a Shed commission that may leave you feeling, literally, weak in the knees. Free the Air: How to Hear the Universe in a Spider/Web is, in essence, the piece de resistance of this entire undertaking. More later. The smaller installation, ... More |
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 Woody Auction to offer the lifetime collection of David and Marlene HowardDOUGLASS, KAN.- The lifetime single-owner collection of David and Marlene Howard of Ohio hundreds of quality antiques gathered over many decades of dedicated searching will come up for bid on Saturday, March 19th, at 9:30 am Central time, by Woody Auction, online and live in the Woody Auction auction hall at 130 East 3rd Street in Douglass. In all, more than 450 quality lots will be sold. "This collection is well above average because of the care and diligence the Howards spent finding only the best items," said Jason Woody of Woody Auction. What makes it special is its sheer breadth, and this auction barely covers half of it. The other portion, with a spotlight on children's dishes, will be featured in the coming months. That will be an online-only auction, planned for later in the year. Mr. Woody said David and Marlene Howard were frequent attendees at Woody Auction ... More  NFT by Micah Johnson closes sale at over $20 million for the Aku seriesLOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams and Nifty Gateway announced 1,744 editions minted of Chapter X in the Aku series by artist Micah Johnson, realizing a total of $20MM in sales for the NFT (Non-Fungible Token) series. The final chapter was sold on Monday February 21, the one-year anniversary of Akus debut, as an Open Edition priced at $999 and was available to purchase for only 10 minutes on Nifty Gateway. The short video clips follow the character Aku, a young boy who dreams of being an astronaut, based on an experience authentic to the artist, after hearing a young boy ask if astronauts could be Black. Johnson has now amassed a dedicated fanbase, only two years after making his debut in the digital art space, and Aku has been optioned for TV and film projects, the first NFT deal of its kind. We are honored to close out the Aku series by Micah Johnson, said Nima ... More  A prominent regional theater will exit its stage to explore its cityNEW YORK, NY.- New Havens Long Wharf Theater will move out of its longtime headquarters and embrace itinerancy as the company seeks a fresh start after a period of extraordinary upheaval. The leadership of the nonprofit Connecticut theater is framing the move as an opportunity to reach new audiences and re-imagine its operations, and the city is supporting the change, which it says will help the organization better serve the community. The move is the latest chapter in a time of extensive change at the theater, which in 2018 fired its executive director, Gordon Edelstein, a day after The New York Times reported sexual misconduct allegations against him. As the company remade itself, it faced a real estate quandary: whether to renew its expiring lease at the New Haven Food Terminal, just off Interstate 95, where it has been performing for 57 years. The theater, which has been ... More  Iraj Pezeshkzad, author of classic Iranian novel, dies at 94NEW YORK, NY.- Iraj Pezeshkzad, a prominent Iranian writer and satirist who became a cultural figure after his blockbuster novel, My Uncle Napoleon, captured the imaginations of generations of Iranians, died Jan. 12 in Los Angeles. He was 94. Pezeshkzad (pronounced pez-SHISK-zaad) died of cardiac arrest in his sleep, according to his son and sole survivor, Bahman Pezeshkzad, an artist who lives in Paris. The elder Pezeshkzad had been visiting friends in Los Angeles at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and decided to stay in California to avoid the risk of travel back to Paris, where he had been living since the end of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Despite being in exile for four decades, Pezeshkzad was one of Irans best-selling authors and most prolific satirists. He wrote 17 satirical novels and more than a dozen scholarly books and essays on history and literature. ... More  Parafin opens an exhibition featuring works by five artistsLONDON.- Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification. The images of lightness that I seek should not fade away like dreams dissolved by the realities of the present and future... ---Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium: Lightness (1985) In his essay-lecture on Lightness in Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1985), Italo Calvino described an auspicious image for the new millennium as that of the sudden agile leap of the poet philosopher who raised himself above the weight of the world, showing that with all his gravity he has the secret of lightness. In this way he identifies the creative ... More  Exhibition at La Villa du Parc features works by three Moroccan artistsANNEMASSE.- The contemporary art center La Villa du Parc has invited in early 2022 Le Cube - independent art room in Rabat (Morocco) to curate a show in Annemasse (France) featuring the singular and complementary practices of three Moroccan artists. The DNA of Le Cube as a place for experimentation in the formats and contemporary practices of the visual arts in Morocco, the venues support for the emerging local scene, and its keen interest in questions of narrative, archives, and images strongly resonate with the esthetic and social commitments of our contemporary art center in Annemasse. To open a window on the art scene in Morocco, La Villa du Parc has thus chosen to draw on the expertise and dynamism of a venue that is active in its own land. Le Cube has carte blanche to present a project that is as close a fit with its own commitments as possible while taking ... More  Artists Eti Jacobi and Avi Sabah are the laureates of the Rappaport Art Prize, 2022TEL AVIV.- Eti Jacobi is the laureate of the Rappaport Prize for an established artist for 2022. Avi Sabah is the laureate of the Rappaport Prize for a young promising artist for 2022. The value of the prizes to the winning artists is USD 140,000: The established artist prize includes USD 35,000 awarded to the artist herself and funding a solo exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, complete with a catalogue. The young promising artist prize includes USD 15,000 awarded to the artist himself and funding a solo exhibition at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, complete with a catalogue. Funding of exhibitions to the laureates this year will total at USD 90,000. Each winning artist will contribute a piece to the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Collection of Israeli Art the entire collection will be donated to Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Eti studied art at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design as well as classics and ... More  Five Broadway revivals give a tour of our theatrical pastNEW YORK, NY.- I was 15 when I appeared in a camp production of Thornton Wilders The Skin of Our Teeth I mean camp in the sense of a summer sleep-away experience, though the other meaning may apply, too. What, after all, were a bunch of naive teenagers doing in this surreal, existential tragicomedy by the author of Our Town, with its mash-up of biblical revisionism, theatrical satire and apocalyptic escapades? We were reviving it, I guess; The Skin of Our Teeth had premiered more than 30 years earlier, in 1942. Still, if our summer production marked a low point in its history, that history did not end with us; as Wilder dramatizes so effectively in the saga of the Antrobus family persisting through eons, the world keeps revolving and its central stories return. So, this spring, will The Skin of Our Teeth and it wont be alone. Broadway will also offer revivals of four ... More  A smorgasbord of Shakespeare, with some new trimmingsNEW YORK, NY.- No matter how many Lady Macbeths I see go mad, no matter how many Hamlets I watch have existential crises, I am always game for new productions of Shakespeare. Go ahead: Call me old-fashioned. Its a good thing, then, that Im a critic in a city that, in any given season, has a smorgasbord of works by that old Elizabethan scribbler. What most tickles my fancy are the versions that have their way with the text, updating to fit a directors vision. Much like what Joel Coen did for his stylistically and narratively brilliant film The Tragedy of Macbeth, and what Sam Gold will surely do in a highly anticipated Macbeth coming to Broadway. But thats just the beginning. At the top of my list this spring is Fat Ham, James Ijames Black, queer contemporary take on Hamlet first seen last year in Morgan Greens filmed version for the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. In every Ijames ... More  Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age singer, dies at 57NEW YORK, NY.- Mark Lanegan, a singer for Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age and an integral part of the 1980s and 1990s grunge scene in the Pacific Northwest, died Tuesday at his home in Killarney, Ireland. He was 57. SKH Music, a management company, confirmed his death in a statement but did not specify a cause. In the statement, SKH Music called Lanegan a beloved singer, songwriter, author and musician. Although his stints in Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age and the Gutter Twins never brought him the kind of fame achieved by Nirvana and Soundgarden, other Seattle grunge bands, he was known for his deep, world-weary voice that could take a song to soaring heights and melancholy lows. He met the founding members of Screaming Trees in high school, and the band released its first album in 1986, with an aesthetic that ... More  Judy Watson and Helen Johnson present The Red Thread of History, Loose EndsCANBERRA.- Two artists, two generations, two perspectives: Judy Watson & Helen Johnson: the red thread of history, loose ends opened on Saturday, creating a dialogue on the roles of women in contemporary and colonial Australia. Watson, a Waanyi woman, based on Jagera/Yuggera and Turrbal Country of Meanjin/Brisbane and Johnson, a second-generation immigrant of Anglo descent based in Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country in Naarm/Melbourne, have each developed new works that explore complex and varied perspectives on colonisation, with an emphasis on the experience of women. Curators Tina Baum, Gulumirrgin (Larrakia)/Wardaman/Karajarri peoples, and Elspeth Pitt said both artists consider the roles of women in recent history. Matrilineal experience is key to Watsons work, while Johnson explores the symbolism of women and whiteness in historical illustration and contemporary ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and theorist Charles Le Brun was born February 24, 1619. Charles Le Brun (24 February 1619 - 22 February 1690) was a French painter, art theorist, interior decorator and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin. In this image: A Christie's employee looks at an oil painting by 17th century artist Charles Le Brun.
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