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Workers install Sabrine Hornig's La Guardia Vistas in Terminal B at the LaGuardia Airport in New York, June 5, 2020. Hornig shot more than 1,100 high-resolution photographs of Manhattan from its rooftops as well as from the waterfront in Queens for the piece. John Taggart/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- If you want to visit an art gallery in New York anytime soon, consider a trip to LaGuardia Airport beginning Saturday. Thats the grand opening of its new Terminal B, home to four airlines and interlaced with four sprawling art installations. With three of the four works accessible without a boarding pass, Terminal B just may be the best indoor space for contemporary art no appointment needed that the public is welcome to visit in phase one of New Yorks reopening. In the final push to finish construction in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic this spring, the Public Art Fund joined the pantheon of essential services permitted to continue working on-site by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. That designation attests to a centerpiece of the design: Art installations knit throughout the architectural fabric of the building, which broke ground four years ago and has crossed the finish line as a glamorous entry portal for the citys coming back to life. Its an unusual ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A detail view of cut stone areas in the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, Peru, on December 30, 2014. Authorities announced on June 5, 2020 that health protocols will be implemented in order to reopen in July PeruÂs most visited tourist site, which has been closed for three months due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Cris BOURONCLE / AFP
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 | | Xavier Hufkens announces the representation of Lynda Benglis | | Stolen Banksy work from door of Paris Bataclan found in Italy | | A museum canceled a show about police brutality. Now it has regrets. | 
Lynda Benglis. Courtesy: the Artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens announced that Lynda Benglis has joined the gallery. Lynda Benglis (b. 1941, Lake Charles, LA, USA) is widely recognised for an oeuvre that has consistently challenged art-historical and technical conventions while treading new and experimental ground. Benglis creates pure, abstract works that are typically inspired by natural and organic forms. She often combines an element of visual seductivenessreflective or sparkling surfaces, transparency, vivid hueswith atypical shapes, challenging the relationship between painting and sculpture and their respective modes of presentation. Driven by an inventive and interrogative approach to both the physical and aesthetic properties of her chosen materials, she works in a broad range of media including beeswax, latex, polyurethane, glitter, luminous paint, plaster, metal, glass, porcelain and paper. As a young artist in the mid-1960s, ... More | | 
The work was found in an abandoned farmhouse in Abruzzo, according to l'Aquila prosecutor Michele Renzo, who said further details would be provided on Thursday.
by Ella Ide
ROME (AFP).- Italian police said Wednesday they had retrieved a work by famed street artist Banksy commemorating the victims of the November 2015 Paris terror attacks stolen from the Bataclan concert hall. The work was an image of a girl in mourning painted on one of the emergency doors of the Parisian venue, where Islamic State gunmen massacred 90 people. It had been cut out and taken in 2019. "We have recovered the door stolen in the Bataclan with a Banksy work portraying a sad young girl," a senior Italian police officer from Teramo, in Italy's central east Abruzzo region, told AFP. The raid was conducted with French police, he added. The work was found in an abandoned farmhouse in Abruzzo, according to l'Aquila prosecutor Michele Renzo, ... More | | 
Shaun Leonardo at the New Museum, in New York, July 10, 2019. Lelanie Foster/The New York Times.
by Brian Boucher
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Artist Shaun Leonardo has accused the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland of censorship after it canceled an exhibition of his charcoal drawings of police killings of black and Latino boys and men. The show, The Breath of Empty Space, which includes images of Eric Garner, Walter Scott and Freddie Gray, was to open last week. As a metaphor for erasure, the victims are sometimes hazy, a blur, or a void: Rodney King appears as a white blank surrounded by officers. Garner is shown in a chokehold. Another drawing depicts the Cleveland park where a 12-year-old boy, Tamir Rice, was killed. The museum canceled the exhibition, organized by independent curator John Chaich, in March after local black activists and some of the museums staff members objected to it. The museum ... More |
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| | Théo van Rysselberghe to highlight ONE: a Global Sale of the 20th Century | | Nationalmuseum acquires magnificent urn made at the Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory | | Solving the mystery of what became of JFK's other patrol boat | 
Théo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926), Barques de pêcheMéditerranée (detail), oil on canvas, 1892| $7-10 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- On July 10, Christies will offer Théo van Rysselberghes Barques de pêcheMéditerranée (estimate: $7 10 million) in ONE: a Global Sale of the 20th Century. Depicting a fleet of sailboats off the southern coast of France, the Belgian artists 1892 work offers one of the purest applications of the pointillist painting technique utilized by Van Rysselberghe and his Neo-Impressionist contemporaries. After a long-term loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as well as its inclusion in major exhibitions at the Grand Palais and the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, Barques de pêcheMéditerranée will come to auction this summer having been in the same private American collection for over 30 years. Cyanne Chutkow, Deputy Chairman of Impressionist and Modern Art, remarks: Barques de pêcheMéditerranée is a stunning example of Van Rysselberghes use of the divisionist technique, offering a scinti ... More | | 
Johan Fredrik Höckert, Vase in memory of the Industries of Sweden, 1878. Photo: Viktor Fordell/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired a decorative urn produced at the Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory with a motif depicting Mother Svea rewarding Swedish industry. After being sold at an auction in London, it has now been possible to return the urn to Sweden. The acquisition is a generous gift from the Friends of the Nationalmuseum, presented in honour of the reopening of the Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum. The decorative urn and its motif were designed by the artist Johan Fredrik Höckert (18261866) for the General Industrial Exposition of Stockholm, held in Kungsträdgården in 1866, at which the Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory showcased its prolific production line. The following year, the urns were presented at the Worlds Fair in Paris, and were subsequently sold to a private owner. The version of these decorative urns that has now been acquired was produced for the third Paris ... More | | 
Jim Cataldi, a wildlife rehabilitator who has helped transform North Cove, a small inlet of the Harlem River near the northern tip of Manhattan, May 27, 2020. Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times.
by Corey Kilgannon
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For decades, countless motorists and boaters have passed North Cove, a small recess along the Manhattan side of the Harlem River, unaware that a piece of presidential history may well have been embedded in the muddy bottom. That historical remnant may have finally come to light. Late last month, watched by a group of onlookers who were among the few to know of the boats presence, a crane began pulling up pieces of what is believed to be the PT-59, a Navy vessel commanded by John F. Kennedy in his mid-20s during World War II. This is history, said one of the spectators, Bob Walters, 73, who spent much of his childhood on the river. The PT-59 was part of a naval record that helped propel Kennedy toward the White House. Kennedys service ... More |
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| | Bloodsuckers exhibition named Overall Winner at AAM Excellence in Exhibition Awards | | New York Philharmonic cancels fall season | | Statue of Leopold II, Belgian king who brutalized Congo, is removed in Antwerp | 
American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) on a yellow sponge. Photo: Tina Weltz.
TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum announced that the ROM-original exhibition Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches has been named an Overall Winner at the 32nd Annual American Alliance of Museums Excellence in Exhibition Competition. This prestigious honour recognizes outstanding achievement in the exhibition format from all types of institutions, including museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and more. The ROM pursues excellence by exploring new exhibition practices, including transdisciplinarity. We consider the AAM award an acknowledgment that we are contributing to the museum fields ongoing dialogue about best practices, which is all in the service of providing better experiences for our visitors, says Jennifer Wild, ROM Deputy Director for Engagement. Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches explores the fascinating science beneath the surface of history's most enduring legends. Drawing visitors into the world of the 30,000 sp ... More | | 
Jaap van Zweden leads the New York Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall in New York, Dec. 5, 2019. The New York Philharmonic announced on Wednesday, June 10, 2020, that it was canceling its fall season. Karsten Moran/The New York Times.
by Zachary Woolfe
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- With the number of coronavirus cases down sharply in New York, the city began a gradual reopening this week. But in yet another sign that the full resumption of cultural life is still far off, the New York Philharmonic announced Wednesday that it was canceling its fall season. Were in a marathon, Deborah Borda, the orchestras chief executive, said in an interview, adding: It is possible we could lose this entire upcoming season. But we will do our best to find some way of doing some kind of performances. There must be live music for people. The decision not to resume performances before Jan. 6, 2021, at the earliest came the week after the Metropolitan Opera said it would not reopen ... More | | 
A picture taken on June 10, 2020 shows the defaced statue of King Leopold II of Belgium in Brussels. Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP.
by Monika Pronczuk and Mihir Zaveri
BRUSSELS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A 150-year-old statue of King Leopold II of Belgium, whose forces seized Congo in the late 19th century and ran an exploitative regime that led to the deaths of millions, was removed from a public square in Antwerp on Tuesday, as protests against racism continued around the world. It was a striking moment for a country that has struggled, at times, to reckon with one of the most sordid eras in the history of European colonialism. For decades, many Belgians were taught that the country had brought civilization to the African region, and some have defended Leopold as a foundational figure. Streets and parks are named after him, and statues of the king can be found throughout the country. Yet there has been growing pressure in recent years, particularly from younger Belgians, ... More |
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| | Friday June 12th: Reopening of Centre Pompidou-Metz, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year | | Deana Lawson now represented by David Kordansky Gallery | | Cynthia Navaretta, art critic, curator, publisher, art collector, architectural engineer dies at age 97 | 
Giuseppe Penone, ndistinti confini - Noce [Frontières indistinctes - Noyer], 2020.
METZ.- From June 12th, the public will be able to discover the exhibition Folklore, Susanna Fritschers immersive installation Flickering, and the monumental sculpture Indistinti confini Noce, by Giuseppe Penone. The reopening exhibitions: The new thematic exhibition Folklore, presented until October 4th in Gallery 2, recounts the relationships, sometimes ambiguous, that artists nurture with folklore in Europe. Conceived by the Centre Pompidou-Metz in collaboration with the Mucem (Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations), this exhibition offers an unprecedented look at the courses of Paul Gauguin, Vassily Kandinsky, Constantin Brâncuși and Natalia Gontcharova, for an encounter between the history of art and the history of human sciences. Artist Susanna Fritscher transforms Gallery 3 into an intangible landscape, emptied of its walls, with a breathtaking ... More | | 
Deana Lawson, Self-Portrait, 2013. Pigment print, courtesy of the artist, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery announces its representation of Deana Lawson. Lawson makes photographs that explore the black familiar and its relationship to lore, global histories, and mystery traditions. She transforms observational picture-making into a powerful mode of expression, critique, and celebration. Romance and intimacy between subjects, as well as ritual and spirituality, appear throughout Lawsons work, often within the same image. Her photographs emphasize formal approaches to film commonly associated with both Western and African 20th-century portraiture practices, in addition to appropriation and uses of vernacular imagery. Lawson engages her subjects with intention and intuition alike, in staged situations characterized by the piercing directness of the models gaze. With their meticulous ... More | | 
Cynthias friends included Jackson Pollock, Harold Rosenberg, Lee Krasner, Milton Resnick, Milton Avery, Franz Kline, the De Koonings, among others.
NEW YORK, NY.- In her mid-twenties Cynthia Navaretta was immersed in the New York art scene from the early days of the New York School and the influential 8th Street Club (one of only 6 female members!) before she married Emanuel Navaretta, artist, poet, critic, professor and roommate of Franz Kline in 1950. Cynthias friends and neighbors in New York and Long Island (Springs in the Hamptons) included Jackson Pollock, Harold Rosenberg, Lee Krasner, Milton Resnick, Milton Avery, Franz Kline, the De Koonings (Elaine and Willem) Ibram Lassaw, David Smith, Phillip Pavia, , Pat Passlof, Hans Hofmann, and June Wayne, Judy Chicago, Agnes Martin, Susan Schwalb from other parts of the country plus a long list of other art legends. In 1974, she was a founding steering committee member of Artists Talk On Art, the art world's ... More |
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 19th-century French commode leads Heritage Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction above $1.3 millionDALLAS, TX.- A rare French commode sold for $45,000 to lead Heritage Auctions May 28 Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts Signature Auction to $1,342,485 in total sales. This auction merged several notable private collections, as well as a stellar assortment of individual lots that sparked excitement, Heritage Auctions Silver and Decorative Arts Director Karen Rigdon said. When that happens, results like this are possible. It was an exciting day! Bidding on many lots far exceeded our expectations. A French Gilt Bronze and Jasperware Plaque-Mounted Mahogany Commode à Vantaux after the Model by Joseph Stöckel and Guillaume Benneman Attributed to Francois Linke, late 19th century nearly quadrupled its high estimate to claim top-lot honors. The commode, from the Collection of Virginia Cook, of Dallas, Texas, has three drawers ... More Novel gives voice to physically challenged children whose animal familiars help them to survive LONDON.- First time author Nikki Turner says: My reasons for writing the book were extremely personal. My eldest daughter has ADHD and my youngest is hearing impaired. I want my girls to read books in which differently-abled characters deal with and overcome the same challenges they face daily. I believe we sorely need more diversity in fantasy. This stunning new fantasy novel was written in the old world but has emerged into the horror of our new world beset by Coronavirus, a carrion-land of our own. As such, it bears a potent message for our time and the future. Man, disabled by his own greed and blindness, needs to partner once more with nature and wild animals to find salvation. It is already winning five star literary reviews from respected writers and playwrights, Dawn Hosmer, American Author of Bits & Pieces, The End Of Echoes, Something ... More The Museum of Craft and Design announces Design by Distance, a virtual exhibition SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Museum of Craft and Design presents Design by Distance, a virtual exhibition available to the public online through December 31, 2020. This exhibition showcases how designers from around the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic through the development of objects, garments, accessories, and space planning. Curated by Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox of c2-curatorsquared, Design by Distance highlights designers who are proposing new forms. These proposals, some meant for production, others speculative, offer commentary on the range of needs and emotions elicited by facing a pandemic. Humor and satire, albeit of a gallows sort, results in masks, emoji sets, and mechanisms for maintaining social distance, a term that has become part of a collective cultural zeitgeist nearly overnight. Fox ... More Lyman Allyn Art Museum Readies Galleries to reopen on June 30 for a summer of free admissionNEW LONDON, CT.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is gearing up to reopen and welcome visitors back on Tuesday, June 30 at 10:00 am. This preliminary plan is designed to be consistent with the Connecticut State guidelines for the second phase of the reopening strategy. To celebrate the return of visitors and to share its love of the arts with the community, the Lyman Allyn will be open for free to all guests all summer long, through Labor Day. We have been looking forward to throwing open our doors and greeting visitors once again with great anticipation, said Sam Quigley, Director. We have been working diligently and following state guidelines in making changes throughout the Museum to ensure that visitors feel safe when they visit. Closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic since mid-March, the staff of the museum has been preparing ... More The Michener Art Museum board of trustees names Kate Quinn as new Executive DirectorDOYLESTOWN, PA.- The Michener Art Museum Board of Trustees announced that Kate Quinn will become the Museums next Executive Director on July 20, 2020. Ms. Quinn comes to the Michener from the Penn Museum in Philadelphia where she served as Director of Exhibitions and Special Programs and as a member of the Executive Team that oversees all institutional planning and operations. At the Penn Museum, she led the planning and implementation for special exhibitions, public programs, and special events and directed many new gallery projects, including new Africa Galleries and the Mexico and Central America Gallery, which opened in November 2019 and was part of an $80M institutional transformation project. From 2008 to 2020, Ms. Quinn directed the Penn Museums most memorable marquee special exhibitions, including Secrets ... More Rare items signed by many of history's brightest luminaries to be offered at auctionWESTPORT, CONN.- Items signed by Marilyn Monroe, Abraham Lincoln, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bob Dylan, the three Apollo XI astronauts, Robert Hooke and many more of historys brightest luminaries will come up for bid in an online-only Rare Books, Manuscripts & Relics auction Including Forbes and Kerouac slated for Wednesday, June 24th, by University Archives, beginning at 10:30 am Eastern time. The full catalog, showing all 276 lots, is up and online for bidding and viewing now, at the newly revamped University Archives website, as well as the platforms LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Auctionzip.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. The sale comes on the heels of a June 10th auction dedicated entirely to Kennedy items. Our June 24th auction offers a fantastic buying opportunity for general collectors, as well as specialized ... More As Italy reopens, tour guides plead for more aid, and touristsROME (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A few dozen black-clothed tour guides and tour organizers recently twirled white umbrellas to the tune of Singing in the Rain outside the Pantheon, one of Romes greatest tourist attractions. The problem was, there were very few tourists. The Pantheon, an ancient Roman temple, was among a wave of attractions across Italy that reopened this month after the coronavirus lockdown. The flash mob of guides and organizers was one of several similar events held in various Italian cities this week to draw attention to the severe problems caused after tourism usually a lifeline was paralyzed by the pandemic. In the days after some of the first lockdown restrictions were lifted, Italians relished the empty streets, rediscovering city monuments and museums that they would normally avoid because of long lines. ... More The Dalà will reopen to the public July 1 with new hours and safety procedures ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Dalà Museum will reopen soon with new procedures in place designed to protect the health and safety of visitors, volunteers, members and staff. The Museum will reopen to members only June 24-28 and to the general public on July 1. Following the unprecedented closure and challenges that the pandemic brought for the Museum and the community, The DalÃs goal in reopening is to provide solace, inspire reflection and create connections. We believe the arts are a tool for transformation. They can bring together a community, help us reimagine it, and arm us with the will to make it better, said Dr. Hank Hine, executive director of the Museum. The Dalà can serve as an essential part of the healing of our region. When the Museum reopens, two new exhibits will be on view. DalÃs Sacred Science: Religion and Mysticism ... More Poets criticize Poetry Foundation's statement on Black Lives MatterNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- More than 1,800 people have signed on to an open letter criticizing the Poetry Foundations response to the protests sweeping the United States, pledging not to work with the organization until it meets demands that range from replacing its president and board chairman to redirecting funds to anti-racism efforts. The Chicago-based foundation is one of the nations wealthiest literary organizations, with an endowment that exceeds $250 million. The letter, posted online over the weekend, was issued by 30 poets connected with the foundation, including Ocean Vuong, Eve Ewing and Danez Smith. It was prompted by a brief, four-sentence statement the foundation issued June 3, expressing solidarity with the Black community and declaring faith in the strength and power of poetry to uplift in times ... More The gentle, brilliant bros of French baroque musicNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- There is no real body of music for a lute and harpsichord duo. But from the first time they played together, Jean Rondeau and Thomas Dunford were a natural fit, weaving around each other gently yet exuberantly. The pricks of harpsichord (Rondeau) and the strum of lute (Dunford) glinted and blended, as if different colors of a single instrument. Its very rare that you find someone, where you become one person when you play, Dunford, 32, said of Rondeau, 29, when both joined a Zoom call recently from their respective homes in France. The first recorded product of their collaboration is out now on the Erato label: Barricades, an assured yet probing collection of French baroque music by famous composers (Couperin, Charpentier, Rameau, Marin Marais) and those less so (Antoine Forqueray, Robert ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Constable was born June 11, 1776. John Constable, RA (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home --- now known as "Constable Country" --- which he invested with an intensity of affection. In this image: A Sea Beach - Brighton estimated at £400,000 - 600,000. Photo: Bonhams.
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