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Sarah Graham, the head of conservation of the Public Records Office Northern Ireland, shows the leather used in preserving the binding of a 15th-century book, in Belfast on Dec. 12, 2023. A globe-spanning research project has turned the catalog of a public archive destroyed in Irelands civil war into a model for reconstruction. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times)
DUBLIN.- In the first pitched battle of the civil war that shaped a newly independent Ireland, seven centuries of history burned. On June 30, 1922, forces for and against an accommodation with Britain, Irelands former colonial ruler, had been fighting for three days around Dublins main court complex. The national Public Record Office was part of the complex, and that day it was caught in a colossal explosion. The blast and the resulting fire destroyed state secrets, church records, property deeds, tax receipts, legal documents, financial data, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A large outdoor facade could cost six figures, Charlotte Specht of Basa Studio said. Brands, developers and even city officials are embracing the global appeal of street art, but the boom comes with questions about preserving a neighborhoodâs cultural cachet. (Patrick Junker/The New York Times)
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| Monumental Baroque altarpiece comes to Raclin Murphy Museum of Art | | Once upon a time, the world of picture books came to life | | A book found in a Cairo market launched a 30-year quest: Who was the writer? |
Carlo Maratti (Italian, 16251713), The Birth of the Virgin, ca. 1684. Oil on canvas, 100 x 62 5/8 in. (254 x 159 cm) On Loan from the Cummins Collection L2024.001
NOTRE DAME, IN.- The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art announced the arrival and installation of a major altarpiece, The Birth of the Virgin, by the Italian Baroque painter Carlo Maratti. The painting is a long-term loan from the Cummins family. Originally ... More | |
Pete Cowdin, who with his wife, Deb Pettid, founded The Rabbit Hole, in the offices of the childrens literature museum in Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 7, 2023. (Chase Castor/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- On a crisp Saturday morning that screamed for adventure, a former tin can factory in North Kansas City, Missouri, thrummed with the sound of young people climbing, sliding, spinning, jumping, exploring and reading. Yes, reading. ... More | |
Iman Mersal in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, March 22, 2024. (Amber Bracken/The New York Times)
RABAT.- Crouching over piles of books in a market stall in Cairo one day in the fall of 1993, Iman Mersal stumbled upon a slim volume with a gray cover and a catchy title: Love and Silence. Mersal, who was then a graduate student, thought the author might be related to a novelist and prominent anticolonial figure, Latifa al-Zayyat. She ... More |
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| 'Oppenheimer' opens in nuclear-scarred Japan, 8 months after U.S. premiere | | Tate Britain Commission 2024: Alvaro Barrington | | Peter Brown, one of the Beatles' closest confidants, tells all (again) |
Kana Miyoshi in Hiroshima, Japan, with a photo of her grandmother Yoshie Miyoshi, who survived the 1945 atomic bombing there, on May 25, 2016. (Adam Dean/The New York Times)
TOKYO.- Watching Oppenheimer, the Oscar-winning biopic about the father of the atomic bomb that opened in Japan on Friday, Kako Okuno was stunned by a scene in which scientists celebrated the explosion over Hiroshima with thunderous foot stomping and the waving of American flags. Seeing the jubilant faces really ... More | |
Alvaro Barrington, Lady sing small @proud Mary bottom up, 2022. Acrylic and yarn on burlap in wooden frame, broom dipped in concrete, 191 x 121 x 23 cm © Alvaro Barrington, courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul. Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi.
LONDON.- Alvaro Barrington (b.1983, Venezuela) will be the next artist to undertake the annual Tate Britain Commission. On 29 May, Barrington will unveil a major new work addressing themes of place and belonging in the grand neo-classical ... More | |
Peter Brown at home in New York, March 20, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Brown stood in his spacious Central Park West apartment, pointing first at the dining table and then through the window to the park outside, with Strawberry Fields just to the right. John sat at that table looking through here, Brown said, and he couldnt take his eyes off the park. Thats John as in Lennon. And the story of the former Beatle coveting this living-room view in 1971 and how Lennon ... More |
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| Mitchell-Innes & Nash open their first solo exhibition with Yirui Jia | | Are you a pop culture-obsessed weirdo? Try Night Flight Plus. | | The Belvedere presents Tamuna Sirbiladze's first comprehensive retrospective |
Yirui Jia, Ballad of the Summer, 2023 Acrylic, glitter and glassine paper on canvas, 92 1/2 by 70 7/8 in. 235 by 180 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash is presenting their first solo exhibition with Yirui Jia on view from March 14 to April 20, 2024. Featuring ten new paintings and one sculpture, the show introduces prominent themes from the artists surreal world through two new series: Bouquet Body and Emotional ... More | |
If youve got six bucks and want to be adventurous, try this streaming service for some wild fringe programming.
NEW YORK, NY.- As we continue spotlighting lesser-known but worthwhile streaming services, we turn our attention to a name that will mean much to a certain type of Gen-Xer: Night Flight Plus. For those too young to remember (or too old to care), Night Flight was a late-night mainstay ... More | |
Tamuna Sirbiladze, Making a Last Appeal, 2014. Private collection. Photo: Nathan Murrell © Tamuna Sirbiladze.
VIENNA.- In a career that spans around three decades, Tamuna Sirbiladze (19712016) undertakes an uncompromising and insistent inquiry into the potentials of painting. Eight years after her death, the Belvedere presents the Georgian-Austrian artists first comprehensive retrospective, ... More |
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| Rhana Devenport announces end of tenure at AGSA after six years of artistic success | | Strawser Auction Group to offer The Fortunoff Collection, April 23rd | | Julien's Auctions expands senior leadership team |
Art Gallery of South Australia Director, Rhana Devenport ONZM, with Motorbike Paddys work Amaroo Station, Photo: Saul Steed.
ADELAIDE.- Art Gallery of South Australia Director Rhana Devenport ONZM has announced she will leave the Gallery on 7 July after six years. She will be returning to Sydney and looks forward to embarking on a series of new international and national projects. It has been an honour and privilege to have led AGSA for the past six years through many successes and some significant challenges, managing a ... More | |
Mintons Aesthetic Movement amphora vase, circa 1865, designed by Christopher Dresser, the white ground amphora body decorated with a panel of stylized flowers, in a turquoise enameled fixed stand (est. $250-$350).
WOLCOTTVILLE, IND.- Anyone who grew up in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area will recognize the name Fortunoff, the high-end retailer of housewares, silverware, lighting fixtures and jewelry. Few are probably aware, however, that the matriarch of the Fortunoff family, Helene Fortunoff (1933-2021), was a passionate collector ... More | |
Erica Ollwerther previously worked at Sothebys as Senior Vice President of Global Product Management, managing the creation and implementation of core technologies underpinning global digital auctions and the Buy Now marketplace business.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions today announced a series of additions to its senior leadership, bringing in highly experienced executives to work alongside Darren Julien and Martin Nolan and their team, to build on Julien's Auctions success as the world's leading music, entertainment and Hollywood auction house and further expand the business. ... More |
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GRIMM announces international representation of Rafał Topolewski
AMSTERDAM.- GRIMM announced the international representation of Polish artist Rafał Topolewski in collaboration with Alice Amati in London (UK). Drawing on dreams and memories imbued with an architectural sense of depth and balance, Topolewskis work captures the liminal space between waking and sleeping. Barbed botanical subjects creep across the canvas, clock faces dissolve into landscapes, and vacant, glassy-eyed faces evoke the disjointed logic of the dream, balancing abstraction with a deft figurative approach. This fusion of fragmented objects with a softly muted palette and hazy, stippled brushstrokes creates the uncanny atmosphere unique to Topolewskis work. The artists first exhibition with GRIMM in Amsterdam (NL), Slumber, continues until 6 April 2024. His work will also be featured in the upcoming g ... More
Siân Davey: The Garden - Soho Photography Quarter and new book now open until 29 November
LONDON.- The Garden by Siân Davey is now open in a free outdoor exhibition in Soho Photography Quarter, just outside The Photographers Gallery. A new book, The Garden by Siân Davey, is published on 9 April 2024 by Trolley Books, £50 www.trolleybooks.com Starting in 2020, British photographer Siân Davey transformed her abandoned garden over three summers into a vibrant space, filled with wildflowers, birdsong and people. Together with her son, Luke, Davey cultivated a space rooted in love. They researched native flowers and encouraged biodiversity, sourcing seeds and plants locally. When the flowers bloomed, they called in the community. Everyone had a place in The Garden; the mothers and daughters, the lonely, the marginalised, lovers, the traumatised and heartbroken and those that had concealed ... More
Norman Rockwell Museum announces curatorial hires
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Norman Rockwell Museum has added two highly experienced museum professionals to its curatorial team. These new curatorial leaders will help further grow and innovate the Museums exhibitions and collections mission, as well as returning the Museums curatorial staff to pre-pandemic levels and managing the relaunch of its successful traveling exhibitions program. Seth Fogelman, formerly the Senior Exhibitions Manager and Registrar at the Whitney Museum of American Art, joins Norman Rockwell Museum as Chief of Curatorial Affairs. In this newly created position, Fogelman will advance the administration of exhibitions, collections, traveling exhibitions, collections management space planning, and digital collections management for the future needs of the Museum. Jane Dini, PhD, most recently the Andrew ... More
5 new hotels where the past meets the present
NEW YORK, NY.- When is a hotel more than a place to sleep? When its in a building with a storied past, allowing guests to go back in time to the Gilded Age or Edwardian era as easily as they go to the gym or spa. Nowadays you can check into a 17th-century former soap factory on the French Riviera, or part of the Old War Office in London, or a Renaissance-palazzo-style building that was once a bank in New York. Here are five new hotels in historic spaces where you can experience the past and present, delighting in the architecture of vanished days even as you indulge in the latest luxuries. This seaside respite on the Côte dAzur was once a 17th-century soap factory yet looks like a castle thanks to a Scottish lord who, in the early 1900s, added turrets and crenelated ramparts. Near the Massif de lEstérel mountain range, the property ... More
New "happiness series" at Jupiter Artland to take place this spring and summer
EDINBURGH.- A season of events, activities and workshops which celebrate creativity and inspire hope, lightness and joy will open the new season at Jupiter Artland this week. The Happiness Series creates moments for escape and dreaming together in the beautiful Jupiter Artland landscape. Nicky Wilson, Founder and Director, Jupiter Artland, said, We are delighted to open our 2024 programme with such a range of joyful events and exhibitions ahead. Experience luscious and textured paintings and sculptures, relax with a wild swim, or join for one of our workshops set to take place in the artland we look forward to welcoming you this season Included are peaceful explorations of nature using sound, movement and meditation, to playful and imaginative creative activities. Take part in a laughter workshop or try out yoga with the ... More
Artpace announces 2024 newest leaders
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio announced the newest Manager of Communications and Manager of Residencies and Exhibitions. Ada Smith Genitempo, former Archives and Programs Associate at Artpace has been recently appointed as the new Residencies and Exhibitions Manager. Born in San Antonio and raised in the Texas Hill Country, Ada earned a BFA in Studio Art and Photography from the University of Arizona. She has held positions at the Judd Foundation, Marfa, TX and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ. Ada serves on the San Antonio Arts Commissions Public Art Committee. My aim is to support emerging artists and the individuals that continue to foster accessible and inspiring art spaces for the cultural community. Elena Hernandez-Peña is the newest addition to Artpace acting as the ... More
Don Winslow is ready to trade his pen for a protest sign
NEW YORK, NY.- Like the cops, crooks and gangland toughs who populate his books, Don Winslow has something of a street fighters mentality. Winslow grew up in Rhode Island during the New England gang wars of the 1960s, and had local mafia types as part of the fabric of his childhood. After college, while working as a private investigator in New York City, one of his jobs was to act as bait for potential muggers then fend for himself until a larger associate could step in, hopefully before I got too beat up, he said. Winslows familiarity with the grittier side of life has served him well. Over a 33-year span hes published more than 20 crime fiction novels, many of which have become bestsellers or been adapted for film and TV. Now, hes turning his attention to something that feels heavier, he said. City in Ruins, the third ... More
1921 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle brings $144,000 to lead Heritage's US Coins Auction above $6.2 million
DALLAS, TX.- A rare 1921 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle, MS62 PCGS sold for $144,000 to lead March 28-31 US Coins Signature® Auction to $6,241,741. The events top lot came after the coin drew 39 bids from among the 2,723 bidders who took part in the sold-out event. This was an exceptional result for an exceptional coin, says Todd Imhof, Executive Vice President at Heritage Auctions. It is a leading condition rarity in the series, and part of what makes it so desirable is the fact that it is one of the few issues from the 1920s that is seen more often in circulated grades than in Mint State. More than a half million were originally minted, but it is believed only 175 remain in existence. This coin is a fantastic addition to any collection. Two coins an 1882 Double Eagle AU58 NGC and a 1915-S Panama-Pacific Round Fifty ... More
A total solar eclipse is coming. Here's what you need to know.
NEW YORK, NY.- Next Monday, North America will experience its second total solar eclipse in seven years. The moon will glide over the surface of our sun, casting a shadow over a swath of Earth below. Along this path, the world will turn dark as night. Skywatchers in Mexico will be the first to see the eclipse on the mainland. From there, the show will slide north, entering the United States through Texas, then proceeding northeast before concluding for most people off the coast of Canada. Why eclipses happen is simple: The moon comes between us and the sun. But they are also complicated. So if youve forgotten all of your eclipse facts, tips and how-tos since 2017, were here to explain it for you. But before we dive in, there is one vital thing to know: It is never safe to look directly at the sun during an eclipse (except for the few moments ... More
Gardens of stone, moss, sand: 4 moments of Zen in Kyoto
NEW YORK, NY.- Once, when the Buddha was asked to preach about a flower he was presented, he instead gazed at it in silence, according to British garden designer Sophie Walker in her book The Japanese Garden. In this spiritual moment, Zen Buddhism was born, inspiring the serene and eternal dry or rock gardens called karesansui. Unlike a garden designed for strolling, which directs visitors along a defined path to take in scenic views and teahouses, a dry garden is viewed while seated on a veranda above, offering the heightened experience of traveling through it in the imagination, revealing its essence in meditation. With rocks artfully placed along expanses of fine gravel raked by monks into ripples representing water, they are sources for contemplation, whether they refer to a specific landscape or are serenely ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, botanist and illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian was born April 02, 1647. Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 - 13 January 1717) was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family. Merian was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly. In this image: Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647 - 1717), Dwarf Caiman and False Coral Snake from The Insects of Suriname, 1719. Hand-colored etching. 87.5 x 53 cm EX.2008.2.14. Universiteitsbibliotheek, Groningen, Netherlands, 699Z. Photo: Dirk Fennema, Haren (Netherlands).
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