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Visitors inside Dyrham House, an estate featuring a 17th-century mansion near Dyrham, in southwest England on Nov. 23, 2023. Buildings and estates managed by the National Trust are open to the public, offering a glimpse into Britains past. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
DYRHAM, ENGLAND.- A painting in Dyrham House, a grand mansion in southwest England, offers a panoramic view of the port of Bridgetown, Barbados, with sugar plantations dotted along a hillside. In another room are two carved figures depicting kneeling Black men, holding scallop shells overhead. They are chained at the ankles and neck. These works belonged to William Blathwayt, who owned Dyrham in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and, as Britains auditor general of plantation revenues, oversaw the profits that rolled in from the colonies. Explaining the history of a place like Dyrham can be contentious, as the National Trust, the nearly 130-year-old charity ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day 55 Walker (kaufmann repetto, Bortolami Gallery, Andrew Kreps Gallery) opened a solo exhibition of works by Paula Wilson: The Wind Keeps Time. Installation view. Photo: Guang Xu.
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| On July 13, a Carmel Estate goes up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals | | 1945 draft of WWII Japanese 'Instrument of Surrender' leads Quinn's July 16 Rare Book Auction | | Motorheads: Get your kicks at Morphy's high-octane July 11 Automobilia & Petroliana Auction |
A Japanese Gold Crane Motif Ceremonial Kimono. 20th century. Estimate $500-$700.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present a Carmel Estate Auction on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The sale features a diverse and eclectic array of artworks, decorative arts, militaria, sterling and silver items, pens, furniture, Native American pottery, Asian items, and more, primarily from the 19th-21st centuries. Most are from a single estate in Carmel, California; other collections and estates from California are also represented in the auction. ... More | |
First extant draft copy of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender in English, dated Aug. 31, 1945 and stamped 1945 AUG 31 1 20, prior to the official surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan, on Sept. 2, 1945.
FALLS CHURCH, VA.- On July 16, Quinn's Auction Galleries of northern Virginia will present 226 high-quality lots at their Summer Rare Book Auction with a selection that includes signed books, first editions, American manuscripts, fine bindings and much more. The top historical highlight is an August 31, 1945 dated draft of the Japanese ... More | |
Outstanding Mobil Pegasus rotator neon sign comprised of two single-sided figural porcelain neon signs. AGS-certified and graded 83/84. Size: 72in x 15½in x 85in. Estimate: $50,000-$100,000.
DENVER, PA.- America is a land of cars, and from coast to coast there are diehard motorheads collectors of auto, gasoline and oil-related advertising who consider Morphys exciting Automobilia & Petroliana auctions to be their own personal Disneyland. Theyre already checking out the Pennsylvania companys next tempting array of motoring-related collectibles, which will roll across the auction ... More |
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| The Rubik's Cube turns 50 | | Gagosian Paris presents a two-part group exhibition organized in association with the Olympic Museum | | MoMA PS1 presents process-focused exhibition of seven New York-based artists |
Erno Rubik with early Rubiks cube models in Budapest, Hungary, May 22, 2024. (Akos Stiller/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Bright and early on the first Saturday in January, Tomas Rokicki and a few hundred fellow enthusiasts gathered in a vast lecture hall at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. A big math conference was underway and Rokicki, a retired programmer based in Palo Alto, California, had helped organize a two-day special session about serious ... More | |
The Art of the Olympics, 2024, installation view ©︎ 2023 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved; © Marc Newson. Photo: Thomas Lannes. Courtesy Gagosian.
PARIS.- Gagosian is presenting The Art of the Olympics, a two-part group exhibition organized in association with the Olympic Museum to celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024. The gallery at rue de Castiglione features artworks in various mediums that explore sports rich cultural, iconographic, social, and emotional tapestry. ... More | |
Installation view of Hard Ground, on view at MoMA PS1 from May 16 through October 14, 2024. Photo: Adam Reich
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 is presenting Hard Ground, a group exhibition that features work by seven New York-based artists who employ processes of compression, distillation, and subtraction. The presentation provides a snapshot of this underexplored but significant tendency in contemporary art and includes over 40 works whose materials range from limestone and bronze ... More |
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| 16 looks spanning Taylor Swift's eras will go on temporary display this summer at the V&A South Kensington | | 55 Walker opens a solo exhibition of works by Paula Wilson | | Léopold Sédar Senghor's library heading to Senegal |
Taylor Swift on The 1989 World Tour, 2015. Courtesy of TAS Rights Management, LLC.
LONDON.- Today the V&A announced that 16 looks worn by the 14-time Grammy Award winning artist, Taylor Swift, will go on display at V&A South Kensington this summer as part of a free trail celebrating Taylor. Opening Saturday 27 July, Taylor Swift | Songbook Trail will mark the success of Taylors UK tour and celebrate the creativity of her costumes, lyrics and music videos and explore the global phenomena of the pop icon. The costumes will sit alongside instruments, music awards, ... More | |
Paula Wilson, Becoming, 2024. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 162 x 52 in. Courtesy of the artist and 55 Walker: Bortolami New York, kaufmann repetto Milan / New York, Andrew Kreps Gallery New York Photo: Guang Xu.
NEW YORK, NY.- 55 Walker (kaufmann repetto, Bortolami Gallery, Andrew Kreps Gallery) opened a solo exhibition of works by Paula Wilson: The Wind Keeps Time. Paula Wilson is a multimedia artist known for creating works that use collage as a unifying approach, in both material and content. Incorporating print, textile, painting, and ... More | |
Léopold Sédar Senghor: Black Renaissance and Racism [Mezu, S Okechukwu].
NEW YORK, NY.- More than 20 years after the death of Léopold Sédar Senghor the writer, poet and first president of Senegal after the countrys independence from France his name is still generating headlines. In April, a beneficiary of his sister-in-laws estate in Paris auctioned Senghors private library of more than 800 works, including 343 signed books. Worried about preserving his cultural legacy, the Senegalese government stepped in to halt the sale and bought the entire ... More |
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| Gena Rowlands has Alzheimer's decades after 'The Notebook' | | The Museo del Prado is publishing the first two titles in its "Writing the Prado" collection | | Dayton Art Institute opens newly renovated outdoor garden space |
Gena Rowlands arrives on the red carpet with her guest for the 88th Academy Awards ceremony at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Feb. 28, 2016. (Monica Almeida/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Gena Rowlands has Alzheimers disease, a late-life challenge for the Oscar-nominated actor who captivated Hollywood in the 1970s with her performance in A Woman Under the Influence and later portrayed a character with dementia in The Notebook. Rowlands son, Nick Cassavetes, the director of The Notebook, ... More | |
The Museum Guard by J. M. Coetzee
MADRID.- These publications are the result of the first two writers' residencies organised by the Museo Nacional del Prado with the sponsorship of Fundación Loewe and the collaboration of the magazine Granta in Spanish. Among the aims of the residencies is the creation of a short story inspired by the time the authors spent in the museum. The stories will be published by the Museo del Prado in a bilingual (Spanish-English) edition and will be available in the ... More | |
Thanks to a generous donation by Shary and Matt Price, the renovated Velsey Garden opened this spring, giving museum guests an outdoor space to enjoy.
DAYTON, OH.- The Dayton Art Institute (DAI) has announced the completion of renovations for an outdoor garden space in front of the museum, known as the Velsey Garden. The Velsey Garden Project is part of an ongoing list of improvements for the DAI grounds. Funding for the renovations came from Shary and Matt Price. "The Velsey Garden Project has been desired for over a decade," ... More |
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Zimmerli introduces new works by 14 international artists who examine accessibility in the museum worldNEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- This fall, expand your understanding and perception of accessibility through Smoke & Mirrors, opening Sept. 4, 2024, at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick. This major exhibition features the work of 14 artists with disabilities from across the globe who conceptualize access through humor, antagonism, transparency, and invisibility. For the non-disabled museumgoer, visiting an art institution is likely an experience with few obstructions. For visitors with disabilities, however, wayfinding through a museumnot to mention, simply accessing the entranceis challenging. And the barriers are often invisible. Organized by guest curator Dr. Amanda Cachia, a prominent disability arts activist and scholar, this unprecedented exhibition showcases work by artists with disabilities, who are underrepresented ... More Ismail Kadare, 88, dies; His novels brought Albania's plight to the worldNEW YORK, NY.- Ismail Kadare, the Albanian novelist and poet who single-handedly wrote his isolated Balkan homeland onto the map of world literature, creating often dark, allegorical works that obliquely criticized the countrys totalitarian state, died Monday in Tirana, the Albanian capital. He was 88. His death was confirmed by Bujar Hudhri, head of Onufri Publishing House, who was his editor and publisher in Albania. He said that Kadare went into cardiac arrest at his home and died at a hospital. In a literary career that spanned half a century, Kadare wrote scores of books, including novels and collections of poems, short stories and essays. He shot to international fame in 1970 when his first novel, The General of the Dead Army, was translated into French. European critics hailed it as a masterpiece. Kadares name was floated several times for the Nobel Prize in literature, ... More SculptureCenter hands over the lower level gallery to Alexa WestLONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- From July to mid-August, artist, dancer, and choreographer Alexa West shifts the static nature of the exhibition space into an active areaan open creative process that the public is invited to observe and engage with. Trained in the Martha Graham technique and sculpture, both areas influence her practice, which is currently centered on performance and choreography. Smoothly merging her interests in movement and three-dimensional forms, at SculptureCenter she focuses on creating a new work. At various moments during the week, West prepares costumes, drafts a score, builds props, and rehearses with dancers. While the finalized performances structure and presentation are yet to be determined, this project focuses on the stage of development. Wests work in production reinterprets choreographer ... More A new installation by Daniel Otero Torres celebrates the unsung heroes of environmental activismMANCHESTER, NH.- The Currier Museum of Art announces Sonidos del Crepúsculo (Twilight Sounds), the first exhibition at a US institution of the work of Paris-based Daniel Otero Torres (b. 1985, Colombia) opening on July 14. Featuring new work expressly created for the show, the artist will also present his first-ever video Green Manifesto: Transformation Through Leaves (2024) and intersperse his work with a selection of paintings from the Curriers own collection that reference nature and ecology. Sonidos del Crepúsculo (Twilight Sounds) is an ode to the unsung heroes of environmental protection, and centers on the artists ongoing interest in rural and peripheral communities, power structures, and collective participation. For his exhibition at the Currier, Otero Torres is utilizing his signature drawings on aluminum and steel to create ... More Shania Twain, officially a 'Legend'PILTON, ENGLAND.- On a recent Friday, Shania Twain rode a horse through rural terrain in Alberta, Canada, helping a neighbor relocate a herd of Angus cattle. As cows mooed loudly around her, the country-pop star multitasked, chatting on the phone about prepping for an appearance on a famous field an ocean away. Twain recalled how she started to perform at age 8 in smoky bars where drunk men would sometimes heckle her. As a result, she developed stage fright and hated being in the spotlight until she was about 50, she said, so the idea of performing for more than 200,000 revelers at Britains biggest music festival would have been anxiety inducing. But on Sunday afternoon, Twain, now 58, walked onstage at the Glastonbury Festival and did just that. Accompanied by a herd of equines (giant hobby horses, this time), Twain ... More The broad appeal of the Elsa dressNEW YORK, NY.- Dressing up as Elsa, the blond queen with magical powers from Disneys animated film Frozen, wasnt necessarily Jeff Hemmigs idea of a good time. It was well outside of my comfort zone, Hemmig, 43, said. But he knew it would make his son, Jace, happy. So Hemmig, who lives in Killingly, Connecticut, squeezed his shoulders into a dress his mom made for him, which matched an Elsa costume she had made for her grandson. Hemmig then performed a rendition of Let It Go, choreography and all, as Jace watched. He loved it, Hemmig said. He was filled with joy. Hemmig wasnt thrilled about wearing the dress: He said it was tight in the armpits and it made him feel vulnerable. But he loved how it delighted his son, then 3. Seeing Dad do it, too, felt like a big moment, Hemmig said. ... More Betty Boop time travels to New York, and Broadway, next springNEW YORK, NY.- A long-in-the-works musical about Betty Boop, a curvy flapper first featured in animated films of the 1930s, will open on Broadway next spring following a run in Chicago last year. BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical has some thematic echoes of last years Barbie movie, although it was in the works before that film came along. The stage production imagines that Boop leaves her early-20th-century film life to travel to present-day New York, where musical comedy ensues. (Her first stop: Comic-Con.) The show was staged late last year at the CIBC Theater in Chicago, where The Chicago Tribune gave it an encouraging review (there is a great deal to like, and much more work still to be done, wrote critic Chris Jones). The Broadway production is to open next April at a theater operated by the Shubert Organization, according ... More Former Victorian printworks converted into 'an amazing place to study Art'EDINBURGH.- Leith School of Art is opening a superb new campus which will be the base for its acclaimed Foundation Course. The one-year course is recognised by students as the passport to art degree programmes of their choice. LSA is also renowned for its outreach in areas of multiple deprivation and the opportunities it offers people with artistic talent who wouldnt otherwise be able to access art courses and tuition. The spacious new Albion Road Campus will be ready for this Septembers intake of Art and Design Foundation Diploma students and will also host an expanded One Day Painting Course. LSA is also working with the SQA to credit rate the Schools Art and Design Foundation Course at an SCQF Level 7 from September 2024. This advanced level is equivalent to completion of the first year of a Scottish university degree, enabling ... More National Portrait Gallery acquires earliest known photograph of a US First LadyWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery announced today that it has acquired the earliest known photograph of a U.S. First Lady for its permanent collection. Likely dating from 1846, the recently rediscovered photograph of former First Lady Dolley Madison is a unique quarter-plate daguerreotype by John Plumbe Jr. The new acquisition joins the first known photograph of a U.S. Presidentan 1843 daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams by Philip ... More Somerset House to open an exhibition exploring the joy, friendship, resistance and art of Black LGBTQ+ people in BritainLONDON.- This autumn, in Making a rukus! , Somerset House invites visitors to explore the playful, radical and disruptive world of the rukus! federation, an art project and living archive exploring contemporary Black LGBTQ+ cultural and political history. The brand-new exhibition, curated by artist, filmmaker and co-founder of rukus! federation, Topher Campbell, explores Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans creativity, activism, community and pride through archive materials, contemporary artworks and brand-new commissions, celebrating the work of Black LGBTQ+ pioneers and artists since the 1970s. The exhibition demonstrates that the rukus! archive, which takes its inspiration from causing a ruckus, ... More 'Robeson' illuminates a titanic artist and activistNEW YORK, NY.- God gave me the voice that people want to hear, Paul Robeson, the great African American singer, actor and activist, told Black newspaper The New York Age in a 1949 interview. Aware of his powers and obliged by his influence, Robeson inserted himself into an incredibly fraught moment in U.S. history. His powerful advocacy for the rights of Black and working-class Americans made him a hero, but his political leanings put him at odds with the prevailing anti-Communist forces in Congress, which eventually impeded his career. Robesons fame was global, however, and he had plenty of opportunities abroad until his U.S. passport was revoked because he would not disavow membership in the Communist Party in writing. He landed before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956, and although he was unafraid ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian sculptor and architect Jacopo Sansovino was born July 02, 1486. Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 - 27 November 1570) was an Italian sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity. Giorgio Vasari uniquely printed his Vita of Sansovino separately.
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