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Count Basie (inset) and Jazz Singer Deborah Silver.
NEW YORK, NY.- Legendary bandleader Count Basie would have turned 120 in August, while the Count Basie Orchestra lives on, having just won the 2024 Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble. In a collaboration with the Count Basie Orchestra, acclaimed two-time #1 Billboard chart-topping Jazz singer Deborah Silver is now gearing up for the early 2025 release of her new album Basie Rocks!, produced by Rolling Stones drummer extraordinaire Steve Jordan. BASIE ROCKS! re-imagines timeless Rock classics from artists including ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view Philipp Fleischmann. Flashes of Resilience, Salzburger Kunstverein 2024, photo: kunst-dokumentation.
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| Opening 6 September at Sperone Westwater: 'Amy Lincoln: On the Strangest Sea' | | Milestone's Aug. 24 auction features estate collection of rare Schucos, other fine antique toys | | Japan for kids: Pikachu is just the start |
Overlapping Waves and Clouds (Green, Blue & Pink), 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater will present On the Strangest Sea, a new suite of 12 paintings by Amy Lincoln. Expanding her signature swaths of color to a larger, more immersive scale, these new paintings exude an inner light through gradation. Though Lincoln utilizes familiar subject matter, the paintings in this series are less likely to evoke recognizable landscapes than to transport the viewer into another realm. In Overlapping Waves and Clouds (Green, Blue & Pink), 2024, shades of periwinkle, moss green, lavender ... More | |
Schuco Germany Yes No mohair French bulldog in working order. All-original condition. Height: 7½in. Estimate: $800-$1,000. Photo: Courtesy of Milestone Auctions.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO .- One of the worlds finest and most-complete assemblages of antique and vintage Schuco toys the estate collection of the late Winton Wint Johnson (1937-2022) will headline Milestones August 24 Premier Toy Auction. Alongside the blue-ribbon Schucos are Wints other prized holdings: Japanese toy boats and prototypes, toy outboard motors (some boxed), pre-WWII airplanes, and English clockwork ... More | |
The kaleidoscopic teamLab Borderless space in Tokyo. Japan, the birthplace of anime, manga and, of course, Pokémon, has child-friendly attractions at every turn. (via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Japanese cities, like Tokyo and Kyoto, are traditionally known for shrines, temples and historic cultural sites. But as the birthplace of animé, manga and, of course, Pokémon, Japan is also a pop culture powerhouse and a hotbed of kid-friendly activities, from practicing ninja skills to spending time with Snorlax. For a family trip, the beauty of Japan is you can walk five steps and easily attract the attention ... More |
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| Fondazione Prada, Milan announces Meriem Bennani: "For My Best Family" | | Bharti Kher to launch monumental new commission | | Landmark exhibition exploring modern Haitian art and its influences to open at National Gallery of Art |
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MILAN.- For My Best Family, a new exhibition project conceived by artist Meriem Bennani and commissioned by Fondazione Prada, will be on view in its Milan venue from 31 October 2024 to 24 February 2025 (Press Preview on 30 October 2024). Meriem Bennani (Morocco, 1988) explores the potential of storytelling while amplifying reality through a strategy of magical realism and humor, juxtaposing and mixing the language of YouTube videos, reality TV, documentaries, phone footage, animation, and ... More | |
Bharti Kher, Photo: Jeetin Sharma. Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth.
LONDON.- From Thursday 12 September 2024, the Hayward Gallery will present Target Queen, a mesmerising and colourful large-scale new commission by British-Indian artist Bharti Kher. Marking the first time that Khers ambitious outdoor work has been presented by a London institution, Target Queen will be positioned across the Hayward Gallerys eastern and southern facades, celebrating and playfully interacting with the iconic architecture and cultural playground of the ... More | |
Andre Pierre, Mambo, early 1960s. Oil on fiberboard, unframed: 25.4 x 20.32 cm (10 x 8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Gift of Kay and Roderick Heller.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Foregrounding Haitis significance as the worlds first free Black republic, Spirit & Strength: Modern Art from Haiti presents some of the most prominent artists to have lived or worked there over the past century. Featuring paintings by trailblazing Haitian artists like Rigaud Benoit, Hector Hyppolite, and Philomé Obin, Spirit & Strength also includes works by renowned contemporary artists Myrlande Constant ... More |
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| An Olympics scene draws scorn. Did it really parody 'The Last Supper'? | | Pace to open an exhibition of new paintings by Torkwase Dyson | | The Kunstmuseum Bern to open the major retrospective Chaïm Soutine: Against the Current |
Athletes from Montenegro, left, and Mongolia in the Parade of Nations for the Summer Olympics, on the River Sein during the opening ceremonies in Paris, July 26, 2024. (Weiyi Cai/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A performance during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony Friday has drawn criticism from church leaders and conservative politicians for a perceived likeness to Leonardo da Vincis depiction of a biblical scene in The Last Supper, with some calling it a mockery of Christianity. The events planners and organizers have denied that the sequence was inspired by The Last Supper, or that it intended ... More | |
Torkwase Dyson, Touch-Tuning (Bird and Lava), 2024. 24" x 20" x 3 graphite, string, acrylic. © Torkwase Dyson, courtesy Pace Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Pace will present Here, an exhibition of new paintings by Torkwase Dyson at its Los Angeles gallery, as part of the Gettys PST ART: Art & Science Collide Participating Gallery Program. On view from September 14 to October 26, the show will further explore ideas about the environment, architecture, infrastructure, and black space that are central to the artists practice. In her work across painting, sculpture, performance, film, and drawing, Dyson ... More | |
Chaïm Soutine, Glaïeuls, 1919. Oil on canvas, 56 à 46 cm. Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume. Photo: bpk / RMN-Grand Palais / Hervé Lewandowski
BERN.- Between 16 August and 1 December 2024 the Kunstmuseum Bern is devoting the major retrospective Chaïm Soutine: Against the Current to the painter Chaïm Soutine (18931943). His expressive and vividly coloured paintings address the existential dimension of life and are at the same time a pure artistic experiments. The exhibition has been organised in collaboration with the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- ... More |
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| 130 years after sinking, ship is found on the bottom of Lake Michigan | | $1.55 million Y-Wing model used in 1977's 'Star Wars' leads Heritage's $5.9 million Hollywood blockbuster | | Review: Grand opera makes a comeback with 'Le Prophète' |
The wreckage of the Margaret A. Muir schooner, which had an unusual stepped sternpost construction. Photo: Wisconsin Historical Society.
NEW YORK, NY.- Early on Sept. 30, 1893, the Margaret A. Muir schooner, carrying cargo of bulk salt, cleared the narrow Straits of Mackinac on its way down Lake Michigan toward Chicagos port. As the crew rounded Michigan and steered south, the ship encountered relentless 50 mph winds. For nearly two hours, the Muir braved the strong winds and high waves, which broke over the vessels decks, but eventually the ship was overcome by the storm and ... More | |
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (TCF, 1977), Screen Matched Hero "Gold Leader" / "TIE Killer" Y-wing Starfighter Filming Miniature with Lights.
DALLAS, TX.- The Y-wing that took on the Death Star in 1977s Star Wars took off again Friday at Heritage Auctions, selling for $1.55 million to lead Heritages $5.9 million Hollywood/Entertainment Signature® Auction. Modelmaker Colin Cantwells so-called TIE Killer, given its moniker because of the TIE fighter painted on its nose, was one of only two hero models made for George Lucas space opera. Its most famous for leading the first trench run on the Death Star before Darth ... More | |
The company of Le prophète. Center: Jennifer Feinstein (Fidès) and Robert Watson (Jean de Leyde). Photo by Andy Henderson.
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, NY.- Giacomo Meyerbeer was the toast of Paris in the 19th century. Nowadays, when hes mentioned at all, hes the object of backhanded compliments. The man may not have been a genius, but he was a craftsman, critic Harold C. Schonberg wrote in The New York Times when one of Meyerbeers grand operas, Le Prophète, came to the Metropolitan Opera in 1977. Long on spectacle and long on length, Le Prophète has five acts ... More |
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How 'House of the Dragon' turns fiery fantasy into TV realityNEW YORK, NY.- At the risk of mixing medieval metaphors, dragons are a double-edged sword. For Ryan Condal, co-creator and showrunner of HBOs House of the Dragon, the creatures are key to the shows magic, literally and figuratively. They are the one fantasy element that weve allowed ourselves, he said. In our world, in this period, the magic is these dragons. But they are also death incarnate. Its all metaphor, all allegory for nuclear conflict, Condal said. You take the city with an army if you want it to be standing afterward. You cant do anything surgical with a dragon. The ongoing second season of the Game of Thrones prequel has included more of these beautiful, terrible beasts than any other in the franchise, including spectacular ... More  Know what's funny about getting old? These movies do.NEW YORK, NY.- There are two new films this year in which Academy Award-nominated actresses in their 70s whip out tiny sex toys. In Summer Camp, Kathy Bates offers up wee vibrators to Alfre Woodard and Diane Keaton. In The Fabulous Four, its Bette Midler giving Susan Sarandon a kegel ball that she later flings at a bike thief. You might confuse these comedies with Book Club (2018), where Keaton, again, finds herself in the company of fellow older luminaries (Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen). Or with Poms (2019), which places Keaton on a retirement community cheer squad with Jacki Weaver, Rhea Perlman and Pam Grier. Then, again, theres also 80 for Brady (2023), where Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sally Field and Rita Moreno go to the Super Bowl. Though the circumstances are different, the similarities in plot, casting and themes make the films easy to classify but tough to label. Legendary ladies of cinema do a light r ... More Jill Schary Robinson, who wrote of her Hollywood upbringing, dies at 88NEW YORK, NY.- Jill Schary Robinson, an author and journalist who limned her glittering, complicated Hollywood upbringing in much of her work, beginning with her wry 1963 memoir, With a Cast of Thousands, and who found fame for chronicling Hollywoods darker side a decade later in Bed/Time/Story, died July 19 at her home in Beverly Hills, California. She was 88. Her daughter, Johanna Simmel, confirmed the death. She did not specify the cause. Robinson was the eldest child of Dore Schary, a playwright, screenwriter and studio mogul who was the head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a time. She grew up in an 18-room Tudor-style manor in swanky Brentwood a Hollywood princess chauffeured to birthday parties with all the other Hollywood princesses and princelings, including Jane Fonda (who was an audacious, ... More Remembering firebrand Irish novelist Edna O'BrienNEW YORK, NY.- Decades before Elena Ferrantes Neapolitan novels, Irish writer Edna OBrien who died at 93 July 27 provided her own searing portraits of an oppressive, violent society seen through the prism of female friendship. When we first meet them in 1960s The Country Girls, Kate and Baba are teenagers, dreaming of a future beyond the confines of their rural Irish village and strict convent school. Its sequels Girl With Green Eyes (1962), and the ironically-titled Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964) follow them through their first taste of womanhood in Dublin, then to London, where they struggle to reconcile their romantic fantasies with the frustrations of real marital life. OBrien was 29 when The Country Girls was published, living with two young sons and her then-husband, writer Ernest Gébler, in a small ... More Sinead O'Connor died of pulmonary disease and asthma, death report saysNEW YORK, NY.- Sinead OConnor, the Irish singer who shot to fame in the 1980s and 90s and was known for her activism, died at age 56 last July of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma, according to her death certificate. In January, a coroner in London said OConnor had died of natural causes but did not provide details. Police said at the time of OConnors death that it was not being treated as suspicious. OConnors death certificate, which was registered last week, filled in some gaps. The singer died of exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma together with low-grade lower respiratory-tract infection, the report said. It was submitted by John Reynolds, OConnors first husband. OConnor become a global star in the 1990s with a cover of Princes Nothing Compares ... More Two more New York theaters to share spaceNEW YORK, NY.- In another indication of how postpandemic economics are rattling the nonprofit theater world, the prestigious Soho Rep is giving up its longtime home in TriBeCa and will instead share space with Playwrights Horizons, a midtown Manhattan theater company, while trying to figure out a longer-term plan. The move, prompted by real estate constraints as well as fiscal concerns, comes at the same time that another important New York nonprofit, Second Stage Theater, is leaving its off-Broadway home. That company is now planning to reside, at least temporarily, with Signature Theater, which in recent years has had more space than it can afford to program. The two decampments follow a 2022 decision by Long Wharf Theater, in New Haven, Connecticut, to let go of its waterfront home and become itinerant. Taken together, the transitions are a r ... More The Olympic flame isn't a flame at allPARIS.- The Olympic flame isnt a flame. Well, its sort of a flame. But its not made of fire. Even if it looks a lot like fire. Wait. Let me backtrack. Every Olympic host city has a few basic tasks that force it to straddle the line between acknowledging the tradition of the Games while showing that it is keeping up with the times. Essentially, each new host needs to play the hits but still surprise and delight the listeners. Thats how you end up, for example, with an opening ceremony featuring a nearly nude man on a barge, covered in blue paint and glitter. And thats how you get an Olympic flame thats not a flame at all. A flame that is actually a cloud of mist and beams of light, according to Paris 2024 organizers. That flame (or is it flame?) rests in an enormous cauldron, comprises 40 LED spotlights and 200 misting nozzles and is t ... More James C. Scott, iconoclastic social scientist, dies at 87NEW YORK, NY.- James C. Scott, one of the worlds most widely read social scientists, whose studies on why top-down government schemes of betterment often fail and how marginalized groups subtly undermine authority led to his embrace of anarchism as a political philosophy, died July 19 at his home in Durham, Connecticut. He was 87. His death was announced by Yale University, where Scott was Sterling professor emeritus of political science and where he also taught in the department of anthropology and the school of forestry and environmental studies before retiring in 2022. The author of a shelf of disparate, iconoclastic books, several of them regarded as classics, Scott was one of the great intellectuals of our time, Louis Warren, a history professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a 2021 oral ... More The Estate of William Theophilus Brown joins Paul Thiebaud GallerySAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Paul Thiebaud Gallery announced its representation of the Estate of
William Theophilus Brown (1919-2012). A leading member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, a radical move in painting that pushed back on the dominance of abstract expressionism at the time, Browns career spanned over six decades, with the style of his paintings, drawings, prints, and collages evolving over that period. Brown, along with his life partner and fellow painter, Paul Wonner, lived an equally unconventional life as an openly gay man during the 1950s, when oppression and discrimination were openly espoused in everyday life and enforced under the legal code. While known for being a member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, Browns earliest paintings were heavily influenced ... More Molly Nilsson's synth-pop puts politics front and centerNEW YORK, NY.- Nothing in this world is certain except death and taxes, and Molly Nilsson writes songs about both. The Swedish-born singer began her career making hazy synth-pop tracks, with titles like More Certain Than Death and I Hope You Die, that suggested love and mortality were always intertwined. But, over the past decade, politics has increasingly shaded her work: A Nilsson record might be the only place where references to late capitalism and the trickle-down economy feel perfectly at home in a pop song. Her latest album Un-American Activities features a song about communism thats also an hommage to Madonnas Vogue. Im writing the kind of music that I want to listen to myself, Nilsson said recently in a video interview from Berlin, where she lives. Over her 16-year career, Nilsson, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor Henry Moore was born July 30, 1898. July 30, 1898.- Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 â 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. In this image: English Sculptor Henry Moore stands beside his sculpture "Seated Nude" on display as part of the "Art 70" show in Basel, Switzerland, June 9, 1970. Moore represented Britain in the show.
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