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Lionel Mapleson Cylinders, recordings from Lionel Mapleson, an English-born librarian for the Metropolitan Opera, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York on Dec. 19, 2022. The New York Public Library acquired a machine that transfers recordings from wax cylinders a fragile format. Then a batch of cylinders from a Met Opera librarian arrived. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
by Jeremy Gordon
NEW YORK, NY.- The first recording, swathed in sheets of distortion, was nonetheless recognizable as a childs voice small, nervous, encouraged by his father wishing a very Merry Christmas to whoever was listening. The second recording, though still noisy, adequately captured the finale of the second act of Aida, performed by German singer Johanna Gadski at the Metropolitan Opera House in the spring of 1903. And the third recording was the clearest yet: the waltz from Romeo and Juliet, also from the Met, sung by Australian soprano Nellie Melba. Accessed by laptop in a conference room at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the recordings had been excavated and digitized from a much older source: wax cylinders, an audio format popularized in the late 19th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day M+ opened the museumâs first Special Exhibition, Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now. Organised chronologically and thematically, and spanning from Kusamaâs earliest work to her most recent output, Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now features a wide range of paintings, installations, sculptures, drawings, collages, moving images, and archival materials.
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| North Carolina Museum of Art opens reimagined galleries and special exhibition | | mudac features its first major exhibition 'A Chair and You' | | Gladstone Gallery currently showing exhibition 'Shadowrun' by Richard Aldrich | 
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Dancers at the Barre, circa 1900, oil on canvas, 51 1/4 Ã 38 1/2 in., The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1944.
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art opened its newly reimagined collection galleries alongside special exhibition A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. We are thrilled to welcome visitors to a completely reimagined presentation of the Peoples Collection, which we rededicate to the people of North Carolina, said NCMA Director Valerie Hillings. The updated collection galleries showcase broader representation and fresh perspectives through new works of art, interactive installations, and thematic galleries. Visitors will also get to experience another incredible collection through special exhibition A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from The Phillips Collection, which brings great artists like Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and more to Raleigh. A Modern Vision joins two other special exhibitions on view this winter, Start Talking: ... More | | 
Luigi Colani, Poly-COR, 1968. Glass fiber reinforced polyester, Edition de 10, Cor Sitzkomfort, Germany, 78 x 55 x 64 cm. Thierry Barbier-Mueller collection © Patrick Goetelen.
LAUSANNE.- mudac is hosting one of the worlds largest private collections of chairs by artists, designers, and architects. This collection, initiated in the 1990s, is full of original seating designs, and its owner, Thierry Barbier-Mueller, has taken the step of exhibiting it to the public after more than 20 years of secret passion. The presentation of this rich and diversified corpus 211 chairs and 168 designers was entrusted to the famous American director Robert Wilson, who imagined a set design borrowed from the repertoire of performing arts. The quality of this ensemble is unique and goes far beyond the usual typology of chairs: innovative research and formal designs, the use and assembly of experimental materials, and the interplay of scale and function characterise the bountiful collection. To unveil and pay tribute to each of them ... More | | 
Richard Aldrich, Untitled, 2021-2022. Oil and wax on linen, 82 x 53 inches (208.3 x 134.6 cm). Photo: Pierre Le Hors.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone is presenting an exhibition of new works by Richard Aldrich. Through a multifaceted, conceptually-based practice that encompasses painting, sculpture, and drawing, Aldrich defies simple categorization. Here, the artist presents a series of works that continue upon his career-long interest in visualizing immateriality and the processes of perception through the modalities of art and exhibition making. Unlike previous exhibitions, which often brought together a curated selection of works from the past two decades of his career, the focus of this exhibition is a series of the artists recent large-scale paintings made over the last three years. Aldrichs intentionality in this new selection of paintings is immediately recognizable, with each work acting as both art object and, when viewed all together as a complete exhibition, as mirrors through which viewers ... More |
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| New look, pioneering departments... and an 8.3% rise in sale totals at Ewbank's | | Collecting world rocked by discovery of rare, early Star Wars toys still packed in original Kenner factory cartons | | A new puzzle turns Earth into a Rubik's Cube, but more complex | 
A replica From Russia with Love James Bond attaché case sold for £20,800 in February.
WOKING.- Ewbanks has posted an 8.3% rise in auction hammer totals to take £4.6 million for 2022 a year that also saw the auction house register an almost 10 per cent rise in its average lot price. The firm launched new sales, fresh sales formats, a new department and even a redesigned website across a 12-month period that continued to prove challenging because of the ongoing effects of the pandemic, Brexit and rising costs. We said at the beginning of the year that being versatile and quick to take up opportunities would be the twin keys to success for auction houses moving forwards, and that has proved to be the case, said partner Andrew Ewbank. As well as building important disciplines like classic cars, we have capitalised further on our leading position as entertainment and sporting memorabilia specialists, staging healthy sales of trading cards and launching what we believe is the first ... More | | 
Star Wars 12C Luke Skywalker DT with double-telescoping lightsaber, mint on card. Estimate $10,000-$20,000.
DENVER, PA.- Just when Star Wars collectors thought they had seen it all, along came The Morphy Find. Thats the name that has been given to a recently unveiled trove of rare, high-condition Star Wars toys that sat undisturbed in original Kenner shipping cartons, largely forgotten, since the 1970s/80s. The collection surfaced as most legendary discoveries do unexpectedly. Its pristine contents had been stored in a closet, out of sight and out of mind, by an Illinois gentleman who is a collector of antique coin-op machines. Although he had never bought from or sold through Morphy Auctions, the toys owner was a longtime friend of Morphys CEO, Tom Tolworthy. The two had known each other for 35+ years through their mutual interest in antique coin-op machines, but until last spring, the subject of Star Wars toys had never once come up ... More | | 
Henry Segerman, a British American mathematician and inventor at Oklahoma State University, with his Continental Drift puzzle at his home in Stillwater, Okla., Dec. 3, 2022. (Brett Deering/The New York Times)
by Siobhan Roberts
NEW YORK, NY.- Another orbit around the sun and here we are again: back where we started but spun about changed, perhaps deranged. Henry Segerman, a British American mathematician and mathematical artist at Oklahoma State University, has invented just the puzzle for this disorienting annual event: Continental Drift, a 3D sliding puzzle that made its debut earlier this year. The underlying geometric concept is holonomy: When you travel a loop on a curved surface and return to the starting point, you arrive somewhat turned around, rotated, perhaps by 180 degrees. Take a mathematical idea, can you make it real? this question, Segerman said, is what motivates his inventions ... More |
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| John Baeder: Looking Back (1972 – 2018) at ACA Galleries | | Centre Pompidou opens a major retrospective of the work of Christian Marclay | | Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York brings in the New Year with a diverse group show | 
John Baeder, Market Tower, 2007. Oil on canvas, 30 x 48 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- ACA Galleries and MB Abram are currently showing John Baeders first exhibition at the gallery through February 18th, 2023. The event began on November 4th, 2022. Comprising five decades of work from 1972 2018 the show includes the last remaining paintings from the artists personal collection alongside his final series of Matchbook Cover paintings as well as his luminous still life photographs. A consummate collector of Americana, Folk Art, classic cars, vintage post cards and match book covers, to name a few, these artifacts serve as potent source material for the artist. His early paintings depict the optimism of Post-War America classic diners with streamlined designs and shiny aluminum surfaces Big Boy and other icons of roadside popular culture - motels and campgrounds dependent on a new economy which allowed for automobiles and more leisure activity; the paintings embody a sense ... More | | 
Prosthesis, 2000. Silicone rubber, metal guitar stand, 54.5 Ã 43 Ã 65 cm; 67.5 Ã 39.5 Ã 28 cm (tripod)
Centre national des arts plastiques
On deposit from the Musée dart contemporain, Lyon
© Christian Marclay
PARIS.- The first French exhibition of Christian Marclay's work since 2007, this major retrospective is designed as a network of affinities and echoes, reflecting the artists logic and combining subversion and metamorphoses. Born in San Rafael (California) in 1955, Christian Marclay is a Swiss-American multimedia artist whose work focuses on the world of sound, which he started exploring in the late 1970s while collaborating on multiple musical projects that led to his predilection for vinyl records and turntables as instruments of choice. One the very first pioneers of scratching, Christian Marclay first made a name for himself through multiple recordings with musicians from a wide range of backgrounds and concerts/performances all over the world. Based largely on a combination ... More | | 
Atelier Van Lieshout, Sausage With Funnel Lamp, 2019. Limited edition of 8 + 4 ap, patinated bronze, light fittings. CM H: 175 W: 46 L: 46.
NEW YORK, NY.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York brings in the New Year with a diverse group show, Selection of Important Works, opening on January 3rd 2023. Bronze artworks lead the exhibition, including Vincenzo de Cotiis DC1606B light sculpture, into which the artist has infused elements of torsion influenced by the Italian Baroque. Virgil Ablohs sinking Alaska Chair, and a sculpture from Kendell Geers latest exhibition, Flesh of the Spirit, are also included. Ingrid Donat presents Hommage à Groult, her response to André Groults 1925 Chiffonnier Anthropomorph, a cabinet in the shape of a stylised female body. Donat modernises Groults original wooden design, imbuing her bronze with characteristic strength and delicacy Donats dialogue with the past is continued through the positioning of her contemporary sculpture alongside the works of modernist masters ... More |
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| Anita Pointer, frequent lead singer of famed sister act, dies at 74 | | My uncle taught Pelé guitar: The mourning is deeper in one city | | Sotheby's to launch its Maison in the very heart of Hong Kong to celebrate art and luxury year-round | 
She was the lead vocalist on all three of the Pointer Sisters Top 40 hits in the groups early years, and she helped define its pop sound in the 1980s.
by Alex Traub
NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Pointer, the sweet and occasionally sultry lead vocalist on many hits of her family band the Pointer Sisters in the 1970s and 80s, died Saturday at home in Beverly Hills, California. She was 74. The cause was cancer, her publicist, Roger Neal, said. The Pointer Sisters occupied a middle point in pop history between the doo-wop innocence of the Ronettes and the stilettoed girl power of Destinys Child. Anitas voice had a lot to do with that. She sang with the speed and flavor of molasses. Although she commanded the virtuosity to trill prettily, she tended to sing too softly to sound overpowering. In Slow Hand, a love song with a soft-focus music video that reached No. 2 on the pop charts in 1981, Anita cooed. When she sang lead vocals, on that song and others, her sisters provided a melodic line on backup, and the women frequently harmonized, structuring ... More | | 
Onofra Alves Costa Rovai, a retired seamstress who said Pelé used to stop by their house to talk to her mother, at her home near Urbano-Caldeira stadium in Santos, Brazil, Dec. 31, 2022. (Anita Pouchard Serra/The New York Times)
by Ana Ionova
NEW YORK, NY.- Around the world, fans have mourned the loss of Pelé, whose unrivaled mastery of the beautiful game catapulted him to a level of celebrity attained by few athletes. Yet in Santos, Brazil, where Pelé shot to stardom and spent much of his soccer career, his death hit like nowhere else, the loss more personal and intimate. He arrived in the port city south of Sao Paulo as a scrawny teenager in the 1950s, and in some ways never left. For some, he was a neighbor or a friend who, even after rising to global celebrity, always stopped to chat near on the corner of Vila Belmiro, as the stadium for Santos FC, where Pelé began his rise, is popularly known. For those who never met him, his soul seems to permeate the place, representing a unifying spirit in Brazil despite, or maybe because of, inequity ... More | | 
Sotheby's new maison to open at Landmark Chater in 2024. Photo:: Derry Ainsworth.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys announced the opening of its maison in Hong Kong, a spectacular new 24,000 square foot space in the nexus of the city which has been home to the company in Asia for half a century. Located at Landmark Chater Hongkong Lands crown jewel in the core of the citys luxury district the new maison, which is at street level and accessible to the public year-round, will open in 2024. The multi-functional house will encompass an expansive state-of-the-art exhibition space and showcase Sothebys full suite of offerings from the companys signature auctions, private sales and masterworks exhibitions, to art and luxury collectibles available for instant purchase via the recently introduced Sothebys Buy Now platform. The new location will enable continuous client engagement cadenced by a sale calendar spread across the year, with live auctions hosted within the same compound. A Sotheb ... More |
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Alfredo Jaar: Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
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 The Fitzrovia Chapel announces a second edition of The Ward by Gideon MendelLONDON.- The Fitzrovia Chapel announced a second edition of The Ward by Gideon Mendel, to coincide with the exhibition The Ward Revisited at The Fitzrovia Chapel in London from 5 January - 5 February 2023. In 1993 Gideon Mendel spent a number of weeks photographing the Broderip and Charles Bell wards at the Middlesex Hospital as part of the ten year anniversary for the Terrence Higgins Trust. The Broderip was the first dedicated AIDS ward in London, and was opened in 1987 by Princess Diana. Today, The Fitzrovia Chapel is the only remaining building of the Middlesex Hospital, and stands metres away from where the original photographs were taken. In The Ward Revisited Gideon Mendel has produced a new large-screen video installation of many previously unseen images and contact sheets, with a specially composed soundtrack ... More  Centro BotÃn opens annual exhibition that showcasing the work of the eight artistsSANTANDER.- Centro BotÃn welcomes the public to a new iteration of Itinerarios, the annual exhibition that showcases the work of the eight artists selected in the last call for Fundacións BotÃn Art Grants. These grants are characterized by their openness and flexibility, as the conditions for participation do not stipulate age, nationality or specific topics, thus generating a broad and extremely necessary space of exchange, experimentation and reflection. Since 1993, Fundación BotÃn has awarded the Art Grants to support Spanish and international artists in the research and production of new projects, serving as a catalyst for contemporary art, and as such is a unique platform for making known the latest developments in contemporary creation in a prestigious institutional context. On 19 July 2019, a special jury made up of the artists MarÃa Bleda and Carlos Bunga ... More  Sotheby's new appointments in tandem with ongoing expansion across Asia HONG KONG.- Sothebys announces the appointments of Jane Yoon as Sothebys Managing Director, South Korea and Apple Charnsethukul as Head of Sothebys Thailand, to lead the development of the companys business activities in both regions, as part of a commitment to expand its footprint across Asia. Driven by South Koreas established but growing art and luxury market, Jane will tap into local business opportunities to establish Sothebys footprint locally and set up an office in Seoul. Together with Apple, who is based in Bangkok, both appointments will work closely with colleagues both in Asia and internationally to drive business goals and establish Sothebys footprint locally, from the very centre of South Korea and Thailands ... More  Maya Brooks joins NCMA and SECCA as Assistant Curator of Contemporary ArtRALEIGH, NC.- I'm most excited that this role will allow me to extend the work I've been doing in the Triangle area across our state to Winston-Salem, said Brooks, reflecting on her new role. I want to use this opportunity to further engage our public and provide meaningful experiences to our visitors. I want my work at both campuses to say, This is a place for you, too. You belong here. We all belong here. Maya Brooks brings a fresh and innovative perspective to two storied cultural institutions. She is tasked with embracing a cross-disciplinary approach that celebrates and engages voices across cultures, lived experiences, and narratives while collaborating with internal teams in Raleigh and Winston-Salem. "While at the NCMA, Maya has curated shows of works from the collection and special exhibitions that feature photography, video, sculpture, and painting by North Carolina ... More  Schiffer publishes 'Coney Island People: 50 Years by Harvey Stein'NEW YORK, NY.- Widely celebrated New York street photographer Harvey Stein is known, in part, for his ability to notice the beautiful, mundane, quirky aspects of human nature and caught moments and in doing so, elevate the everyday to a space of wonder. Coney Island People 50 Years (Schiffer) traces Steins love affair with Coney Island over time with a collection of 174 evocative black and white photographs spanning 1970 to 2020 that focus on the people who populate this legendary place. Its his third book about Coney. The first was published by W.W. Norton in 1998 and simply called Coney Island. The second, the acclaimed Coney Island 40 Years, was published in 2011, also by Schiffer. Twenty-three of Steins favorite images from the 40 year book are included in the new work. Coney Island is located in the New York borough of Brooklyn and has established itself as a cultural ... More  Exhibition at Mucem presents tapestries, drawings, paintings, and ceramics by René PerrotMARSEILLE.- René Perrot (1912-1979) was a prolific artist, constantly experimenting with new styles and techniques. He is particularly well known for his tapestries, the result of public commissions to decorate official buildings, ministries and embassies throughout the world. This exhibition offers an opportunity to rediscover the scope, richness and sensitivity of his work. Deeply pacifist, his oeuvre is marked by the history of his time and its upheavals, the Second World War constituting a turning point in his professional journey. The son of school teachers and grandson of farmers, René Perrot studied at the Ãcole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs before working as a poster artist until the beginning of the Second World War. A staunch antimilitarist, he denounced the absurdity of the war which he depicted in posters. After the French defeat at the hands of Germany ... More  Dave Attell bids a heartfelt (and hilarious) farewell to CarolinesNEW YORK, NY.- How do you honor the death of a comedy club? First, you kill. Walking onstage late Friday night at the final headlining show at Carolines on Broadway, which after three decades is closing its doors, Dave Attell handled that job quickly, spraying punchlines, roasting the front row and making sure the raucous audience knew it was part of history. In one galloping tangent, Attell urged anyone not laughing to leave. Take a table and chair with you, because we have to clear this place out, he said. Attell has performed at Carolines between Christmas and New Years for 13 years, a holiday tradition for audiences who wanted something significantly dirtier than the Rockettes. This time, he mixed in a few heartfelt, even melancholy notes into his virtuosic deadpan rhythms to eulogize the passing of a legendary comedy room. But comedians mourn differently ... More  Last days to see the exhibition Baksteen: Brick at the Kunsthal KAdEAMERSFOORT.- Brick, we see it every day. An ancient building material that occurs frequently in our environment for both the construction of walls and paving. The exhibition BAKSTEEN | BRICK pays tribute to this material with works by more than fifty artists, architects and designers from the Netherlands and abroad. In new and existing work they show the beauty and expressiveness of fired stone. BAKSTEEN | BRICK can be seen in Kunsthal KAdE, the Elleboogkerk and via a tour through Amersfoort with new folly's and existing buildings. Judith van Meeuwen, exhibition curator: 'The appeal of brick walls is anchored in thousands of variations in size, shape, colour, texture and repetition. But it is also the intrinsic layering that makes the material unique ... More  A Planet of Silence, selected works from 2021 - 2022 at Kiang MalingueHONG KONG.- Kiang Malingue is presenting Apichatpong Weerasethakuls solo exhibition at both Kiang Malingue Sik On Street, and Kiang Malingue Tin Wan until this January 28th, 2023. Titled A Planet of Silence, this is Apichatpongs second exhibition in Hong Kong after the touring exhibition Serenity of Madness: Apichatpongs Selective Survey at Para Site Hong Kong in 2016, showcasing cinematic and photographic works created by the acclaimed auteur in the last two years. By paying tribute to a beloved friend who has recently passed away, and by diarising treasured moments and sensual fragments from life, Apichatpong speaks of the meaning of love, memory and solidarity re- defined in a post-pandemic era. Included in the exhibition is a new double-channel video installation For Bruce Apichatpongs tribute to his long-time friend, experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie (1931-2020) ... More  Shaikha Al Mazrou, Dwelling In the Gap, last 3 days to be on viewDUBAI.- Dwelling in the Gap is Shaikha Al Mazrous second solo exhibition at Lawrie Shabibi. Here Al Mazrou develops the forms and language of her practice, and extends her investigations into materiality, tension and the interplay between structure and content. Her materials appear to betray their functions and their fixed properties. This space of ambiguity - between the intent of the artist and the possibilities of her materials results in the gap that is central to her creative process. Al Mazrous new sculptures are partially inspired by the properties and possibilities of folded and creased paper, transmuted into stainless steel. Inflated and folded, they resemble giant displays of origami, the shapes of which are drawn from small-scale paper prototypes created by the artist. Finished in vibrant blocks of colour, which range from her signature red, together with yellow ... More  The Broad announces new performances, live music, and programming for special exhibitionLOS ANGELES, CALIF.- The Broad announced details and programming for the special exhibition William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows, that began on November 12, 2022 and runs to April 9, 2023. As Kentridges first major exhibition in Los Angeles in two decades, this expansive survey features more than 130 works spanning thirty-five years of the artists career, including drawings, sculptures, prints, tapestries, theater sets, and film animation. Timed to the show is an ambitious program of events, talks, and performances that connect with Kentridges rich history of incorporating a vast array of disciplines within his wide-ranging practice. Highlights of thepublic programming connect live musicians, poets, writers, and performers with the underlying themes of Kentridges work, such as the legacy of colonialism, racism, and building resilience against these historical structures ... More |
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New Images in the Age of Augustus 
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Flashback On a day like today, German-French painter August Macke was born January 03, 1887. August Macke (3 January 1887 - 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. In this image: August Macke, Landschaft mit hellem Baum, 1914. Aquarell uber Bleistift, 22.2 x 30.9 cm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett. Photo: bpk, Jorg P. Anders.
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