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A photo provided by Victoria and Albert Museum shows part of the exhibition Diva, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, on June 19, 2023. A new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, tracks the terms shifting meanings from the 19th-century opera house to the stadium gigs of today. (Victoria and Albert Museum via The New York Times)
LONDON.- Opera singer. Style icon. Outspoken woman. Divine being. High-maintenance nightmare. A diva could be any of these, depending on who is speaking, and about whom. Its a word known all over the world, without needing translation, said Kate Bailey, the curator of an exhibition exploring the term that is currently on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London. But everyone thinks of it differently, she added. Diva comes from the Latin for goddess, and Bailey wanted to reclaim it, she said, after working on a 2017 show about opera at the same museum, and becoming curious about the archetype. I wanted to unpack the term, to trace its origins and look at why it had become negative, she said. The exhibition makes the argument for a diva as a glamorous, modern star. Across two floors, items such as Franz Winterhalters portrait of opera singer Adelina Patti, and Bob Mackies flame dress, as worn by Tina Turner, Ch ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Maureen Paley is presenting Chioma Ebinama's second solo exhibition with the gallery and her first at Morena di Luna,Hove.
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| IMMA presents 'Howardina Pindell: A Renewed Language' largest exhibition of renowned American artist in Europe to date | | Baltimore Museum of Art adds more than 100 artworks to its collection | | Giambologna sculptures in 'The Alchemist's Laboratory' for London Art Week 2023 at Stuart Lochhead |
Howardena Pindell. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
DUBLIN.- On Friday 30 June 2023, IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) opened the first solo exhibition in Ireland by renowned American artist Howardina Pindell. Pindell is an artist, activist, and educator working through the media of painting, drawing, print and video. Primarily an abstract painter, she emerged in the early 1970s in New York, making process-driven abstractions, embellishing the language of minimalism - of circles, grids and repetition - in a visibly laborious process of hole-punching, spraying, sewing, and numbering. The exhibition, titled A Renewed Language, is the largest presentation of her work in Europe to date. Born in Philadelphia in 1943, Pindell began her career in the 1960s. Having studied painting at Boston and Yale Universities she became an Exhibition Assistant at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1967, rising to Associate Curator and Acting Director, and serving on the Byers Committee to investigate racial exclusion ... More | |
Peter Bradley. Oblivious Venus. 1974. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Ivy Shapiro, New York. BMA. 2023.87
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announced that it has acquired more than 100 objects and suites during winter and spring 2023. The broad range of works reflect the BMAs ongoing commitment to diversify its collection across time, media, and culture; to bring forward new and under-recognized voices from across the globe; and to uplift artists with ties to Baltimore and the surrounding region. Among the major highlights is a purchase and promised gift from the P. Bruce Marine and Donald Hardy Collection that significantly enhances the museums holdings of paintings and works on paper by Black artists from the 19th through the 21st centuries. The BMA purchased from the collection Charles Whites extraordinary 1938 drawing Peace on Earth, which depicts the Red Summer race riots of Chicago in 1919 and is an important example of the artists impact on the ... More | |
Giambologna, Striding Mars, c. 1580. Bronze, height 39.4cm.
FLORENCE.- Stuart Lochhead Sculpture is now presenting a collection of Giambologna sculptures in The Alchemists Laboratory for London Art Week 2023. Returning to this summers London Art Week, Stuart Lochhead Sculpture presents The Alchemists Laboratory: Giambolognas Forge in Florence, an exhibition reflecting the unique atmosphere of 16th century Florence by focusing on one of the citys most illustrious inhabitants, the sculptor Giambologna. Few European cities have captured the public imagination like Florence in the late sixteenth century. Under the rule of the Medici family, the city became an open-air workshop for painters, architects, goldsmiths, and sculptors. Giambolognas forge changed the state of metals, pouring together contemporary religious sentiment and pagan mythology, and infusing artistic life into inert matter. Sculptors from all over Europe took part in this transformative process, learni ... More |
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| The Morgan Library & Museum presents: Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961): Poetry Is Everything | | Victorian Virtual Reality: Photographs from the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy opens at Watts Gallery | | Mike Meiré: 'The Weather Report' began last week at Bartha Contemporary |
Blaise Cendrars (18871961) and Sonia Delaunay-Terk (18851979), La prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France (The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jeanne of France), back cover. Paris: Ãditions des hommes nouveaux, 1913. The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Dr. Gail Levin, 2021; PML 198726. Photography by Janny Chiu. © Blaise Cendrars / Succession Cendrars, © Pracusa 20230412.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum is currently presenting Blaise Cendrars (1887 1961): Poetry Is Everything, the first American exhibition to explore Cendrarss achievements as a radical poet, publisher, and instigator at the heart of European modernism. Opened on May 26 and on view through September 24, 2023, the exhibition is anchored in La prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France (1913), Cendrarss monumental collaboration with the Ukrainian- born painter Sonia ... More | |
Sir Brian May holding one of his Steampunk Owl viewers © Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy. Photo Denis Pellerin, 2022.
GUILDFORD.- Opening at Watts Gallery on 4 July 2023, Victorian Virtual Reality presents highlights from the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy to explore the 19th-century photography craze that, for the first time, enabled pictures to appear in 3D. Featuring over 150 stereoscopic photographs that visitors will be able to experience through a wide range of viewers and digital techniques, Victorian Virtual Reality will show why this lesser-known Victorian innovation continues to be captivating today. Audiences will be introduced to the 19th-century art of stereoscopy, which saw a second wave of popularity in the mid-20th century. It was then that the young Sir Brian May later the lead guitarist for Queen developed his passion for this photographic ... More | |
Mike Meiré, HAPPY MY ASS, 2023. Bronze, oil paint on canvas, 72 à 45 à 51 cm.
LONDON.- Bartha Contemporary recently opened The Weather Report, Mike Meirés (Germany, b. 1964) 4th solo exhibition with the gallery on Thursday, June 29th. The exhibition will continue until July 22nd by appointment. Meirés latest works reflect the evolving weather patterns and environmental phenomena attributed to climate change. This show will present works in a wide variety of mediums, including new works on paper, a large-scale painted carpet, ceramic sculptures, and a cast metal sculpture. His works on paper now incorporate a third process, building upon the initial newspaper grids and monoprints seen in previous exhibitions. Adding lacquer paint in bold circular shapes, Meiré creates a constellation of forms superimposed over the original linear composition. ... More |
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| Rare gold aureus struck by Claudius before he invaded Britain to be sold at Noonans | | High-octane automobilia & petroliana lined up for Morphy's July 19-20 auction | | Noonans to offer The Sanders Collection of Milled Coins, expected to fetch more than £500,000 |
Noonans to offer a rare gold aureus struck by Claudius.
LONDON.- It was on the 6th of January 2023 that Rob Turrell, and his friend Jono had planned a days detecting on one of their regular pasture fields near Diss in Norfolk. Over the last two years they had found a mix of Celtic and early Roman artefacts and Rob sensed that something exciting was going to happen that day. He discovered a rare gold aureus which will be offered at Noonans Mayfair on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, in a sale of Ancient Coins and Antiquities with an estimate of £4,000-5,000. As Rob, who lives not far from the field, explained: It was around 4pm after Jono had left that I decided to stop going methodically up and down the field and change direction and go across the field and finish for the day. Suddenly beside the main road at the edge of the field I got a positive signal on my Garrett AT pro metal detector and down about 10 inches I saw a gold coin in a clump of soil. Not surprisingly, I was dumbstruck and sa ... More | |
Mohawk Gasoline (Bakersfield, Calif.) 15in single-globe lens with Native American graphic, high-profile metal body, circa 1930s. Globe illuminates beautifully. Condition: 8.9+. Estimate $5,000-$8,000.
DENVER, PA.- The demand for rare, high-quality automobilia and petroliana has never been greater, and Morphy Auctions experts have never been more active in their quest to secure superior-quality consignments from long-held collections. The Pennsylvania companys July 19-20 auction is packed with obscure advertising signs, gas pumps and globes; plus a specialty selection of more than 230 graphic motor oil cans touting such brands as Bisonoil, The Bomber, Skunk Oil, Iroquois and many more. In addition, the 1,000-lot sale features other types of signage, including neon, clocks, and soda pop advertising. All forms of bidding will be available, with Internet live bidding provided by Morphy Live. Flying high over the petroleum signs is a coveted ... More | |
Comprised of around 350 coins, the Sanders Collection is expected to fetch in the region of £500,000.
LONDON.- An important collection of early milled coins, with many dating from the reign of Elizabeth I, will offered by Noonans Mayfair on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. It was started by Peter Sanders in the 1940s and later added to by his son Robin. Robin passed away last year, and the collection is being sold by the family. Comprised of around 350 coins, the Sanders Collection is expected to fetch in the region of £500,000. It is not known what prompted Peter Sanders to start collecting coins, but his father owned a chain of jewellery shops (James Walker Ltd) so perhaps he would have met coin dealers through the business. His initial focus was on the milled coinage of Elizabeth I, progressing on to Nicholas Briots milled coinage of Charles I, the Civil War coinage of the York mint, and the Scottish coinage of Charles I. Peter Sanders bought extensively from the three main London ... More |
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| Gilded Age mansion rescued | | PinchukArtCentre presents JR's global project Inside Out Photobooth: Inside Out Kyiv: We Are Here! | | Jean Jullien's first European museum show at the MIMA in Brussels |
Grand Ballroom of Lynnewood Hall in Elkins Park. (Photo Edward Thome).
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The future at last looks bright for the neglected Lynnewood Hall Estate in Elkins Park, PA. The Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation now owns the deed to the magnificent 19th century mansion on 34 acres outside of Philadelphia. Lynnewood Hall is arguably the largest and most exciting residential preservation and restoration project ever proposed in the United States, said Angie Van Scyoc, Chief Operating Officer, Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation. Designed by Horace Trumbauer, perhaps Philadelphias greatest architect, for Peter Widener, the Citys wealthiest industrialist, Lynnewood has been derelict for decades. Now the restoration begins. Purchased through the generosity of Scott and Susan Bentley, the Foundation plans to sustainably preserve and restore the 110-room, 100,000-sq ft house and grounds, while also providing public ... More | |
Björn Geldhof, Artistic Director of the PinchukArtCentre.
KYIV.- French artist JRs global participatory art project has come to Ukraine with a monumental Photobooth Action at PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv on June 30, 2023 and will continue to January 7, 2024. In March 2022, less than one month into the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, JR travelled to Lviv in search of ways to help and engage with Ukrainians. His trip resulted in the work Valeriia (2022), an image of a 5-year-old Ukrainian girl from Kryvyi Rih seeking refuge in Poland. The image transformed into an action, performed on the main square of Lviv, that became the cover of the March-April issue of Time Magazine. Not only did this work help bring attention to the lives at risk in Ukraine, but also, through the sale of two NFTs of Valeriia, it also raised funds to support Ukrainians. Today, we are proud to announce that PinchukArtCentre is hosting a collection of JRs artwork and bringing his global participatory art ... More | |
Jean Jullien, Untitled, 2023. Acrylic on Canvas.
BRUSSELS.- The Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art in Brussels has now opened STUDIOLO, the first European institutional solo exhibition by French artist Jean Jullien (1983), in which the artist's intimate paintings come to life in an immersive environment of commentary painted on the walls of the museum. STUDIOLO is an exhibition that celebrates the symbiotic relationship between art and language, showcasing Jean Jullien's exceptional talent for combining the two. It's an opportunity to embark on a journey where the power of the image and the written word intertwine, ultimately illuminating the richness and complexity of the human experience. Jean Jullien's work includes painting, photography, video, costume design, site-specific art installations, books, posters and clothing. For the MIMA, he is the prototype of the multidisciplinary artist with an unconventional career path, who has built up a career from a social network, ... More |
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Georgia Gardner Gray now represented by Regan Projects
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects has announced their representation of New York-based artist Georgia Gardner Gray. The artist will present her first exhibition with the gallery in 2025. Framed by complimentary projects in performance and sculpture, Gardner Gray grounds her practice in painting, staging scenes of contemporary life through a lens inflected by history and a gimlet-eye on the present. Working primarily in sculpture and assemblage as a student at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Gardner Gray embraced painting after establishing herself as part of a community of artists in Berlin in 2014. Regularly composed of one or more human figures, Gardner Grays paintings narrate sites of connection and alienation, private vulnerability and public anonymity amid an urban melee. Recalling the vocabulary of types ... More
Norton Museum of Art current exhibitions explore more than 60 years of American Modernism
NEW YORK, NY.- The Norton Museum of Art is currently presenting From Man Ray to OKeeffe: American Modernism at the Norton (March 18 July 16, 2023), a recontextualization of the Norton Museum of Arts American modernist art collection, alongside At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism (March 18 August 27, 2023), which comes to the Norton from the Whitney Museum of American Art. The two companion exhibitions will explore connections between the leading collections of American modernist art held by the Norton and the Whitney, looking at the ways in which each respective institution has grown their collection to more accurately reflect art of the early twentieth century. Previously on view this spring, New York Vanguard: Promised Gifts from Stephen and Madeline Anbinder (February 18 June ... More
Chicago artist Dont Fret announces 'This Is No Quiet City' exhibition and book release
CHICAGO, IL.- Chicago-based artist Dont Fret announces his 6th solo exhibition of new works and the release of his first book of poems and vignettes. Both are titled This Is No Quiet City and focus on Chicago and growing up in Wicker Park. Books, prints and original works will be available at seven locations around the city, with major exhibitions in various venues throughout the month of July. She is a hustler, toiling away, scheming from north shore to south shore. From the back of the yards to the front of our porches. This Is No Quiet City, a place where anyone is welcome as long as youll swing a hammer. This is a city where no ones welcome mat says content. This Is No Quiet City. Weve built some of the worlds tallest buildings, made connecting a nation through railroad and meatpacking look like a house chore, and still have to jump in the lake in the m ... More
'Harry Gould Harvey IV: Sick Metal' now on view at P·P·O·W
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W just opened Sick Metal, Harry Gould Harvey IVs first solo exhibition with the gallery. Born and raised in the post-industrial city of Fall River, MA, and Narragansett Bay, where he resides to this day, Harvey draws inspiration from the ecological fabric of his native South Coast Region to deconstruct the building blocks of empire and illuminate the weight of anonymous labor. Foraging materials from downed or cut trees, destroyed Gilded Age mansions, dilapidated factories, gutted Gothic churches, and his subconscious, Harvey creates mystical and diagrammatic drawings housed inside hand-built wood frames akin to reliquaries and large-scale sculptural installations which evoke lost histories of marginalized artisanship and backbreaking toil in the name of American industry and luxury. For Harvey, artmaking serves ... More
For sale at Raab: President John Adams' original letter of advice to young woman on marriage
ARDMORE, PA.- The Raab Collection announced the discovery of a previously unknown, early 19th-century autograph or friendship album, as they were called, bearing marriage advice from a former president and founding father to a young woman. In 1824, John Adams advice was simple: Remember where you came from. The volume belonged to Adams neighbor, Ellen Maria Brackett, and was handed down through her Massachusetts family continuously before its acquisition this year by Raab. It is valued at $40,000 and has not been publicly offered for sale before. Its contents were unknown until now. What makes this so remarkable, said Nathan Raab, principal at The Raab Collection and author of The Hunt for History (Scribner, 2020), is that the Adams note is just one of many pages, each documenting a friend or family sentiment ... More
Robert Sherman, veteran of the New York airwaves, dies at 90
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Sherman, a charming, easygoing radio personality who hosted three long-running shows over more than a half-century on the New York classical music station WQXR-FM, died Tuesday at his home in Ossining, New York, in Westchester County. He was 90. His son Steve said the cause was a stroke, the fourth Sherman had had since 2021. Sherman had been working behind the scenes at WQXR for more than a decade before he began hosting Woodys Children, a weekly folk music program, in 1969. A year later, he began The Listening Room, a daily program on which both established and emerging musicians were interviewed and played live music for 23 years. His guests included Jessye Norman, Itzhak Perlman, Robert Merrill and Leopold Stokowski. And in 1978, he started Young Artists Showcase, a ... More
At the Sonic Sphere, a 'whoa' moment (and some music)
NEW YORK, NY.- Whoa, a man near me said as the curtains swept open. He, I and a couple hundred other people had been waiting in a large room at The Shed, an arts center at Hudson Yards in Manhattan. Portentous, woozy background music was playing, as if an alien encounter was imminent. Then those curtains parted, and a much larger room was revealed: The Sheds vast McCourt space, in which a sphere, 65 feet in diameter and pocked like Swiss cheese, had been suspended from the faraway ceiling and bathed in red light. This arresting indeed, whoa-inducing sight was the Sonic Sphere, a realization of a concert hall design by brilliant, peerlessly loopy composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), who inspired Germany to build the first one for the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka, Japan. Stockhausen, an impresario of electroacoustic ... More
Hong Kong Palace Museum celebrates first anniversary
HONG KONG.- The Hong Kong Palace Museum, Hong Kongs newest cultural landmark in the West Kowloon Cultural District, celebrated its first anniversary. To mark this important milestone and thank the public for their strong support throughout a successful first year of operations, Winnie Tam Wan-chi, Chairman of the HKPM Board; Betty Fung, Chief Executive Officer of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority; Dr Louis Ng, Museum Director of the HKPM; Dr Daisy Wang, Deputy Director, Curatorial and Programming of the HKPM and Brian Yuen, Deputy Director, Museum Operations of the HKPM greeted visitors at the entrance today and gave away HKPM-branded souvenirs to the first 100 people passing through the Museums doors. Since opening to the public on 3 July 2022, the HKPM has welcomed approximately 1.3 million visitors and ... More
Jon Haggins, designer who slipped into and out of fashion, dies at 79
NEW YORK, NY.- Jon Haggins, a fashion designer and bon vivant who found fame in the late 1960s and early 70s with his sinuous, sensuous designs but who struggled with financing and shuttered and reopened his business and reinvented himself several times, most recently as the host of a travel show on cable television, died June 15 at his home in the New York City borough of Queens. He was 79. Former broadcast journalist Chee Chee Williams, a friend, confirmed the death but said the cause was not known. Haggins had been on vacation in Greece with Williams and others in late May when he fell and broke a hip. The late 1960s were a pivot point for Black designers. Haggins was among a cohort that included Willi Smith, Scott Barrie and Stephen Burrows, all of whom were being celebrated by fashion magazines and courted by ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, photographer Erwin Blumenfeld died July 04, 1969. Erwin Blumenfeld (26 January 1897 - 4 July 1969) was an American photographer of German origin. He was born in Berlin, and in 1941 emigrated to the United States, where he soon became a successful and well-paid fashion photographer, working as a free-lancer for Harper's Bazaar, Life and American Vogue. His personal photographic work showed the influence of Dadaism and Surrealism; his two main areas of interest were death and women. He was expert in laboratory work, and experimented with photographic techniques such as distortion, multiple exposure, photo-montage and solarisation. In this image: Self Portrait c. 1930. © 2020 Yvette Blumenfeld Georges Deeton.
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