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A fossil believed to be part of a tooth from a sauropod found at the site outside of Winton, Australia, May 13, 2023. A new understanding of how to search for ancient remains has reinvigorated Australias Central West region of Queensland, and tourists are flocking to its paleontological digs. (David Maurice Smith/The New York Times)
WINTON, AUSTRALIA.- It took a moment to spot the fragment, initially: fist-size and unnaturally smooth, nestled between shrubs teeming with burrs in an endless expanse of arid plains. But after the first, the others were easier to pick out, gleaming dirty white against the red earth and run through with a honeycomb texture. Dinosaur bones. Theyre bloody everywhere, marveled Matt Herne, curator of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum. About an hours drive from the town of Winton, he was inspecting the fossils for the couple who had found them, farmers whose property stretched as far as the eye could see in all directions. (The couple requested anonymity, not wanting the attention that would come if it were known that bones were on their property.) Its spongy bone. Just like a sheared steak bone, Herne said. These fragments are telling us that theyve probably come up from something underneath, and its probably quite a large animal. For ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This year we are celebrating 30 unforgettable years in business. Please take a moment to reminisce with us with a selection of photos from the last 30 years..In this image: Alex Katz: Three Paintings, 2017.
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| National Gallery of Art acquires the painting 'A Man Cutting Tobacco' by Mattia Preti | | "Basquiat: The Modena Paintings" now on view at the Fondation Beyeler | | The Museo del Prado analyses the influence of El Greco on Picasso's work | 
Mattia Preti, A Man Cutting Tobacco, 1660s. Oil on canvas, overall: 103.19 x 90.49 cm (40 5/8 x 35 5/8 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington Patrons' Permanent Fund, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, and New Century Fund.
WASHINGTON, DC .- The National Gallery of Art has acquired A Man Cutting Tobacco, painted in Malta in the 1660s by the leading Italian Baroque artist, Mattia Preti (16131699). Unique for the 17th century in Italy and unusual within Pretis body of work, this painting straddles genres between portraiture and still life. It has been suggested by scholars that the figure might be a portrait of Cianferlì, an enslaved Middle Eastern man whom Preti taught to paint. This acquisition increases the diversity in the National Gallerys early modern Italian paintings collection, expands the historical stories that we can tell about global trade, and provides an opportunity to discover the true identity of this figure. A Man Cutting Tobacco depicts the subject sitting cross-legged in the foreground, cutting ... More | | 
Jean-Michel Basquiat, UNTITLED (DEVIL), 1982. Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 238.7 x 500.4 cm. Private Collection. © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Photo: © 2023 Phillips Auctioneers LLC. All Rights Reserved.
BASEL.- The Fondation Beyeler is now presenting Basquiat. The Modena Paintings, eight large-scale works that Jean- Michel Basquiat painted in 1982 in Modena, Italy for an exhibition that in the end never took place. More than 40 years later and for the first time, Fondation Beyeler reunites eight masterpieces, now held in private collections in the United States, Asia and Switzerland, which comprise Basquiats most celebrated and valuable works. The exhibition comes 13 years after the Fondation Beyeler mounted a comprehensive retrospective devoted to the artist. Jean-Michel Basquiat (19601988) ranks among the most significant artists of the late 20th century. He shot to international fame in the early 1980s, as figurative painting experienced a renaissance. One of the art worlds most flamboyant ... More | | 
Saint John the Evangelist El Greco Oil on canvas, 100.5 x 80.4 cm 1610-14 Toledo, Museo del Greco.
MADRID.- As part of the exhibition programme Picasso Celebration 1973-2023, organised to mark the 50th anniversary of the artists death, the exhibition Picasso, El Greco and Analytical Cubism, curated by Carmen Giménez, reveals the most striking and significant connections between the two artists. Among the numerous and very diverse influences of artists which converge in the work of Picasso, that of El Greco is possibly the earliest and most decisive as it dates back to the late 19th century when the very young, still teenage Picasso was living in Madrid. Although a student at the Royal San Fernando Fine Arts Academy, his letters and drawings from that period reveal that he spent more time at the Museo del Prado copying works by the great Old Masters than at the Academy itself. El Greco, Velázquez, inspire me! and I, El Greco are phrases that appear on drawings from those years. They constitute nothing le ... More |
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| Hamptoms Fine Art Fair announces 2023 gallerists and VIP events | | The Met to open new active learning center for children | | Newton to Pepys on why new technology matters: Rare letter at Bonhams Book sale | 
Shapero Modern, Pablo Picasso, Francoise.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Hamptons Fine Art Fair, the international fine art fair from the producers of ShowHamptons, has announced their 2023 exhibitor list, featuring 10,000 artworks by 130 national and international galleries. Back by popular demand, the highly anticipated fourth annual Hamptons Fine Art Fair will be showcased at the spectacular custom built 70,000 sq. ft. pavilion complex on 17-acres at Southampton Fairgrounds from July 13-16, 2023. Over $150 million in important post-war and contemporary art will be available for immediate acquisition within the Pollock, de Kooning, and Luxury Pavilions, with well over 800 revered artists on display, with a focus on emerging artists, blue-chip masters and investment and elegant decorative as well as many sculptural masterpieces. The Opening Night Benefit and Preview is expected to attract over 3,500 influential guests with overall attendance expected to increase to 12,000 over the course of the ... More | | 
Rendering of 81st Street Studio, designed by KOKO Architecture + Design. Image courtesy of Brick Visual.
NEW YORK, NY.- On September 9, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will open the newly designed 81st Street Studio, a science and art play space for children ages 3 to 11, in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education. The renovated 3,500-square-foot area, designed by KOKO Architecture + Design, will be an interactive space that reimagines how the Museum can inspire exploration of its encyclopedic collection, amplify curiosity, and create new experiences for The Met's youngest visitors. The new space will open with a children's festival on September 9. The daylong celebration will offer science-based making, art activities, play, games, music, and more. Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The Met, said: "Education is a criticaland very excitingpart of The Met's mission, and we are proud to open the extraordinary new 81st Street Studio and further advance our role as a tremendously engaging ... More | | 
Isaac Newton, Autograph letter signed (_Your most humble & most obedient Servant Is. Newton_) to Samuel Pepys (_Sr_), Trinity College, Cambridge, 17 May [16]95 Estimates_60,000 - 90,000
LONDON.- They were among the great figures of their age yet barely any correspondence between the diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) and the mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton (1643-1727) has survived. This makes the chance discovery of a handwritten letter from Newton to Pepys particularly exciting. The letter, written in 1685, concerns the appointment of a Mathematics master at Christs Hospital, and was found in an album belonging to descendants of a Dr William Hathaway (1783-1853). It is to be offered at Bonhams Fine Books & Manuscripts Sale in London on Wednesday 21 June 2023, with an estimate of £60,000-80,000. Both men shared a close interest in Christs Hospital (founded in 1522) and in the Royal Mathematical School which had been established there ... More |
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| Munnings Art Museum presents 'Munnings: Colour and Light' in newly redecorated home of Sir Alfred Munnings | | Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Fierce Maternity on view until July 1 at Sullivan + Strumpf Sydney | | Za Mir Press releases "Pablo Picasso, André Salmon and 'Young French Painting'" | 
Sir Alfred Munnings, A Study of one of Selfridge's Young Ladies, 1953. Copyright the estate of Sir Alfred Munnings.
DEDHAM.- A new exhibition in the freshly redecorated home of Sir Alfred Munnings, Munnings Art Museum, affords a chance to enjoy the remarkable handling of colour and light in his paintings. If you think you know the work of Sir Alfred Munnings (1878-1959), think again. A new exhibition of specially selected works spanning the celebrated artists career from early childhood through to the last few years of his life will reveal his extraordinary gift for observing the effect of colour and light on his subjects. The new exhibition at Castle House in Dedham Munnings home for more than 40 years represents an opportunity to see more than 50 oil paintings, drawings, sketchbooks and prints from across seven decades, with a vast range of subject matters, including boating, fishing, horse racing, portraiture, farm animals, hunting, landscapes, humour, royalty and friends. The earliest example ... More | | 
INSTALLATION VIEW, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Fierce Maternity, at Sullivan+Strumpt Sydney June 2023. Image courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf. Photo, Mark Pokorny.
SYDNEY.- I think of Eucalyptus trees as fierce sculptors who work with wood. I want people to admire their diversity, their shapes, colours, textures, and bio-geometries. I hope that you too can see the fierce beauty of life that is contained in these wondrous forms. Maria Fernanda Cardoso One of Latin Americas most celebrated artists, based in Sydney since 1997, Colombian Australian Maria Fernanda Cardoso, began a presentation of her latest series of sculptural forms inspired by and crafted from nature, which opened at Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney Thursday June 8, 2023. An expansion on her acclaimed 2021 Gumnuts series, this latest body of work celebrates the beauty and astonishing complexity of native Eucalyptus woody gumnuts: wondrous, tough, expressive forms, with which she feels a close affinity, encapsulated in the exhibition title, Fierce Maternity. When I was giving birth to my first ... More | | 
This book offers copious annotations written by Professor Gojard and Salmon scholar Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, along with 31 illustrations, and a useful index. Available through Amazon. ISBN 9781950191024. $20.00; £16.17; 17.94.
NEW YORK, NY.- Za Mir Press announces the publication of Pablo Picasso, André Salmon and Young French Painting, which features a revised translation of Salmons La Jeune Peinture française (1912) and an introduction to the text by renowned Salmon expert Jacqueline Gojard, Professor of Literature, University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), and the executor of Salmons literary estate. Additionally, this book offers copious annotations written by Professor Gojard and Salmon scholar Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, along with 31 illustrations, and a useful index. Available through Amazon. ISBN 9781950191024. $20.00; £16.17; 17.94. Pablo Picasso, André Salmon and Young French Painting joins Pablo Picasso and André Salmon: The Painter, the Poet and the Portraits (Za Mir Press, 2019) in this ... More |
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| 'Kimberly Akimbo' wins best musical Tony and 'Leopoldstadt' best play | | Rare Japanese robots & space vehicles dominated top 10 at Milestone's $700K toy auction | | Joni Mitchell returns to the stage, golden, glorious and in control | 
Patrick Marber accepts the Tony Award for best direction of a play, "Leopoldstadt," during the 76th Tony Awards at the United Palace Theater in New York, on Sunday, June 11, 2023. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
by Michael Paulson
NEW YORK, NY.- Kimberly Akimbo, a small-scale, big-hearted show about a teenage girl coping with a life-shortening genetic condition and a comically dysfunctional family, won the coveted Tony Award for best musical Sunday night. The award came at the close of an unusual Tony Awards ceremony that almost didnt happen because of the ongoing screenwriters strike. Only an intervention by a group of playwrights who also work in film and television saved the show: they persuaded the Writers Guild of America that it would be a mistake to make the struggling theater industry collateral damage in a Hollywood-centered dispute, and in the end the telecast aired without pickets, without scripted banter and without a hitch. Im live and unscripted, the ceremonys returning host, Ariana DeBose, said at the start of the show, after an opening number that began with her backstage, ... More | | 
Nomura (Japan) battery-operated Walking Batman. All original, complete, and appearing never to have been played with. Clean original box with great graphics of Batman, Robin and Batmobile. Sold for $12,915 against an estimate of $6,000-$8,000
WILLOUGHBY, OH.- Many hundreds of absentee bids were already on the books by the time Milestone Auctions co-owner and principal auctioneer Miles King stepped up to the podium to officially open the Ohio companys May 27 Spring Premier Toy Auction. The 835-lot event, which featured virtually every popular category in the antique-toy realm, was on many a collectors radar and had been closely monitored online, especially after word got out about a stellar collection of rare Japanese robots and space toys featured in the sale. As predicted, it was the postwar Japanese rarities that added the most fuel to the fire, helping to push the one-day total to a pleasing $700,000, inclusive of buyers premium. The undisputed leader was a Masudaya 15-inch battery-operated Target Robot from the famed Gang of Five series. Extremely bright and beautiful, the all-original bot came with its correct dart gun and two darts, as well as ... More | | 
Joni Mitchell onstage at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Wash, on June 10, 2023. The singer-songwriters first announced concert in more than 20 years was a nearly three-hour reimagining of her catalog that showcased her evolving, rich voice and her ever-sharp wit. (Justin J Wee/The New York Times)
GEORGE, WASH.- Youre stardust, and golden, a beaming Joni Mitchell told a crowd of more than 20,000 on Saturday night at the scenic Washington venue the Gorge Amphitheater, during her first ticketed live performance in more than 20 years. Mitchell, 79, was referencing Woodstock, the song shed written in 1969 in the heady days after the culture-shifting festival, but she was now describing a more modern concert phenomenon: a sea of lights from cellphones held aloft in the dark. Many performers have probably become jaded by the sight, but that is how long it had been since Mitchell played a proper gig: The image of cellphones illuminating an arena was, to her, unfamiliar and inspiring. You look like a fallen constellation, she told the crowd, ad-libbing some poetry. It was but one miracle in a night spoiling with them. Last July, Mitchell stunned the music ... More |
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Hatched: National Graduate Show 2023 with Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran & Paean Sarkar
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 Jessie Maple, pathbreaking filmmaker, is dead at 86NEW YORK, NY.- Jessie Maple, who built careers as a camerawoman and an independent filmmaker when Black women were almost nonexistent in those fields, and who then left meticulous instructions for later generations to follow in her footsteps, died May 30 at her home in Atlanta. She was 86. xHer death was confirmed by E. Danielle Butler, her longtime assistant and the co-author of her self-published 2019 memoir, The Maple Crew. Director and camerawoman were just two of Maples many jobs. She also worked as a bacteriologist; wrote a newspaper column; owned coffee shops; baked vegan cookies; and ran a 50-seat theater in the basement of her Harlem brownstone in New York City. Maple had been writing a column called Jessies Grapevine for The New York Courier, a Harlem newspaper, when she moved to broadcast journalism from print ... More  Melissa Etheridge's autobiographical show is coming to BroadwayNEW YORK, NY.- Singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridges theatrical memoir in which she weaves stories from her life will be staged on Broadway this fall, the production announced Sunday. Called My Window, a reference to one of her hit songs, Etheridges show recounts the arc of her life and career, from growing up in Kansas to reaching rock fame and coming out as a lesbian in the 90s. The show, which had a brief off-Broadway run last fall, was written by Etheridge and her wife, Linda Wallem Etheridge, a television producer and actor who helped create the TV series Nurse Jackie and worked on That 70s Show. The production plans to begin previews at Circle in the Square Theater on Sept. 14, with opening night scheduled for Sept. 28. Etheridge, 62, has loved theater since childhood (Godspell just set me on fire, she said last week), and ... More  7 decades later, Arthur Miller's 'The Hook' comes home to BrooklynNEW YORK, NY.- On a barge in Red Hook, Brooklyn, dockworkers chant against their corrupt union boss. Were striking this ship! yells the groups leader. Old barrels sit on the edge of a bare stage as it sways beneath the actors feet. This is a scene from Brave New World Repertory Theaters production of The Hook, the first American staging of an adapted Arthur Miller screenplay. The show, which opened at the Waterfront Museum on Friday, follows Marty, a longshoreman in 1950 who fights against the union corruption that controlled Red Hooks waterfront. Miller based the screenplay on the life of Pete Panto, a local dockworker who was killed more than 80 years ago, presumably for standing up to the port bosses. Now the show returns to the neighborhood in which it is set, staged aboard a docked ship straight from Pantos time. The location ... More  A new festival freely dips into jazz and classical musicNEW YORK, NY.- This past week, I did something with a classical music concert that I have often enjoyed at jazz clubs: I hung back to hear the same program again when it returned for a second set. It was opening night of the inaugural Sono Fest!, founded and programmed by jazz pianist and composer Ethan Iverson, and running through June 23 at Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn. (The space, in addition to hosting audiences in its 60-seat space, is also offering ticketed livestreams of the events.) Iverson was wrapping up a concert with violinist Miranda Cuckson when he casually noted that anyone who wanted to hear the same pieces again could remain for the next gig. Their performance of works for violin and piano by Peter Lieberson, Louise Talma and George Walker had been among the best chamber music shows Id heard all season. (Another delight: ... More  Review: Kids dance puts on a show of courage, discipline and heartNEW YORK, NY.- The roots of Ballet Techs Kids Dance took hold not in a dance studio but on the subway. It was 1977 when choreographer Eliot Feld found himself sharing a train with elementary school children. To an ordinary person, they were just kids, but Feld saw something more: These were potential dancers. He teamed up with the New York City Department of Education and started a training program and eventually an independent public school. Today, Kids Dance, created in 1994 as the performing entity of Ballet Tech, is under the artistic direction of Dionne Figgins. Over the past few years, the kids from sixth to eighth grade have been through a lot the pandemic didnt just interrupt their academic learning but their dance training as well. On Friday, the group returned to the Joyce Theater, lighting up the stage with a winning ... More  Erica Lord featured in upcoming Renwick Invitational 2023 at the Renwick GalleryWASHINGTON, DC.- Accola Griefen Fine Art announced that Erica Lord is one of six artists featured in Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023 which is on view from May 26th, 2023 to March 31, 2024 at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The exhibition is curated by independent curator and Vice President of Programs of the First Peoples Fund, Dr. Lara Evans. The exhibition focuses on fresh and nuanced visions by Native American or Alaska Native artists who express the honors and burdens that connect people to one another. The more than 50 artworks in the exhibition arise from traditions of making that honor family, community or clan, and require broad community participation. Six artists Joe Feddersen (Arrow Lakes/Okanagan), Lily Hope (Tlingit), Ursala Hudson (Tlingit), Erica Lord ... More  Elemental: John Chiara, Binh Danh, Chris McCaw, Meghann Riepenhoff at Haines GallerySAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines Gallery's presentation of Elemental, a group exhibition featuring new and recent works by John Chiara, Binh Danh, Chris McCaw and Meghann Riepenhoff, four West Coast photographers who create handcrafted prints that celebrate and collaborate with the natural world will be ending soon. The works in Elemental are singular and unique photographic objects, defined as much by how they are made as by what they depict. The artists on view are known for their analog processes that explore the mediums fundamental materials of chemistry and light. In their use of both newly invented and antiquated processes, each embraces the forces of nature to create their work: sun and light, as all photography does, but also water, weather, temperature, and the spin of the earth. Some works are abstract and painterly ... More  Yooyun Yang: Passing Time on view at Stephen Friedman GalleryLONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery is currently presenting South Korean artist Yooyun Yangs first solo exhibition in Europe. Yangs atmospheric and enigmatic paintings are cloaked in darkness and explore the emotional states of people; with scenes conveying existential thoughts and feelings of solitude. Yang frequently conceals faces and subtly captures intimate moments. By using shadow and composition to create distance between the viewer and the subject, the artist articulates a sense of isolation in what she describes as this age of anxiety. Objects are fundamental to Yangs practice, with motifs of blinds, curtains and railings frequently appearing. By repositioning them through her otherworldly gaze, objects appear increasingly foreign. Yangs practice is emotionally charged and simultaneously calm. ... More  Laura Kramer's fourth gallery exhibition at Heller Gallery featuring glass and pearls open until the end of monthNEW YORK, NY.- Heller Gallery presents Portraits in Pearls, Laura Kramers fourth gallery exhibition featuring nine organically shaped blown glass forms sumptuously embellished with sparkling crystals, glass pearls and colored glass rods. The pieces are inspired by the historic impact and cultural significance that New World riches imparted on European powers starting in the Tudor period (1485-1603) and illustrated in portraits of Tudor period royalty, famous for encrusting their dazzling garments in pearls and gemstones. Says Kramer, Having focused much of my previous work on themes of minerals and gems I am drawn to the pearl as the oldest known gemstone, with specimens having been found fossilized ... More  New research partnership on contemporary art and visual culture announced for Museum of Contemporary Art AustraliaSYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) and the Power Institute at the University of Sydney announce a new research partnership on contemporary art and visual culture. The projects bold ambition is to establish a new way of conducting and presenting research on art and visual culture. Over three years, the two organisations will identify a set of discrete research projects, digging into the Museums collection, exhibitions and archives, and informed by the ideas emerging from the Power Institutes new Visual Understanding Initiative. This work will be aided by a local and international network of curators, artists, and scholars from across the humanities and sciences. The partnership aims ... More  The New York Watch Auction: EIGHT realizes $26.4 million, continuing Phillips' market leadership for the AmericasNEW YORK, NY.- The New York Watch Auction: EIGHT at Phillips realized $26.4 million, selling 100% by lot and 100% by value. Leading the sale was Roger Smiths Pocket Watch Number Two, which saw spirited bidding in the room and on the telephone before selling for $4.9 million to a collector on the phone with Phillips Head of Watches, Americas, Paul Boutros. Over the course of more than five years, Smith worked to create a watch entirely by hand that would win the approval of the great George Daniels and secure an apprenticeship in Daniels legendary workshop on the Isle of Man. With Pocket Watch Number One rejected by Daniels, it was the perfection of this timepiece Pocket Watch Number Two that led Daniels ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born June 13, 1935. Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art. Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the same day, June 13, 1935; Christo in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude in Morocco. They first met in Paris in October 1958 when Christo painted a portrait of Jeanne-Claude's mother. They then fell in love through creating art work together. In this image: Workers build 'The Mastaba', an outdoor work made up of over 7000 stacked barrels by Bulgarian artist Christo on the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park in London on June 11, 2018. Niklas HALLEN / AFP.
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