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John Delaney prepares a hyperspectral visible wavelength camera to scan A Dutch Courtyard, by Pieter de Hooch, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington on June 18, 2021. High-tech scanning techniques used by geologists, planetary scientists, drug companies and the military are revealing secrets of how artists created their masterpieces. T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times.
by Kenneth Chang
WASHINGTON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Here is a question that art experts at the National Gallery of Art are trying to tackle: Are a couple of paintings in the museums collection that are credited to Johannes Vermeer actually the work of Vermeer, the 17th-century Dutch artist noted for his detailed, realistic portrayals of middle-class life? The two paintings are not obvious fakes. Indeed, one is considered a masterpiece, but they are unusual in the oeuvre of Vermeer: smaller than his other works, and painted on wooden panels instead of canvas. And so they seem to be somewhat different from the rest of his work, said Melanie Gifford, research conservator at the National Gallery. Girl With the Red Hat is among the 34 artworks that are almost universally regarded as genuine Vermeers. The other, Girl With a Flute, is only cautiously attributed to Johannes Vermeer, the museums website says, as it does not match the masters standards. And yet, G ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Archaeologist Yossi Zaidner from the Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology shows a fossil fragment of a skull at a Tel Aviv University lab in the eponymous Israeli coastal city, on June 27, 2021. The remains that were uncovered at the site of excavations in the quarry of a cement plant near the central city of Ramla, consisted of bones belonging to a "new type of early human" previously unknown to science, researchers said on June 24, claiming to have shed new light on human evolution. GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP.
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| Belgian art star Jan Fabre sent to trial for sexual harassment | | Kasmin to represent the Estate of James Rosenquist | | The Cézanne we've forgotten how to see | 
In this file photo taken on March 29, 2016 Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre gestures during a press conference at Athens Acropolis museum. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP.
BRUSSELS (AFP).- Belgian choreographer Jan Fabre, one of Europe's most celebrated and controversial artists, has been referred to a Belgian criminal court on charges of sexual harassment in the workplace, a court statement said on Monday. The 62-year-old choreographer, visual artist and theatre director is known for his provocative performances that openly address sexuality. A first hearing will take place in Antwerp on September 21, the court said. The case stems from complaints by twenty dancers who in 2018 alleged suffering years of humiliation and sexual harassment in an open letter that thrust the #metoo movement into the highest spheres of Europe's avant garde. The former employees described a toxic work environment where sexual acts became an exchange for performance time and where "humilation was our daily bread". Among other accusations, they said that Jan Fabre invited artists to his home under the ... More | | 
James Rosenquist installing Horse Blinders (196869), Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1972. Photo by Wolf P. Prange. Artwork © 2021 James Rosenquist Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin announced U.S. representation of the Estate of James Rosenquist. One of the most important painters of post-war American art, Rosenquist (19332017) established a reputation as a founding member of the Pop art generation, radically altering the face of graphic culture and the art world. Having sharpened his expert visual communication skills through early commercial and billboard work, Rosenquist came to prominence creating high-impact paintings charged with cultural commentary, examining themes from the social, scientific and political, to the romantic, cosmic and existential. His work was described by the late American curator Walter Hopps as "visual poetry." In 2022, Kasmin will mount a major solo exhibition of work by the artist in New York. Realized over the course of six decades, the work of James Rosenquist spans ... More | | 
Paul Cézanne. Coat on a Chair (Veste sur une chaise). 1890-92. Pencil and watercolor on laid paper. 18 1/4 à 11 3/4″ (46.4 à 29.8 cm). Private collection.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- There is Paul Cézanne the artist, and there is Paul Cézanne the godfather. There are the unbalanced, weighty apples and pears; then there is their legacy, even weightier. With your eyes alone you can fall into his painted still lifes and card players, the densely packed bathers, the blocky views of Mont Sainte-Victoire. Just look, and his broken perspectives disclose his scrutinizing intelligence at work. But just looking: ehh, its not so easy. Not when the taciturn painter has been elevated into a master teacher, and his distorted spaces into the starting pistol of modernism. The Museum of Modern Art, in particular, has treated Cézanne for most of its history as a pass/fail entrance exam stationing his downcast Bather from around 1885 at the opening of its collection galleries, a stripped-off sentinel guarding Picasso, Matisse and the rest. Its hard to hold on to these two Cézannes; I certainly struggle. He was the first painter I ever loved, when I was ... More |
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| Exhibition at David Zwirner marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the HIV/AIDS crisis | | Christie's presents Trespassing, led by KAWS, Banksy, NFTs | | J. Paul Getty Trust President & CEO James Cuno to retire | 
Mark Morrisroe, The Boy Next Door (Beautiful But Dumb), 1983 © Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection).
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting More Life, a focused series of curated solo exhibitions held at the gallerys locations in New York and London this summer and fall. In June 1981, the US Centers for Disease Control first reported what would eventually be known as AIDS. 1 Marking the fortieth anniversary of the CDCs report, acknowledged as the beginning of the HIV/AIDS crisis, this series of exhibitions highlight a selection of artists whose lives were cut short by HIV/AIDS-related complications during approximately the first twenty years of the epidemic. This series explores the affective, aesthetic, personal, and political responses to the crisis through the lens of the gay male perspectivefrom artists who were part of communities that were disproportionately affected by the ... More | | 
KAWS (B. 1974), FOUR-FOOT DISSECTED COMPANION. Painted cast vinyl and cardboard box, 50 ⅜ x 21 ¼ x 12 ¼ in. Executed in 2009. Estimate: $85,000-125,000 © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced the second offering of Trespassing, a groundbreaking online sale curated together with Ronnie K. Pirovino. The sale traces graffitis influence on contemporary art and embraces the energy and humor of artists inspired by the medium. In 2020, the inaugural sale set numerous world auction records for artists such as Katherine Bernhardt and KAWS and was 210% sold by value. Trespassing will feature works across collecting categories by leading names such as KAWS, Banksy, and Invader and will also juxtapose works by Jonas Wood, George Condo and Allison Zuckerman that share the same dynamic spirit. The sale will also feature a selection of unique NFTs by artists including Mad Dog Jones, Victor Mosquera, and Fvckrender, and will be the first time NFTs have ... More | | 
James Cuno, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, © 2011 J. Paul Getty Trust.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- International arts leader and scholar James Cuno announced plans to retire from his post as the president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, after a decade at the helm of one of the worlds largest philanthropic organizations dedicated to visual arts and cultural heritage. It has been my honor to serve this tremendous organization, and to play a small part in expanding its mission to broaden and deepen our understanding of the human experience through the visual arts, Cuno said. It has been incredibly fulfilling to see the impact of our collective work in conservation, research, museum presentation, and philanthropy, and I am so grateful to the many dedicated staff and volunteers who make it all possible. Cuno informed the Board of Trustees of his intentions to remain in his role until his successor is selected and in place. Cuno said that recently turning 70, completing his 10th year ... More |
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| Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park announces Holocaust memorial gift, sculpture acquisition | | New Carnegie Museum of Art exhibition spotlights work by ten architectural practices from around the world | | John Clem Clarke, painter in SoHo for five decades, dies at 83 | 
Ways to Say Goodbye by Ariel Schlesinger to be added to Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Parks permanent sculpture collection in 2022.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park announced a major gift from The Jewish Federation of Grand Rapids in order to establish the first Holocaust memorial in Grand Rapids, anchored by Ariel Schlesingers Ways to Say Goodbye. This gift is made possible by a donation from the Pestka Family in memory of their father Henry, the survivors who settled in Western Michigan and the millions of Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is highly honored and very pleased to receive this significant and meaningful gift to acquire Ariel Schlesingers monumental sculpture Ways to Say Goodbye, said David Hooker, President & CEO of Meijer Gardens. The sculpture will be installed in 2022 and dedicated in memory of Henry Pestka and the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. We are deeply grateful for this gift adding such an important work of art to our permanent collection. ... More | | 
Felipe Fontecilla, photographer, Chilean, b. 1981, UMWELT, architects, Chilean, est. 2011; Seismic Dom-ino, Osorno, Chile.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announces The Fabricated Landscape, a new exhibition exploring some of the most innovative minds working in contemporary architecture today, on view through January 17, 2022. Highlighting the fields growing diversity and ingenuity, The Fabricated Landscape presents projects from ten international practices. From single houses to large-scale infrastructure and public spaces, all participating practices many of which are debuting new work for the first time in the United States look at architecture and design as they relate to local communities and the natural environments in which they exist. The exhibition is being staged in Heinz Architectural Center, one of the nations foremost institutes for the study of architecture. The Fabricated Landscape transports visitors across the globe with representations of cutting-edge spaces from Japan and ... More | | 
John Clem Clarke in about 1980. Jane Clarke via The New York Times.
by Alex Traub
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- John Clem Clarke, a young star during the glory days of the SoHo art scene in the 1960s and 70s and an early practitioner of pop art who went on to keep that aesthetic movement and his Manhattan neighborhoods bohemian spirit alive into the 21st century, died June 5 at a nursing home in Keizer, Oregon. He was 83. The cause was dementia, his daughter, Trillion Layne, said. In the 1970s, Clarke earned comparisons to figures now considered modern masters, like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, for the wit with which he made what critics called art about art and for an aesthetic style that incorporated the techniques of industrial mass production. He became known for reinterpretations of canonical paintings. Using a projector, he broke down images of those paintings into stencils and used sponges or homemade spray-paint cans to paint a canvas. ... More |
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| MacKenzie Scott's gifts lift New York City dance | | Academy Museum of Motion Pictures elects Eva Longoria to Board of Trustees | | Camille Henrot's first Australian solo exhibition opens at NGV International | 
Chris Bloom, Shelby Colona and fellow dancers with Ballet Hispánico perform "El Viaje" at the Joyce Theater in New York, March 26, 2019. Andrea Mohin/The New York Times.
by Laura Zornosa
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When the pandemic hit, forcing Dance Theatre of Harlem to cancel performances and suspend classes, the company, like many arts organizations, was devastated. It had no safety net: With only very modest financial reserves, it was able to make it through with help from the federal Paycheck Protection Program and the Ford Foundation. Then, this month, the company unexpectedly got the biggest gift in its 52-year history: a $10 million donation from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The gift, coming at a moment of such institutional peril, was nothing short of transformative, said Anna Glass, Dance Theatres executive director. It will allow the company to say, We have a future, Glass said. We know ... More | | 
Eva Longoria, Photo by Jack Guy.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures today announced the election of actor, director, and producer Eva Longoria to its Board of Trustees. The museum also announced the appointment of motion picture executive and producer Sid Ganis as the museums first honorary trusteea lifetime position. As the governing body of the Academy Museum, the Board leads the museum toward a sustainable future by adopting sound, ethical, and legal governance and financial management policies in addition to securing adequate resources to advance the museums mission. Ted Sarandos, board chair and Co-CEO of Netflix said, We are thrilled to welcome Eva Longoria to the Board of Trustees, where her dedication to inclusiveness, education, and philanthropy will contribute powerfully to our work in guiding the Academy Museum. Sid Ganis, a towering figure in our industry, has been critical to the entire process of making the Academy Mu ... More | | 
Camille Henrot, Bad Dad & Beyond from the Interphones series 2015, installation view, Metro Pictures. interactive sculpture, mixed media, 111.8 x 50.8 x 22.9 cm (overall) Collection of the artist and kamel mennour, Paris, London; Metro Pictures, New York; and KÃNIG GALERIE, Berlin, London, Seoul © ADAGP Camille Henrot. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
MELBOURNE.- Camille Henrot, the French-born, Berlin-based contemporary artist, is being celebrated in an Australian-first survey of works that take a playful and inventive approach to addressing lifes big questions. Camille Henrot is one of the most compelling contemporary artists working today. Born in Paris in 1978, the Berlin-based artist works across diverse media including sculpture, drawing, video and installation. Henrot references self-help, online second-hand marketplaces, cultural anthropology, literature, psychoanalysis, and social media to question what it means to be at once a private individual and a global subject. The exhibition ... More |
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 The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021 Exhibition opens at The Photographers' GalleryLONDON.- Curated by The Photographers Gallerys Anna Dannemann, the exhibition brings together the four nominated projects from the 2021 shortlisted artists: Poulomi Basu, Alejandro Cartagena, Cao Fei and Zineb Sedira. Highlighting the diverse and innovative nature of their individual practices, the exhibition presents four challenging and wide-ranging projects that together amplify universally resonant and relevant themes of representation, virtuality and the environment. The exhibition is being presented at the same time as the international photography triennial RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain and is on display at Deutsche Börses headquarters in Eschborn/Frankfurt from 5 June19 September 2021. 2021 also celebrates the 25th anniversary of this long-standing and prestigious annual prize, which has been awarded in collaboration with Deutsche ... More  Se Yoon Park's tree-like, architectonic sculptures on view at Carvalho ParkBROOKLYN, NY.- Carvalho Park announced the opening of, Of Earth and Sky, marking Korean sculptor Se Yoon Parks first New York solo show. With the quiet air of a sanctuary, towering and intimately scaled sculptural works of 2020 21 compose a contemplative space. Each sculpture is catalyzed by the pursuit of light, yet anchored in fundamental dualities of light and shadow, birth and death, the immediate a microcosm of the infinite. As the Greeks and Romans of antiquity sought ideal symmetries in nature, Parks complex geometries take cues from the structure and abstract values of the tree as an organism that responds most delicately to light, while simultaneously growing in darkness to build a personal iconographic lexicon. In order to actualize a trees visual essence, Park extracts formal elements such as the cursive line, divided mass, and fractal expansion, from the ... More  Thought-provoking, immersive exhibition profiles revolutionary menDALLAS, TX.- The African American Museum, Dallas is hosting the Smithsonian Institutions stunning traveling exhibition, Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth. from June 26-Sept. 12, 2021. The exhibition presents the narrative of a nation through the profiles of significant African American men who are icons in the countrys historical and cultural landscape. Admission to the Museum and Men of Change is free. The Museum is located at 3536 Grand Ave. in Dallas historic Fair Park. Men of Change highlights revolutionary men including Muhammad Ali, James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, W.E.B. Du Bois and Kendrick Lamar whose journeys have altered the history and culture of the country through politics, sports, science, entertainment, business and religion. Each biography is paired with original artwork by a noted artist that accentuates the subjects individual legacies. The ... More  Kluge-Ruhe opens new exhibition celebrating iconic paintings from Australia's OutbackCHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- In 1971, a small group of Aboriginal artists from Australias remote deserts changed the face of global contemporary art. The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia opened a new exhibition on June 24 titled Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past & Present Together): 50 Years of Papunya Tula Artists that shares and celebrates their story, a story of humble beginnings and great success that continues to this day. The township of Papunya was founded in 1959 as a settlement for Aboriginal people who were relocated from their homelands across a large area in the heart of the Australian desert. Some had considerable experience with white Australians. For others, life in Papunya represented their first encounter with non-Indigenous people. Inside this bubbling, cross-cultural cauldron, a small group of men began to paint their ancestral ... More  Violinist apologizes for 'culturally insensitive' remarks about AsiansNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A master class by renowned violinist Pinchas Zukerman was supposed to be the highlight of a recent virtual symposium for young musicians hosted by the Juilliard School. Instead, Zukerman angered many of the roughly 100 participants in the class Friday when he invoked racist stereotypes about Asians, leading Juilliard to decide not to share a video of his master class afterward with participants, as it had initially intended. At one point, Zukerman told a pair of students of Asian descent that their playing was too perfect and that they needed to add soy sauce, according to two participants in the class. At another point, in trying to encourage the students to play more lyrically, he said he understood that people in Korea and Japan do not sing, participants said. His comments were reported earlier by Violinist.com, a music site. Zukermans ... More  Review: At Caramoor, a concert signals return and remembranceKATONAH (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Before a concert by the Orchestra of St. Lukes on a steamy Sunday afternoon here at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, a jubilant James Roe, the ensembles executive director, told the audience that these musicians had not presented a live, in-person performance in 472 days. This return meant more than a mere visit from a Caramoor fixture. In recent months Ive attended orchestral concerts around New York City. But these events played to very limited, mask-wearing audiences. At Caramoor the capacity wasnt restricted to a mere 150 or so people. Hardly any of the 400 people in attendance wore masks (only the unvaccinated were asked to do so). It felt like a real return to normal for classical music. With its bucolic grounds and open-air Venetian Theater, where most programs are being presented, Caramoor is an ideal venue ... More  Groucho Marx's glasses, topcoat and letters to his daughter headline July eventDALLAS, TX.- The secret word is Groucho. This is no joke; no monkey business here. The only punch line here is the bottom line: Some of the most astonishing pieces belonging to the man born Julius Henry Marx can be found in Heritage Auctions star-studded Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature Auction taking place July 16-18. No ones pulling anyones leg, if thats your idea of a good time. Look no further than the signature glasses down his nose: Included here are the very round, silver wire-rim frames Groucho wore in the later Marx Brothers films made for MGM, among them At the Circus, Go West, The Big Store and Groucho, Chico and Harpos penultimate big-screen appearance during which they spent A Night in Casablanca. Marx wore them, too, during stage, screen and radio appearances throughout the 1940s, around the time he stopped wanting prop glasses and started ... More  Virtual Van Gogh exhibition set to lure shoppers in DubaiDUBAI (AFP).- Shoppers and art lovers will soon be able to step into Van Gogh masterpieces projected onto walls and floors in an immersive experience in a Dubai shopping centre. The installation by French firm Culturespaces is reminiscent of "Loving Vincent", the 2017 drama chronicling the life of the Dutch post-impressionist, in which moving images were created using frames painted on canvas. The exhibition, which will showcase digital displays of works from the Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Remy collection and others including Irises, opens on July 1 and will run until mid next year. "Our mission is to make art accessible to all and to be able to share this new way of discovering art with as many people as possible," Catherine Oriol, director of Infinity Des Lumieres at Dubai Mall, told AFP as a pianist played nearby. The exhibition is in the mould of the Atelier des Lumieres in Paris, where classic works ... More  Frederic Rzewski, politically committed composer and pianist, dies at 83NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Frederic Rzewski, a formidable composer and pianist who wrote and performed music that was at once stylistically eclectic and politically committed, died Saturday at his summer home in Montiano, Italy. He was 83. The cause was cardiac arrest, publicist Josephine Hemsing said in an email. Rzewskis anti-establishment thinking stood at the center of his music-making throughout his life. It was evident in the experimental, agitprop improvisations he created in the 1960s with the ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva; in Coming Together, the minimalist classic inspired by the Attica prison uprising; and a vast catalog of solo piano works, several of which have become cornerstones of the modern repertoire. His approach was epitomized in his best-known piece, The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, an expansive and virtuosic set of 36 variations on a ... More  Springsteen reopens Broadway, ushering in theater's returnNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- I have seen the return of Broadway, and its name is Bruce Springsteen. In a city whose cultural soul had been shuttered for more than a year with boarded up windows and empty streets, it was Springsteen who called it back to life on Saturday night, his gruff and guttural rasp the first to echo across a Broadway stage to a paying audience in 471 days. Of course, Springsteen on Broadway is no traditional Broadway production no mesmerizing choreographed musical numbers, no enchanted sets, no multi-page bios of cast members in the Playbill. The show consists of a man alone onstage; his ensemble a microphone, a harmonica, a piano and six steel strings stretched across a select slab of spruce wood. I am here tonight to provide proof of life, Springsteen called out early on. It was a line from the monologue of his original show ... More  Jon Hassell, trumpeter and 'Fourth World' composer, dies at 84NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jon Hassell, a composer and trumpeter who blended modern technology with ancient instruments and traditions to create what he called Fourth World music, died Saturday. He was 84. His death was announced in a statement from his family released by his record label, Ndeya. It did not specify where he died or the immediate cause. Hassells music floated outside the genre boundaries of classical music, electronica, ambient music and jazz. He described Fourth World as a unified primitive/futuristic sound combining features of world ethnic styles with advanced electronic techniques and, elsewhere, as coffee-colored classical music of the future. His music could be contemplative and atmospheric, darkly suspenseful or abstractly funky. On the 20 albums Hassell made as a leader, his trumpet usually had an eerily disembodied sound that ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter Paul Klee died June 29, 1940. Paul Klee (18 December 1879 - 29 June 1940) was a Swiss German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. In this image: Paul Klee, Young Moe, 1938. Colored paste on newspaper on burlap, 20 7/8 x 27 5/8 in. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1948.
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