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Anne Lindbergs site-specific installation what color is divine light? Photo by Derek Porter.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Visitors are encouraged to make their own connections between two vastly different but related offerings that transform space Anne Lindberg: what color is divine light?, a site-specific and immersive installation, and Prayer and Transcendence, an exhibition of classical prayer rugs, at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum in Washington, DC, through July 1, 2023. Set against lavender walls, Anne Lindberg: what color is divine light? contains thousands of chromatic threads in complementary yellow and blue colors creating a cloud of color that evokes light itself. The installation invites visitors to gather and reflect: If divinity could be experienced as a physical presence, what might it look like? Sound like? Feel like? What color is divine light? ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Exceptional Ancient, Ethnographic, & Fine Art sale on Mar 09, 2023 9:00 AM CST. The sale includes museum-worthy examples of classical antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Viking, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Nautical, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine / Visual Arts, so much more! Superb Gandharan Schist Statue - Standing Buddha. Estimate $120,000 - $200,000.
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| The National Gallery of Art acquires "Sentinels (Large Yellow)' by G. Peter Jemison | | Metropolitan Museum of Art currently presenting major exhibition of Mayan art through April | | The Barnes Foundation presents 'Sue Williamson & Lebohang Kganye: Tell Me What You Remember' | 
G. Peter Jemison, Sentinels (Large Yellow), 2006. Acrylic, oil, and collage on canvas, overall: 91.44 x 101.6 cm (36 x 40 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Funds from Sharon Percy Rockefeller and Senator John Davison Rockefeller IV
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WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has acquired its first work by G. Peter Jemison (Seneca Nation of Indians, Heron Clan, b. 1945), a deeply respected and influential Native American artist. Sentinels (Large Yellow) (2006) reflects the relationship of Native Americans to the land and the continuing stewardship of the Creators gifts. By visualizing land-based knowledge systems, Jemisons art celebrates the multifaceted culture, beliefs, and history of the Haudenosaunee, or Six Nations, that comprise the Iroquois Confederacy. Jemisons overall practice embodies Orenda, a traditional Haudenosaunee belief that every living thing and every part of creation contains a spiritual force. This belief is evident in Jemisons landscapes, with the remains of summer plantings casting shadows against the winter snow. Dried sunflowers, a reminder of the natural markers of the ... More | | 
Whistling vessel. Guatemala or Mexico, 5th century. Ceramic, H. 11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1963. (1978.412.90a, b).
NEW YORK, NY.- In Maya artone of the greatest artistic traditions of the ancient Americasthe gods are depicted in all stages of life: as infants, as adults at the peak of their maturity and influence, and finally, as they age. The gods could perish, and some were born anew, providing a model of regeneration and resilience. Since November at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art brings together nearly 100 rarely seen masterpieces and recent discoveries in diverse mediafrom the monumental to the miniaturethat depict episodes in the life cycle of the gods, from the moment of their birth to resplendent transformations as blossoming flowers or fearsome creatures of the night. Created by masters of the Classic period (A.D. 250900) in the spectacular royal cities in the tropical forests of what is now Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, these landmark works evoke a world in whic ... More | | 
Lebohang Kganye. Ngwana o tshwana le dinaledi II from Ke Lefa Laka: Her-story, 2013. Inkjet print on cotton rag paper. Image © Lebohang Kganye. Courtesy of the artist. Image © Lebohang Kganye. Courtesy of the artist.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- In spring 2023, the Barnes Foundation presents Sue Williamson & Lebohang Kganye: Tell Me What You Remember. Bringing together the work of two of South Africas most acclaimed contemporary artists, the exhibition offers a cross-generational dialogue on history, memory, and the power of self-narration in the context of apartheid and its legacies. On view in the Roberts Gallery from March 5 through May 21, 2023, and curated by Emma Lewis, curator at Turner Contemporary, Margate, England, this exhibition is the most significant presentation of each artist in the US to date, and the first time their work has been presented in dialogue. Three decades after the dismantling of apartheid began, the generation born during the transition to democracy has reached adulthood and its artists have used their work to navigate their difficult inheritance. At the same time, the distance between their experience and that of an older gener ... More |
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| PhillipsX presents 'Never Above 14th St.,' exhibition celebrating the Downtown NYC Art Scene of 80s and 90s | | Anna Freeman Bentley joins Simon Lee Gallery | | Sotheby's to offer works from the collection of Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem including Picasso painting | 
Mike Bidlo, Not Chagall, 1984.
NEW YORK, NY.- PhillipsX is opening a selling exhibition focusing on the 1980s and 1990s East Village art scene in New York. On view from 8 - 24 March at 432 Park Avenue, Never Above 14th St. features a wide variety of well known 80s and 90s New York City artists, including Dondi White, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Crash, and others. While Uptown Art Circles of the time focused on the intellectual limits of Minimalism and Conceptualism, the Downtown crowd concentrated on personal expression, politics, and the energy of the city. Scott Nussbaum, Deputy Chairman, Americas, and Senior International Specialist, said Downtown New York was the epicenter of avant-garde Art and Culture in the 1980s and 1990s. Below 14th Street, artists mingled politics, poetry, identity, and angst into new and profound expressions of creativity. Transcending ... More | | 
Portrait of the artist, 2022. Photo: Peter Mallet.
LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery announced representation of British artist Anna Freeman Bentley (b.1982, London). The artists inaugural exhibition at the gallery will open in November 2023 in London, following inclusion of her new paintings in the gallerys Art Basel Hong Kong presentation this month. Freeman Bentleys practice explores the uncanny within architectural spaces, depicting interiors imbued with a heightened emotional or psychological intensity. The absence of figures enables Freeman Bentley to imply narrative, creating worlds within worlds that contain subtle signifiers revealing the artifice and complex dynamics of manmade environments. For her most recent series, Freeman Bentley draws inspiration from visiting film sets. This enabled the artist to establish a connection with a determined, temporary site in order to make work that chronicles her relationship to it. The works are heavily influenced ... More | | 
Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attese, 1968, estimate $1.8-2.5 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- This May in New York, Sothebys will offer some 17 exceptional works from the collection of Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem, passionate collectors, highly successful entrepreneurs and visionaries and, not least, philanthropists of the highest order whose transformative support has benefitted a wide-range of causes in the fine arts, music, education, and medical research. Keenly aware that arts and culture can only survive and flourish if nurtured and taught, Jan and Maria have in recent times lent their support to more than 40 charitable programs around the world. In addition to leading centers of medical research (UCSF, CPMC, Meyer Pediatrics Hospital), beneficiaries include New Yorks Metropolitan Opera; UC Davis; the San Francisco Opera; the Royal Drawing School in London; SFMoMA; Festival ... More |
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| Phoenix Art Museum announces MAC Curator of Engagement Giovana Aviles | | Irish Museum of Modern Art announced two new appointments to the senior management team | | Did Ocasio-Cortez intend to pay for her Met Gala dress? | 
Aviles comes to PhxArt from CALA Alliance, where she served as the community engagement and education manager since 2017. Photo: Shaunté Glover.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum has selected Giovana Aviles to serve as the Museums inaugural Mens Arts Council Curator of Engagement. The position is endowed by the Mens Arts Council, a non-profit member organization of Valley philanthropists dedicated to supporting the Museums community-outreach programs through annual giving. Aviles officially begins in the role today, March 6, 2023. We are thrilled to welcome Giovana Aviles to the education and engagement team at Phoenix Art Museum, said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Museums Sybil Harrington Director and CEO. Giovana has the passion, creativity, and innovative mindset to not only build engagement through our current programming roster but expand our efforts to connect with our community in authentic and meaningful ways. We are deeply grateful to the Mens Arts Council for their ... More | | 
Mary Cremin, Head of Programming.
DUBLIN.- Irish Museum of Modern Art recently announced the appointment of two new members to the Senior Management team - Sheena Barrett as Head of Research & Learning, and Mary Cremin as Head of Programming. Welcoming the appointments IMMA Director Annie Fletcher said The future for IMMA feels really bright with these two appointments. I couldnt think of a more dynamic addition of intelligence, energy, and strategic thinking to our already brilliant and passionate team. In their individual ways both Mary and Sheena have proven through incredible careers and innovative practices how art is pivotal to our society, and we cant wait to work with them in imagining an even bigger and more ambitious Irish Museum of Modern Art. Sheena Barrett joined Dublin City Council in 2006 as Assistant Arts Officer and Curator to lead the development of the LAB Gallery as a critical platform for emerging arts practice in Ireland. Having prev ... More | | 
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), center, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, Sept. 13, 2021. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
by Sharon Otterman
NEW YORK, NY.- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., made international headlines when she wore a white gown scrawled with the words Tax the Rich to the star-studded Met Gala in New York in September 2021. But now, congressional investigators have found substantial reason to believe that she might have violated House ethics rules and perhaps federal law by accepting gifts associated with the event. At issue are the payments for the rental of the dress, jewelry, shoes and bag she wore to the event, as well as the costs of her makeup, hair, transportation and about $5,000 for a share of rooms at the Carlyle Hotel, where she prepared for the gala. Her campaign did eventually pay for all the costs from her personal accounts, as required ... More |
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| Once the world's largest, a hotel goes 'poof!' before our eyes | | James Kelly presents Seven Decades of Painting: From Bay Area Abstract Expressionism to New York's Downtown Scene | | Ricou Browning, who made the Black Lagoon scary, dies at 93 | 
Steven Lepore, who has amassed a collection of items from the now defunct Hotel Pennsylvania, including two Servidors which he keeps in storage, in New York on Feb. 21, 2023. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
by Dan Barry
NEW YORK, NY.- Bit by bit, floor by floor, the building that once rose 22 stories over Penn Station is shrinking before New York Citys very eyes. The black netting draped over its ever-diminishing brick is like a magicians handkerchief; once removed, it will reveal nothing. Behold: The Great Disappearing Act of the Hotel Pennsylvania. This isnt or wasnt just any building. This was once the largest hotel on Earth, with 2,200 rooms, shops, restaurants, its own newspaper and a telephone number immortalized by bandleader Glenn Miller with a 1940 song Pennsylvania 6-5000, for which the complete original lyrics are: Pennsylvania Six Five Thousand Pennsylvania Six Five Thousand Pennsylvania Six Five Thousand Pennsylvania Six Five Oh Oh Oh Thats it. The hotel fig ... More | | 
James Kelly, Toledo, 1989. Oil on canvas, 42 x 40 inches. Copyright © James Kelly Estate, Courtesy David Richard Gallery. Photographs by Yao Zu Lu.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is currently presenting James Kelly: Seven Decades of Painting, From California Abstract Expressionism to New Yorks Downtown Scene, a survey of the artists lifelong commitment to painting as evident in 12 distinct representations from his oeuvre including: hard-edge geometric paintings from the 1940s, California Abstract Expressionism from the 1950s, Pop from the 1960s, Minimalism from the 1970s, and even his last painting representing the artists return to his own personal language of painterly abstraction from the 1980s and onward. James Kelly (1913 2003) is an American Painter. He was championed by Walter Hopps and included in his first curatorial foray, the seminal Merry Go Round exhibition of 1955. In Los Angeles, Kelly was one of the original artists at The Ferus Galley. Kellys work is included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, T ... More | | 
Ricou Browning in costume as the Gill Man, also known as the Creature From the Black Lagoon, in 1953. (State Archives of Florida via The New York Times)
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK, NY.- Ricou Browning, who played the title character, or at least the underwater version of it, in one of the most enduring creature features of the 1950s, Creature From the Black Lagoon, died Feb. 27 at his home in Southwest Ranches, Florida, northwest of Miami. He was 93. His daughter Renee Le Feuvre confirmed the death. Browning was 23 when Newt Perry, a promoter of various Florida attractions for whom he had worked as a teenager, asked him to show some Hollywood visitors around Wakulla Springs, a picturesque spot near Tallahassee. The entourage which, as Browning told the story later, included Jack Arnold, the films director, and cameraman Scotty Welbourne was scouting locations for a planned movie about an underwater monster. Scotty had his underwater camera, Browning ... More |
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 Louisiana Art & Science Museum presents Artistry and Accuracy: Botanical Illustrations by Margaret StonesBATON ROUGE, LA.- On March 1st the Louisiana Art & Science Museum opened its exhibition Artistry and Accuracy: Botanical Illustrations by Margaret Stones in the Catwalk Gallery. The botanical illustrations of Australian-born Margaret Stones (19202018), who is one of the worlds most celebrated botanical artists, are a seamless combination of art and science. The artists drawings document Louisianas plants and flowers with accurate scientific detail while also artistically and uniquely capturing the floras intricate beauty. Dr. Gresdna Doty, Louisiana State University (LSU) Professor of Theatre, suggested that LSU Chancellor Dr. Paul Murrill commission Margaret Stones to create six watercolor drawings commemorating the bicentennial of America and the fiftieth anniversary of LSUs Baton Rouge campus in 1976. This illustrated study ... More  The Treasure House Fair is to be the new name for June fair at Royal Hospital ChelseaLONDON.- Harry Van der Hoorn and Thomas Woodham-Smith announced that the new fair at Royal Hospital Chelsea in June, will henceforth be called The Treasure House Fair. Our choice of title reflects the wide range of disciplines and masterpieces in the fair, each piece a treasure in its own right. From my perspective, and I speak as a Dutchman, treasure is a word that is understood throughout the world. The word House is a mark of respect to The Grosvenor House Fair, a fair that has inspired so many of us over the years. Harry Van der Hoorn. Exhibitors in the first edition of The Treasure House Fair 2023 will include UK, European and international dealers, each of them at the top of their field, such as Ronald Phillips, Adrian Sassoon, Michele Beiny, Richard Green, Osborne Samuel, Galerie Gmurzynska, Tomasso, Peter Harrington, Shapero Rare Books, ... More  Review: Mining a whimsical absurdist vein in 'The Trees'NEW YORK, NY.- Change implies movement: from here to there, from then to now, from one thing to another and perhaps back again. But in Agnes Borinskys new play, The Trees, it is represented by immobility. After all, the two central characters are physically rooted to the ground. They do not evolve much over the course of the show its those around them who do. Returning from a party with her brother, David (a one-note Jess Barbagallo), Sheila (the ever-engaging Crystal Dickinson) jokes that they should just stay where they are that is, a Connecticut park for 10 years, or maybe even 100. Suddenly, a drunken flight of fancy becomes reality as the pair sink into the floor down to their ankles and stay there for the entire show, stationary fixtures watching the friends, lovers, family members and even strangers drawn to their ... More  Tennessee law limiting 'cabaret' shows raises uncertainty about drag eventsNASHVILLE, TENN.- A bill signed into law this week in Tennessee makes staging adult cabaret on public property or anywhere a child could see it a criminal offense. The law forbids performances in those places by topless, go-go or exotic dancers, strippers, or male or female impersonators who, as the law defines it, provides entertainment that is harmful to minors. The word drag does not appear in the legislation. And to some legal experts, the description provided in the letter of the law would not apply to drag as they know it. But many in the state are still trying to grasp how the measure will ultimately affect drag events, theater performances that involve drag, and even transgender and gender nonconforming people as they go about their lives. The law is part of a cascade of legislation across the country fueled by a conservative backlash to drag ... More  A debut novel creates a world from pages taken from the pastNEW YORK, NY.- Author Alice Winn was procrastinating, digging through the archives of the English boarding school she had attended, when she came across a historical treasure trove: copies of the schools newspaper from the early 20th century. The paper, digitized and posted online, tracked the progression of World War I through the lives of alumni and students at the school, Marlborough College. At first, the students were eager to join the fight; they cheered on their classmates and wrote letters home from the front, romanticizing the valor and bravery of war. And then they started dying. Along with regular features on cricket matches and debate societies, the paper, called The Marlburian, ran lists of alumni who were wounded, taken prisoner or killed, as well as obituaries and poems of remembrance. A retired teacher named John ... More  Two operas, two sopranos, two very different impactsNEW YORK, NY.- An irresistible force drags me here, a character says of the man she loves in Vincenzo Bellinis Norma, which was revived at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday with soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title role. The breeze echoes with his dear voice. Every opera, of course, wants the voices in it to be irresistible forces, echoing in our minds; that is the point of the art form. But in the bel canto works of the early 19th century of which Norma, from 1831, is a lasting masterpiece vocal quality is more than a want. Its a need. Particularly in the monumental title role. Norma is a descendant of Medea, a character who opened the Mets season in Luigi Cherubinis 1797 opera. Both are women wronged by their lovers and contemplating the murder of their children; both are figures of immense, mystical stature. And in both works, ... More  Gost Books to publish 'The Things Not Seen Are Eternal' by Herman Ellis Dyal to be published April 2023NEW YORK, NY.- Over a period of two years, Herman Ellis Dyal photographed the interior of the church in San Antonio, Texas which had been the centre of his familys life since the 1940s. The resulting photographs show much of the building now unused and form his first monograph, The Things Not Seen Are Eternal. In 2021, while passing by Riverside Church in San Antonio, Dyal noticed an open door and after not setting foot inside the building for 50-years, entered. From the outside, the church appeared to be out of use. Greeted by the longtime pastor, Dyal learned that the large church, which had once been one of the largest and fastest growing in the city with a congregation of over 1,000 congregants, had dwindled to a present attendance of a dozen or so mostly elderly, long-time members. The congregation now gathers in one small area ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-American painter Piet Mondrian was born March 07, 1872. Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (7 March 1872 - 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. In this image: Mondrian restoration project team with Sea after sunset (1909) Photo: Alice de Groot.
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