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Conservator Constance Stromberg cleans The Pregnant Nana by Niki de Saint Phalle at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, which reopens on Oct. 21 after a two-year renovation, in Washington, Oct. 12, 2023. The museum will reopen without its founder Wilhelmina Holladay, a legendary figure in Washington social circles who died in early 2021, and in a social context for women that has changed dramatically during its hiatus. (Lexey Swall/The New York Times)
by Kriston Capps
WASHINGTON, DC.- More than one origin story surrounds the National Museum of Women in the Arts, an institution that is almost synonymous with its founder, Wilhelmina Holladay, who cut a legendary figure in Washington social circles. According to official history, the first seed for the museum was planted in Europe in the late 1970s. It was in Vienna that Holladay and her husband, Wallace, discovered the work of Clara Peeters, a Flemish painter and contemporary of Rembrandts. Another encounter with Peeters followed at the Prado museum in Madrid. Yet, when Holladay consulted H.W. Jansons History of Art, a chronicle of Western painting, she could find no mention of Peeters or any other female artist. This revelation led to Holladays lifes work: correcting the record by building an art collection that culminated in the first major museum in the country dedicated exclusively to female artists. Former museum staffers recall that she told another story: The Holladays ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Norton Simon Museum presents Benevolent Beings: Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from South and Southeast Asia, an exhibition that explores how representations of protective deities have been seen to offer blessings, guidance and security to their devotees. Through 44 artworks drawn solely from the Norton Simonâs extensive collections---many of them being exhibited for the very first time---the exhibition examines the original context and evidence of use of these works, which range from utilitarian and instructive votive objects, to stone and bronze sculpture of bodhisattvas and merciful gods, to highly ornate gilt bronze buddhas.
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| Schoelkopf Gallery to represent the Max Weber Foundation, a pioneering American Modernist | | An X-Wing model from the original 'Star Wars' sells for $3.1 million | | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reveals newly added artworks in 'Infinite Love' by Yayoi Kusama | 
Max Weber, The Apollo in Matisses Studio, 1908, Max Weber Foundation, Courtesy of Schoelkopf Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY .- Schoelkopf Gallery specializing in 19th and 20th century American fine art announced exclusive worldwide representation of the Max Weber Foundation, a pivotal figure in the history of American modernism. This news comes 110 years after Weber's landmark first solo museum exhibition at the Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey, in 1913, a significant milestone for any American modern artist. Through this representation, Schoelkopf Gallery will share the artist's transformative journey and lasting contributions to the development of 20th century modernism with collectors and the wider public through a series of exhibitions and programs. Max Weber, a Polish-born American painter, is celebrated as a pioneering modernist who profoundly influenced the trajectory of American art in the early 20th century. Through his experimentations in Cubism, Expressionism, and Fauvism in the first decades of the twentieth century, Weber t ... More | | 
Screen Matched Hero "Red Leader" (Red One) X-wing Starfighter Filming Miniature with Articulating Servo-Controlled Wings and Lights from Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope (TCF, 1977).
by Michael Levenson
NEW YORK, NY.- A model of an X-wing fighter, which was used to film the climactic battle scene in the 1977 Star Wars, sold at auction Sunday for $3,135,000, far exceeding the opening price of $400,000 and setting a record for a prop used on-screen in a Star Wars movie, according to Heritage Auctions. Not bad for a model spaceship found buried in some packing peanuts in a cardboard box in a garage. Friends of Greg Jein, a Hollywood visual effects artist, discovered the X-wing stashed in his garage last year after he died at age 76. It was one of hundreds of props, scripts, costumes and other pieces of Hollywood memorabilia that Jein had collected over the decades, and had left scattered throughout two houses, two garages and two storage units in Los ... More | | 
Yayoi Kusama, LOVE IS CALLING, 2013. Installed in the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: I Who Have Arrived In Heaven, David Zwirner, New York, 2013 © YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy the artist, Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announces Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love, the first opportunity for audiences to experience Yayoi Kusamas famed Infinity Mirror Rooms in the Bay Area. Yayoi Kusamas irresistible psychedelic art installations invite viewers to step into dazzling mirrored spaces that convey a feeling of unlimited potential and possibility. Opened to the public on October 14, 2023, Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love is the artists first solo museum presentation in Northern California and features two Infinity Mirror Rooms. For many audiences, this is the first chance to see Kusamas latest work, Dreaming of Earths Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love (2023), following its acclaimed debut in New York at David Zwirner gallery. Today, SFMOMA reveals a second Infinity Mirror ... More |
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| How 6 Italian brothers shaped the story of New York | | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is now exhibiting 'Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map' | | Fondation Louis Vuitton to present first retrospective in France dedicated to Mark Rothko | 
The masterly Piccirilli brothers, six Italian immigrants, set up a shop in the 1890s in the Bronx and created some of the most important public sculptures in New York. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times)
by John Freeman Gill
NEW YORK, NY.- Few people have shaped the streetscape of New York as prominently as the stone-carving Piccirilli brothers, six Italian immigrants who turned out one important public sculpture after another at their studio complex in the Bronx starting in the 1890s. From the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green to the Bronx Zoo, from the figures of George Washington on the Washington Arch in Greenwich Village to the recumbent lions at the flagship building of The New York Public Library, the Piccirillis left their mark all over town. You think about the number of works that the Piccirilli brothers carved, theyre everywhere, said Thayer Tolles, curator of American paintings and sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its not just the firemens ... More | | 
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Survival Suite: Nature/Medicine, 1996. Lithograph with chine-collé. 36 1/8 à 24 13/16 in. (91.8 à 63 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Joe and Barb Zanatta Family in honor of Jaune Quick to See Smith 2003.28.3. Printed by Lawrence Lithography Workshop, Kansas City, Missouri. Published by Zanatta Editions, Shawnee Kansas. © Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Photo courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
FORT WORTH.- The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth began the exhibition Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map recognizing Smiths nearly five-decade career as an artist, activist, curator, educator, and advocate. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the exhibition, that will be on view at the Modern until January 21, 2024, is a recognition of a groundbreaking artists work. For nearly five decades Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, has charted an exceptional and unorthodox career as an artist, activist, curator, educator, and advocate. ... More | | 
Mark Rothko, Self Portrait, 1936. Oil on canvas, 81.9 x 65.4 cm. Collection of Christopher Rothko. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko - Adagp, Paris, 2023.
PARIS.- Opening on October 18, 2023, the Fondation Louis Vuitton presents the first retrospective in France dedicated to Mark Rothko (1903-1970) since the exhibition held at the musée dArt moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1999. The retrospective brings together some 115 works from the largest international institutional and private collections, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the artists family, and the Tate in London. Displayed chronologically across all of the Fondations spaces, the exhibition traces the artists entire career: from his earliest figurative paintings to the abstract works that he is most known for today. Im interested only in expressing basic human emotions. Mark Rothko. The exhibition opens with intimate scenes and urban landscapes such as visions of the New York subway that dominate Rothkos output in the ... More |
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| Solo exhibition by Greek filmmaker and visual artist Janis Rafa on view at Eye Filmmuseum | | 'That Luscious Day' and 'Daguerreotypes: Up Close' open at PDNB Gallery | | Bonhams Scotland celebrates the canine companion with the return of The Dog Sale | 
Janis Rafa, Landscape Depressions, 2023. 26 min., 4K, 5.1 sound Photo: Studio Hans Wilschut.
AMSTERDAM.- Eye Filmmuseum presents a solo exhibition by Greek artist and filmmaker Janis Rafa. Her evocative films and video installations focus on relations between humans and other creatures. The silent presence of non-humans such as dogs, horses and cows forms the leading force within Rafas work. Several works will premiere during the exhibition, including the short film Landscape Depressions (2023) and a new multi-screen video installation. Janis Rafas practice forms a wordless ode to stray and domesticated dogs, roadkill, hunted prey, animals in factory farming and other victims of late- capitalist society. Her works blend fiction with the mundane, highlighting structures of power, domination and control. The locations she chooses lie on the urban fringes, post-industrial sites, abandoned buildings and decaying agricultural landscapes. Among the ruins of these worlds, she explores themes such ... More | | 
Marcy Palmer, Once Was, 2022. 24k gold leaf on vellum. Courtesy of PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX .
DALLAS, TX.- PDNB Gallery, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery - dedicated to photo-based art, opened two exhibitions on October 14, 2023. 'That Luscious Day' Marcy Palmers suite of gold leaf photographs explore the subject of beauty. She takes botanical photographs, mostly flowers, and then gilds them to emphasize their preciousness. Marcy is inspired by this quote by John ODonohue, I think that beauty is not a luxury, but that it enobles the heart and reminds us of the infinity that is within us. During the pandemic so many of us sought inspiration and comfort in nature. Our attraction to local flora was amplified. Perhaps this is why the work resonates, the beauty is profound. These are mostly small, exquisite photographs that are gilded with 24k or 18k gold leaf. Marcy identifies the early botanical images by Anna Atkins as a major influence, as well as Karl Blossfeldts important plant studies. PDNB is including ... More | | 
John Emms (British, 1843-1912), The New Forest Buckhounds. Estimate" £50,000 - 70,000. Photo: Bonhams
EDINBURGH.- Bonhams Scotland celebrates the unique bond between humans and their faithful canine companions with the return of The Dog Sale featuring a selection of paintings, drawings, works of art, and other items. The sale will take place at Bonhams Melville Crescent on Wednesday 8 November. Leo Webster, Specialist in Pictures at Bonhams Scotland comments, We have had an amazing, international response to this sale. From 19th century sporting subjects to portraiture, ceramics, bronzes, and even collars, we really wanted to show the breadth of dogs in art and of course, celebrate the enduring relationship we have with our canine companions. Leading the 250-lot sale is an oil painting by British artist John Emms (1843-1912) of The New Forest Buckhounds, 1896 with an estimate of £50,000-70,000. Emms specialised in the paintings of hounds with ... More |
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| Discover the future of technology: artificial intelligence exhibition at the CCCB | | Searching for America's first Black female novelist | | LeVar Burton to host National Book Awards | 
Co(AI)xistence by Justine Emard, 2017. Video installation, 12'. Amb Mirai Moriyama & Alter (developed by Ishiguro lab, Osaka University and Ikegami Lab, Tokyo University) © Justine Emard / Adagp, Paris 2018.
BARCELONA.- Artificial Intelligence is coproduced by the Centre de Cultura Contemporà nia de Barcelona and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), based on the original touring exhibition curated and organized by the Barbican Centre in London (2019). The exhibition at the CCCB is curated by LluÃs Nacenta, a researcher at the overlap of music, art, technology and science, with the scientific advice of Jordi Torres, a researcher at the BSC. In the current context of intense public discussion and collective dependence on AI, the exhibition offers us a clear and comprehensible approach to artificial intelligence and the debate about its development and implementation in the coming years. Its main themes are the role of AI in everyday life, the huge opportunities it offers scientific and biomedical research, the role of supercomputing as a major driving force, the present legislative situation, the risks of misi ... More | | 
An undated photo provided by the John H. Wheeler Papers shows previously unnoticed jottings in one of Wheelers almanacs, listing the names and ages of some enslaved people in his household. (John H. Wheeler Papers via The New York Times)
by Jennifer Schuessler
NEW YORK, NY.- It was one of the most dramatic discovery stories in recent literary history. In 2001, scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. announced that he had discovered the earliest known novel by an African American woman, a never-published tale purportedly written in the 1850s by an enslaved woman named Hannah Crafts. The 301-page manuscript, a harrowing tale of violence and sexual abuse that also brazenly mocked the self-regard of enslavers, was published in 2002 as The Bondwomans Narrative. It hit The New York Times bestseller list, even as some experts questioned whether the novel, with its sensational plot twists and references to Victorian novels, was really the work of an enslaved woman. Doubts receded in 2013, when Gregg Hecimovich, a little-known literary scholar, announced that he had tracked down the real-life author. Hannah Crafts, he argued, was the pen name ... More | | 
LeVar Burton hosts the National Book Awards in New York, Nov. 19, 2019. The National Book Foundation has tapped a new host for its 74th award ceremony next month: the actor and literacy advocate LeVar Burton. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The National Book Foundation has tapped a new host for its 74th award ceremony next month: actor and literacy advocate LeVar Burton. Burton is stepping in to replace actress Drew Barrymore, who was scheduled to host but was dropped by the foundation after she decided to bring back her daytime talk show during the strike by television writers, and was widely criticized. Although Barrymore reversed course and postponed her show, the foundation was still left scrambling for a new host for its awards, which are scheduled to take place Nov. 15 at a black-tie dinner at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. With Burton, known for his roles in âRootsâ and âStar Trek: The Next Generation,â the foundation has brought in a seasoned and familiar host. Burton hosted the National Book Awards in 2019 and is a beloved figure in the book world for his promotion of childhood literacy. He hosted the PBS series âReading Rainbowâ for more than 20 years and has kept up the tradition with his podcast, âLeVa ... More |
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 Suzanne Somers, star of 'Three's Company,' is dead at 76NEW YORK, NY.- Suzanne Somers, who gained fame by playing a ditsy blonde on the sitcom Threes Company and then by getting fired when she demanded equal pay with the series male star, and who later built a health and diet business empire, most notably with the ThighMaster, died Sunday at her home in Palm Springs, California. She was one day away from turning 77. The cause was breast cancer, said Caroline Somers, her daughter-in-law. Threes Company first went on the air in 1977. The show told the story of two roommates Chrissy Snow, a secretary, played by Somers; and Janet Wood, a florist, played by Joyce DeWitt who welcomed a man to join them as a third roommate: Jack Tripper, a culinary student played by John Ritter. Since their landlord would frown on an unmarried man living with two single women, ... More  Opera Philadelphia cuts its budget, but not its ambitionPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Opera Philadelphia, like many arts organizations worldwide, is experiencing something of a hangover from the darkest days of the pandemic. When companies returned to live performance, it was common and necessary for them to broadcast to their audiences that they had come back strong. In Europe, a proliferation of Wagner productions signified a return to grandeur; at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the first work by a Black composer ushered in a new era for a bastion of staid tradition; and last year, Opera Philadelphia resumed its hulking, adventurous and essential season-opening festival. By then, the company was merely adding a live component to its busy lockdown output, which featured innovative video operas that kept the art form going, while also asking where else it could go. Few houses have ... More  Balanchine's gems were his dancers. He honored them with 'Jewels.'NEW YORK, NY.- The sylvan glade romanticism of Emeralds, the electric energy of Rubies, the glittering imperial court of Diamonds. These are the three parts of George Balanchines Jewels, from 1967, often described as the first full-length plotless ballet. On Tuesday, New York City Ballet will open its 75th anniversary season with Jewels and a tribute to all the dancers who make up the companys history. Thats fitting because Jewels was Balanchines tribute to his dancers of that time: to the enchanting elegance of Violette Verdy and Mimi Paul in Emeralds; the insouciant charms and street smarts of Patricia McBride and Edward Villella in Rubies; and the grand glamour of Suzanne Farrell and Jacques dAmboise in Diamonds. The idea was born over dinner at violinist Nathan Milsteins home, where Balanchine and Claude Arpels, from Parisian jewelry firm Van Cleef & Arp ... More  Famed Iranian filmmaker is killed in his homeNEW YORK, NY.- Dariush Mehrjui, a prominent Iranian filmmaker, was killed in his home near Tehran, Iran on Saturday along with his wife, according to police. Mehrjui, 83, who is considered one of the pioneers of Iranian cinemas new wave movement, and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, 54, a screenwriter and costume designer, were found dead by their daughter when she came to the family house in Karaj, in Alborz province, on Saturday night, according to Hanif Soroori, Mehrjuis assistant. Their throats had been slit, he said. Hamid Hadavand, the Alborz police chief, said in an interview with the Iranian student news agency ISNA that a motive for the killings remained unknown. According to a post on the Tasnim News Agency, some gold items appeared to have been stolen. Mehrjuis close studies of contemporary life in Iran have inspired a generation of filmmakers. One of his best-known films, ... More  M.S. Rau's new gallery exhibition 'Erté & the Era of Art Deco' features 170 works by the 'Father of Art Deco'NEW ORLEANS, LA.- M.S. Rau has unveiled its newest exhibition, Erté & The Era of Art Deco, at its gallery at 630 Royal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The curated installation will feature nearly 170 original works by Erté - the oft-called Father of Art Deco - as well as other rare period treasures that epitomize the opulence and sophistication of the Art Deco movement. The show will also be available to view online as a virtual exhibition at msrau.com. Art Deco was an influential art and design style that emerged during the Roaring Twenties, featuring sleek and stylized forms, geometric patterns and vibrant colors. One of the key figures in shaping this style was Erté, also known as Romain de Tirtoff. The exhibition showcases a large collection of Erté's original gouache paintings, which were used to create designs for fashion shows, nightclubs, ... More  The experience of communing featured in Joy Labinjo's 'Beloved, Take What You Need'LONDON.- Tiwani Contemporary has opened Joy Labinjo: Beloved, Take What You Need, the gallery's inaugural exhibition at its 24 Cork Street, Mayfair gallery. This new body of work focuses on everyday Black life, and reflects the personal and professional changes Labinjo has been through in the five years since Tiwani Contemporary first presented her work. Featuring intimate scenes, and exploring themes of love, relationships, and family dynamics, Labinjos large-scale figurative paintings present fresh and arresting compositions of colour and explore multiple modes of representation including abstraction, naturalism, and flatness. Drawing inspiration from found images and her own personal photographs, the suite of paintings demonstrate Joy Labinjos maturing practice. The subjects of these paintings, both real and imagined, are lively groups of friends and family at leisure, enjoying the simple ... More  Mendes Wood DM, Paris, presents 'I See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem'PARIS.- Mendes Wood DM has inaugurated its new gallery space in Paris with the exhibition entitled 'I See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem' curated by Fernanda Brenner. Taking its title from a sentence in a letter by the poet Paul Celan in 1960, the exhibition brings together a wide range of artists from different contexts and career stages while considering its distinctive location: the oldest planned square in Paris, the Place des Vosges. The collective show proposes a divagation on touching hands across time: the hand imprinted on the rock walls of a cave, the hand holding another hand, the hand that caresses, creates, and destroys. The works on view invite a close look at what hands touch and circumscribe and what it lets slip away as a reconsideration of how we relate to living and non-living beings, starting from the simple ... More  Omid Asadi has first major UK solo exhibition at Castlefield GalleryMANCHESTER .- Castlefield Gallery has just opened the first major UK solo exhibition by Omid Asadi. The exhibition will feature new large scale sculptural work by Asadi exploring loss, memory and belonging. Resonance and Remnants (2023) will be built in situ in the gallery space using reclaimed bricks from demolished houses, found objects and dandelion seeds. These broken but resilient found materials will be set in contrast with the delicate seeds and their connotations of childhood hopes and dreams. This work is informed by Asadis experiences of revisiting the locations of destroyed family homes, lost to either war or so-called development. Despite this personal inspiration behind the work, it is hoped that it will resonate with the diverse range of memories, histories and knowledge that visitors bring to the exhibition. Contrast ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Cristofano Allori was born October 17, 1577. Cristofano Allori (17 October 1577 - 1 April 1621) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school. Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his father, Alessandro Allori, but becoming dissatisfied with the hard anatomical drawing and cold coloring of the latter, he entered the studio of Gregorio Pagani, who was one of the leaders of the late Florentine school, which sought to unite the rich coloring of the Venetians with the Florentine attention to drawing. Allori also appears to have worked under Cigoli. In this image: Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1613). Oil on canvas, 139 x 116 cm. Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence.
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