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STAMFORD, CONN.- When some artists reach retirement age they tend to slo0w down and minimize their artistic output; not so for June Ahrens. She has been showing her work here and abroad and at 85 has decided to mount her first retrospective. Ahrens will be opening her studio at Glenbrook Industrial Park, Stamford, CT on September 21, 22, 28, and 29 from 3-5pm. At that time she will be presenting REWIND: A CAREER REFLECTION, which will include installations, new pieces and and works created during her 40 year career. Ahrens is an American contemporary artist known for her evocative works that explore themes of memory, loss, and the passage of time. Her art often employs unconventional materials and a deep sensitivity to the human experience, creating pieces that resonate on both emotional and intellectual levels. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia), will open Isaac Julien's compelling cinematic installation Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (2022) from 27 September 2024 until 16 February 2025.
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| The British Museum is trying to recover gems, and its reputation | | Italy's premier shotgun brands dominate Montrose's Aug. 31 Sporting, Classic & Collectible Firearms Auction | | Michael Schreffler appointed director of new Notre Dame Arts Initiative |
Alex Watson Jones, a member of the British Museums recovery team, examines red sulphur cast impressions of gems inside the Greek and Rome department at the museum. (Sam Bush/The New York Times)
LONDON.- A year has passed since the British Museum said it had fired a curator for stealing from its supposedly lock-tight storerooms and selling the artifacts online. Ever since, the museum has struggled to deal with the fallout from the scandal, which has battered its reputation as ... More | |
Blaser F3 12-gauge over/under shotgun with satin nickel-finished receiver, single selective trigger and ejectors. Interchangeable choke tubes.
MONTROSE, GA.- Those who would rather be in the great outdoors at the first signs of crisp fall weather might want to start planning for their field excursions later this month when Montrose Auction presents a selection of fine sporting, classic and collectible firearms built by the worlds finest gunmakers. The August 31 auction lineup boasts high quality and excellent condition in each of its 545 ... More | |
As a professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Design, Schrefflers scholarly work focuses on Spanish colonial art and architectural history.
NOTRE DAME, IN.- Art historian and College of Arts and Letters Associate Dean for the Arts Michael Schreffler has been named director of the University of Notre Dames new Arts Initiative emerging from Notre Dame 2033: A Strategic Framework. One of several University-wide priorities outlined in the framework, the Arts Initiative, also known as Arts@ND, will spearhead ... More |
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| Scientists seeking life on Mars heard a signal that hinted at the future | | By day, Sun Studio draws tourists. At night, musicians lay down tracks. | | Art and Process exhibition opens October 24 at the Walters |
In 1924, a radio receiver built for the battlefields of World War I tested the idea that humans were not alone in the solar system, heralding a century of searches for extraterrestrial life. (Señor Salme/The New York Times)
DEARBORN, MICH.- At sunset on a late summer weekend in 1924, crowds flocked to curbside telescopes to behold the advanced alien civilization they believed to be present on the surface of Mars. See the wonders of Mars! an uptown sidewalk astronomer shouted in New York City on Saturday, ... More | |
Recording keyboards at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tenn. (Houston Cofield/The New York Times)
MEMPHIS, TENN.- The days last batch of tourists filed out of an exhibition space and entered a room overflowing with the sound of Johnny Cashs Cry! Cry! Cry! Theyd spent the late afternoon soaking up stories about this small space with an outsize weight Sun Studio, in Memphis, Tennessee where the nascent sound of rock n roll took shape in the mid-1950s. Its where Elvis Presley became Elvis and Sun Records made ... More | |
Camille Pissarro (French, 18311903), The Church at Eragny, 1884. Oil on canvas. Gift of Barbara B. Hirschhorn, Elizabeth B. Roswell, and Mary Jane Blaustein in memory of Jacob and Hilda Blaustein, 1991.
BALTIMORE, MD.- On view October 24, 2024 through March 9, 2025, the Walters Art Museum presents Art and Process: Drawings, Paintings, and Sculptures from the 19th-Century Collection, an exhibition delving into the creative process through the display of preliminary ... More |
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| David Kordansky Gallery to open a solo exhibition of new paintings by Hilary Pecis | | Sikkema Jenkins & Co. announces a solo exhibition of recent work by Erin Shirreff | | The Portland Art Museum presents psychedelic rock posters and fashion of the 1960s |
Hilary Pecis, Lunch in Frogtown, 2024, acrylic on linen, 74 x 64 x 1 5/8 inches (188 x 162.6 x 4.1 cm). Photo: Ed Mumford.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Kordansky Gallery announced Warm Rhythm, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Hilary Pecis. The exhibition will be on view in New York at 520 W. 20th St. from September 4 through October 12, 2024. An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, September 3 from 6 to 8 PM. Pecis has become known for her vivid depictions of the Southern California landscape, richly patterned still lifes, and scenes from the interiors and exteriors that populate her life. For this solo presentation, the artist has created a group of new works that focus more ... More | |
Erin Shirreff, Paper sculpture, 2024; dye sublimation prints on aluminum, latex paint; framed dimensions: 74 3/8 x 102 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches (188.9 x 259.7 x 14.6 cm); edition of 5.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. will present Sunset Palace, a solo exhibition of recent work by Erin Shirreff on view from September 6 through October 19, 2024. The exhibition is dominated by Dusk Form, a new large-scale sculpture first exhibited in Shirreffs recent solo exhibition at SITE Santa Fe. Approached from one angle, the form appears dimensional, imposing, only to flatten into a series of abrupt planes, deep cuts, and line as one walks to the side and rear. The sculpture has a monolithic presence ... More | |
Joe Gomez, "Optical Occlusion," Big Brother and the Holding Company, Mt. Rushmore, November 23-25, Avalon Ballroom, 1967, offset lithograph on paper, image/sheet: 19 15/16 in x 14 in, Gift of Gary Westford, from the Gary Westford Collection. Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 2023.69.9
PORTLAND, OR.- Vibrant, surreal, and playful, the rock concert posters from 1960s San Francisco capture the energy and excitement of both the music and the era. Opening October 19 at the Portland Art Museum, Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s reveals the passion and creativity of this moment. Music promoters Chet Helms and Bill Graham recruited talented young artists from San ... More |
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| Exhibition featuring the innovative work of Eritrea-born Canadian artist Dawit L. Petros will open in Chicago | | Galerie Nathalie Obadia announces Nú Barreto's fifth solo exhibition with the gallery | | Kate MacGarry announces an exhibition of Rana Begum's new Louvre series |
Dawit L. Petros, Untitled (Epilogues, XII), Northerly Island, Chicago, 2024. Archival pigment print, 30 x 37.50 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago will present Dawit L. Petros: Prospetto a Mare, an exhibition featuring the innovative work of Eritrea-born Canadian artist Dawit L. Petros. The exhibition will run from August 30 to December 20, 2024, and will showcase Petross exploration ... More | |
Nú Barreto, No Power, 2022. Acrylic, pencil, pen, semi-fat pastel and collages on recycled paper.
PARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia will present Sensibilité, Nú Barreto's fifth solo exhibition, showcased across both the Paris and Brussels galleries. Originally from São Domingos in Guinea-Bissau, Nú Barreto is described by art critic Philippe Dagen in Le Monde as one of those artists who know how to embed contemporary reality in a singular, clearly symbolic form. Ever since ... More | |
Rana Begum, No. 1370 Stone Relief, 2024, stone, 74.1 x 148.4 x 3.4 cm (detail).
LONDON.- Rana Begums new Louvre series explores how different materials interact with light and considers texture, density, reflection and transparency. Uniform panels of glass, stone and metal are tilted and repeated to create suspended and wall-based works. There is a familiarity to these compositions, observed throughout our urban landscapes in ventilation panels, façades and blinds. ... More |
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Royal College of Art and The Virgil Abloh Foundation announce the RCA Virgil Abloh Scholarship 2024LONDON.- The Royal College of Art and The Virgil Abloh Foundation announce the launch of this year's edition of the RCA Virgil Abloh Scholarship. A full scholarship, including maintenance support, is awarded to extraordinarily talented but financially restricted Black British students from programmes in the School of Design. Virgil Abloh, who passed away in 2021, was an American fashion designer, artist, architect, engineer, creative director, DJ and entrepreneur. He was the artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear collection, the first African American to hold this position. He is also the Founder of Milan-based fashion house Off-White, and Alaska Alaska, his London studio staffed by young, multi-disciplinary creators, handpicked by Virgil himself. Having joined as an Honorary Visiting Professor in 2020, Virgil held a close relationship with the RCA. ... More The Third Line announces its first solo exhibition with Louisville-based artist Vian SoraDUBAI.- The Third Line announced House of Pearls, the gallery's first solo exhibition with Louisville-based artist Vian Sora. The exhibition presents new paintings and works on paper that explore pearls as a metaphor for achieving stability and the needed structural integrity for life itself to regenerate. In this new body of work, Sora an Iraqi-born artist who sought refuge in Dubai following the US invasion of Iraq explores the fundamental elements of caustic cycles: the solid and fluid violent states intrinsic to nature from which pearls grow, and examines connectivity as an essential element to humanity's collective consciousness. Drawing on her experiences as a war survivor and immigrant, Sora reflects on the uncertainty and shifting boundaries of existence, capturing the physical, mental, and emotional toll experienced across nations, cultures, ... More At the Ruhrtriennale, searching for the sublime among the ruinsBOCHUM.- I Want Absolute Beauty, the title of the opening production for this years Ruhrtriennale, sounds like a mission statement of sorts. The event, one of Germanys major arts festivals, lights up the former industrial sites that dot the Ruhr region, in the countrys northwest though hulking power plants and abandoned steelworks arent where you necessarily expect to find beauty. Then again, this 22-year-old festival has always been about letting audiences encounter the sublime among the ruins. Everywhere I turned during the Ruhrtriennales opening weekend, I witnessed beauty struggling fitfully, clumsily and sometimes stunningly to be born. This summer, the Ruhrtriennale welcomes a new artistic leader, the acclaimed Belgian theater director Ivo van Hove. His three-season tenure kicked off Friday night with I ... More Harold Meltzer, composer of impossible-to-pigeonhole works, dies at 58NEW YORK, NY.- Harold Meltzer, a composer who set aside a career as a lawyer to create a highly regarded body of energetic, colorful chamber, vocal and orchestral scores that mixed accessibly melodic themes and rich ensemble textures with the sharp-edged angularity of modernism, died Aug. 12 in Manhattan. He was 58. Hilary Meltzer, his wife, said that his death, in a hospital, was caused by respiratory failure, a complication of a variety of medical problems he had withstood since having a stroke in 2019. Harold Meltzer, who was also a director (first with David Amato, later with Sara Laimon) of Sequitur, a new-music ensemble, cut an imposing figure at contemporary music concerts in the 1990s and 2000s. Bespectacled, with wavy hair, he invariably entertained friends during intermissions with wry observations about the music w ... More He wants people restarting their lives to see themselves onstageLOS ANGELES, CA.- At a time when nonprofit theaters are still recovering from the pandemic shutdown and are looking to connect with their communities, Tarell Alvin McCraney is looking in unorthodox places: prisons, homeless shelters and the foster care system. One year into his tenure as the artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, McCraney, 43, doesnt just want to expand his audience, he wants the theater to be a place where the marginalized and struggling see themselves onstage and feel welcome. The first thing we do is make sure that they can see plays that reflect their lives, McCraney said in a recent interview, plays that deal with folks who are in the system, formerly incarcerated, trying to rebuild their lives. It is with this priority in mind that McCraney decided to start this season with his own play, The Brothers Size, which began p ... More 1876-CC Twenty Cent piece and George V Gold Sovereign lead Heritage's ANA Coin Auctions beyond $53 millionDALLAS, TX.- An 1876-CC Twenty Cent Piece, MS65 PCGS sold for $690,000 to lead Heritages ANA US Coins Signature® Auction to $36,841,730 August 12-18, and a stunning George V gold Sovereign 1920-S MS63 PCGS brought a winning bid of $552,000 to lead Heritages ANA World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction to $16,683,933 August 15-17. When the hammer fell for the final time, the events amassed a combined total of $53,525,663 and accounted for a slew of new auction records. The 1876-CC Twenty Cent Piece has always been considered one of the finest known examples of this important U.S. silver series, says Todd Imhof, Executive Vice President at Heritage ... More MCA Australia presents a multi-screen cinematic installation by Isaac JulienSYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia), will open Isaac Julien's compelling cinematic installation Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (2022) from 27 September 2024 until 16 February 2025. A trailblazer of multi-screen installation, Isaac Julien is one of Britain's most influential and critically acclaimed artists. He seamlessly fuses film, photography and installation to address issues of race, gender and cultural identity. Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (2022), Juliens latest work, is a mesmerising and immersive five-screen black-and-white film installation which explores the relationship and correspondence between art collector Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951) and renowned ... More Charles R. Cross, Biographer of Cobain and Hendrix, dies at 67NEW YORK, NY.- Charles R. Cross, a Seattle music writer who edited The Rocket, a local rock bible, during the citys grunge-era flowering in the 1990s, and who wrote acclaimed biographies of two of the citys most venerated musical figures, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain, died on Aug. 9 at his home in Shoreline, Washington, He was 67. His death was announced in a statement from his family. No cause was given. Cross was the editor of The Rocket, a biweekly magazine, from 1986 through 2000, a period when Seattle bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam redefined rock. It was considered a must-read for musicians looking to join the wave. It would be impossible to imagine the music or community of Seattle in the 80s and 90s without charles r. cross, Chris Walla, a former member of Death Cab for Cutie, the critically acclaimed ... More 5 breakouts from classical music's most prestigious festivalSALZBURG.- The Salzburg Festival has, since its founding more than 100 years ago, been known as a gathering place for the worlds finest musicians. Thats still true: During a visit there earlier this month, I heard Grigory Sokolov play Johann Sebastian Bach with unfussy authority; Jordi Savall lead his period orchestra in magisterial accounts of Ludwig van Beethovens final two symphonies; Igor Levit muscle through another Beethoven symphony, the bacchic Seventh, with just a piano. But Salzburg is also a proving ground for artists on the cusp on stardom. Soprano Asmik Grigorian, for example, was busy but hardly world famous until she gave a career-making performance as Salome there in 2018. This year, there were breakthroughs to be found throughout Salzburgs theaters. If you looked past the top billing, past the Cecilia Bartolis ... More Peter Marshall, longtime host of 'The Hollywood Squares,' dies at 98NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Marshall, who coaxed cheeky rejoinders from celebrities such as Burt Reynolds, Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers and Paul Lynde as the longtime host of âThe Hollywood Squares,â for years one of the most popular game shows on television, died Thursday at his home in Encino, California. He was 98. His wife of 35 years, Laurie Marshall, said the cause was kidney failure. Marshall, an actor, singer and comedian with an authoritative baritone, hosted âThe Hollywood Squaresâ from 1966 until 1981. The show brought him four Daytime Emmy Awards. âThe Hollywood Squares,â which stuffed celebrity guests and risque humor into a daytime game show, was a variation on tic-tac-toe, played by two contestants on a set that featured a grid of nine squares rising above the stage, with a celebrity guest seated in each square. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American designer and architect Charles Eames died August 21, 1978. Charles Ormond Eames, Jr (1907-1978) was an American designer, who worked in and made major contributions to modern architecture and furniture. He also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art and film. In this image: "Lobby Chair" models by U.S. designers Charles Eames (1907-1978) and his wife Ray (1912-1988) are on display during the exhibition "The furniture of Charles and Ray Eames - Products, Processes, Prototyps", in the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Thursday, March 22, 2007.
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