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Vanessa Carlos, left, a co-founder of Carlos/Ishikawa gallery and creator of Condo, showing works by Libasse Ka in London, on Sunday, Jan 21, 2024. After a four-year break, the collaborative exhibition Condo is again luring international dealers to the city, where contemporary art is buoyant, against the odds. (Jeremie Souteyrat/The New York Times)
by Scott Reyburn
LONDON.- Britains economy is stagnant, the international art market is in a downturn and the wider world is weighed down with ongoing geopolitical crises in the Middle East, Ukraine and beyond. Yet, perhaps counterintuitively, Londons contemporary art gallery scene is expanding. This past weekend was the preview of the sixth edition of Condo London, a collaborative citywide exhibition featuring 27 invited international dealerships presenting exhibitions at 23 London contemporary galleries. Host dealers can choose to give over their spaces to their visiting colleagues, or hold their own exhibitions alongside them. Most of the works at the event, which runs through Feb. 17, are by emerging artists and are priced at under $20,000. Back in 2016, the inaugural edition of this innovative alternative to an international art fair featured just eight London dealerships. Since the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation views of Tia-Thuy Nguyen, Sparkle in the vastness January 11 to February 24, 2024, Almine Rech Matignon & Showroom, Turenne. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech - Photo: Nicolas Brasseur.
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| Americas Society presents 'Part II of El Dorado: Myths of Gold' showcasing artworks by more than 60 artists | | Patek Philippe, Rolex, and diamond ring lead Moran's December 'Fine Jewelry & Watches' auction | | Norman Jewison, filmmaker who spanned genres, dies at 97 | 
Unidentified artist, Cuzco, Peru. Our Lady of La Antigua, 18th century. Oil and gold on canvas, 63 3/4 x 54 3/16 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Americas Society opens Part II of El Dorado: Myths of Gold, and launches the book El Dorado: A Reader. The show, which explores the myth of El Dorado from the Pre-Hispanic period to the contemporary era, is co-curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Director and Chief Curator, Art at Americas Society, Tie Jojima, Associate Curator, Manager of Exhibitions, Art at Americas Society and Edward J. Sullivan, the Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History, New York University. The exhibition brings together more than 100 objects and artworks that explore the myth as a foundational narrative of the Americas. It includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, engravings, and videos that offer new interpretations and questions about the myth from a hemispheric lens. Since the invasion of Europeans to the Americas, rumors spread ... More | | 
Patek Philippe Gold Triple Calendar and Moonphases Wristwatch. Price realized: $34,925.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Just in time for the holidays, John Moran Auctioneers presented their December Fine Jewelry & Watches auction on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023, at noon PDT. The 225-lot sale included stunning jewelry and an impressive selection of watches. For fine jewelry, a 9.06-carat diamond ring, an emerald, diamond, and platinum ring, and a pair of diamond earrings from Bulgari led the selection. The assortment of watches garnered much attentionparticularly a Gold Triple Calendar and Moonphases wristwatch by Patek Philippe and the variety of Rolexes. The top lot of the sale was a circular brilliant-cut diamond ring weighing 9.06 carats, within a platinum and diamond setting. Estimated at $50,000-75,000, this piece met expectations and achieved $60,325*. With an estimate of $30,000-50,000, an emerald, diamond, and platinum ring made its way to the block. Centering a rectangular-cut emerald weighing approximately 2.42 carats and flanked by t ... More | | 
Norman Jewison in his production companys offices in Toronto in 2011. His films, many of them both popular and critical successes, earned many Oscars and dozens of nominations. Photo: Chris Young for The New York Times.
by Dennis Lim
NEW YORK, NY.- Norman Jewison, whose broad range as a filmmaker was reflected in the three movies that earned him Academy Award nominations for best director the socially conscious drama In the Heat of the Night, the big-budget musical Fiddler on the Roof and the romantic comedy Moonstruck died Saturday at his home. He was 97. His death was confirmed by a spokesperson for the family, Jeff Sanderson. He declined to specify where Jewison lived, saying that the family requested privacy. Jewison, whose career began in Canadian television and spanned more than 50 years, was, like his close friend Sidney Lumet and a select few other directors, best known for making films that addressed social issues. The most celebrated ... More |
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| 3 sumptuous palaces to explore on your Spanish vacation | | Dallas radio icon 'Hawkeye' teams with Heritage to auction baseball card collection | | 'Forgotten' Black cemetery found at Florida Air Force Base | 
In the town of Alba de Tormes, Spain, for which the Alba family was named, a centuries-old tower offers views of the surrounding landscape on Jan. 5, 2024. (Emilio Parra Doiztua/The New York Times)
by Andrew Ferren
NEW YORK, NY.- One of the most important cultural events in Madrid in recent years was the public opening, just before the pandemic, of a collection that had been sitting behind the closed doors of a private palace for about 200 years. The Palacio de Liria, the grand 18th-century home of the Alba family among Spains (and Europes) oldest and most storied aristocratic families is set in a tranquil garden just steps from the bustling Plaza de España in central Madrid. Often compared to the Prado Museum and the Royal Palace of Madrid for the masterpieces it contains and the noble residents who lived there, the house is filled with works by Titian, Rubens, Velázquez, Goya and other artists favored by the Spanish court. There are also vast literary and historic archives, as well as letters written from the Americas by explorers Christopher Columbus, Francisco Pizarro and ... More | | 
1983 Topps Baseball Wax Box with 36 Unopened Packs - Boggs, Gwynn & Sandberg Rookie Year! Offered is a 1983 Topps Baseball wax box which features 36 unopened packs.
DALLAS, TX.- Mark Rybczyk has been on Dallas-Fort Worth radio longer than anyone currently on the air: Hes been Hawkeye in the Morning on New Country 96.3 KSCS since local radio legend Terry Dorsey hired him as a sidekick during the Reagan Administration (1988, to be specific). He has the awards and accolades to accompany his longevity, among them Personality of the Year statues from the Country Music Association and Billboard. And hes in two Halls of Fames for Texas Radio and Country Radio. The man known as Hawkeye is radio at this point. He has also used his mic for good during his decades-long tenure on Dallas-Fort Worth country radio: Hawkeye has helped raise more than $4,000,000 for Cook Childrens Medical Center in Fort Worth during the stations annual Radiothon and served as a counselor and on the board of directors of Camp Sanguinity, the hospitals summer camp for kids with cancer. As The Dallas Morning News ... More | | 
In a photo from Senior Airman Tiffany Emery/U.S. Air Force, a hangar at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Jan. 4, 2021. (Senior Airman Tiffany Emery/U.S. Air Force via The New York Times)
by Yan Zhuang
NEW YORK, NY.- Officials at the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, say they have confirmed the location of a lost former Black cemetery on the grounds of the base, and identified 121 potential grave sites, capping three years of archaeological surveys and building on earlier findings. Were ready to say this is Port Tampa Cemetery, Senior Master Sgt. Terry Montrose, a base spokesperson, said Sunday. Between the 1840s and 1920s, dozens of individuals, mostly Black, were buried in unmarked graves at the Port Tampa Cemetery in Tampa, he said. The Air Force base was built at the site between 1939 and 1941. The base started searching for grave sites in 2019 after historians at the Tampa Bay History Center alerted officials that there might be a former Black cemetery on land now occupied by the base, Montrose said. Using ground-penetrating radar and c ... More |
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| International Center of Photography opening ICP at 50 & David Seidner | | Recipient of numerous national and international awards Jaume Plensa exhibits at Galerie Lelong & Co. | | Mary Weiss, who sang 'Leader of the Pack,' is dead at 75 | 
Deana Lawson, Mama Goma, Gemena, DR Congo, 2014. International Center of Photography, Purchase, with funds provided by the ICP Acquisitions Committee, 2019 (2019.18.1) © Deana Lawson, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Center of Photography opens today ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845-2019 and David Seidner: Fragments, 1977-99. Kicking off a yearlong celebration of ICPs 50th anniversary, both exhibitions and subsequent 50th anniversary programming will highlight how ICPs evolution parallels that of photography as a medium, as a technology, and as a powerful cultural, political, and social force. This year, ICP will celebrate photography as a powerful interdisciplinary art form, photographers as artists who reimagine the medium, and ICP as an institution that brings this creative medium and the public together," said David E. Little, Executive Director of ICP. If people thought they knew ICP before, their experience of ICP at 50 and David Seidner will redefine what they understand about ICP as an institution and as a source for exploring ... More | | 
Jaume Plensa, Miroir II, 2023. Mixed media, collage on paper163 x 85 cm (64 1/4 x 33 2/4 in). © Studio Plensa / Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.
PARIS.- Great sculptors are often also great draughtsmen. In general, they are not keen on colour. For Plensa, drawing is a constant practice, a resource. In the spring of 2023, Jaume Plensa designed the staging, costumes and sets for Verdi's Macbeth for the Liceu, Barcelona's opera house. The first drawings in this exhibition come from this project. The (sometimes illegible) text that the artist incorporates into his collage drawings comes from Shakespeare's play. One series of small portraits is entitled Witches; these are the three witches who foretell Macbeth's future. For the next series, Miroirs, the artist was inspired by a poem by Baudelaire, Les Litanies de Satan [Satans Litanies]: Prince of exiles, exiled Prince who, wronged, yet rises ever stronger from defeat. It is this text that runs around the figures caught in these mirrors. Even when he is content to work on paper, the hand of the sculptor is never far away. He is constantly driven by the desire to give pape ... More | | 
Mary Weiss, who, as the lead singer of the Shangri-Las, conveyed passion, pathos and toughness, and reached the Top 40 six times while still in her teens, in New York on Feb. 21, 2007. (Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times)
by Gavin Edwards
NEW YORK, NY.- Mary Weiss, who in 1964 was the lead singer of the Shangri-Las No. 1 hit, Leader of the Pack, extracting every ounce of passion and pathos available in a three-minute adolescent soap opera, died Friday at her home in Palm Springs, California. She was 75. Her death was announced by author and television writer David Stenn, who had been collaborating with Weiss on a stage musical about the Shangri-Las. He said the cause was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Leader of the Pack, the Shangri-Las second and biggest hit, was narrated by a young woman who falls in love with a motorcycle-riding tough guy without her parents approval They told me he was bad/ But I knew he was sad and is then left bereft when he dies in a road accident ... More |
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| Artpace announces 2024 Spring International Artists–in–Residence | | 'Lewis Brander: Recent Paintings' now on view at Vardaxoglou Gallery | | Gladstone Gallery opening the exhibition 'Thomas Hirschhorn: Fake it, Fake it – till you Fake it' | 
Guest Curator, Larry Ossei-Mensah, independent curator, writer, and cultural producer. Photo by: Courtney Harvier.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio has announced the selection for our Spring 2024 International Artists-in-Residence. Our Spring 2024 Guest Curator, Larry Ossei-Mensah, independent curator, writer, and cultural producer, has selected: Melissa Joseph(Brooklyn, New York), Patrick Quarm (Windy Ridge, Takoradi, Western Region, Ghana), and José Villalobos (San Antonio, Texas). The Spring 2024 Resident Artists will begin their residency on February 5, with a Welcome Dinner on Thursday, February 8, from 68pm. Their exhibitions will open to the public on Thursday, March 28, and will be on view until May 19, 2024. Melissa Joseph is a New York based artist and independent curator. Her work examines themes of memory, family history, and the politics of how we occupy spaces. Joseph acutely surveys the labors of women, as well as ... More | | 
Lewis Brander, Athens, 2019-2023. Oil on flax, 21.5 x 16 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/4 ins).
LONDON.- Vardaxoglou Gallery is now presenting a solo exhibition of new paintings by British artist Lewis Brander (b. 1995, London, UK), across both floors of our newly expanded gallery space. This is the artists second solo exhibition with Vardaxoglou and for the first time includes a number of large-scale paintings. An extended essay by Sam Lincoln will accompany the exhibition. An observer of the shifts in natural light in both Northern and Southern Europe, the colour of the sky has become a constant reference in Lewis Branders paintings since returning to London from Greece three years ago. Upon moving to Athens in 2018, the artist became exposed to a new landscape and quality of light. Now working from the top-floor of a disused factory in East London, his studios views of the sky have allowed him to sustain this study of light over extended periods. This exhibition comprises new works based on ... More | | 
Installation view. © Thomas Hirschhorn, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- How to do art in times of war, destruction, violence, anger, hate, resentment? What kind of art should be done in moments of darkness and desperation? Can art be a tool for understanding historys changes? Can a work of art draw alternative forms of understanding the world? How to continue working - as an artist - and in doing so, avoid falling into the traps of facts, journalism, and comments? I want to ask myself these questions and above all, I want to create, with my work, a surface of reflection. I dont pretend to resolve or offer solutions, but I want my work Fake it, Fake it - till you Fake it. to contribute to this problematic, as a form cutting a break-through in the analog into the digital. To work in the real world and for the real world is the commitment. I want to make a plastic affirmation which poses the problematic of how an analog, real exhibition space can be combined with the digital and virtual world. I want to keep my work in its ... More |
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Picasso's Cubist masterpiece: a jazz saxophonist riffs on "Three Musicians"
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 The wine heiresses apparentRADDA-IN-CHIANTI.- As a young woman growing up in the Chianti Classico town of Radda-in-Chianti in Tuscany, Angela Fronti was sure of one thing: She did not want to join her familys business, doing agricultural work for wineries. She was far more interested in making wine herself, so she earned a degree in winemaking and found jobs with wineries elsewhere in Tuscany. But she felt drawn to Radda-in-Chianti, where some of the most ethereal Chianti Classicos are from. Like many families there, the Frontis owned a vineyard with sangiovese, the main grape of Chianti, as well as a few vineyards in other parts of the region. They made wine but sold it in bulk to merchants who bottled it. Having proven herself at winemaking, she took over the family vineyards to make the wine for Istine, her new Chianti Classico label. The first ... More  The ghosts of Black Appalachia visit her kitchenNEW YORK, NY.- When Crystal Wilkinson wants to summon her kitchen ghosts, she retrieves a fuchsia-hued dress from her closet and hangs it in the doorway. The sturdy, double-hemmed garment invites her grandmother Christine, who sewed it by hand and wore it often before she died in 1994, to join her. The dress acts as a literal and metaphorical tethering to her and this matriarchal lineage, Wilkinson said in a phone interview from her kitchen. A poet and professor at the University of Kentucky, Wilkinson, 62, explores such physical and spiritual ties between the past and present in her new book, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts. Combining elements of poetry, prose and fiction, the book tells stories from her upbringing in Indian Creek, Kentucky, alongside recipes from five generations of her family from ... More  Ewa Podles, a rare contralto with sweeping range, dies at 71NEW YORK, NY.- Ewa Podles, the Polish contralto whose darkly molten, three-octave-plus voice and commanding presence made her a favorite of opera connoisseurs, died on Friday in Warsaw, Poland. She was 71. Her death, in a hospice center, was confirmed by her stepdaughter, Ania Marchwinska, who said the cause was lung cancer. Aficionados embraced Podles (whose full name was pronounced AE-vuh PODE-lesh) not just for her exciting performances, but also for how unusual she was: True contraltos the lowest-lying female voice type, deeper than a mezzo-soprano are hardly common. Developing the low chest register as much as the rest of the voice, a contralto is like an alto in the lower range, like a soprano on top, Podles told The New York Times in 1998. And she fit that bill: Though her tone was melancholically ... More  Review: Searching for the superstar in Ivo van Hove's Jesus ChristAMSTERDAM.- On a dark, featureless stage in Amsterdam, a soon-to-be-crucified Jesus Christ laments his predicament while sporting a shimmery tank-top and gray New Balance sneakers. His followers, gathered around him, look like they have raided an Urban Outfitters store sometime around 2012. By stark contrast, his persecutors, led by King Herod and Pontius Pilate, wear severe white, floor-length robes and black coats. In an earsplitting falsetto, Jesus reproaches his father, God, for having put him in this position. As well he might. This revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rices kitschy 1971 musical about the last few days of Jesus life, is directed by Belgian auteur Ivo van Hove. Its an odd match. Van Hove has built his reputation on aesthetically striking, often psychologically intense re-imaginings ... More  Pictures that conflate the distinction between reality and invention created by Florian Maier–AichenNEW YORK, NY.- 303 Gallery is showing Florian Maier-Aichens sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. A selection of large and small-format photographs continue the artist's pursuit of new possibilities within the medium. Known for his novel approach to image-making, Florian Maier-Aichen embraces both analog and digital techniques to create pictures that conflate the distinction between reality and invention. His photographs are primarily shot with an 8x10-inch camera, using film stock and printing processes on the verge of obsolescence. In creating his images, Maier-Aichen favors vantage points that are well-established as photogenic, seeking out locations that tie into the history of photography while also being iconically beautiful. Picture-perfect vistas and commercial backdrops of the American West are recast as generative ... More  Haroon Mirza premieres immersive music experience with Birmingham Contemporary Music GroupBIRMINGHAM.- The internationally-renowned artist Haroon Mirza is premiering an innovative immersive music experience with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Re-creation is a sound installation and performance, complete with light, scent, smoke rings and live musicians, which the audience experiences by moving through the space. The effect is a full-body sensory experience and a world away from the usual concert-going norm. Everyday low-end technology, such as light bulbs and used turntables, have been reworked by Haroon to make his sculptures; and his new Dream machine is produced by colourfully enhanced simple LED light-tubes. As they switch on-and-off they also create new sounds, rich in musicality and fascinating to watch. Haroon is collaborating with composer Lucy Armstrong and singer ... More  Menachem Daum, filmmaker who explored the world of Hasidim, dies at 77NEW YORK, NY.- Menachem Daum, a filmmaker who co-produced a groundbreaking 1997 documentary that illuminated the cloistered world of Americas Hasidim, died Jan. 7 in a hospital near his home in Borough Park, Brooklyn in New York. He was 77. His death was confirmed by Eva Fogelman, a friend and the author of a book about Christian rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. She said Daum had been treated for congestive heart failure. What made the documentary, A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, so striking was Daums ability to get people who scorn movies and television sets to sit on camera for revealing interviews, allowing him to chronicle their mores and rituals. The resulting film offered a complex portrait of a religious group usually depicted as somber and impenetrable; here it offered scenes of Hasidim joyfully dancing. That ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Robert Motherwell was born January 24, 1915. Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 - July 16, 1991) was an American painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School (a phrase he coined), which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. In this image: Robert Motherwell, The Hotel Corridor, 1950. Oil on masonite, 44 x 55 inches, 111.8 x 139.7 cm. © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
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