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Visitors at Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, an exhibition designed to showcase older works alongside more recent acquisitions, in Washington, May 24, 2024. Faced with dwindling attendance and changing demographics, museum directors are shifting their approach, with an eye toward radical hospitality. (Lexey Swall/The New York Times)
WASHINGTON, DC.- When Melissa Chiu began her tenure as the director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 10 years ago, she had a stray thought about the institutions location, on the National Mall, and its appearance, a doughnut-shaped concrete structure by architect Gordon Bunshaft with a certain resemblance to a spaceship. Maybe some of our visitors thought it was the Air and Space Museum, she said of the popular institution next door, which, like the Hirshhorn, is part of the Smithsonian and which was getting more than 6 million visitors a year at the time. So, OK, she said, thats not a bad thing. Chiu who is appearing this week at the Art for Tomorrow conference in Venice with the artist and writer John Akomfrah to discuss how artists and museums can work together to address social, political and ecological issues did not wait around for confusion to boost attendance at her museum. (The annual conference was founded by The New Yo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Instituto Cervantes of Chicago the cityâs leading not-for-profit center for Spanish language and cultural exchange, presents a new curated exhibition spotlighting the graphic design work of Spanish-American artist and AIGA Medalist Victor Moscoso March 15-July 15, 2024
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| Roland Auctions NY presents Hermes scarves from personal collection of "Rosie The Riveter" | | Family discovers rare T. Rex fossil in North Dakota | | Futuristic Atom Jet Racer streaked past $25K mark at Milestone's second auction of Elmer's Toy Museum collection |
Vintage Hermes Paris Silk Scarf Puzzle with box. Estimate $200-$300.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY will present a specially curated single-owner auction of over 200 Hermes silk scarves, most in their original boxes, from the personal collection of World War II legend Rosalind P. Walter, also known as the original Rosie the Riveter on Saturday, June 8th at 11am. This eclectic collection of vintage designer scarves includes Hermes, Gucci, Chanel, and more. Previews are online only. Trailblazer Rosie the Riveter was a cultural icon ... More | |
Two brothers, their father and a cousin were hiking in the North Dakota Badlands in 2022 when they found the bones of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex. (Denver Museum of Science and Nature via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In the summer of 2022, two boys hiking with their father and a 9-year-old cousin in the North Dakota Badlands came across some large bones poking out of a rock. They had no idea what to make of them. The father took some photos and sent them to a paleontologist friend. Later, the relatives learned theyd made a staggering ... More | |
Large and wildly futuristic Yonezawa (Japan) tin friction #58 Atom Jet racer with driver inside clockwork. Beautiful colors, graphics and details. Both friction and motor sound are functional. Length: 26in. Sold for $25,740 against an estimate of $10,000-$15,000.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO .- Ever since Milestone Auctions October 2023 debut offering of toys from the legendary Elmers Toy Museum collection, the question many vintage toy fans have been asking is, When will we see Part II? Their long wait ended on May 11 when the suburban Cleveland auction house rolled out 774 lots of tin windups, ... More |
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| The Drawing Room presents 'Saul Steinberg: On the Table │ drawings, prints & carved wood objects' | | This director has been busy since he was 25 | | Stolen remains found in plastic bag traced to woman born 160 years ago |
Gulliver Table, 1986, carved wood with oil, colored pencil, crayon, incised and inked copper and tin sheets, metal handle and string, 36 ½ x 27 ¾ x 26 inches.
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- The Drawing Room is presenting Saul Steinberg: On the Table | drawings, prints & carved wood objects, the fourth exhibition in collaboration with The Saul Steinberg Foundation. A legendary artist of the 20th century, Steinberg was widely known for his cartoons published in The New ... More | |
The director Nathan Silver near his apartment in Brooklyn, May 9, 2024. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Early on in Nathan Silvers Between the Temples, Ben Gottlieb, a 40-ish widower played by Jason Schwartzman, walks into a bar in his tallit and skullcap with the intention of getting plastered. Ben, a synagogue cantor in upstate New York who has lost the ability to praise the Lord through song since his wife died a year ... More | |
Skeletal remains found in Oxnard, Calif., in 1985 have been identified as those of Gertrude Elliott-Littlehale, a musician whose grave was desecrated after her death in 1915. (Othram via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In October 1985, partial skeletal remains were found in a plastic bag in the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard, California, northwest of Los Angeles. Authorities determined that they belonged to a woman who died when she was between 35 and 50 years old, but nothing ... More |
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| Adventures in space and time with Stockhausen | | A meeting of iconic artists in Koller's June auctions | | Alexandra Pirici presents Attune: A major new site-specific installation |
A vision accompanying Inside Light, a theatrical presentation of electronic music from Licht, or Light, by the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, June 2, 2024. At the Park Avenue Armory, part of Stockhausens monumental, impractical cycle of seven operas comes to life. (Balarama Heller/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- An elliptical halo of thin, concentrated light floated in the capacious drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory on a recent morning, above a circular space designed to dissolve your sense of space and time. At the center was Kathinka Pasveer, ... More | |
Cuno Amiet, Portrait of Ferdinand Hodler in front of his Marignano painting. 1898. (1st version). Tempera and oil on canvas. 76 Ã 52.5 cm. Estimate: 257 730 / 412 370.
ZURICH.- The meeting of Swiss artist icons Ferdinand Hodler and Cuno Amiet, and the friendship that resulted, was a significant moment in Swiss art history. Amiet, 16 years younger than Hodler, had been member of the Pont-Aven school along with Ãmile Bernard and Paul Sérusier, inspired by Paul Gaugins use of pure colour. Hodler was already an established and famous artist when they ... More | |
Alexandra Pirici, Attune, 2024, detail of a chemical garden. Hamburger Bahnhof Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 2024. Courtesy of the artist, Hamburger Bahnhof and Audemars Piguet / Photo: Edi Constantin.
BERLIN.- Alexandra Pirici is presenting Attune a major new site-specific installation with live performative action and music at Hamburger Bahnhof. Piricis expansive work launches a new series of annual commissions in the museums Historic Hall. The 2024 edition is co- commissioned by Hamburger Bahnhof and Audemars Piguet Contemporary and co-financed by the German ... More |
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| Where do those painted white 'ghost bikes' come from? | | Jack Shainman Gallery opens 'Leslie Wayne: This Land' | | £19,500 for fifth Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe's portrait of Lennon from the early 1960s |
Safety activists install a ghost bike completely white, including tires, spokes and pedals at the location where a cyclist was killed in the Bronx borough of New York, April 6, 2024. (Elias Williams/The New York Times.)
NEW YORK, NY.- On a chilly Saturday evening in April, Kevin Daloia took a bicycle that he had painted white and locked it to a pole on East 161st Street and Melrose Avenue in the Bronx. Then he climbed up, stood on the seat of the bike and mounted a metal sign on the pole above it. Cyclist ... More | |
Leslie Wayne, Rush, 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting This Land, an exhibition of two kindred bodies of work by Leslie Wayne that express the nature of the American West through perception and memory. In each piece, Wayne considers different ways in which we interpret and imagine geological space, exploring landscape both as a vertical, abstracted force and a horizontal, figurative expanse. Named in homage to Woody Guthries heartland ballad This ... More | |
The portrait identified as being by Stuart Sutcliffe of John Lennon that Lennon gave to his friend Bernard Clark after trying to rip it up at his Surrey home. Estimate £3,000-5,000.
WOKING.- Beatlemania is as strong as ever, showing that when a real rarity comes up for sale, the bidders pile in. And so it proved in Ewbanks Entertainment & Memorabilia Premier Live Auction on May 30 when the portrait of John Lennon by Fifth Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe was consigned with an estimate of £3,000-5,000. The final ... More |
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Brian Rutenberg in conversation with Jonathan Miller Spies at Forum Gallery
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Judy Ledgerwood joins GRAYNEW YORK, NY.- GRAY welcomes Judy Ledgerwood to the gallerys roster of artists. In a painting career spanning four decades, Ledgerwood has confronted and expanded the history of abstract painting by decentering perceptions of its neutrality and prioritizing visual engagement and pleasure. GRAY will represent Ledgerwood in New York and globally alongside Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago. Ledgerwoods first solo exhibition will open at GRAY New York in Fall 2025. Judy Ledgerwoods bold, large-scale canvases engage viewers in active looking and challenge conventional notions of beauty and taste in painting. She has employed color and shape with great deliberation and specificity, embracing traditionally feminine colors like pastels and pinks to undermine the male-dominated milieu of abstract painting. With repetitive ... More Americas Society opens 'Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes'NEW YORK, NY.- Americas Society presents Alejandra Seeber: Interior with Landscapes, the first solo institutional presentation of the Argentine artist in New York. The exhibit showcases boldly colorful paintings depicting domestic interiors that highlight the tension between representation and abstraction. In this exhibition, the artist challenges the idea of interior and exterior by incorporating an artificial landscape inside the art gallery: to guide the viewers through her works, the show is accompanied by a site-specific installation in the form of a minigolf course in Americas Society's gallery. Three additional rugs, featuring palette and landscape designs created by the artist, further connect the natural world and the practice of painting. By inviting visitors to play alongside her works, she presents a specific path by which to view her last twenty-five years of worka j ... More National Gallery façades newly cleaned and resplendentLONDON.- As the National Gallery prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary, its no surprise that such a big birthday has required some cosmetic work. Over the last three years the external façade overlooking Trafalgar Square has undergone a phased major clean and refurbishment programme, made possible by the generous support from the late Julia Rausing and her husband Hans Rausing. The philanthropic couple offered to help the Gallery mark its Bicentenary this year. With the final scaffolding down, the stone looks as fresh and clean as it did when the young National Gallery formally opened to the public in 1838. A slightly bigger task than the average domestic spring clean, the front of the building is clad in Portland stone a relatively soft and porous natural material mined from Portland Bill, the southernmost point of Dorset. ... More Polina Berlin Gallery opens a group show of works by three artistsNEW YORK, NY.- Polina Berlin Gallery is presenting The rose is the rose and is the cat, a group show of three artists, Brian DeGraw, Tamo Jugeli, and Tamara K.E., on view from June 4 through July 12, 2024. The shows title is a riff on Gertrude Steins famous line, a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, itself a riposte to Shakespeares Romeo: What's in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet. Stein boldly chose the spot underneath Juliets balcony as the place to pick a fight about semiotics. A rose is just a rose: a word, plain and simple. Beyond the word, however, the meaning is fluid and obscure, subject to the corrosion of time and cultural connotation. Stein, however, was a writer. Brian DeGraw, Tamo Jugeli, and Tamara K.E. are visual artists for whom language itself presents another hurdle of translation. ... More Holabird announces highlights in its Day 3 American History & Hall of Fame Showcase auctionRENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections four-day American History & Hall of Fame Showcase auction, June 6th thru 9th, online and live in the Reno gallery, is packed with more than 2,300 lots of collectible treasures in a broad range of categories, but bidders would be wise to give special attention to the rare, special items up for bid on Day 3, Saturday, June 8th. The day is loaded with 595 lots of Wells Fargo & Express, outlaws and lawmen, autographs, Rev War and early military, President Lincoln, the JFK assassination, Black Americana, Civil War, Gen. George A. Custer, presidential, firearms and weaponry, sports / Hall of Fame, baseball and basketball, boxing, football and other items. But some of the lots are truly historically significant. Black Americana will be led by lot 3084, an original ferrotype photograph of eight of the founding ... More Kelly Tissot awarded Paul Ege Art Prize 2024FREIBURG IM BREISGAU.- The Ege Art and Culture Foundation and the City of Freiburg have named Kelly Tissot the winner of the 2024 Paul Ege Art Prize. The Paul Ege Art Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, has been awarded every three years since 2007 by the Ege Art and Culture Foundation in cooperation with the City of Freiburg. The prize is aimed at young artists up to 35 years of age who come from or work in the three-country border region of France, Germany and Switzerland. The award is judged in a two-stage process consisting of a nomination committee and a jury. This year, the members of the nomination committee were Iris Hasler, associate curator, Fondation Beyeler (Switzerland), Samuel Leuenberger, director, SALTS (Switzerland), and Elfi Turpin, director, CRAC Alsace (France). The jury consisted of Aoife Rosenmeyer, ... More Historic Treasures: Napoleon, Newton, and Lincoln shine in Fine Autographs and Artifacts auctionBOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction announced its highly anticipated June Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale, featuring nearly 800 lots of rare and remarkable items. This extraordinary event will highlight significant autographs and artifacts from some of history's most influential figures. Among the exceptional pieces are: Napoleon Bonaparte Rare Handwritten Letter in English playfully criticizing his tutor's work. An excessively rare handwritten letter in Englishone of only three knownby Bonaparte, playfully criticizing his tutor's work. This rare unsigned handwritten one-page letter, dated March 6, 1816, is addressed to French atlas-maker and author Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, who accompanied Napoleon on his exile to Saint Helena. Napoleon's playful letter, addressed to "Sir Count Lascases," humorously critiques ... More Extended July 15: Exhibition of graphic artist Victor Moscoso at Instituto CervantesCHICAGO, IL.- Instituto Cervantes of Chicago, the citys leading not-for-profit center for Spanish language and cultural exchange, announced the extension of Moscoso Cosmos: The Visual Universe of Victor Moscoso." The exhibition, originally scheduled to run through June 15, is now extended through July 15. This new curated exhibition spotlights the graphic design work of Spanish-American artist and AIGA Medalist Victor Moscoso, best known for his psychedelic rock posters, advertisements and underground comix in San Francisco during the '60s and 70s. The New York Times observes, Moscosos riotous, perceptually and conceptually confounding works advanced a countercultural ethos of imaginative and instinctual freedom whose effects continue to reverberate in todays artistic culture. New City says, "They ... More Margot Benacerraf, award-winning Venezuelan documentarian, dies at 97NEW YORK, NY.- Margot Benacerraf, a critically acclaimed Venezuelan documentary filmmaker whose hypnotic Araya, a visual tone poem chronicling the daily lives of salt workers on an austere peninsula on her countrys coast, shared the critics prize at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, died Wednesday in Caracas, Venezuela. She was 97. Her death was announced by the countrys culture minister. Hailed as a major figure of Latin American cinema, Benacerraf founded Venezuelas national cinematheque and in 2018 was given the Order of Francisco de Miranda, honoring outstanding merit in the sciences and humanities, by the countrys president, Nicolás Maduro. But although Benacerraf was celebrated, she was not prolific. She made only two films in her career: Reverón (1952), ... More Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences will no longer require diversity statementsNEW YORK, NY.- Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the universitys largest division, said Monday that it would no longer require job applicants to submit diversity statements, the latest shift at the university after months of turmoil over its values and the role of equity initiatives in higher education. Instead, the division will require only finalists for teaching jobs to describe their efforts to strengthen academic communities and discuss how they would promote a learning environment in which students are encouraged to ask questions and share their ideas, Nina Zipser, the dean for faculty affairs and planning, said in an email to colleagues. The decision represents a sharp break from Harvards recent practices and comes less than six months after Claudine Gay, Harvards first Black president and a former dean of the Faculty ... More Behind the scenes at the Tribeca FestivalNEW YORK, NY.- When it comes to who gets the most attention during the Tribeca Festival, the actors, the directors and the celebrities who walk the red carpet are foremost. But behind the scenes, there are many people who arent under the spotlight, yet are integral to the event nonetheless. Without them, the festival, which runs Wednesday through June 16, would not happen. These players include the attendees and the employees more than 600 of them, according to the festivals CEO, Jane Rosenthal, who co-founded the festival with Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff. This staff works across 18 departments, ranging from security and box office to production and operations. Rosenthal calls them the festivals invisible figures. As a guest and supporter, you, of course, want to have a great time, but the team who brings it to life ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American-Italian painter Conrad Marca-Relli was born June 05, 1913. Conrad Marca-Relli (born Corrado Marcarelli; June 5, 1913 Boston - August 29, 2000 Parma) was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic. In this image: Conrad Marca-Relli, "San Miguel" S-P-13-78, 1978. Collage and mixed media on canvas, 28 x 34 1/4 inches, 71.3 x 87 cm.
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