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Federica Gigante, a historian at the University of Cambridge, displays the plates and dial that constitute an astrolabe, an ancient device used to map the heavens, at the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo, a museum in Verona, Italy, March 7, 2024. The 1,000-year-old device recently surfaced at the museum. (Clara Vannucci/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- For 2,000 years, celestial observers mapped the heavens with astonishingly precise instruments called astrolabes, which looked like large, old-fashioned vest-pocket watches and enabled users to determine time, distance, height, latitude and even (with a horoscope) the future. Recently, an astrolabe dating to the 11th century turned up at the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Constanza Giuliani transforms the Kunstmuseum Luzern's exhibition space into a landscape in which the various elements - stones, plants, but also a foot - merge fluidly.
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| Dreams and the Sublime: The Art of Shwetlana Mehta aims to capture the human psyche. | | At TEFAF Art Fair, museums make up for shrinking private sales | | Meet the artist delighting Amsterdam |
Shwetlanas first solo exhibition, Fragmented Memories, took place in New York City at the Temple Gallery, February 3rd - 5th 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Shwetlana Mehta tackles the darker side of the human psyche in her art. She isnt afraid to take on darker subject matter, nor does she shy away from uneasiness. Her muses are mystery, silence and the transient nature of dreams. Fragmented Memories marks Shwetlanas first ... More | |
Visitors to the TEFAF Maastricht art fair view a 16th-century portrait by Lavinia Fontana of Antonietta Gonzales, a girl with a condition that caused excessive facial hair, in Maastricht, the Netherlands, March 7, 2024. (Ksenia Kuleshova/The New York Times)
MAASTRICHT.- This would be a bold acquisition to make, said Frederick Ilchman, chair of European paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He and his team of curators were gazing, fascinated, ... More | |
In an undated image provided by Frankey, a creation by the artist Frank de Ruwe, who goes by the name of Frankey. (Frankey via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In the spring of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the always bustling Dam Square in Amsterdam was deserted, silent and surrounded by concrete counterterrorism blocks. Dutch street artist Frank de Ruwe, who goes by the name of Frankey, decided these daunting studded blocks ... More |
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| Ira von Fürstenberg, jet-setting princess and actress, dies at 83 | | Eric Carmen, Raspberries frontman and 'All By Myself' singer, dies at 74 | | Doyle to auction a newly discovered painting by Diego Rivera on March 13 |
Ira von Fürstenberg poses behind curtains in Monte Carlo in 2007. (Hubertus von Hohenlohe via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Ira von Fürstenberg, who came as close as one can get to having it all as an Italian-born princess descended from Charlemagne, an heiress to the Fiat fortune, a Vogue model, a big-screen ingénue and a globe-trotting bon vivant, died Feb. 19 at her home in Rome. She was 83. Her son, Hubertus von Hohenlohe, said she ... More | |
He sang on the power-pop pioneers 1972 breakout hit, Go All the Way, before launching a successful solo career as a soft rock crooner.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eric Carmen, whose plaintive vocals soared above the crunching guitars of the 1970s power-pop pioneers the Raspberries before his soft rock crooning made him a mainstay of 1980s music, has died. He was 74. His death was announced on his website by his wife, Amy Carmen. She did not give a cause and said ... More | |
Lot 55: Diego Rivera, Mexican, 1886-1957, Painting for 'In Acapulco,' 1948. Watercolor on paper, 29 5/8 x 21 7/8 inches (75.2 x 55.5 cm). Provenance: Commissioned by Irving Berlin. Thence by descent in the family. The Estate of Mary Ellin Barrett. Estimate: $200,000-400,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers will be auctioning several newly discovered works of art from the Estate of Mary Ellin Barrett today, the eldest daughter of legendary American songwriter Irving Berlin. Ms. Barrett accompanied ... More |
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| Indigenous Mexican artist Noé MartÃnez has first solo at Rose Art Museum | | Opening reception today at Shari Brownfield Fine Art for 'Wyoming Women to Watch' | | Wait, were those shoulder straps floating? |
Noé MartÃnez, Racimo 3, 2022 [detail]. High-temperature ceramic and porcelain with oxide slip and cotton rope. Courtesy of the artist and PATRON.
WALTHAM, MA.- For his first solo exhibition in New England, Indigenous Mexican artist Noé MartÃnez (b. 1986 Michoacán, Mexico) addresses his familys Huastecan heritage within the context of Mexicos repressive colonial histories, in order to resurrect, mourn, and memorialize his ... More | |
Sarah Ortegon HighWalking, Sweetgrass/Sweetheart, 2023. Acrylic paint and beadwork.
JACKSON, WY.- Five artists from across Wyoming are converging at Shari Brownfield Fine Art as the first stop in a traveling exhibition titled Wyoming Women to Watch. While only geography and gender connect the artists, each of the five were shortlisted for inclusion in a major exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, ... More | |
Florence Pugh arrives before the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, March 10, 2024. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Emily Blunt showed up to the Academy Awards, arm in arm with her husband, actor John Krasinski, while her dress rejected the premise: Her straps refused to touch her arms. The neckline floated, as if it had been lifted from her Oscar-nominated shoulders by invisible fingers. Those ... More |
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| Royal Academician William Tucker has exhibition on view at Pangolin London | | 'Dove Bradshaw: Zero Space, Zero Time, Infinite Heat' now open at Arte Vallarta Museo in Puerto Vallarta | | Vardaxoglou is presenting a work from each decade of Robyn Denny's oeuvre |
William Tucker, A Bronze Head #7, 2023, Ink, Charcoal and Watercolour on Paper, Unique.
LONDON.- Defying traditional definitions of portraiture, this new body of work from highly regarded Royal Academician William Tucker marks a new chapter in his long career of pushing artistic and academic boundaries. William Tucker (b. 1935) stands as one of Britains most important ... More | |
Detail of exhibition catalog English side with Guilty Marks [Jazz], 2016.
PUERTO VALLARTA.- Arte VallARTa Museo presented American contemporary artist Dove Bradshaws first Mexican exhibition Zero Space, Zero Time, Infinite Heat on March 2, 2024. The exhibit spanned over fifty years of Bradshaws career beginning with her Plain Air series, first begun as a performance ... More | |
Robyn Denny, A Time, 1968-1969.
LONDON.- Vardaxoglou Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition by British artist Robyn Denny (19302014), the first exhibition since the gallery announced representation of the Estate of Robyn Denny. In the first exhibition of its kind, Vardaxoglou is presenting a work from each decade of Robyn Dennys ... More |
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'Nicole Coson: In Passing' marks artist's first gallery solo show in the USNEW YORK, NY.- Manila-born London-based artist Nicole Cosons (b. 1992, Philippines) debut US solo exhibition, In Passing, is now open and will be on view at Silverlens New York through April, 20 2024. For Coson, repetition and seriality are conceptual matrixes for questioning the durability of traces across geographies and time. Over the last decade, the artist has expanded printmaking's limits, deepening its material registration logic by incorporating everyday household items into the traditional press. Through the exhaustive repetition of seemingly cordoned-off or non-signifying surfaces (camouflage textile, window blinds), Coson's work quietly allows for an appreciation of diasporic identity through allegories of infrastructure and material culture. In In Passing, Coson's starting point is the standard plastic shipping crate, used ... More New gig poster series celebrates iconic Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at the Royal Albert HallLONDON.- A specially-commissioned new series of gig posters celebrates some of the iconic bands who have played Teenage Cancer Trusts concerts at the Royal Albert Hall over the last 24 years. The posters have been created by dozens of artists from across the world, and feature bands including The Who, Robert Plant, The Cure and New Order. The prints will be exhibited at the Royal Abert Hall during Teenage Cancer Trusts week-long series of fundraising gigs there, which runs from March 18 25. They are also available purchase online now from teenagecancertrust.org/gig-posters. Artists including Pete McKee, Mishka Westell, Dan Mumford, Josh Townshend and Miles Tewson. The new prints celebrate The Who frontman Roger Daltrey CBEs 24 years as curator of the shows. Daltrey, who is also Teenage Cancer Trusts Honorary ... More 'Poetry in the box: A tribute to the history of the Mercato del Sale and Ugo Carrega' BOLZANO.- As of today at 11.00 am, Museion, Bolzano Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, unveils at Museion Passage and Piccolo Museion Cubo Garutti, the exhibition: Poetry in the box. A tribute to the history of the Mercato del Sale and Ugo Carrega created in collaboration with Mart, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Trento and Rovereto. The exhibition chronicles the twenty-year connection between Mart and Museion, as co-custodians of the extraordinary Archivio di Nuova Scrittura collection, donated to the two museums by Paolo Della Grazia in 2020 and in which Ugo Carrega plays a key role. In particular, the exhibition revolves around the concept of the box sometimes a work of art in itself, and sometimes a container for Carrega's works and pays tribute to the history of the Mercato del Sale (Salt ... More How 'I'm Just Ken' won the Oscars without winning an actual OscarNEW YORK, NY.- Sixty-two dancers. One week of cast rehearsals. Ncuti Gatwa didnt arrive until Friday. Slash showed up Saturday. Im Just Ken was the showstopping number of Sundays Oscar telecast, and it probably wouldnt have come together in as seamless a fashion if not for choreographer Mandy Moore, who has designed dance sequences for a Taylor Swift world tour and a film musical. Um, it was definitely up there with La La Land and the Eras Tour, she said when asked about how Im Just Ken ranked in terms of career challenges. Expectations were high before the ceremony. There were reports that the backup Kens would be shirtless, and in an interview on the red carpet, Mark Ronson, who was up for an Oscar for the song along with Andrew Wyatt, promised an absolutely bananas spectacle. Although the dancers ... More 'Corruption' review: Onstage, a scandal's human drama is muffledNEW YORK, NY.- Corruption, J.T. Rogerss tantalizing new phone-hacking play, starts on Rebekah Brooks wedding weekend. In a village in the English countryside, the flame-haired power broker, one of Rupert Murdochs favorite tabloid editors, has drawn the cream of Britains political class to her celebration. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is there, and so is David Cameron, the Tory who will succeed him. But Brooks (Saffron Burrows) is sequestered in conversation with her charmless boss, Ruperts son James (Seth Numrich). He informs her that television and new media are the companys focus now. Newspapers are a relic, James says. So his contempt is already evident when he tells her that she is the new CEO of News International, the Murdoch-owned British newspaper group. Congratulations? It will be on Brooks watch, anyway, ... More 'Barbenheimer,' and an early start, boost Oscar ratings to 4-year highNEW YORK, NY.- The comeback of live event TV continues. ABCs telecast of the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday drew 19.5 million viewers, hitting a four-year viewership high, according to Nielsen. The live TV audience was up from last years 18.8 million, the third consecutive year that Oscar viewership has grown. The ratings report will prompt cheers at ABC and the academy, which bumped the start of the venerable awards ceremony to 7 p.m. Eastern, an hour earlier than usual, in the hopes that more viewers would stick around through the final categories. That approach appeared to pay dividends, as did the numerous nominations for big box office hits Barbie and Oppenheimer a change from recent years when more obscure films dominated the ceremony. Jimmy Kimmel also received warm reviews in his fourth outing as host, leaving ... More A book celebrates James Foley and confronts a man involved in his murderNEW YORK, NY.- Among the scattered notes taped to the door of Irish author Colum McCanns home office in Manhattan is a photograph of James Foley, the American journalist who was murdered by members of the Islamic State group in August 2014. In the picture, he leans against a barricade of sandbags in jeans and a flak vest, reading McCanns novel Let the Great World Spin. McCann was so moved when he saw the image shortly after James Foleys death that he reached out to Diane Foley, his mother, to offer his condolences and his help telling her sons story, should she ever want it. But Foley missed the message. She was busy creating the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, an organization focused on protecting journalists and ensuring the freedom of Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad. And she ... More Inside the Governors Ball 2024 Oscars partyNEW YORK, NY.- At the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday evening, writer-director Christopher Nolan and producer Emma Thomas stepped off a raised dais after having their Oscars engraved and were greeted by the partys chef, Wolfgang Puck. In honor of the nights biggest prizewinners Nolan for directing Oppenheimer, and Nolan and Thomas for producing it Puck was serving a selection of British food: Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding and fish and chips were presented to the couple, who were both delighted by a taste of home. Onstage at the ceremony, Thomas said she had dreamed her whole life about winning an Oscar. When Nolan was asked at the party if he had held the same dream, he exclaimed, Absolutely. Nolan, who is normally reserved, said he had felt emotional up on that stage, even though he maintained his ... More Malachy McCourt, actor, memoirist and gadabout, dies at 92NEW YORK, NY.- Malachy McCourt, who fled a melancholic childhood in Ireland for America, where he applied his blarney and brogue to become something of a professional Irishman as a thespian, a barkeep and a bestselling memoirist, died Monday in New York City. He was 92. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his wife, Diana McCourt. Malachy McCourt said in an interview with The New York Times last year that he had a heart condition, multiple kinds of cancer and muscular degeneration. In 1952, when he was 20, the Brooklyn-born McCourt reunited with New York. He embarked from Ireland with a ticket paid for with $200 in savings sent by his older brother, Frank McCourt, who had emigrated earlier and was working as a public school English teacher. Frank would also become a late-blooming author, whose books included the Pulitzer ... More Oscar glory for 'Oppenheimer' rewards studio Chief's visionLOS ANGELES, CA.- Queen! It was a Friday night in January, and Snoop Dogg had just rolled into a cocktail party hosted by Donna Langley, NBCUniversals chief content officer and studios chair. His shouted greeting, paired with a jaunty deferential dance, seemed to leave her a bit embarrassed. Were here to celebrate filmmakers and films, Langley told the room a few minutes later. This is not about me. For an executive who ardently prefers to stay in the background she declined to be interviewed for this article and dispatched a lieutenant to try to kill it the 2024 Oscar trail has been an awkward one. Like it or not, this moment in Hollywood history is very much about her. It was Langley who, in a wild bet on a three-hour period drama about a physicist, gave Christopher Nolan the money to make Oppenheimer. It won ... More Best and worst moments from the 2024 OscarsNEW YORK, NY.- Fittingly for an Academy Awards celebrating 2023, the year of Barbenheimer, the movies that made up that phenomenon commanded our attention on Sunday night, too. None of it was a surprise, exactly we knew Ryan Gosling was going to perform the song Im Just Ken from Barbie. And Oppenheimer had been the ceremonys front-runner since awards season started last fall. Still, we werent prepared for just how much the ceremony, which for the most part ran smoothly, would get a boost from those twin blockbusters. Here are the highs and lows as we saw them. Americas No. 1 Ken, the Barbie star Ryan Gosling who was also nominated for best supporting actor and presented a tribute to stunt performers with Emily Blunt brought the house down with his performance of Im Just Ken, one of two nominated ... More  'Soufiane Ababri:Their mouths were full of bumblebees but it was me who was pollinated'LONDON.- As of today, the poignant and exuberant works of Moroccan-born artist Soufiane Ababri are transforming the Barbicans Curve gallery for his first solo exhibition at a major UK institution. Living and working between Paris, France, and Tangier, Morocco, Ababris interdisciplinary practice encompasses drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance. His work cites sources from sociology, philosophy, and the canon of western gay subculture, and is often inspired by real and fictitious encounters with other men. Ababris commission connects the crescent shape of The Curve gallery to the curling form of the Arabic letter Zayin (ز). This is the first letter of the word Zamel, a derogatory term for gay men deriving from Zamil, meaning close or intimate friend. In the Mahgreb, the buzzing of this consonant is used insidiously, insinuating the slur without explicitly voicing it. Ababri takes th ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Georges de La Tour was born March 13, 1593. Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593 - January 30, 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.
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