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Sharon Stone with her paintings currently on view at the C. Parker Gallery.
GREENWICH, CONN.- The C. Parker Gallery in Greenwich, Connecticut presents the East Coast premiere of Sharon Stones paintings with the new exhibition Sharon Stone: Welcome To My Garden. The gallery show has been extended for an additional month until January 15th, featuring some new paintings not previously exhibited. Jerry Saltz will present an artist talk with Sharon Stone on Dec. 14th at the 92nd Street Y in New York ‒ tickets at www.92ny.org/event/sharon-stone-and-jerry-saltz. We are honored to present the highly anticipated East Coast debut of Sharon Stones powerful art, for our Gallerys tenth anniversary season, says Tiffany Benincasa, C. Parker Gallerys owner and curator. This new exhibition offers a never-before-seen panorama into Sharon Stones creative prowess. The gallery is locate ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Museum of Modern Art presents An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières, the artist’s first museum survey in New York. The exhibition explores how Lê’s entire body of work considers cycles of global history and conflict, contemplating the impact of displacement, politics, and the sensationalizing of warfare.
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| Guggenheim lays off 10 employees as museums face fiscal challenges | | A logo to unite America? Good luck. | | Amber fossils suggest male mosquitoes were once bloodsuckers | 
The Guggenheim Museum in New York on June 6, 2017. (Philip Greenberg/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced that it had laid off 10 employees in response to a challenging economic moment in the art world. It was the latest jolt within the museum industry, where a number of institutions across the country have cut staff and increased ticket prices to new heights. When the Guggenheim raised the price for adult admissions to $30 from $25 over the summer, it cited a lack of visitors and declining membership at a moment when expenses have skyrocketed because of inflation, increased labor costs and insurance, as well as rising shipping fees. The layoffs included two deputy directors, but also some longtime rank-and-file employees from the departments of visitor services and communications. The 10 jobs that were cut amounted to 2.5% of all employees. Like many institutions, rising costs and inflation have strained our budget, Sara Fox, a museum spokesperson, said in a statement. Over the past months, we have taken ... More | | 
The new America250 logo. This design will be at the heart of our efforts over the next three years, said Rosie Rios, the chair of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission. (via Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In an airy conference room high above Manhattan, designer Sagi Haviv explained the difficulties of creating an elegant logo for the United States semiquincentennial. The first problem was 18 letters long. It is a very difficult word, Haviv said, veering gracefully around the pileup of prefixes that Congress chose to describe the 250th anniversary of American independence fast approaching on July 4, 2026. He said semiquincentennial just twice in an hourlong interview about designing graphics for the occasion, each time speeding through its seven syllables semiquincentennial, semiquincentennial as if hoping to limit the linguistic sloppiness inflicted on his otherwise sleek operation. Haviv, 49, is a partner at Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv, the design studio behind logos for NBC, Mobil and New York University, as well as the star emblem that represented the nations bicentennial in 1976. The studio was contacted ... More | | 
An image from Dany Azar shows a fossilized mosquito found in central Lebanon had piercing mouth parts, suggesting it had fed on blood. (Dany Azar via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Every single mosquito thats ever bitten you has been female. For them, a meal of blood is the ultimate girl dinner. Only females have mouth parts capable of piercing skin. But insects found trapped in amber, described in a study published Monday in the journal Current Biology, suggest that male mosquitoes may have once drunk blood, too. When small animals or plants get stuck in gooey tree resin, they can be preserved if the resin hardens into amber. In Lebanon, I have found some 450 different outcrops of amber, which is a lot for a small country, said Dany Azar, a paleontologist at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Lebanese University, and an author of the paper. Lebanese amber is rich in preserved fossils, called inclusions, and dates to around 125 million years in the early Cretaceous Period. In addition to being the age of the dinosaurs, it was also a time when flowering plants were becoming more widespread. Azar says he studies inclusions with ... More |
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| At the Kennedy Center, an ode to the arts, and a gentle jab at Biden's age | | 'Hockney/Origins' reveals unique perspective on artist's early career | | The Royal Scottish Academy presents a new exhibition about William Gillies | 
From left, first lady Jill Biden and President Joe Biden attend the 46th Kennedy Center Honors in Washington on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
WASHINGTON, DC.- Rarely is the president of the United States, nestled in his box, the center of attention at the Kennedy Center Honors, the annual awards ceremony that brings a carousel of celebrities, musicians and actors to the stage to pay tribute to lifetime achievements in the arts. But such was the case Sunday night, when Robert De Niro, celebrating Billy Crystals career, marveled at all the honoree had packed into it. Youre only 75, De Niro said. That means youre just about six years away from being the perfect age to be president. As President Joe Biden grinned, waved and ruefully shook his finger at De Niro from the presidential box, members of the audience leaped to their feet with applause some to gawk at Bidens reaction from the front row of the balcony. It was the only suggestion of politics in an apolitical, if quintessentially Washington ... More | | 
David Hockney (British, b. 1937). Celia in Red and White Dress, 1972. Colored pencil on paper, 17 x 14 in. Roy B. and Edith J. Simpson Collection. © David Hockney.
GREENWICH, CT.- A rare display of private collection works reveals a unique perspective on the early career of David Hockney (b. 1937), one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Opening Dec. 6 at the Bruce Museum, Hockney/Origins: Early Works from the Roy B. and Edith J. Simpson Collection features 16 works on loan from the collection of Roy B. and Edith J. Simpson.
The exhibition traces the early ambitions and evolution of a young Hockney with a spotlight on works created between 1961-1980. Reflecting a range of mediums, the 16 works on display include oil and acrylic paintings, pressed paper pulp, crayon drawings, lithographs and etchings. Hockney/Origins chronicles subjects and variations on themes that Hockney has consistently engaged with throughout his career. ... More | | 
Sir William Gillies RSA, 100 William Gillies, Two Jugs, Flowers and Conch Shell. (detail)
EDINBURGH.- This December the Royal Scottish Academy will celebrate the life and work of Sir William George Gillies RSA (1898-1973) with an exhibition featuring paintings, drawings and associated photographs, archives and objects from across his career. Thanks to the Sir William Gillies Bequest in 1973, the Royal Scottish Academy holds the worlds most extensive collection of Gillies work. Marking the 125th anniversary of Gillies' birth and the 50th anniversary of his death, Modernism and Nation will bring together a select group of Gillies paintings in still life, portraiture and landscape. Recognised masterpieces such as his Interior (1938), the late and sublime Nairn Beach, and his RSA Diploma Deposit Still Life with Yellow Jug and Striped Cloth will be joined by other significant works. Throughout his career Gillies explored and developed different approaches to his painting, absorbing European Modernism and red ... More |
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| New Orleans Museum of Art announces its major exhibitions for 2024 | | Replica of the original 'Big Brother' container on view at Museum Tinguely | | Ward Moretti unveils exhibition of The Pieter and Olga Dreesmann Collection of works by Pablo Picasso | 
From Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined: Wangechi Mutu, Lizard Love, 2006. Mixed media, ink, spray paint, and collage on Mylar. 25 Ã 21 1/2 in (63.5 Ã 54.6 cm) 28 1/4 Ã 24 1/4 in (71.8 Ã 61.6 cm) framed. Courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery, and Victoria Miro Gallery.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art announces its major exhibitions for 2024, showcasing NOMAs curatorial scholarship and highlighting the museums exceptional collection across genres and disciplines. This January, NOMA will present the retrospective Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, following its debut at the New Museum, New York. Intertwined examines the Kenyan-American artists multidisciplinary practice, tracing Mutus decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and Diasporic cultural traditions. Several of Mutus works from the exhibition will be installed in NOMAs Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden and in the gardens indoor pavilion, where they will be complemented by Mutu sculptures permanently sited there. This summer, ... More | | 
Boris Nikitin, Erste Staffel. 20 Jahre Grosser Bruder, kitchen and dining room. Stage design: David Hohmann. © Photo: Boris Nikitin.
BASEL.- Museum Tinguely presents the installation The Last Reality Show by Basel theatre director Boris Nikitin, a replica of the «house» featured in the first German series of the reality television show Big Brother in 2000. Measuring 10 by 10 metres, it was originally part of the set for his production Erste Staffel. 20 Jahre Grosser Bruder at Staatstheater Nürnberg. For the exhibition in Basel, Nikitin and his team have reworked the object, transforming it into an unusual installation that will be on show in Basel from 6 December 2023 until 21 January 2024. It offers a many-facetted reflection of developments in global society over the past 23 years and links them with the moment when ordinary people first volunteered to be observed round the clock for a TV show. Big Brother was the first reality show to be aired simultaneously on television and on the internet, marking a paradigm shift and ushering in the age of digital visibility. The f ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso La danseuse Sada Yacco, 1900-1901. Courtesy Ward Moretti © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2023.
LONDON.- A remarkable single-owner survey collection of 32 works on paper, unique ceramics and sculpture by Pablo Picasso assembled over 25 years and spanning key moments in the artists career was unveiled and is being offered for sale by London-based dealership Ward Moretti. Marking the 50th anniversary of Picassos death, exhibitions in London, Paris, New York and Monaco represent a rare opportunity to acquire a diverse range of works from one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Since the first Picasso work entered their collection in 1997, Dutch collector Pieter Dreesmann and his wife Olga have worked closely with James Roundell to build and shape the collection. From early Blue, Rose and Cubist explorations to Neo-classicism, Surrealism and later periods of his career, the works in the collection date from 1899 to 1962 and cover the broad spectrum of Picasso's artistic evolution. ... More |
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| Exhibition showcasing the range of Saul Leiter's career is on view to celebrate 100th anniversary of his birth | | After shakeup, Trinity Church appoints its next music leader | | 'Ahead of her Time: Pioneering Women from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century' now showing | 
Saul Leiter, Untitled, date unknown. Gouche and watercolor over gelatin silver photograph, 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth, an exhibition showcasing the diverse range of Saul Leiters career is now on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery. Saul Leiter: Centennial features more than 40 photographs, paintings, and painted photographs, many of which have never been on public view in the U.S. The exhibition, created in collaboration with the Saul Leiter Foundation, coincides with a new book, Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, to be published by Thames & Hudson in November. An opening reception was held on Saturday, December 2. Saul Leiter, who was born on December 3, 1923, photographed and painted nearly every day for over 60 years. He made an enormous and unique contribution to photography during a highly prolific period in New York City in the 1950s as an early pioneer of color. His abstracted forms and radically innovative compositions have a painterly quality that stands out from the work of ... More | | 
An image from Trinity Church Wall Street shows Melissa Attebury, Trinity Churchs director of music education and outreach efforts. Attebury will take up the podium of the institutions music program at the start of the 2024-25 season. (Trinity Church Wall Street via The New York Times)
by Javier C. Hernández
NEW YORK, NY.- For more than 20 months, the acclaimed music program at Trinity Church, one of New Yorks wealthiest and most powerful churches, has had no permanent leader. The last person to hold that position, Julian Wachner, was fired last year after being accused of sexual misconduct, a charge he has denied. Since then, the church has relied on guest conductors and staff members to help fill the gap. But on Monday, Trinity announced that it had found a new leader: Melissa Attebury, the director of the churchs music education and outreach efforts. This is a calling, and I feel very compelled and very excited about doing this, she said in an interview. Attebury will take the podium at the start of the 2024-25 season, and will be the first woman ... More | | 
Etienne-Charles Le Guay, Sèvres 17621846 Paris. Portrait of Marie-Victoire Jaquotot, c. 1801. Oil on ivory panel, in a gilded wood frame, 19.7 x 13.8 cm (7 3/4 x 5 3/8 in.).
NEW YORK, NY.- Robilant+Voena is now showing an exhibition of works by Old Master, nineteenth- and twentieth-century women artists, alongside portraits of and works belonging to notable women in artistic, cultural or intellectual spheres. Bringing together over 30 works by women artists from Europe and America, and spanning a period of five centuries, the exhibition highlights the challenges faced and overcome by these groundbreaking individuals in their lives and work. This is a rare opportunity to see such a breadth of works by, and relating to, female artists and intellectuals, some well-known, some less so but deserving of wider recognition. Each protagonist represented in the exhibition set herself apart within the context of her time, surmounting obstacles imposed by societies across ... More |
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 "zrikha sheqi'att hashemesh" by Joel Mesler at David Kordansky Gallery to end this December 16thLOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery's presentation of zrikha sheqiatt hashemesh (Sunrise Sunset), the exhibition of new paintings by Joel Mesler, on view in Los Angeles will be ending this December 16, 2023. Mesler has become known in recent years for paintings that bring together autobiographical reflection, self-effacing humor, an open-hearted sense of precision and design, and a sly conceptualism with roots in a heterogenous group of modernist and postmodernist approaches to artmaking. zrikha sheqiatt hashemesh (Sunrise Sunset) finds him expanding his work in each of these categories and revealing the deeper strains of cultural awareness and collective purpose that have motivated him since the beginning of his multi-faceted career. The exhibition features two groups of paintings: nine small-format portraits ... More  Five decades of work by Claude Viallat on view at Galerie Templon in ParisPARIS.- Claude Viallats season is nothing if not colourful: after the Quelques Pas de Côté / A Couple of Sidesteps show at the Templon Brussels space which recently ended, Galerie Templon is holding a new exhibition tracing five decades of the artists work in the French capital, running in parallel to the major retrospective of his art at Carré dArt in Nîmes. In contrast to the Belgian exhibition featuring twenty recent works, the Paris show is presenting a carefully curated selection of ten key pieces, all created between 1966 and 2023. Multi-coloured, striped and flowered fabrics hang on the gallery walls, lighting up the space with a palette of subtle hues: pistachio, pine green, lemon yellow, ultramarine and terracotta. On their surface we can see the artists signature small bone shape emerging, painted there almost obsessively. A ... More  Alicia Keys' 'Hell's Kitchen' to open on Broadway this springNEW YORK, NY.- Alicia Keys semi-autobiographical coming-of-age musical, Hells Kitchen, has been selling out night after night during its off-Broadway run at the Public Theater. Next up, to no ones surprise: The show is transferring to Broadway. Keys, a singer-songwriter who has sold millions of albums and has won 15 Grammy Awards, announced at a Public Theater fundraiser Monday night that the musical, which ends its 12-week downtown run Jan. 14, will transfer to the Shubert Theater one of Broadways most desirable houses. The first preview is scheduled for March 28, and opening night is set for April 20. Im out of my mind with joy, excitement, thrill, Keys said in a telephone interview. She noted that her mother, as a teenager, had moved to New York from Ohio to pursue an acting career, and said she saw ... More  Robert Precht, producer of 'The Ed Sullivan Show,' dies at 93NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Precht, who for more than a decade produced The Ed Sullivan Show, the influential Sunday night variety extravaganza that for 23 years brought singers, comedians, rock bands, jugglers, animal acts and the Italian mouse puppet Topo Gigio into the living rooms of millions of viewers, died Nov. 26 at his home in Missoula, Montana. He was 93. His death was confirmed by his daughter Margo Precht Speciale, producer of an upcoming documentary about Sullivan. Precht joined the Sullivan show as its associate producer in 1958, 10 years after the program made its debut as The Toast of the Town. He became producer two years later, replacing Marlo Lewis, and was eventually named executive producer. Precht arrived too late for Elvis Presleys electrifying appearances in 1956 and 1957. But he was ... More  Cobi Narita, tireless jazz promoter and benefactor, dies at 97NEW YORK, NY.- Cobi Narita, an indefatigable jazz impresario who for more than 40 years in New York City produced concerts, celebrated female artists in an annual festival and ran performance spaces, died Nov. 8 in Los Angeles. She was 97. Her death, at the home of a granddaughter, was confirmed by her son Robert. Narita who grew up in California, spent most of World War II with her family in an Arizona internment camp for Japanese Americans and moved to New York in her early 40s was a unifying force in local jazz circles. Jazz in New York would not have been the same without Cobi, saxophonist Jimmy Heath told the website All About Jazz in 2006. Loren Schoenberg, founding director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, called Narita a respected benefactor who provided much-needed opportunities for performers in New York a ... More  First Klima Biennale Wien to open in April 2024VIENNA .- In response to the urgency of the climate crisis and the corresponding need for a radical change in the way we think and act, the City of Vienna has launched a new festival. The first Klima Biennale Wien, hosted by the KunstHausWien, will begin on 5 April and run until 14 July 14 2024. The festival will span one hundred days and offer an interdisciplinary, interactive, and international programme throughout the Austrian capital, providing a platform for finding common solutions to the climate crisis and launching new ideas for a sustainable future. An international premiere: With the Klima Biennale Wien, program director Sithara Pathirana and artistic director Claudius Schulze will organise the worlds first international climate art festival. The diverse programme encourages local and global participation in a dialogue about ... More  Artist reception and book signing for 'Keith Carter: Ghostlight' at PDNB GalleryDALLAS, TX.- This exhibition, coinciding with the release of Keith Carters book, Ghostlight, features photographs that were taken in the mysterious swamp land and forest of the Big Thicket in Texas. Keith Carter (b. 1948, Madison, Wisconsin), is known for his regional images of Texas, especially around his home town of Beaumont. Although he has traveled the world to create poetic images of interesting people, animals and nature, he spent several years before and during the pandemic, walking through this extraterrestrial land that is near his home. The book is an extraordinary compilation of images and text that immerse the viewer in this hauntingly beautiful landscape. Keith will be signing copies of the University of Texas Press monograph, designed by Pentagrams DJ Stout and Michelle Maudet, on Saturday, December ... More  Siblings fight over estate of mother whose land yielded a T. Rex skeletonNEW YORK, NY.- Darlene Williams died in 2020, more than a dozen years after the $8 million sale of a fossilized skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex named Sue that was found on her familys ranch in South Dakota in 1990. Now, her children are fighting over who should inherit her money, pointing to conflicting wills that Williams left, including one she signed shortly before her death. It is the latest legal dispute spawned by Sue, a crown jewel of paleontology regarded as the most complete T. rex fossil ever found. The bones have been at the center of court cases almost from the moment fossil hunters found the 67 million-year-old remnants. Before her death in 2020, Williams had written two wills. In a 2017 will, she appointed one of her daughters, Sandra Williams Luther, as the personal representative of her estate. In another will, written in ... More  National Gallery acquires work by Dolores "Loló" SoldevillaWASHINGTON, DC.- Dolores Loló Soldevilla (19011971) was one of the few women associated with the development and promotion of geometric abstraction in Cuba. The National Gallery of Art has acquired its first work by the artist: an untitled painted wood relief from 1955, one of the breakthrough painting-objects from her celebrated series. These works are composed of simple shapes, often black and/or white, that project out toward the viewer from a solid ground. This composition features 28 circles of different sizes and one right triangle, all painted white. They are arranged in irregular rows and columns without an overall order, giving the work a sense of movement that contradicts the flatly painted, hard surface. Prior to these painting-objects Soldevillas work was influenced by the music-inspired abstractions of Wassily Kandinsky, ... More  The Morgan Library & Museum announces 2024 centennial campaign and programmingNEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum announced plans today for its centennial. The year 2024 marks one hundred years of the Morgan Library & Museum as a public institution. Established by Jack Morgan as the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1924, the Morgan has evolved into a major cultural destination in the heart of New York City. With rare and noteworthy collections, a rich calendar of exhibitions and programs, and a world-class research center for scholars, artists, writers, and more, the Morgans multifaceted work reaches more than 250,000 visitors on-site and seven million online annually. In celebration of this remarkable milestone, the Morgan has launched a Centennial Campaign, which will both celebrate all that has been accomplished in the last century and look ahead to the next one hundred years of the Morgan and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt was born December 06, 1898. Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 - August 24, 1995) was a German-American photographer and photojournalist. He is renowned for his candid photographs, frequently made using various models of a 35mm Leica rangefinder camera. He is best known for his photograph capturing the celebration of V-J Day. In this image: 86 year-old Edith Shain and 78 year-0ld Carl Muscarello recreate the Famous 'Kiss Picture', Sunday 14 August 2005. The original couple in the iconic image, Edith Shain the nurse and Carl Muscarello the sailor was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt 60 years ago to the day in Times Square on Victory Japan Day in 1945 to signify the end of World War Two. The Artist Seward Johnson created a life-sized sculpture of the kiss Unconditional Surrender for the event.
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