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In this file photo taken on June 03, 2016 French designer Pierre Cardin speaks during an interview at "La Fenice" theatre in Venice. French designer Pierre Cardin, who shook up the fashion world with his visionary creations but also turned his name into a money-spinning global brand, died on December 29, 2020 aged 98. MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP.
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NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Pierre Cardin, the visionary designer who clothed the elite but also transformed the business of fashion, reaching the masses by affixing his name to an outpouring of merchandise ranging from off-the-rack apparel to bath towels, died on Tuesday in Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside Paris. He was 98. His death, at the American Hospital there, was confirmed Tuesday by the French Academy of Fine Arts. No cause was given. Fashion is not enough, Cardin once told Eugenia Sheppard, the American newspaper columnist and fashion critic. I dont want to be just a designer. He dressed the famous artists, political luminaries, tastemakers and members of the haute bourgeoisie but he was also a licensing pioneer, a merchant to the general public with his name on a cornucopia of products. There were bubble dresses and aviator jumpsuits, fragrances and automobiles, ashtrays and even pickle jars. He turned Frances fashion establishment on its head, reproduci ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This file photo taken on October 18, 1977 shows French designer Pierre Cardin posing in front of his new gallery, in Paris. French fashion designer Pierre Cardin, hailed for his visionary creations but also for bringing stylish clothes to the masses, died on December 29, 2020 aged 98, his family told AFP. Cardin who was born in Italy in 1922 but emigrated to France as a small child, died in a hospital in Neuilly in the west of Paris, his family said.
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| The Birmingham Museum of Art presents Jacob Lawrence exhibition | | Detroit Institute of Arts adds works to Native American collection, new works by women artists | | Some of Jackie O.'s favorite fabrics are back on the market |
The exhibition presents the artists reinterpretation and reimagining of key moments from the early history of the United States.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.- The Birmingham Museum of Art is presenting Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle, a striking exhibition of paintings by the iconic American modernist, Jacob Lawrence. Struggle comes to Birmingham directly from its presentation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Featuring the series of paintings Struggle. . . From the History of the American People (195456), the exhibition presents the artists reinterpretation and reimagining of key moments from the early history of the United States. "Jacob Lawrence has a long history with the Birmingham Museum of Art. We hosted his retrospective in 1974, and exhibited his Migration Series to widespread acclaim in 1994. Those who remember the 1994 exhibition shared with me how popular it was and how much it resonated within our community, says Graham C. Boettcher, PhD, ... More | |
The Board of Directors approved the acquisition of 463 works of art.
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts Board of Directors approved the acquisition of 463 works of art through gifts and purchases in 2020, including significant additions to the museums Native American collection and works by women artists. The collection is the heart of every art museum, and at the DIA, we are fortunate to have one of the best in the world, said DIA Director Salvador Salort-Pons. But museum collections are not static; they are dynamic and evolving. We see artworks through new lenses in todays world. As we work to serve new audiences and create a more inclusive society, it is important to leverage acquisitions to evolve our collection to better mirror our community. Highlights of the DIAs 2020 acquisitions include: Jamaican-born artist Mavis Iona Pusey worked as a painter, printmaker and teacher, and was one of the few black female artists specializing in abstraction. Sphae displa ... More | |
Kathleen Tillett and her son, Patrick McBride, of Tillett Textiles, outside of their factory in Sheffield, Mass., Dec. 2, 2020. Shana Sureck/The New York Times.
by Jaci Conry
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The party that introduced the Design Works of Bedford-Stuyvesant textile collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in October 1971 drew quite a crowd. Ethel Kennedy was in attendance along with Babe Paley, the socialite; so were Diana Vreeland, the editor of Vogue, and Bunny Mellon, the philanthropist and horticulturalist. The guest who got the most attention that evening, as guests perused the array of textiles featuring African motifs in bold colorways, was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. It was a very glamorous evening, said Hermine Mariaux, 87, the homes editor for House and Garden at the time, who attended the gala and recalled the Senegalese dancers that performed. It was the very first party like that held at The Met. Prior to then, ... More |
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| Christie's releases preliminary 2020 figures | | The George Eastman Museum receives $65,350 grant award from the National Film Preservation Foundation | | Dr. Anne Bromberg named Curator Emerita at Dallas Museum of Art |
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), Nude with Joyous Painting. Oil and Magna on canvas, 70 x 53 in. (177.8 x 134.6 cm.) Painted in 1994. Estimate: Estimate On Request. Price Realized: $46,242,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Global sales £3.4 billion / $4.4 billion o Down 25% compared to 2019, driven by the drop in live auction sales o Primarily due to the overall impact of the pandemic on supply o Demand remained strong, with a high sell-through rate of 81% across all sales · Online-only sales and digital innovations as a major driver for future growth o While live auction sales were largely suspended during Q2 due to COVID-19 precautions, Christies immediate acceleration of its digital strategy at the start of the pandemic ensured business continuity across the year and expanded the global reach of its sale activities exponentially o Online-only sales were up 262% in 2020 (£243 million / $311 million), marking a record total for the channel. o With more than 200 sales in 2020, this channel contributed more than ... More | |
Grant funds will be used to preserve three severely endangered nitrate feature films.
ROCHESTER, NY.- The George Eastman Museum recently received a grant award for $65,350 from the National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve three severely endangered nitrate feature films from the museums collection. The prints of His Last Race (US 1923), Payroll Pirates (US 1920), and When Betty Bets (US 1917) are likely the only versions of the films that still exist. Due to severe nitrate decomposition in all three films, this is the last chance to save these unique prints. His Last Race (US 1923), Payroll Pirates (US 1920), and When Betty Bets (US 1917) are all currently housed at the George Eastman Museum in optimal conditions, but are nevertheless deteriorating. The films are fragile and while decomposition is present in them, they are still viable for photochemical film preservation, and ultimately, digital access. The grant funds will be used for laboratory preservation work at Cinema Arts Laboratory in Newfoundland, PA, and at Ea ... More | |
The Cecil and Ida Green Curator of Ancient and Asian Art is the museums longest serving staff member.
DALLAS, TX.- Today the Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art Dr. AgustÃn Arteaga announced that Anne R. Bromberg, PhD, The Cecil and Ida Green Curator of Ancient and Asian Art, has been named Curator Emerita in great appreciation of her nearly 60 years of Museum work, and her renowned curatorial expertise in the field. Dr. Bromberg has been with the DMA since she began in 1962 as a lecturer. In 1975 she was appointed head of the education department. Since 1989 she has been a curator at the DMA and has played a key role in developing the Museums significant Asian holdings. In 2004 Dr. Bromberg was named The Cecil and Ida Green Curator of Ancient and Asian Art, reflecting the dedication of the Greens, whose generosity added many objects to the DMAs collection, especially in the area of Western antiquities. Said Arteaga, In a remarkable career, Anne Bromberg has worked at the Dallas Museum of Art longer ... More |
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| Exhibition celebrates the work of an artist who championed the everyday lives and culture of Black people | | Anna Laudel Dusseldorf presents Ekin Su Koç's solo exhibition "Altbau" | | Lost in 2020: Epic Shakespeare, and the theater that planned it |
Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Gift Eggs, 1984. Rag painting with beads, 12 ½ x 9 ½ in. Columbus Museum of art, Estate of the Artist.
COLUMBUS, OH.- In 2015, Columbus-based artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (1940-2015) bequeathed her estate, including her home and studio, to the Columbus Museum of Art. For the past five years, CMA has documented the art, writings, archives and library that remained in her house. Raggin On: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinsons House and Journals is the first major exhibition of the artists work since her death and a celebration of Robinsons vision and the home and community she cherished. On view at CMA from Nov. 21, 2020-Oct. 3, 2021, Raggin On presents more than six decades of Aminah Robinsons art and writing. Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson lived and worked in Columbus, Ohio, where she created sculpture, large complex works she called RagGonNons, rag paintings, paintings on cloth, and drawings. She also created books about her family and community, African American history, her travels, and the stories ... More | |
Ekin Su Koç, Altbau V, Kumaş, Dantel ve Alçı_Fabric, Lace and Plaster, 30 x 35 cm, 2020. Photo: Courtesy Anna Laudel Düsseldorf.
DUSSELDORF.- The solo exhibition of the artist Ekin Su Koç in Germany, combines different disciplines and techniques together. Paintings, collages, epoxy works, drawings and plaster wall sculptures etc. those are the fragments of the exhibition that playing with the notions like identity, gender and the relation between human and nature in anthropocene epoch. The exhibition title Altbau comes from the wall sculptures that she focusses on lately. The combinations of Berlins visually very rich Altbau motives with the old hand made fabrics of nomads from Ayvalık, Turkey. These compositions can be read as feministic corrected storytellings about our daily surroundings. Old fabrics have been put equally with the Altbau motives onto a piece of wall. The carved and raw edged look of the pieces reminds us the findings in the archaeological sites. While emphasising the beauty and the aesthetic power of the materials, we can also playfully ... More | |
Charlene V. Smith, a co-founder of Brave Spirits Theater, at the theater in Alexandria, Va., Dec. 26, 2020. Greg Kahn/The New York Times.
by Maya Phillips
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ive written several versions of this story. First it was supposed to be an account of a small theater companys ambitious stage project, then a story about that interrupted project and the companys plan to regroup because of the pandemic. Now its an elegy for a small theater that the coronavirus shut down. On a bright but chilly Saturday afternoon in February, I hopped on a train to Alexandria, Virginia, just outside of Washington. I was visiting Brave Spirits Theater, which was presenting the first part of a bold endeavor: staging eight of Shakespeares history plays (the two tetralogies, from Richard II to Richard III) in repertory, over the course of 18 months, culminating in a marathon performance of all eight works. I was there to see the first two plays in the series, beginning with a matinee performance of Richard II. On the car from the train station, ... More |
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| Struggling artists bring smiles in war-weary Yemen | | Dia Chelsea to reopen in April 2021 with new commissions by Lucy Raven and free admission | | After eight years, Het Nieuwe Instituut becomes a heritage institute, and Guus Beumer hands over the baton |
A Yemeni actor rehearses on the eve of the premiere of a play entitled 'Yemeni Film', a comedic production that touches on the current struggles of local artists, in the capital Sanaa, on December 23, 2020. MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP.
SANAA (AFP).- Yemeni men, women and children filled a hall earlier this month in rebel-held Sanaa, laughing and clapping as actors took to the stage with comic relief for their war-wracked country. Yemen's conflict has sparked the world's worst humanitarian crisis, the UN says, and the Arab world's poorest country has also been hit hard by the novel coronavirus. Hoping to provide entertainment to the embattled population, a troupe of struggling artists performed in the capital Sanaa a play called "Yemeni Film", which showcased the country's hardships. It revolved around young people who want to produce a film but face a mountain of challenges, including violence, air strikes, a lack of funding and a shortage of trained actors. In an effort to avoid the minefields of political sensitivities ... More | |
Lucy Raven, Ready Mix (still), 2021. © Lucy Raven, courtesy the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Following a two-year-long expansion and renovation, Dia Chelsea will reopen in April 2021 with an exhibition of newly commissioned work by American artist Lucy Raven. The culmination of a four-year engagement with Dia, Ravens two installations will fill both galleries at Dia Chelsea. The exhibition will run through January 2022. On reopening, admission to Dia Chelsea will be permanently free, making all of Dias five sites and locations in New York City free to the public. Dia first established an exhibition space in Chelsea in 1987. With the opening of the new Dia Chelsea, I am so happy to finally give us a permanent home in this neighborhood, said Jessica Morgan, Dias Nathalie de Gunzburg director. We hope that offering free admission at all of our five New York City sites will encourage visitors to come to our spaces time and time again. It is vital that arts and culture are accessible to all an ... More | |
Guus Beumer. Photo: Bart Koetsier.
ROTTERDAM.- From 2021, Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam will move forward as a national heritage institution with assignments relating to the Dutch basic cultural infrastructure (BIS). Within the cultural infrastructure, Het Nieuwe Instituut forms the national memory of the design sector and aspires to shape a strategy aiming at innovation and based on the pillars of sustainability, usability and visibility. Now that Guus Beumer has, after eight years, successfully realised this ambition for the institute, and is approaching statutory retirement age, he will step down as general and artistic director from May 2021. In the near future, he will focus on new initiatives in the fields of heritage and ecology. In 2012, Beumer was commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to turn the then sectoral institutes NAi, Premsela and Virtueel Platform into a national support institution for the entire design sector, including ... More |
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Orlando Museum of Art partners with multimedia artist on stock image project
ORLANDO, FLA.- In partnership with contemporary artist Kenya (Robinson), the Orlando Museum of Art announced the launch of BLIXEL: (Re)Stock Image Collection, a project designed to address under-representation of people of African descent in stock imagery. Through the project, funded in part by United Arts of Central Florida, the museum and artist aim to establish a volunteer network of stock image collection sites, in the form of photoshoot locations, to which photographers, visual editors, and participating models may donate their time, expertise, and visage. (Robinson), who won the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art in 2018, designed the project after encountering a severe lack of diverse representation in online image libraries while working on a series of book cover artworks entitled Hood Tales that relied heavily on stock imagery. (Robinson) ... More
Tony Rice, bluegrass innovator with a guitar pick, dies at 69
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Tony Rice, an immensely influential singer and guitarist in bluegrass and in the new acoustic music circles that grew up around it, died Saturday at his home in Reidsville, North Carolina. He was 69. The International Bluegrass Music Association confirmed his death. No cause was specified. Tony Rice was the king of the flatpicked flattop guitar, singer-songwriter Jason Isbell said on Twitter. His influence cannot possibly be overstated. Isbell was referring to what is commonly known as flatpicking, a technique that involves striking a guitars strings with a pick or plectrum instead of with the fingers. Inspired by the forceful fretwork of pioneering bluegrass bandleader Jimmy Martin, Rices flatpicking was singularly nimble and expressive. I dont know if a person can make anything more beautiful, Isbell went on to say ... More
Scottish sculpture subscription scheme offers world-class art for your home
EDINBURGH.- Art lovers are being invited to join SPG Club believed to be the worlds first subscription scheme bringing specially commissioned sculpture by leading artists into members own homes. Sculpture Placement Group (SPG) has designed the club to be exclusive but affordable. Membership will be restricted to 35 subscribers each paying £45 a month for the chance to have two limited edition works a year - to keep forever! The first piece is being commissioned from Andy Holden, whose work has been bought by The Tate for its permanent collection. The second will be from Holly Hendry who has exhibited throughout the UK and Europe and is currently preparing a solo show and large-scale outdoor commission at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea. Kate V Robertson, of Sculpture Placement Group, said: With Christmas ... More
Wembley Park unveils, 'Drawn Together', new Instagram-generated artwork on Spanish Steps
LONDON.- Londons newest creative neighbourhood, Wembley Park, has unveiled, Drawn Together, an uplifting new artwork on the Spanish Steps as part of its 2020 festive display, United in Light. In a year of people being asked to stay apart, the design features hundreds of unique, self-illustrated faces placed side-by-side and shaded to form a rainbow, reflecting the public working together to tackle the pandemic. Using a community-centric creative process, Wembley Park and East-London designer Tash Randolph invited people across the UK to feature in this inclusive artwork by drawing their self-portraits on Instagram stories, combining the digital world with the physical. From a distance, the illuminated artwork gives the illusion of a rainbow climbing the steps, whilst up close it showcases 612 individuals who submitted a self-portrait ... More
Shandong University joins the ranks of prestigious universities in China to acquire Gale Scholar
SHANDONG.- Shandong University is the latest university in China to acquire Gale Scholar, from Gale, a Cengage company, empowering its researchers to make fresh discoveries through digital access to millions of pages from Gale Primary Sources. Gale Scholar offers institutions access to core collections in Gale Primary Sources totaling more than 170 million digitized pages from the vaults of world renowned libraries, covering over 500 years of international history. Shandong University is one of the highest ranking universities in China, and one of the first members of Project 211 and Project 985, two state projects to support the development of the countrys best universities. Since its founding nearly 120 years ago, Shandong University has attached great importance to the research and study of western culture, said Director Zhao ... More
Scott Donaldson, biographer of literary titans, dies at 92
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Scott Donaldson, a biographer who specialized in literary giants, among them Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Cheever, although he called the task of capturing such personages between the covers of a book the impossible craft, died Dec. 1 at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 92. His wife, Vivian Donaldson, said the cause was lung cancer. Donaldson began his career as a newsman but eventually made his way to academia, teaching American literature at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, for 27 years. He found himself drawn to the life stories of literary figures and the relationship between their experiences and their writings. His first biography, Poet in America: Winfield Townley Scott, published in 1972, told the story of a not-particularly-famous poet whose work ... More
BADA elects first woman chairman
LONDON.- The British Antique Dealers Association announced the election of Louise Phillips as the Associations new Chairman. Her appointment marks the first time that a woman has held this position since the association was founded in 1918. Louise is a second-generation dealer in the company of Elaine Phillips Antiques, which was established by her mother (Elaine) in the 1960s, and specialises in 17th and 18th century oak furniture and associated decorative items. After a successful career in PR & Marketing in the fashion industry, Louise joined the family business in 1985, and was responsible for launching an interior design and project management service which runs in tandem and has represented major clients both in the UK and throughout Europe. Based near Leyburn, North Yorkshire, Louise has played a very active role in the administration ... More
Fashion pioneer Pierre Cardin in quotes
PARIS (AFP).- Key quotes from French designer and businessman Pierre Cardin who died on Tuesday aged 98: "The clothes I prefer are those I have created for a life that does not yet exist, the world of tomorrow." "My aim was the street, that my name and my creations be on the street. Celebrities, princesses were not my cup of tea. I respected them, I dined with them, but I could not see them in my dresses. In any case, they would have looked ridiculous." "My great stroke of genius was ready-to-wear at a time when there was only haute couture. They told me it would not last two years. I charged on, believing in my idea. I was criticised, made fun of." "Form comes first. Then the material that expresses the volumes, the flow, the flexibility. Colour comes last." "A table leg, a root, a tree, a leaf, all can give me ideas. I am capable of seeing an artichoke and making an ... More
Jazz onscreen, depicted by Black filmmakers at last
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Midway through Ma Raineys Black Bottom, the new Netflix drama based on August Wilsons acclaimed stage play, the title character drifts into a monologue. White folk dont understand about the blues, muses Rainey (Viola Davis), an innovator at the crossroads of blues and jazz with an unbending faith in her own expressive engine. They hear it come out, but they dont know how it got there, she says as she readies herself to record in a Chicago studio in 1927. They dont understand that thats lifes way of talking. You dont sing to feel better, you sing because thats your way of understanding life. Time seems to roll to a stop as Rainey speaks. The divide between her words and what white society is ready to hear lays itself out wide before us. That, you realize, is the fertile space where her music exists ... More
Bassam Saba, renowned proponent of Arabic music, dies at 62
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bassam Saba, a prominent Lebanese musician who promoted Arabic music in the West before coming home late in his career to take over Lebanons national conservatory, died Dec. 4 in Beirut, Lebanon. He was 62. The cause was complications of COVID-19, his daughter, Mariana Saba, said. A skilled violinist trained in Western music who also played the nay (an Arabic flute), the Western flute and the lute-like oud, Saba worked hard to spread appreciation for Arabic music internationally, helping to start the New York Arabic Orchestra and performing with the Silk Road Ensemble, established by noted cellist Yo-Yo Ma. His official biography also lists collaborations with Sting, Alicia Keys, Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones, as well as international orchestras. He played with some of the Arab worlds major cultural ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian photographer and architect El Lissitzky died December 30, 1941. Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (November 23 [O.S. November 11] 1890 - December 30, 1941) was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant-garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union. In this image: El Lissitzky, "Proun, Street Decoration Design", 1921. Photo Peter Cox.
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