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An undated rendering provided by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, of what the Georgia OKeeffe Museum will look like at its new location, only 500 or so feet from its current space in Santa Fe, N.M. Georgia OKeeffe Museum via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For nearly 25 years, American modernist painter Georgia OKeeffe has been honored in a museum that is not much bigger than two tennis courts. Now, the Georgia OKeeffe Museum, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is planning a relocation that will cost between $60 million and $65 million, and will nearly triple the gallery space, from about 5,000 square feet to 13,000 square feet. Our collection has grown, and the new, substantially larger facility will allow us to show more of it, Cody Hartley, the museums director since 2019, said Friday. The current location, which opened in 1997, originally housed 40 OKeeffe paintings. The museum had always hoped to expand, Hartley said, but as the years went on and its permanent collection grew to more than 3,000 works the Georgia OKeeffe Foundation donated 981 items in 2006, the year it dissolved it became clear relocation would be the better option. In 2018, museum officials identified a 54,000-square-fo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold an Ancient & Ethnographic Art Through The Ages sale on Thu, Jun 17, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-5. The sale includes art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more! In this image: Rare Phoenician Glass Eye Ring. Estimate $1,800 - $2,500.
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| Bob Crewe book signing and panel discussion to take place at Cove Street Arts | | UT Austin's Briscoe Center acquires Robert Polidori Archive | | Columbus Museum of Art receives transformative gift from Scantland Family | 
Striation, 1994. Mixed media on canvas backed wood. 54" x 54".
PORTLAND, ME.- A book signing and panel discussion event for the recently published monograph, Sight and Sound (Rizzoli Electa), on the music and visual art of the late Bob Crewe, is scheduled for Thursday, June 24th, from 5:30-7:30pm at Cove Street Arts in Portland. Announcement was made by Kelley Lehr, co-director and co-founder of the gallery with partner John Danos, who have also debuted a solo exhibition of selected artworks by the prolific songwriter and artist. Bob Crewe: Discovery, Invention, Form, is on view through July 10th. On hand to sign books and participate in the panel discussion will be Dan Crewe, brother of Bob Crewe, music business manager and founder of the Portland-based Crewe Foundation; and Jessica May, former chief curator at the Portland Museum of Art, and current creative director at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, who contributed the Foreword for ... More | | 
Château de Versailles, Versailles, France, 2018. Robert Polidori Archive, Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin. © Robert Polidori.
AUSTIN, TX.- Thanks to the generosity of a Chicago-area family, renowned photographer Robert Polidoris photographic print archive has been donated to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas. Consisting of more than 85,000 archive prints, the collection is valued at more than $30 million. Polidori is one of the worlds most acclaimed photographers of human habitats and environments. He is best known for his detailed, large-format color film photographs that explore the built world, capturing layers of history in extraordinary detail. The Robert Polidori Photographic Print Archive is a comprehensive collection of the photographers work to the present day. His subjects include the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding in New Orleans, the ruins of Pompeii, the Château de Versailles, Havana and Chernobyl. His current work ... More | | 
Julie Curtiss, Cool Off, 2020. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 26 x 20 inches. Framed: 27 1/8 x 21 1/8 x 2 1/4 inches. Courtesy the artist and Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY.
COLUMBUS, OH.- The Columbus Museum of Art announced a transformative gift from the Scantland Family that includes 27 works of art and a $2 million endowment gift for the newly named Scantland Family Executive Deputy Director of Learning, Experience and Engagement. The gift ensures that innovation, collaboration, and experimentation remain at the center of the Columbus Museum of Arts core beliefs by fostering connections between the museum collections and the Columbus community. Significantly, this is the first wave of gifts of art from the Scantland Family that inaugurates the Columbus Museum of Arts Scantland Collection, which includes a diverse roster of exciting and thought-provoking contemporary artists currently practicing such as Felipe Baeza, Derek Fordjour, Deana Lawson, GaHee Park, and more. All of these works ... More |
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| The Courtauld unveils opening programme as major modernisation project reaches completion | | A landmark exhibition of works by Swedish abstract painter Hilma af Klint opens at the Art Gallery of NSW | | A rare spotlight on Black women's art still shines after 51 years | 
The Blavatnik Fine Rooms. Photo. © Hufton+Crow
LONDON.- The Courtauld Gallery in London will open its doors in November 2021 following the most significant modernisation project in its history, providing a transformed home for one of the UKs greatest art collections. The Courtaulds much-loved collection, which belongs to the Samuel Courtauld Trust and ranges from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century - will be completely redisplayed and reinterpreted. These enhanced spaces will allow The Courtauld to give visitors greater insight into its collections, teaching and research and enable inspiring encounters with its great works of art. In addition, two brand new galleries will provide a beautiful new home for The Courtaulds acclaimed programme of temporary exhibitions. Masterpieces from The Courtaulds world-famous collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art by Cézanne, Manet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, and Monet will be reunited in the ... More | | 
Installation view of Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings exhibition at The Art Gallery of New South Wales. Photo: Jenni Carter. © AGNSW.
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales opened the first survey in Australia by visionary Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (18621944), whose remarkable mystical paintings bring new perspectives to the narratives of modern art and have become an international sensation. Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings brings these works to the Asia-Pacific region for the first time. The exhibition presents over 120 works, from early drawings to the artists monumental paintings, late watercolours and notebooks. Spanning more than four decades of the artists practice, this comprehensive exhibition includes works ranging from the 1890s to 1941. Many of her most renowned paintings are featured, as well as others that are little known. The exhibition is curated by independent curator Sue Cramer and was developed in collaboration ... More | | 
Suzanne Jackson, creator of the pioneering Sapphire Show: Youve Come a Long Way, Baby, with Sapphire & Tunis, a 2010-11 work, at Ortuzar Projects current homage to the 1970 pop-up, in New York. Tamara Blake Chapman/The New York Times.
by Ted Loos
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It was the pop-up of its day although in influence it was more of a supernova than a pop. Sapphire Show: Youve Come a Long Way, Baby debuted at Gallery 32, a Los Angeles oasis for the work of African American artists. It opened on a holiday July 4, 1970 and closed five days later, the penultimate show at the experimental gallery near MacArthur Park. The gallery itself folded soon after. I remember the feeling, said Senga Nengudi, one of the six featured artists, whose contribution included vinyl tubes filled with colored water. It was exciting, fun and triumphant. The show, named for the ... More |
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| 1,000-year-old German boys' choir to open door to girls | | Design Museum Gent extension in the making: The final plans | | New report paints bleak picture of diversity in the music industry | 
In the 20th century, the choir gained worldwide renown, making foreign tours and staging concerts in St. Peter's basilica in Rome. Photo: Michael Vogl.
BERLIN (AFP).- The cathedral school behind Germany's renowned Regensburger Domspatzen boys' choir said Tuesday it will open its ranks to girls for the first time in its history spanning more than a millennium. Founded in 975 and one of the oldest choirs in continuous existence in the world, the Regensburger Domspatzen is attached to a Catholic boarding school and a secondary school where the curriculum is heavily focussed on music. The pupils admitted to the school and the choir -- whose name literally means "Cathedral Sparrows" -- have until now been only boys and young men. But the institution said it will open to girls from the 2022-23 school year, founding a separate girls' choir whose name has yet to be decided. The school is "forging a path that we believe will lead us to the best possible position in the future", said chief conductor Christian Heiss. ... More | | 
Frontal view of DING.
GHENT.- On 23 October 2019, Design Museum Gent and sogent announced that TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw, Carmody Groarke and RE-ST architectenvennootschap had won the Open Call for the extension of the museum. A year and a half later, after much deliberation and study, the original design of DING (Design in Gent) has been refined into an inspiring meeting place on a human scale where design in all its aspects takes centre stage. With the planning process completed, the construction process can now begin with the submission of the environmental permit application. We hope to lay the foundation stone in the summer of 2022. The new wing is expected to open its doors in 2024. Design Museum Gent has been waiting for decades for that final piece. This is, after all, a very ambitious plan that is on the table. The application for the environmental permit will be submitted shortly, says Sami Souguir, alderman for culture an ... More | | 
A meeting at the Roc Nation offices in New York, Jan. 13, 2020. Renell Medrano/The New York Times.
by Ben Sisario
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A year ago, as protests spread across the country following the murder of George Floyd, the music industry promised to change. Major record labels, streaming platforms and broadcasters pledged hundreds of millions of dollars in charitable donations. The diversity of the music industry itself a business that relies heavily on the creative labor of Black artists came under scrutiny, with calls to hire more people of color and to elevate women and minorities into management and decision-making positions. But how diverse is the music business? The answer, according to a new study: not very. A report by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at the University of Southern California, released Tuesday, examined the makeup of 4,060 executives, at the vice president level and above, ... More |
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| New Milwaukee Art Museum exhibition explores Spanish influence on American artists | | Illustration Art at Swann June 24: Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, Al Hirschfeld, Charles Schulz & more | | Lin-Manuel Miranda addresses 'In the Heights' casting criticism | 
Mary Cassatt, Spanish Girl Leaning on a Window Sill, ca. 1872. Oil on canvas, 24 3/8 à 19 in. (61.9 à 38.26 cm). Collection of Manuel Piñanes GarcÃa-OlÃas, Madrid. Photo, Cuauhtli Gutierrez.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The extensive impact of Spanish art and culture on American painters in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is the focus of Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 18201920, a new exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The exhibition, which the Museum co-organized with the Chrysler Museum of Art, in Norfolk, Virginia, highlights prominent American artists such as Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri and John Singer Sargent, who traveled to Spain for training and to study the old masters at the Prado Museum in Madrid. More than 100 paintings, photographs and prints are being presented chronologically and organized to emphasize migration, tourism and travel in nineteenth-century Spain. Additional themes include the romance and the reality of old Spain; Spanish architecture, gardens and landscapes; Spains Nasrid and Islamic history; and the collecting and display of Spanish art in the United States. The e ... More | | 
Edward Gorey, Youve written me to no avail, Because I never read my mail, postcard design created by Gorey for the purpose of replying to fan mail, pen and ink, 1979. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Illustration Art is at Swann Galleries Thursday, June 24. The sale will feature original works by luminaries such as Al Hirschfeld, Edward Gorey and Jo Mielziner, alongside cover designs for The New Yorker, Sunday comics, book illustrations and more. Charles Schulz leads the sale with two original 1971 four-panel Peanuts comic strips that follow Lucy as she tries to prepare for the Christmas skating show ($15,000-25,000, each). Additional comics and cartoons include a run of Pat Sullivan Felix the Cat Sunday funnies by Otto Messmer, who worked for Pat Sullivan Studios ($5,000-7,000 & $3,000-5,000); a three-panel 1973 Hägar the Horrible strip by Dik Browne ($600-900); Norman Mingo with studies for covers of 1970s issues of Mad Magazine ($1,200-1,800, each); cartoons for Playboy, Wall Street Journal, and more. Al Hirschfeld caricatures will include Damon Runyon, a circa-1980 pen and ink drawing of the American ... More | | 
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the music and lyrics for In the Heights, at the premiere of the movie at the United Palace in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan on the opening night of the 20th Tribeca Festival. Nina Westervelt/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Acknowledging criticism that the film adaptation of his musical In the Heights had failed to adequately depict the dark-skinned Afro-Latino population of Washington Heights, the Upper Manhattan neighborhood where it is set, Lin-Manuel Miranda has apologized for falling short in trying to paint a mosaic of this community. The movie, adapted from the Tony-winning Broadway musical about a bodega owner with dreams of returning to the Dominican Republic, was released in theaters and on HBO Max last week, earning positive reviews and high-profile celebrations. But the film also drew criticism online for the filmmakers choice to cast light-skinned Latino actors in leading roles, despite a prevalence of dark-skinned Latinos in the neighborhood where the movie ... More |
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 Renovating its hall, New York Philharmonic plans a roving seasonNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For any major music ensemble, planning a season of concerts as a pandemic stretches on is daunting. For the New York Philharmonic, there is an added challenge: The orchestras home, David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, is in the midst of a $550 million renovation. That will leave the orchestra roving for the next year as it tries to recover from the pandemic, which resulted in the cancellation of its 2020-21 season and the loss of more than $21 million in ticket revenue, forcing painful budget cuts. But the Philharmonic will not travel too far. On Tuesday, it announced its 2021-22 season: a slate of about 80 concerts, compared to 120 in a normal year, spent mostly at two other Lincoln Center venues, Alice Tully Hall and the Rose Theater, with four forays to Carnegie Hall and a holiday run of Messiah at Riverside Church. People are starved ... More  Lisa Banes, film and stage actress, dies at 65NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Lisa Banes, a versatile actress who came to prominence on the New York stage in the 1980s and went on to a busy career that also included roles on television and in the films Cocktail and Gone Girl, died Monday of head injuries she sustained 10 days earlier when she was struck by a scooter in Manhattan. She was 65. Her death, at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, was confirmed by the New York Police Department, which said she had been struck by the scooter June 4 as she was crossing Amsterdam Avenue near West 64th Street in Manhattan. The operator of the scooter had driven through a red light before crashing into Banes and then fled, said Sgt. Edward Riley, a police spokesperson. Riley said Tuesday that no arrests had been made. Banes lived in Los Angeles and had been in New York visiting friends, her wife, Kathryn Kranhold, ... More  Libya's Benghazi hosts rare 'week of culture'BENGHAZI (AFP).- Libya's eastern city of Benghazi is hosting a rare "week of culture" featuring art, music and theatre, as the country attempts to turn the page on a decade of violence. "It's an honour to have an exhibition for the first time in Benghazi," said Elham el-Ferjani, an artist who travelled from the capital Tripoli in the country's west specially for the event. Benghazi was the first city to rise up against longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011 in a NATO-backed revolt. The situation deteriorated into a complex war involving Libyan armed groups, foreign mercenaries and foreign powers, and an ensuing political crisis saw the oil-rich country split in recent years between rival authorities in the east and west. An October truce set in motion a UN-sponsored process that led to the creation of an interim government tasked with preparing the country for elections this December and unifying its ... More  Figural weathervane depicting Native American, rare Keith Haring vase ignite firestorm of bidding at Morphy'sDENVER, PA.- Collectors dont generally attend auctions just to look. Their goal is to compete aggressively and bring home the best, and thats exactly what in-gallery and remote bidders did on June 8-9 during Morphys $2.6 million Fine & Decorative Arts auction. Bidding paddles were confidently airborne for the more than 2,500 diverse lots that ranged from antique leaded-glass lamps, art pottery and clocks to glittering jewelry and pedigreed watches. As predicted, top-lot honors went to a rare molded and gilded-copper weathervane depicting a full-bodied standing Massasoit Indian wearing a three-feather headdress and holding a bow and arrow. Created in the late 19th century by Harris & Co., Boston, this stunning example of early American metal art ... More  Silenced musicians see Turkey playing politics with Covid banISTANBUL (AFP).- Turkish pop singer Seref Erdeniz had run out of options by the time he sold his guitar to pay the bills in the second year of coronavirus bans on live music. Most frustratingly for the fresh-faced 34-year-old, the buzzing bars of Istanbul that he once played in are back open as Turkey pulls out of the pandemic's third wave. Yet musicians such as Erdeniz are still prohibited from performing in them -- for reasons neither they nor leading epidemiologists can understand. "It was a difficult moment for me. I had been playing that guitar for many years on stage," Erdeniz told AFP, his voice crestfallen. "I used to write songs on it." The nation of 84 million entered its first full lockdown last month after reporting more than 60,000 infections daily and seeing the official death toll approach 50,000. It was a bruising blow aimed at saving Turkey's economically vital tourism season, and it seems ... More  Orange County Museum of Art's new Morphosis-designed building to open October 2022 with California BiennialCOSTA MESA, CA.- The Orange County Museum of Art announced today that its new building will open to the public on October 8, of 2022, with a celebratory nod to the museums rich history in the return of the California Biennial 2022 (CB22) exhibition. The 53,000-square-foot facility, anchored by the open public plaza at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, is designed by Morphosis, the global architecture and design firm founded by Los Angeles-based Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne. The California Biennial 2022 will be the inaugural exhibition in OCMAs new home, which includes 25,000 square feet of flexible exhibition spaceapproximately 50 percent more than its former Newport Beach location. It is no coincidence that as we open a building defined by its ... More  The 15th and 21st centuries meet Leonardo da Vinci's Head of a Bear reborn in the metaverse by HackataoLONDON.- Christies London announces a digital companion piece to Leonardo da Vincis penetrating study Head of a Bear, via a collaboration with digital artists Hackatao, an artist duo born in Milan and who have been pioneering the crypto art space since 2018. In response to Head of a Bear by Leonardo da Vinci, to be offered in the Exceptional Sale in London this July, Hackatao have created a work inspired by this Old Master drawing, bringing the bear majestically to life. This specially commissioned digital work will be unveiled at Christies King Street from 3 July, as part of the Classic Week view, visible via the Aria AR app. The digital work has been donated to The Museum of Crypto Art where it will subsequently appear. Hackataos response to the masterpiece Head of a Bear by da Vinci is based on the concept of the continuum; a continuous sequence in which adjacent elements are not ... More  UCCA Center for Contemporary Art opens Wang Tuo's first institutional solo showBEIJING.- UCCA Center for Contemporary Art is presenting Wang Tuo: Empty-handed into History. As Wang Tuos (b. 1984, Changchun) first institutional solo show, this exhibition collects eight of the artist's single- and multi-channel video works, including, in its complete form for the first time, The Northeast Tetralogy, as well as related archival materials and sketches from the artist, presenting an overview of the artist's early-career works. The exhibitions title alludes to a view of history described by Japanese historian Yuzo Mizoguchi, in which one enters history in a state of unconsciousness and thereby discovers its original form. This notion outlines the core of Wang's creative methodology, as well as the critical role the artist has played in processes of deconstructing the past and imagining alternative, speculative histories. Wang Tuo: Empty-handed into History is curated ... More  Richard Baron, who published Baldwin and Mailer, dies at 98NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Richard Baron, the contrarian publisher of the Dial Press, had boundless audacity when he wanted to prove a point. Diners at his all-white country club in Purchase, New York, were said to have been mortified when Baron brought James Baldwin as a guest to lunch one day until Baldwin received the imprimatur of a hearty embrace from another prominent club member, publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Baron defied convention again by prominently displaying an author photo of Frank Yerba, who, like Baldwin, was Black, on the jacket of Yerbas historical novel Foxes of Harrow in 1947. He published other hot-button authors like Thomas Berger (Little Big Man in 1964) and Norman Mailer. Baron died on May 6 at 98 at his home in Manhattan, his wife, Carole Baron, said. Ironically, among his biggest bestsellers was a satire that Baron and his editor-in ... More  The Cleveland Museum of Art opens Community Arts Center and announces Parade the CityCLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art opened its Community Arts Center, in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood of Clevelands near west side. The CMA also launched Parade the City, an iteration of Parade the Circle designed to respond to the difficulty this year of bringing together large numbers of people. The Community Arts Center houses the museums community arts staff and education outreach program. The community arts program creates arts experiences for audiences of all ages throughout Greater Cleveland by offering artmaking activities and events that encourage community and artist collaboration and highlight connections with the museums collections. Programs include Parade the Circle, Chalk Festival, Winter Lights Lantern Festival and Studio Go. In addition, and for the first time, the Community Arts Center gives the museum a dedicated space to properly ... More  Karla Burns, who broke a 'British Tonys' color barrier, dies at 66NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Karla Burns, a singer and actor who in 1991 won a Laurence Olivier Award, Britains highest stage honor, for her role as the riverboat cook Queenie in a production of Show Boat and who later fought to regain her soulful voice after losing it in an operation to remove a growth in her throat, died June 4 in Wichita, Kansas. She was 66. Her sister, Donna Burns-Revels, said the death, in a hospital, was caused by a series of strokes. A spokesperson for the Olivier Awards sponsoring organization, the Society of London Theater, said it is believed that Burns was the first Black performer to win that honor. Her Olivier, Britains equivalent of a Tony, for best supporting performance in a musical, came in 1991 in recognition of her work in a revival of Show Boat, coproduced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in the West End. Almost a decade ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn was born June 16, 1917. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography. In this image: Irving Penn, Leontyne Price, New York, 1961, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation. Copyright © Condé Nast.
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