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The Princess of Wales and Dr Nicholas Cullinan at the National Portrait Gallery © David Parry.
LONDON.- Today, The Princess of Wales, Patron of the National Portrait Gallery, reopened the Gallery following an extensive, three-year refurbishment programme. The transformation of the National Portrait Gallery marks the biggest redevelopment project that the building has seen since 1896. The refurbishment programme has seen a comprehensive redisplay of the Collection in beautifully refurbished galleries, including more than 50 new acquisitions, and the restoration of the Grade I listed building. The Gallery will reopen to members of the public from Thursday 22 June. The Princess was greeted on the Galleryâs forecourt by Dr. Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, before meeting David Ross, Chair of Galleryâs Board of Trustees, Jamie Fobert, Project Architect, and award-winning artist Tracey Emin, who was commissioned to create an artwork for the Galleryâs new doors, incorporating 45 carved brass panels, representing âe ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day With nearly one hundred artworks by Picasso and a range of feminist artists, this exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum reckons with the complex social legacies that have emerged around Picassoâs art and biography in the fifty years since his death.
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| A Journey of Elegance from Anthony van Dyck to Kehinde Wiley to open tomorrow at Robilant+Voena | | Art and decorative items lead Roland Auction NY's two-part June 2nd & 3rd Estates Auction | | Whitney Museum appoints Meg Onli Curator-at-Large andpromotes Curator Laura Phipps | 
Anthony van Dyck, John Belasyse, First Baron Belasyse of Worlaby, 1636.
LONDON.- To mark the re-opening of Londons National Portrait Gallery in June 2023, which has been closed for a major three-year redevelopment, Robilant+Voena is staging a significant exhibition of portraits and accompanying catalogue, tracing the evolution of style in menswear, with a particular focus on the changing fashions of the jacket. From a majestic seventeenth-century portrait by Sir Anthony van Dyck, the exhibition explores the development of the sartorial elegance of male sitters across the centuries, culminating in a breath-taking work by Kehinde Wiley, which brings the journey into the present day, 22 June 28 July. In addition to these works by van Dyck and Wiley, the exhibition features portraits by some of the most eminent painters across the ages, including Pompeo Batoni, Giuseppe Molteni and Francis Bacon. ... More | | 
Simon Willard Roxbury Grandfather Clock, American tall case clock with fluted columns and bronze capitals. Estimate$10,000-$15,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY, in keeping with their new tradition of hosting two-part auctions over the last few months, will now present their June /July Estates Sale Part I on Friday, June 30th and Part 2 on Saturday, July 1st. Part One will feature a wide array of fresh-to-market estate finds and moderately valued antique and modern furnishings, along with many unique decorative items. Highlights include a Simon Willard Roxbury Grandfather Clock, American tall case clock with fluted columns and bronze capitals. [92 H x 21 W x 10 D inches]. Estimate$10-$15,000, a Chaumet Paris Clock & Armillary Sphere Centerpiece, large elaborate presentation piece made of gilt metal, malachite and red porphyry, on octagonal shaped base, with four quartz movements. [9" H x 10" W x 10" D]. Estimate ... More | | 
Laura Phipps by Jörg Meyer.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art has appointed writer and curator Meg Onli to the position of Curator-at-Large. In this role, Onli will curate exhibitions, propose acquisitions, act as an ambassador and advisor on special projects, and contribute to the intellectual life and culture of the Whitney, where she is currently co-curator of the 2024 Whitney Biennial with Chrissie Iles, the Museums Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator. The Museum is also pleased to announce that Onli will co-curate its upcoming Roy Lichtenstein exhibition with artist Alex Da Corte and the incoming Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum, Scott Rothkopf. Opening in 2026, the Whitneys show will be the first Lichtenstein retrospective in New York in more than thirty years, the city in which the artist long lived and worked. This is truly a dream job, said Onli. I have always admired the Whitneys long ... More |
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| Thornton Willis, Joan Thorne and Dean Fleming, It Happened In SoHo, 1960s to 80s at David Richard Gallery | | Museo Reina Sofia opens the exhibition "Machinations" | | The Tropicana, a relic on the Las Vegas Strip, could be demolished | 
It Happened In SoHo, Paintings from Late 1960s through the 80s, 2023, David Richard Gallery, New York. © David Richard Gallery. Photograph by Yao Zu Lu.
NEW YORK, NY.- SoHo (South of Houston Street) was home to a vibrant art scene in lower Manhattan beginning in the 1960s. Artists lived and worked in massive, light-filled lofts above the many important and pivotal galleries below at street level. Some of the early galleries included Park Place Gallery, 112 Greene Street, Paula Cooper Gallery, OK Harris, Artists Space and later in the 420 West Broadway building Leo Castelli, Andre Emmerich, and Ileana Sonnabend. Some of the many noteworthy artists who lived and worked in SoHo included: Adolph Gottlieb, Al Held, Ray Parker, Eva Hesse, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Donald Judd, Nam June Paik, Chuck Close, Neal Jenny, Deborah Remington, and Fred Eversley, among many others. Thornton Willis, Joan Thorne and Dean Fleming lived and worked in SoHo during that early and dynamic period from the mid-1960s and onward. Willis, who moved to SoHo in 1967, and Fleming ... More | | 
Exhibition view. MACHINATIONS at Museo Reina SofÃa. June, 2023. Exquisite Corpse (2017) by Rayyane Tabet.
MADRID.- The exhibition Machinations departs from the innovative idea of the "machine" formulated in 1968 by French thinkers Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze. For them, the machine, far from its instrumental and alienating connotations, constitutes a nucleus of an infinity of potential human and non-human relations, where a myriad of links between technologies, knowledge and practices come into play. In accordance with this theoretical framework, the show explores forms of resistance, coalition and creativity that materialize in the present by way of around fifty artists, most of whom hail from the Mediterranean area and African continent and reflect on the historical and present-day circumstances of such territories. The works presented stretch across a broad array of formats and techniques that approach drawing, painting, comic books, sculpture, theatre, dance, performance, installation, film, video and animation from a critical perspective that are distributed in three interconnected the ... More | | 
Tropicana Las Vegas hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, on June 15, 2023. Built in 1957, the Tropicana Las Vegas held the citys longest-running cabaret and was synonymous with its swinging midcentury glory; now it could be torn down to make way for a baseball stadium. (Bridget Bennett/The New York Times)
LAS VEGAS, NEV.- In 1957, the Tropicana opened as the most lavish hotel and casino in Las Vegas, with a cascading 60-foot fountain and shimmering pool that piped Muzak underwater. The magicians Siegfried and Roy debuted there; Sean Connerys James Bond stayed the night; and the Corleones of The Godfather took over. Feathered showgirls danced in its Folies Bergère cabaret, and the Tropicana became synonymous with the Strips swinging midcentury glory. But on a recent weekday afternoon, just a few patrons played flashing slot machines inside the dimly lit, smoky casino. Beneath its ornate stained-glass ceiling, some of the blackjack and roulette tables were closed. A handful of people drank at the bar, where they watched the Vegas Golden Knights, the citys new NHL team. ... More |
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| New Photography and Media Arts Curator appointed at Milwaukee Art Museum | | Sparkling results at Noonans Mayfair's Jewellery, Watches, Silver and Objects of Vertu sale | | Fridman Gallery in Beacon, NY opens an exhibition of new works by Azuki Furuya and Adelisa Selimbasic | 
Ciara Elle Bryant. Courtesy of the Milwaukee Art Museum.
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Milwaukee Art Museum today announced that it has appointed Kristen Gaylord as the Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts, overseeing its collection of photography and media works. Gaylord comes to the Museum, among the first American institutions to collect photography, from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, where she is currently the Associate Curator of Photographs. She will assume her new role beginning in September. The Milwaukee Art Museums Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts has a robust exhibition program that connects our visitors to compelling works of photography, film, and video, said Marcelle Polednik, the Donna and Donald Baumgartner Director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. We look forward to having Kristen on our curatorial team to lead this program and shape the Museums strong collection across these media as they continue to evolve." For the last five years, Gaylord ... More | | 
Late 15th century Medieval sapphire set ring. Photo: Noonans.
LONDON.- With the early summer auction season well under way, Noonanss auction of Jewellery, Watches, Silver and Objects of Vertu on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 proved at be another strong sale for the Mayfair auction house. Increasing gaining a reputation for selling early jewels and detectorist finds, Noonans offered for sale two fine Medieval sapphire rings, which both performed strongly - the 15th century Tarrant Abbey ring, inset with a rhomb-shaped sapphire, which was a detectorist find in Devon in 2019, sold for triple its estimate, and achieved a hammer price of £14,000 [lot 78]. A 14th century sapphire ring, set with a cabochon sapphire between chevron decorated shoulders, that was also a detectorist find from 2019, in this instance from Essex, again tripled estimate selling for £9,500 [lot 74]. An attractive 15th century gold seal ring, engraved with a popinjay, sold for £13,000 over an estimate of £4,000-6,000 [lot 77]. Fine dia ... More | | 
Azuki Furuya, This Hell Where You Can't Live without Color, 48 Ã 36, Mixed media, collage, acrylic and oil paint on wood panel.
BEACON, NY.- Fridman Gallery presents Beacon on the Bowery, an exhibition of new works by Azuki Furuya and Adelisa Selimbasic, created at the gallerys residency in Beacon, NY. Azuki Furuya graduated with an MFA from Brooklyn College in 2019. Born in Sapporo, Japan, she lives and works in Tokyo. Furuya's ingenious works on paper explore the brightness of life and the fragility of existence, with the material process itself as a form of storytelling. After drawing the composition from a photograph, she builds it up with layered bits of colored paper, meticulously sands down the surface until it is exposed like a derelict billboard, and paints inside and around the contours. Furuya then turns the discarded paper shavings into pulp, shapes it into objects she calls Ashes, and transfers the original photo onto the paper object. Each work thus completes a full cycle from ... More |
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| At River to River, dancers tackle weighty topics with a smile | | Onna No Ko takes the Japanese female form to new heights | | Eye on Expo 2030, Rome dreams of reinvigoration | 
Dancers with Antonio Ramos and the Gangbangers, including Ramos, center, performing Ceremonia in New York, June 15, 2023. The Lower Manhattan Cultural Councils free summer arts festival presented several pieces, including duel c on Governors Island, that employed humor for serious purposes. (Rachel Papo/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Now I know what it is like to be herded by a bassoon. It happened Sunday evening on Governors Island at the start of duel c, a movement piece by Andros Zins-Browne. Along with several other audience members, I was standing inside Moving Chains, a large kinetic sculpture by Charles Gaines that is shaped like a ship open at both ends. Bassoonist Maribel Alonso started playing, and then, wielding her buzzing instrument like an elephants trunk, she swept us spectators to the entrances, clearing the space. The subject of Moving Chains is weighty: no less than slavery. Huge steel chains are strung across the top of the wooden-sided sculpture, which is situated with a harbor view of the Statue of Liberty. On Sunday, the motor that sets those chains into grinding motion was down for maintenance, but Zins-Browne ... More | | 
Curated by Tokyo Park founder Martim Barroso, the group show features the work of nine young and dynamic Japanese artists: Isayamax; Hajime Sakurai; Kaori Miyano; Yutanpo Shirane; Sekiya Kayoko; Someta; Syuka; Mayumi Konno; and Hinano Niimi. Photo: Ignatius Rake/Ninjin Art.
LONDON.- The new wave of Japanese contemporary art continues to win over admirers across the globe, from Shanghai and Hong Kong to Paris and New York. What's more, art lovers in London now have a golden opportunity to catch a glimpse of this vibrant explosion of colour, beauty and accessible meaning at the ongoing Onna No Ko exhibition at The Old Street Gallery in London's Shoreditch. But they must hurry. The exhibition closes this coming Friday (June 23). Curated by Tokyo Park founder Martim Barroso, the group show features the work of nine young and dynamic Japanese artists: Isayamax; Hajime Sakurai; Kaori Miyano; Yutanpo Shirane; Sekiya Kayoko; Someta; Syuka; Mayumi Konno; and Hinano Niimi. Together, these highly talented painters fuse a riot of colour with the freshest takes on Japanese popular culture, skilfully blending elements of manga, anime ... More | | 
Matteo Gatto, the technical director of Romes bid to host Expo 2030, at the Sail complex, in Rome, June 7, 2023. After years of decline, the city hopes to use a bid for Expo 2030 to re-envision itself as a place that works. (Massimo Berruti/The New York Times)
ROME.- Other visitors to the abandoned sports complex on the edge of Rome might just see muddy puddles, graffitied walls and loose cables blighting their view. Not Matteo Gatto. Gatto, the technical director of Romes 10 billion-euro (about $10.9 billion) bid to host the Expo 2030 worlds fair, envisions a grand exposition hall. In the vast surrounding fields, he sees a winding boulevard spotted with international pavilions and solar-paneled umbrellas. All of it, in his conjuring, is connected to Rome by an extended train line that would bring 30 million people from the Colosseum. It will be beautiful, he said. But as Italy prepares to give its final pitch in Paris on Tuesday to the 179 international ambassadors who will vote in November on which city will host the Expo, there are two major obstacles standing in the way of Romes fantastic, and perhaps fantastical, future. The first is the competition. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy will be in France on Tues ... More |
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 This Little Amsterdam improv club launched big American careersNEW YORK, NY.- Seth Meyers had no idea what to expect when he got a job in 1997 performing at a fledgling comedy club in Amsterdam called Boom Chicago. He was in his early 20s, and had never traveled outside of the United States. He had to apply for a passport. I knew not one thing about the Netherlands, he said in a recent interview. My first thought was to get some good hiking shoes, I guess because I thought I was going to Switzerland. And then I showed up in literally the flattest place I ever lived. Meyers didnt get much trekking in, but he did get plenty of comedy practice, performing improv shows four or five nights a week, and trying out tons of material in front of a live, and often skeptical, Dutch audience. On the occasion of the companys 30th anniversary, its current cast and famous alumni including Meyers, Ted Lasso ... More  Max Morath, pianist who staged a one-man Ragtime revival, dies at 96NEW YORK, NYX.- Max Morath, who stepped out of the 1890s only a lifetime late, and with syncopated piano rhythms and social commentary helped revive the ragtime age on educational television programs, in concert halls and in nightclubs for nearly a half-century, died Monday at a care facility near his home in Duluth, Minnesota. He was 96. His wife, Diane Fay Skomars, confirmed the death. Having learned the rudiments of music from his mother, who played a tinkling piano in movie theaters for silent films, Morath after false career starts as a radio announcer, newscaster and actor found his calling in a fascination with ragtime, the uniquely syncopated, ragged style whose heyday spanned two decades, roughly from 1897 to 1917. A college-educated student of both music and history, Morath fell in love with ragtimes dreamlike, bittersweet ... More  International artist creates theatrical placeholders for ruined cultural heritage at the GlyptotekCOPENHAGEN.- For the first time in the Nordic region, the Glyptotek and Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) present a solo exhibition by the international artist Abbas Akhavan. The artist recreates Palmyras treasured columns and Iraqs looted National Museum in an exhibition spanning the two art institutions. The works speak about Syria and Iraqs lost and war-torn cultural heritage exactly 20 years after the invasion of Iraq and 10 years after Palmyra was inscribed on UNESCOs List of World Heritage in Danger. Akhavans exhibition curtain call is the first in a three-year series of exhibitions that will present new perspectives on Middle Eastern cultural heritage and its significance today. The world is full of untold and silenced stories transmitted for generations by people and artefacts migrating across time, borders and historical events. How should their ... More  255.77ctw diamond Harry Winston suite hits the auction blockLOS ANGELES, CA.- Kruse GWS Auctions, the renowned, world-record-breaking auction house has announced an upcoming auction which will feature a very rare and exquisite Diamond and Platinum suite from famed designer and jeweler to the stars, Harry Winston. The Luxury Jewelry, Designer Jewelry and Handbag Auction will take place Saturday, June 24, 2023 beginning at 10:00 a.m. PT. The auction house founder, Dame Brigitte Kruse notes that this is one of several museum quality pieces to come up for auction this year due to market saturation and decreased spending. It is a very beneficial time for investors to build wealth through such acquisitions. The 255.77ctw Diamond Wreath Suite is being offered with a $12 million valuation report completed by David M. Schwartz, who was Vice President of Jewelry at Harry Winston until 2014. The ... More  The Shed presents Sonic Sphere, a multisensory spherical concert hallNEW YORK, NY.- Alex Poots, Artistic Director of The Shed, announced the New York premiere of Sonic Sphere, a revolutionary new architectural space featuring immersive, 3-D sound and light explorations of music by boundary-pushing artists, that began June 9 and will continue to July 7. The vast, 65-foot-diameter spherical concert hall is suspended in midair in The Sheds soaring, 115-foot-tall McCourt space. Sonic Sphere is being created by avant-garde consciousness architects Ed Cooke, Merijn Royaards, and Nicholas Christie, and the broader Sonic Sphere community including lighting designer Polina Zakh. Sonic Sphere is based on an idea initially proposed by composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. The artist curation for Sonic Sphere at The Shed is led by Alex Poots. We are excited to bring this architectural, experiential statement to the middle ... More  Pangolin London Sculpture Gallery opening Deep Time: Uncovering Our Hidden Past by Angela PalmerLONDON.- Pangolin London are delighted to present Deep Time: Uncovering Our Hidden Past an exhibition of contemporary sculpture by Angela Palmer, revealing the extraordinary but little known three-billion-year history of our nation, told through the rocks that lie unnoticed beneath our feet. Artist Angela Palmer, who previously transported enormous rainforest tree roots from Africa to Trafalgar Square for a landmark environmental installation, The Ghost Forest, has turned her focus on the origins of her homeland, encapsulating its history in a series of sculptures using ancient rocks sourced from the length and breadth of the UK. Palmers work allows the rocks to tell their own story in time-travel sequence, deconstructing the complexities of our nation's three-billion-year past with elegant simplicity. In doing so, the artist reveals how we are physically ... More  Collection Garance Primat unveils new commissions in exhibition Primordial Waters curated by Claudia PaetzoldMASSIGNAC.- Collection Garance Primat is now opening Primordial Waters, a new exhibition curated by Claudia Paetzold at Domaine des Etangs, Auberge Resorts Collection, a historic French chateau in the charming town of Massignac, France. Opening on 21 June 2023, the exhibition explores water as the foundation of life through works from the collection and four new artist commissions by Nina Cannell, Tomoko Sauvage, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané and Sissel Tolaas. Through performance, sculpture, light, sound and olfactive installations, the exhibition will explore how water has shaped, is shaping and will continue to shape who we are, with artists responding to the Estates lakeland ecology. Primordial ... More  Inaugural Prints & Multiples Auction to start at Sotheby's CologneCOLOGNE.- Sotheby's Germany has announced the inaugural auction dedicated to Prints & Multiples in Cologne. From 22 to 29 June 2023, the auction, organised at Palais Oppenheim in Cologne, the German headquarters, will feature works by prominent printmakers from the turn of the century to the present day. On offer are 36 lots estimated in the region of EUR 800.000. "Almost two years ago, Sotheby's opened Palais Oppenheim with the launch of auctions to the German art market. Since then, a lot has been achieved; starting with the inaugural Modern & Contemporary auction in September 2021, the very first live auction at Palais Oppenheim dedicated to the estate of Karl Lagerfeld in spring 2023, the Luxury auctions and the first live auction in March this year, which included Modern and Contemporary art. I am therefore delighted ... More  Visual artists taking centre stage of the transformation of Bristol Beacon BRISTOL.- Four acclaimed visual artists are working on a series of bespoke art commissions as part of Bristol Beacons once-in-a-generation transformation. The £132m redevelopment of the 150-year-old Grade II listed venue is due to be completed later this year with a reopening date now confirmed as November 30th. The public art programme will play a key role in ensuring the iconic building is rejuvenated with artists voices at its heart, bringing the art of music-making to life in visual form. Four artists were selected by an advisory panel* with the curatorial advice of Bristol-based Field Art Projects, and invited to make proposals, two of whom are artists associated with Bristol: Linda Brothwell and Libita Sibungu. The other two artists chosen are Rana Begum and Giles Round. Their commissions will enhance the look and feel of the venue, adding to the ... More  Dave Yūst's Evidence of Gravity and other works opening at Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative ArtDENVER, COLO.- Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art will continue to celebrate its 20th anniversary this year with a second exhibition, Dave YῡstEvidence of Gravity & Other Works. Please visit our site for more information about other exhibitions and programming throughout the year, including a talk with Colorado-based artist Dave Yῡst on September 13th. Currently residing in Fort Collins, Colorado, Dave Yῡst, 84, started out studying aeronautical engineering and architectural design in Wichita, Kansas. He first attended Wichita State University (19571959) before moving to Kansas State University in 1959, where he studied painting under Gerald Deibler and pottery under Angelo Garzio. In 1961, he headed home to Wichita where he worked at an architectural firm before deciding to pursue a BFA in painting and drawing at the University of Kansas. ... More  Lafayette Anticipations now opening Pol Taburet's 'Opera III' at Lafayette AnticipationsPARIS.- Pol Taburets work is embedded in the territories of the night, of domestic space, of spirituality, or even of interiorityplaces of intimacy which are hidden, imperceptible, or inaccessible. The artist reveals images of great power through which fears, fantasies, dreams, desires, and impulses are expressed, somewhere between the pleasure and the anger of being in the world. His work thus gives primacy to our imaginations, to the way in which they produce the experience, whether tangible or hallucinated, that we have of existence. Finally, Pol Taburet celebrates the grey areas, the territories that are more difficult to recount, more complex to describe, more delicate to share, specific to the human experience and its relationship to the invisible. In his paintings, the gestures and obsessions for the monstrous of a Bacon or a Goya meet the magical worlds ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American caricaturist Al Hirschfeld was born June 21, 1903. Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 - January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars In this image: 2000 Academy Award Nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress [Laura Linney in You Can Count on Me, Tom Hanks in Cast Away, Russell Crowe in Gladiator, Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream, Ed Harris in Pollock, Geoffrey Rush in Quills, Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich, Joan Allen in The Contender, Javier Bardem in Before Night Falls, Juliette Binoche in Chocolat], 2001. Ink on board. Collection of The Al Hirschfeld Foundation © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation.
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