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The Philadelphia Museum of Art, one of Americas oldest and most esteemed museums, in Philadelphia, March 2, 2020. Two months after turmoil arose over its handling of a former manager accused of misconduct, the museum is trying to heal wounds and make changes. Michelle Gustafson/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin and Zachary Small
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Over the last few years, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has trumpeted a major $228 million renovation, designed by architect Frank Gehry, that is to be completed next fall. But over the past several months, the 144-year-old institution has been forced to undergo an overhaul of a very different kind. Complaints that a manager, Joshua Helmer, had made advances toward multiple female employees during his tenure and that museum officials failed to respond to the women appropriately, have led to weeks of reckoning between the institution and its staff. Helmers quiet resignation in 2018 seems to have done little to quell staff frustration. Since the complaints against him surfaced publicly in January, more than 400 current and former staff members have signed a letter calling for greater accountability and structural change at the museum. Some come to work each day wearing We Believe Women buttons. As someone who has worked at the museum for 20 years, I know they need ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Ancient / Ethnographic Around The World sale on Thu, Mar 12, 2020 8:00 AM CST. The sale features Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, Fine art, much more! In this image: Egyptian Wood & Painted Gesso Coffin Panel Fragment. Estimate $5,000 - $7,500.
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 | | As tensions rise with Iran, so does interest in art it inspired | | Waddington Custot opens an exhibition of work by Barry Flanagan | | Anton Coppola, opera conductor in filmmaking clan, dies at 102 | 
Shirazeh Houshiary at her studio in London, Feb. 6, 2020. Houshiary, who moved to London in 1975, is one of a number of Iranian-born artists to have solo exhibitions in the United States this year. Ana Cuba/The New York Times.
by Farah Nayeri
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary works out of a luminous studio in a leafy corner of southwest London. Her misty abstract paintings evoke the galaxy, the cosmos, the afterlife. To make them, she floods the canvas with water, pours pigment over it and draws tiny marks over the dried surface. Abstraction is one of the most sophisticated ways of coming to feeling, like a piece of music: You have tone, color, rhythm, so many things that touch you right inside, she said in a recent interview at her studio, where she tiptoed around in striped socks. I really want to get to the core of what I dont know. And what I dont know fascinates ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Stephen White & Co.
LONDON.- Waddington Custot are presenting Alchemy of the Theatre, an exhibition of work by Barry Flanagan (b. 1941, Prestatyn, North Wales; d. 2009, Ibiza, Spain) focussing on the works in bronze for which he is widely celebrated. The exhibition marks forty years since the first solo exhibition of Flanagans work at Waddington Custot, then Waddington Galleries, in 1980. Alchemy of the Theatre explores the theatrical elements of Flanagans sculptures, from their dramatic conception, to the performances of the hares to reflect human experience. At the heart of the exhibition are Flanagans well-loved sculptural depictions of hares, which are captured in various positions of dynamic movement, cast in bronze. By taking an exuberant, irreverent, and often humorous approach to his subjects, Flanagan injected a palpable new energy into a medium steeped in tradition, embracing the bloom ... More | | 
Anton Coppola at his home in Manhattan, July 27, 2016. Santiago Mejia/The New York Times.
by Daniel J. Wakin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Anton Coppola, who appeared in the childrens chorus for the 1926 U.S. premiere of Puccinis uncompleted Turandot, conducted his own ending to the work some nine decades later, and in between had one of the longest careers as a maestro in modern times, died on Monday at his home in New York City. He was 102. His daughter, Lucia Coppola, confirmed his death. Coppola was the elder statesman of the Coppola movie clan, which includes Francis Ford Coppola (nephew), Talia Shire (niece), Nicolas Cage (grandnephew) and Sofia Coppola (grandniece). His brother Carmine, who died in 1991, wrote music for his own son Francis Fords three Godfather movies as well as Apocalypse Now (1979). ... More |
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| | Pace Gallery announces representation of Trevor Paglen and solo exhibition at Pace in London this fall | | Exhibition at Albertina Museum focuses on Michael Horowitzs photographs from the 1960s to the 1980s | | Emma Talbot wins the 8th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women | 
Trevor Paglen. Photography by Christine Ann Jones, Courtesy Pace Gallery and Trevor Paglen.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Glimcher, CEO of Pace, today announced that New York and Berlin-based American artist Trevor Paglen has joined the gallerys roster of leading international contemporary artists. Pace will work in cooperation with Paglens American galleries, Metro Pictures, New York, and Altman Siegel, San Francisco, together offering a comprehensive global network through which to maximize exhibition opportunities and exposure for Paglens work. Paglens multi-faceted practice examines themes such as technology, power, and politics, through an approach that incorporates methods from investigative journalism, engineering, and critical geography. His previous projects have involved in-depth inquiries into cloud computing and artificial intelligence platforms, global surveillance systems, clandestine military sites, the politics of outer space, and the ... More | | 
Michael Horowitz, Kiki Kogelnik, 1969. Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta Print. Besitz des Künstlers © Michael Horowitz.
VIENNA.- The Viennese publisher, author, and journalist Michael Horowitz (b. 1950) turned to photography at an early agealready during his school days he supported his father, a well-known theater photographer. The exhibition focuses on Horowitzs photographs from the 1960s to the 1980s, when he worked as a freelance photographer and made portraiture his favorite discipline. One focus of the show is on personalities from Viennas cultural life, which plays a major role for Horowitz. He has been closely associated with the theater from his beginnings, and his friendship with Helmut Qualtinger in particular resulted in extraordinary portraits of the stage star. As his unique photographs of the Viennese art scene impressively demonstrate, Michael Horowitz has a special talent for building trust. From the early ... More | | 
Emma Talbot. Photo: Thierry Bal / Max Mara Prize.
LONDON.- Max Mara, Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti announced Emma Talbot as the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. This prestigious prize supports UK-based female artists who have not previously had a major solo exhibition. Awarded in alternate years since 2005, it is the only visual art prize of its kind in the UK. As the winner Talbot will spend six months in Italy on a bespoke residency planned for later this year*, creating a new body of work to be shown in 2021 first at the Whitechapel Gallery and then at the Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy. Iwona Blazwick, OBE, Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, announced Talbot as the eighth winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women at a ceremony held at Whitechapel Gallery, London. She was chosen from a shortlist including Allison Katz, Katie Schwab, Tai Shani, and Hanna Tuulikki, by a panel of art-world experts comprising ... More |
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| | Large cultural events in Berlin cancelled over virus fears | | Cottone Auctions announces highlights included in its Spring Fine Art & Antiques Auction | | Kris Lemsalu Malone & Kyp Malone Lemsalu open 'Love Song Sing-Along' at KW Institute for Contemporary Art | 
A note informs visitors that the dome and roof terrace of the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) will remain closed until further notice, on March 10, 2020 in Berlin, in a measure to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus. Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- Large cultural events in Berlin's theatres, operas and concert houses will be cancelled from Wednesday to prevent coronavirus contagion, authorities in the German capital said. The measure will remain in place until April 19, and will also affect concerts at the renowned Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin's pointman on culture, Klaus Lederer, said Tuesday, adding that it was "regrettable but one must assume the responsibility". Organisers of smaller shows in locations holding up to 500 people will have to decide individually if their events will go ahead, in accordance with guidance given by the federal disease control centre Robert Koch Institute. Health Minister Jens Spahn had recommended that events with more than 1,000 people should be scrapped until further notice, after coronavirus cases in Germany soared past 1,100 this week. Several Bundesliga games will be played without spectators, while ... More | | 
English Turnbridge ware writing desk and sewing table with about 80 different woods, commissioned for Queen Victoria as a young princess in 1866 (est. $10,000-$15,000).
GENESEO, NY.- Cottone Auctions Spring Fine Art & Antiques auction on Saturday, March 28th in Geneseo will feature fine selections from Dr. Ronald and Krista Reed of Rochester, New York. The couple was awarded Rochester Landmark Society's Historic Home Award in 2019 for their commitment to the restoration and preservation of their lovely, historic East Avenue home. The Reeds enjoyed traveling the world and acquiring wonderful antiques from galleries and dealers, both domestic and abroad. The sale also features 20th century design from the estate of Inger-Marie Tanier and George Tanier. George Tanier was an outstanding figure in the post-war Danish furniture export trade. Fittingly, he was knighted by His Majesty, King Frederik IX. The auction will include more than 300 lots of fine art, Tiffany Studios lamps, 20th Century art and design, decorative arts, furniture, Oriental rugs, Asian objects, swords, weaponry and more. The sale will be held online and ... More | | 
Kris Lemsalu Malone, Love Song Sing-Along (detail), 2019/2020. Installation view of the exhibition Love Song Sing-Along at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Frank Sperling.
BERLIN.- KW Institute for Contemporary Art is presenting new works by the Estonian artist Kris Lemsalu Malone (born in 1985, EE), who is collaborating with the American artist and multi-instrumentalist Kyp Malone Lemsalu (born in 1973, US) for her first institutional exhibition in Germany. Kris Lemsalu Malone creates sculptures, installations, and performances that fuse the animal kingdom with that of humankind, nature with the artificial, beauty with repulsion, lightness with gravity, and life with death. Paper, ceramics, leather, used objects, and found materials from nature like feathers, shells, and wool are used to create theatrical installations that capture the viewer in a world of fantastic imagination. Striving to erase any distance between herself and her objects, the artist also uses her installations to stage performances in which her sculptures become an integral part of her attire. In her works, the memory of local mythologies ... More |
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| | The Morgan Library & Museum announces new curatorial appointments and advancements | | Now on view at the Crocker Art Museum: Akinsanya Kambon's "American Expressions/African Roots" | | Tale of fraud and intrigue comes to light from cryptic letter that accompanies picture as family consigns it to auction | 
Dr. Deirdre Jackson was a Research Associate in the Department of Manuscripts and Printed Books at the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, where she conducted research as part of the internationally acclaimed Cambridge Illuminations project.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum announces four curatorial appointments. Dr. Philip S. Palmer has joined the Literary and Historical Manuscripts department as the Robert H. Taylor Curator and Department Head, while the Morgans Sal Robinson has been promoted to Assistant Curator in the same department. Other new appointments include Dr. Robinson McClellan, who joins the museum as Assistant Curator of Music Manuscripts and Printed Music, and Dr. Deirdre Jackson, who joins in the role of Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. Dr. Colin B. Bailey, Director of the Morgan Library & Museum, states, The Morgan is recognized as one of the worlds preeminent repositories of ... More | | 
Akinsanya Kambon (American, born 1946), The Greatest Shame, 2016. Raku-fired clay, approx. 34 1/2 x 43 in. (circ.). Collection of S. Tama-sha Ross Kambon and Akinsanya D. Kambon aka Mark Teemer.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum is presenting American Expressions/African Roots,an exhibition of clay sculptures by Akinsanya Kambon, a former Marine, Black Panther, and art professor who uses the Western-style raku technique a challenging, dangerous, and unpredictable process that creates prismatic and iridescent glaze finishes. While the Sacramento-born artists work is as diverse as his personal history and is expressed through various media, this exhibition focuses entirely on his ceramics. Kambon performs his kiln firings in a ceremonial manner, breathing life into ceramic figures that typically represent African deities and spirits and, sometimes, American history and religious subjects. Drawing heavily on narrative tradition and personal experiences, including extensive travels ... More | | 
Bottled beer, Rupert Murdoch and a very public scandal the secret history of an Elizabethan portrait. Image courtesy of Ewbanks Auctions.
WOKING.- He may look a rather severe figure but Alexander Nowell, Dean of St Pauls for 42 years throughout Elizabeth Is reign, had a lighter side to his nature as the man credited with inventing bottled beer. A cryptic letter that comes with the portrait has led to the discovery of links to Rupert Murdoch and a very public family scandal whose resolution involved the portrait being granted as a gift. The story has unfolded as Dean Nowells descendants consigned this portrait of the long-lived scholar and cleric, born around 1517, who died in 1602, for sale to Ewbanks Auctions of Surrey, who will offer it as a highlight of their three-day 30th Anniversary sale from March 18-20. A keen fisherman, Nowell was known as a piscator hominum a fisher of men, the title granted to St Peter by Jesus and associated with priests and according to Thomas Fullers History of the Worthies of Britain, h ... More |
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 Unit London opens an exhibition of works by Michael StaniakLONDON.- As we voyage deeper into an age of dual environments - the physical and the virtual - Staniaks textured paintings highlight the phenomena of both realms. The tromp loeil effect ensures a variety of visual interpretations: the viewers position, either on or offline, affects the subsequent experience. When the paintings are viewed on the screen, the texture is emphasised; when viewed physically they seem flat, like a digital print or a backlit screen. His paintings are reminiscent of cosmic topographies viewed by satellite imaging, or microscopic surfaces blown up to macro levels. Looking at Staniaks pieces is like entering an uncharted environment: one where lithic surfaces have been imprinted by time and the elements, until a gently undulating surface remains. In his latest exhibition, Natural Order, Staniak focuses on how technology ... More Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers presents a two-part camera extravaganza saleCRANSTON, RI.- Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, in partnership with Coronado Trading of Coeur dAlene, Idaho will present a two-part camera extravaganza sale on Saturday, March 28th, live in the Bruneau & Co. gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston, and online (Part 2 only) via several bidding platforms. In all, more than 800 lots will be sold to the highest bidder without reserve. Part 1, starting at 10 am Eastern time, is a pre-sale auction event, with more than 175 lots being offered to a live audience, with no Internet bidding. Phone and absentee bids will be accepted. Part 2, starting at 12 noon, will feature over 600 cataloged lots of 35mm and small format vintage cameras, to include rare and unusual cameras and lenses, generous boxed lots and a great selection of hard-to-find items. All lots are from a single-owner collection out of Saratoga, Calif. It was ... More 'Norman Ackroyd: Etching the Archipelago' on view at Watts Contemporary GalleryCOMPTON.- Watts Contemporary Gallery is presenting an exhibition of work by Norman Ackroyd CBE, RA, widely acclaimed as Britains foremost contemporary etcher and a leading landscape artist and printmaker. Etching the Archipelago brings together more than 40 aquatint etchings including a number of new prints inspired by the artists expeditions to the edge of the British Archipelago over almost 50 years. From St Kilda UNESCO World Heritage Site to Clear Island, the most southerly point of Ireland, the exhibition affirms Ackroyds status as a master in the medium. In characteristic muted tones, Norman Ackroyd captures the transience of light and weather upon remote, island landscapes, creating dramatic images which evolve from sketches made during meticulously planned journeys, often involving hours spent at sea. Norman ... More Main exhibition of Lisbon Triennale 2019 travels to LausanneLAUSANNE.- Agriculture and Architecture: Taking the Countrys Side, after its debut in Lisbon as part of The Poetics of Reason, is now showcased at the Archizoom gallery settled on the campus of the Ãcole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Curated by Sébastien Marot, philopher and teacher of Environmental History at EPFL, the exhibition is open from 27 February to 29 April 2020. Co-produced by Lisbon Triennale and CCB, it explores the evolution of the connection between agriculture and architecture, two complementary practices of domestication that emerged together about ten thousand years ago, during the Neolithic Revolution. By reconnecting these two disciplines, it aims to learn from agricultural scientists, activists and designers who have consistently explored the hypothesis of a future of energy descent and its consequences, for the redesign ... More Crisis-hit Paris Opera cancels shows over virus PARIS (AFP).- Crisis-hit Paris Opera has been forced to cancel a ballet, opera and a concert because of the coronavirus outbreak. The institution has been haemorrhaging money after being hit by a month-and-a-half-long strike over pension reforms that saw the curtain come down on 85 performances. Its management pulled a programme of three short ballets by the choreographer George Balanchine on Monday night after the French government banned public gatherings of more than 1,000 people to slow the spread of COVID-19. But it said a performance of Jules Massenet's opera "Manon" starring the South African soprano Pretty Yende will go ahead behind closed doors so it can be filmed on its Opera Bastille stage. A Mahler concert next Wednesday has also been shelved. Paris Opera, which has lost 16.4 million euros ... More Phoenix Art Museum appoints new fashion curatorPHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum announces the appointment of Helen Jean as its next Jacquie Dorrance Curator of Fashion Design, following Jeans service as interim curator of fashion design since September 2019. Jean first joined the Museum in 2007 as a curatorial assistant for Dennita Sewell, Curator Emerita, who previously led the fashion design program at the Museum for nearly 20 years. Jean, who brings more than a decade of experience as a fashion scholar and educator, recently curated the Museums latest fashion design exhibition, India: Fashions Muse. On behalf of Phoenix Art Museum and the Board of Trustees, we are thrilled to appoint Helen Jean to this permanent role overseeing the Museums extensive fashion design collection and exhibitions, said Mark Koenig, Interim Sybil Harrington Director and Chief Financial Officer of Phoenix ... More Rare Invisible Man poster to disappear in Heritage Auctions Movie Posters AuctionDALLAS, TX.- One of just a handful of this style poster released to promote Universals 1933 monster classic The Invisible Man may bring as much as $125,000 in Heritage Auctions Movie Poster auction March 21-22. The sale is filled with first-time offerings ranging from stone litho masterpieces to early War and advertising posters. This beautiful poster is an outstanding example of the horror artwork by artist Karoly Grosz, which made the Universal monster genre such a success, said Grey Smith, Director of Posters at Heritage Auctions. One of only a small handful of this style B poster are known to exist so this is a rare first offering at Heritage. The gorgeous stone litho poster sells the filmsplot in one image. Director James Whale brought to the horror film a tongue-in-cheek element, which almost 85 years after the film's release still makes ... More New multisensory art exhibition opens at Peabody Essex MuseumSALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum opened a new installation in its Jeffrey P. Beale Gallery, a space dedicated to immersive art experiences. Multidisciplinary artist Carlos Garaicoa, one of the most widely exhibited Cuban artists, has imagined a new kind of orchestra made up of 40 musicians he discovered performing in the streets of Madrid and Bilbao. Making its North American premiere at PEM, Partitura weaves together artists from disparate cultural backgrounds and musical traditions -- from West African drummers to accordion players and European opera singers. Carlos Garaicoa: Partitura is on view at PEM from March 8, 2020 through January 3, 2021. The experience of cities is of particular importance to Carlos Garaicoa, says Trevor Smith, PEMs Curator of the Present Tense, who has known the artist for 20 years. The ... More Fast, absurd, aesthetic: Art of mechanical transformation on view at Kunstmuseum St. GallenST. GALLEN.- Transformations of machines and tools play a central role in our collective imagination. The group exhibition Metamorphosis Overdrive examines these changes and transformations of everyday things and technical forms and their significance in the present. The exhibition brings together works by eight international artists. A car headlight suddenly assumes a face and seems to look at the viewer. The boundaries between human and machine, life and mechanical functioning are becoming blurred. Metamorphosis Overdrive focuses on this ambivalent and at the same time symbiotic relationship. The exhibition examines our consumer societys obsession with objects, questions their appeal, and reveals their potential for frustration. Despite their cool aesthetic and standardized, industrial appearance, the sculptures establish an emotional ... More New African art gallery opens with a show by Oluwole OmofemiLONDON.- Signature African Art opens its new London space on 11 March 2020 with a presentation of new paintings by the celebrated Nigerian artist, Oluwole Omofemi. Entitled The Way We Were The Way We Were, the exhibition will be arranged across the gallerys basement and ground floors, and is formed of 12 large-scale portraits of women and children, as well as a number of smaller works specially commissioned by the gallery. In the words of the artist, each is a celebration of Afrocentric pride, as well as reflection on the postcolonial era. The British artist Claudette Johnson has talked of the fiction of blackness that colonialism left in its wake and of the need for people to assert their identity through their own stories. Omofemi embraces this idea, focussing on the importance of hair amongst black communities. While it has always been a signifier ... More LA Opera deems Domingo misconduct accusations credibleLOS ANGELES (AFP).- The Los Angeles Opera said on Tuesday its investigation into star Placido Domingo had found accusations of "inappropriate conduct" against its former director to be credible. The Spanish icon, who won worldwide acclaim in the 1990s as one of the Three Tenors alongside Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti, is accused of forcibly kissing, grabbing and fondling women over a period of more than 30 years. An independent law firm hired by the company to investigate said that while some of Domingo's targets stated they were "not uncomfortable," others described "significant trauma." "Some individuals stated that they felt discouraged to report misconduct due to Mr. Domingo's importance and stature," a summary of the findings read. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP interviewed 44 people during a six month investigation ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer David LaChapelle was born March 11, 1963. David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963) is an American commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, and film director. American photographer David LaChapelle looks on during the media preview of his exhibition "After the Deluge" at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni on April 29, 2015 in Rome. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS.
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