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Marina Abramovic at the Museum of Contemporary Art, where a major retrospective of her work opened, in Belgrade, Serbia, Sept. 20, 2019. Marko Risovic/The New York Times.
by Matthew Anderson
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Marina Abramovic has pulled off some crazy feats. In a decades-spanning career, the 73-year-old Serbian performance artist has walked more than 1,000 miles along the Great Wall of China. She has laid within a gasoline-soaked pentagram and set it afire. At the Museum of Modern Art in New York, she sat perfectly still in the atrium, six days a week, for months. What she didnt manage, though, was to stage the premiere of a new opera in the middle of a pandemic. But she tried. For the past month, Abramovic has been based in Munich, developing 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, a music-theater work about the tragic myths surrounding the American-born Greek soprano, at the Bavarian State Opera. Combining elements of video and performance art, the piece strings together seven famous arias associated with Callas and new music by composer Marko Nikodijevic. If the piece is a medley of Callas greatest hits, it also features some of Abramovics. Each of the arias is accompanie ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Asian Civilisations Museum celebrated a major milestone with the unveiling of its third-floor galleries, marking the completion of the museumÂs multi-year refresh as Singapore's museum of Asian antiquities and decorative art. The third-floor galleries are focused on decorative art, and are collectively themed Materials and Design. The two new galleries, Fashion and Textiles, and Jewellery, together with the refreshed Ceramics gallery, comprise a display of over 300 precious and finely crafted masterpieces, telling stories of Asian identities, histories, and cultures.
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| | Their car beat Hitler's racers, but who owns it now? | | Hauser & Wirth unveils ArtLab, a new technology and research division | | Artists explore AI, with some deep unease |
From left, car collector Sam Mann and author Neal Bascomob with Mann's Delahaye 135M in Englewood, N.J., on March 20, 2020. Bascomb is the author of "Faster." Todd Midler/The New York Times.
by Jim Motavalli
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- To put it mildly, all three were underdogs. It was the 1930s, and French automaker Delahaye was struggling to stay afloat. Compared with the Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union teams generously financed by the Third Reich, Delahayes entries into racing competitions were underfunded and underpowered. Then, as it is now, auto racing was dominated by men, but American heiress Lucy OReilly Schell had a passion for it. And a bank account to back it up. And René Dreyfus, a French racer who had notched key victories, and a Jew, was losing opportunities as Nazi-bred anti-Semitism spread across Europe. But together, these unlikely elements financed by a highly determined Schell formed a team that not only won a million-franc race for French automakers in 1937 but beat ... More | |
ArtLab, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles interior view created in HWVR. Work pictured: Louise Bourgeois's Crouching Spider, 2003. Louise Bourgeois © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Marc Payot, co-presidents of Hauser & Wirth, announced today the launch of ArtLab, the gallerys research and innovation arm exploring projects at the intersection of art and technology. ArtLab was formed to create bespoke technological solutions for the most pressing issues in the art world, including greater accessibility and sustainability. Toward this end, ArtLab will unveil its first initiative a new Virtual Reality (VR) exhibition modeling tool called HWVR in late April 2020 with Hauser & Wirths first entirely VR-based exhibition. By taking place in a gallery site of the future, Hauser & Wirth Menorca, this exhibition will allow visitors a coveted online preview of the art center they will be able to visit in Spain when it opens in 2021. Hauser & Wirth Menorca is being restored by the Paris-based, Argentinean architect Luis Laplace, a long-standing collabora ... More | |
A detail from "Future Sketches," a collaboration with Zach Lieberman. Artechouse, with branches in New York, Washington and Miami, focuses exclusively on the nexus of art and tech. Max Rykov/Artechouse via The New York Times.
by Ted Loos
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Adjusting to technological developments is not a new concept for the art world. Wood panels were once the standard for paintings, but by the 17th century they were largely overtaken by canvas, and the paint itself changed, too. Video art, a mainstay now, was a new phenomenon in the 1960s. More recently, augmented reality and virtual reality have captured the imagination of artists as ways to tell stories that we could not have imagined even 20 years ago. But the rise of artificial intelligence in art, a phenomenon in recent years, has a different cast to it. Not only is AI a tool for artists, who are employing machine intelligence in fascinating ways, it is also frequently a topic to be examined sometimes in the same piece. And underlying ... More |
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| | One-of-a-kind Lalanne Hippopotamus bathroom set to highlight Sotheby's June Design Sale in Paris | | Rare World War II footage is released by Bletchley Park, British spy center | | Group exhibition of 25 works by Galerie Lelong & Co.'s artists centers on the color red |
The spectacular statement set will be offered for the very first time since it was commissioned in the nineties by the present owner. Estimate in the region of 2.5 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
PARIS.- François-Xavier Lalanne was a designer renowned for his ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Unique in his magical menagerie are these three life-size bronze hippopotamuses a mother and children with moveable parts that reveal a bathroom set like no other, comprising a bathtub, working sink and vanity, toilet and bidet. The spectacular statement set will be offered for the very first time since it was commissioned in the nineties by the present owner. Carrying an estimate in the region of 2.5 million, the lot is set to be one of the highlights of Sothebys forthcoming Design sale in Paris at the end of June. Florent Jeanniard, Head of 20th Century Design at Sothebys Europe, said: Following our landmark two-day auction of the personal collection of the late artist duo Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne last October, it is a great feeling to once again be surprised and delighte ... More | |
Still of the staff members recorded in the footage at Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire, England. Image: Bletchley Park.
by Johnny Diaz
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Like a home movie reel, the silent footage shows young people at candid moments: playing soccer and cricket, sunbathing, smiling and making faces at the camera. Subtitles capture some of what they say: What what time is our party? one man asks. But they were not ordinary office colleagues: They were off-duty secret British communications staffers, linked to code-breakers who decrypted German ciphers and helped the Allies win World War II. The newly revealed footage features staff members of the MI6 Section VIII the British spy agencys communications staff filmed at a site associated with the famous code-breaking facility Bletchley Park. The video, believed to be a compilation of footage recorded between 1939 and 1945, was filmed at Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire, England, the secret site where intelligence produced ... More | |
Alfredo Jaar, I Can't Go On. I'll Go On., 2016. Neon, 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inches (50 x 50 x 4 cm) Edition of 36 with 6 Aps © Alfredo Jaar. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. and the artist, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong & Co., New York announces Red, a group exhibition of 25 works by the gallerys artists centered on the color. Helming the gallerys new digital initiatives, this marks our first exhibition to be held entirely online. The gallery will donate a portion of proceeds from Red to Heart to Heart International to support their international and domestic responses to COVID19. This includes the support of mobile medical units and the distribution of hygiene kits among other healthcare necessities. A primary color charged with connotations of the body, emotions, politics, and pop culture, Red brings together a display of how Galerie Lelong artists have interpreted and utilized the color in a myriad of media. In this selection of works, reds various tonalities are matched by a diversity of references and subjects. For artists Kate Shepherd and Mildred Thompson, the use of red seems to dominate and become the ... More |
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| | Georgia Museum of Art adapts rapidly to serve community | | Alte Pinakothek announces collection presentation to mark the 500 anniversary of Raphael's death | | 'Don't forget us!' - Europe's museums respond to virus |
Still from a video tour by Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art.
ATHENS, GA.- Even before the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia decided to close to the public, its staff was hard at work planning how to move its activities online. The museum is a much-used public space as well as a teaching and research institution, and its staff and docents serve tens of thousands of visitors a year with tours and programs. Instead of turning inward, the museums staff saw the closing of its doors as an opportunity to serve an even wider audience than usual, generating programming that could help bring the museum to its visitors rather than the other way around. Director William U. Eiland said, The staff of the Georgia Museum of Art has joined with colleagues regional, national and international to continue to reach audiences through online services and teaching. I am proud of our effort and the rapid adaptation of the latest technology to accomplish ... More | |
Raphael (1483 1520), Canigiani Holy Family, c.1507. Oil on wood, 131 x 107 cm © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
MUNICH.- Raphael celebrated the greatest success with his art in Rome where he died 500 years ago. The many panel paintings and wall frescoes that he managed to complete there in little more than a decade have secured his international fame to this day. As the painter of pictures of sublime beauty Raphael attained cult status in the 19th century, in particular. Ludwig I of Bavaria and his gallery director, Johann Georg von Dillis, revered him as the king of painting. The 500th anniversary of Raphaels death provides an occasion to recall the history of his fame and to reflect on the extent his works influenced the pictorial language of the western world in the modern period. For this reason, an early, major work by the great master, the so-called Canigiani Holy Family, forms the focal point of the Florentine Room at the Alte Pinakothek, the foundation stone of which was laid in 1826 ... More | |
Exhibition view "A New Look: The Permanent Collection Redisplayed". Photo: Ouriel Morgensztern, © Belvedere, Vienna.
LONDON (AFP).- Online guided tours, podcasts and workshops -- European museums closed because of coronavirus have been quick to reach out to audiences in imaginative ways during an almost continent-wide lockdown. Often free, these new digital contents also make it possible to "maintain a bond" with the regulars, according to the Wellcome Collection, so people do not "forget us". The London museum hopes, like others, that internet users will become actual rather than virtual visitors when the lockdown is lifted. Since the start of outbreak, visits to the Paris Louvre's website have exploded, going from 40,000 to 400,000 visits per day. There are filmed conferences, podcasts and guided tours carried out by a YouTuber. Elsewhere in the French capital, there is "an opportunity to discover" the Palace of Versailles "differently", thanks to a virtual reality game ... More |
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| | Space exploration sale featuring Apollo 13 anniversary items up for auction | | Hal Willner, music producer who melded styles, dies at 64 | | Bertoia's May 7-8 auction features Atlantique City promoter's estate collection of European antique toys |
Apollo Lunar Module Control Panel. Estimate: $25,000+
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction's annual spring Space sale features an extraordinary assortment of nearly 700 lots, with online bidding from April 9 - April 16. Headlining the sale is a rare and highly desirable Northwest Africa 5000 Lunar Meteorite Slice. This is the very first, only, and last time a complete slice from this ultra-desirable lunar meteorite NWA 5000 will be put up for auction from the original source. At 702.89 grams, "The Perigee," is also the largest and heaviest belonging to the exclusive group of seven complete slices originating from the record-setting 11,528-gram main mass discovered in 2007. This stunning specimen contains a generous amount of 4.5 billion-year-old gleaming metal, and the 3D-like matrix contrast is strikingpresenting breccias within brecciasit actually takes on the appearance of the Moon. Von Hupé Planetary Collection curator, Adam Hupe, saved the very finest complete slice for last, ... More | |
Hal Willner, a music producer, in his studio in New York, Sept. 2, 2017. Andrew White/The New York Times.
by John Leland
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hal Willner had a dream of connecting musicians who couldnt possibly work together to play music that didnt obviously suit them, and he somehow made it all work, creating albums and concerts that obliterated the lines between rock, jazz, country and soul, or between the mainstream and the avant-garde. And then on Tuesday, the experiment came to an end. Willner matchmaker, yenta, fan, longtime music coordinator for the sketches on Saturday Night Live had symptoms consistent with the coronavirus and died in his apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where he lived with his wife, Sheila Rogers, a producer of The Late Late Show With James Corden, and their 15-year-old son, Arlo. He was 64. The death was ... More | |
Painted cast-iron garden gnome and stand, made by NUYDEA, gnome measures 27.5in. Estimate $2,000-$3,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- Toy and bank collections of exceptional quality and distinguished provenance will cross the auction block at Bertoias on May 7-8. The Thursday/Friday sessions are bumper to bumper with high-end automotive, comic character, European tin and early American toys, as well as trains and trolleys; rare banks, and Christmas antiques. This year we decided to have just one big spring sale so we could concentrate on very rare examples in top condition to appeal to a worldwide audience, said Michael Bertoia, president of Bertoia Auctions. With the support of our Basics auction series, which has a very active and dedicated following, were positioned to handle the same amount of quality consignments without a delay in bringing them to the marketplace. A substantial grouping of high-end mechanical banks is led by Part I of the Robert Weiss collection. ... More |
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John Prine's 15 essential songs
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- John Prine was an Army veteran walking a U.S. Postal Service beat in Chicago and writing songs on the side when Kris Kristofferson, among others, heard him and spread the word about Prines gifts. Pretty soon, he resigned as a letter carrier; his supervisor snickered, Youll be back. In January, he was given a lifetime achievement Grammy for his contributions to songwriting. The singing letter carrier almost always had the last laugh. Prine, who died Tuesday from complications of COVID-19, was legitimately unique. He took familiar blues themes my baby left me but filled them with whimsy and kindness. He liked a saucy lyric, and wrote movingly, in character, of the quiet lives and loneliness of humdrum people. He seemed like a Zen sage and offered an uncynical live-and-let-live morality in his songs, ... More
Impressive gold medal fetches £37,200 in Dix Noonan Webb's first online/live sale
LONDON.- A gold Royal Geographical Society Patrons medal awarded to Scottish geographer and cartographer Alexander Keith Johnston (1804-71) fetched £37,200 when it was sold in an auction of Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals by International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialist Dix Noonan Webb on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. It had been expected to fetch £10,000-12,000. Designed by W. Wyon, the substantial medal which weighed 2oz and measured 54mm in diameter, depicted a coroneted head of Queen Victoria, and on the other side Minerva standing left, holding wreath and map. It was awarded to Johnston in 1871 For distinguished services in the promotion of Physical Geography [Lot 399]. Following the sale, Christopher Webb, Head of Coin Department, Dix Noonan Webb and auctioneer of the first Online/ live sale: We were delighted with the first sale ... More
The Royal Academy of Arts presents digital initiatives to engage audiences during closure
LONDON.- The Royal Academys doors may be closed, but art-lovers can still experience a range of innovative online content and activity from the RAs exhibitions, artists and architects. Across its award-winning website and social media platforms, the RA is sharing video exhibition tours, interviews and highlights; fun family activities; the voices of the RAs artists and architects; revisiting popular events and discussions; encouraging the nation to get its paint and pencils out; and offering creative inspiration for new ways of working and connecting. The #RAdailydoodle on Twitter is a fun daily invitation to audiences to be creative with subjects ranging from ham to home workspaces. So far, it has reached 9 million Twitter accounts with over 1000 drawings shared. #MindfulMoments on Instagram offers audiences time to pause and reflect with ... More
Tullio Crali at the Estorick Collection: Highlights now online
LONDON.- Tullio Crali: A Futurist Life was due to run at London's Estorick Collection until 11 April, but current world events meant early closure and disappointment for some would-be visitors. For those who missed the opportunity to see the hugely popular show by this towering figure of Italian modernism, described by The Observer as 'a head-on revelation' and by Time Out as 'everything you want from Italian futurist art', from today there will be a chance to experience the highlights online. An illuminating series of bite-size introductions to the show by its two curators will enable virtual visitors to experience the exhibition remotely and for free.. These will be rolled out during April and May via the Estorick's social media channels and at https://www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/tullio-crali-a-futurist-life Crali grew up in the Dalmatian city of Zadar, which was annexed by Ita ... More
We can still travel -- with Photoshop and a dream
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On March 19, Marty Pollak and Monica Palenzuela journeyed from New York City to Patagonia, where they hiked the Perito Moreno Glacier, explored Torres del Paine and hung out with a herd of guanacos. Santiago and Buenos Aires were next. Although stay-at-home mandates, travel restrictions and social distancing had become a new reality for billions of people all over the world, Pollak and Palenzuelas five-month trip was very much alive on Instagram. Guided by their canceled itinerary, the couple has been posting meticulously staged (and often Photoshopped) images and videos of themselves enjoying what would have been their adventure: say, gazing at a snow-capped peak, getting lost while hiking and taking a bus ride to Puerto Natales, Chile. You plan and God laughs, said Palenzuela, 35, who is studying ... More
Design Loves Milano charity auction to benefit Ospedale Luigi Sacco in Milan
MILAN.- Leading Italian auction house Cambi in collaboration with Milan-based creative duo Annalisa Rosso and Francesco Mainardi of Mr. Lawrence present Design Loves Milano, a charity initiative and online auction. Design Loves Milano gathers an incredible roster of prominent international designers such as Fernando and Humberto Campana, Formafantasma, Roberto Sironi, Muller Van Severen and Analogia Project to name a few. The carefully-curated selection of designers spearheaded by Mr. Lawrence will each participate to the initiative with the donation of one or more of their unique, limited edition or collectable design pieces to be auctioned by Cambi online this May. Milanese collage artist and art director Alvvino, based in Milan, is also contributing to Design Loves Milano with an illustration featuring the citys key architecture and design ... More
Highly coveted Hall of Fame rarities highlight latest offerings from David Hall's T206 collection
DALLAS, TX.- And the hits including many home runs keep coming as Heritage Auctions continues to make available the spectacular collection of T206 cards belonging to David Hall. Leading off the fourth round of bidding in The David Hall T206 Collection Part IV Sports Collectibles Catalog Auction, which closes April 16, is a 1909-11 Old Mill Ty Cobb graded PSA VG 3. The Detroit Tiger is resting his bat on his shoulder a classic, defining image of the Georgia Peach made that much more significant because it represents one of only four graded examples with the player pose and advertising combination. Hall, founder of Collectors Universe, amassed more than 5,000 unique player and advertising T206 combinations believed to be the most ever assembled, cataloged and cared for by one person. They included abundant rarities ... More
Lisa Long appointed Curator of Julia Stoschek Collection
BERLIN.- Julia Stoschek announced that Lisa Long is joining the team at Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf and Berlin as curator. Following Longs successful year-long program horizontal vertigo, featuring nineteen international artists not represented in the collection, Long will now take charge of collection exhibitions. Her first exhibition, conceived together with Julia Stoschek, will open in Berlin in spring 2021. We are delighted to welcome Lisa Long as a full-time curator at the Julia Stoschek Collection, says Julia Stoschek. Through horizontal vertigo I wanted to expand the scope of my collection, with new artists and fresh perspectives. We are now bringing our attention back to the collection as it continues to grow. Longs critical perspective and her focus on feminist, queer, and decolonial issues are vital to our future programing and development. ... More
Chynna, model-turned-hip-hop artist, dies at 25
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Chynna, the hip-hop artist who first turned heads on the modeling runway and then with her talent as a rapper, died Wednesday in her native Philadelphia, her manager said. She was 25. The cause of death was not immediately known, John Miller, the manager, said in an email Wednesday night. The rapper, whose full name was Chynna Rogers and who lived in both Manhattan and Philadelphia, was known for her solo recordings and her collaborations with the hip-hop collective ASAP Mob. Death was a recurring theme in Chynnas music, including in her album, in case i die first, which was also the name of one of her tours. I think theres too many soundtracks to our lives, Chynna said in an Instagram video that she shared Tuesday, her final post. I need music to die to. In a statement provided by Miller, her ... More
Vincent Lionti, violist and youth orchestra conductor, dies at 60
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For more than 30 years, Vincent J. Lionti, a violist with the Metropolitan Opera, sat in the pit looking up at dimly lit conductors. But in Westchester County, New York, he had a different stance: Lionti stood on the podium looking out at the players of the Westchester Youth Symphony. I especially delight in seeing the look of accomplishment on these young musicians faces when they walk offstage after a concert, into the wings where I like to stand and congratulate them, Lionti told the Met Orchestra Musicians blog in 2014. Lionti died Saturday of complications of the coronavirus, the Metropolitan Opera said in a posting on its website. He was 60. Leading the youth orchestra was something of a familial calling. The conductor before Lionti took up the baton was his father, C. Victor Lionti. Vincent began playing with ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter Ben Nicholson was born April 10, 1894. Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 - 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life. In this image: Ben Nicholson, 1936 (gouache) 38.1 x 50.2 cm. (15 x 19 3/4 in.). Photo: Bonhams.
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