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The rock photographer Henry Diltz at home in Los Angeles, Oct. 3, 2023. I was curious about people, Diltz said. When I picked up a camera it was like, Oh, OK now I can watch people. (Sinna Nasseri/The New York Times)
by Alex Pappademas
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Henry Diltz may not be the only person who can say he was at both West Point and Woodstock, but hes the only one who has also taken pictures of Neil Young playing with nocturnal primates. One Friday afternoon in August, after more than eight decades of wild and improbable life, Diltz was on the phone in his kitchen in North Hollywood, California, making arrangements to shoot some musician friends: the 70s soft-rockers America, who were playing the following night. Diltz was not the first of the great rock n roll photographers. Ask him and hell name professional forebears like Jim Marshall, who also made defining images of the rock era Hendrix letting a chord ring, Dylan kicking a tire, Johnny Cash flipping the bird. But since Marshall died in 2010, the 85-year-old Diltz who first picked up a camera 57 years ago may be the earliest of the great rock photographers still living. He is certainly the oldest one still working. Diltz is com ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Narrative Threads: Works by Eight Nordic Artists on view at Scandinavia House. Gallery images by Eileen Travell/ASF.
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| New acquisition: Peasant Spreading Manure by Jean-François Millet | | One of the world's greatest shoppers prepares to share her treasures | | Listening to Lady Bird Johnson, in her own words |
Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) Mest verspreidende boer / Peasant Spreading Manure, 1851 olieverf op doek / oil on canvas, 37,3 à 55,2 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (aankoop met steun van de VriendenLoterij en de leden van de Yellow House Circle) / Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij and the members of the Yellow House Circle)
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum has acquired a superb example of a painting by Jean-François Millet, who was an important source of inspiration for Van Gogh. The Van Gogh Museum has wanted to add a painting by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) to its collection for many years. The acquisition of Peasant Spreading Manure enables the museum to show how important Millet was to Van Gogh and many other 19th-century artists. The new acquisition is now on display alongside a number of paintings and drawings by Van Gogh, which clearly show Millets influence. The peasant depicted in Peasant Spreading Manure (1851) is labouring to spread heavy manure over the field. He has hung his jacket and hat on the pitchfork behind him. Millet contrasted ... More | |
Mouna Ayoub wearing a Chanel wool tunic and matching handbag outside the Hotel Costes in Paris, Nov. 7, 2023. (James Hill/The New York Times)
by Elizabeth Paton
NEW YORK, NY.- Once upon a time 1976, in fact a beautiful, poor 18-year-old Lebanese waitress named Mouna Ayoub was cleaning tables in Paris. She caught the eye of an older man, a billionaire from Saudi Arabia. They married, and he soon whisked her away from France to a life of gilded splendor in the desert kingdom. A rags-to-riches story but not exactly a fairy tale. Ayoub was often lonely and unhappy. To distract herself, she threw herself into a new pastime: buying clothes. Not just any clothes, but haute couture looks made to order by a handful of Parisian houses that can cost anywhere from $10,000 to $300,000. Today Ayoub, who divorced her husband in 1997, owns more than 2,700 pieces, making her collection of haute couture one of the worlds largest. On Nov. 20, 252 pieces designed by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel will go on sale in Paris. The sale, called the Golden Years of Karl Lagerfeld ... More | |
Lady Bird Johnson at home in 1993. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times)
by Rhonda Garelick
NEW YORK, NY.- Lady Bird Johnson embodied contradiction, cloaking her gravitas in Southern charm. Even her name made that clear. From infancy onward, Claudia Alta Taylor (born in 1912) was known to everyone as Lady Bird, a lighthearted, whimsical nickname invented by her nursemaid that belied her grit, intellect and ambition. Now, a new documentary on Hulu, The Lady Bird Diaries, focuses on her White House years and captures the surprising influence and power that this gentle, smiling woman wielded over her husband. Based on 123 hours of private audio diaries recorded by Johnson (and embargoed until her death, in 2007, at 94), the film is told from the first ladys point of view, and largely in her own recorded voice a honeyed Texas drawl interspersed with contemporaneous news footage. There are, however, virtually no outside perspectives or critiques offered. The film takes us inside Johnsons mind and keeps us firmly there. The ... More |
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| Contemporary pieces lead the way in Hindman's Western & Contemporary Native American Art Auction | | albertz benda presents Tony Marsh: Fever Dream Duets | | LAM museum buys Magali Reus sculpture |
Dorothy Brett (American, 1883-1976). Deer Hunter, 1967.Oil on board, signed DE Brett and dated (lower edge). 41 x 22 inches. Property from the Collection of Sean Ryon.
DENVER,CO.- Works by Fritz Scholder, Earl Biss, and Allan Houser were among the highlights in Hindmans $2.7 million Western & Contemporary Native American Art auction. The November 1 auction saw 208 of its 220 lots sell, with eight lots selling for six figures. As has been the case for the last several years in Hindmans Western & Contemporary Native American Art auctions, Fritz Scholder (Luiseño, 1937-2005) was the star of the sale, claiming eight of the top ten sales prices of the day, including seven paintings selling for over $100,000. All ten works by the artist in the auction sold above their low estimates with eight topping their high estimates. Scholder was not the only contemporary artist in demand throughout the auction. Earl ... More | |
Tony Marsh: Fever Dream Duets, November 16 December 21, 2023. Courtesy of the artists and albertz benda, Los Angeles. Photo: Julian Calero
LOS ANGELES,CA.- albertz benda announced Tony Marsh: Fever Dream Duets, an exhibition of collaborative sculptural works that will be on view in Los Angeles from November 16 - December 21, 2023. Tony Marsh has long invited artists to join faculty and students in the studios of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), to closely collaborate on intricate ceramic pieces. The Ceramic Art Department at CSULB is a dynamic art space that allows artists to share in the creative process of working with clay, Marshs long-standing relationship with the program has led to the creation of a variety of duets between fourteen artists that were invited to work jointly with Marsh. The mutigenerational range of artiststraverse a spectrum of artistic identities, interests, and ... More | |
Detail of Magali Reus, Clementine (Bandit). LAM museum collection.
LISSE.- A large sculpture by Dutch artist Magali Reus is now on display at the LAM museum on the Keukenhof Estate in Lisse, the Netherlands. The museum purchased the piece last summer at Art Basel, one of the world's biggest contemporary art fairs. The artwork, almost half a metre tall, resembles a reused honey jar from French brand Bonne Maman. As always with Reus, the work is a profusion of detail and conveys many stories. "It just looks like an extremely beautiful sculpture at first glance, explains museum director Sietske van Zanten. Take a longer look, however, and you will notice that the everyday object is interlaced with deeper meanings." In 2015, Queen Maxima awarded Magali Reus (1981) the Prix de Rome, the oldest visual arts prize in the Netherlands. Reus lives and works in London. Her work is included in the collections ... More |
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| Mississippi Museum of Art presents 'Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds', legendary artist's inventive landscapes | | Major retrospective dedicated to the originator of Latvian modernism now on view at Latvian National Museum of Art | | 40-plus years of artwork by Nick Sikkuark to be exhibited in first retrospective at National Gallery of Canada |
Pablo Picasso, Spanish, (1881-1973), Snow Landscape, winter 192425. Oil on canvas. 24 x 19 11/16 in. Private Collection, Paris. Photo © Artcurial SAS © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy American Federation of Arts.
JACKSON, MS.- The Mississippi Museum of Art is showing Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds, an exhibition that will explore the artists lifelong fascination with landscape by spotlighting his innovative reimagination of this traditional genre. Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds, features 30 paintings and sculptures spanning Picassos full career. From his earliest days in art school until the year before his death, landscape meditated his perception of the world and jump-started his creative evolution. Within Picassos vast oeuvre, landscapes have received the least scholarly attention. Yet to ignore Picassos landscapes is to omit a crucial dimension of his achievement. Landscapes afforded Picasso the opportunity to reflect upon his personal and cultural milieu while also engaging with ... More | |
Jāzeps Grosvalds. In the Outskirts of Paris. 1914. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga. Photo: Normunds Brasliņ.
RIGA.- A major retrospective dedicated to the originator of Latvian modernism Jāzeps Grosvalds, titled 'I am now committed to living for art', is presented in the Great Hall of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. Jāzeps Grosvalds (18911920) was a very multifaceted, immensely talented personality about whom it is possible to say that, in essence, all his activities can be considered artistic expression not only artworks, but also letters, diaries, sumptuous self-made journals, even his modern way of dressing. The turning point in Jāzeps Grosvalds life, which made him mature both as a person and as an artist, was the start of World War I, when, being unable to return to Paris, he became acquainted with other young Latvian artists. Grosvalds, who held the technical ability and broad knowledge of art history of his colleagues in high regard and who himself, in turn, had ... More | |
Nick Sikkuark, Untitled (Hunter Pulling His Tooth Out), 2003. Coloured pencil on wove paper, 35.8 à 41.3 cm. Collection of Christopher Bredt and Jamie Cameron. © Estate of Nick Sikkuark. Photo: NGC.
OTTOWA.- Nick Sikkuark: Humour and Horror is now opening! This is the first retrospective of this extraordinary artist, spanning 40-plus years of his career. Born in the present-day Kitikmeot region of Nunavut, Sikkuark was quietly successful, creating highly imaginative sculptures, drawings and paintings, all the while flourishing as an outlier within different art worlds. Sikkuarks creations are characterized by a harmonious blending of seemingly opposing elements naturalism and imagination, the everyday and the bizarre, miniaturization and amplification, and most essentially, humour and horror. A fascinating part of his art is that we can discover the same creatures, story elements and iconography throughout, leaving us with a sense of wonder as to where they will turn up next. As an unconventional Inuk artist, Sikkuark gained a dedicated following, but ... More |
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| Solo show of Liliana Moro's early work to be shown in retrospective at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein | | Julien Creuzet's solo exhibition 'Oh téléphone, oracle noir (...)' to open today at Magasin CNAC | | 'Christine Ay Tjoe: Lesser Numerator', now on view at White Cube Mason's Yard |
Liliana Moro, Ascolto, 2006. Photo: Liliana Moro. © Liliana Moro.
LIECHTENSTEIN.- Active audience participation and the practice of listening are defining features of Liliana Moros work (b. 1961 in Milan). This major solo show will span the period from the artist's early work in the late 1980s to her current output, featuring several works created especially for the show. At the same time, the retrospective exhibition probes a fundamental aspect of Liliana Moro's work: sound. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein holds a considerable number of Italian artworks in its collection, mostly from the Arte Povera movement. Liliana Moro trained at the Brera Academy in Milan under the tuition of Luciano Fabro at a time when Arte Povera was finding its way into art academies and museum collections and a process of gradual historicisation was just beginning. In this show, the Kunstmuseum is presenting an Italian artist from the following generation whose work arose from a gesture of radical ... More | |
Portrait of Julien Creuzet ©Virginie Ribaut.
GRENOBLE.- Magasin CNAC is now presenting Julien Creuzet's solo exhibition Oh téléphone, oracle noir (...) opening today. As a prelude to the 60th International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia (Arpil 20November 24, 2024) where Julien Creuzet will represent France at the French Pavilion, co-curators Céline Kopp and Cindy Sissokho are pleased to present a solo exhibition by the artist at Magasin CNAC (national centre for contemporary art) in Grenoble, France. Magasin CNAC will be exploring Julien Creuzets artistic journey through a unique new lens by emphasising the enduring presence of the video medium in his oeuvre while also revealing the multiple dialogues and resonances that constitute his creative universe. A consequential selection of Creuzets video work will be brought together for the first time, and it will be exhibited alongside art by Phoebe Collings-James, Christina Kimeze, Manuel ... More | |
Christine Ay Tjoe, Lesser Numerator 02, 2023. Photo courtesy of White Cube.
LONDON.- White Cube Masons Yard is pleased to present Lesser Numerator, an exhibition of new paintings by Christine Ay Tjoe. Focusing on the human condition, Ay Tjoes expressive works address themes of philosophy and spirituality, attempting to connect with our most powerful emotions and deep psychological fears. Created over the past year in her studio in Bandung, Indonesia, Ay Tjoes new works explores the idea of the smallest and most vital part of the self that can be used to guide personal action, the impact of which can ripple outwards in a community to drive change in wider society. The show features new oil on canvas paintings in the artists trademark abstract expressionist style, with dynamic compositions brimming with latent energy. Powerful and revelatory, these works realise the artists profound psychic excavations and philosophical investigations, this time exploring the possibility of ... More |
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Lisson Gallery announced their representation of Chinese artist Zhao Gang
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisson Gallery has announced their representation of Chinese artist Zhao Gang. Born in Beijing, Zhao now works and lives between Beijing and New York. Lisson Gallery will present Zhaos work for the first time at the 2023 edition of West Bund Art & Design in Shanghai, followed by his first presentation with the gallery in May 2024 in Beijing. At the age of 18, Zhao became the youngest member of the avant-garde movement known as the Star Group, heralding the development of contemporary art in China. Zhaos work delves into the fluidity of individual identities, the clash of cultures, and the intricate interplay of fragmented historical events. His works are deeply rooted in a rich and nuanced cultural heritage, drawing inspiration from both classical and contemporary Western and Chinese influences. Within ... More
Design and invention for radical social and environmental change in 'Makerversity: Designing for the Real World'
LONDON.- Somerset House is now exploring the possibilities of design and invention for radical social and environmental change in a new exhibition, Makerversity: Designing for the Real World. Curated by Paul Smyth, Director and Co-Founder of the Somerset House based community of designers, Makerversity, and one half of artistic duo Something & Son, the interactive exhibition featuring a live workshop space, gives a behind-the-scenes into the world of innovative creative design. Blending disciplines and new technology with traditional methods, the show looks to the future of design and how we can make a better world. The exhibition showcases works of design from initial ideation and prototyping to the making ... More
'The World's Greatest Typewriter Collection' serves as centerpiece of Heritage's Dec. 15 Historical Platinum event
DALLAS, TX.- Like so many collections, it began with a single purchase made on a whim in this case, the typewriter used by a Pulitzer-winning sportswriter. The man who bought the machine, Steve Soboroff, was a fan of the man who used it, revered Los Angeles Times columnist Jim Murray, whose words Soboroff devoured each morning, especially after nights when Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax hurled fastballs using The Left Hand of God. Soboroff wanted the 1940 Remington Model J so desperately that he outdueled two others competing for it at auction in 2005: the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was a hell of a score. Not long after, Soboroff put another typewriter on the shelf beside ... More
Martians, dolls and a cellist's dog: The many worlds of Jennifer Walshe
NEW YORK, NY.- A few weeks ago, Jennifer Walshe was backstage at a concert hall here, searching for the exit when she paused near the green room. A double bass bow was laid out, ready for the evenings performance; attached to it, wobbling in the air, were several black-and-white balloons. Walshe grinned and pulled out her phone to snap a picture. This esoteric musical apparatus had been prepared for a new piece, composed by Walshe, that would be premiering in a few hours time. Called Some Notes on Martian Sonic Aesthetics, 2034-51, it invites a chamber ensemble to impersonate a musically trained crew who have set up a colony on Mars and are beaming performances back to Earth. While researching the piece, Walshe, 49, said that she had asked NASA how sound waves travel in carbon-dioxide rich atmospheres ... More
Grace Wales Bonner has set her sights beyond fashion
NEW YORK, NY.- Grace Wales Bonners approach to fashion can sometimes feel more like that of an academic rather than a designer. Her collections for Wales Bonner, the brand she started in 2014, are informed by research covering critical theory, music, literature, history and mysticism. With a particular focus on Black identity and conversations about race, she has created sharply tailored, finely detailed clothes intertwine traditional African craft techniques with references to figures including Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, writer James Baldwin and artist Theaster Gates and settings such as the ballrooms of early-20th-century Harlem and the dance halls of 1970s Jamaica. Her clever embrace of so many perspectives and personalities, and her proudly Afro-Atlantic approach to fashion, has made the 33-year-old designer an increasingly ... More
'Scene Partners' review: Is she brilliant? Demented? Both?
NEW YORK, NY.- Acting Like a Maniac is not your typical acting class: You have to sign a personal injury waiver to join it. But then Meryl Kowalski, with that double whammy of a theatrical name, isnt your typical student. Although 75, shes no cute oldster; Hugo Lockerby, the guru-like teacher with a wandering accent, thinks she may even be a genius. Performing the autobiographical blueprint shes been writing as an exercise, her fellow students are amazed and baffled by the tale (did she really get an agent at gunpoint?) but also the style. Do you want it realism or should it be more like whoa, one asks. Scene Partners, by John J. Caswell Jr., with the transcendent Dianne Wiest as Meryl, is definitely more like whoa. Twee, snarky, meta, manic, maddening and yet eventually poignant, the play is a moving target, its tone as hard ... More
She broke barriers in music. But she's uneasy about the attention.
NEW YORK, NY.- For decades, the New York Philharmonic, the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, was an all-male bastion. Then, in 1966, came Orin OBrien, who played the double bass. Often described as the first woman to become a permanent member of the Philharmonic, OBrien was part of a pioneering group of female artists who opened doors for other women. Last year, for the first time in its 180-year history, women outnumbered men in the ensemble. OBrien, who retired from the Philharmonic in 2021 after a 55-year career, has resisted speaking publicly about her life in music, preferring to stay in the background. But a new documentary short, The Only Girl in the Orchestra, directed by her niece, the filmmaker Molly OBrien, looks at her struggles and achievements. (The film premiered last ... More
'Scott Pilgrim' is back, now in anime form
NEW YORK, NY.- Lets get ready to rumble ... again! Friday brings the premiere of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, an anime series based on the comic book about a young, lollygagging amateur bass player battling seven of his new loves exes. It is the second major screen adaptation of the six-volume Scott Pilgrim series of graphic novels by Bryan Lee OMalley, which were published from 2004-10. A live-action film by Edgar Wright titled Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), was a critical favorite, and the eight-episode anime reunites most of the movie cast including Michael Cera as Scott; Mary Elizabeth Winstead as his girlfriend, Ramona Flowers; Kieran Culkin as Scotts pal Wallace Wells; and Chris Evans and Brandon Routh as two of the former flames. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off was written and developed by OMalley and writer-director ... More
Visionary Minnesota-based artist couple Melvin Smith and Rose Smith present 'Recollections of Rondo' at Fort Gansevoort
NEW YORK, NY.- Fort Gansevoort has initiated the presentation of Recollections of Rondo, its first exhibition with the visionary Minnesota-based artist couple Melvin Smith and Rose Smith. This presentation features a selection of key works from the vast, ongoing, collaborative project the Smiths refer to as Rondo, which consists of painted portraits made by Rose, and collages of urban scenes along with architectural sculptures made by Melvin. Initiated in the 1990s, Rondo documents the artists memories of civic life in their vibrant Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul, Minnesota as it existed prior to being bulldozed in the 1960s for construction of the Interstate 94 highway. Now both in their 80s, Rose and Melvin ... More
Yhonnie Scarce's Australian solo survey at AGWA illuminates hidden histories
PERTH.- The Art Gallery of Western Australia is pleased to present the largest-ever ensemble of collected glass and mixed-media works in Australia by internationally recognised Kokatha and Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce, as part of the Perth Festival 2024. One of the country's leading contemporary artists, Scarce is known for her large-scale, unforgettable glass installations that bring to light some of the darkest shadows of Australias past. The sheer scale of several significant installation works highlights the artist's mastery of the medium, as well as the aesthetic beauty of the glass form. Chandeliers of glass yams will be hung in the gallery spaces, representing narratives driven by the impact of nuclear testing in Australia on First Nations people, including the artist's family. Scarce's work makes visible the story of the dehumanising of First Nations ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American sculptor Isamu Noguchi was born November 17, 1904. Isamu Noguchi (November 17, 1904 - December 30, 1988) was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold. In this image: Isamu Noguchi working in stone yard at his Mure, Japan studio, 1975. Photographer unknown.
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