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Toby Lucas, whose firm installed solar panels and conducted renovations, inside the roof King's College Chapel in Cambridge, England, March 14, 2024. An errant spark could have ignited the 500-year-old timbers, he said. (Hannah Reyes Morales/The New York Times)
CAMBRIDGE.- Clambering across the sloped roof of Kings College Chapel with the agility of an undergraduate, Toby Lucas, 56, pointed to where his craftspeople had welded solar panels to an expanse of newly installed lead. It was the scariest part of the project, he said, because an errant spark could have ignited the 500-year-old timbers underneath, which hold up the roof of this English Gothic masterpiece. Its an iconic landmark in Cambridge, and its part and parcel of where I live, said Lucas, whose firm, Barnes Construction, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, "Kylie Manning: Sea Change " March 26 - May 9, 2024, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong. Photo: Cow Lau, courtesy Pace Gallery.
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| Denver Art Museum announces 2023 acquisitions | | The eclipse was so nice, they're doing it twice | | Weird and wonderful Martin Brothers pottery leads Heritage's Art Nouveau, Art Deco & Art Glass event |
Marking the first museum acquisition of his career, Burkinabè designer and visual artist Hamed Ouattara is best known for creating colorful and weathered furniture from oil drums, hammered and shaped by hand.
DENVER, CO.- In 2023, the Denver Art Museum worked to broaden and deepen its collection through several significant acquisitions across its ten curatorial departments. This ongoing refinement and development of the museums ... More | |
Artist Dave Raila works on repainting an orange line through town that represents the path of totality for the 2017 solar eclipse through Makanda, Ill., March 26, 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- It is rare for a total solar eclipse to hit the same place twice once every 366 years on average. In 2019, this happened in the Pacific Ocean, far west of the coast of Chile. By a stroke of luck, the next one will span a region of about 10,000 square miles that includes parts of southern Illinois, ... More | |
Large Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers Pottery Salt Glazed Stoneware Grotesque Figural Jar
DALLAS, TX.- Nearly a century before Jim Henson gave us his marvelous Muppets, generations before the far-out World of Sid & Marty Krofft, and decades before Ray Harryhausen delighted moviegoers with his fantastical stop-motion creatures, there was the weird and wonderful pottery of the Martin Brothers. The expressive wonders dreamed up by the Victorian-era potters ... More |
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| National Galleries of Scotland acquires first ever Remedios Varo oil painting to enter a European collection | | As graffiti moves from eyesore to amenity, landlords try to cash in | | Lincoln, Trotsky, Einstein, and more are among April Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction |
In the last ten years, the National Galleries of Scotland has made efforts to acquire major works of art by female artists. Photo: dapple photography.
EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland announced the acquisition of Encounter (1959), by world-renowned Surrealist artist Remedios Varo (1908-1963). Extremely rare and sought-after, this is the first oil painting by Varo to enter a public collection in Europe. Encounter is on ... More | |
Allison Freidin of the Museum of Graffiti in Wynwood, Miami on March 12, 2024. (David Cabrera/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Julian Phetheans first canvas in London was a shed in his backyard where he covered the walls with bold lettering in spray paint. When he moved his art to the citys streets in the 1980s, it was largely unwelcome and he was even arrested a few times. We had nowhere to practice, he ... More | |
Bidding on the Fine Autographs and Artifacts from RR Auction began on March 22 and will conclude on April 17.
NEW YORK, NY.- RR Auction unveiled its upcoming April Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale, featuring nearly 900 lots of exceptional items from the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the highlights of this sale are rare and significant pieces of history, including: Rare Abraham Lincoln Check: ... More |
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| The Knoxville Museum of Art acquires two Yigal Ozeri Photorealist artworks | | The team effort behind one of classical music's greatest hits | | Rare, newly discovered eyewitness sketch of Continental Army sheds new light on wartime life |
Yigal Ozeri, James Baldwin, 2020. Oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches. Knoxville Museum of Art, 2024 gift of Lilienthal Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee.
KNOXVILLE, TN.- The Knoxville Museum of Art announced the recent acquisition of two oil paintings by renowned artist Yigal Ozeri. The works were unveiled to the public for the first time during a special event held at Lilienthal Gallery attended by art collectors, enthusiasts, and members of the local community. Guests had the chance to admire ... More | |
Bramwell Tovey conducts the New York Philharmonic during a performance of Gustav Holsts The Planets" at Avery Fisher Hall in New York, July 5, 2013. (Ruby Washington/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1916, composer Gustav Holst took a young conductor, Adrian Boult, on a long walk through Kew Gardens and Richmond Park in London. A few years earlier, Boult had written to Holst asking whether he had composed any music for small orchestra that he could perform. On this ... More | |
Museum curator authenticates first-known depiction of North Carolina troops and second-known depiction of female camp followers.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- An eyewitness pen-and-ink sketch depicting Continental Army soldiers and camp followers marching through Philadelphia on Aug. 25, 1777, which has never been documented or published by historians, has been donated to the Museum of the American Revolution. This sketch is the first wartime depiction of North ... More |
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Bluerider ART kicks off 2024 programme, expanding its artistic footprint with its new Mayfair gallery in London
LONDON.- Bluerider ART, a progressive gallery at the intersection of art and technology, founded in 2013 by Taipei-based IT entrepreneur Elsa Wang, is firmly setting down roots. Its impressive 2024 programme is proudly established at its newest gallery space in Mayfair, London - launching with its inaugural exhibition of the year, MARCKs Playground, a solo exhibition of work by multidisciplinary Swiss artist Marck. This is the artists first solo show in the UK in over a decade. Having successfully established two galleries in Taipei's city centre and a prominent presence in The Bund, Shanghai, in 2021, Bluerider ART has now set its sights on the vibrant art scene of London. The new Mayfair space, located at 47 ... More
Original artwork, inscribed first editions and more from Edgar Rice Burroughs' collection debut at Heritage in April
DALLAS, TX.- On April 25, Heritage Auctions will hold The World of Edgar Rice Burroughs Rare Books Signature® Auction featuring more than 120 lots many of which have never been publicly offered, and some of which come from Burroughs collection, including his dual-edged knife used in the 1929 film Tarzan and the Tiger and the Gothic library table famously seen in numerous photos of the man at his Tarzana, California, home. But the event could just as easily have been titled The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs, of course, is heralded as the creator of Tarzan, who debuted more than a century ago in the pages of The All-Story. Yet the Chicago-born writers creative ... More
Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead go from 'Fargo' to 'Moscow'
NEW YORK, NY.- The first time that Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead shot a scene together, they were in a bathtub, mostly naked. McGregor, in a maximally unflattering wig, was sticking his gut out as far as it would go. You were just trying to be as grotesque as you could be, Winstead said affectionately. This was on a recent afternoon in the chilly basement of a midtown hotel where McGregor and Winstead perched on a love seat, his jacket over his shoulders, his hand on her knee. They met in 2017, on the set of the third season of Fargo, co-starring as Ray Stussy, a hapless parole officer, and Nikki Swango, his grifter sweetheart. (McGregor also played Emmit Stussy, Rays twin.) Two years later, in 2019, they filmed Birds of Prey but did not share scenes. They are also both participants in the Star Wars franchise McGregor ... More
Chance Perdomo, star of 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,' dies at 27
NEW YORK, NY.- Chance Perdomo, a British actor known for his roles in the series Gen V and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, died Friday. He was 27. Perdomo died in a motorcycle accident, Larissa Saenz, a representative for him, confirmed in a statement Saturday. The statement said that authorities have advised that no other individuals were involved. It was not immediately clear where the accident happened. Perdomo played the pansexual warlock Ambrose Spellman in the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Andre Anderson, a superhuman with magnetic manipulation abilities, in The Boys spinoff series Gen V. He was born Oct. 20, 1996, according to his representative, in Los Angeles and raised in Southampton, England. Details on survivors were not immediately available. Perdomo had described ... More
Logan Lerman honors two families in 'We Were the Lucky Ones'
NEW YORK, NY.- Logan Lerman has been an actor for more than two decades, starting at age 5, and hes been sent a number of scripts about the Holocaust. They read as exploitative to him. Thats always rubbed me the wrong way, he said. Im like, No, that doesnt feel right. But the story of the Shoah he now stars in, We Were the Lucky Ones, felt different to the performer best known for his work in films like The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) and Fury (2014). Based on the novel of the same title by Georgia Hunter, the eight-episode series premiered Thursday on Hulu. It tracks the members of the Kurc family as they are dispersed throughout Eastern Europe, where they live, and elsewhere when the Nazis invade. Lerman, 32, stars as Addy Kurc, a musician who has been living in Paris and finds himself unable ... More
Police raid Peruvian president's home, looking for Rolex watches
LIMA.- Police and prosecutors in Peru carried out a surprise raid at the home of President Dina Boluarte and the presidential palace early Saturday as part of an unlawful enrichment investigation into news reports that she had been seen wearing Rolex watches since taking office. The raid, which came as Peruvians were celebrating the Holy Week holiday, shocked many people, even in a country that has grown accustomed over the past two decades to politicians investigated for alleged corruption. Before midnight Good Friday, police used a battering ram to force their way into Boluartes home in Lima, according to live coverage on Latina Noticias. Prosecutors and police then searched Boluartes office and residence in the presidential palace. The president had failed to appear this past week for a scheduled appointment ... More
How long does New York take to fix a staircase? 10 years and counting.
ALBANY, NY.- Ten years ago, the agency overseeing the upkeep of the majestic New York state Capitol reported that the granite staircase leading to the main entrance was warped and bulging so badly that part of it might collapse at any moment. Inspectors discovered leaning balustrades, rusted steel supports, cracked and displaced granite, failed drainage systems and load-bearing brick walls so weakened by time and neglect that individual bricks could be removed by hand. A thorough repair, estimated at $17 million, was recommended. Instead, only a handful of urgent fixes were made. The entrance, known as the Eastern Approach, has been closed to this day, with access-blocking barricades now a familiar part of the downtown landscape. In a state capital known for its inefficiency and inability to meet deadlines, the staircase and ... More
Los Angeles County Museum acquires work by Veronika Kellndorfer
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Veronika Kellndorfer's Ocean View has been acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum. In Ocean Vista, Kellndorfer explores the connection between modernist architecture and the natural world, accentuated through reflections and transparency around the Eames House. Her approach not only explores the symbiotic relationship between built environments and natural landscapes but also invites a deeper contemplation on the themes of transparency, reflection, and the passage of time. By revealing the interplay of light, shadow, and reflection, she invites the viewer to examine how they perceive architectural spaces, encouraging a deeper understanding of their emotional resonance and historical context. Kellndorfers photographs emphasize the values of the International Stylesimplicity, economy, orderbut ... More
Rothschild Fine Art Gallery moves to new space in South Tel Aviv
TEL AVIV.- A solo exhibition by artist David Nipo will inaugurate the large and impressive exhibition space. The space will open to the public on April 4, 2024, following renovations and adaptations designed for displaying contemporary art exhibitions. David Nipo's solo exhibition, titled "Birds Sang," features a collection of his recent paintings. Nipo's works explore the cycles of life and nature. They combine classical representational techniques and knowledge of biblical and theological sources with abstract, spontaneous, and formalistic elements. The exceptional quality of Nipo's painting, which virtuosically captures material subtleties, both respects and challenges the traditions of art history. The paintings in the current exhibition are charged with a sense of tension, surprising dissonance, mystery, and instability. Nipo, who lives with his family and ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter and sculptor Max Ernst died April 01, 1976. Max Ernst (2 April 1891 - 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism. In this image: People look at the exhibition Beyond Painting: Max Ernst in the Würth Collection.
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