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In an image provided by the institution, an exhibition connecting the suffrage movement of the 1920s with President Eisenhowers 1952 election, at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kan. With museums, special exhibitions and unique events, presidential libraries across the country are designed as destinations for everyone not just scholars or academics. (Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum via The New York Times)
by Lauren Sloss
NEW YORK, NY.- As repositories of valuable historical documents and other records, U.S. presidential libraries have long been important destinations for scholars. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day John Travolta? Well, John Travolta of Olinda.CAPTION: A 12-foot John Travolta puppet dances around a giant crowd in the streets of Olinda, Brazil, on Saturday. Feb. 10, 2024. The Brazilian city of Olinda has become famous for its giant puppets during Carnival, including one honoring the star of âSaturday Night Fever.â (Dado Galdieri/The New York Times)
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| Art in multiples, back at the Armory | | Automobilia and petroliana collectors can fill 'er up at Morphy's Feb. 24-25 auction in Las Vegas | | 'Re-Enchantment' group show at Thaddaeus Ropac explores ways of re–enchanting the world |
In an image provided by Gerhard Richter and David Zwirner shows, Gerhard Richter, Schädel (Skull), 2017. The Print Fair returns to Park Avenue, with a critics advice on connoisseurship, and where the buys are. (Gerhard Richter and David Zwirner via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Few art fairs feature Gerhard Richter rubbing shoulders with Titian. But the International Fine ... More | |
Very rare and sought-after Clipper Gasoline (Independent Petroleum Co., Portland, Ore.) porcelain sign with iconic airplane graphic and italicized lettering. Oval shape measures 60 in long x 35 in wide. AGS-certified with sides graded 87 and 79, respectively. Estimate: $30,000-$60,000.
LAS VEGAS, NEV.- Its time for automobilia and petroliana collectors to rev up their engines and head for Las Vegas, ... More | |
Teresa Pągowska, Drzewo, 1989. Oil on canvas. 130 x 140 cm (51.18 x 55.12 in). © Teresa Pągowska Estate. Private collection. Primarius Collections of Contemporary Art, Wrocław, Poland. Photo courtesy DESA Unicum.
PARIS.- Re-enchantment brings together ten contemporary artists whose practices explore ways of re-enchanting the world, in response to the disenchantment that marked the 20th century. Through dream space, ... More |
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| Peabody Essex Museum elects new Board Chair, Jennifer M. Borggaard | | Paintings by Maud Lewis & Joe Norris to be offered by Miller & Miller Auctions | | $25 million gift to support the Art Institute of Chicago |
Jennifer M. Borggaard. Photo courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum.
SALEM, MA.- The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) has announced the election of Jennifer M. Borggaard as its next Chair of the Board of Trustees. Borggaard, who currently serves as Secretary and Chair of ... More | |
Mixed media on pulpboard (beaver board) by Maud Lewis (Nova Scotia, 19011970), titled Black and White Cat, dating to the 1966 period and signed "Maud. Lewis." (CA$50,150).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- Records were broken and estimates were surpassed in two days of auctions held February 10th ... More | |
The Art Institute of Chicago. View of Michigan Avenue Entrance. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- A $25 million gift from the Bucksbaum familyCarolyn (Kay), Jacolyn (Jackie), and John Bucksbaumwill support future initiatives of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a focus on the creation ... More |
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| How John Travolta became the star of carnival | | First major museum presentation to celebrate the work and legacy of Nancy Elizabeth Prophet now open | | Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College presents first museum survey of work by artist René Treviño |
The sculptor Antônio Bernardo molds a giant clay head of President Javier Milei of Argentina, in Recife, Brazil, on Friday. Feb. 9, 2024. (Dado Galdieri/The New York Times)
OLINDA.- It was near the start of one of Brazils most famous Carnival celebrations, in the northern seaside city of Olinda, and the town plaza was jammed with ... More | |
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Discontent, 1929. Gift of Miss Eleanor Green and Miss Ellen D. Sharpe.
PROVIDENCE, RI.- The RISD Museum has commenced Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch which will be on view at the RISD Museum from today through August 4, 2024. The exhibition will then travel ... More | |
Artist René Treviño in his Baltimore studio, with works from the Celestial Body-ody-ody series (2022-23). Photography by Joseph Hyde, 2023.
CLINTON, NY.- The Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College is presenting the exhibition René Treviño: Stab of Guilt from February 17 through June 9, 2024. The ... More |
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| Fusion of art and nature in the jewelry creations of renowned designer Adam Neeley | | Canonical history of portraiture and silhouettes invoked in 'The Illuminated Body' by Barbara Earl Thomas | | Surreal blend of dreams and daily life converge in paintings and works on paper by Karla Diaz |
Piece from the exhibition 'Modern Alchemy', an exhibition showcasing the fusion of art, nature and innovation in the jewelry designs of the renowned designer, Adam Neeley.
LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- Laguna Art Museum is hosting Modern Alchemy, an exhibition showcasing the fusion of art, nature and innovation in the jewelry ... More | |
Barbara Earl Thomas (American, b. 1948), Girl and the World, 2022. Paper cut with hand-printed color. Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, and the artist. Photography by Spike Mafford / Zocalo Studios.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Arthur Ross Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania is opening The Illuminated Body, an exhibition ... More | |
Karla Diaz, Dona Juana (from Swap meet series), 2023. Watercolor and ink on paper. 24 x 18. Courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.
SANTA MONICA, CA.- 18th Street Arts Center is now showing Karla Diaz: Wait til Your Mother Gets Home, the artists first institutional solo exhibition in the Los ... More |
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New, exclusive exhibition examines relationship between people and place at Columbia Museum of Art
COLUMBIA, S.C..- The Columbia Museum of Art announces Interior Lives: Modern American Spaces, 18901945, on view Saturday, February 17, through Sunday, May 12, 2024. Organized by the CMA, Interior Lives examines the relationships between architectural space and inner life during a pivotal period in American history. The new exhibition will be feted with an afternoon of art activities and talks at the opening celebration on Saturday, February 17. This exhibition asks a simple question at its core: what can interior scenes, rendered through the eyes of artists, tell us about the lives of those who inhabit them? says CMA Senior Curator Michael Neumeister. While Interior Lives does not present a comprehensive view of a time or a nation, the selections reveal something about how people live, adapt, and triumph in the face of trying ... More
Group exhibition featuring Middle Eastern female artists 'Boundless/Binding' at Subliminal Projects
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Subliminal Projects is now presenting Boundless/Binding, a group exhibition presenting works by globally-based Middle Eastern female artists, curated in collaboration with Emergeast, an online gallery championing artists shaping a new narrative in the Middle East and North Africa, founded by Dima Abdul Kader and Nikki Meftah. Boundless/Binding emerges as a compelling examination of the shifting narratives that shape our understanding of identity and belonging. Woven together through the tapestry of self and tradition, each artist is socioculturally bound, and limitless in their unique creative expression. The exhibition serves as a catalyst for dialogue and reflection, a space where the female perspective is celebrated and empowered, in a time of profound social and political transformation throughout the Middle ... More
Art Deco artist Enrique Alférez's sculpture 'Lovers' featured in first solo exhibition at Octavia Art Gallery
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Octavia Art Gallery presents LOVERS, an exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Art Deco artist Enrique Alférez. The gallery is proud to represent the Estate of Enrique Alférez, and to host the first solo exhibition for the artist in the gallery. This retrospective has been assembled 25 years since the passing of the artist. Artist Enrique Alférez was born in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico and lived nearly the entire 20th century. After service in the Mexican Revolution as a youth, he emigrated to Texas, studied sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 1929 first made his way to Louisiana. For almost 60 years, he worked in New Orleans, beginning in the 1930s. His lasting imprint is seen among Art Deco figurative sculptures, monuments, fountains, and architectural details in prominent locations from the Central ... More
The antiques collection of Harold & Joeleen Passow of Iowa will be sold by Woody Auction
DOUGLASS, KAN.- The outstanding longtime antiques collection of Harold and Joeleen Passow of Iowa will come up for bid on Saturday, March 2nd, at 9:30 am Central time, by Woody Auction, online and live in the Douglass auction hall at 130 E. Third Street. Online bidding is via LiveAuctioneers.com. As always at Woody Auction, all 438 lots in this sale will be sold to the highest bidder without reserves. An automated online-only sale of the items that didn't fit in Saturday's event will be offered on Friday, March 1st, starting at 8 am Central time. Harold and Joeleen Passow have been longtime collectors of some incredible genres of antiques through the years, said Jason Woody of Woody Auction. After recently celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary, they made the decision to sell their collection at public auction, just like they purchased ... More
'Izzard Hamlet New York' review: A solo show that's more noble than wise
NEW YORK, NY.- To laugh, or not to laugh? That is the question. Or at least one you may consider early in Eddie Izzards Hamlet, in which the comic portrays all the roles herself. Something is certainly a little silly about dramatizing Hamlet fighting with his mother by having a left hand wrestle with the arm of the right, evoking Peter Sellers scientist who struggles to restrain himself from raising his arm in Nazi salute in Dr. Strangelove. And solo sword fights have possibilities that a brilliant comedian like Izzard might exploit. Yet, as Izzard darts around the stage, from role to role, hopscotching in and out of the audience declaiming speeches, what becomes clear is this frenetic staging is earnest, surprisingly traditional and deadly serious. A wildly witty ad-libber, Izzard can make two-hour monologues feel like a stream-of-conscious eruption. A ... More
Jeffrey Wright: Hiding in plain sight in our favorite characters
NEW YORK, NY.- A couple of years ago, Jeffrey Wright got an email from the screenwriter Cord Jefferson, who was preparing to direct his first film. Jefferson wanted Wright a cerebral actor known for his commanding, indelible presence even in supporting roles to star in American Fiction, his adaptation of Percival Everetts mordant 2001 novel, Erasure. In the letter, Cord described how immediate and personal he found Erasure to be, Wright recalled recently. And he said that he had begun to hear my voice in his head as he read the book. And then he said, I have no Plan B. Wright, who is 58, took the job. His exquisitely calibrated performance as the irascible novelist Thelonious Ellison, known as Monk, recently earned him his first Oscar nomination. It is a recognition, among other things, of his ability to elevate any movie or TV ... More
Performance by maestro with Russian ties is canceled in Vienna
NEW YORK, NY.- When the Wiener Festwochen, a prestigious festival that brings leading international artists to Vienna, announced this springs lineup, the backlash was swift and fierce. The festival had planned to make the Russian invasion of Ukraine a focus of its programming, juxtaposing an appearance by Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv with a concert by maestro Teodor Currentzis, who has faced scrutiny over his connections to Russia. Critics, including Lyniv, had argued that the pairing was insensitive and ignored the suffering of Ukrainians. Now, after weeks of pressure, the festival has abandoned its plan, saying that it would cancel the appearance by Currentzis while moving forward with the one by Lyniv. The decision was clear and there was no alternative, Milo Rau, the festivals artistic director, said in an interview on Tuesday. This ... More
Jean Butler choreographs the past and future of Irish dance
NEW YORK, NY.- Halfway through Jean Butlers What We Hold, the audience is invited to sit at a long table surrounded by 50 chairs, as if at a wedding banquet. Instead of place settings, three dancers are before them. As the audience settles in, voices begin to float through the room, like snatches of lost conversations. Dancing was the poor mans game, you know, says one recorded voice. Another: It was like he was telling you a story with his feet. As the voices recall the past, the three dancers enact a kind of ritual. First, they stand casually. Then, with great precision, they slide a foot forward, pointing their toes. Their postures change shoulders back, heads high, arms straight at their sides, hands in loose fists. A transformation happens: They are not just dancers but Irish dancers. Thats the very first thing we learned as kids, that ... More
'The Vince Staples Show' is part art house, part 'Home Improvement'
NEW YORK, NY.- Vince Staples is not someone you would describe as excitable. During a recent conversation about his new Netflix sitcom, The Vince Staples Show, his deliberate drawl remained steady throughout. But his clear pride in the series, out Thursday, broke through his placid exterior a few times, such as when he talked about the cameo by the high-living rapper Rick Ross or the shows Swedish film influences. He also knows that the mere fact of its existence is exceptional. I dont think there are many people who have been able to write and produce and star in their first television show, on a network thats this big, that comes from where I come from, Staples, 30, said in a video interview from his home in Los Angeles. Staples said he had ambitions to make his own show since he released his debut album, Summertime 06, in ... More
Meet Flagboy Giz, a rapper uniting New Orleans cultural traditions
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- In his cluttered two-room apartment in Gentilly, a small neighborhood just south of Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, Flagboy Giz used dental floss to thread brightly colored beads through black gym shoes on a stormy February afternoon. His desk held a humble recording setup a microphone, laptop and two speakers. An assemblage of neon feathers and phosphorescent beads burst out of drawers and scattered across the floor. Though he was out late at Mardi Gras balls the night before, Flagboy Giz, 37, had awakened early and headed directly to the bead store. This is a tradition that you have to preserve, he said, so youve got to make sure youre out there every year masking. Last year, I caught COVID two weeks before Mardi Gras, and I was still sewing with COVID. The year before that, a spider bit ... More
SF Ballet receives historic $60 million gift, largest ever for the organization
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- San Francisco Ballet today announced a historic $60 million giftthe largest single gift ever given to the company, and what SF Ballet believes to be one of the largest gifts given to an American ballet companyto ensure the organizations capacity to create new works and acquire masterpieces, and to bolster its vision of revolutionizing ballet. In her inaugural season, Artistic Director Tamara Rojo has already pursued a program with world premiere commissions Mere Mortals and Carmen, company firsts, and works rarely seen in the United States. Through this generous gift from an anonymous donor, the company will be able to continue prioritizing the development and acquisition of new work, foster the talents of emerging and established choreographers with a variety of viewpoints, and strengthen ... More
Robert C. Davidson Jr. appointed Chair of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Commission
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has announced today that Robert Bob C. Davidson Jr. of Pasadena, California, has been appointed chair of the museums board of commissioners for a four-year term. Davidson has been a member of the museums board since 2016 and was the chair of the collection committee from 2021 through 2023. The museums board of commissioners was established in 1908 as an advisory board that meets twice a year in Washington, D.C., to counsel the director about matters of policy and fundraising, and to review proposed major acquisitions. Davidson is the first African American chair of the museums commission in the organizations history. As a noted art collector and business executive, Bob Davidson brings important expertise and connections in the arts to this new ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Hans Hofmann died February 17, 1966. Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 - February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships. He was also heavily influenced in his later years by Henri Matisse's ideas about color and form. In this image: Hans Hofmann, The Lark, um 1960. Ãl auf Leinwand, 152,7 x 133 cm. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum und Pacific Film Archive. Schenkung von Hans Hofmann, 1965 © JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and Patricia A. Gallagher, Trustees of the Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust.
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