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Julian Schnabels Peter Marino (2022) and François-Xavier Lalannes Grands Mountons de Peter, 2004, in the Tiffany Gallery, at its flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York on March 7, 2024. Turrell. Hirst. Basquiat: This 10-story palace is filled with famous names, for a heady fusion of relevant, and discomfiting, contemporary art and retailing. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Now that tickets to the Museum of Modern Art are an astonishing $30 apiece, you could be forgiven for timing your visits carefully, making sure that they count. So, lets say you find yourself in midtown Manhattan with an hour or two to spare, and you are yearning for some culture. Perhaps you have already seen MoMAs latest exhibitions, or perhaps you are not quite in the mood to fork over that kind of money. May I instead suggest stopping by Tiffany & Co.s flagship store on Fifth Avenue? No, there are no Demoiselles dAvignon there, and no Starry Night, but what The Landmark (as it is called) does offer is a heady fusion of contemporary art and luxury retailing that is as relevant, and discomfiting, as anything you could hope to find in a museum. After a renovation by leather-clad architect Peter Marino that debuted last April, 58 pieces that he selected by major artists many of them blue or silver or both now fill the 84-yea ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view, Sky Hopinka, Our Ailing Senses, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg.
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| Crisis-hit British Museum gets new leader | | When Richard Serra's steel curves became a memorial | | 'Man Ray. Liberate Photography' presents his most emblematic works |
The British Museum in London on Jan. 26, 2024. Nicholas Cullinan will have several duties when he begins, including raising a reported $1.2 billion for a major refurbishment, and dealing with the demand for the return of contested artifacts from the museums collections. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
LONDON.- The British Museum on Thursday named Nicholas Cullinan, an art historian who currently runs the National Portrait Gallery in London, as its new director, ending an unsettled period in which ... More | |
Serras Tilted Arc (1981), in Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan on July 31, 1987. The sculptor had a breakthrough in the late 1990s with his torqued metal rings. (Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York;Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- After the yelling, the hearings, the lawsuit, the dismantlement, Richard Serra entered the last decade of the last century with his mind cast toward the classics. He was happy to see the end of the 80s. The American sculptor, ... More | |
Man Ray, Paul Eluard et André Breton, 1939 © Man Ray 2015 Trust 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich.
LAUSANNE.- To be totally liberated from painting and its aesthetic implications was the first avowed aim of Man Ray (United States, 1890-1976), who began his career as a painter. Photography was one of the major breakthroughs of modern art and led to a rethinking of notions of representation. In the 1920s and 30s, the photographic medium came to the forefront of the avant- ... More |
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| Old newspaper stories offer cues to 19th century shipwreck in Lake Michigan | | James Short telescope, c. 1738-1768, becomes the latest object on display at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy | | The Gibbes Museum of Art announces new acquisition of Edward Hopper painting |
An image from a remote-operated vehicle showing the Milwaukee sitting upright on the lake floor. (Michigan Shipwreck Research Association via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- On July 9, 1886, the steamship Milwaukee was crossing Lake Michigan on its way to the lakefront town of Muskegon, Michigan, to pick up a load of lumber when disaster struck. ... More | |
The telescope, which is on long-term loan to the Herschel Museum of Astronomy from Richard N. Blythe of Shropshire, was created between 1738-1768.
BATH.- The Herschel Museum of Astronomy revealed the display of a new object: a Gregorian Reflector telescope created by James Short, the pre-eminent telescope maker of the 18th century. The telescope, which is on long-term loan to the Herschel ... More | |
Edward Hopper's The Battery, Charleston, S.C.
CHARLESTON, SC.- The Gibbes Museum of Art announced its acquisition of Edward Hoppers The Battery, Charleston, S.C., which is now on view in the museums permanent collection galleries. Often recognized as one of 20th century Americas most famous artists and considered by many a household name, Edward Hopper (18821967) ... More |
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| Higher Pictures presents Cybergrams 1982-1988 by Tadao Takano | | kaufmann repetto presents a variety of works from Goro Kakei's late stage production | | Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Robert F. Curl, Jr sells for $442,871 |
Tadao Takano, Trip 2000, 1988, gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches
NEW YORK, NY.- Higher Pictures presents Cybergrams 1982-1988 by Tadao Takano (1926-2010). This is the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Born in Yakima, Washington, the Japanese-American Takano was interned with his family by the U.S. government during World War II before being drafted in the army. In 1948, ... More | |
Goro Kakei, Equine Face, 2005-2015.
NEW YORK, NY.- Goro Kakei (1930 - 2021) established himself as one of the most influential characters in 20th century Japanese art through his highly individual approach to figuration. A pivotal sojourn in Mexico in the 1960s fueled his fascination with the native art of Central America, emancipating his practice from Western canons and unleashing his eclectic creativity. For his ... More | |
Curl discovered fullerenes, a carbon nanoparticle transforming applied sciences in energy, disease treatment & human longevity.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Robert F. Curl, Jr. for his groundbreaking discovery of fullerenes, a class of carbon nanoparticles revolutionizing various fields of applied science was auctioned by Nate D. Sanders for $442,891 tonight. It received four bids. First ... More |
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| From New England to Notre-Dame, a U.S. carpenter tends to a French icon | | The Cleveland Museum of Art acquires rare Italian Renaissance terracotta and work by Philipp Otto Runge | | Fine books at Swann closing April 11 |
Hank Silver, a timber framer based in rural New England, out for a walk in Paris, where he is one of the few foreigners helping to rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral, on March 13, 2024. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
PARIS.- Notre-Dame Cathedral sat in the predawn chill like a spaceship docked in the heart of Paris, its exoskeleton of scaffolding lit by bright lights. Pink clouds appeared to the east as machinery hummed to life and workers started clambering around. ... More | |
The Death of Count Ugolino della Gherardesca and His Sons (Inferno Canto XXXIII), Pierino da Vinci (Italian, 15301553). Terracotta; overall: 62.6 x 44.5 cm. Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2024.1
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art announced the acquisition of a rare terracotta by Pierino da Vinci and a suite of four prints by Philipp Otto Runge, considered the crowning achievement of his career. Pierino da Vincis terracotta relief The Death of Count Ugolino della Gherardesca ... More | |
Book of Hours in Latin, Use of Rome. Illuminated with Miniatures. Lyon, France, circa 1475-1500. Estimate: $40,000 - $60,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- This springs newly minted sale will bring together a range of collecting areas, including early printed books, artists books, literature from the seventeenth century through to the twentieth, and more. The sale will be a timed online auction opening for bidding on Monday, March 25 at 10 am Eastern and will begin closing ... More |
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$72 million coin collection to be auctioned
COSTA MESA, CA.- In a much-anticipated event a century in the making, the extraordinary coin, medal, banknote, and book collection of Danish industrialist Lars Emil Bruun (1852-1923) is finally set to be sold in a series of auctions spanning several years. Commencing in fall 2024, Stacks Bowers Galleries will present at public auction this prized collection of Scandinavian coinage. The collection, painstakingly assembled by this prosperous Danish butter merchant beginning as a boy in the 1850s and over the decades that followed, has remained essentially intact, unlike those of his contemporaries, which have long since been dispersed. Thanks in part to a unique and highly peculiar testament of his will, the L. E. Bruun Collection has been safeguarded for a century as a reserve for the Royal Danish Coin and Medal Collection. ... More
Miller & Miller Auction Ltd's online-only Advertising, Canadiana & Historic Objects auction
NEW HAMBURG, NY.- Three vibrant and colorful paintings by the acclaimed Nova Scotia artist Maud Lewis (1901-1970), a 19th century French Bontems caged singing bird automaton, and a Canadian 1910s Gilson, Guelph Dixie Ace Tractors sign are a few of the expected top lots in Miller & Miller Auction Ltds online-only Advertising, Canadiana & Historic Objects auction Featuring the Greg Hisey Collection, slated for Saturday, April 13th. The auction, starting at 9 am Eastern time, is packed with 397 lots of general store items, art glass, Canadiana, advertising signs, Western collectibles, pottery and stoneware, art, and lamps and lighting. In the historic town of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Greg Hisey achieved his lifetime goal of building a global destination for travelers seeking a presence of the past. Inspired by early life experiences, Hiseys Ghost Town Blu ... More
Jim White, your favorite songwriter's favorite drummer
NEW YORK, NY.- In the early 1990s, Jim White was a drumming journeyman, having pounded out rhythms in a string of loud and rabid bands with snotty names, such as Feral Dinosaurs or Venom P. Stinger. On the cusp of 30, he started Dirty Three, along with two other idiosyncratic Australian instrumentalists: violinist Warren Ellis and guitarist Mick Turner. Their lambent jams found unexpected enthusiasm inside Melbourne bars. One afternoon during the groups early days, Eddie Midnight, the jocular brother of a friend, shouted out to White, calling him by the nickname he hated: Hey, Skins! You got a minute? I found something good for ya. Back at his house, Midnight pulled out an ash-caked snare its heads busted and one rim missing that he had spotted in a shed. White said thanks and took what he suspected was trash to a music ... More
Nickelodeon and Disney stars find a second act on podcasts
NEW YORK, NY.- For three years starting when he was just 12 years old, Devon Werkheiser dispensed advice for bearing the indignities of middle school as the title character in the Nickelodeon series Neds Declassified School Survival Guide. Two decades later, he said, people still recognize him as Ned Bigby. There was a time when I wanted to transcend Neds, Werkheiser said, but maybe its the answer in getting me where I want to go. Now 33, hes made peace with his past and is still giving tips to his peers, only he is using a more modern medium. In Neds Declassified Podcast Survival Guide, he and his former Neds castmates Lindsey Shaw and Daniel Curtis Lee dish about the show, which aired from 2004 to 2007, and open up about past personal and career struggles. The three are among a cohort of former child ... More
'Tommy' goes full tilt in a relentless Broadway revival
NEW YORK, NY.- That its plot makes no sense is not really the problem with Tommy. When it first appeared as a concept album, in 1969, it was, after all, billed as a rock opera. And lets face it, if youve ever paid attention to its story unstoned, youre going to have some questions, just as you might with The Magic Flute. Nor can you complain about the rock part of the billing; theres some pretty magic guitaring going on, and some righteously harmonized vocals. Translations to film and the stage have offered additional pleasures. The 1975 movie gave us Tina Turner in top form enough said. The original 1993 Broadway musical, with its flying Tommy and galloping pinball machine, was a visual groundbreaker, warmed by excellent performances. Even the colder, coarser revival that opened Thursday at the Nederlander ... More
Robert Moskowitz, abstract painter of New York's skyscrapers, dies at 88
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Moskowitz, a painter who used the New York City skyline to stake out a unique position on the border of abstraction and representation, died on March 24 in Manhattan. He was 88. His son, Erik Moskowitz, said the cause of death, at a hospital, was complications of Parkinsons disease. Robert Moskowitz first came to broad notice with collagelike paintings in which he glued window shades to canvases that had been painted various shades of off-white. Some of these works, which evoke stripped-down Rauschenbergs, were exhibited in the 1961 Museum of Modern Art show The Art of Assemblage. He later made a series of similar collages with envelopes. From the mid-1960s into the 70s, after an interlude painting surreal interiors, Moskowitz settled on views of empty corners, which again flirted with the limits ... More
Vernor Vinge, innovative science fiction novelist, dies at 79
NEW YORK, NY.- Vernor Vinge, a mathematician and prolific science fiction author who in the 1980s wrote a novella that offered an early glimpse of what became known as cyberspace, and who soon after that hypothesized that artificial intelligence would outstrip human intelligence, died on March 20 in the La Jolla area of San Diego. He was 79. James Frenkel, who edited nearly all of his work since 1981, said the cause of death, in an assisted living facility, was Parkinsons disease. David Brin, a science fiction writer and a friend of Vinges, said in a tribute on Facebook, Vernor enthralled millions with tales of plausible tomorrows, made all the more vivid by his polymath masteries of language, drama, characters and the implications of science. Vinge (pronounced VIN-jee) was renowned for his novella True Names (1981), in which ... More
Peter Eotvos, evocative modernist composer and conductor, dies at 80
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Eotvos, a towering Hungarian composer and conductor who linked modernist traditions in 20th-century European music and whose multifaceted work was singularly evocative, died Sunday at his home in Budapest. He was 80. His wife, librettist Maria Eotvosne Mezei, announced his death. Eotvos was a tireless advocate of contemporary music and composed in almost every conceivable genre. At the dawn of the 21st century, he found widespread acclaim as an opera composer. His final work in that genre, Valuska, premiered at the Hungarian State Opera in December. Based on the novel The Melancholy of Resistance, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, it was his first opera written to a Hungarian libretto. (Others are in a number of languages, including German, French and English.) Like his German opera- ... More
The revolutionary power of women's rage and grief
NEW YORK, NY.- An artist friend texted me recently, asking how to contend with the anger and sadness she was feeling about the state of the world. I can think of no better balm than the Museum of Modern Arts Käthe Kollwitz retrospective, the first ever at a New York museum that encompasses this German artists groundbreaking prints and drawings and her sculpture, posters and magazine illustrations. Once youre there, go straight over to her series Peasants War, which she started in 1902, to find her own outlet for her burning desire for radical change. She was about 10 years into her already successful career when she made it, a remarkable feat given that she was a woman in a country that still didnt allow women into art schools. In 1898, she had been nominated for a gold medal at the Greater Berlin Art Exhibition ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish-French painter Francisco Goya was born March 30, 1746. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 - 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. In this image: Francisco de Goya, The victorious Hannibal, 1771.
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