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Visitors inspect images that Hannah Reyes Morales photographed for The New York Times, including few that show older gay men in the Philippines, at a World Press Photo exhibition at the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 5, 2023. A government campaign against what it calls âhomosexual propagandaâ is unsettling booksellers and has resulted in the firing of the director of the Hungarian National Museum, one of the countryâs leading museums. (Akos Stiller/The New York Times)
by Andrew Higgins
BUDAPEST.- When a far-right member of Hungarys parliament invited the media three years ago to watch her shred a book of fairy tales that included a gay Cinderella, only one reporter showed up. But what began as lonely, crank campaign against homosexual propaganda by a fringe nationalist legislator, Dora Duro, has snowballed into a national movement led by the government to restrict depictions of gay and transgender people in Hungary. The campaign has unsettled booksellers, who have been ordered to shrink-wrap works that popularize homosexuality to prevent young readers from browsing, and also rattled one of Hungarys premier cultural institutions. The director of the Hungarian National Museum was fired this week for hosting an exhibition of news photographs, a few of which featured men in womens clothing, and for suggesting that his staff had no legal right to check whether visitors were at least 18 years old. The exhibition displayed scores of photos ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In an undated image provided via Christie's, Christie's control room in New York. As Sotheby's and Christie's prepare for the start this week of the major New York auctions of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art, teams of tech experts, producers and show directors are readying their salesrooms. (via Christie's via The New York Times)
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| Prince fashion items, including the ruffled shirt, go up for auction | | Dawoud Bey, full frame: On Richmond's Trail of the Enslaved | | A first-class dinner menu from the Titanic could fetch thousands at auction |
An outfit worn by prince in a display of Prince memorabilia up for auction at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, Nov. 8, 2023. (Sara Naomi Lewkowicz/The New York Times)
by Steven Kurutz
NEW YORK, NY.- Twenty years ago, Bertrand Brillois, a Parisian businessperson, began contacting seamstresses, costume designers, fabric dyers, production assistants and others who had worked for Prince. He told them that he thought Prince was not only a musical genius but a fashion icon, and he wanted to buy clothing, jewelry and other accessories designed or worn by him. The many items acquired by Brillois over the years included an ankle-length white cashmere coat that Prince had custom-made by a tailor in Nice, France, when he was filming the 1986 movie Under the Cherry Moon. The coat and more than 200 other items are on sale as part of the Fashion of Prince, an online auction that is accepting bids through Nov. 16. The sale, held by RR Auction, also features one of Princes signature wardrobe items: a white, high-necked, silk shirt with elaborate ruffles, puffy sleeves and faux- ... More | |
The photographer Dawoud Bey in Richmond, Va., on Oct. 14, 2023. (Schaun Champion/The New York Times)
by Siddhartha Mitter
RICHMOND, VA.- The urban parkland along the James River running through this city is true forest. Here grow maple, oak, hickory, cottonwood, sycamore, river birch, hackberry, fronds bowed under climbing English ivy, with winter creeper spreading underfoot. Even the narrow half-mile from the Manchester Docks to the Interstate 95 bridge, wedged between the river and the sewage plant, has a dense, brambly energy, like the Jabberwocks tulgey wood. On what is now designated as the Richmond Slave Trail where thousands of Africans were taken off ships from the Middle Passage, and later, when Richmond became the supply hub of the 19th-century chattel trade, loaded for shipment to the Deep South the atmosphere feels properly primeval. When you enter this way, theres no prelude, said photographer Dawoud Bey, when we walked the trail in late September. Youre just dropped in the space. Rather than begin at the trailhead, with its parking lot and ... More | |
A pocket watch owned by a second-class passenger on the Titanic, who did not survive the sinking. (Henry Aldridge & Son via The New York Times)
by Derrick Bryson Taylor
NEW YORK, NY.- There were oysters, salmon with hollandaise sauce, beef, squab, duck, roast chicken, green peas, parsnip puree and Victoria pudding. The feast described is not a Thanksgiving meal, but a snapshot of what first-class passengers on the Titanic ate for dinner April 11, 1912, when the ship left Queenstown, Ireland, for New York. A menu from that night, with an embossed red White Star Line flag at the top and signs of water damage, will go up for auction Saturday at Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd. in southwest England. Andrew Aldridge, managing director of the auction house, said Wednesday that although a handful of menus from the ship were known to have survived, this was the only known copy from the night of April 11 three days before the Titanic hit an iceberg. It is expected to sell for up to 70,000 pounds (about $86,000). The auction will include hundreds of other maritime items, including a White Star Line tartan blanket that was recovered ... More |
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| Your favorite song is now a norteña | | Rarities commanded estimate-smashing prices at Milestone's $850K debut of Elmer's Toy Museum auction series | | With 'Dream Scenario,' Nicolas Cage reclaims the memes |
An EZ Band accordion in Houston on Oct. 8, 2023. (Arturo Olmos/The New York Times)
by Jesus Jiménez
NEW YORK, NY.- At first, Jaime Guevaras version of Hey There Delilah sounds like just another cover of the Plain White Ts original. But some seconds in, an accordion enters the mix. Then, Guevara shifts his crooning from English to Spanish. ¿Qué tal, Delilah? he sings, interpreting the lyrics and feeling of the song for a new audience. Aquà estoy si te sientes sola. Suddenly, the song that was a hit in the mid- to late aughts has become a norteña, a ballad from a regional Mexican genre that relies heavily on accordions and other acoustic instruments. Guevara, a Houston musician, and his EZ Band have created more than a dozen covers in norteña form, such as Creep by Radiohead and Easy on Me by Adele and theyve taken off. The EZ Bands rendition of Hey There Delilah has been played more than 1.5 million times on Spotify, and at least 2 million times on TikTok. The bands version of Santeria ... More | |
Alps Japan tin friction Lincoln Futura, 11in long, all original, excellent condition with original box. Sold for $6,150 against an estimate of $2,500-$3,500.All images courtesy of Milestone Auctions, Willoughby, Ohio, USA
WILLOUGHBY, OH.- Elmers Auto and Toy Museum in Fountain City, Wisconsin, achieved legendary status long before its doors closed in 2022, after 28 years of operation. While the rambling rural museum is now history, the late Elmer Duellmans tangible legacy his mind-blowing assemblage of 25,000 antique and vintage toys will live on. Bolstered by pop-culture fans of all ages, the fabled collection took its first step into a new era at Milestones October 28 sale, the first in an ongoing series of quarterly events featuring the Duellman toys. With intense media interest and lively toy-hobby chatter as its catalysts, the single-day auction debut realized $850,000, with estimate-crushing prices paid by bidders across the globe. Without question, the auctions top spotlight grabbers were the postwar Japanese tin motorcycles, one of Elmers favorite toy categories. A rare, 12- ... More | |
The actor Nicolas Cage in Los Angeles on Oct. 11, 2023. (Devin Oktar Yalkin/The New York Times)
by Kyle Buchanan
NEW YORK, NY.- Nicolas Cage is not afraid to go big. This is, after all, a man who channeled the grandiose gestural acting of German expressionist films while starring in Moonstruck and was nearly fired from Peggy Sue Got Married for using a voice he had modeled on the Claymation sidekick Pokey from Gumby. Even the decision to change his name born Nicolas Coppola, he traded his filmmaking familys famous moniker for the comic-book superhero Luke Cages allowed him to invent a personal mythology in line with his outsize ambitions. When you think of Nick Cage, I wanted people to think you were going to see something just a little bit unpredictable, a little bit scary, he told me last month on the balcony of a Beverly Hills hotel. Its not going to be the same old, same old. But at some point, that bigness is exactly what audiences came to predict from him. Over the past decade, YouTube supercuts emerged ... More |
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| Sotheby's Germany celebrates the art season in November with two curated auctons | | Neue Auctions announces results of Fine Art & Luxury Decor sale | | Rare limited edition 'American Statesmen' book set, signed by Founding Fathers, fetches $68,181 |
Emil Nolde, Glückliche Familie.
COLOGNE.- Sotheby's Germany celebrates the autumn art season with two curated auctions organised from Palais Oppenheim in Cologne. "In November, all eyes are on Cologne. The 56th edition of ART Cologne presents modern and contemporary art. At the same time, the auctions in this year's Sotheby's winter season in Cologne will be promising. Our main auction, Modern & Contemporary Auction, will mark the start of the season and will attract global interest due to the wide range of renowned national and international art. For collectors, both established and new, the auction of 59 lots provides some outstanding works in the field of modern and contemporary art, 90% of which are coming to the market for the first time and most of them from private collections. Many of these works tell their own story, both art-historically and through their provenance, including the top lots of the auction, two colourful works by Emil Nolde - Dorf Cospeda (Village C ... More | |
Impressive and large pair of late 19th or early 20th century Delphin Massier (French, Vallauris 1837-1907) majolica floriform jardinieres and pedestals ($8,610).
BEACHWOOD, OH.- A bronze fountain with greenish-gold and brown patina signed by Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons (American, 1878-1956), titled Frog Baby (1917), 40 inches tall, sold for $33,825 in an online-only Fine Art & Luxury Décor auction held October 28th by Neue Auctions. The fountain had the foundry mark for Roman Bronze Works (New York City). Ms. Parsons studied with Daniel Chester French in New York and at the Art Students League. After marrying and starting a family, she began the series of garden sculptures for which she is best known, beginning with Duck Baby, which was the popular hit of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, and later Turtle Baby, now on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The 335-lot auction was packed with paintings, sculptures, Cleveland School, antique and luxury designer furniture and objects. The fine custom designer furnishings, in pristine condition from local estates, featured Dennis and Lean tables, Brun ... More | |
What makes this collection unique is the inclusion of original letters or documents signed by the subjects.
BOSTON, MASS.- A rare limited edition set of 40 'American Statesmen' biographies, each adorned with the autographs of founding fathers, sold for $68,181, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The total for this month's Fine Autograph and Artifacts auction reached $1,019,860. This extraordinary collection features a 'large paper' edition of the 40-volume biographical book set titled "American Statesmen," originally published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co, from 1898-1900 and 1908-1917, with all volumes numbered 57/500. Each volume is beautifully bound in full crushed green morocco gilt, showcasing the era's elegance. What makes this collection unique is the inclusion of original letters or documents signed by the subjects. The roster of notable figures encompasses luminaries such as Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and more. Additional highlights from the sale include, but are not limited to: ... More |
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| Mackintosh artworks given to friend of the Glasgow artist smash expectations | | 'Reno 911!' co-creator Robert Ben Garant's collection of Joker comic books, original art clowns around at Heritage | | Can't make the concert? Livestreamers are coming to the rescue. |
Stained, leaded and painted glass panel produced by William Morris & Co., from a design by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (English, 2st Baronet, ARA, 1833-1898). Depicts the apostle St Andrew. Based on a design first used in the 1870s, this window was part of a 1909 commission to glaze all of the windows of a new chapel at Cheadle Royal Hospital near Manchester, England. Sold for £27,700 ($34,005). All images courtesy of Lyon & Turnbull
EDINBURGH,UK.- A group of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) watercolors and drawings sold on behalf of the Glasgow Art Club excelled at Lyon & Turnbull on October 11 when they fetched over £101,000 ($123,980), inclusive of buyers premium. The cache of seven works on paper, including four flower studies, had belonged to William Meldrum, Mackintoshs friend and fellow student at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1880s. They formed part of the 1933 Mackintosh memorial exhibition in the MacLellan Galleries on Glasgows Sauchiehall Street and were gifted to the Glasgow Art Club in 1984. In short, they were appearing on the market for the very first time. Mackintosh began creating pencil-on-paper flower sketches as far back as his student days in the 1880s. The 26 x 20cm pencil drawing Anemonie is one such early example. He notes in the cartouche that the plant was found at Lamlash on Arran in 1893, pressed, and then sketched ... More | |
Batman #251 Don/Maggie Thompson Collection (DC, 1973) CGC NM+ 9.6 White pages.
DALLAS, TX.- There's no shortage of sites eager to answer why some comic book readers love the Joker more than Batman. The answers vary, but it's usually something along the lines of: The Clown Prince of Crime possesses the "unbridled id" or he's a "pure nihilist" or "because there is objective truth in his beliefs." Or, in the parlance of the psychiatrist enlisted by GQ earlier this year, the Joker's just an "agent of chaos," and maybe saner than the costumed billionaire always trying to toss him in Arkham Asylum. As the Joker says in Batman: The Killing Joke, "When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit." Which might be the most reasonable thing anyone has ever said in the funny pages. Ask this question of Robert Ben Garant Why the Joker? and you will most decidedly get a long, thoughtful answer. Part of that's because he's one ... More | |
As fans struggle to buy increasingly hard-to-get tickets (at escalating costs), livestreamers packing cellphones and batteries are offering another way to see the show. (Tara Booth/The New York Times)
by Nell Gallogly
NEW YORK, NY.- Live music tentatively returned in 2021 after COVID shutdowns. More artists got back on the road in 2022, yet still hit pandemic-related snags. But 2023 has been a blockbuster for the live-music business: Taylor Swift and Beyoncé circled the globe with headline-grabbing extravaganzas, and they werent the only story. Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Drake, Travis Scott, Ed Sheeran, Morgan Wallen, Maluma and Madonna filled arenas and stadiums. Buying concert tickets, however, has become an increasingly complex and expensive endeavor as costs continue to rise and companies such as Ticketmaster and SeatGeek battle bots and scalpers. Fans hoping to attend the years hottest tours endured a maze of presale registrations, digital waiting rooms and hourslong queues. Those fortunate enough to reach checkout were met with lofty ticket prices some because of confusing dynamic pricing and additional fees. But listeners left at home werent totally left out: i ... More |
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Sam McKinniss joins David Kordansky Gallery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery announced their representation of Sam McKinniss. The artist will be included in the upcoming group presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach in December. In February 2024, the gallery will show a solo presentation of McKinnisss work at Frieze Los Angeles. The images, figures, and environments that appear in the paintings of Sam McKinniss (b. 1985, Northfield, Minnesota) speak to the uncanny, unsettling atmospheres of the internet and popular culture. Though these images often emerge from a digital sphere characterized by extremes of spectacle and flatness, McKinniss transposes them into the vivid, humanist vocabulary of his chosen materials, which include not only the pigments and mediums with which he renders his compositions, but the emotion, desire, pathos, humor, and paradox he locates within them. The familiarity that characterizes many of his subjectswhich are drawn from the celebr ... More
Solo exhibition of work by German artist Josepha Gasch-Muche opens at Heller Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Heller Gallery is presenting Dangerous Beauty, the gallery's second solo exhibition of work by German artist Josepha Gasch-Muche. The exhibition includes eleven works by the award-winning artist dating from 2006-2021. Josepha Gasch-Muche explores essential geometric forms and patterns using densely layered glass shards and light. Originally trained as a painter, Gasch-Muche studied with Boris Kleint, a former Bauhaus member and an assistant to the Weimar schools core teacher and theorist, Johannes Itten. Kleint inculcated Gasch-Muche with the Bauhaus credos of essential materiality of substances and economy of means. In 1998, when she started experimenting with very thin, industrial liquid crystal display glass, the then-new material allowed her to fully realize them. She breaks sheets of clear glass into shards and arranges them, by the thousands, into simple geometric shapes. The resulting wall pieces expand beyond ... More
Fall 2023 Resident Artists explore the complexities of land in new exhibitions
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace announced the opening of their Fall 2023 International Artist-in-Residence exhibitions. The Fall 2033 residents, Sandra Brewster (Toronto, Canada), Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas (Detroit, Michigan), and Alexandra Robinson (Austin, Texas), were selected by independent curator, writer, and cultural producer Missla Libsekal. The four artists have been living at Artpace since September, creating new work that was unveiled at a public opening reception on Thursday, November 9. Sandra Brewster's Artpace exhibition, Lullaby of Birdland, artfully unites people and places. The installation features five striking panels featuring four individuals from San Antonio in everyday, unscripted moments using a gel transfer technique that imparts a nostalgic feel. Additionally, a panel depicting Eagle Pass, the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe's home, adds historical depth. A seawall replica from Guyana, the artist's parents' homeland, offers ... More
Yuri Temirkanov, conductor who celebrated Russia's music, dies at 84
NEW YORK, NY.- Yuri Temirkanov, a well-traveled Russian conductor steeped in his countrys bygone musical culture, died on Nov. 2 in St. Petersburg, the city where he held sway for over 30 years. He was 84. His death was announced by both the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, where he was music director from 1988 to 2022 his tenure began when it was still the Leningrad Philharmonic and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, where he was music director from 2000 to 2006. A close associate in Baltimore said Temirkanov had had heart trouble and had died in a care facility. When he was a boy, Prokofiev had held his hand; in his prime, he was artistic director of one of the worlds great opera companies, the Kirov, in what was then Leningrad, taking that post before he was 40; and in his later years, he consulted with composer Dmitri Shostakovich, conducted some of the worlds major orchestras, and was the object of almost cultlike adoration in his native land. At a glittering memorial ... More
It is not dead yet! 'Spamalot' returns to Broadway. (Cue the coconuts.)
NEW YORK, NY.- The terrifying knights still say Ni! The dead? Well, they are not quite dead yet. And King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table (not dawn, not dusk, not late afternoon, but knights) still trot around to the sounds of coconuts banging together. All that is to say: Spamalot is back on Broadway, and it is still quite silly. The silliness was on display last month during a rehearsal at the Gibney Studios in Manhattan. David Josefsberg, one of the shows standby actors, was having difficulty staying in character as the incompetent warlock Tim the Enchanter. The scene required him to adopt an outrageous accent to warn the knights about a scary beast, which ends up being a rabbit. (And the rabbit ends up being quite homicidal!) But he couldnt keep it together as members of the cast and crew giggled while watching from the sides of the room. The giggles were contagious, filling the room throughout the rehearsal, including when the knights had to vary the ... More
'Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey' review: Mikel Murfi's trilogy has ittersweet end
NEW YORK, NY.- Falling in love came as a surprise to Pat Farnon a late-life development he hadnt been looking for any more than hed been looking for the marriage proposal that set that romance in motion. When a whirlwind of a woman named Kitsy Rainey asked him to marry her even though theyd never so much as dated, he acquiesced. The most beautiful woman that ever water washed, Pat called her, and Kitsy cherished him right back. But how well did she allow her husband to know her? In The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey, the bittersweet final installment of Mikel Murfis trilogy of solo plays about the cobbler Pat and his eccentric beloved, it is 1987 and Kitsy has been dead two years. Holed up at home in their small Irish town, avoiding company, Pat gathers his courage to open a suitcase that Kitsy had forbidden him to look inside while she was alive. What he finds changes his understanding of her, and not just from the newspaper clipping suggesting ... More
Review: Kyle Marshall's History Lessons, in Fragments
NEW YORK, NY.- Kyle Marshalls dance Onyx has a historical subject: the Black roots of rock n roll. But dont expect the work one of the three New York premieres that make up his companys debut program at the Joyce Theater this week to be a straightforward parade of Black artists and their jukebox hits. Marshalls approach is exploratory and questioning. The work features music from the likes of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, but it comes largely in fragments, as from a radio signal barely in range. We first hear bits of James Brown (The Payback, nice choice), and then as part of that track plays like a radio fully tuned in, Marshall and his terrific dancers slip into some deliciously funky grooving. Not for long, though. Soon, the music cuts out, setting up a pattern of pleasure flashed and denied. We hear static and the sound of trains. Theres a physical motif of hands quivering with the spirit. Charismatic dancer Nik Owens, weari ... More
Inside Shary Boyle's head-spinning Palace of Wonders
NEW YORK, NY.- Like many people, I have a love-hate relationship with social media: Sometimes, Im thrilled by the genuine sense of connection it provides; other times, I feel pressured to perform for a distant audience. Its that second feeling I thought about while visiting Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), an exhibition that considers how we create our identities and present them to others and, in turn, how those performances feed back into who we are. To visit the show is to step into Boyles palace, or at least one wing of it. After passing through a curtained entryway, youre greeted by a dazzling textile baluster mounted on a coin-operated pottery wheel, a life-size wax puppeteer with a twitching hand; an array of mythological porcelain and terra cotta figurines and a towering sculpture of a woman with an animatronic spinning head. Outside the Palace of Me is a contemporary art fun house only ... More
When a dancer's moves include a wheelchair
NEW YORK, NY.- When Chelsie Hill dances in her wheelchair, her face tells you everything. She is absorbed in the moment beyond the stage, in the emotions shes conveying, in her power to hold the audience. Her wheelchair is an intrinsic part of her silhouette, one she manipulates with power. Hill, 27, is the founder of the Rollettes, a dance team for women who use wheelchairs that formed in 2012. They perform all over the country and host an annual empowerment weekend in Los Angeles for women with disabilities called the Rollettes Experience. In late July, the event attracted 250 women and children from 14 countries to Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hotel for dance classes, showcases and seminars. More than a decade after she started the Rollettes, Hills story has spread far beyond the group to include mentorship and education for anyone with a disability who is seeking community. She changed my life, said Ali Stroker, the actress who made Broadway history in 2019 when she becam ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Paul Signac was born November 11, 1863. Paul Signac (11 November 1863 - 15 August 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. In this image: Esther Lausek from Hungary takes a look at the painting "The Jetty at Cassis" by Paul Signac that is on display at the exhibition "The nicest Frenchmen come from New York City" in Berlin, Wednesday, May 30, 2007.
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