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Hartwig Fischer, the director of the British Museum, in London on Aug. 27, 2020. Just days after the museum announced that it had fired an employee who was suspected of looting its storerooms and selling items on eBay, Fischer announced Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, that he was resigning, effective immediately. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times)
by Alex Marshall
LONDON.- Visitors to the British Museum this week could be forgiven for thinking it was business as usual. In the museums Egyptian galleries, tourists jostled to get a closer look at the Rosetta stone. Nearby, a teenager posed for a photo in front of a huge statue from Easter Island. In another hall, art students sketched a sculpture of a centaur from the Parthenon marbles. But despite the air of normalcy, the worlds third-most-visited museum is in crisis. Since news broke in August that an employee had been fired over the theft of potentially thousands of items from its storerooms, the British Museum has struggled to deal with the fallout, which is exacerbating challenges it already faced. The museum is now deluged with renewed calls for the restitution of contested objects, and raising a huge sum for an impending refurbishment looks even more difficult. At a time when it needs leadership most, the museum is rudderless, after its director, Hartwig Fischer, resigned Aug. 25. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day "Titian. The Madonna and Child with Saints Titian and Andrew in the Archdeacon Church of Pieve di Cadore. History, restoration, interpretation ", published by Zel Edizioni, will report the new and interesting discoveries that emerged during the restoration of the painting and the consequent studies and interpretations by scholars.
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| Comedienne/performer/LGBT icon Sandra Bernhard being sued by former manager of live performances | | An architect who forges ahead in her own lane | | Rare chance to see works by US artist Georgia O'Keefe at new exhibition in Winchester | 
Sandra Bernhard and James Sliman.
NEW YORK, NY.- Comedienne/performer/LGBT Icon Sandra Bernhard is now being sued by her former manager James Sliman in Kings County, NY Supreme Court. Sliman first started working with Bernhard close to 11 years ago in early 2013. The veteran entertainment publicist initially handled all her publicity, but soon after also started setting up all her live performances and personal appearances around the U/S. and overseas. Within a couple years, Bernhard upped him to Manager of the live performance side of her career, the position he has held right up until early July 2023. Later in July, Sliman filed the lawsuit against Bernhard in Kings County Supreme Court. In the Summons and Complaint, Sliman accuses Sandra Bernhard of breach of verbal agreement/contract, wrongful termination, creating a hostile and extremely stressful work environment, strongly mischaracterizing and diminishing the role he played in her business/career, theft of services and for the many unscrupulous, ... More | | 
Elizabeth Graziolo, founder and principal of Yellow House Architects, at her office in Manhattan on Aug. 17, 2023. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
by Jane Margolies
NEW YORK, NY.- The University of Notre Dame is known for producing top-notch classically trained young architects, and every year the principals of architecture firms that work in traditional styles make pilgrimages to a spring career fair at the Indiana school to vie for the new talent. When Elizabeth Graziolo was a partner at Peter Pennoyer Architects, a New York practice with a historical bent, she often attended the career fair on behalf of the firm. In March, Graziolo made the trek again, except this year she was representing her own company, Yellow House Architects, which was, not incidentally, the only firm at the event owned by a woman of color, she said. Students lined up to meet her. All the girls came to talk to us, Graziolo recalled. In the three years since she started Yellow House, Graziolo, who said she is 49, has developed a busy ... More | | 
Georgia O'Keeffe, Banana Flower, 1933, from Some Memories of Drawings, 1974 © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/DACS, London 2021. Photo: Anna Arca.
WINCHESTER.- An exhibition celebrating pioneering American artist Georgia OKeeffe opened at The Gallery in The Arc, Winchester, last Saturday 26 August. Georgia O'Keeffe: Memories of Drawings is a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition which presents a remarkable collection of OKeeffes work. The exhibition showcases 21 photogravures of drawings produced by the artist between 1915-1963, reflecting the period in which she established herself as a major figure in American Modernism. With no artworks by OKeeffe held in UK public collections, this exhibition is a rare chance to see her work in person outside the US the Winchester show is the penultimate stop on the exhibitions UK tour. Renowned for her distinctive balance of abstraction with figuration, as well as her tenacity in pursuing her innovative style, Georgia OKeeffe (1887-1986) was one of the most important artists in 20th century American art. ... More |
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| Look! Up on the wall! It's a golf ball! It's a starfish! It's plaster! | | Christie's cancels sale of jewelry connected to Nazi-era fortune | | Simone Leigh's Iconic Satellite, newly completed for the MFAH; new modern and contemporary exhibitions | 
Adam Bergeron at Inspired Ornamental, his plaster fabrication company in Salem, N.H., on Aug. 18, 2023. (Jesse Burke/The New York Times)
by Yelena Moroz Alpert
NEW YORK, NY.- If Beth Cayre had to move, she would regret leaving the dining room ceiling, with its plaster cherry blossom branches hand molded by ceramics artist Matthew Solomon. And who could blame her? The branches were part of what gave character to her Neo-Grec Upper East Side town house when she and her husband, Nathan, gutted the property six years ago and dressed it up with new ornamental details. Their interior designer, Joe Nahem, envisioned a garden floating above their heads. He asked Solomon, who was known for making elaborate floral vessels surfaced with ruffled clay petals, how he would feel about doing a plaster ceiling. He thought I was crazy, Nahem said, but was very excited. (Solomon died in 2021.) The botanical motif set the tone for the rest of the room its damask brocade upholstery, Venetian glass chandeliers and custom embroidered chairs. Six years later, the ceiling still swells the hearts ... More | | 
In an image provided by Christies, Heidi Horten wearing the Briolette of India, part of an upcoming auction of the late Austrian heiresss major jewelry collection. While proceeds will go to philanthropic causes, the auction has drawn criticism because the Horten familys fortune came from businesses bought from Jews pressured into selling by the Nazis. (The Heidi Horten Foundation and Christie's via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced Thursday that a second sale of jewelry from the collection of Austrian heiress Heidi Horten had been canceled, citing the intense scrutiny that the auction house had faced from Jewish organizations and some collectors. Before the initial sale in May, which generated a record $202 million from diamonds, emeralds and sapphires, The New York Times reported on the connections between the Horten fortune and Nazi-era policies that helped her husband, German retailer Helmut Horten, expand his department store chain during that time at the expense of disenfranchised Jewish business owners. Helmut Horten died in 1987 and Heidi Horten in 2022. The Heidi Horten Foundation said then that the proceeds would go toward medical research and to a ... More | | 
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Le Jockey (The Jockey), 1899. lithograph in colors on wove paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase funded by One Great Night in November, 1992.
HOUSTON, TX.- On August 9th, 2023 Simone Leighs towering, 24- foot-high Satellite (2022), an edition for Houston of the artists signature work from the 59th Venice Biennale, was installed in front of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building for modern and contemporary art in October. Satellite was the centerpiece of the artists project for the American Pavilion in Venice, epitomizing her exploration of the Black female figure through bronze and aligning closely to her vessels, which symbolize and honor Black women. The piece will be sited adjacent to Cristina Iglesias water sculpture Inner Landscape (2020), at the entrance to the Kinder Building. In addition, a suite of three thematic exhibitions drawn from the MFAH collections of modern and contemporary art will be on view, beginning September 2. This the second series curated for the third floor of the Kinder Building, which opened in November 2020. Encompassing painting, sculpture, and photography; prints and ... More |
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| Over 300 artifacts from Hollywood legend and iconoclast Dennis Hopper to be auctioned by Julien's | | Art Institute of Chicago announces 'Dan Friedman: Stay Radical' | | Ephemeral but unforgettable: Korean experimental art is having a star turn | 
Dennis Hopper original painting. Photo credit Julien's Auctions.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Juliens Auctions and Turner Classic Movies (TCM)the ultimate destination for Hollywood memorabilia auctionsannounced today their exclusive collection of over 300 artifacts from the archives of Hollywood legend and iconoclast, Dennis Hopper, heading to JULIENS AUCTIONS AND TCM PRESENT: LEGENDS: HOLLYWOOD AND ROYALTY, taking place live Wednesday, September 6th, Thursday, September 7th, and Friday, September 8th in Beverly Hills and online. This tremendous collection, from the acclaimed actor of the iconic films, Easy Rider, Blue Velvet, Rebel Without a Cause, and Apocalypse Now, that helped define their eras and continue to entertain and inform viewers today, and the director, photographer, artist, and sculptor, and revered collector, who helped launch the careers of artists, such as Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, and Roy Lichtenstein, was uncovered at Hoppers ... More | | 
Dan Friedman. Tornado Fetish, 1985. The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Ken Friedman 2020.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago is now opening Dan Friedman: Stay Radical. This exhibition is the first museum retrospective focused on the extraordinary and underrecognized career of American designer Dan Friedman. The exhibit features more than 50 works that showcase Friedmans unbounded creativity through posters, books, large-scale assemblages, and iconoclastic furniture designs. Drawn primarily from the Art Institutes collection, this exhibition charts Friedmans remarkable mid-career transformation from a graphic designer to a multimedia creator whose neon-colored works defy traditional categories. His unconventional style led to diverse collaborations with some of the most prominent artists living in New York City in the early 1980s, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Tseng Kwong Chi.Friedmans career began with training at two prestigious schools for modern design and typography ... More | | 
Seung-taek Lee with a sculpture wire wrapped around a chiseled rock inspired by Godret stones, which are used in traditional Korean weaving, at his home studio in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 26, 2023. (Jean Chung/The New York Times)
by Andrew Russeth
SEOUL.- The 1960s and 1970s were tumultuous in South Korea, with a military dictatorship pushing breakneck economic growth and suppressing civil rights. In the midst of this upheaval, young artists pursued radical projects. Rejecting the expressive abstract painting in vogue in the 1950s, they embraced performance, video and photography and favored unusual materials (neon, barbed wire, cigarettes). They had been born during the Japanese occupation and lived through the Korean War; some looked to the past, taking inspiration from Korean folk forms. They forged collectives, holding shows, translating art texts from abroad (travel was restricted) and staging performances along rivers ... More |
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| Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais opens exhibition by artist Han Bing | | Maine Media announces Craig Easton as the recipient of the 2023 Arnold Newman Prize | | De Appel is moving to Tempel Amsterdam in January 2024 | 
Detail of painting by Han Bing for 'got heart' exhibition, September 2nd, 2023 - October 7th, 2023 at Thaddaeus Ropac. Photo Courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac.
PARIS.- In her first solo exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac, the Chinese-born, Paris-based artist Han Bing is presenting a group of new, large-scale paintings alongside more intimate and instinctive works on paper. A Very Lucky Mans Melancholy, Between her and her god, Pauls dream, the intriguing titles Han gives her paintings echo their layered imagery an aggregate of experiences and encounters that the painter channels onto her canvas. Her fragmented compositions reminiscent of torn posters are contrasted with bold swathes of electric colours, opening up new pictorial dimensions somewhere between the familiar urban reality and poetic, imaginary worlds. Like her paintings, the title of the exhibition bears witness to the multitude of influences Han has absorbed while living and ... More | | 
Nader Khan from BANK TOP by Craig Easton, 2023.
ROCKPORT, ME.- Maine Media has announced Craig Easton as the recipient of the 2023 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture, a $20,000 prize awarded annually by Maine Media to a photographer whose work demonstrates a compelling new vision in photographic portraiture. The 2023 award recognizes photographer Craig Easton and his project BANK TOP, a photographic essay made in collaboration with writer, poet and social researcher Abdul Aziz Hafiz. The project examines the portrayal and misrepresentation of northern communities in the United Kingdom, and focuses on a small, tight-knit community in Blackburn, England. Submissions to this years prize represented 36 countries, with artists of 74 different identified nationalities. This is the largest and most expansive group of submissions since the inception ... More | | 
De Appel joins the ecosystem of Amsterdam's Diamantbuurt. Photo: Bart Grietens.
AMSTERDAM.- The team of de Appel and the City of Amsterdam announced that in the new year of 2024 de Appel will move to and be hosted by Tempel Broedplaats, a cultural centre in Amsterdam's Diamantbuurt. The new location will be inaugurated by Touria Melani, Amsterdam's Alderman for Art and Culture in 2024. In the new location de Appel will continue its ongoing cultural projects as well as launch new programmes. De Appel joins the ecosystem of Amsterdam's Diamantbuurt. The neighbourhood is characterised by a diverse composition of both local residents and (cultural) initiatives. Sharing and working with the community is both part of the ongoing programme of exhibitions and art projects of de Appel, as is the ethos of de Appels work. The team will continue to engage with the local community through working ... More |
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 Sasha Waltz's Dance Company: 30 years of giving form to feelingNEW YORK, NY.- Thirty years ago, young German choreographer Sasha Waltz founded a small contemporary dance company in Berlin. The newly reunified city wasnt exactly a hub for modern dance, but when the wall came down on Nov. 9, 1989, Waltz, then living in Amsterdam, felt compelled to go there. It wasnt an artistic choice, she said recently. But it was such a unique moment. I knew I wanted to be part of this transformation. She called the company Sasha Waltz and Guests, and, on Thursday, it began a three-week, 30th anniversary celebration a notable achievement for an independent contemporary dance troupe. Over the decades, Waltz has had a substantial impact on Berlins cultural life and established an international reputation for her large-scale, visually arresting work, which draws on both the dramatic, often surreal ... More  36 hours in Cartagena, ColombiaCARTAGENA.- Cartagena de Indias, a colonial port city on Colombias Caribbean coast, can be so hypnotically hot (even with the ocean breeze and occasional tropical downpour) that visitors may feel as if they are drifting through a dream world of cobblestone lanes and Afro-Colombian drumbeats a sensation captured by the magical realism in Gabriel GarcÃa Márquezs Cartagena-set novels. A weekend is perfect for a robust introduction through two adjacent, walkable neighborhoods. The Old Town is still surrounded by the stone walls built by Spanish colonists, who also left behind opulent mansions and churches. Neighboring Getsemani is an artsy, semi-residential enclave with a popular street-party scene, overlooked by the 16th-century fortress that looms on a hill nearby. And if the heat does get to you, order a limonada de coco, the slushy ... More  'Everything Beautiful in its Time: Six Centuries of Prints from the Jansma Collection' opening todayGRAND RAPIDS, MI.- Spanning six centuries of printmaking, 'Everything Beautiful in its Time: Six Centuries of Prints from the Jansma Collection', now on view at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, features the complete Jansma Print Collection, including works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Ãdouard Manet, and Max Pechstein, among others. The exhibition celebrates the generosity of the Jansma family, whose goal was to bring together works of Christian devotion by renowned printmakers who exhibited an outstanding level of ingenuity and skill. The Jansma Print Collection is comprised of nearly 100 etchings, engravings, and woodcuts spanning the 15th to the 20th centuries. This exhibition highlights two important additions by Martin Schongauer, arguably the most important European printmaker ... More  Perrotin opens first of dual solo exhibitions of work by Daniel Arsham across Paris and New YorkPARIS.- Perrotin is opening the first of dual solo exhibitions of work by Daniel Arsham across Paris and New York, in honor of the artists 20th anniversary of collaboration with Emmanuel Perrotin. Arsham debuts multiple series of work that draw inspiration from the evolution of his artistic practice over the past two decades. Renowned for visually transforming cultural objects into subtly eroding artifacts, Arsham showcases the power of nostalgia by conflating past, present, and future. In the forthcoming exhibitions, Arsham will return to his oeuvre to examine and reflect on his long- standing appreciation for the complexities of materiality and space. 20 Years / 20 Ans juxtapozes works on paper and paintings alongside life-size architectural inventions, sculptures carved from geological materials, to handheld objects and beyond. Key highlights include a new ... More  Umar Rashid presents first exhibition in Tokyo at Blum & Poe opening todayTOKYO .- Blum & Poe has opened 'Kagetoras dream in the time of Sakoku. (Reds and Blues). Part 1. "The limits of isolation on the body politic creates the pockets of resistance. The rebellion is always glamorous in the beginning.The revolutionary ultimately dies, acquiesces, or embraces escapism as a balm. The visionary, however, maneuvers uncertainty with purpose and nurtures the vision beyond the boundaries of mortality. There, it grows. Long live the dreamers of the impossible dreams. In Kirin, we confide." This presentation marks Los Angeles-based artist Umar Rashids second solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in Japan. Rashid makes paintings, drawings, and sculptures that chronicle the grand historical fiction of the Frenglish Empire (16481880) that he has been developing for over seventeen years. Critiquing common renditions ... 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More  Patricia Low Venezia presents Candida Höfer "Inside Italian Architecture"VENICE.- Patricia Low Venezia has opened the exhibition Inside Italian Architecture by internationally acclaimed German artist Candida Höfer as third show at the new gallery on the Grand Canal in Venice, from September 2 to November 26, 2023 alongside the final months of 18th Architecture Biennale. The exhibition focuses on examples of Höfer's large-format color photographs of historic public spaces in Italy among them Rome's Villa Borghese, the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, and the ornate Fenice opera house in Venice, which lies across the water from the gallery itself in the San Marco district. Photographed between 2008 and 2012, the works are characteristically empty of people and painstakingly composed. Interior architectural details, canonical paintings and sculptures, and rows of books fill Höfer's pick of Italy's palaces of culture, which ... More  Group show curated by Diana Campbell "Linhas Tortas" opens at Mendes Wood DM São PauloSÃO PAULO.- Mendes Wood DM São Paulo presents Linhas Tortas, a multi-venue international group exhibition in Sāo Paulo that explores the entanglements of journeys and the power of storytelling, celebrating a decade of the gallery's existence. Curated by Diana Campbell, Linhas Tortas will be presented simultaneously at Mendes Wood DM São Paulo gallery space, its surrounding Barra Funda neighbourhood and at Casa Iramaia, a special off-site location and architecture landmark of São Paulo. Linhas Tortas brings together all the artists from Mendes Wood DM's program alongside a leading selection of invited contemporary names and works by historic figures in an ambitious exhibition that extends across the city. The exhibition takes inspiration from the Brazilian aphorism deus escreve certo por linhas tortas, which literally translates ... More  World of creativity and imagination unveiled in John Kahn's retrospective at Massive Arts Research ShopSAUGERTIES, NY.- Get ready to embark on a journey into the extraordinary world of John Kahn, as the Massive Arts Research Shop (MARS) presents the first comprehensive retrospective of this artists remarkable career. IKAHN: Arc of An Artistwhich encompasses art and artifacts from 45 years of blissful creativitywill transport visitors into Kahns phantasmagorical realm where art and nature intertwine in breathtaking harmony. Starting September 2nd through the 30, MARS will unveil a captivating display of John Kahn's modern relics, inviting attendees to immerse themselves in his woodland dreamscape of creations. Kahn's diverse and innovative body of work comes to life through towering sculptures, intricate mirror/mantel pieces, and whimsical string figures that collectively tell stories of mystery, resilience, and cultural heritage. ... More  Millennials embrace bicentennial styleNEW YORK, NY.- Scroll through Erick J. Espinozas Instagram feed, and you might think youve traveled back in time to the 1930s not the art deco version, but the version filled with hooked rugs, weather vanes and candlesticks betokening the eras American Colonial Revival, perhaps with the color saturation cranked way up. Theres something so lighthearted about Americana. Even really serious and intense works of American folk art are still whimsical, graphic and humorous, said Espinoza, who is the 32-year-old creative director at the Hamptons design studio founded by Anthony Baratta. Espinoza especially loves the geometric patterns of game boards and quilts. Espinozas own house in Danbury, Connecticut, is a kaleidoscopic ode to a style he calls pop art country. His equestrian-themed red, white and black bedroom is a particular ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Henri Rousseau died September 02, 1910. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 - September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. In this image: Employees of the Grand Palais museum in Paris take Henri Rousseau's painting "Foret tropicale avec singes," (1910), away for packing Thursday June 22, 2006, for transportation to the U.S. for the "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris" exhibit, the first all-Rousseau retrospective in two decades which opened Sunday, July 16, 2006, at the National Gallery of Art's East Building in Washington.
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