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In a photo provided by the Trustees of the British Museum shows, a glass intaglio of a beardless Roman. The British Museum recovered more than 350 ancient artifacts that were looted from its store rooms and is putting some on show. (The Trustees of the British Museum via The New York Times)
LONDON.- For six months, a team at the British Museum has been working with police to recover hundreds of engraved gems ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Scholten Japanese Art is pleased to be participating in the IFPDA Print Fair returning to the Park Avenue Armory in New York. In addition to exhibiting a classic selection of Japanese woodblock prints by Edo Period masters such as Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) and Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), we are delighted to announce that for the first time Scottish printmaker Paul Binnie (b. 1967) will be attending the fair and demonstrating both woodblock carving and printing on the galleryâs booth.
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| 'Across the Avenues: Fairfield Porter in New York' featuring works from Parrish Art Museum permanent collection | | 'Scratching at the Moon', first focused survey of Asian American artists in major LA contemporary art museum | | Museum of the City of New York presents 'Four Seasons of Central Park: Watercolors by Frederick Brosen' |
Fairfield Porter (American, 19071975). Cityscape with Yellow Taxi, 1945. Oil on canvas, 32 ¼ x 24 ¼ in. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y. Gift of the Estate of Fairfield Porter, 19882.9.2.
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum proudly presents Across the Avenues: Fairfield Porter in New York, a permanent collection exhibition featuring 26 paintings and prints. The exhibition focuses on Porter's cityscapes of New York between the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s, showcasing his ability to ... More | |
Amy Yao, Doppelgängers, 2016. Installation view at Various Small Fires, January 23March 19, 2016. Image courtesy the artist and 47 Canal, New York. Anna Sew Hoy, Hard Swamp Ecstatic Return, 2022. Image courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, Mexico City.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Curated by artist Anna Sew Hoy and ICA LA Executive Director Anne Ellegood, Scratching at the Moon is the first focused survey of Asian American artists in a Los Angeles contemporary ... More | |
Frederick Brosen, Fall, Bethesda Fountain. Watercolor over graphite on paper, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Museum of the City of New York, the citys storyteller for over a century, has opened its special exhibition, Four Seasons of Central Park: Watercolors by Frederick Brosen, on February 9th. The installation marks the public debut of the artists new quartet of paintings capturing Central Park's changing seasons. Traversing the masterpiece that is Central Park, arguably the bucolic ... More |
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| Wu Tsang's immersive, extended reality installation 'Of Whales' opened Feb. 15 at 'ICA in Boston | | Warhol's 'Liz' and original artworks by Andre Brasilier and Radcliffe Bailery to be auctioned by Ahlers & Ogletree | | City of Helsinki announces funding for new museum of architecture and design |
Wu Tsang, Of Whales, 2022. Installation view, The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, 2022. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin. Photo by Matteo De Fina. © Wu Tsang.
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston presents Wu Tsang: Of Whales, an immersive video installation inspired by Herman Melvilles classic 1851 American novel Moby Dick; or, The Whale. In Of Whales, Wu Tsang (b. 1982, Worcester, Massachusetts) ... More | |
Augustin Cardenas: Untitled Abstract Totem sculpture, made from carved and painted wood by the Cuban-French artist Augustin Cardenas (1927-2001), stands 61 ½ inches tall, monogrammed (est. $20,000-$30,000).
ATLANTA, GA.- The 458-lot Art Deco to Post-Modern Art & Design auction, starting at 10 am Eastern, will feature contemporary and modern art and furniture, and the collection of interior designer Bill Stewart. A 1965 offset lithograph in colors of Andy Warhols ... More | |
Sami Saastamoinen / Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design.
HELSINKI.- Helsinki City Council has voted to provide a capital donation of 60 million euros to the foundation responsible for establishing the new national museum of architecture and design. The Finnish state will match this funding, with an additional 30 million euros to be raised from private donations. With these commitments in place, an ... More |
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| Mao Zedong's 'Little Red Book' signed for Pakistan's foreign minister's wife hits the auction block | | 'Arthur Okamura: Buddha's Garden' has debut at Paul Thiebaud Gallery | | Life imitates art as a 'Master and Margarita' movie stirs Russia |
Mao Zedong Historically Important Signed Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao (The Little Red Book).
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction's first-ever February installment of its Remarkable Rarities series brings an extraordinary collection of historical artifacts to the auction block, featuring over 50 pieces of ... More | |
Arthur Okamura, American Buddha, 1994. Acrylic on canvas, 68 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches. © 2024 Estate of Arthur Okamura.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Paul Thiebaud Gallery hosted the opening of Arthur Okamura: Buddhas Garden, its debut exhibition of works from the Estate of Arthur Okamura yesterday. On view are ten acrylic ... More | |
An American directors adaptation of the beloved novel is resonating with moviegoers, who may recognize some similarities in its satire of authoritarian rule.
NEW YORK, NY.- By all appearances, the movie adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakovs cult favorite novel The Master and Margarita, in Russian theaters this winter, shouldnt be thriving in President Vladimir Putins ... More |
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| Solo exhibition at Frac MÉCA 'Ellipse' by Jane Harris | | Group show 'Luxe Benen' curated by Ralf Kokke at Marian Cramer Projects now showing | | Exhibition of sculpture, installation and painting by Tiona Nekkia McClodden on view at White Cube |
Jane Harris, Buff and Tan, 2005. (detail). Oil on canvas. Collection Frac Nouvelle Aquitaine MÃCA.
BORDEAUX .- Frac MÃCA, Bordeaux, has staged an exhibition of paintings and watercolours by British artist Jane Harris (19562022), that opened on Friday 16 February 2024. Ellipse, ... More | |
Karel Dicker, Cracking A Nut (2023). Acrylic on Canvas, Walnut Frame, 36 x 29 cm.
AMSTERDAM.- An evening of art and connection began this past February 10th at Marian Cramer Projects in celebration of the opening of Luxe Benen. "A group show that holds a special place ... More | |
Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Palais de Tokyo, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
LONDON.- Marking the artists inaugural solo show with the gallery, White Cube recently opened A MERCY | DUMMY, an exhibition of sculpture, installation and painting by Tiona Nekkia McClodden. ... More |
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Alonzo King wants to wake up the world with ballet
NEW YORK, NY.- Choreographer Alonzo King sees ballet differently. A dance is never just a dance. Its a kind of faith, and the training necessary for it day in and day out is a way to keep that faith alive. His ballets have a way of sailing through sensations, of calming the nervous system, of realigning the body and mind. Deep River, which will have its New York premiere at Lincoln Centers Rose Theater beginning Thursday, is named after the spiritual, which is part of its score, and is rooted in ideas about courage and hope. Its about a belief that King has: Within every person, a river flows. You cant live a full life without having gotten in contact with the river that is inside of you, he said in a video interview from San Francisco, where he lives and where his company, Lines Ballet, is based. And its a knowing, its a knowledge. Its your ... More
Schubert's operas were failures. Is their music worth saving?
NEW YORK, NY.- I feel myself the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world, Franz Schubert, suffering from syphilis and reeling from professional failures, wrote in March 1824 to his friend, painter Leopold Kupelwieser. Imagine a man, he said, who will never be healthy again, and whose most brilliant hopes have perished. In the same breath, Schubert expressed sorrow over the fate of his attempt at a grand Romantic opera, Fierrabras, which had been canceled in Vienna, and that of another stage work, Die Verschworenen, which didnt make it past a private performance. I seem once again, Schubert, then 27, wrote in his letter, to have composed two operas for nothing. He wouldnt return to the genre again. And even after his death in 1828, at 31, when many of his works enjoyed posthumous adulation and were performed widely, ... More
The barefoot memoirist: Ina Garten takes her story to a new publisher
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2019, celebrity chef Ina Garten set off a flurry of excitement among her millions of fans: Garten, a Food Network star, bestselling cookbook author and social media sensation, was writing a memoir. The publisher behind the book, Celadon, celebrated the acquisition of what was sure to be a bestseller in a news release. Ina Garten is beloved by all, a national treasure who has become iconic beyond the food world, Deb Futter, now the president and publisher of Celadon Books, an imprint of Macmillan, said in the release. Her memoir will cement her legacy in the cultural landscape. When Garten recently updated her Instagram bio to note the books October release date, the revelation once again led to online chatter and a cascade of news articles. One crucial detail was missing: The book was no longer coming from ... More
'Between Two Knees' review: A virtuosic romp through a century of terrors
NEW YORK, NY.- Rapid-fire punchlines and crafty sight gags may not seem the most obvious means to convey a brutal history of displacement and extermination. But Between Two Knees, which opened at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Manhattan on Tuesday, uses both in an audaciously sidesplitting comedy thats an indictment of Native American persecution. The shows antic account of Indigenous struggle was written by the 1491s, an intertribal sketch comedy troupe that includes Sterlin Harjo, a creator of Reservation Dogs. The action is bookended by two deadly standoffs: the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, where U.S. soldiers killed as many as 300 members of the Lakota Sioux tribe, and the occupation of that site in 1973 by the American Indian Movement and its supporters, who were protesting government injustice. A ... More
With $60 million gift, San Francisco Ballet plans focus on new works
NEW YORK, NY.- San Francisco Ballet has a vibrant new artistic director: celebrated Spanish dancer Tamara Rojo. And the company has had a relatively strong recovery from the pandemic, with ticket sales recently approaching pre-COVID levels. Now, San Francisco Ballet has received a groundbreaking gift: It announced Thursday that it had secured a $60 million contribution from an anonymous donor, the largest in the companys 91-year history and one of the biggest to an American dance company. It was, for me, an enormous surprise, Rojo, who joined the company in 2022, said in an interview. The impact is immeasurable. The vast majority of the gift, $50 million, will be used to bolster the companys endowment, currently valued at about $108 million, and to help finance the creation and acquisition of new works. The remaining $10 ... More
Using opera to shine a light on wrongful imprisonment
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- Near the end of Blind Injustice, an opera about six people who were wrongfully convicted of crimes and later freed, the exonerees reflect on the time they have spent behind bars. What makes a person strong enough to endure injustice? they sing. What makes a person free? Questions of prejudice, guilt and resilience run throughout Blind Injustice, composed by Scott Davenport Richards to a libretto by David Cote, which has its East Coast premiere on Friday at Peak Performances at Montclair State University. The work, which was commissioned by Cincinnati Opera and premiered there in 2019, explores the effects of wrongful convictions on the prisoners and their families, and the help to overturn their convictions that they received from the Ohio Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. One man who was sent to deat ... More
Booksellers on the Seine in Paris get an Olympic reprieve
PARIS.- Gold-leafed books with engravings, 200-year-old leather-bound books, books so rare and precious they are wrapped carefully in cellophane before being nestled into place inside an antique wooden box set on the Seines stony shoulder for students, intellectuals, power brokers and tourists to browse. For centuries, the wooden bookstalls have been a fixture in the heart of Paris, and so when the citys police, citing security concerns, ordered them closed during this summers Olympic Games, an uproar ensued. Now President Emmanuel Macron has stepped in. In a decision that resounded across the city this week, Macron deemed the booksellers a living heritage of the capital and said they could stay. The relief was obvious, and not only among the bouquinistes, who had threatened legal action and barricades before their stalls, but ... More
'Six' creators announce their second act
LONDON.- In January 2019, Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow, the creators of the musical Six, were on a writers retreat in Connecticut, wondering how to follow up their celebrated first show. That month, Six in which Henry VIIIs wives tell their stories via pop songs was starting a major West End run, and a Broadway transfer was on the horizon. The show had already been a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and a growing number of American fans were streaming the shows soundtrack. More and more, people wanted to know what the pair would do next. During the Connecticut retreat, they struggled to come up with new ideas, Marlow recalled in a recent interview, and instead gossiped about their love lives. Then, they had a breakthrough: Maybe this is what we should write about, Marlow said. On Wednesday, Marlow, ... More
For Tobias Menzies, acting is a less-is-more kind of thing
NEW YORK, NY.- On a morning in early February, actor Tobias Menzies walked the Brooklyn Heights Promenade in the relative anonymity he prefers. Menzies wasnt hiding. He wore no sunglasses, no cap just Blundstones, jeans, a shearling coat. He didnt duck when people came his way. But the past few years, including multiseason stints on The Crown and Outlander, have brought him a new visibility, which still makes him uneasy. Im not that confident about my life or what it is to be able to put it out in the public, he said, shoulders hunched against the breeze. Im just bumbling along as best I can. Menzies, 49, had come to New York City to rehearse The Hunt, a theatrical adaptation of the Thomas Vinterberg movie that begins performances at St. Anns Warehouse on Friday. Back in 2019, Menzies had originated the stage role ... More
San Francisco dedicates a cable car to Tony Bennett
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Cable car No. 53 took a special Valentines Day ride up Nob Hill in San Francisco on Wednesday morning, including a stop outside the Fairmont Hotel, where the car was officially dedicated to the singer Tony Bennett, who died in July at age 96. It was inside that hotel at the Venetian Room, in 1961 that Bennett first publicly performed his signature song, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, with its lyrics about cable cars climbing halfway to the stars. The tune still stirs pride and nostalgia in many San Franciscans, and the Giants play it after every home victory. The dedication, attended by Susan Benedetto, Bennetts widow, added to a recent string of positive news about the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates the citys buses, streetcars and light rail lines. Not long ago, the ... More
Montclair Art Museum presenting a landmark exhibition 'Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM'
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) announces the grand opening of its landmark exhibition, Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM. With over 70 works in various mediums by 59 ground breaking artists, Century is the largest and most comprehensive show of its kind at MAM, underscoring a longtime commitment since the 1940s to the curation and appreciation of artworks by Black artists. Curated by Adrienne L. Childs and nico w.okoro (see Curators bios), Century is complemented by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring multiple essays that offer insightful explorations of the rich historical and cultural context of Black art. The exhibition has been coordinated at MAM by Chief Curator Gail Stavitsky. With focus on the depth, breadth, and variety of art by African Americans, Century explores art as a living, generative ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, stained glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany was born February 18, 1848. Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 - January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. In this image: Tiffany Studios (New York), Dragonfly Library Lamp, ca. 1905-10 Leaded glass; cast bronze Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
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