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A box that the poet Langston Hughes used for years to collect Harlem rent party cards, which is housed at Yale Universitys Beinecke Library in New Haven, Conn.. Feb. 1, 2024. During the 1920s and 30s in New Yorks Harlem, rent parties were a way for many residents to make ends meet. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Minnie Pindar was at home in Harlem on a Saturday in 1929, and she had a party to throw. She and her sister, Lucibelle, had passed out invitations, printed on cheap, white card stock, promising a good time in their ground floor apartment at 149 W. 117th St. Refreshments Just It and Music Wont Quit, the invitation read. Their invitation, one of dozens of similar party invitations tucked into the Langston Hughes papers at Yales Beinecke Library, hints at the rich but difficult lives of Black people living in New York City at the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance. On that Saturday, Nov. 2, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The 11th edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel's premier fair in Asia, concluded today, offering local and international audiences a vibrant overview of the regionâs flourishing art scenes.
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| Cindy Sherman exhibits a new body of work at Photo Elysée | | Art Basel Hong Kong 2024 closes to significant sales and a bristling local scene | | Louis Gossett Jr., 87, dies; 'An Officer and a Gentleman' and 'Roots' actor |
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #631, 2010/2023 © Cindy Sherman, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
LAUSANNE.- Cindy Sherman is considered to be one of the most important American artists of her generation. Her ground-breaking photographs have interrogated themes around representation and identity in contemporary media for over four decades. In this new body of work, the artist collages ... More | |
Bortolami. Courtesy of Art Basel.
HONG KONG.- The 11th edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel's premier fair in Asia, concluded today, offering local and international audiences a vibrant overview of the regions flourishing art scenes. Marking the second decade of Art Basels operation in Asias world city, the show assumed its pre-pandemic scale for the first time since 2019, welcoming 242 leading ... More | |
Louis Gossett, right, in his professional stage debut, in Louis Petersons Take a Giant Step in New York in 1953. (Sam Falk/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Louis Gossett Jr., who took home an Academy Award for An Officer and a Gentleman and an Emmy for Roots, both times playing a mature man who guides a younger one taking on a new role but in drastically different circumstances died early Friday in Santa Monica, ... More |
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| How many Easters remain for this century-old boys' choir school? | | Does the Peace sign stand a chance? | | "Shirin Towfiq" and "Cups to Connections" open at Mingei International Museum |
Choristers in the renowned St. Thomas Choir School sing at the Episcopal church on Palm Sunday in Manhattan, March 24, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- At the St. Thomas Choir School in Manhattan the other morning, more than two dozen boys, dressed in matching white polo shirts and gray pants, gathered in a gymnasium to rehearse ... More | |
Once the powerful logo of nuclear disarmament, the peace sign became so overused it lost its edge.
NEW YORK, NY.- The signs and symbols that designate our beliefs and affiliations are slippery. While the Christian cross, the Islamic star and crescent, the Jewish Star of David and their copyrighted, vigorously litigated corporate equivalents swooshes, apples and targets may prove resilient, a dizzying ... More | |
Shirin Towfiq.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- In the exhibition, Shirin Towfiq: Threaded Journeys, interdisciplinary artist Shirin Towfiq explores ways to express her experience as a second-generation Iranian refugee through folk art, lore, and craft. She draws parallels between the Persian magic carpet and its ability to transport people with incredible speed and the ... More |
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| Cummer Museum announces its newest exhibition: "Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960" | | Hosfelt Gallery opens two solo exhibitions with works by Tim Hawkinson and Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe | | Eli Klein Gallery presents Liu Bolin's recent photographs |
Swimming cap, 1955, © FIDM Museum, Courtesy American Federation of Arts, Photo: Brian Davis.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens announced today that Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960, the first exhibition to explore the evolution of womens sporting attire in Western fashion, opened on February 28, 2024, and runs through May 19, 2024. Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960 ... More | |
Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe, Autoportrait, 2016. Acrylic on incised found wooden door, 59 x 20 1/8 in.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The California artist Tim Hawkinson is renowned for transforming everyday materials into objects that are as uncanny as they are poetic. Through virtuoso craftsmanship and the use of peculiar materials and drastic shifts in scale, he unsettles our expectations ... More | |
Liu Bolin, Chaos No.7 - Couple, 2024. Painted UV curable resin. 22 x 8 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (56 x 22 x 22 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Gallery is presenting Order out of Chaos, Liu Bolins ninth solo show at the gallery. The exhibition debuts the artists much anticipated new sculpture series Chaos - marking an important evolution of the invisible man who ... More |
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| Praz Delavallade opens an exhibition of new paintings, works on paper and sculptures by Gregory Siff | | Palm Springs Art Museum announces appointment of Christine Vendredi as Chief Curator | | Ho Tzu Nyen announced winner of the CHANEL Next Prize 2024 |
Gregory Siff, In My Tree, 2024, oil, acrylic, ink, and graphite on canvas 75 x 67 in (190.5 x 170.2 cm).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Praz Delavallade Los Angeles is presenting To Understand Time, an exhibition of new paintings, works on paper and sculptures by Gregory Siff. To Understand Time is the artists debut exhibition at the gallery and opened at the Los Angeles location on 30 March and will run through 2 May 2024. Gregory Siffs emotive ... More | |
Former Global Director of Art for Louis Vuitton will oversee all exhibitions and manage permanent collection.
PALM SPRINGS, CA.- Palm Springs Art Museum has announced that Christine Vendredi, formerly Global Director for Art, Culture, and Heritage for Louis Vuitton, has been tapped as new Chief Curator to oversee the museums exhibitions, publications, and permanent collection. ... More | |
Ho Tzu Nyen. Winner of CHANEL Next Prize 2024. Image courtesy of CHANEL.
HONG KONG.- Kiang Malingue is delighted to share that Ho Tzu Nyen is the winner of CHANEL Next Prize 2024. The prize is awarded to ten international contemporary artists who are redefining their disciplines. Ho Tzu Nyen has been widely exhibited ... More |
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With this ring, I unwed
NEW YORK, NY.- Last week, Emily Ratajkowski shared on Instagram that she had created a pair of divorce rings by remodeling the pear- and princess-cut diamonds from her toi-et-moi engagement ring into two separate rings. Alison Chemla, a New York-based jeweler and creative director at Alison Lou (who also crafted Ratajkowskis original engagement ring), created the new pieces. The post has since received more than 1 million likes. Divorce rings are having a moment, said Sasha Nixon, a New York-based jewelry curator and historian. The trend, one embraced primarily by women, is about breathing life into ones wedding rings after a split. Ratajkowski, whose divorce from movie producer Sebastian Bear-McClard became final in 2023, hopes to shift the negative assumptions about ending a marriage. I ... More
Exhibition at the Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire features monstrous and atypical sculptures and fantastic creatures
CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE.- This year, the Domain of Chaumont-sur-Loire is mimicking the style of the Gardens of Bomarzo with some monstrous and atypical sculptures and fantastic creatures straight from the world of fairy tales, myths and legends in the dense groves of the Historic Grounds! First of all, is La Grotte Chaumont by Miquel Barceló, a monumental ceramic artwork that he created in his ceramics studio in Mallorca. It weighs an impressive 8 tonnes, a first for the artist. This performer of miracles has long been fascinated by the plasticity of clay and its telluric current. This cave is designed in the style of the famous façade of Mallorca Cathedral, but is intended to stand the harsh tests of time. It ... More
'Future Now' opens at the Portland Art Museum
PORTLAND, OR.- Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks is a groundbreaking new exhibition that features nearly 60 futuristic footwear designs pushing the boundaries of what footwear can be. Featuring an incredible mix of fashion, design, gaming, new media, architecture, and material arts as well as sustainable and collaborative practices, the exhibition features work by designers as diverse as Rem D. Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid, innovators Mr. Bailey and Salehe Bembury, as well as designs made in collaboration with fashion icons Rick Owens, Stella McCartney, and Yohji Yamamoto, and top gaming companies including PlayStation, EA Sports, and more. The future is always being shaped by the present. The exhibition includes many incredible and innovative new footwear designs that are promising to transform what ... More
Neeli Cherkovski, poet who chronicled the Beat Generation, dies at 78
NEW YORK, NY.- Neeli Cherkovski, a prolific poet and denizen of beatnik cafes who chronicled the literary ethos of bohemian culture in biographies of Beat Generation writers, including his friends Charles Bukowski and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, died on March 19 in San Francisco. He was 78. The cause of his death, in a hospital, was a heart attack, his partner, Jesus Guinto Cabrera, said. Cherkovski arrived on the literary scene in 1969, when he and Bukowski started Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns, a magazine printed on a mimeograph machine that lasted three issues, had one subscriber, and rejected poems with terse notes that began, These wont do. Typically dressed in a rumpled suit coat over an untucked shirt, with a string of amber beads hanging around his neck, Cherkovski was a fixture at Caffe Trieste and, ... More
An age-old riddle ginned up for postapocalyptic times
NEW YORK, NY.- What has one voice but four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening? So goes the riddle of the Sphinx, and the answer, as Oedipus discerned, is man: crawling as an infant, bipedal as an adult, walking with a cane in old age. 4|2|3, a work by the choreographic duo Baye & Asa that had its premiere at the Baryshnikov Arts Center on Thursday, takes its theme and structure from that riddle. It comes in three parts, the first performed by children, the second by young adults and the last by veteran dancer Janet Charleston (who doesnt need a cane). The setting is industrial and vaguely postapocalyptic. At the rear of the stage stands part of a building that looks like it is made of concrete (scenic design by Soren Kodak). It has a door in it and a rectangular aperture like a window without glass. A ... More
A Georgia town basks in bountiful filming. The state pays.
THOMASVILLE, GA.- It is no wonder that moviemakers saw potential in Thomasville, Georgia, as a stand-in for Main Street USA. Cobblestone streets and mom-and-pop stores speckle the downtown of this city of 18,000 that is caked in red clay soil and nestled among rolling hills. Just as attractive to some of those producers are Georgias lavish filming incentives, which have made Thomasville a cost-effective place to make modest pictures with major stars. Dustin Hoffman came for the rom-com Sam & Kate. A childrens book adaptation, The Tiger Rising, brought Dennis Quaid and Queen Latifah to town. But what is good on the ground for local economies Thomasville says each of the six movies filmed there has provided an economic boost of about $1 million can simultaneously be a drain on state coffers. Some Georgia ... More
A British scandal intrigued J.T. Rogers. Then he went down the rabbit hole.
NEW YORK, NY.- A now-faded note card taped above my desk reads: Art, like light, needs distance. Years ago, I wrote down that line from William Gass On Being Blue, and over the past few months, it was a comforting reminder as I finished my new play, Corruption. What was to be a history play about a media scandal in Britain has become a political thriller about some of the forces that seem to be upending our own country right now. The inspiration came in 2012, while reading Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain, a book by Tom Watson and Martin Hickman. Watson, a former member of the British Parliament, and Hickman, a former reporter for The Independent, had written of how Rupert Murdochs British newspapers and tabloids, including News of the World, were illegally hacking ... More
Eleanor Collins, Canada's 'First Lady of Jazz,' dies at 104
NEW YORK, NY.- When the singer and pianist Nat King Coles 15-minute variety show debuted on NBC in November 1956, he made history as the first Black American to host a television program. But just over the countrys northern border, another Black entertainer had him beat: In the summer of 1955, Eleanor Collins had her own show on the CBC, Canadas national broadcasting network. Although her show was a landmark in TV history she was both the first woman and the first Black person to host a program in Canada her selection was hardly a surprise. By the mid-1950s, Collins was already widely regarded as Canadas first lady of jazz, known for her mastery of the standards and her commanding performances on radio, early TV specials and in nightclubs around Vancouver, where she lived. As a young ... More
'On the Adamant' review: A psychiatric facility on the Seine
NEW YORK, NY.- Its hard to tell the difference between the patients and staff in On the Adamant, Nicolas Philiberts documentary about an alternative psychiatric facility in Paris. The treatment center, located in a large houseboat with louvered windows, floats tranquilly on the Seine. Inside the Adamant, a convivial atmosphere of disorder reigns. In the opening scenes, Philibert turns his camera on an unnamed toothy gentleman belting scratchy vocals during a jam session. The man is so at ease that he really goes for it squinting his eyes and vigorously wagging his fist. On the Adamant is like a jam session, too a jumble of bright spots and tedious meanderings. Absent explanatory captions and title cards, the documentary offers no guidance on whos who or how things are run, opting instead for a dazed, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Constable died March 31, 1837. John Constable, RA (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home --- now known as "Constable Country" --- which he invested with an intensity of affection. In this image: A Sea Beach - Brighton.
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