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One of three notebooks containing original handwritten lyrics used on the Bob Dylan album Blood on the Tracks, on display at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Okla., April 30, 2022. A new space to display Dylans vast archive, celebrates one of the worlds most elusive creators, and gives visitors a close-up look at notebooks and fan mail. Joseph Rushmore/The New York Times.
by Ben Sisario
TULSA, OKLA.- Visitors to the new Bob Dylan Center here will soon get, at the tap of a finger, what generations of the most avid Dylanologists have only dreamed of: a step-by-step, word-by-word map of how Dylan wrote a song. In a room filled with artifacts like Dylans leather jacket from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and a photograph of a 16-year-old Bobby Zimmerman posing with a guitar at a Jewish summer camp in Wisconsin, a digital display lets visitors sift through 10 of the 17 known drafts of Dylans cryptic 1983 song Jokerman. The screen highlights typed and handwritten changes Dylan made throughout the manuscripts, showing, for example, how the line You a son of the angels/You a man of the clouds in the songs earliest iteration was tweaked, little by little, to end up as Youre a man of the mountains, you can walk on the clouds. The Jokerman exhibit is one instance of how the organizers of the $10 million Dylan Center ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Tate Britain opened London's biggest retrospective of Walter Sickert (1860-1942) in almost 30 years.
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| Goodwill sold a bust for $34.99. It's an ancient Roman relic. | | Lviv reopens art galleries 'to show we are alive' | | An artist shines light on the Black aristocracy |
An undated photo by Laura Young shows the ancient Roman bust that she found at a Goodwill store in Austin, Texas, with a $34.99 price tag still on its cheek and strapped into a car seat, on the day she bought it and took it home. Laura Young via The New York Times.
by Michael Levenson
NEW YORK, NY.- Laura Young was browsing through a Goodwill store in Austin, Texas, in 2018 when she found a bust for sale. It was resting on the floor, under a table, and had a yellow price tag slapped on its cheek: $34.99. She bought it. Turns out, it was not just another heavy stone curio suitable for plunking in the garden. It was an actual Roman bust from the late first century B.C. or early first century A.D., which had been part of a Bavarian kings art collection from the 19th century until it was looted during World War II. How it got to Texas remains a mystery. But the most likely path suggests it was taken by a U.S. soldier after the Bavarian kings villa in Germany was bombed by Allied forces. This week, it went on display at the San Antonio Museum of Art, next to signage ... More | |
Taras Voznyak, director of the National Gallery in Lviv, Ukraine on May 3, 2022. Finbarr OReilly/The New York Times.
by Jane Arraf
LVIV.- At Lvivs grand and imposing Potocki Palace, now this western provinces National Gallery, workmen rolled coats of deep-apricot paint over walls that until a few months ago held works by French painter Georges de La Tour and other baroque masters. These days, the walls are empty because those works, along with paintings by Francisco Goya, Peter Paul Rubens and Titian, valued at millions of dollars each, have been whisked away to secret locations to protect them from the threat of Russian airstrikes. Now, some parts of the National Gallerys 65,000-piece collection are being put back on exhibit in the organizations network of galleries for Ukrainians hungry for culture in the midst of war. For gallery director Taras Voznyak, putting up the work is an act of resistance. Putin now has the goal of turning Ukrainians into nobody, into nothing, he said, adding, In order to show that we are alive, ... More | |
The artist Glory Samjolly in London, April 11, 2022. Serena Brown/The New York Times.
by Ruth La Ferla
NEW YORK, NY.- During a visit to a villa in Naples, Italy, Glory Samjolly cajoled her sister and a friend to engage in a witty form of cosplay. Posed regally in a period pastiche of mens brocade vests, neck ruffs, knee breeches and lavishly embroidered frock coats, they were captured by Samjolly in a group portrait, with a playfully subversive title, The Honorable Women of Slayage in Their Study. For all its pomp and vibrancy, the painting might have gone unnoticed, except that the artist and her other two subjects were Black. The piece is provocative, but for Samjolly, a 24-year-old figurative artist and self-professed feminist, provocation is the point. Her paintings were conceived as a retort to the dearth of Black nobles in historical European portraiture, she said from her home in London. It has been and still is such a rarity to find Afro Europeans who arent slaves or shown as servants in the background of a painting, or featured as ... More |
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| Exhibition Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World opens at the Getty Villa Museum | | Galerie Gmurzynska NY presents Rouge et Noir by Otto Piene | | Lauren Halsey brings her vision of South Central Los Angeles to New York |
Plaque with a Winged Lion-Griffin, Achaemenid, 500330 BC. Gold, 1/8 Ã 4 1/8 Ã 4 1/4 in. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, A28582, VEX 2021.1.109. Photo: Courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Ancient Iran, historically known as Persia, was the dominant nation of western Asia for over a millennium (about 550 BCAD 650), with three native dynastiesthe Achaemenids, Parthians, and Sasanianscontrolling empires of unprecedented size and complexity. Their principal military rivals throughout this period were the ancient Greeks and Romans, with whom they nevertheless enjoyed an active exchange in many aspects of architecture, religion, and court culture, as is demonstrated in the artworks they produced. This spring, the Getty Villa Museum presents the exhibition Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, the first major U.S. exhibition to highlight the relationship between the Classical World and Ancient Iran. In addition to the spectacular ancient works on view that ... More | |
Otto Piene (1928-2014), Feuerorgel (Fire Organ), 1972. Fire, smoke and oil on cardboard, 112 x 72 cm. 44.09 x 28.35 inches. Signed and dated lower right Piene 72. Titled lower left Feuerorgel.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Gmurzynska New York is presenting Rouge et Noir an exhibition of works by Otto Piene (Bad Laasphe 1928Berlin 2014), founder of Group Zero, lifelong pioneer of modern art, and key avant-garde figure of the second half of the twentieth century, opening May 8, 2022. Zero signified a new beginning in Otto Pienes book. In the ruins of Germany after the Second World War, the movement he founded with Heinz Mack at the end of the 1950s was based on the idea that reconstruction might be achieved in an artistic way if it started with the mind. 1 This initiative by young German artists sparked a vast international movement known under the same heading ZERO, which included such diverse and pioneering characters as Fontana, Klein, Kusama, Manzoni, Alviani, Arman, Tinguely, Spoerri, Soto ... They all shared a common will to make a clean sweep of the past in both artistic and political term ... More | |
Lauren Halsey sits in front of her installation My Hope (2022), with Untitled (2022), made of synthetic hair on wood, hanging at right at David Kordansky Gallery in New York on May 4, 2022. Naima Green/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Just about every day around dawn, the artist Lauren Halsey heads out into South Central Los Angeles to collect things. She gathers whatever items catch her eye along the way and takes photos on her phone. Those finds, together with the ephemera she has saved since her teenage years of making collages (magazine clippings, church figurines, shiny foil palm trees, miniature cars, aquarium plants), fill every corner of Halseys Los Angeles studio and gradually make their way into her artwork. Now the latest iterations of those creations are on view at David Kordanskys new gallery in Chelsea in a show that opened Friday, the artists first major solo exhibition in New York City. Im documenting intersections that I need to return to or follow up on, ... More |
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| Major exhibition exploring color opens at Cheekwood | | Henry Art Gallery announces new acquisitions | | Strong Hong Kong sales results reaffirm Sotheby's market leadership in Asia |
Colorscapes, from artist duo Luftwerk, seeks to inspire wonder and connection to the natural world through color with vibrant exhibition spanning 55-acre botanical garden and museum.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Celebrated for bringing international attention to Nashville through dynamic collaborations with world-renowned artists, Cheekwood Estate & Gardens presents Colorscapes, an immersive exploration of humankinds understanding of color from acclaimed Chicago-based artists Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero of the collaborative Luftwerk, on view May 7 Sept. 4, 2022. The significant, site-specific exhibition features a series of experiential outdoor installations and gallery interventions intended to lead viewers to a better understanding of how we perceive the physical world through color. Cheekwood is a special place that merges history, nature and art with an extensive sculpture trail and museum galleries; a fascinating sphere to experience how history, landscape, art and culture weave and grow together, says Bachmaier and Gallero. We couldn't envision ... More | |
Chakaia Booker (U.S., born 1953), Liquid Infusion, 2004. Rubber tire and wood. Henry Art Gallery, gift of Dennis Braddock, in memory of Janice Niemi, 2021.6 © Chakaia Booker. Installation view of Plural Possibilities & the Female Body, 2021, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Jueqian Fang.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington announced recent acquisitions. Between 2020 and 2022, 348 new objects entered the museums permanent collection, which now includes more than 28,000 works of art. The gallery shared a selection of these objects below. A significant cultural resource, the Henrys collection features the work of national and international artists in a broad range of media including photographs, prints, drawings, paintings, ceramics, costumes, and textiles, collected since the museums inception in 1926. The Henrys collecting practices are guided by the museums commitment to equity and inclusion and to amplifying diverse voices and ideas, says Dr. Ann Poulson, Curator of Collections. The Henry is prioritizing bringing works by BIPOC artists, ... More | |
The sale series saw strong results across all board, with a combined sell-through rate of 88% and a record high percentage of young bidders. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Hong Kong 2022 Spring Sales Series concluded yesterday, achieving an overall total of HK$3.852 billion / US$496 million - far surpassing the pre-sale estimate of HK$3.1 billion, and establishing the second highest total ever achieved at Sothebys in Asia, second only to the landmark 40th Anniversary Sale in Autumn 2013. The sale series saw strong results across all board, with a combined sell-through rate of 88% and a record high percentage of young bidders. Spring series totals HK$3.852b / US$496m the second highest, and an increase of almost 25% on the total achieved in October 2021 88% of the offerings found buyers 53% of the lots sold achieved prices in excess of high estimate 7 works sold for over HK$100m / US$13m Over 30 new auction records set Global bidding from over 70 countries/regions, with strong participation from Greater China and the U.S. 23 l ... More |
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| Bruce Silverstein Gallery now represents and opens first exhibition with Dakota Mace (Diné) | | Outstanding results for the Diana Zlotnick Collection | | Sotheby's to offer nine works by Helene Schjerfbeck from a Swedish private collection |
Dakota Mace (b. 1991), Tó (Water) I-IV, 2021 (detail). Digital archival prints of scanned cyanotypes, 36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm). Edition of 3 + 2 AP. © Dakota Mace (Diné), Courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery announced the representation and first solo exhibition of Diné Artist Dakota Mace. Diné Bé Iiná features chemigrams, beaded cyanotypes, weavings, and editioned prints that explore Maces chemistry-based and multi-faceted processes that focus on translating the language of Diné (Navajo) history and beliefs. Choosing materials deliberately, Mace reinterprets the symbols of creation stories, cosmologies, and social structures. She states, The materials I use, both traditional and non-traditional, are connected to the places they reside, the memories they hold, and the complexities they share to our lineage. Mace utilizes design elements from her heritage, most often incorporating the motif of Naashjéii Asdzáá, Spider-Woman, who is one of the most important deities to the Diné. ... More | |
Guy de Cointet, Lost at Sea (...from a lagoon to another) $105,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAMA's 'On the Arts: The Diana Zlotnick Collection' yielded extraordinary results for the remarkable collection of post-war modern and contemporary art, establishing new world records for multiple artists including Guy de Cointet, Michael and Magdalena Frimkess, Channa Horwitz, and Ron Miyashiro. Overall, the sale far exceeded its low estimate with 99% of the collection selling to garner a total of $2,122,599. Top-selling lots included Andy Warhol's Marilyn ($187,500) and Flowers ($93,750), as well as two Verifax collages by Wallace Berman: Untitled ($143,750) and Silent Series #10 ($118,750). A billboard poster produced on the occasion of Roy Lichtenstein's 1967 solo exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum garnered more than five times the high estimate, selling for $88,400. Among world record-breaking lots were multiple works by Los Angeles artist Channa Horwitz, whose 1990 ... More | |
Girl at the Gate, charcoal and watercolour on paper, circa 1943-1944, est. £400,000-600,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This summer, Sotheby's will offer nine works by Helene Schjerfbeck, one of Finlands best-loved and most celebrated artists. Consigned to auction from a Swedish private collection, the group constitutes what is arguably the most important ensemble of late works by the artist still in private hands, and an unprecedented offering on the international market. Carrying a combined low estimate in the region of £3 million, they will be presented as part of Sotheby's sale of European & British Art, Part I, in London on 13 July 2022. Prior to that, the works will go on view to the public in Helsinki at the Gallery Lemmetti on 19 May from 11am to 5pm.* Always well-known in Finland and Sweden, and sometimes described as Finlands Munch, Schjerfbeck began to be rediscovered by an international audience in 1992, with a retrospective exhibition in the US, an interest that has since extended to ... More |
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Fairfield University Art Museum exhibits Larry Silver's Connecticut photographs
FAIRFIELD, CONN.- Fairfield University Art Museum is presenting 13 Ways of Looking at Landscape: Larry Silver's Connecticut Photographs, a solo exhibition by photographer Larry Silver, including over 100 works, on view March 25 to June 18, 2022. Larry Silver a Photo League inspired photographer still working today moved from Greater New York to Westport, Connecticut in 1973 and, with his camera, began exploring its regional environs. This exhibition, guest curated by curator and art historian Leslie K. Brown, PhD, brings together over 40 years of Silver's work, made of and in Connecticut, and considers how he continues to push the boundaries of what landscape and looking are, and can be. Remarking on his move from the city to the suburbs, and the attendant shift in his philosophy, Silver has written that the new ... More
Dundee Contemporary Arts presents k.364 by Douglas Gordon
DUNDEE.- Dundee Contemporary Arts announced the presentation of k.364, a major installation by the Scottish artist Douglas Gordon, marking the first time that the work has been shown in a public institution in the UK. The work comprises a large scale video installation, which follows two Israeli musicians of Polish-Jewish heritage on their journey by train from Berlin to Warsaw, shown alongside a suite of 32 connected works titled Dark Burnt Scores. The exhibition is an intimate portrayal of the relationship between individuals and the power of music, against the subtly drawn backdrop of a dark and unresolved social history. Although grounded in a very specific time and place, k.364 has a deep relevance to contemporary politics; the rise of the far right, and the UKs complex connection with borders and shifting relationship ... More
Princeton University Art Museum presents 'Screen Time: Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age'
PRINCETON, NJ.- What does it mean to be an artist in a pixelated world? Screen Time: Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age seeks to answer this question with work by a group of global and intergenerational contemporary artists who explore the evolving role of video and photography in the era of digital communication and social media. Their work considers the role of artists in a society in which online culture is omnipresent and new platforms for self-expression are constantly developing. The exhibition is on view at Art on Hulfish, the Princeton University Art Museums photo-forward gallery in downtown Princeton, from May 7 through Aug. 7, 2022. Spanning three decades, the works on view in Screen Time are by turns wry, playful, nostalgic and critical in their considerations of how the internet has transformed the ways ... More
Most of Broadway ends vaccine checks as cases rise in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- The families streaming in to see The Lion King were told to have their tickets out and their masks on, but there was no mention of vaccine cards. And the COVID-19 safety officers in neon yellow vests who used to patrol outside Six were gone. Most Broadway theaters stopped checking the vaccination status of their patrons this week for the first time since they began to reopen this past summer. The industry hopes that doing away with vaccine checks will make theatergoing more attractive, and that the remaining mask mandate will help keep audiences safe as cases have risen. While some patrons welcomed the change, others said they felt uneasy about going into crowded theaters without the assurance that their seatmates were vaccinated, and several nonprofit Broadway theaters continue to require ... More
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announce staff appointments
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announced five new staff appointments: Abram Jackson, Director of Interpretation Devin Malone, Director of Public Programs and Community Engagement Beth Szuhay, Head of Textiles Conservation Courtney Jones, Manager of Diversity and Inclusion Sarah Mackay, Assistant curator, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts In announcing the addition of these new key staff members, Director and CEO Thomas P. Campbell shared, We are delighted to welcome Abram, Devin, Beth, Courtney, and Sarah to the Fine Arts Museums. As the citys art museums, we are committed to connecting our communities with the art and ideas of the past and present in a welcoming and inclusive environment. Abram, Devin, Beth, Courtney, and Sarah, with all the deep ... More
Foreland names Georgia Wright Director of Curatorial and Cultural Strategy
CATSKILL, NY.- Foreland, the burgeoning arts campus in Catskill, NY, announced Georgia Wright as the Director of Curatorial and Cultural Strategy. In this newly created role, Wright will work closely with the Executive Director Stef Halmos to oversee Forelands year-round curatorial programming and manage its strategic partnerships, collaborating with leading international artists and institutions to produce engaging, large-scale experiences and exhibitions. For over a decade, Wright has worked internationally as a cultural strategist and curator for leading institutions, nonprofits, and brands, including EDITION and PUBLIC hotels, Bang & Olufsen, and LVMH, to name a few. Wright specializes in connecting culture with commerce, conceptualizing and producing dozens of programs, projects, installations and events spanning ... More
Gallery NAGA opens a major solo exhibition of paintings by Nicole Chesney
BOSTON, MASS.- Gallery NAGA is presenting their third major solo exhibition of paintings by Nicole Chesney. Nicole Chesney: Albedo is on exhibition from May 6 to June 4. Glass, with all its transformative qualities, is a surface onto which Nicole Chesney can add, subtract, and move oil paint around; colors are reflected in a way that canvas or paper doesnt allow for. Seen from one angle, her painting surfaces are matte and brushy, seen from another angle, they are reflective and elusive. Chesney is a student of color, always within reach in her studio are Werners Nomenclature of Colours, The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather and The National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky. Darwin used Abraham Werners book to describe his discoveries and color observations on HMS ... More
L.A. Dance Project celebrates female choreographers
LOS ANGELES, CA.- When Benjamin Millepied created L.A. Dance Project 10 years ago, the company ran hot and cold. The new works, mainly by Millepied, were neither lasting nor particularly vivid, but his eye for older dances, by choreographers like Merce Cunningham and William Forsythe, showed impeccable taste. He was delivering on part of his mission: to bring quality dance to Los Angeles. On Tuesday, the company returned to the Joyce Theater with two programs, both featuring dances by women. The excellent opener brought back an important, forgotten voice, Los Angeles choreographer Bella Lewitzky, whose Kinaesonata (1970) had not been seen in New York since 1971. A force in California for decades, Lewitzky died in 2004; sadly, much of her work like that of so many choreographers has not survived. ... More
Stepping into the Balanchine-Stravinsky continuum
NEW YORK, NY.- Ecarté, yall! choreographer Silas Farley called out, demonstrating the position he wanted by stretching out an extremely long arm (he is 6-foot-5), angling his shoulders, head and neck to the side, and curving his hand decoratively upward. Thats it! he said enthusiastically as the New York City Ballet dancers in his new dance, Architects of Time, embellished the movement with this detail. Its so wonderful to be working with the company, because you can unapologetically delight in classical ballet and these kinds of nuances, Farley, 27, said backstage after the rehearsal. Then he laughed. I am such a ballet nerd. Architects of Time, set to a score by David K. Israel, has excellent nerd antecedents. The music is based on an acrostic poem that choreographer George Balanchine wrote in 1946 ... More
David Birney, who starred in TV's 'Bridget Loves Bernie,' dies at 83
NEW YORK, NY.- David Birney, a classically trained theater actor who found success on the stage, including on Broadway, but who was best known for his role in Bridget Loves Bernie a short-lived sitcom about an interfaith marriage in which he starred opposite his future wife, Meredith Baxter died Friday at his home in Santa Monica, California. He was 83. The cause was Alzheimers disease, said Michele Roberge, who said she was his life partner. Birney had been in a handful of television series and movies when he was cast in 1972 as Bernie Steinberg, a Jewish taxicab driver and struggling writer. Baxter played Bridget Fitzgerald, a schoolteacher from a wealthy Roman Catholic family. This is not a message show, Birney, who was Irish American, said during an interview with The Kansas City Star before the seriess ... More
A ballerina harnesses her wild imagination to choreography
NEW YORK, NY.- When Benjamin Millepied suggested three years ago that Janie Taylor try her hand at choreography for his company, the L.A. Dance Project, she had an immediate response: Thats crazy, she told him. But on Tuesday, the L.A. Dance Project will present two pieces by Taylor, a former principal at New York City Ballet, as part of its two-week season at the Joyce Theater, with two programs focusing on female dance makers. Both Taylor works Adagio in B Minor, a pas de deux; and Night Bloom, an ensemble piece are on the first program, alongside Bella Lewitzkys rarely seen 1970 Kinaesonata and Madeline Hollanders 5 Live Calibrations. (Night Bloom is also on the second program, alongside Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraibers Solo at Dusk.) Taylor, 41, who left City Ballet in 2014, was ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Finnish illustrator Tom of Finland was born May 08, 1920. Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 - 7 November 1991), best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist known for his stylized highly masculinized homoerotic fetish art, and for his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade. In this image: Tom of Finland, Untitled, c.1978. Graphite on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm; 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 ins. Copyright Tom of Finland Foundation.
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