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Installation view of Jasleen Kaur, Alter Altar at Tramway, Glasgow 2023. Courtesy of Tramway and Glasgow Life. Photo: Keith Hunter.
LONDON.- Tate Britain today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2024: Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine Le Bas. An exhibition of their work will be held at Tate Britain from 25 September 2024 to 16 February 2025. This marks the prizeâs 40th anniversary, as well as its return to Tate Britain for the first time in six years. The winner will be announced at an award ceremony at Tate Britain on 3 December 2024. Nominated for his solo exhibition To Those Sitting in Darkness at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Abadâs work considers cultural loss and colonial histories, often reflecting on his upbringing in the Philippines. His exhibition includes drawing, etchings and sculptures which depict, juxtapose and transform artefacts from Oxford museums, highlighting their overlooked histories and drawing parallels with familiar household items. The jury commended the precision and elegance with which ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Expressionists Kandinsky, Munter and the Blue Rider installation view at Tate Modern 2024. Photo © Tate (Larina Fernandes).
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| Wartime letter written by Elizabeth II to be sold in West London | | Major exhibition that explores the visual and personal affinities between Joan Miró and Alexander Calder | | 'Blair Witch Project' actors push for retroactive royalties |
The letter, written from Windsor Castle on August 26,1940 to Lady Aston, includes a signed photograph of the castle that the future queen had promised to return to a Canadian soldier in convalescence at Cliveden.
LONDON.- A touching wartime letter written by Elizabeth II as a young princess is among the highlights of the Autographs and Memorabilia at ... More | |
Alexander Calder, Caged Stone on Yellow Stalk, 1955. Sheet metal, rod, stone, wire and paint, 75 x 42 x 24 1/2 in. 190.5 x 106.7 x 62.2 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Opera Gallery is presenting Kindred Spirits: Joan Miró and Alexander Calder, a major exhibition that explores the visual and personal affinities between the landmark American and Spanish artists Alexander Calder ... More | |
Daniel Myrick, left, and Eduardo Sanchez of "Blair Witch Project," in an undated photo. (Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The creative team behind the 1999 hit horror film The Blair Witch Project is calling for increased retroactive compensation for the movies three stars, as well as meaningful consultation on an upcoming reboot. The ... More |
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| Mexican pavilion opens at the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia | | Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider opens at Tate Modern | | The Biggs Museum of American Art unveils new website |
Installation view of the Mexican pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2024.
VENICE.- The Mexican Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia unveiled "AS WE MARCHED AWAY, WE WERE ALWAYS COMING BACK," a compelling video installation by the multidisciplinary artist Erick Meyenberg. Curated by Tania Ragasol, this project has been thoughtfully selected through a public call initiated by the Ministry of Culture and INBAL under the poignant theme "Foreigners Everywhere," as conceived by the Visual Arts Sector's director ... More | |
Robert Delaunay, Circular Shapes, Moon no. 1, 1913 Lenbachhaus Munich and Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, Munich.
LONDON.- In the early 20th century, an international circle of friends came together to transform modern art. Their story is told in a major new exhibition at Tate Modern Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider celebrating their radical experimentation with form, colour, sound and performance. The show draws on the worlds richest collection of expressionist masterpieces at the Lenbachhaus in Munich, ... More | |
The new website serves as an invaluable resource, featuring an intuitive navigation system, making it easier for visitors to explore The Biggs extensive collection and exhibitions.
DOVER, DE.- The Biggs Museum of American Art announces today the launch of its new website, marking a significant milestone in the Museum's expansion plans and coinciding with its recent rebranding efforts. The redesigned website aims to enhance the museum's online presence, provide an immersive user experience, and further reinforce its commitment to promoting ... More |
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| Ceiling collapse of Boscobel's historic library | | Shannon's announces highlights included in Spring Fine Art Auction | | Harlem Sculpture Gardens announces its first large-scale sculpture exhibition |
The Library after the collapse. Courtesy of Boscobel House & Gardens.
GARRISON, NY.- Boscobel House and Gardens announced that the plaster ceiling in its historic Library room collapsed, without warning, in the early evening of Tuesday April 16, 2024. Thankfully no one was harmed or in the building at the time, but the incident caused major damage to the room, its contents, and to adjacent rooms. Since Tuesday evening, Boscobel has been working ... More | |
Watercolor and pencil on paper by Maurice Brazil Prendergast (Newfoundland/American, 1858-1924), titled Low Tide (1901), 20 ½ inches by 13 inches. Estimate: $80,000-$120,000.
MILFORD, CONN.- Shannons Fine Art Auctioneers, an established market leader in the sale of historic American Art, will be offering an exceptional selection of fine paintings in their Spring auction on Thursday, May 2nd, starting promptly at 6 pm Eastern time. The sale is composed of just ... More | |
Opening Day is May 2nd with an official walk led by Brooklyn-based artist Coby Kennedy and Deputy Borough President Keisha Sutton-James. The official walk begins inside Morningside Park at 111th Street, noon.
NEW YORK, NY.- Harlem Sculpture Gardens announced the launch of its debut art project, curated to foster joy and beauty within our local community. Harlem will host its first large-scale sculpture exhibition on May 02, 2024, and run through October 30, ... More |
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| In San Francisco, a home renovation can become a battle royale | | On May 11, Icons: One Man's Collection goes up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals | | Public art presentation transforms a vacant retail space |
The house of Julie Park and Tom McDonald in San Francisco, on April 19, 2024. Park and McDonald want to raise the roof of their San Francisco home by 7 feet and 3 inches. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- San Franciscos top governing body spent time Tuesday discussing what most residents surely would not consider a major priority for the city: whether Julie Park and Tom McDonald can raise the roof of their $2.1 ... More | |
A Beaded Icon of Our Lady of Kazan, in Kiot. Eastern Europe, 19th/20th Century. Estimate $200-$300.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to devote its next auction to Icons: One Mans Collection on Saturday, May 11, 2024. The sale features over 200 lots of icons and other religious or devotional items from a private collection in Northern California. Most items are from 19th/20th century Eastern Europe or Russia. The ... More | |
x. Burlap (Alternative Pose #1 // Sitting) Fabric and burlap with yarn on a found wooden chair Dimensions Vary.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- LAUNCH LA with the generous support of the Beverly Connection and through an Artist Project Grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs presents RE: PURPOSE. This public art presentation transforms a vacant retail space into a laboratory of creativity ... More |
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Terry Carter, barrier-breaking actor and documentarian, dies at 95
NEW YORK, NY.- Terry Carter, who broke color barriers onstage and on television in the 1950s and 60s and later produced multicultural documentaries on jazz luminary Duke Ellington and dancer-choreographer Katherine Dunham, died Tuesday at his home in midtown Manhattan. He was 95. His death was confirmed by his son, Miguel Carter DeCoste. Carter was raised in a bilingual home next door to a synagogue in a predominantly Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn. His best friend was future jazz great Cecil Taylor. In his first stage role, at 9, Carter played Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama on a voyage of discovery. And in a wayfaring six-decade career, he was a merchant seaman, a jazz pianist, a law student, a television news anchor, a familiar character on network sitcoms, an Emmy-winning documentarian, a goodwill ... More
NGV presents tenth year of Melbourne Art Book Fair
MELBOURNE.- In May 2024, the National Gallery of Victoria presents the 10th annual Melbourne Art Book Fair, a state-wide celebration of art book publishing and Melbournes status as a UNESCO City of Literature. Over 11 days, from 23 May to 2 June 2024, the Fair will enliven venues across Melbourne and Victoria with book launches, talks, exhibitions and more, including a special in-conversation with art historian Katy Hessel, a TV gameshow pop-up and showcase art and design publishing from across Australia and beyond. Esteemed British author, art historian and founder of The Great Women Artists podcast, Katy Hessel will be joined by NGV Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture, Simone LeAmon for the live conversation, Katy Hessel in Conversation: The Story of Art Without Men on 29 May. Presented ... More
Kathleen Hanna's music says a lot. There's more in the book.
PASADENA, CALIF.- The first draft of Kathleen Hannas memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, was 600 pages long. As she worked to cut the manuscript, Hanna found herself excising page after page of male violence. Its pretty sad, if you read the book, because theres still a lot in there, she told me. I had a joke with my editor about it. Like, shed already removed a rape and a kidnapping and a guy who threw a wineglass at her head! What more do you want from me? Hanna is super funny. When she takes the stage as the frontwoman of Bikini Kill, Le Tigre or the Julie Ruin, she plays a kind of punk trickster, shifting her voice to resemble a bratty Valley Girl, a demonic cheerleader, an obnoxious male fan. She is always subverting femininity and disarming bad guys with her spiky and irreverent lyrics. But when it came time ... More
Kamasi Washington wants to remain unstoppable
NEW YORK, NY.- Before Kamasi Washington unveiled his breakthrough opus, he admits, he second-guessed it. The Epic (2015) was a major moment, not just for the Los Angeles saxophonist and composer, but for jazz at large. Arriving on the heels of Kendrick Lamars seismic To Pimp a Butterfly an album featuring contributions from Washington and his tight-knit hometown coterie it contained nearly three hours worth of surging, spiritually charged music, spearheaded by Washingtons roaring tenor sax. Despite its daunting scope and operatic grandeur, it resonated broadly, serving as a gateway to jazz and the thriving scene orbiting Washingtons label at the time, Brainfeeder. But in the long interval between its recording most of which took place in 2011 and its release, Washington toyed with the idea of trimming ... More
Cait Bailey can't avoid the spotlight
NEW YORK, NY.- Not tonight, Cait Bailey told a photographer trying to take her picture inside an area cordoned off for special guests at a Louis Vuitton party at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Not this time. Bailey, 34, suggested he instead aim his camera at Alix Earle, an influencer, and her boyfriend, Braxton Berrios, a professional football player with the Miami Dolphins. Im not used to being the subject, Bailey said as the photographer snapped Earle at the event, held during Art Basel Miami Beach in December. Anonymity has become more elusive for Bailey, a publicist and brand strategist who runs the New York office of Align Public Relations, as her clients have grown to include people with large followings like Earle, Call Her Daddy podcast host Alex Cooper, sibling influencers Charli and Dixie DAmelio and singer Zayn ... More
Lincoln Center's Summer Festival to focus on civic bonds
NEW YORK, NY.- Lincoln Center said on Wednesday that it would devote its summer festival to themes of community and civic participation, with a mix of hip-hop, comedy, dance, classical music and more under the motto life, liberty and happiness. The festival, Summer for the City, will feature premieres of anthems about contemporary hopes and struggles. Classical music concerts will be more participatory than in the past; at one event, audience members will be asked to vote on the program. And civil rights will be prominent, with the New York premiere of an opera about Eric Garner, who died in 2014 at the hands of police officers on Staten Island. We know the performing arts have a role in strengthening our community and strengthening our civic bonds, Shanta Thake, Lincoln Centers chief artistic officer, said in an interview. ... More
Alfred Molina on the museum he never misses when he's in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- After more than 30 years in Los Angeles, Alfred Molina is enjoying his newly minted status as an Upper West Sider. My wife and I have bought an apartment here, and were slowly transitioning to New York, he said last month at Lincoln Center Theater before a rehearsal for the Chekhov classic Uncle Vanya, which opens on Broadway on Wednesday. Molina, 70, has been nominated for three Tony Awards, for Art, Fiddler on the Roof and, most recently, Red, in which he starred as painter Mark Rothko in 2010. Vanya, in which he plays the pompous professor Alexander Serebryakov, is his return to a New York stage after nearly 15 years. The play is a chance to work with some fantastic people, he said of the cast, which includes Steve Carell as Vanya, Jayne Houdyshell as Vanyas mother, and William ... More
For 'Mary Jane,' parenting is a life sentence
NEW YORK, NY.- Soon after Alex was born at 25 weeks, with several catastrophic disorders, Mary Janes husband, unable to cope, fled their marriage. Still, she hopes he finds some peace, I really do. She also thinks kindly of her boss, who means to accommodate her but pretty much fails to. Its daily moral agony for her, Mary Jane marvels. Its really something to behold. Mary Janes own moral agony is likewise something to behold. She feels guilty about putting the super of her Queens building, where she shares a junior one-bedroom with Alex, in a difficult position by removing the window guards. Its just that he loves looking out the windows, especially when hes sick and I cant take him outside? she explains in upspeak. Its the law, the not-unkind super replies though Alex, now 2, can barely sit up, let alone reach the sill. Youre an excellent superintendent, Mary Jane say ... More
In a pair of 'Macbeth' productions, only one does right by the lady
NEW YORK, NY.- Macbeth isnt one of Shakespeares so-called problem plays, and yet, the vast contradictions and reversals of the central couple often present a problem for those staging it. Two Macbeth productions now running the Royal Lyceum Edinburghs Macbeth (An Undoing), at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, and the Shakespeare Theater Companys Macbeth in Washington take opposite approaches to the text, particularly in their depictions of Lady Macbeth. The results are two wildly different kinds of tragedies, one more successful than the other. The project of Macbeth (An Undoing), written and directed by Zinnie Harris, is to re-evaluate the female characters in Shakespeares tragedy. The play, presented by Theater for a New Audience and the Rose Theater, begins as a loose adaptation ... More
What to know before booking a National Park trip this summer
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2023, the seashores, lakeshores, battlefields, historic sites, monuments and more that make up the National Park Service had 325.5 million visits, an increase of 4% from the year before. The National Park Service director, Charles Sams III, praised the surge of interest in learning our shared American story throughout the hidden gems of the national parks system. Expecting an even greater turnout in 2024, the Park Service and Recreation.gov, the booking platform for federal land reservations, have implemented new measures to streamline the park experience, manage overcrowding and safeguard the environment. To better avoid congested trails, packed parking lots and overflowing trash cans, additional parks are joining Rocky Mountain, Arches and Glacier National Parks this year in requiring day-use permits, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter and sculptor Karel Appel was born April 25, 1921. Christiaan Karel Appel (25 April 1921 - 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948. He was also an avid sculptor and has had works featured in the museum of Great Samo and MoMA. In this image: Karel Appel, Big Bird Flying Over the City, 1951. Oil on canvas, 49 3/16 x 65 3/4 inches (125 x 167 centimeters) © Karel Appel Foundation, c/o ARS New York, 2014. Courtesy of the Karel Appel Foundation and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
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