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An undated photo provided by Heritage Auctions shows a wood panel that resembles a famous piece of debris salvaged from the Titanic in 1912, sold at auction for $718,750 and part of a trove of memorabilia from Planet Hollywood. The prop bears a striking resemblance, Heritage Auctions said, to a panel from the Titanic housed at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Heritage Auctions via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- At the end of the movie Titanic, Rose floats atop an ornately decorated piece of a door frame as her beloved Jack clings to its edge, holding her hand. A rescue boat finally arrives, but in time only for Rose, who promises to never let go of Jack as she frees herself from his icy grip and he slips below the surface of the Atlantic. In reality, the ocean was a tank that held 17 million gallons of water. And the door frame? Balsa wood. The wood panel sold at auction for $718,750 on Saturday, part of a trove of memorabilia from Planet Hollywood. About 1,600 items, including the whip from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, a bowling ball from Kingpin and the ax from The Shining, brought in $15.7 million, according to Heritage Auctions, the auction house that handled the sales. Heritage Auctions said in a statement that the event shattered expectations and set a record for the companys auctions of movie props a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Intesa Sanpaolo opened to the public, from 14 March 2024 to 1 September 2024 at its museum in the Gallerie d'Italia - Turin, the exhibition Cristina Mittermaier. A Greater Wisdom curated by Lauren Johnston in collaboration with National Geographic.
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| Vitra Design Museum opens 'Transform! Designing the Future of Energy' | | Kunstmuseum Bern bequeathed five major paintings by Eberhard W. Kornfeld | | Richard Serra, who recast sculpture on a massive scale, dies at 85 |
Installation view »Transform! Designing the Future of Energy« © Vitra Design Museum. Photo: Bernhard Strauss.
WEIL AM RHEIN.- Energy is the main driving force of our society; energy is political, energy is invisible, energy is omnipresent. All of the buildings, infrastructure and products related to the generation, distribution and utilization of energy are created by human beings. Consequently, design ... More | |
Alberto Giacometti, Caroline, 1965, Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bequest of Eberhard W. Kornfeld, © 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich.
BERN.- The art dealer, auctioneer, collector and patron Eberhard W. Kornfeld, who died in April 2023, has bequeathed five major paintings to the Kunstmuseum Bern. The works will be presented to the public for the first time from Friday, 29 March 2024. In April 2023, a few months before his 100th birthday, the art dealer, collector and patron Eberhard W. Kornfeld passed away. ... More | |
Sculptor Richard Serra at Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan, on Aug. 9, 2019. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Serra, who set out to become a painter but instead became one of his eras greatest sculptors, inventing a monumental environment of immense tilting corridors, ellipses and spirals of steel that gave the medium both a new abstract grandeur and a new physical intimacy, died Tuesday at his home in Orient, New York, on the North Fork of Long Island. He was 85. ... More |
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| Museums and galleries across the UK to share world-leading collections with local communities | | Group exhibition explores the concerns associated with the use of paper as a material | | Intesa Sanpaolo opens Cristina Mittermaier's first retrospective in Europe |
Visitor in Wolverhampton Art Gallery's permanent collection © Janie Airey Art Fund 2022
LONDON.- New projects supported by Art Fund will see museums and galleries across the UK forging new partnerships to share their world-leading collections with local communities. Announced today, Wednesday 27 March, 12 regional galleries and museums from Pier Arts Centre in Orkney to The MAC in Belfast and York Army ... More | |
Carroll Dunham, Green Female, 2021. Watercolour, water soluble crayon, watercolour pencil and pencil on paper, 51 x 40 cm.; 20 x 16 in. 65.5 x 55.4 x 3.5 cm.; 25 3/4 x 21 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. (framed).
PARIS.- Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, is presenting On Paper, a group exhibition exploring the concerns associated with the use of paper as a material. Considering the expectations of this medium, through a range of artists working across various ... More | |
Cristina Mittermeier, Provincia dello Yunnan Cina, 2008.
TURIN.- Intesa Sanpaolo opened to the public, from 14 March 2024 to 1 September 2024 at its museum in the Gallerie d'Italia - Turin, the exhibition Cristina Mittermaier. A Greater Wisdom curated by Lauren Johnston in collaboration with National Geographic. The exhibition, the first retrospective in Europe dedicated to the photographer, ... More |
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| Filmmaker draws censors' wrath: 'A Price I Have to Accept' | | Inside the Garrick, the elite men-only London club rocked by criticism | | Is humanity out of fashion? |
The Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai in Lewisham, London on March 15, 2024. The creative talent in Chinas film industry is struggling under tightening censorship. The suffocating restrictions remind veterans like Wang of the harsher days when the Communist Party more strictly controlled speech and artistic expression. (Olivia Lifungula/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Chinas film industry was operating under a planned economy when Wang Xiaoshuai graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1989. Only a few studios, all state-owned, were allowed to make movies. Eager to start careers as filmmakers, Wang and some friends scraped together about $6,000, borrowed a camera and ... More | |
The Century Association in New York, on Feb. 9, 2011. In New York City, private clubs like the Union League and the Century Association began admitting women in the 1980s, often under the pressure of legal judgments. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
LONDON.- On a side street in Covent Garden stands an imposing palazzo-style building, strangely out of place amid the burger joints and neon marquees of Londons theater district. It houses the Garrick Club, one of Britains oldest mens clubs, and on any given weekday, a lunch table in its baronial dining room is one of the hottest tickets in town. A visitor lucky enough to cadge an invitation from a member might end up in the company of a Supreme Court justice, the ... More | |
Models present looks at the Alexander McQueen spring 2017 showd uring Paris Fashion Week in Paris, Oct. 3, 2016. (Valerio Mezzanotti/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Ever since news broke last week that Pierpaolo Piccioli, the designer of Valentino, was leaving the brand, paeans to his talent have been flowing on both social and fashion media. But of all the words used to describe Picciolis work its genius and magic and vision, its dreaminess and beauty the one that most stands out to me is humanity. Not because of the looming threat of artificial intelligence, and whatever that means when it comes to clothes, but because Piccioli ... More |
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| First solo UK exhibition of Italian designer Enzo Mari opens at the Design Museum | | Seance? Celebration? A risqué tribute to Sinead O'Connor arrives. | | Thaddaeus Ropac now represents Hans Josephsohn Estate |
Close up of The Nature Series. Enzo Mari Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli © Eva Herzog for the Design Museum.
LONDON.- The first ever UK museum exhibition devoted to one of the most significant designers of the 20th century opens at the Design Museum on Friday. The 60-year career of designer Enzo Mari a pioneer of post-war Italian design is spotlit in this major exhibition unveiled this morning. ... More | |
Christeene and her Fukkn Band performing on the stage at the City Winery on the West Side of Manhattan on March 25, 2024. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Since Sinead OConnor died last summer at 56, the outspoken and defiant Irish singer-songwriter has been memorialized on stages both divey and grand, including a star-studded concert last week at Carnegie Hall. But no tribute ... More | |
Hans Josephsohn. Photo: Katalin Deér, Kesselhaus Josephsohn.
PARIS.- Thaddaeus Ropac announced representation of the Hans Josephsohn Estate, working in collaboration with the Kesselhaus Josephsohn, the archive and exhibition space in St. Gallen where the artist's sculptural estate is conserved and catalogued. Thaddaeus Ropac gallery will work together ... More |
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NEW YORK, NY.- Halfway through a recent Zoom interview with Radu Jude, the acclaimed Romanian director of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, he offered a glimpse into his creative process. He pulled out one of the books hes reading, an illustrated tome about commedia dellarte. Then he shared his screen to reveal a collection of texts and images Van Gogh still lifes, Alberto Giacometti sculptures, Japanese haikus saved in folders on his computer. Jude stopped scrolling at a picture he took of a sign posted on an apartment building entrance. It says Please have oral sex so as not to disturb the other tenants, Jude explained, translating from the Romanian with a grin on his face. The autodidact Jude is not above a dirty joke. His work melds tragedy and farce, drawing promiscuously from art, literature, street ... More
Aurora tourism in Iceland: You can seek, but you may not find
NEW YORK, NY.- From the outside, it may seem like the northern lights dance across Icelands skies each night. On Icelandair ads, planes fly across shimmering curtains in the sky. On social media, travelers gaze at the green bands above them. The lights are even on some recycling bins in ReykjavÃk, the capital: Keep Iceland Clean. In the past decade or so, an aurora borealis industrial complex has boomed in Iceland. Many rent a car and go out on their own, but there are northern lights big bus tours and northern lights minibus tours and northern lights Super Jeep tours. There are private guides and boat cruises. Theres an observatory base camp. Theres even a museum. But the lights can be elusive. Tourists sometimes expect, like, At what time do you turn them on? said Björn Saevar Einarsson, a forecaster at Icelands ... More
"Pino Pascali" opens exhibition at Fondazione Prada
MILAN.- The extensive retrospective dedicated to Italian artist Pino Pascali, curated by Mark Godfrey, will be on view at Fondazione Pradas Milan venue from tomorrow, 28 March, until 23 September 2024. Curator Mark Godfrey and artist Peter Fischli will meet the public in occasion of a conversation at Fondazione Pradas Cinema Godard, on Sunday 14 April at 4 PM. Following the talk, the documentary Pino (2020) by Walter Fasano will be screened. The exhibition is divided into four sections, each presenting a unique perspective on Pascalis work, and unfolds through three buildings of the Milan venue: the Podium, the Nord and the Sud galleries. The set design, conceived by 2x4, includes forty-nine works by Pino Pascali from Italian and international museums and distinguished private collections; nine artworks by prominent post-war ... More
Marjorie Perloff, leading scholar of avant-garde poetry, dies at 92
NEW YORK, NY.- Marjorie Perloff, whose incisive, at times idiosyncratic readings of avant-garde artists including Ezra Pound, John Cage and John Ashbery made her one of the worlds leading scholars of contemporary poetry, died Sunday at her home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. She was 92. Her daughters, Carey and Nancy Perloff, confirmed the death. Perloff, who spent the latter part of her career at Stanford University, made her name as a forceful advocate for experimental poetry, reaching back to early 20th-century writers including Pound and Gertrude Stein and embracing more recent movements such as Language poetry and conceptual poetry. Such work is sometimes dismissed as intentionally difficult, but Perloff managed to parse and explain it in clear, jargon-free books and essays for both academic ... More
Governors Island taps new head curator
NEW YORK, NY.- The Trust for Governors Island announced Tuesday that it has appointed Lauren Haynes as the new head curator and vice president of arts and culture for the 172-acre island, situated in New York Harbor with ringside views of the Statue of Liberty, lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn waterfront. We have big ambitions for the arts program here, which is to be New Yorks preeminent public art destination, said Clare Newman, president and CEO of the Trust, a nonprofit organization created by the city to develop and operate the island as a recreational and cultural resource. Lauren is very good at bringing emerging voices and underrepresented artists to the forefront and shares our ideas about growing the public art program significantly, said Newman, who tapped Haynes, most recently the director of curatorial ... More
Lawrie Shabibi now representing Mandy El-Sayegh
DUBAI.- Lawrie Shabibi announced the representation of Mandy El-Sayegh in the Middle East and North Africa, further complementing existing partnerships with Lehmann Maupin (New York, Seoul, and London ) and Thaddaeus Ropac gallery (London, Paris, Salzburg, Seoul). El-Sayeghs inaugural solo exhibition in Dubai, A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, curated by Sara Raza, is currently on view at the gallery until 4 April, 2024. Born in Selangor in Malaysia in 1985, Mandy El-Sayegh is of Palestinian and Chinese heritage and is based in London. In 2007 she received her BFA from the University of Westminster in London, followed by a Royal College of Art MFA that was centred on painting. Today her practice encompasses drawing, collage, painting, sound, performance, and installation usually transforming ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and architect Raphael was born March 28, 1483. Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. In this image: Raphael, Self-Portrait, 1506 (detail) © Galleria degli Uffizi Florenz, Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi.
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