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| | | Gallery 19C Announces Sale of Painting by Johann Richard Seel to The Louvre Museum | |
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Johann Richard Seel, Portrait of the Bloem Sisters, 1841.
WESTLAKE, TX.- Gallery 19C, a Texas based gallery specializing in 19th Century European Paintings, is honored to announce the Louvre Museumâs acquisition of German artist, Johann Richard Seelâs 1841 Portrait of the Bloem Sisters. Commenting on the sale, Eric Weider, Founder and Polly Sartori, Director of Gallery 19C said: âWe exhibited Seelâs extraordinary portrait of Betty Josefine Jacobine Bloem and Friderike Luisa Bloem at TEFAF Maastricht in March 2024, where it was featured as a centerpiece of our stand devoted to the Nazarenes and other early nineteenth century German paintings The double portrait was greatly admired by visitors to the fair, who were captivated by its originality. We are beyond thrilled that it has been acquired by The Louvre.â ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of “Monte di Pietà” A project by Christoph Büchel Fondazione Prada, Venice.
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| On the Met roof, skywriting his way to freedom | | Crafting shoes never meant to be walked in | | How 1 reaction to a mural tore a New England town apart |
Installation views of Petrit Halilaj's "Abetare at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden in New York, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When this old world starts getting me down And people are just too much for me to face I climb way up to the top of the stairs And all my cares just drift right into space Ive found a paradise thats trouble-proof Up on the roof So crooned the Drifters in 1962, making the inner-city rooftop ... More | |
Gianpaolo Fallani demonstrates his screen printing in front of a wall of his images at the Art of Craftsmanship, a celebration of Venetian master craftspeople hosted by Tods in Venice, Italy, April 19, 2024. (Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- This month at the Venice Biennale, milliner Giuliana Longo wore gold earrings in the shape of hats as she showed off a hat sculpture made of natural agave. Longo, who has worked as a milliner since 1969, said through a translator that ... More | |
One of three murals commissioned by the 4-year-old nonprofit North Country Pride, founded to support LGBTQ people, in Littleton, N.H., Jan 31, 2024. (John Tully/The New York Times)
LITTLETON, NH.- Few were present at the select board meeting in Littleton, New Hampshire, in August when Carrie Gendreau, one of its members, began to talk about a mural that had recently been painted on the side of a building downtown. Until that moment, it had not attracted much ... More |
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| The fashion influencers of the French Revolution | | Magnum Photos and Granta partner for a unique collaboration across photography and literature | | A close examination of the most infamous public toilet in America |
Anne Higonnet a the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, April 2, 2024. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Most days, Anne Higonnet is able to keep her cool. Shes a distinguished professor of art history at Barnard College and Columbia University. Her research has been supported by the Guggenheim and Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellowships. She chooses her words, her tone and her clothing carefully. One day in 2017, though, as Higonnet was quietly working at the Morgan ... More | |
Work by Cornell Capa.
LONDON.- For the first time in the history of its Square Print Sale, Magnum Photos partners with an esteemed literary magazine, Granta, for its upcoming sale from April 29May 5. Titled Fable, the sale explores the symbiosis between visual and written narratives. 85 images will be available to purchase as limited-edition 6 x 6 prints during the online sale. A selection of the images will be shown at events in Paris, London and New York, ... More | |
The newly opened Noe Valley public toilet in San Francisco on April 28, 2024. (Poppy Lynch/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent sunny Sunday, residents of San Franciscos Noe Valley gathered to celebrate the opening of a toilet. But not just any toilet. This was the nations most infamous public toilet. In 2022, my colleague Heather Knight, then at the San Francisco Chronicle, noticed the projected price tag on the commode: ... More |
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| 'Ramiro Fernandez Saus, The Lightness of the Days' on view at Long & Ryle | | First institutional solo exhibition of Nabil Kanso opens at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Art | | EskewDumezRipple reveals design concept developed with help of AI for new Louisiana museum |
Ramiro Fernandez Saus, Theresa and the Moon, 2024, oil on canvas, 76.5 x 47 cm.
LONDON.- Long & Ryle announced an exhibition of new work by Ramiro Fernandez Saus, the celebrated Catalan artist. This is his first exhibition in London since 2019. One of the paintings taking centre stage is, Therese and the Moon. A dog holds the ladder for the woman who climbs the tree to reach out to the moon. Is the girl in her right mind, or just a dreamer and an optimist? In Flying in Vilarodona a flock ... More | |
Nabil Kanso, Twilight 2, Oil on Paper, 1979, Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- IAIA is presenting Endless Night, the first institutional solo exhibition of Nabil Kanso (19402019) in New York. This exhibition unveils Kansos practice, which is deeply rooted in themes of war and human suffering. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Kanso grew up at a time when the geopolitical landscape of the Arab region was being reshaped by the Arab-Israeli War. This exhibition explores Kanso's long standing ... More | |
The museums concept design is inspired by music and the instruments that create it. Rendering: EskewDumezRipple.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The new 120,000-square-foot Louisiana Music and Heritage Experience Museum is conceived as a venue to showcase and highlight the contributions that the city of New Orleans has made to the music industry. Located across the street from the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in downtown New Orleans, the museum will serve as a premier ... More |
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| Xavier Hufkens presents American painter Joan Semmel's inaugural exhibition with the gallery | | Exhibition offers a chronological survey of the different stages in the artistic life of MarÃa Blanchard | | Acquavella Galleries opens "Wayne Thiebaud: Summer Days" |
The exhibition spans a period of five decades.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens is presenting An Other View, American painter Joan Semmel (b.1932)s inaugural exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition spans a period of five decades, showcasing the major developments in the artists oeuvre. The ten large-format oil paintings and two works on paper on display, created between 1971 and 2018, collectively attest to Semmels decades-long commitment to the representation of ... More | |
Maria Blanchard. A Painter in Spite of Cubism © Museo Picasso Málaga
MALAGA.- This retrospective organised by the Museo Picasso Málaga presents a chronological survey of the different phases in the artistic life of the Santander-born painter MarÃa Blanchard (Santander, 1881 - Paris, 1932), emphasising the symbolic richness, social commitment, formal complexity and innovative character of her work, produced during a relatively ... More | |
"[My subject matter] was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be. It just seemed to be the most genuine thing which I had done." - Wayne Thiebaud
NEW YORK, NY.- Acquavella Galleries is exhibiting Wayne Thiebaud: Summer Days, the first show of the artists work in New York since he passed away on December 25, 2021. Presented in collaboration with the Wayne Thiebaud Foundation, the ... More |
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They saw Dallas as a literary hub, then got to work making it one
DALLAS, TX.- When Will Evans arrived in Dallas just more than a decade ago, he had a degree in Russian literature, a passion for reading the world, and a bold vision: to create a publishing house dedicated to translating the best books in any language into English and bringing their authors into conversation with American and especially Texan writers and readers. He started going to the readings and other literary events around town and posted about them under the hashtag #literarydallas. I was made fun of relentlessly, he said. But in 2013, around the same time he started his publishing house, Deep Vellum, two other people Javier GarcÃa del Moral and Paco Vique, civil engineers from Spain were hatching their own literary plans. They wanted to start a bookstore that would be something more: a community hangout ... More
Homelessness is especially hard on children. Making music helps.
NEW YORK, NY.- Were going to be making a beat, Dannyele Crawford said as the kids settled noisily into their seats at a homeless shelter in Brooklyn. I want you to imagine that you live on another planet. The beat is going to be based off that. Six-year-old Bella Diaz and the other five children in a room lined with computers donned headphones and began choosing from hundreds of audio loops in the music software program GarageBand. The room filled with clashing, tinny riffs leaking from headsets as the pint-size producers danced and bobbed in their seats. What the children did not know this recent Monday afternoon was that Crawford, 27, is not just a teacher. She is a music therapist, there to help children deal with the stress of not having a permanent place to call home. Since 2015, therapists who work for the Brooklyn ... More
The Tony nominations are tomorrow. Here's what to expect.
NEW YORK, NY.- At a time when Broadway is overflowing with plays and musicals but could use more ticket buyers, this seasons Tony Award nominations will be announced Tuesday, offering a boost to some shows and dashing the hopes of others. Heres what you might want to know about the Tony nominations, which this year will recognize plays and musicals that opened on Broadway between April 28, 2023, and April 25, 2024: A few categories are to be made public shortly after 8:30 a.m. Eastern on the Tuesday broadcast of CBS Mornings. (CBS airs the Tonys, so it has first dibs on the news.) The full list of nominees will be announced on the Tony Awards YouTube channel starting at 9 a.m. Two previous Tony winners, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry, will read the list of nominees. The New York ... More
Love, war and the refugee crisis, set to the music of Sting
NEW YORK, NY.- When choreographer Kate Prince set out several years ago to create a dance show based on the music of Sting, she was unsure what story she might be able to tell using his varied songbook. Then she saw photos of young Syrian refugees taking desperate risks to reach safety in Europe, and she had an idea. She would use some of Stings and the Polices most affecting music, songs such as Desert Rose and Every Breath You Take, to tell the story of a family displaced by war. The result is Message in a Bottle, which premiered in London in 2020 and comes to New York City Center, in Manhattan, for a two-week run beginning Tuesday. In the nearly two-hour show, featuring Princes dance company, ZooNation, she draws on freestyle dance, salsa, Lindy Hop, street dance and other styles to bring ... More
Jazz saved the bassist Luke Stewart. Now he's working to rescue others.
NEW YORK, NY.- On a Sunday afternoon in March, Luke Stewart a bassist and composer who has gradually emerged as a galvanic force in the contemporary jazz vanguard stood at the corner of Pine and Broadway, in Manhattans Financial District, running down some local history. He pointed across the street, where the American Stock Exchange sat next to Trinity Church, and noted our proximity to the former site of New Yorks municipal slave market. You see this pattern really all over the world, Stewart said, where literally people are taken from the auction block, where we started, right down here to be saved in the church and sold, and then sent off to wherever theyre going. Stewart is wont to drop deep knowledge, whether hes pointing out the sites of bygone jazz lofts in NoHo or spontaneously unpacking a Ravel score at ... More
A student orchestra shouts 'Mambo!' and meets its idol
NEW YORK, NY.- The student musicians, dressed in jeans, T-shirts and hooded sweatshirts, were rehearsing an excerpt from West Side Story in a high school auditorium one recent afternoon. Then, as the trumpets blared and the timpani went wild, a voice broke out from the conductors podium. Oy yo yo yo yo yo yo, said superstar maestro Gustavo Dudamel, who was leading the rehearsal. You are not dancing together. Dudamel, the New York Philharmonics next music director, paused for a moment, telling the students they needed a more precise rhythm and sound. Then he put his hands in his pockets and swaggered around the stage. This is cool, really cool music, he said, eliciting laughter from the students. We need something that goes with the nature of the body. The students, part of a 95-member youth ensemble ... More
Open now: 'Margaret Lee: Life Lines' at Jack Hanley Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Sometimes lines are drawn that mark us off distinctly from everything else. This delimitation is deceptive. What once appeared solid and impenetrable reveals a shakiness, bringing to light that which was once believed to be forgotten. Impressions emerge and point to the indissoluble bonds that keep us from falling out of the world, away from untenable illusions and closer toward that which can be grasped. - M.L., NYC 2024. Paintings have held prominent positions within Margaret Lees artistic practice, often incorporated within larger sculptural installations, playfully manipulating the object and image relationship. For her 5th solo exhibition at Jack Hanley Gallery, the paintings on view need no sculptural substantiation. A persistent yellow radiates across the canvases, marking a distinct palette shift away from ... More
How trumpeter Jeremy Pelt became a chronicler of Black jazz history
NEW YORK, NY.- Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt was sitting on his couch, browsing YouTube, when he decided to become an author. It was 2018, and Pelt, by then a fixture on the New York jazz scene for two decades, came across a 1994 interview with jazz drumming great Arthur Taylor, conducted by a fellow percussionist, Warren Smith. It could have been Batman, or something, Pelt recalled during a recent conversation in his Harlem apartment. It was like an hour and 45 minutes, I remember, and I just was transfixed the whole time. Pelt was especially taken with a section where Taylor discussed Notes and Tones, his landmark book of musician-to-musician interviews, first self-published in 1977 and later reissued more widely. In it, giants such as Miles Davis, Nina Simone and Max Roach spoke with often bracing candor about race, the music ... More
Turning a dance spotlight on painter Juan de Pareja
NEW YORK, NY.- Eduardo Vilaros latest dance for Ballet Hispánico is about a 17th-century artist who, in recent years, has come into his own. Juan de Pareja was enslaved by Spanish painter Diego Velázquez for more than two decades. During a trip to Italy, Velázquez painted a portrait of Pareja, who was also his studio assistant, showing an Afro-Hispanic man shrouded by darkness, but with an open, unwavering gaze. Those eyes, looking out to an unjust world, are sharp and alive. The portrait was a sensation; it now hangs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Months after it was completed, Velázquez signed a document granting Pareja his freedom.) Last year, Pareja was the subject of an exhibition at the Met; this year, Vilaro, the artistic director of Ballet Hispánico, honors him with a somber work of dance theater, Buscando a Juan ... More
Office politics gone awry in 'Jordans'
NEW YORK, NY.- The workplace in Jordans, an ambitious but unwieldy new play at the Public Theater, is so white that its a bit alarming. I dont mean to say its full of white people (though it certainly is that, too), but rather that the aesthetic of the space itself catches your attention: minimalist, modern, white screens and walls. By the end of the play, however, those bright white spaces will be covered with blood. Jordan (Naomi Lorrain) is the only Black employee at Atlas Studios, a full-service rental studio and production facility, as she says to a potential client. Shes the one who answers the phones; she also gets the lunches, collects receipts and calls maintenance. When her boss, Hailey (Kate Walsh), decides the companys new path to revenue involves appealing to a more diverse demographic, she hires a director ... More
Pope's visit to art exhibition in prison is a first for Venice Biennale
NEW YORK, NY.- Landing by helicopter at a womens prison where the Vatican has mounted its pavilion for the Venice Biennale international art exhibition, Pope Francis on Sunday told the women incarcerated there that they had a special place in my heart. Grazie, one woman called out. Others applauded. Many of the women had participated with artists in creating works that hang throughout the prison for the exhibition, titled With My Eyes. Francis, the first pope ever to visit if briefly a Venice Biennale, said that it was fundamental for the prison system to offer detainees the tools and room for human, spiritual, cultural and professional growth, creating the conditions for their healthy reintegration. Not to isolate dignity, but to give new possibilities, Francis said to applause. Over the decades, countries ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Ãdouard Manet died April 30, 1883. Ãdouard Manet (23 January 1832 - 30 April 1883) was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. In this image: Ms Vicky Hirsh, Mara Talbot and Dr Christopher Brown standing in front of Portrait of Mlle Claus by Manet.
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