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Brooke Morgan, the curator of anthropology at the Illinois State Museum, points to where funerary objects were removed from display in 2021 as the museum consulted with tribes about its collection, at the Dickson Mounds State Museum in Lewiston, Ill., on Jan. 25, 2024. Centuries-old grave mounds in Illinois became a flashpoint in the debate over displaying Native American remains. Now, tribes are close to seeing them reburied. (Julia Rendleman/The New York Times)
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.- In 1927, on a bluff overlooking the Illinois River Valley, a chiropractor named Don Dickson took a shovel to his familys farmland in Fulton County, Illinois, and uncovered burial mounds dating back eight centuries. He scooped out the dirt, exposing the open graves of more than 280 Native Americans, many of whom had been buried among their possessions, and began charging admission, making it a roadside tourist stop. In the decades that followed, the Illinois State Museum turned the site into a full-fledged museum, excavating more than 800 skeletal remains before constructing the building that stands there today. Then, in 1990, Congress passed a law requiring museums to return Native American remains and cultural items they held to the appropriate tribes. In the years after that, the museum closed the exhibit and covered the exposed graves with a cedar floor. But the pace of returns from its collection was slow. Now, nearly a century after Dickson first began ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Palazzo dei Diamanti hosts a major exhibition dedicated to Escher, one of the artists most loved by the general public in the world.
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| There's an art to arranging a bookshelf. Here's how it's done. | | Tomás Saraceno's 'Complementarities' opens at Red Brick Art Museum | | V&A reveals further details about an exhibition of photography from the collection of Sir Elton John and David Furnish |
Interior designer Jeremiah Brent at his home in New York, on March 4, 2024. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In a public library, styling a bookshelf is easy: Just fill it with books. At home, a bookcase needs to do a lot more than hold books. So how do the pros do it? Start by thinking of your shelves as a kind of 3D wallpaper that adds visual interest to a room. The things you choose ... More | |
Algo-r(h)i(y)thms, 2023; Installation view from Complementarities at Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China. March 22 August 18, 2024. Curated by Yan Shijie. Photography by Studio Tomás Saraceno. Courtesy the artist; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles and neugerriemschneider, Berlin.
BEIJING.- As an artist with a long-standing focus on ecological issues, Tomás Saraceno, combines the qualities of a visionary artist and a maverick scientist. His ... More | |
David LaChapelle, Elton John, Egg On His Face, New York, 1999 © David LaChapelle.
LONDON.- In celebration of Sir Elton Johns birthday, the V&A has revealed further details about the exhibition Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection. Today also marks the day that tickets go on sale for the exhibition, which opens 18 May and will ... More |
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| How did Wagner want his 'Ring' cycle to sound? | | One man's collection goes up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals | | A dark day is coming for Buffalo. It can't wait. |
With a team of researchers and dedicated musicians, the conductor Kent Nagano is taking a historically informed performance approach to Wagners epic. Photo: Simon van Boxtel photography.
AMSTERDAM.- What began as a flippantly offered pipe dream, on second thought sounded too good to resist. Kent Nagano was leading the period-instrument ensemble Concerto Köln in concert performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Idomeneo in 2016 when one musician suggested he come back for more, and with new repertoire. Because Nagano was ... More | |
Peter Nielsen (1873 - 1965), Landscape. Size: 35" x 29". Signature: Signed Medium/Ground: Oil / Canvas. Estimate $4,000-$6,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals presents Fine Art: One Mans Collection on Saturday, April 6, 2024. The sale features over 70 works of art from a private collection in Northern California, including oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and lithographs. The vast majority of the auction focuses on two Northern California artists, Colin Campbell Cooper and Gary Ray. Other noted artists in the sale include ... More | |
Dave Horesh, one of the founders of Oxford Pennant in downtown Buffalo, in the astronaut costume he plans to wear on eclipse day, in Buffalo, N.Y. on March 18, 2024. (Jalen Wright/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When the sky above Buffalo, New York, briefly goes dark on the afternoon of April 8, the city will transcend its dreary place in the public consciousness measured as it so often is by snowstorms and Super Bowl shortcomings if only for about three minutes. After that, its up to Buffalo to make the most of its moment in the ... More |
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| Morphy Auctions is ready to entertain with rare antique coin-ops and advertising signs, April 11-13 in Las Vegas | | Exhibition of work by Veronica Ryan now open at White Columns | | Plains Art Museum announces new Chief Curator and Director of Collections and Exhibitions |
See Diavolo Loop The Loop tab gum-vending machine, made circa 1905 by Mercer Manufacturing Co. Clockwork-driven action emulates bicycle-loop trick made famous by an actual turn-of-the-20th-century circus stuntman while simultaneously dispensing a tab of chewing gum. Provenance: lifelong collection of Bill Howard. Actual book example in Bill Enes reference Silent Salesman Too. Estimate: $15,000-$30,000.
DENVER, PA.- At the turn of the 20th century, coin-operated machines could be found nearly everywhere, from arcades and boardwalks to hotel lobbies ... More | |
Veronica Ryan, Collective Moments XL, 2023, Tie-dye pillow case, hair bands, Approx. 15 x 10 x 3 in. Courtesy Alison Jacques, London and Paula Cooper Gallery. © Veronica Ryan. Photo: Michael Brzezinski.
NEW YORK, NY.- The works in Veronica Ryan: Collective Moments have been donated by Veronica Ryan to be sold in benefit of Camden Art Centre, London. All of the proceeds will go directly toward supporting Camden Art Centres internationally renowned exhibition, residency and learning programmes. Elemental processes such as tying, binding, staining and stacking are ... More | |
Danielle is an experienced artist, art historian, and arts educator, who has garnered historical, theoretical, and practical arts knowledge through involvement with various institutions locally, nationally, and internationally.
FARGO, ND.- Plains Art Museum has named Danielle Gravon as its new Chief Curator and Director of Collections and Exhibitions effective February 26, 2024. Danielle is an experienced artist, art historian, and arts educator, who has garnered historical, theoretical, and practical arts knowledge through involvement with various institutions locally, ... More |
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| Ribbon-cut on new state-of-the-art Powerhouse collection storehouse | | A game designer's lifelong pursuit of action nirvana | | Aki Sasamoto's first major solo presentation opens in Hong Kong |
Powerhouse Castle Hill J Store. Photo: Rory Gardiner.
CASTLE HILL.- Powerhouse Castle Hill officially opened its doors with a weekend of community celebrations including special behind the scenes tours and experiences of the museums new $44m state-of-the-art storage facility. Powerhouse Castle Hill was officially opened by NSW Minister for Arts and Tourism John Graham. Over two days from 10am 4pm, visitors enjoyed free, ... More | |
Hideaki Itsuno, outside of Capcom Headquarters in Osaka, Japan, on Sept. 27, 2023. (Andrew Faulk/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Few designers have dedicated themselves to the dark arts of video game combat more than Hideaki Itsuno, who has spent his three-decade career adapting the hyperviolent DNA of fighting games to ever-larger, more-ornate play spaces. Itsuno, a game director at Capcom, ... More | |
Performance view of Aki Sasamoto: Sounding Lines, 2024, Para Site, Hong Kong. Photo: Felix S.C. Wong.
HONG KONG.- Para Site presents Sounding Lines, a solo exhibition of the acclaimed New York-based artist Aki Sasamoto. Situated between sculpture and performance, the exhibition marks the first major solo presentation of the artist in Hong Kong and features a newly commissioned installation and performance in conversation ... More |
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David Zwirner announces concurrent exhibitions of work by Huma Bhabha
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting concurrent exhibitions of work by Huma Bhabha (b. 1962) at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street and 34 East 69th Street locations in New York. These are the gallerys first presentations of Bhabhas work since the announcement of her representation in 2022, and they follow the artists 2023 solo exhibition at M Leuven, Belgium, which recently traveled to MO.CO., Montpellier, France. In March 2024, three sculptures by Bhabha will be specially featured in the retrospective exhibition Julie Mehretu: Ensemble at Palazzo Grassi, Venice. In April 2024, a large-scale installation by Bhabha, commissioned by Public Art Fund, will be unveiled at Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York. Bhabha creates layered and nuanced sculptures and drawings that center on a reinvention of the figure and its expressive possibilities. ... More
Ellen Dahl wins $30,000 National Photography Prize at Murray Art Museum Albury
ALBURY.- Murray Art Museum Albury has announced Ellen Dahl as the winner of the $30,000 National Photography Prize for 2024 and unveiled the finalists exhibition, open until 1 September 2024. Selected from 12 finalists by judge Nici Cumpston OAM, Ellen Dahls winning work Four Days Before Winter is part of the ongoing project Field Notes from the Edge exploring the peripheral Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard the fastest warming place on earth. The four part work presents close up details of collapsing terrain due to melting permafrost as a result of ongoing coal mining in the region. The series not only brings into question the devastating effects of climate change, but also considers photographys intrinsic involvement in how we see and feel about the world around us. Originally from arctic Norway, Ellen Dahl now lives on Gadigal ... More
Jack Hanley Gallery opens two exhibitions: 'Drawn Curtains' & 'Disparate Visions'
NEW YORK, NY.- Drawn Curtains is a solo exhibition of artworks by mepaintsme, the pseudonym for the artist and curator whose personal and often dark imagery evokes the existential fears and anxieties associated with mortality, technology, and the unknown. Working primarily with pencil on aged surfaces culled from book covers, end papers, catalogs and coloring books, the artist creates visual epitaphs from vestiges of a dying media, signaling our increasing disassociation with the physical world via developing technology. The artist states, Im interested in exploring both reasonable and unreasonable fears, and how they affect our collective psyche. Alongside the fourteen artworks presented in Drawn Curtains is an ongoing series titled Vatis Species whose Latin to English translation is Phantoms of Quality. In this series ... More
Bellmans to auction three private collections of 19th Century artists
LONDON.- Bellmans announced that the March auction of Old Masters, British and European Paintings on Thursday, 28th March 2024 will include three artists' collections with works of four artists born in the 19th Century, all coming from descendants and new to the market. Two of which are well-known for their outstanding work depicting animals and in particular dogs and wild cats, Herbert Dicksee and Arthur Wardle, and Frank Dicksee, who was best known for his portraits and landscapes, while Arthur Croft also excelled in the latter. Highlight of the collection from the family of the artist Arthur Croft (1828-1902) is an oil painting by Frederick Arthur Bridgman (American, 1847-1928), Sanctuary in the Sahara, signed and dated 1879. It was first exhibited in London at the 1880 annual exhibition ... More
Historic Steve Jobs signed Apple business card fetches over $180,000 at auction
BOSTON, MASS.- A rare and perfectly graded Steve Jobs-signed Apple Computer business card from circa 1983 has fetched an astounding $181,183 at Auction, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The sale is believed to be a world record price achieved for a signed business card. The highly coveted circa 1983 Apple Computer business card of Steve Jobs, adorned with his neatly placed signature, embodies the essence of a pivotal era in computing. The off-white card features the iconic 'rainbow' version of the Apple 'byte' logo and identifies Jobs as the "Chairman Board of Directors." The card also bears the company's address and contact information from the time: "10260 Bandley Drive, Cupertino, California 95014, (408) 996-1010." Despite a faint stain on the front from an old tape residue on the back, the card has been encapsulated ... More
A dog-friendly cafe reopens, with a few new tricks
NEW YORK, NY.- A triumphant mood hung in the air at the East Village cafe Boris & Horton, as good boys and good girls scampered, barked, sprawled and ogled an array of treats. Were here two times a day during the week, said Monica Hu, a longtime customer, with her three pugs at her feet last Sunday. Theres no place like it in the city. The 2,100-square-foot cafe on the corner of 12th Street and Avenue A spans three former storefronts that have been converted into a seated dining area where dogs are allowed but no food can be ordered, a seated area where only humans are allowed, and a takeout window. (The separation is what makes it a dog-friendly cafe, rather than a dog cafe, in the style of cat cafes that provide the companionship.) Logan Mikhly and her father, Coppy Holzman, opened the place in ... More
James Cohan now represents Alexandre da Cunha
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan announced the representation of the Brazilian-born artist Alexandre da Cunha. He will have his debut solo exhibition with the gallery in October 2024. Da Cunha is represented in collaboration with Thomas Dane Gallery in London and Naples, Office Baroque in Antwerp, and Galeria Luisa Strina in São Paulo. Grounded in material aesthetics, Alexandre da Cunha creates monumentally scaled sculptures and playfully constructed wall-mounted work using metamorphosed everyday and found objects. Given their renewed possibility and playing with the visual language of art historical movements such as Arte Povera and Tropicália, da Cunhas sculptures inspire lush potential, elevating our everyday encounters with ordinary materials to sociocultural events. Working between São Paulo and London, ... More
Carpintaria presents Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira's Repertório n. 2
RIO DE JANEIRO.- Since 2018, Davi Pontes (São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1990) and Wallace Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1993) have developed an artistic practice at the intersection of dance, performance and the visual arts. In their works, the duo executes ingenious choreographies investigating the relationship between duration and exhaustion, repetition and precision, resulting in complex hybrid works frequently registered on video. The bodily expressions at stake in their works evoke the ideas of theorist André Lepecki, for whom the concept of choreopolitics designates a profound intertwining of movement, body and place. In the series Repertório (2018 ongoing), Pontes and Ferreira collaborate with other agents on photography, soundtrack and art direction to transpose their performances into videos that function ... More
Booming market for pop-culture memorabilia powered $2.5M result at Hake's March 19-20 auction
YORK, PA.- Hakes highlight-packed March 19-20 auction of pop-culture rarities closed the books at $2.5 million and sent a resounding signal about the strength of the current market for high-grade, market-fresh memorabilia. The abundance of record-setting and estimate-defying prices attested to the growing demand for superhero toys of the 1960s and elusive figures from the Star Wars galaxy. Like-new model kits with provenance from the renowned Janusey Brothers collection ran the table, commanding prices that were nothing short of astonishing. A boxed and factory-sealed Aurora model kit duo consisting of a ©1963 NPP Inc. Superman (second version) kit No. 462-100 and ©1966 Marvel Comics Group Spider-Man kit No. 477-100 topped the two-day event. Sixty years ago, the kits would have retailed for $1 ... More
University Archives announces highlights included in Online-Only Auction, April 10th
WILTON, CONN.- A vintage black and white pin-up photograph of Marilyn Monroe taken circa 1947 and signed by the budding starlet, a two-page typed letter signed in German by Albert Einstein in 1935 containing mathematical equations and edits in his hand, and a handsome Civil War-dated military commission signed by Abraham Lincoln are just a few of the expected top lots in University Archives upcoming online-only auction planned for Wednesday, April 10th. The Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Memorabilia auction will start at 10:30 am Eastern time. All 364 lots in the catalog are up for viewing and bidding now on the University Archives website as well as the popular platforms Invaluable.com, Auctionzip.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. The carefully curated ... More
The Art of the Book - Firsts London announces theme for May fair
LONDON.- Firsts London 2024, the rare book fair at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, London, runs from the 16th to 19th May. This year, the theme for Firsts is 'The Art of the Book' and will bring together the best the market has to offer when it comes to beautiful books. The Fair will gather over 100 international dealers in the appropriate setting of the Saatchi Gallery, promising to be an exceptional demonstration of the book as art and the art of the book. From bejewelled bindings to pop-up books; from Japanese woodblock printing to illuminated Qur'ans; in books, the visual arts meet literature, and beauty may be admired in illustration and illumination; in calligraphy and cartography; in typography and photography; in printmaking and paper manufacture; and within the art of bookbinding itself. Book design represents shifting tastes and ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat was born March 26, 1957. Shirin Neshat (born March 26, 1957) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects. In this image: Shirin Neshat, From âLooking For Oum Kulthumâ series (2017) © Shirin Neshat.
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