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Norman Rockwell (American, 18941978), Study for Artist Facing Blank Canvas (Deadline), 1938, oil on board. On loan to the Dayton Art Institute from a Private Collection.
DAYTON, OH.- The Focus Exhibition Norman Rockwell: Stories of Emotion opened at the Dayton Art Institute and will be on view through February 13, 2022. This intimate exhibition features a dozen original works by Americas most beloved illustrator. A master at picturing the poignant moment that can tell a complete story, Norman Rockwell has long been celebrated for his humor and artistic skill. Rockwell was a master at expressing emotion and telling stories through his art. Seeing his original paintings and drawings just brings home what a remarkably talented artist Rockwell was, and what a treat it is to have these works available to share with our community, said Jerry N. Smith, DAI Chief Curator and Director of Education. A talented artist with a keen eye for detail, Rockwell was Americas premier illustrator for more than six decades. Before television, Rockwells colorful and entertaining images came int ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Personal items belonging to the late Amy Winehouse on display at Julien's Auctions on November 01, 2021 in Beverly Hills, California. Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP.
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| The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation receives gift of rare Navajo Chief's blanket | | Exquisite sculptures stand out at modern & contemporary art event | | New Museum opens the 2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone |
Chiefs Blanket, Navajo Nation, 1865-1870; Warp: native handspun wool, Weft: native handspun wool and raveled wool; Gift of Rex and Pat Lucke, 2021.609.5. Photo: Courtesy The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- As America honors Native American Heritage Month in November, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation announces that it has received a rare Navajo First Phase Chiefs Blanket from the late classic period (1865-1870) in the terraced style. The weaving is the first of its kind to enter the Foundations collection and joins two Navajo pictorial weavings that were acquired in 2019. The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg seek to tell a broad and inclusive story of early American culture through the study and display of objects made and used by all the peoples of what is now the United States, said Ronald L. Hurst, the Foundations Chief Curator and Vice President for Museums, Preservation, and Historic Resources. At the ... More | |
Arnaldo Pomodoros massive Giroscopio I, 1986-87.
DALLAS, TX.- Measuring more than 12 feet in diameter, Arnaldo Pomodoros massive Giroscopio I, 1986-87 is moving in more ways than one. Not only does the fascinating bronze and iron piece created by one of Italys most renowned avant-garde artists immediately capture the imagination, but portions of the sculpture also physically move. Composed of external rings and two semicircular internal halves, the impressive sculpture estimated at $400,000-$600,000 in Heritage Auctions Nov. 17 Modern & Contemporary Art Signature® Auction resembles an early gyroscope writ large. Thanks to Pomodoros expert engineering skills, the internal semicircles movement is made possible through the reverse rotation of the forms around a pin. This trick allows the observer to enjoy the revolving forms while standing perfectly still. We have an exceptional selection of quality sculptures in this sale, says Frank Hettig, Heri ... More | |
Ann Greene Kelly, Homesick Nightgown (2020). Colored pencil on paper, 19 x 13 in (7.48 x 5.12 cm). Photo: Paul Forney. Courtesy the artist, Chapter NY, New York and Michael Benevento, Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- The 2021 New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, brings together works across mediums by 40 artists and collectives living and working in 23 countries. Now in its fifth installment, the exhibition is co-curated by Margot Norton, Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at the New Museum, and Jamillah James, Senior Curator, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), and presents new and recent work by a majority of artists who are exhibiting in a U.S. museum for the first time. The title of the 2021 Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, is taken from a Brazilian proverb, versions of which are found across cultures: Água mole em pedra dura, tanto bate até que fura Soft water on hard stone hits until it bores a hole The proverb can be said to have two meanings ... More |
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| Art houses want audiences back. Can a MoviePass-style program help? | | Afghan art flourished for 20 years. Can it survive the new Taliban regime? | | Fine felines, stupendous sculpture & rediscovered Venus to be auctioned off by Hindman |
The Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn, June 4, 2021, one of several New York City art house theaters that will partner with the new service Mubi Go. Gabby Jones/The New York Times.
by Matt Stevens
NEW YORK, NY.- There has been much hand-wringing in recent years about the impending death of art-house cinema. There was the moment several years ago, when small, independently owned theaters had to convert from 35 mm film to digital presentation; or the time in the wintry months of 2018 when the venerable Lincoln Plaza Cinema closed on the Upper West Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan; and most recently, there was the pandemic, which forced movie theaters big and small to shut down for months. In each case, a scattering of disheartening news venue closures, bankruptcy filings and the like have been met with what Eugene Hernandez, who runs the programs put on by Film at Lincoln Center, called glimmers of hope. New spaces often emerge, new audiences attend screenings ... More | |
Roya Sadat, an award-winning Afghan filmmaker, near her home in Virginia, Oct. 29, 2021. Jason Andrew/The New York Times.
by Sharif Hassan
NEW YORK, NY.- The day Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled and handed the country over to the Taliban, Omaid Sharifi was in downtown Kabul, helping his colleagues paint murals on the wall of the governors office. By noon, panicked employees in nearby government buildings were flooding the streets, some jumping into cars, others pedaling bicycles or running to get home, or to the airport. Sharifi, 36, decided to leave his work unfinished, asking his colleagues to pack the painting tools and head to the office. The Taliban were in charge of the countrys capital a few hours later. Sharifi stayed at home for a week, until he and his family were evacuated to the United Arab Emirates on Aug. 22. Since the Talibans return to power, hundreds of artists actors, comedians, singers, musicians and painters have fled Afghanistan, according to estimates provided to The New York Times ... More | |
An Egyptian Bronze Cat. Late Period, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C. Height: 7 9/16 inches (19 cm). Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- On November 18th, Hindman Auctions will present its Antiquities and Ethnographic Art auction, offering incredibly rare objects from the fifth millennium B.C. to the 20th century A.D. Across 400 lots, the sale spans seven millennia, encompassing everything from Near Eastern idols and Egyptian bronzes to Graeco-Roman marbles, pottery, glass and pre-Columbian vessels. Objects from India, Oceania and Africa as well as art reference books and catalogues will be represented. Extraordinary Egyptian cats rendered in numerous mediums, and marble sculptures from the Greek and Roman worlds will be among top lots. Collections include property from the Palm Springs Art Museum, California; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; Dr. Hernan D. Ruf, Florida; Pamela Keld, New York; and an Important Midwest Private Collector. An exceptional Egyptian bronze cat made during the 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C. (lot 61; estimate: $80,000-120,000) ... More |
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| Jay-Z, Foo Fighters and Carole King join the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame | | 'Naomi Hobson: Adolescent Wonderland' to tour across regional South Australia | | New York's Irish Arts Center upgrades to a 'flagship hub' |
Inductee Chris Shiflett of Foo Fighters performs onstage during the 36th Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on October 30, 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame /AFP.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Like many awards shows during the pandemic, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame hosted a virtual induction ceremony in 2020. On Saturday night at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, where the organizations museum is based, the event returned with a powerful lineup to laud its 36th annual class: a former U.S. president, Taylor Swift and a Beatle. A video introduction for Jay-Z that flaunted the New York City rappers wide reach opened with a tribute from Barack Obama. Ive turned to Jay-Zs words at different points in my life, whether I was brushing dirt off my shoulder on the campaign trail or sampling his lyrics on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 50th anniversary of the Selma march to Montgomery, said Obama, who spoke in the package alongside Beyoncé, Chris Rock and LeBron James. Comedian Dave Chappelle, who delivered Jay-Zs formal induction in the arena, opened with I would like to apologize an apparent ... More | |
Naomi Hobson, Southern Kaantju/Umpila people, Queensland, born Coen, Queensland 1978, Rainbow Twins Donna brought us these wigs, I wanted one first and then Lexcine wanted one, she always trying to copy me, aye Lexcine. Ada. No Ada, you always copying me. Lexcine. From the series Adolescent Wonderland (Revisited), 2020, Coen, Queensland, digital print on paper, 81.0 x 110.0 cm, © Naomi Hobson/Redot Fine Art Gallery.
ADELAIDE.- Set to tour across regional South Australia, Naomi Hobsons series Adolescent Wonderland presents evocative photographic portraits of young Aboriginal people from her community of Coen on Cape York Peninsula. Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and Country Arts SA with support from the South Australian Government, the tour will launch in Port Pirie on 11 December 2021 and extend to venues across the state until 8 October 2023. Naomi Hobson is a Southern Kaantju/Umpila woman who lives in Coen, a small town of 360 people in the centre of Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland. A multidisciplinary artist, she regularly works across the mediums of painting, ceramics and photography. Inspired by her immediate environment, Hobsons works express her ongoing connection ... More | |
Artwork at the new Irish Arts Center that will be part of an opening visual art exhibition at the facility, in Manhattans Hells Kitchen neighborhood, Oct. 14, 2021. The $60 million building, in a former tire shop, will present theater, dance, music, visual art and more, and is scheduled to open in December. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times
NEW YORK, NY.- Irish Arts Center, a New York nonprofit devoted to championing the culture of Ireland and Irish Americans, is finally moving into a home as big as its aspirations. The organization, founded in the East Village in 1972, has been operating for decades out of a onetime tenement in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. Now, wrapping up a pandemic-delayed construction project first set in motion 15 years ago, the center is moving just around the corner after converting a longtime tire shop into a state-of-the-art performance facility where it aims, starting in December, to present theater, dance, music, visual art and more. Ireland still has these incredibly deep roots to its own artistic legacy, and it still fundamentally feels like a land of poets in its sensibility and its storytelling, said Aidan Connolly, the centers executive director. But, he added, New Yorkers might not know how exciting the emerging ... More |
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| California African American Museum names Isabelle Lutterodt Deputy Director | | Nobel Prize awarded to father of immunogeneticists George Snell sells for $275,000 | | London Art Week Winter announces exhibitions, highlights, symposium & talks |
Since 2015 Lutterodt has been the director of Barnsdall Art Park and its facilities, including the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The California African American Museum announced today that curator, arts administrator, and community leader Isabelle Lutterodt will join the Museums staff as deputy director, effective December 2, 2021. She was appointed to the role by Governor Gavin Newsom. Since 2015 Lutterodt has been the director of Barnsdall Art Park and its facilities, including the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. On behalf of our board of directors and staff, we are thrilled to welcome Isabelle Lutterodt to CAAM, said Executive Director Cameron Shaw. Her deep experience leading civic art institutions combined with her commitments to contemporary art, local history, and community engagement will undoubtedly serve CAAM well, as we strive to engage with even wider audiences in Los Angeles, the West, and beyond. I am deeply honored ... More | |
Snell's work led directly to successful human organ transplants.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to George D. Snell sold Thursday night for $275,000 at Nate D. Sanders Auctions. Snell won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of MHC, the genetic foundation of a body's immunological response to tissue and organ transplants, determining whether it accepts an organ or rejects it. Prior to Snell's research, organ transplantation was entirely dependent on chance as to whether a genetic match would allow an organ to be accepted by its recipient; afterwards, the only impediment was the availability of organs, and millions of lives have been saved as a result. The first successful organ transplant occurred in 1954 when one identical twin donated a kidney to his sibling. The first successful liver transplant occurred in 1967, followed by the first effective heart transplant in 1968. However during this time, most transplant patients didn't live more than 30 days because ... More | |
Lullo Pampoulides: Franz Xavier Kosler (1864-1905), Portrait of a man, identified as Giacomo Orlandi di Subiaco, c. 1885-1895.
LONDON.- This Winter's London Art Week celebrates 40 exciting in-gallery and auction house exhibitions featuring works of art from ancient to modern with spectacular highlight works, and is accompanied by an enlightening programme of live and online talks, tours, and the third LAW Symposium. LAW Digital exhibits up to 10 works online from every participant, plus editorials and videos. Past talks can be viewed here too. New exhibitors joining London Art Week Winter include Koopman Rare Art, Londons pre-eminent dealer in antique silver, gold boxes and objets de vertu (at their new galleries in Dover Street, Mayfair) and Patrick Bourne & Co, with a particular interest and expertise in British Art from the 18th century to the mid-20th century (St. Jamess Place). This Winter, exhibitions span the typically broad variety on offer at London Art Week galleries. They include depictions of ancient ... More |
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Vancouver Art Gallery announces new Chief Advancement Officer and Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation
VANCOUVER.- Vancouver Art Gallery welcomes Broek Bosma to the new position of Chief Advancement Officer and Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation. Bosma takes up this new role on November 29, 2021. Bosma brings over two decades of progressive leadership experience in fundraising and relationship building across a variety of non-profit organizations including Orchestra London Canada, Kitchener Waterloo Symphony, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Most recently, Bosma was at St. Pauls Hospital Foundation where he served as Chief Development Officer. He worked closely with the foundation board members and executive leaders to create and execute a $225 million comprehensive ... More
5,000 shows later, the Grand Ole Opry is still the sound of Nashville
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The survival of the Grand Ole Opry was anything but guaranteed when Bill Anderson started performing in it six decades ago. Rock n roll was luring away fans. Radio stations were abandoning barn dance-style programs. There were nights, he said, when musicians could look out from the Opry stage and see empty seats. But Saturday night, as the curtain went up and he started singing Wabash Cannonball, the house was packed, his music beaming out live on WSM, the Nashville station that has carried the Opry since the fledgling days of radio, and streaming online to viewers around the world. The show Saturday was the 5,000th broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry, a constant accompanying American life through generations of turmoil and transformation, through the Depression and recessions, wars, cultural upheaval and, most recently, a pandemic. ... More
A 6-hour opera in a pandemic? The Met goes for it.
NEW YORK, NY.- As cultural institutions come back to life this fall after the long pandemic shutdown, many are trying to lure audiences back with shorter shows, often free of intermissions. The Metropolitan Opera is taking a different tack. In an audacious bit of counterprogramming, the Met is staging the longest opera in its repertory, Wagners nearly six-hour Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Even in prepandemic times the work was a herculean undertaking, requiring an army of more than 400 artists and stagehands, breakneck set changes, spirited fight scenes and two 40-minute intermissions. Theres always room for epics, Peter Gelb, the Mets general manager, said in an interview. There is always an appeal for huge events. As audiences have slowly begun to emerge again, many institutions have taken a more cautious approach, with shorter-than-usual running ... More
'Porgy and Bess' returns to a new opera landscape
NEW YORK, NY.- George Gershwins Porgy and Bess is both easy and impossible to love. Its contradictions may have been captured best in Truman Capotes The Muses Are Heard, his 1956 dispatch from a touring companys historic stop in the Soviet Union. Porgy, he wrote, was like an allergen to Russian officials its characters erotic, God-fearing and superstitious. But its reflection of America was a different story. An exploited race at the mercy of Southern whites, poverty-pinched and segregated in the ghetto of Catfish Row, Capote said, could not be more agreeably imagined if the Ministry of Culture had assigned one of their own writers to the job. Porgy which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Sunday after two years, its performances still exhilarating but its staging still blandly naturalistic keeps raising questions over its three hours. And after a ... More
Ronnie Tutt, powerful drummer who backed rock and pop stars, dies at 83
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Ronnie Tutt, the prolific and versatile drummer who accompanied both Elvises Presley and Costello as well as other major figures in rock and pop such as Jerry Garcia and Neil Diamond, died Oct. 16 at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. He was 83. His death was confirmed by his wife, Donna, who said he had lived with chronic heart problems. Tutt was singing jingles and drumming in local bands in Dallas when, in his early 30s, he was hired to play drums in Presleys band TCB (Taking Care of Business) for a series of historic engagements at the International Hotel outside Las Vegas in 1969. Presleys four-week residency there marked his triumphant return to the stage after an eight-year hiatus, reviving a career hampered by uninspired movie roles and an image that had lost relevance in the face of the 60s counterculture. The comeback ... More
Amid climate talks, an actor's call to action unfolds onstage
NEW YORK, NY.- Fehinti Balogun knows that theater can mobilize people toward climate action, because thats what it did for him. In 2017, while preparing for a role in Myth, a climate parable, the actor began reading books about climate change and became alarmed by the unusually warm summer he was experiencing in England. The play called for him and the other actors to repeatedly run through the same mundane lines, to the point of absurdity, as their environment ruptured terrifyingly around them the walls streaking with oil, the stove catching fire, the freezer oozing water. The whole experience changed his life, Balogun said. Suddenly, nothing seemed more important than addressing the global crisis. Not even landing the lead in a West End production (a long-coveted dream) of The Importance of Being Earnest. His growing anxiety made him feel as if he were living ... More
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers announces highlights of the upcoming Estate Fine Art & Antique Auction
CRANSTON, RI.- Paintings by the renowned Indian artists Maqbool Fida Husain (1915-2011) and B. Prabha (1933-2001) fared so well in past Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers sales, the pair will be back for an encore in the upcoming Estate Fine Art & Antique Auction slated for Monday, November 15th, online-only, starting at 6 pm Eastern time. Over 325 lots will come up for bid. In September, a dynamic oil on canvas Cubist painting by Husain, depicting a rider on the back of a wild horse, sold for $43,750. Prior to that, in March 2020, an equestrian-themed watercolor on paper by Husain realized $16,250. In that same auction, a figural oil on canvas by B. Prabha, titled Woman with a Pear Basket, brought $11,875. Prices quoted included the buyers premium. In the November 15th auction, the B. Prabha painting titled Indian Women Painting, depicting six Indian women with their hair ... More
Noted Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire dies aged 77
RIO DE JANEIRO.- Brazilian Nelson Freire, one of the world's most prominent pianists, died Monday at 77 at his home in Rio de Janeiro, local press said. Widely considered Brazil's best pianist, Freire was particularly noted for his renditions of Chopin and romantic repertoire. Local press, citing Freire's agent, did not reveal the cause of death. Freire, a child prodigy who started learning the piano at three and first performed in public two years later, was born in southeastern Minas Gerais state in 1944. Known for being shy, patient and reflective, Freire made a name for himself on the international stage from a young age, winning numerous awards. He played with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin and Vienna philharmonics, and under the direction of ... More
Iraq's Babylon arts festival back after almost 20 years
HILLA.- Showcasing traditional dance, music and arts, Iraq's Babylon International Festival has attracted thousands of fans for the first time in two war-scarred decades. "It's a great joy. We haven't seen a festival like this for years," said Shaima, 45, visiting the event at the ancient archeological site with her two daughters. The last edition of the festival was held in 2002, the year before the US-led invasion that toppled the veteran dictator Saddam Hussein. In the years after, Iraq saw war between US troops and insurgents, sectarian clashes and the battle against the Islamic State group. Tens of thousands died and much of the country and its rich cultural heritage were reduced to rubble. Today there is relative stability, though marred by periodic IS attacks and political tensions, and Iraqis are looking to the future. The five-day festival, which ended Monday, is one of the symbols of this ... More
The Royal Scottish Academy opens a solo exhibition of new works by Paul Furneaux RSA
EDINBURGH.- The Royal Scottish Academy is presenting an exhibition of new works by acclaimed Scottish artist Paul Furneaux RSA this autumn. Furneaux is renowned for his mastery of Mokuhanga, an ancient Japanese printmaking technique. This exhibition includes new works that take inspiration from the colours, shapes and textures of both the Scottish and Japanese landscapes. The Japanese word for wood block print, Mokuhanga is a traditional printing technique, originating in ancient China and used in Japan since the eighth century. Differing from the oil-based inks used in a Western woodcut, a Mokuhanga print is made with water-based inks which create a wide range of vivid colours. Furneaux uses the rich colours available in his Mokuhanga printmaking process to evoke the ever-changing landscapes of both the Scottish Islands and Japan. Several important, recent works in the ... More
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DOMENICO GNOLI
Karlo Kacharava
Dial-A-Poem
Mark Rothko
Flashback On a day like today, American artist Richard Serra was born November 02, 1939. Richard Serra (born November 2, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement. He lives and works in Tribeca, New York and on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. In this image: U.S. artist Richard Serra gestures as he talks to journalists during a press preview for his exhibition "Drawings - Work Comes Out of Work" at the Kunsthaus in Bregenz, Austria, Thursday June 12, 2008.
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