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Among the 1,400 Torah scrolls on loan from a London trust is this one held by Calvary Hospital, a Catholic institution in the Bronx. The hospital raised $58,000 to have it repaired.
by Milton Esterow
NEW YORK, NY.- Since the Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder, Colorado, was founded in 1981, one of its several Torahs has been taken from the ark each Sabbath, and on other holy days, and read to members of the congregation. In August, another, particularly special, Torah arrived at the temple, one of some 1,400 scrolls whose survival during the Holocaust has inspired Jewish congregations worldwide. Confiscated by the Nazis as they purged synagogues and communities throughout Bohemia and Moravia, the Torah scrolls were shipped to the Jewish Museum in Prague. The scrolls were rescued from Prague years after World War II and have become part of a sprawling inventory of faith administered by a London trust that lends the Torahs out to synagogues, universities, hospitals and other institutions in 25 countries. So one can go to communities in Buenos Aires or Atlanta, Mumbai or Los Angeles, Ontario or Dubai and find a scroll that was once in a Czech synagogue that was closed, emptied or burned by the Naz ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Firefighters work to put out hot spots in Chile's National Botanical Garden in Vina del Mar, Chile, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. The botanical garden, which was burned across 98 percent of its nearly 1,000-acre property, is one of the world's largest, and is also a crucial conservation and research center for the region. (Cristobal Olivares/The New York Times)
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| 'Otto Piene: Paths to Paradise' structured thematically to trace the artist's visions through his most important project | | Tornabuoni Art opens the exhibition 'Carla Lonzi: Self-portrait of a generation' | | René Magritte's 'L'ami intime (The Intimate Friend)' offered at Christie's for the first time since 1980 |
Otto Piene, Black Stacks Helium Sculpture, 30 October 1976, Installation view, Minneapolis, color photograph, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. © 2024 ProLitteris, Zurich: Otto Piene Estate, photo: courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
BASEL.- Otto Piene (1928−2014) aimed high with his art: not only did he literally expand his artistic scope into the heavens with floating works of Sky Art and media projections, he also viewed his works as contributions to a more harmonious and sustainable world. The exhibition Otto Piene: Paths to Paradise is structured thematically to trace the artists visions through his most important projects and series from his oeuvre. Works from different periods and in different media are in dialog with each other and, in particular, with his constant practice of drawing. Alongside his Raster Paintings, Smoke Drawings, Fire Drawings, and light sculptures, the exhibition includes more than twenty sketchbooks, allowing for new readings of the artists oeuvre. There is a special focus on early immersive installations such as Light Room with Mönchengladbach Wall (19632013) and ... More | |
Carla Lonzi at the HemisFair, San Antonio Texas, April 1968. Photo by Pietro Consagra. © Archivio Pietro Consagra Milan.
PARIS.- The exhibition Carla Lonzi: Self-portrait of a generation is conceived as a tribute to the author and radical thinker Carla Lonzi (1931-1982). Fourteen works are being exhibited, one by each of the artists with whom Lonzi met to write Autoritratto (1969) - the last book she published as an art critic before dedicating herself entirely to the feminist cause. These historic paintings and sculptures are accompanied by rich documentation from Carla Lonzi's archives, bringing to life the pages of a book as revealing of the art scene of its time as it is experimental and innovative from a literary point of view. It was during a long visit to the United States between 1967 and 1968 that Lonzi dedicated herself to transcribing the many conversations and correspondences she had had over the previous decade with a circle of leading artists on the Italian scene. From her questions and each artist's answers, she then weaves an imaginary round table where each would respond to the thoughts of the o ... More | |
René Magritte, Lami intime (The Intimate Friend) (1958, estimate £30,000,000 - 50,000,000) © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
LONDON.- Christies will offer René Magritte's Lami intime (The Intimate Friend) as the leading highlight of The Art of The Surreal Evening Sale, the annual auction dedicated to Surreal and Dada art, taking place in London on 7 March. Presented to coincide with the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto, penned by André Breton in October 1924, the painting comes to auction for the first time since 1980. Depicting the enigmatic bowler-hatted man, Magritte's 'everyman', Lami intime (The Intimate Friend) is property from the Gilbert and Lena Kaplan Collection and was last exhibited in Brussels at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in 1998. The work will be displayed at Christies LA from 5 to 6 February, Rockefeller Center in New York from 9 to 14 February and in Hong Kong from 21 to 23 February. The pre-sale exhibition in London will take place from 1 to 7 March. Gilbert Kaplan was a pioneering entrepreneur who ... More |
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| Ahead of Venice Biennale, Sikander and Elias Sime new commissions on view on in Washington, D.C. | | Marina Abramovic artist selectionsannounced for 2024 Adelaide Festival | | Video games are mourning the old, weird, clunky Internet |
The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. in Washington, D.C. | Shahzia Sikanders Metaxu is one of four commissioned works of art that reflect the university and Centers mission. Credit: Jennifer Hughes.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Newly commissioned site-specific installations from acclaimed emerging and established global artists Elias Sime, Shahzia Sikander, Sandra Cinto, and the late Sam Gilliam are now on view at the recently opened 435,000-sq-ft Johns Hopkins Universitys Bloomberg Center on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Each of the monumental works at the new cultural and academic facility draw inspiration from the Centers location at the crossroads of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government and reflect the buildings mission to foster dialogue and a global exchange of ideas across a wide range of viewpoints. The large-scale installations include one of the final works on canvas by the late D.C. artist Sam Gilliam and the first worka floor-to-ceiling hand ... More | |
Marina Abramović will premiere a specially made digital work as part of the 2024 Adelaide Festival exhibition.
ADELAIDE.- Legendary international conceptual artist Marina Abramović and the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI) have chosen eight artists - Dr Christian Thompson, Collective Absentia, Indigo Perry, Li Binyuan, Melati Suryodarmo, Mike Parr, SJ Norman and Yingmei Duan - to engage in site-specific, long-durational work during the 2024 Adelaide Festival, from 1 4 March. The ninth work on display will be a video installation by Marina, introducing the project and guiding visitors through exercises from the Abramović Method. Marina Abramović says: In 1979, I visited Australia to participate as part of the European dialogue at the first Sydney Biennale. A year later, Ulay and I received a grant from the Australian Arts Council. We used this grant for research and to travel in central Australian deserts, and visit Aboriginal tribes in this area. These visits not only influenced my way of thinking and approac ... More | |
The visual novel Videoverse follows the final days of the online social network for a fictional gaming system in 2003. (Kinmoku via The New York Times)
by Diego Argüello
NEW YORK, NY.- Surfing the web in the 1990s and early 2000s was a slower endeavor, and fewer people had access to the technology. But it is still easy to reminisce about the days when it felt like a public marketplace, with high odds that someone out there had made a blog or GeoCities site about the niche topic you found interesting. Those robust online forums have since been flattened into algorithmic social media feeds or hidden on messaging apps, a shift mourned by several video games with a shared fondness for bygone internet eras. Games like last years Videoverse, 2019s Hypnospace Outlaw and the upcoming Darkweb Streamer use chat interfaces akin to AIM or MSN, as well as fake websites that greet people with MIDI songs and text written in bold fonts. Each experience has its own nostalgic lens but ... More |
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| Wilfrid de Glehn: John Singer Sargent's painting partner featured in exhibition at David Messum Fine Art | | UK photographer Neil Shearer wins The Societies of Photographers Advertising Photographer of the Year 2024 | | Dominique Knowles solo exhibition at Kiang Malingue opened yesterday in Hong Kong |
Mademoiselle Querrio, 1921, oil on canvas, 102 x 76 cm.
LONDON.- In a captivating exploration of artistic evolution, David Messum Fine Art presents Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn - A Painters Journey Revisited, running from today through to 1 March. This ambitious exhibition invites you to celebrate de Glehns extraordinary artistic journey, featuring 60 works from the Artists Studio Estate, includes numerous watercolours, as well as a selection of oil paintings, including rare works dating back to de Glehns days as a student in Paris. These pieces are presented alongside sumptuous drawings and oils completed in his home-studio during the winter months when the weather was too poor to travel. 40 years ago, Wilfrid de Glehns artistic legacy was overshadowed by his close association with John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Now, thanks to numerous exhibitions and publications meticulously organised by David Messum Fine Art, de Glehn stands on his own merit. Recognised ... More | |
Neil Shearer was commissioned to create four art pieces on the subject of balance for a private client and was able to get really creative, using elements of CGI and graphic design combined with traditional photography for the actual sneakers.
MANCHESTER.- Neil Shearer has been awarded the prestigious title of The Societies of Photographers Advertising Photographer of the Year 2024, standing out among photographers from around the globe in a fierce competition. The accolade was granted following a thorough review of over 600 images submitted to the print competition. A distinguished panel of industry experts, each with extensive experience, meticulously selected the winners. Colin Jones, CEO of The Societies of Photographers, expressed his admiration for the exceptional quality of entries, stating, This year we have seen a fantastic range of images, and the standard has been extremely high. The Photographer of the Year Awards represent some of the finest images entered the competition and have ... More | |
Dominique Knowles, Tahlequah, 2019, video, 12 min 07 sec.
HONG KONG.- Knowles work invites through the archetypal & moves beyond as an incredibly specific expression of interspecies companionship. At once a seemingly private language, its monumental character reveals that the work is generated from primordial knowledge. They garner strength from the formless, fluid movement of unbounded rhythm. His poetics are epic in scale, with an intimate cadence that ebbs & flows in sub-realities. Theres a symbiosis of confessional narrative & emotional lyric, acting as a soft ground for a central figure of luminously erotic queer desire. Romantic longing nourishes an empathic absorption into a space pulsating with aliveness. The aesthetics consistent resonance of humane & animal grief is redemptive. Through alchemy, theres hope for rebirth as its ochre atmosphere breathes prenatal warmth & a givenness for meditations on ancient sentience. This open & ... More |
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| All About Photo is now presenting 'My Mother's Tender Script' by Asiya Al. Sharabi | | Solo exhibition by Keli Safia Maksud 'worried notes' on view at CUE | | Highlighting 'Posters for Gaza' group exhibition of 26 artists at Zawyeh Gallery, Dubai |
My Mother's Tender Script by Asiya Al. Sharabi, Winner of the Competition Solo Exhibition, on View February 1 - 29, 2024.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.- Amidst the current era of profound uncertainty, All About Photo's online Solo Exhibitions emerge as a beacon of connectivity, fostering a vital link between audiences and artists. Guided by the conviction that access to art and culture is an inherent right rather than a privilege, and that artists' voices should resonate universally, this initiative serves as a platform to empower photographers in the pursuit of their visions, dreams, and projects. Introducing our innovative online showroom space, we've solidified All About Photo's position as a stalwart supporter and amplifier of creative ideas, enriching the artistic landscape in an ever-evolving digital realm. "In 'My Mother's Tender Script,' series I ... More | |
Keli Safia Maksud, Detail of if I say the sky_s small arithmetic its inscription, its echo, presented as part of worried notes, 2024. Photo by Leo Ng.
NEW YORK, NY.- CUE Art Foundation presents 'worried notes', a solo exhibition by Keli Safia Maksud with mentorship from Abigail DeVille. The exhibition is on view at CUEs gallery space at 137 West 25th Street until March 16, 2024. 'worried notes' builds upon artist Keli Safia Maksuds ongoing interest in the formation of national identity, particularly in relation to post-colonial African statehood. Through sound, sculpture, installation, text, printmaking, and embroidery, Maksud explores notions of replication and standardization as enduring influences of colonialism and as processes that continue to shape individual and collective understandings of self. Utilizing diagrammatic systems of notation as a starting point, worried notes examines ... More | |
Reda Alyasari, Embrace.
DUBAI.- Zawyeh Gallery launched a new group exhibition on 26 January, titled Posters for Gaza, with the participation of 26 Palestinian and Arab artists. The exhibition aims to shed light on the ethnic cleansing and horrific massacres taking place in the Gaza Strip, demanding a cease-fire and the recognition of Palestinian rights to live freely on their land with dignity. Four participating artists are originally from the Gaza Strip, where they have lived and have families. Uniformly sized and designed in a simplified manner, the posters reflect uniqueness in terms of style, materials, and the underlying narratives. Steering away from the digital norm, participating artists poured their effort into producing those posters, utilizing variety of materials, including acrylics, inks, charcoal, collage, and mixed media, while some artists employed ... More |
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'Lost in Parys', Alison Lapper to reveal new work following the death of her son
LONDON.- A new exhibition at Bethlem Museum of the Mind showcasing Alison Lappers (b.1965) work that explores her journey of grief since the untimely death of her son Parys. Alison Lapper: Lost in Parys presents a range of new work that delves into a world where silence often shrouds the depths of human suffering, and the power of creativity emerges as a beacon of hope. Alongside her own work will be sculptures and photographs from friends and contemporaries Marc Quinn (b.1964) and Rankin (b.1966), echoing and exploring the recent life events of Alison and the effect it has had on her as both a mother and an artist. The dialogue between these three artists present visitors to the Bethlem Museum of the Mind with an intimate narrative that explores grief and mental health alongside Alisons reflection on the complexities ... More
Hinton Battle, three-time Tony winner in musicals, dies at 67
NEW YORK, NY.- Hinton Battle, a dazzling dancer who won the first of his three Tony Awards in 1981 for his performance in the Duke Ellington musical revue Sophisticated Ladies after learning how to tap dance in the weeks before opening night, died Jan. 30 in Los Angeles. He was 67. His death, at a hospital, was confirmed by Leah Bass-Baylis, a family spokesperson, who danced with him on Broadway. She did not provide a cause. Some people are born with the spirit of the dance, said Debbie Allen, the dancer, choreographer and actress, who had known Battle since he was 16. Hinton Battle was that kind of person. She added: He was just technically superior to anyone who came close to him. He had rhythm and style. You were looking at a supernova. Battle auditioned for Sophisticated Ladies several years after he originated ... More
At Ghana event, Fowler Museum returns items taken from Asante Kingdom
NEW YORK, NY.- Seven items taken from the Asante Kingdom in West Africa by British forces during a 19th-century conflict were returned to the Asante king in what is now Ghana on Monday by officials of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. The museum, which focuses on the cultures of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Indigenous Americas, had received the items in 1965 as part of the largest gift in its history, a collection of some 30,000 objects from a trust in the name of the benefactor, Sir Henry Wellcome, a British pharmaceutical entrepreneur and artifact collector. The Sir Henry Wellcome Collection forms the core of the African and Pacific holdings at the museum, which was founded in 1963 as the Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology. On Monday, in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi, the Fowlers director, Silvia Forni, ... More
The book behind 'American Fiction' came out 23 years ago. It's still current.
NEW YORK, NY.- Theres a scene in Percival Everetts 2001 novel, Erasure, in which the main character, a cerebral Black novelist named Thelonious Monk Ellison, goes to a bookstore to hunt, as writers often do, for his own books. He finds four of them including The Persians, an obscure reworking of a Greek tragedy placed, infuriatingly, in the African American Studies section. The only thing ostensibly African American about the book, he fumes to himself, was my jacket photograph. Erasure, the basis for Cord Jeffersons new movie, American Fiction, is a mordant satire of the way the literary world imposes broad-strokes racial stereotypes on nonwhite authors, as well as a moving portrait of a complicated Black man from a complicated family. In a fit of fury after the rejection of his latest novel, an abstruse story about Aristophanes, Euripides and the death of metaphysics, ... More
Six spongy sea creatures suggest warming might be worse than thought
NEW YORK, NY.- Since the dawn of the industrial age, our species has warmed the planet by considerably more than todays most widely accepted estimates imply, according to a team of scientists who have gleaned detailed new information about Earths past climate from an unusual source: centuries-old sponges living in the Caribbean Sea. Networks of satellites and sensors have measured the rising temperatures of recent decades with great precision. But to assess the full arc of global warming, scientists typically combine this data with 19th-century thermometer readings that were often spotty and inexact. This is where the sponges come in. By examining the chemical composition of their skeletons, which the creatures built up steadily over centuries, the researchers have pieced together a new history of those earliest decades ... More
Tragedy, resilience and a miracle at Chile's burned botanical garden
NEW YORK, NY.- Friday afternoon, several hundred people were roaming the idyllic grounds of Chiles national botanical garden, mostly unaware that, just across some hills and a highway, a raging wildfire was galloping toward them. The danger quickly became clear. Rangers began racing around the park on motorbikes, shouting for visitors to flee to the exits. But by the time many got there, the fire had already arrived. Thick black smoke was billowing above us, so we laid down on the grass just inside the gate, Alejandro Peirano, the parks director, recalled Monday morning. One of my rangers turned to me and said, Director, are we going to die? Elsewhere, three other rangers were trying to rescue a colleague, Patricia Araya, 60, a greenhouse keeper who lived in the park and was caring for her two grandsons and 92-year-old mother. ... More
In 'Last Days,' strange sounds of simultaneous joy and sadness
LONDON.- It can feel easy to cast a swift judgment on composer Oliver Leith. First, there are his titles, such as Uh huh, Yeah, Bendy Broken Telemann No.3, and yhyhyhyhyh. Then, there is the inspiration for his sounds, in which everyday objects like glass bottles and cereal bowls are considered intensely, becoming weird instruments themselves. But if Leith seems flippant, he rejects that characterization entirely. People talk about irony in society all the time now, and I find that a little dull, Leith said in an interview. Its a very British way of looking at things. Like, Oh, are you being serious or are you not? No; I am deadly serious when Im doing these things. Im just chasing this strange feeling. Leiths way of talking about music is a lot like his actual music: blurry and discursive, but also precisely evocative. That strange feeling hes chasing, for example, is one he compared to being ... More
Sharon Louden's immersive installation explores access to art spaces
NEW YORK, NY.- signs and symbols is currently showing Barriers to Entry, a site-specific installation comprising raw aluminum, vinyl and works on paper by New York-based artist Sharon Louden. Known for her practice that encompasses both minimalist paintings and immersive installations, Louden has developed a distinct formal language that examines the infinite compositions and possibilities proposed by basic elements of line and color. Her installations further incorporate reflective materials which playfully expand and alter the viewer's perception of space. Continuing this line of inquiry, Barriers to Entry is not a static environment but one built through interaction, where reflections and vantage points create a multitude of unique experiences. Thus Louden considers questions of physical and symbolic access within art spaces, ... More
The Hispanic Society announces new Chairman & Philippe de Montebello steps down
NEW YORK, NY.- The Hispanic Society Museum & Library the primary institution dedicated to the preservation, study, understanding, exhibition and enjoyment of art and cultures of Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries and communities announced Mark Rosenberg as its new Chairman. Rosenberg succeeds Philippe de Montebello, who significantly raised the museums profile for nearly a decade. Philippe de Montebello will remain with HSM&L as Chairman Emeritus, working closely in collaboration with Rosenberg and the team at the HSM&L. In addition, Sergio J. Galvis and Maria Cortez de Lobão are elected Co-Vice-Chairs of the HSM&L. It has been an honor to serve and lead the Board of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library for nine years. It is not without some degree of nostalgia that I decided it was time ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Margaret Fownes-Luttrell was born February 07, 1726. Margaret Fownes-Luttrell (7 February 1726 - 13 August 1766) was an English artist and wife of Henry Fownes Luttrell. Two of her paintings are part of the Dunster Castle collection, now property of the National Trust. She was the heiress of Dunster Castle, under the stipulation in her father's will that her husband should take the additional surname of Luttrell. Four portraits of her exist in Dunster castle and a fifth at Bathealton Court. In this image: Margaret Luttrell (1726 - 1766), Mrs Henry Fownes Luttrell.
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