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The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City by Diego Rivera, on display at the San Francisco Art Institute. SFAI via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- The main campus of the bankrupt San Francisco Art Institute, which is home to a beloved Diego Rivera mural, has been sold to a new nonprofit organization led by philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs. The nonprofit, made up of local arts leaders and supporters including Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, bought the campus which has been plagued by debt through a limited liability company, for about $30 million. The sale, reported earlier in The San Francisco Chronicle, includes The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, a 1931 mural by Rivera, which has been valued at $50 million and will remain in a viewing room. The former school will house an unaccredited institution that will include a residency program where artists can develop their work and show their work, said David Stull, president of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, who is a member of the new nonprofit organizations advisory committee. He described t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Jonas Mekas, Requiem, 2019, installation view at San Carlo Cremona, Cremona, 2024. Courtesy the Estate of Jonas Mekas and Apalazzogallery. Photo credit: Form Group.
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| This ancient factory helped purple reign | | On the trail of the denisovans | | London bids farewell, for now, to a beloved, overstuffed walrus |
In an undated image provided by Moshe Caine, via Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, pieces of an ancient vat of purple dye from Tel Shiqmona. (Moshe Caine, via Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The most prized pigment of antiquity was processed not from a tangle of root or the frothy extract of a weed, but by drawing out a slimy secretion from the mucus glands behind the anus of murex sea snails the bottom ... More | |
In an undated image provided by Thilo Parg, Molar Denisova 4 found in Denisova Cave in Siberia in 2000. (Thilo Parg via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Neanderthals may have vanished 40,000 years ago, but they are no strangers to us today. Their stocky skeletons dazzle in museums around the world. Their imagined personas star in television ads. When Kevin Bacon noted on Instagram that his morning habits are like those of a Neanderthal, he did not stop to explain ... More | |
A giant stuffed walrus sits on display in the middle of the Natural History Gallery at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, where it has sat for most of the past 120 years, in London on April 16, 2016. (David Azia /The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Southeast London has temporarily lost one of its most famous residents: a giant taxidermy walrus that has been on display for more than a century. For most of the past 120 years, the walrus has sat in the middle of the Natural ... More |
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| Saatchi Yates opening new gallery in St James with new solo show by Lebanese painter Omar El Lahib | | Landmark exhibition that examines overlooked impact of day jobs in visual arts comes to the Cantor | | Poignant exhibitions celebrate legacies of women émigrés seeking refuge during the tumultuous 1930s |
Omar El-Lahib, Night Music, 2023. Oil on canvas, 195 x 155 cm.
LONDON.- Saatchi Yates is now opening the second solo show by Lebanese artist Omar El Lahib. Avoiding explicit meanings, El Lahib invites viewers to construct their own interpretations, blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Influenced by the great Dutch masters as well as Gustav Klimt and Edvard Munch, his ... More | |
Julia Scher, Security by Julia Uniforms, 1998. Two uniforms with embroidery. Courtesy the artist, Ortuzar Projects, New York and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul. Photo © Jörg von Bruchhausen.
STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is presentingt Day Jobs, the first major exhibition to examine the overlooked impact of day jobs on the visual arts. On view from today to July 21, 2024, Day Jobs is curated by Veronica Roberts, ... More | |
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Lorette in the Studio © Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust.
LONDON.- Burgh House in Hampstead is announcing the opening of two poignant exhibitions that spotlight the extraordinary artistic legacies of women émigrés who sought refuge in Hampstead during the tumultuous years of the 1930s. Marie-Louise von Motesiczky: (in)Visible Women and About Women: photographs ... More |
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| Pinecone motif inspiration for new series of paintings by Benjamin Butler | | Estúdio Campana presents 'On the Road' at Friedman Benda | | Ruth Laskey's debut exhibition with Altman Siegel to open tomorrow |
Benjamin Butler, Pinecone (Three), 2022. Oil on canvas, 120 à 100 cm (47 ¼ à 39 ⅜ inches).
NEW YORK, NY.- Benjamin Butlers sixth solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery centers around a body of work that began taking shape shortly after his 2022 exhibition at the gallerys Ludlow Street space. In that show, Butler had included a single ... More | |
Jalapão Chair, Branca, 2024. Capim dourado, leather, sheepskin, steel, 35.5 x 37.5 x 29.5 inches, 90 x 95 x 75 cm. Edition of 8. FB39622.
NEW YORK, NY.- Friedman Benda is announcing On the Road, a new exhibition by Estúdio Campana in New York. The show opens on March 7 and runs through April 20, 2024. This is the fifth solo ... More | |
Ruth Laskey, Twill Series (Loops 3), 2023. Hand-woven and hand-dyed linen
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Altman Siegel is scheduled to open Ruth Laskeys debut exhibition with the gallery tomorrow. Evocative of gesture and movement, the newest works in Laskeys Twill Series, Loops, continue to expand upon her ability ... More |
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| The verdict on the new Alexander McQueen | | To find great values in Italian wine, look to Abruzzo | | Dressing the forgotten woman |
A model presents a look at the Junya Watanabe fall 2024 fashion show in Paris in March 2024. (Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times)
PARIS.- That the death of Iris Apfel, the geriatric influencer whose idiosyncratic sense of personal style made her a fashion star when she was well into her 80s, happened smack in the middle of Paris Fashion Week was both startling and oddly fitting. All the appreciations of her life and outfits have ... More | |
Cristiana Tiberio, who runs Tiberio with her brother, on the estate in Cugnoli, Italy, in the countrys Abruzzo region, Feb. 22, 2024. A new generation of exacting growers and winemakers has brought vitality to an Italian region known for its cheap wines. (Massimo Berruti/The New York Times)
CUGNOLI.- The Abruzzo region of eastern central Italy, on the Adriatic coast, is home to montepulciano dAbruzzo, a popular red wine that paradoxically has been historically little known and rarely very good. ... More | |
A model walks the runway at the Undercover fall 2024 fashion show in Paris in February 2024. (Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times)
PARIS.- As always, she wakes up just before the alarm goes off. As always, she gets up in the dark and walks into the bathroom. As always, she quickly looks into the mirror. Yes, Thats her. Forty years old, mother of one, single, working. So went the voice-over at the Undercover show: ... More |
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An ocean moon thought to be habitable may be oxygen-starved
NEW YORK, NY.- Under its bright, frosty shell, Jupiters moon Europa is thought to harbor a salty ocean, making it a world that might be one of the most habitable places in our solar system. But life as we know it needs oxygen. And its an open question whether Europas ocean has it. Now, astronomers have nailed down how much of the molecule gets made at the icy moons surface, which could be a source of oxygen for the waters below. Using data from NASAs Juno mission, the results, published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggest that the frozen world generates less oxygen than some astronomers may have hoped for. Its on the lower end of what we would expect, said Jamey Szalay, a plasma physicist at Princeton University who led the study. But its not totally prohibitive for habitability, he added. ... More
The Vienna Philharmonic tours with a favorite conductor
NEW YORK, NY.- The Vienna Philharmonic hasnt had a chief conductor since 1933. But it has had favorite conductors. Of the great musicians who have led this self-governing, proudly idiosyncratic orchestra, Leonard Bernstein and Pierre Boulez were made honorary members; Herbert von Karajan and Karl Böhm were given honorary conducting titles. Violinist Daniel Froschauer, the Philharmonics chair, has said that today, the ensemble not so secretly has two maestros at the top of its roster: Riccardo Muti and Franz Welser-Möst. At Carnegie Hall last weekend, it was the Austrian-born Welser-Möst, 63, who conducted three breathless, exhilarating and often moving performances by the Philharmonic, in meaty programs of Bruckner and Mahler symphonies, and works by Berg, Hindemith, Schoenberg, Strauss and Ravel. It takes ... More
RuPaul is sending a rainbow bus to give away books targeted by bans
NEW YORK, NY.- At a time of book bans and efforts by state legislatures to ban drag shows, the performer and television producer who is arguably the countrys most famous drag star, RuPaul, is the co-founder of a new online bookstore that will be sending a rainbow school bus from the West Coast to the South to distribute the very books targeted by those bans. He announced Monday that he was one of three business partners behind the bookstore, Allstora, which will promote underrepresented authors and provide writers with a greater share of profits than other online booksellers do. RuPaul said this sort of book website would fill an important gap, especially in these strange days, were living in, to support the ideas of people who are willing to push the conversation forward. In recent years, there has been a sharp rise ... More
Tony's booth from 'Sopranos' finale sells for $82,600
NEW YORK, NY.- Tony Soprano puts a quarter into the jukebox to play Dont Stop Believin and orders onion rings for the table. His wife and son join him as his daughter struggles to parallel park outside. A bell chimes every time a customer arrives, deepening Tonys anxiety: Will the next person to walk through the door kill him? What happens next has kept fans guessing since the final scene of The Sopranos abruptly cut to black in 2007. It has also kept a few of them energized enough to bid tens of thousands of dollars to own the diner booth where the much-dissected sequence was shot. Holstens in Bloomfield, New Jersey, which is preparing for a renovation, put the burgundy booth and yellow Formica tabletop up for auction on eBay on Feb. 28. Chris Carley, a co-owner of the ice cream parlor, set the opening bid at $3,000, hoping ... More
A collaborative project: Shtager&Shch, London, hosts Gallery IRAGUI, Paris
LONDON.- Want to feel better? How about taking a good dose of art? The four artists in this show are all fighting for the belief that there is a better future, but the route there is unclear or at best glimpsed in broken pieces. One painting by Linda Carrara could be a window or a door but it is impenetrable. Others evoke memories of easier, dreamier times. Pavel Pepperstein and Jeanne Susplugas let us snatch at snippets of floating existence. Susplugas is looking to find temporary relief from Disorder. She wants to reorder our chemical make-up with the aid of a few mind-bending books and pills. Carlos Noronha Feio has adopted a traditionally feminine reproach to masculine violence. His rugs seem like an attempt to mend time with stitches. He has looked at Afghan rugs of the 1970s and 1980s which literally depict ultimately doomed ... More
Paintings and drawings of suburban house-scapes by Celia Reisman on view at Paul Thiebaud Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Paul Thiebaud Gallery is currently showing Chosen Places, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Philadelphia based artist Celia Reisman, which opened on Saturday, February 17th. On view are eleven paintings and drawings of suburban house-scapes from the artists travels across the United States, as well as a new series of works Reisman made during her recent teaching trip to Ireland in the summer of 2023. Straddling the divide between realism and abstraction, Reismans paintings and drawings draw inspiration from and reveal the beauty found in everyday domestic architecture and its arrangement in the landscape. The exhibition will be on view through April 6, 2024. For Celia Reisman, recording memory of a place the arrangement of buildings, the placement of trees and plants, ... More
Photographer Sean Kernan's 'The Missing Pictures' solo exhibition opens at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center today
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Missing Pictures, a new series of work by Connecticut-based photographer and filmmaker Sean Kernan, is being featured in a solo exhibition at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento, beginning today. In addition to the photographs, clips of Kernans companion documentary film, The Visitor, will be screened via Zoom, in a session with the artist, on Thursday, March 14th, at 6:15pm PST. Two bodies of work are represented in the series, as expressed in both film and photographs, which had its genesis while sheltering in 2020 at Kernans great-grandfathers house in upstate New York. Armed with a camera, Kernan visited alone during four seasons, and recorded ... More
Exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Tomas Watson now on view at Anita Rogers Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery is now opening Transitions, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Tomas Watson. The work spans a period from 2017 to the present; a period which for Watson was characterized by radical upheaval, both emotionally and physically. On the new work in the exhibition, Watson states: "These paintings are about my life, not in a descriptive or specific sense, but rather in the form of observations that open up the possibility of a deeper, universal meaning." Figurative art may seem an outdated form to pursue in our times, a form already perfected long ago. There are a few contemporary artists, however, who practice this at the caliber of the Renaissance masters in terms of drawing, composition, and technique but who are also firmly grounded in a modern approach. ... More
A writer's to-do list: Learn history. Learn Chinese. Learn to draw comics.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Tessa Hulls set out to write a book about three generations of women in her family, she had few illusions about how hard the task would be. The tale was geographically sprawling, and spanned a century: Her grandmother Sun Yi, a journalist in Shanghai, fled China for Hong Kong in 1957, then slowly went mad; her mother, Rose, attended an elite boarding school in Hong Kong founded in part for the mixed-race children of European expatriates, then moved to the United States in 1970. Much of her familys story was accessible only via her grandmothers memoir a bestseller published in Hong Kong and written in Mandarin, a language that Hulls, who was born and raised in Northern California, could not read and through her mother, whom Hulls had spent a lifetime running away from. To make matters even ... More
Bringing 'Teeth,' a feminist awakening with a lethal bite, to the stage
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael R. Jackson doesnt have a vagina. He also doesnt not have one. While Im not a teen evangelical with teeth in my vagina, he said, spiritually I am. Jacksons spectral self-identity was a guiding light as he and composer Anna K. Jacobs collaborated on Teeth, a new musical based on Mitchell Lichtensteins 2007 indie scary movie of the same name. Its about a high school student named Dawn who discovers to her horror that she has vagina dentata a myth, found across cultures and eras, about a vagina that has a lethal set of chompers. (The film is streaming on Tubi, and the show is in previews off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons before a March 12 opening.) If youre going to musicalize a horror movie, Teeth is a doozy and a gamble. Darkly comic and at times stomach-churningly gory, its a touchstone ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo was born March 06, 1475. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. In this image: A portrait painting (ca. 1544) of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra hangs on the wall at the Michelangelo exhibit titled 'Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 13, 2017 in New York City.
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