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| Frank Stella, towering artist and master of reinvention, dies at 87 | | 20 unforgettable looks at the Met Gala | | Shelley Duvall vanished from Hollywood. She's been here the whole time. |
Frank Stella, a dominant figure in postwar American art, at home in New York on Feb. 5, 2019. Here he stands with pieces from his personal collection. From left, Jack Youngermans Aztec III (1959) and Frank Owens Chamber III (1981). (Christopher Gregory/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Frank Stella, whose laconic pinstripe black paintings of the late 1950s closed the door on abstract expressionism and pointed the way to an era of cool minimalism, died Saturday at his home in New York. He was 87. His wife, Dr. Harriet E. McGurk, said the cause was lymphoma. Stella was a dominant figure in postwar American art, a restless, relentless innovator whose explorations of color and form made him an outsize presence, endlessly discussed and constantly on exhibit. Few American artists of the 20th century arrived with quite his eclat. He was in his early 20s when his large-scale black paintings precisely delineated black stripes separated by thin lines of blank canvas took the art world by storm. Austere, self-referential, opaque, they cast a chilling spell. ... More | |
Zendaya at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- By Monday morning, the answer to one of the biggest questions looming over the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York had emerged. Would members of the union representing employees of Vogue and other Condé Nast publications proceed with threatened ... More | |
The actor Shelley Duvall looks at a snapshot of her and Robin Williams on the set of Robert Altmans Popeye while sitting in her Toyota 4Runner near her home in Texas on Nov. 14, 2023. (Katherine Squier/The New York Times)
AUSTIN, TX.- On a winding back road of Texas Hill Country, Shelley Duvall pulled over and lit another cigarette. How did you like Egypt? she called out from the white Toyota 4Runner she spends most of her days in, and some nights, much to the chagrin of her partner, Dan Gilroy. The Egypt ... More |
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| Cass Elliot's death spawned a horrible myth. She deserves better. | | They put a 65-foot hot dog in Times Square, and it's a blast | | Cocktail hour at the Met Gala: What comes after the carpet |
The most difficult passages of My Mama, Cass are those in which Elliot-Kugell reckons with her mothers persistent loneliness.
NEW YORK, NY.- Onstage with her group the Mamas & the Papas at the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967, Cass Elliot, the grand doyenne of the Laurel Canyon scene, bantered with the timing of a vaudeville comedian. Somebody asked ... More | |
The artists Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw near their installation Hot Dog in the City, a 65-foot-long hot dog, at Duffy Square in Times Square in New York, May 3, 2024. (Lanna Apisukh/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- As the sun set on a cloudy evening in Times Square on Friday, a 65-foot-long frankfurter cantilevered into the sky and spewed out a blast of rainbow confetti. At the foot (tail?) of its bun, drag wrestlers were finishing their match in an ... More | |
Anna Wintour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Up the carpeted stairs, past the tuxedoed photographers, Anna Wintour stood at the top of the steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute benefit. Your royal highnesses, Baz Luhrmann, the Australian film director, said as he approached Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez ... More |
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| It was the biggest job of his life. Was he on target, or off by half? | | How much money did this year's Met Gala raise? | | Locks of Beethoven's hair offer new clues to the mystery of his deafness |
Bruce Gamage Jr. at his antique shop in Rockland, Maine, April 11, 2024. (Cig Harvey/The New York Times)
ROCKLAND, ME.- Whenever a worthy cause needs help in Rockland, Maine, this town of 7,000 overlooking Penobscot Bay, people reach out to Bruce Gamage Jr., an auctioneer who runs an antiques shop downtown. Regularly, he drops what hes doing to drum up bidding at charity auctions organized for, say, the historical society or an injured child, ... More | |
Precious Lee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Landon Nordeman/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- At the Met Gala on Monday, a throng of photographers fought to capture Zendaya and Kim Kardashian parading couture gowns down the red (technically, mouthwash-green) carpet. Not pictured: dollar signs. A lot of them. This years event raised about $26 million for the ... More | |
Two authenticated locks of Beethoven's hair collected by Alexander Thayer, which were found to contain astounding levels of lead per gram of hair. (Kevin Brown via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- At 7 p.m. May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven, then 53, strode onto the stage of the magnificent Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna to help conduct the world premiere of his Ninth Symphony, the last he would ever complete. That performance, ... More |
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| After the Met Gala, the parties lasted all night | | Robert Oxnam, China scholar beset by multiple personalities, dies at 81 | | Exploring Identity and Expression: The Luminous Portraiture of Leonor Fini at Weinstein Gallery |
Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos at a Met Gala after-party at Boom, the venue at the top of the Standard High Line Hotel in New York, May 6, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- One reason the Met Gala after-parties are nearly as famous as the Met Gala itself has to do with an incident that took place 10 years ago at the Standard Hotel in the West Village of Manhattan. ... More | |
Former Asia Society President Robert Oxnam at his home in New York, on Sept. 28, 2005. (Heidi Schumann/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert B. Oxnam, an eminent China scholar who learned through psychotherapy that his years of erratic behavior could be explained by the torment of having multiple personalities, died April 18 at his home in Greenport, New York, on the North Fork of Long Island. He was 81. His wife, Vishakha Desai, said the cause ... More | |
Portrait of Mrs. H I, 1942. Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- Weinstein Gallery is presenting Leonor Fini: Portraits and Passagers, an exhibition of the artist's distinguished body of work in portraiture from 1939 to 1992. Exemplified in twenty-four carefully curated paintings and works on paper, this presentation explores the multifaceted nature of identity through Fini's discerning gaze. ... More |
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| A land artist's work evades demolition | | Pamela Anderson on her Met Gala debut: 'I Am Playing Me' | | The artist who burned the U.S. Flag raises a new one in Venice |
The lawsuit is the latest twist in a fight over the fate of Greenwood Pond, which has highlighted the difficulty of preserving large-scale public artworks, especially for smaller institutions.
NEW YORK, NY.- A work of environmental art by Mary Miss has evaded demolition for now. A judge in U.S. District Court in Des Moines on Friday granted her request for a preliminary injunction that would bar the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa, the museum that commissioned the land art installation, from dismantling it. The museum maintains that it has become a safety hazard and that the resources ... More | |
Pamela Anderson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Pamela Anderson never thought she would go to the Met Gala. She was, in her most famous years, not a Met Gala kind of girl; her pictures in Playboy, not Vogue. But ahead of the first Monday in May there she was, finally, at age 56, getting ready to take her place on the red carpet at the museum. I feel like everything has led me ... More | |
A passport from the fictional All African Peoples Consulate at the 60th Venice Biennale, in Venice, Italy, April 12, 2024. The artist Dread Scott, an American godfather of activism, opened the fictional consulate along the Grand Canal during the biennale as a challenge to the notion that Europeans can decide when and where Africans can move. (Matteo de Mayda/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Nobody would accuse activist-artist Dread Scott of being a diplomat. He would rather dismantle power structures than sustain them. But the All African Peoples Consulate he has created as a conceptual artwork along the Grand Canal during the 60th Venice Biennale has quickly become a solid gathering place for the Black community in a city that hasnt always been hospitable ... More |
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Police make arrests while trying to contain protestsNEW YORK, NY.- While stars, celebrities and Anna Wintour ascended the steps at the Met Gala on Monday night, protesters began assembling on the streets just surrounding the museum. In Central Park, a small group of protesters, accompanied by an American Civil Liberties Union observer in a blue vest, gathered with cardboard signs reading No Met Gala While Bombs Drop in Gaza and No Celebration Without Liberation, mixed in among signs that mostly dealt directly with the war in the Gaza Strip. Representatives of the group declined to answer questions or say how many protesters they were expecting. Another larger group made its way along Fifth Avenue, with many participants waving Palestinian flags and chanting Gaza! Gaza! as they clapped and banged drums. ... More The Wadsworth acquires rare work by master Renaissance sculptor, GiambolognaHARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art acquired Striding Mars (Mars Gradivus) a rare and important work by the Italian Renaissance sculptor, Giambologna. Modelled between 1565-1570 and cast in Florence around 1580, the small-scale (15.5 x 22.5 inches) bronze statuette epitomizes the artists mastery of the human form, with the grace, elegance, and dynamism for which he has been renowned for centuries. Opportunities to acquire a masterpiece of outstanding quality such as the Giambolognas Mars are rare. This extraordinary work of art transforms our collection of European sculpture to complement the exceptional strength of our European paintings, said Matthew Hargraves, Director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. ... More Frank Stella went from Bauhaus to fun houseNEW YORK, NY.- Frank Stella, who died Saturday at age 87, once joked that he harbored only one regret. We were sitting in his scruffy studio in the East Village, and he said he was sorry that he had failed to take legal action when the menswear store bearing his name opened in New York in the mid-1970s. People call here all the time asking for cashmere coats, he said. Stella, it can safely be said, was not a fashion plate. To the end of his life, he had the aura of a nervous whiz kid with oversize glasses and frizzy hair. He counted himself among the socially marginalized and once joked in a personal letter about all us miscreants who drifted into the Bowery of Life, the art world.
... More 'Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm' opens at the Brooklyn MuseumBROOKLYN, NY.- As The Beatles captured the hearts of millions, Paul McCartney captured it all on his Pentax film camera. Paul McCartney Photographs 196364: Eyes of the Storm takes visitors inside the 196364 frenzy of Beatlemania, as the bands first U.S. tour skyrocketed them to global fame. More than 250 of McCartneys photographs, recently rediscovered in his archives, reveal his singular vantage point at the center of this whirlwind of attention and adorationilluminating both the historical, and the personal, moments McCartney and his bandmates experienced together. First on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England, the exhibition makes its New York debut at the Brooklyn Museum. ... More |
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