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The artist Ruth Patir, Israels representative at the Venice Bienalle who says she wont open her show in the national pavilion until Israel and Hamas reach a cease-fire and hostage release agreement, outside her exhibition in Venice, Italy on April 15, 2024. I hate it, she said in an interview about her decision, but I think its important. (Matteo de Mayda/The New York Times)
VENICE.- The Israel pavilion at the Venice Biennale is closed this year, since its creative team decided not to exhibit work until there was a cease-fire and hostage deal in the Gaza Strip, but it was nonetheless the site of a large demonstration Wednesday that drew more than 100 protesters. Viva, viva Palestina! the protesters chanted as they marched through the gardens where much of the Biennale takes place. The protest was organized by a mix of artists involved in the Biennale and activists not affiliated with the event. We gather as arts workers ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Swiss Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, commissioned by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, presents the exhibition Super Superior Civilizations by Swiss-Brazilian artist Guerreiro do Divino Amor, curated by Andrea Bellini.
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| Yancey Richardson presents 12 new paintings and three collages by artist Mary Lum | | Pavilion of Switzerland presents 'Super Superior Civilization by Guerreiro do Divino Amor' | | Marian Zazeela, an artist of light and design, dies at 83 |
Mary Lum, three red dots, 2024. Acrylic, photo, colored pencil, found pencil, collage on paper, 14 7/8 x 11 1/2 inches. Unique.
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of new work by artist Mary Lum is on view from April 4 through May 18, 2024. The show, temporary arrangements, presents 12 new paintings and three collages that deconstruct and rebuild intimate views of the urban environment inspired by walks in New York and Paris. Lum mines aspects of daily life, vistas of architecture, design, and advertising that could easily go unnoticed. These familiar ... More | |
Installation view of Super Superior Civilizationsby Guerreiro do Divino Amor at the Pavilion of Switzerland at the Biennale Arte 2024. Photo by Samuele Cherubini.
VENICE.- The Swiss Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, commissioned by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, presents the exhibition Super Superior Civilizations by Swiss-Brazilian artist Guerreiro do Divino Amor, curated by Andrea Bellini. The Swiss Pavilion exhibition presents the sixth and seventh chapters of fiuerreiro do Divino Amors monumental "Super- fictional World Atlas" ... More | |
Artist Marian Zazeela in a family photo, circa 1960. Zazeela, an artist who pivoted from painting to lighting exhibitions, performance art, graphic design and minimalist music, died in her sleep on March 28, 2024, after an illness. She was 83. (via Zazeela family via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In avant-garde New York, one of the most pilgrimaged sites has been the Dream House, a sensory environment that since 1993 has occupied the third story of a walk-up on Church Street in lower Manhattan. From the ceiling of that small, carpeted room, theater lights treated ... More |
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| The Latvian Pavilion opens with Amanda Ziemel exhibition | | Construction begins on Phase II of the Rothko Chapel's Opening Spaces campus development plan | | The Sultanate of Oman unveils the exhibition: Malath-Haven |
Amanda Ziemele (1990) graduated from the Visual Arts Department of the Art Academy of Latvia, with a Bachelors degree in Painting.
VENICE.- The Latvian Pavilion opened at the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia with Amanda Ziemeles O day and night, but this is wondrous strange... and therefore as a stranger give it welcome", inviting the viewers to take an open and accepting stance in order to best experience her chosen original language of painting. A cloud which fell quasi-dramatically, like ... More | |
Project enhances the visitor experience and supports the expansion of the Chapels mission at the intersection of art, spirituality, and human rights. Rendering courtesy of ARO.
HOUSTON, TX.- Today, the Rothko Chapel broke ground on Phase II of its Opening Spaces campus plan, a $42 million, multi-year restoration and expansion campaign. At the groundbreaking ceremony, the Chapels Executive Director, David Leslie, and Opening Spaces Co-Chairman Lee Lahourcade were joined by partners from ... More | |
The Fate of Outsiders by Adham al-Farsi. Image courtesy of National Pavilion of the Sultanate of Oman, Venice Biennale. Photo: Asim Al Balushi.
VENICE.- The Sultanate of Oman has officially revealed its second national Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition, titled "Malath-Haven," will run from April 20 to November 24, 2024. Curated by Alia Al Farsi and titled Malath-Haven, the exhibition presents new artworks by five prominent Omani contemporary artists: Ali Al Jabri, Essa Al Mufarji, Sarah ... More |
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| The Pavilion of Ireland is officially open at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia | | National Gallery Singapore opens its Biennale participation with an exhibition of artists from its collection | | Barbara Joans, anthropologist who studied biker culture, dies at 89 |
Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND, photographed 2023. Production still. Photo © Faolán Carey. Courtesy Eimear Walshe and Ireland at Venice.
VENICE.- Culture Ireland presents ROMANTIC IRELAND, an exhibition by Eimear Walshe curated by Sara Greavu and Project Arts Centre for the Irish Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Through a practice that spans video, sculpture, publishing, sound, and performance, Eimear Walshes work traces the legacies of late 19th century land contestation in Ireland and its relation to private property, sexual conservatism, ... More | |
Labourer (Lunch Break) (1965) by Lai Foong Moi (pictured on the left). Exhibition view of Nucleo Storico section in the Main Exhibition of Venice Biennale 2024. Image: National Gallery Singapore.
VENICE.- National Gallery Singapore announced that for the first time in the countrys history, artists from the Gallerys collection have been invited to participate in the Main Exhibition of the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (Biennale Arte 2024), entitled Stranieri Ovunque Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. The artworks are be featured ... More | |
Barbara Joans. Joans, an iconoclastic anthropologist and feminist who, in her early 60s, became something of a Margaret Mead in black leather, steering her Harley-Davidson deep into a biker culture and producing the 2001 book, Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, and American Society, died on March 6, 2024, in Santa Cruz, Calif. (Kenneth Harmon via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Barbara Joans, an iconoclastic anthropologist and feminist who, in her early 60s, became something of a Margaret Mead in black leather, steering her Harley-Davidson deep into a biker culture and producing the 2001 book, ... More |
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| 'The Wiz' eases back to Broadway | | Taylor Swift sells a rainbow of vinyl albums. Fans keep buying them. | | Suchan Kinoshita receives the BelgianArtPrize 2025 |
Wayne Brady as the Wiz in The Wiz at the Marquis Theater in New York, March 28, 2024. (Richard Termine/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Let me start with a confession: Ive never liked The Wizard of Oz. But give me a retelling with, say, a Black Dorothy and Black Oz, and Im immediately clicking my heels. When The Wiz debuted on Broadway in 1975, it was a colorful exclamation of Blackness on the stage. Thats to say a Black score, by Charlie Smalls, ... More | |
Six vinyl variants of Taylor Swifts Midnights, clockwise from top left, mahogany, moonstone blue, blood moon, lavender, jade green and love potion purple. (via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When Taylor Swift released nine vinyl editions of her album Folklore in 2020, Tylor Hammers, a fan in Florida, took notice. But it wasnt until Midnights two years later that he became a true collector, scouring the internet and retail shops for every variation of her albums he could ... More | |
Kinoshitas works deal with combinations of several disciplines.
BRUSSELS.- The non-profit organisation La Jeune Peinture Belge - De Jonge Belgische Schilderkunst announces the laureate of the BelgianArtPrize 2025. Suchan Kinoshita was selected by the jury and is invited to create and present new work at the Centre for Fine Arts Brussels / Bozar from 24 April to 29 June 2025. The BelgianArtPrize is the best known award for contemporary art in Belgium. ... More |
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National Portrait Gallery announces shortlist for Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2024
LONDON.- Three artists have been shortlisted for the prestigious Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2024 (11 July until 27 October 2024), which makes a welcome return to the National Portrait Gallery in 2024. The three shortlisted portraits were selected from 1,647 entries from 62 countries, with 50 selected for final display. Entries were submitted anonymously and judged by a panel, which included the National Portrait Gallerys Director, Dr Nicholas Cullinan OBE; visual artist, Barbara Walker MBE RA; sociologist and bioethicist, Sir Tom Shakespeare; actor and host of the podcast, Talk Art, Russell Tovey; and the Gallerys Curator for Contemporary Collections, Tanya Bentley. The three shortlisted portraits are: · Zizi (2023) by Isabella Watling · Jacqueline with Still Life (2020) by Antony Williams · Lying (2020) by Catherine Chambers ... More
Denis Villeneuve answers all your questions about 'Dune: Part Two'
NEW YORK, NY.- This weekend, Dune: Part Two muscles back into IMAX theaters with the verve of Timothée Chalamet rodeo-riding a giant sandworm. After nearly two months in theaters, the film is the current champion of this years box office race, with a total take of more than $680 million. (Its also available to rent or buy on some streaming platforms.) The films success is thanks in part to audiences that have returned over and over to get lost in the rocky warrens and spiritual reckonings of the planet Arrakis. One admirer reports hes seen the movie 25 times to date. That theres so much to explore in Dune: Part Two is a credit to its writer and director, Denis Villeneuve, who boldly reshaped Frank Herberts complex and cerebral 1965 novel Dune. Villeneuve split the book and its themes into two films: Dune: Part One, released in 2021, focused ... More
Before she became music's greatest teacher, she wrote an opera
NEW YORK, NY.- In March 1912, famous violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe visited the home of his fellow musician Raoul Pugno in Paris. At the piano, Pugno played and sang through La Ville Morte, an opera he was writing with Nadia Boulanger, a mentee-turned-collaborator 35 years his junior. Of this very private performance, Ysaÿe wrote to Boulanger later that month, I keep the most profound and happiest impression. The opera, he told her, was so beautiful, so sound, so poignant. La Ville Morte was the most ambitious project of Boulangers young composing career. And once it took shape, with a piano-vocal score completed that summer, she wrote under the final measures, Alleluia!!!! But one thing after another kept La Ville Morte from reaching the stage. In 1914, Pugno, an essential partner in selling it to the public, died. ... More
A Pulitzer-winning composer puts his operatic spin on Edith Wharton
NEW YORK, NY.- Composer and pianist Anthony Davis is known for drawing inspiration from real-world figures in his operas. X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X recently mounted by the Metropolitan Opera and The Central Park Five, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020, are both grave, ripped-from-the-headlines stories about well-known people. But Davis has also written rollicking adaptations of literary material. Less frequently produced but no less interesting are chamber operas like Lilith, a saucy and inventive take on the story of Adams first wife that features a divorce court in the Garden of Eden. Similarly, Lear on the 2nd Floor is a riff on Shakespeare that brings King Lear into contemporary discussions about medicine and Alzheimers disease. The Reef, Davis latest music drama to arrive onstage and his follow-up to The ... More
Abe Koogler's new play is an ode to intense culinary experiences
NEW YORK, NY.- Abe Koogler didnt grow up going to many restaurants. He was raised on Vashon Island, Washington sparse and bucolic with an artsy populace, a few miles southwest of Seattle in a house without a TV, where meals were mostly eaten at home, his free time spent fashioning handmade puppets onto chopsticks. So when he moved to New York, a city with restaurants on virtually every corner, he found the hustle and bustle of Manhattans highbrow establishments fascinating. Living in New York, you walk by all these highly curated, beautiful, warm spaces where people are in the middle of this intense culinary experience, Koogler said on a rainy afternoon in midtown. And I like looking at these windows and imagining what its like for the people inside. A lot of it is being fascinated and not knowing why, he added. Koogler, 39, is known for his darkly comedic play ... More
Philharmonic opens inquiry after misconduct allegations are revived
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Philharmonic, which has been facing an uproar since a recent magazine article detailed allegations of misconduct against two players it tried and failed to fire in 2018, said Thursday that it was commissioning an outside investigation into its culture. Gary Ginstling, the Philharmonics president and CEO, said in a letter to musicians, staff members and board members that the organization had hired an outside lawyer, Katya Jestin, a managing partner of the law firm Jenner & Block, to launch an independent investigation into the culture of the New York Philharmonic in recent years. I am empowering Katya to look at everything and to leave no stone unturned, including any new allegations as they are reported, Ginstling wrote. The decision came after a report last week in New York magazine detailed accusations ... More
Tennis & sports posters at Swann May 9
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries Thursday, May 9 poster auction offers the worlds most preeminent private tennis and sport collection. With more than 100 scarce and desirable tennis posters coming to auction, this will be the largest collection of tennis posters ever to hit the market, in addition to other sporting images. This singular collection, spanning the 1890s through the 1950s, is the result of a family passion for tennis, fitness and art. The Schwartz family used posters to decorate their well-known clubs, resulting in an assemblage of rare and exciting images from all over the world. Tennis poster enthusiasts will delight in seeing favorites, but they will have the unparalleled opportunity to view and acquire images that dont appear in the pages of the prominent books written about tennis posters. Rarities include over half a dozen Wimbledon posters ... More
From Dürer to Katz, over 500 years of artistry in Freeman's / Hindman's upcoming fine art sales
CHICAGO, IL.- On April 24 and 25, Freemans | Hindman brings a robust selection of paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and prints and multiples to market. Representing some of the most esteemed and coveted names in art historyfrom Pablo Picasso and Roy Lichtenstein to Louise Nevelson and Alex Katzthe Post War and Contemporary Art and Prints and Multiples auctions offer something for every collector. Leading the April 24 Post War and Contemporary Art sale are two mesmerizing Alex Katz paintings from The Private Collection of Debra and Harry Seigle, Chicago, Illinois. Alex Katzs Ariel (lot 13; estimate: $300,000 500,000) is a quietly moody portrait of one of Katzs frequent muses. Katzs deceptively simple and flat canvases defy two-dimensionality; their emotional depth has made him one of the most widely exhibited ... More
Works by Edgar Payne, Phil Dike, and Grandma Moses highlight Moran's California and American Fine Art sale
LOS ANGELES, CA.- John Moran Auctioneers will present their bi-annual California and American Fine Art auction on Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 at 12:pm PDT. This sale will feature 140 hand-picked works by noted California & American artists, including: Alson Clark, Edgar Payne, Franz A. Bischoff, Maurice Braun, Elmer Wachtel, Hanson Puthuff, Armin Hansen, Angel Espoy, Charles Rollo Peters, Mischa Askenazy, Jessie Arms Botke, Phil Dike, Emile Gruppe, Arthur C. Goodwin, Edward Potthast, a handful of mid-late 19th century oils by William Keith, Thomas Hill, and John Ross Key and Herzog, Edith White, Samuel Kilburn will be featured. Contemporary California & American artists include selections by Charles ... More
St. Vincent dives headfirst into the darkness
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent Tuesday night in a dressing room of the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, Annie Clark, the 41-year-old musician who records as St. Vincent, thumbed through a shelf of secondhand records and sipped a glass of pink Champagne. Clark, invited to DJ the venueâs grand reopening party, was the roomâs first inhabitant since a major renovation restored the former movie palace; a pristine, new-car smell lingered. Holding court among a few members of her team and her 23-year-old sister, Clark was an attentive host in this antiseptic space, ready with a witty remark (the carefully curated LPs were probably âsomeoneâs deceased grandmaâs record collectionâ) or a topped-off beverage. She wore a cream-colored silk blouse, black kitten-heeled shoes and a gauzy black bow tied artfully around her neck. Even in a moment of relative repose, Clark possessed a feline hyper-awareness of her surroundings. Dave Grohl, who plays drums on two tracks off St. Vincentâs blistering new album âAll Born Scre ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Paolo Veronese died April 19, 1588. Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese ( (1528 - 19 April 1588), was an Italian Renaissance painter, based in Venice, known for large-format history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573). Included with Titian, a generation older, and Tintoretto, a decade senior, Veronese is one of the âgreat trio that dominated Venetian painting of the cinquecentoâ and the Late Renaissance in the 16th century. In this image: Left: Paolo Veronese (1528â1588), St. Agatha Visited in Prison by St. Peter, 1566â67, oil on canvas, 65 1/2 Ã 81 1/2 inches, San Pietro Martire, Murano; photo: Ufficio Beni Culturali del Patriarcato di Venezia. Right: Paolo Veronese (1528â1588), St. Jerome in the Wilderness, 1566 - 67 Oil on canvas, 91 Ã 57 1/4 inches, San Pietro Martire, Murano; photo: Ufficio Beni Culturali del Patriarcato di Venezia.
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