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Known for his unique renditions of the American flag using uncommon textiles and materials, Blanco will present another artistic twist on "Old Glory" at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in celebration of Labor Day. On Saturday, August 31, 2024, from 12:00 to 4:00 pm, Blanco will host an in-gallery workshop, Creation Station, where visitors are invited to create their own personalized American flag art.
BOCA RATON, FLA.- 2024 marks a pivotal year in American society and at the Boca Museum of Art as they celebrate their 75th anniversary. To ignite American spirit, the Museum proudly welcomes artist Mateo Blanco. Known for his unique renditions of the American flag using uncommon textiles and materials, Blanco will present another artistic twist on "Old Glory" at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in celebration of Labor Day. On Saturday, August 31, 2024, from 12:00 to 4:00 pm, Blanco will host an in-gallery workshop, Creation ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The V&A has become the stage for 13 installations that celebrate the creative process and career of 14-time Grammy Award winning artist, Taylor Swift. Each theatrical display includes a selection of objects on loan from the artist presented in spectacular galleries at V&A South Kensington, as part of a free trail across the museum.
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| National Gallery of Australia acquires significant painting by Paul Gauguin | | On August 17, sports memorabilia go up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals | | Stitch by stitch, Pacita Abad crossed continents and cultures |
Paul Gauguin, Le toit blue or Ferme au Pouldu (The blue roof or Farm at Le Pouldu) 1890, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2024 with the assistance of the National Gallery Foundation.
CANBERRA.- The National Gallery today announced the acquisition of The blue roof or Farm at Le Pouldu 1890 by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), the first painting by the artist to enter an Australian public collection. The blue roof or Farm at Le Pouldu is currently on display in the major exhibition Gauguins World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao. The exhibition traces Gauguins artistic journey and global travel from his Impressionist beginnings in 1873 to his final destination in French ... More | |
2017 Golden State Warriors Team Signed Ball. 16 signatures including Curry, Kerr, Thompson. Estimate $4,000-$6,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present Sports Memorabilia on Saturday, August 17, 2024. The sale offers 100 sports-related lots from a Northern California collector, featuring football, basketball, baseball, tennis, hockey, and figure skating. Most items are signed, including football helmets and balls, basketballs, baseball bats, ice skates, tennis balls, a hockey stick, several photographs of notable events, and more. Highlights include signed basketballs from the 2017 and 2018 Golden State ... More | |
Pacita Abads mixed medium artwork entitled Marcos and His Cronies, 198595, at MoMA PS1, in New York. (Kris Graves/MoMA PS1 via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- About a year before she died of cancer, in 2004, at the age of 58, artist Pacita Abad and a team painted a pedestrian bridge that crosses the Singapore River with exuberant colors and more than 2,000 circles. Surrounded by ho-hum hotels and apartment buildings, it radiates joy. Abads work is in museums throughout Asia, and in Manila, where she grew up, the National Museums holdings include a painfully lucid 1980 painting of two wary children, Cambodian refugees, holding each other. ... More |
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| Exhibition of Ohio artist's work coming to Cincinnati Art Museum | | A London museum trail for Taylor Swift fans | | This cowgirl's saddles are beautiful. The wait time is six years. |
George Bellows (American, 1882-1925), Self-Portrait, 1921, lithograph, Lent by Dr. James, and Mrs. Lois Sanitato.
CINCINNATI, OH.- A glimpse into the everyday life and spirit of early twentieth-century Americafrom the perspective of a noted Ohio painter, illustrator and printmakerwill be revealed at the Cincinnati Art Museum in George Bellows: American Life in Print. This free exhibition is on view October 25, 2024February 9, 2025. The exhibition will commemorate the 100th anniversary of George Bellows (18821925) passing ... More | |
Installation shot of Taylor Swift Songbook Trail at the V&A.
LONDON.- Disappointed Love, painted in 1821 by Irish artist Francis Danby, is a scene of eternal teenage wistfulness, its visual codes as readable now as they were back then. A young girl sits by a river, tearful and heartbroken, her head in her hands, her white dress pooling around her legs. In the water, pages of a torn letter float among the waterlilies. By her side are props of femininity: a straw bonnet, a bright red shawl and a miniature portrait of the man who wronged her. The work ... More | |
Saddlemaker Nancy Martiny draws at her home workshop in May, Idaho, June 1, 2024. (Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Nancy Martiny didnt know what she was doing when she made her first saddle. It took her almost a year of stolen afternoons between ranching, rodeoing and raising three children in rural Idaho to complete it. But because she did it under the guidance of a renowned saddlemaker, Dale Harwood, that first saddle turned out well. And because she was a real-life cowgirl who rode in that saddle while producing ... More |
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| In Hawaii, weaving new life into a nearly vanished art form | | Kenneth Grange, industrial designer of modern life, dies at 95 | | Centre Pompidou features a new presentation of the donation of Outsider art by Bruno Decharme |
Inger Kanoe Hojfeldt repairs a corner of a vintage mat in the living room of an 100-year-old estate house, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, on April 28, 2024. (Daeja Fallas/The New York Times)
OAHU.- Just past daybreak, before they began to weave, Emma Broderick and her mother, Maile Meyer, gathered beneath a canopy of sinuous leaves to greet the pū hala tree, a touchstone of Hawaiian culture that for generations has provided the raw materials for weaving moena, the traditional floor mats that were once ubiquitous in Hawaiian homes. Broderick introduced herself to the tree, with its lattice of stiltlike roots, ... More | |
Parking Meter, 1958. Designed by Kenneth Grange for Venner Ltd.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sir Kenneth Grange, a British industrial designer whose cameras, food mixers, trains, taxis, parking meters, pens, alarm clocks, lamps and razors were among the most celebrated objects of modernist, post-World War II design, died July 21 at his home in London. He was 95. His wife, Apryl Grange, confirmed the death. Spare, aesthetically pleasing, with a near maniacal focus on ease of use, Granges creations modernized the look, feel and routine of daily life, especially in Britain from waking up to switching ... More | |
August Walla, Untilted, 1983. Acrylic and felt pen on paper mounted on chipboard, 188 x 141 cm. Centre Pompidou − Musée national d'art moderne, donation Bruno Decharme in 2021 © droits réservés, photo © César Decharme.
PARIS.- In 2021, the Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne, received an exceptional donation of Outsider Art from the Bruno Decharme collection, consisting of 921 works by 242 artists. This ensemble comprises works from the domain of the visual arts, the graphic arts, and photography. Ãcrits Dissidents is the fifth themed presentation to come out of the donation ... More |
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| Lyric Opera of Chicago appoints orchestra veteran as new leader | | Art Institute of Chicago opens two exhibitions on Pan-Africanism | | Anna Netrebko, shunned in U.S. over Putin support, to sing in Palm Beach |
John Mangum. Photo: Kyle Flubacker.
NEW YORK, NY.- John Mangum, a veteran orchestra manager who helped guide the Houston Symphony through the turmoil of the pandemic, will serve as the next general director of Lyric Opera of Chicago starting this fall, the company announced Wednesday. Mangum, 49, will take the reins of Lyric, one of the premier opera companies in the United States, as it faces a series of challenges, including rising costs, cuts to programming and changes in audience behavior. Mangum said in an interview that he was joining Lyric because it is one of the great opera ... More | |
The Otolith Group. Detail from A Massive Concentration of Black Interscalar Energy, 2024. Courtesy of the artists and greengrassi, London. © The Otolith Group.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago kicks off Panafrica Across Chicago, an unprecedented series of exhibitions and events throughout the year and around the city, exploring cultural Pan-Africanism from 1900 to the present and across four continents. The first two exhibitions in the series at the Art Institute explore cultural Pan-Africanism through photography and cinema. A term first theorized and brought into ... More | |
Anna Netrebko performs at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Dec. 31, 2019. (Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, superstar soprano Anna Netrebko has been persona non grata at cultural institutions in the United States, shunned for her past support of Russian President Vladimir Putin. But in February, Netrebko will make her first appearance in the United States since 2019: She will perform in Florida at a gala concert at the Breakers Palm Beach hotel to benefit the Palm Beach Opera, the company announced ... More |
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Sophia Roe's charm earringNEW YORK, NY.- There are certain rules that Sophia Roe cant seem to shake from her years working in restaurants: short nails, no nail polish, a separate sink to wash her hands. But when the James Beard Award-winning chef is cooking for her half a million Instagram followers in her Brooklyn culinary studio, Apartment Miso, Roes approach is more relaxed. When Im in my studio, this is my space to spiritually take my shirt off, wear what I want, she said. If that means I want to wear five earrings and a hat and rings on every finger when I cook, I do it. In an interview that has been edited and condensed Roe talks about one charm-covered earring that serves as a wearable expression of who she is and a representation of the people who matter to her. Q: Tell me about your earring. A: The earring itself is a Yona Kohen earring. Its just this ... More At 95, he has learned how to use nostalgiaNEW YORK, NY.- Stan Herman, New Yorks godfather of fashion, knows what makes life worth living for. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. I wake up each day with a sense of expectation. Once you lose that, you grow old. Ive signed new contracts, I have new work, and with those things come new expectations. Do I ask myself, Should we do another account? Often the answer is yes. I never expect things to end. People say, Oh, youve got so much energy. Energy is expectations, challenges, moving forward. Nostalgia can be wonderful, of course, so long as you dont abuse it. Its great for a memoir. Having written one, Im so much more aware of my life at this point. Its all bubbling to the surface. I think now that I would love to have lived in the 1910s, the 20s and 30s in Europe. Thats where my heart is its Zurich, its Munich, ... More A Salzburg Festival tradition deserves a wider audienceSALZBURG.- The Salzburg Festival attracts an audience of music and theater lovers from around the world. Yet its oldest tradition is a surprisingly local one. In 1920, director Max Reinhardt and writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal inaugurated the first Salzburg Festival with an outdoor production of Jedermann, an adaptation of a medieval morality play. The performance took place on the square in front of Salzburgs imposing Baroque cathedral. Jedermann quickly became a festival fixture. Since the end of World War II, it has been performed here every summer, often with German-speaking acting luminaries tackling the title role of a wealthy and impious bon vivant who, in the prime of life, gets an unexpected visit from death. Faced with his mortality, the title character, whose name translates as Everyman, learns how fleeting fortune ... More Dance leads the way as art meets sport at the Cultural OlympiadNEW YORK, NY.- In dance and in sports, there is a common ritual: warming up. As much an art as an activity, it energizes not just the body, but also the mind, speaking less to effort than to surrender. What does it take to get into the zone, that place where the body and mind show up as equals? Since 2022 France has been warming up on a grand scale. Culture, along with sport and education, is a pillar of Olympism, and France has taken that seriously with its Cultural Olympiad, a program of multidisciplinary arts events directed by Dominique Hervieu, a choreographer, an experienced leader in the arts and a former dancer as well. The thread running through this Olympiad is the connection between sports and art. When do they find symbiosis? When do they diverge? As Hervieu sees it, what binds the Olympic Games is culture, and there, ... More Looking for the best in Black cinema? Try Brown Sugar.NEW YORK, NY.- As the name-brand streaming services struggle to show profits and broker cable-esque bundling packages to cut costs, the most successful streamers are proving to be niche services, which curate specialized libraries for a specific target audience. Weve spotlighted several such streamers in this space, most of them focusing on clearly defined genres or sensibilities; this month, we look at a service with an eye on one particular culture. Brown Sugar, which started in 2016, promises on its site hit movies and TV shows along with the largest collection of classic Black cinema, uncut and commercial-free. Its library features programming about the Black experience, predominantly by Black creators, and aimed primarily at Black audiences (while recognizing that those audiences are seeking all sorts of entertainment). ... More Michael C. Carlos Museum appoints Curator of the Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora ATLANTA, GA.- The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University announces the appointment of TK Smith as its curator of the arts of Africa and the African diaspora. TK is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work encompasses roles as a writer, cultural historian and exhibition curator. With his expertise in contemporary art, craft tradition, and material culture, TK will bring our vast collection of African objects into present day historical, political, and cultural dialogues happening across the African continent and its diaspora. TK is a remarkable communicator who connects people with ideas, knowledge and beauty and makes art accessible, says Henry S. Kim, associate vice-provost and director of the Carlos Museum. As a cultural historian and storyteller, he uses art as portal for understanding our histories, revealing ideas that are often undervalued ... More "Preserving the Brain: A Call to Action": From 16 October 2024 to 7 April 2025 in MilanMILAN.- The new edition of Preserving the Brain, part of the Human Brains project dedicated since 2018 to neurosciences, will focus on the prevention of neurodegenerative diseases. Organized in partnership with fifteen renowned neuroscience institutes from world-class universities and five Italian patient organizations and associations, Preserving the Brain: A Call to Action consists in a scientific conference (16 17 October 2024) and an exhibition which will be accompanied by a series of meetings (16 October 2024 7 April 2025) to be held at Fondazione Prada in Milan. Human Brains is the result of an in-depth research process undertaken by Fondazione Prada and driven by a deep interest in understanding the human brain, the complexity of its functions and its centrality in human history. Developed by a scientific committee ... More Cheng Pei Pei, 'queen' of Kung Fu cinema, dies at 78NEW YORK, NY.- Cheng Pei Pei, a star of two of the most beloved kung fu movies of all time, âCome Drink With Meâ and âCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,â died Wednesday at her home in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was 78. Her representatives at Echelon Talent Management confirmed her death in a statement. She was diagnosed in 2019 with a neurodegenerative disease similar to Parkinsonâs, they said. Cheng was widely known as the âQueen of Swordsâ in 1960s Hong Kong for her graceful, steely performances in kung fu movies, showing off delicacy and self-control she had gained during girlhood training in ballet. She first gained prominence as the lead star of âCome Drink With Meâ (1966), directed by King Hu and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio. That film âopened a new chapter in the history of Asian action movies,â thank ... More 'Time Bandits' review: A flatter adventureNEW YORK, NY.- When the bandits of the title burst into the bedroom of Kevin, an 11-year-old history buff, in the new Apple TV+ series âTime Bandits,â among the first things you are likely to notice is: no dwarfs. The showâs source, Terry Gilliamâs 1981 movie of the same title, was all about the dwarfs. There were six of them, who pilfered a map that identifies time portals and used it to try to steal whatever historical loot they could get their hands on. Along the way, they picked up Kevin, who came to serve as both the brains and the conscience of the operation. The bandits in Jemaine Clement, Iain Morris and Taika Waititiâs âTime Bandits,â which premieres Wednesday with two of its 10 episodes, are a fully heighted bunch; their more-or-less leader, Penelope, is played by Lisa Kudrow, who towered over her female co-stars on âFriends.â Changing things up after 43 years is unremarkable, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Thomas Gainsborough died August 02, 1788. Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 - 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter. He was born the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver in Suffolk, and, in 1740, left home to study art in London with Hubert Gravelot, Francis Hayman, and William Hogarth. In 1746, he married Margaret Burr, and the couple became the parents of two daughters. In this image: A self-portrait of British painter Thomas Gainsborough, painted about 1787, is seen to the right as a security guard watches over paintings in the Thomas Gainsborough exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Monday, June 9, 2003, in Boston.
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