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Marie Bracquemond, Sur la terrasse à Sèvres, 1880, Association des Amis du Petit Palais, Genève.
CHARLOTTENLUND.- The 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1874 is celebrated internationally with major exhibitions. In Scandinavia, Ordrupgaard takes the lead with a magnificent exhibition highlighting the women of impressionism both behind and in front of the canvas. The exhibition features four female impressionists and their interconnected world of sisters, daughters, and friends through what is incontestably regarded as major works of this period. Due to their gender and class, these artists did not have the same opportunities to depict the pulsating city life enjoyed by their male colleagues. Instead, their focus was on modern life as it unfolded in the home and gardens of Paris and the surrounding area. These intimate motifs were depicted in a radical fashion using bright colours, quick brushstrokes, and a sketch-like technique, which elicited both admiration and indignation from viewers and art critics ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kristen Lorello is presenting a solo exhibition of new works on paper by Takuji Hamanaka. This is the artist's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Hamanaka is known for his optical compositions made with an innovative process of collaging small pieces of papers that are printed in a 19th Century Japanese technique.
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| Ultra-rare first production Legend of Zelda leads Heritage's video game event | | Homage to Vera Molnar, the pioneer of computer art, at Ludwig Museum | | 'Chaïm Soutine: Against the Current' at the Lousiana Museum of Modern Art |
The Legend of Zelda - CGC 8.0 A Sealed [NES TM, No Rev-A, First Production], NES Nintendo 1987 USA.
DALLAS, TX.- I knew what I had was rare, says a newcomer to the collecting world. But I didnt know much more than that. Last year, when the young Californian put a vintage sealed copy of Legend of Zelda up for sale on eBay, he reckoned based on his initial research that the 1987 game could garner something like $15,000 or $20,000. But within minutes of listing it I had multiple people getting in touch with me to ask me if I knew what I had. What they knew that Kiro didnt: He held the rarest and most desired variant of the game the true first production. Two years earlier the same variant of Zelda had sold at Heritage for $705,000. The Gen Z consigner, who goes by Kiro, sounds so chill about the matter hes almost deadpan. Zelda was never his game (I was born way after it came out) though he admits its his favorite from the old Nintendo library. (Though not a fanatic, he does play games. Ive been enjoying Monst ... More | |
Vera Molnar (1924-2023), hypertransformation /diptyque i-ii/ (hypertransformation /diptych i-ii/), 1974-1979, canvas, vinyl, 147 Ã 150 cm; 147,5 Ã 150 cm, courtesy of the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts Hungarian National Gallery.
BUDAPEST.- Together with their partners, the Ludwig Museum and the Foundation for Art and Culture (Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur) are organising the exhibition à la Recherche de Vera Molnar. The exhibition, hosted by the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, marks the first stage of an international tour dedicated to the most influential pioneer of computer art. The exhibition pays tribute to the artistic legacy of Vera Molnar, who passed away shortly before her 100th birthday, on December 7, 2023. Born in Hungary and educated at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Molnar lived and created in France from 1947 until her death. From 1968, she was among the first to create artworks using a real computer, and she is still widely regarded as one of the most significant pioneers of computer ... More | |
Chaïm Soutine, La Vielle Actrice (The Old Actress), ca. 1922. Private Collection, Courtesy McClain Gallery, Houston, Photo: McClain Gallery, Houston / Paul Hester.
HUMLEBÃK.- The painter Chaïm Soutine (18931943), has masterfully captured the time around and between the two world wars. From 9 February, his work is presented in a major exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Soutine is one of the leading and most distinctive expressionists of the School of Paris. It seems clear that the exhibition in Humlebæk the first of its kind in Northern Europe will bring him to a newer, broader public. The coming presentation of Chaïm Soutines work at Louisiana has an aura of discovery about it. In spite of figuring as a key artist of classical modernism and being represented in the collections of many prominent art museums, Soutine has not previously been the object of wide-ranging attention in Scandinavia. Unparalleled Colour Explosions: Chaïm Soutine ... More |
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| Virginia MOCA presents Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman's 'Journey to Nature's Underworld' | | John McInnis Auctioneers to feature more than 100 lots dedicated to JFK and the Kennedy Family | | Artists Dominique White and Alberta Whittle in new exhibition at ICA Philadelphia |
Mark Dion (American, b. 1961), Cabinet of Marine Debris, 2014. Wood and metal cabinet, marine debris, plastic, rope, 113 x 84 x 32 in. Margulies Collection, Miami. Courtesy American Federation of Arts.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (Virginia MOCA) announced Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Natures Underworld, a major new traveling exhibition of the internationally renowned and closely linked artists. Featuring approximately 30 large-scale paintings and sculptures created by Dion and Rockman between 1990 and 2021, the exhibition surveys three decades of avid exploration and engagement with the natural world. Journey to Natures Underworld offers a timely examination and cautionary vision of our present ecological moment, inviting viewers to voyage with the artists to the threatened yet alluring depths of our environmental terrain. On view February 9 through June 9, 2024, the exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts and guest curated by Suzanne Ramljak along with Virginia MOCA site curator Heather Hakimzadeh. Both Dion and Rockman have achieved widespread acclaim ... More | |
RFK to Keyes letter: Two-page letter handwritten by Robert F. Kennedy in 1952 on Hyannis Port stationery, thanking Ms. Keyes and Polly Fitzgerald for their help in JFKs Senate campaign (est. $500-$1,000).
AMESBURY, MASS.- Over 100 rare and historically significant lots pertaining to the Kennedys mostly JFK, but also to include RFK, Jackie and Ted Kennedy, with some of the items coming from the estate of longtime Kennedy assistant Helen Mary Keyes will headline a Fine Antiques & Estates Collection auction planned for Sunday, February 25th, by John McInnis Auctioneers. The 469-lot auction, starting promptly at 12 oclock noon Eastern time, will be held live in the John McInnis Auctioneers gallery located at 76 Main Street in Amesbury, as well as online, via LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. The auction will be conducted in two sessions. Session 1, starting at noon, will feature lots 1-265. Session 2, later on in the day, will begin with lot 301 the Kennedy lots and conclude with lot 469. The extensive catalog will feature Americana, historical items, baseba ... More | |
Dominique White, Can We be Known Without Being Hunted, 2022. Installation view of Cinders of the Wreck, at Triangle Astérides, Marseille, FR, 2022. Courtesy the artist, TriangleAstérides and Veda. Photo by Aurélien Mole.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On view this spring at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Dominique White and Alberta Whittle: Sargasso Sea explores the impact of transatlantic colonial legacies on contemporary understandings of power, race, gender, and geography. The exhibition takes its name from the natural phenomenon of the Sargasso Sea, the only body of water defined by oceanic currents rather than shorelines. The body of water and how it conjures questions of migration and Black feminist theory serves as a conceptual link between White and Whittles work, shown here for the first time together. Through monumental oceanic-inspired sculptures, paintings, and videos, White and Whittle investigate the dualities of the seas transformative powers, as a site that disrupted colonial voyages as well as a metaphorical place of regeneration. Organized by the ICA and ... More |
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| University of Kansas is opening Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley 'Let the World See' | | Aston Barrett, 77, bass-playing force with Bob Marley and Wailers, dies | | An arts festival about sports, for people who don't like sports |
Todd Gray, Atlantic (New Futures), 2022. Courtesy the artist.
LAWRENCE, KS.- As of today, the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas is opening Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See, a significant exhibition exploring Emmett Tills life and his mothers powerful and tireless activism following his brutal and tragic murder. The exhibition offers keen insight into Tills life as a child in Chicago, the events that led to his kidnapping and murder, the entrenched racism and biases that allowed his killers to go free, and the ways that Mamie Till-Mobleys bravery in advocating for her son fueled the Civil Rights Movement. Let the World See shares these important stories through a deeply human lens and captures how a mothers love spurred social justice action that continues to reverberate into the present day. The exhibition includes photographs, first-person accounts and other historical materials, including a bullet-ridden historical marker noting the locat ... More | |
In an undated photo provided by Kate Simon, the musician Aston Barrett, center left, with Bob Marley in 1977. (Kate Simon via The New York Times)
by Clay Risen
NEW YORK, NY.- Aston Barrett, who as the bass player and musical director for the Wailers both with Bob Marley and for decades after the singers death in 1981 crafted the hypnotic rhythms and complex melodies that helped elevate reggae to international acclaim, died Saturday in Miami. He was 77. The cause of death, at a hospital, was heart failure after a series of strokes, according to his son Aston Barrett Jr., a drummer who took over the Wailers from his father in 2016. Aston Barrett was already well known around Jamaica as a session musician when, in 1969, Marley asked him and his brother, Carlton, a drummer, to join the Wailers as the bands rhythm section. More than anyone else, the collaboration between Marley and his bassist turned both the Wailers and reggae itself into a global ... More | |
Anna Chirescu in Dirty Dancers, one of the works on the program in the Pompidou Centers Hors Pistes festival. (Vinciane Lebrun/Voyez-Vous via The New York Times).
by Laura Cappelle
PARIS.- When it comes to the biggest sports show on earth, many Parisians have reached the stage of begrudging acceptance. The level of disruption and metro price hikes to get the city ready for this summers Olympic Games hasnt exactly endeared the event to locals, especially those who favor culture over sports. The Olympics are coming whether we like it or not, a curator from the Pompidou Center, Linus Gratte, said as he introduced a performance there this past weekend as part of the Hors Pistes festival. The audience chuckled. Hors Pistes (meaning Off-Piste), a festival the Pompidou Center says is devoted to moving images, came with an Olympic-ready theme this year: The Rules of Sport. It is part of the Cultural Olympiad, ... More |
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| Internationally renowned master glassblower Michiko Sakano presenting at Heller Gallery | | 'Abject Anatomy' features selection of photographs, prints, drawings, and paintings from Tang collection | | Group show of large-scale figurative painting at the New York Academy of Art |
Michiko Sakano in her studio
NEW YORK, NY.- Heller Gallery is now presenting Droplets, the first solo exhibition of work by designer and glass artist Michiko Sakano. On view February 9 March 30, 2024, the exhibition marks the debut of Sakanos inaugural lighting collection. An internationally renowned master glassblower, Sakano has been the fabricator for many leading designers including regular collaborations with Lindsey Adelman and Jorge Pardo. The Droplet series was born from her desire to wrest the glass she makes from the dictate of the hardware with which it is commonly combined to create light fixtures. Instead, she has set out to make pieces that feel more spontaneous and are about glass, volume and roundness, not hardware and engineering. I wanted to go back to freeing my own process and making the glass the primary focus ... More | |
Nicole Eisenman, Ecole d'Abjéct, 2006. Ink on museum board. Tan Teaching Museum collection, gift of Ann and Arthur Goldstein, 2016.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.- The artistic transformation of the body into something unrecognizable, disturbing, or abject probes human anxieties about bodily behaviors and desires. Our mind races and our skin crawls as we contemplate the possibility of a grotesque and fantastical metamorphosis of our own. Is this what happens in the absence of control? While exploring Abject Anatomy you will come across a fleshy mass of unidentifiable limbs, a man using his penis as a paintbrush, and other images that make you hyperaware of the way your skin stretches over your bones. Despite their physical impossibilities, these manipulations of the body represent artists desire to visually explore our deeper psychological desires and ... More | |
Zoey Frank, Pool Party, 2021. Oil on canvas, 113 x 96 inches, private collection, courtesy of the artist and Sugarlift.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Academy of Art began last month Big Stories, a group exhibition that follows its initial showing at the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Curated by Bo Bartlett, Noah Buchanan, and Carl Dobsky, Big Stories is a collection of large-scale contemporary figurative paintings influenced by the narrative tradition. From Homer to Shakespeare to Spielberg, the history of Western Culture has been shaped by the narrative arc. Stories are the fabric of our lives, recounting heroic journeys across cultures, as described by Joseph Campbell in A Hero with a Thousand Faces, revealing the recurring themes of transcendence in our shared experience. The exhibition aims to underscore ... More |
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A rising star in fashion who sees no future in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- On a phone call in October, Carly Mark raised the idea for the first time: She needed to leave New York. There comes a moment in every creative New Yorkers life when this may happen when the city that once seemed as if it pulsed just for you now seems as if it is pushing you out, like an organ transplant gone wrong. But there was more: Mark said she could no longer sell clothes. This was and wasnt surprising. A few weeks earlier, in September, Mark had held a runway show for her 5-year-old fashion brand, Puppets and Puppets. The show was well received. Vogue called it a conflation of Cristóbal Balenciaga and mall rats that hit right on the mark. Womens Wear Daily praised its strong evening wear and its balance between creative and commercial something critics say when they think a collection could sell ... More
Carnegie Hall's new season: What we want to hear
NEW YORK, NY.- The Latino experience will be a focus of Carnegie Halls coming season, the presenters leadership announced Wednesday, with a festival inside and beyond the halls walls called Nuestros Sonidos (Our Sounds) and a slate of concerts featuring artists with ties to Latin America. Clive Gillinson, Carnegies executive and artistic director, said in an interview that the festival was meant to respond to the underrepresentation of Latino people and Hispanic culture in American classical music. We thought, he said, we ought to make sure we address that balance. Gustavo Dudamel, the superstar conductor who was born in Venezuela, will open both the 2024-25 season and the festival in October, by leading his Los Angeles Philharmonic in three concerts. He will have a growing presence in New York next season: Aside from his Carnegie appear ... More
How robots learned to write so well
NEW YORK, NY.- In Literary Theory for Robots, Dennis Yi Tenens playful new book on artificial intelligence and how computers learned to write, one of his most potent examples arrives in the form of a tiny mistake. Tenen draws links among modern-day chatbots, pulp-fiction plot generators, old-fashioned dictionaries and medieval prophecy wheels. Both the utopians (the robots will save us!) and the doomsayers (the robots will destroy us!) have it wrong, he argues. There will always be an irreducibly human aspect to language and learning a crucial core of meaning that emerges not just from syntax but from experience. Without it, you just get the chatter of parrots, who, according to Descartes in his Mediations, merely repeated without understanding, Tenen writes. But Descartes didnt write Mediations; Tenen must have meant ... More
The cool thing to wear to the big game? Something old.
NEW YORK, NY.- The team store: A glorified souvenir shop at stadiums and arenas, where sports fans shop for official jerseys, snapback hats and a variety of magnets and key chains. Also: rather passé. That is very out, said Lily Shimbashi of Sportsish, a pop-culture newsletter and podcast aimed to female sports fans. No one is buying apparel from the teams anymore, because its boring. Its ugly. For more and more fans, official game-day apparel has been replaced by less official, trendier gear sold online. This shift has created a particular frenzy around vintage sportswear, like graphic tees circa 2001 the New York Mets opening day or the Florida A&M University homecoming or colorful, crispy NBA Starter jackets. According to Google Trends, search interest in vintage NFL items has nearly quadrupled in the past year, particularly ... More
Los Angeles works to build its dance muscles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles may not be thought of as a dance town, but it has a rich legacy. It was here, in 1915, that modern dance pioneers Ruth St. Denis and her husband Ted Shawn, established the Denishawn school and company, shaping and showcasing the first generation of American modern dancers, including Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. Hollywood not only attracted great dancers such as Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, but also produced its own constellation of choreographic stars, including Busby Berkeley, Hermes Pan and Jack Cole, as well as drawing big names like George Balanchine, who worked on several films. Lester Horton, one of the first choreographers to insist on a racially integrated company, established the Lester Horton Dance Theater here in 1946, a pioneering stage dedicated ... More
Joan Lader keeps Broadway in tune
NEW YORK, NY.- For 41 years, Joan Lader has rented a slender studio apartment just west of Union Square in Manhattan. Through its door, a narrow entryway leads to a doll-size bathroom and an efficiency kitchen. In the main space, where a visitor might expect to find a bed, Lader has arranged the instruments of her trade a piano, a keyboard, balance balls, straws, a box of tissues, a skeleton in a jaunty hat. Lader has never advertised, never solicited clients. But for two generations of Broadway stars, as well as dozens of opera singers and pop and rock luminaries, she remains an indispensable vocal therapist and vocal coach. She even received a Tony Award in 2016 for excellence in theater. And while proper breathing is fundamental to her practice, she has scarcely paused for breath since that award. She continues to work seven hours each day, seven ... More
He promised a feast, on one condition: Watch his art film
NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday night at the Roxy Cinema in lower Manhattan, a throng of scarf-bundled cinephiles attended the sold-out screening of a black-and-white psychological thriller, End of the Night, that was being shown for the first time in more than 30 years. The films obscurity wasnt what drew the crowd: They were there because of its unlikely writer and director, Keith McNally, the downtown restaurateur who runs Balthazar, Minetta Tavern, Pastis and Morandi. Before he shaped New Yorks nightlife with his brasseries, McNally had serious filmmaking ambitions. His first full-length feature, End of the Night, premiered at the Directors Fortnight showcase during the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, appearing alongside Whit Stillmans Metropolitan. It went on to be a minor hit in Europe before it became a cinematic footnote. In advance ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Gerhard Richter was born February 09, 1932. Gerhard Richter (born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style. In this image: German artist Gerhard Richter gestures in front of his painting "Abstract Painting (946-3)" during a press conference before the opening of the exhibition "Gerhard Richter, New Paintings" on May 19, 2017.
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