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Steve Soboroff, a former commissioner of the Los Angeles Police Department, with his typewriter collection, at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Dec. 6, 2023. Coming to auction is a clattering collection of machines once owned by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Temple, Andy Rooney and the Unabomber. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times)
by David Waldstein
NEW YORK, NY.- You never know what can be found in a famous personâs typewriter. Joe DiMaggioâs old machine contained the cutup shards of his expired bank card. Steve Soboroff, who bought the New York Yankees Hall of Famerâs typewriter in 2011, found the little pieces underneath the keys while cleaning it. Soboroff also unearthed childhood photos of Ernest Hemingway in the writerâs 1926 Underwood Standard Portable. But Soboroffâs greatest discovery with these machines â and others, including typewriters belonging to Maya Angelou, Tennessee Williams, John Lennon and Shirley Temple â was a historical connection to great people. âThese are really hard for me to give up,â Soboroff said on a video call last week. After 20 years of assembling what may be the greatest typewriter collection in the world, Soboroff is putting all 33 of his beloved machines up for auction. Owning them has been a privilege, he says, and each comes with a unique back story that helped fuel Soboroffâs passion. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Winter Jamboree Christmas edition #1 will bring you to Emilia all the energy of the Summer Jamboree to experience a 1950s Christmas. Three pavilions of the Parma Fairs will welcome, for an absolute world premiere, all those ingredients that make this festival unique in its kind, in a version never seen before, the Christmas one, to revive with lots of music, culture, dance and fun and shopping the American Winter Jamboree Christmas edition #1 brings to Emilia.
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| Phillips announces works from the James Rosenquist Estate, an auction dedicated to the pop artist's iconic prints | | Thirty years of work by Gary Simmons being exhibited in 'Public Enemy' at Pérez Art Museum Miami | | Sketches by Carl Larsson acquired for Nationalmuseum's collection |
James Rosenquist, The Bird of Paradise Approaches the Hot Water Planet, from Welcome to the Water Planet, 1989. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips will present Works from the James Rosenquist Estate, the largest Rosenquist print auction and exhibition to date, which celebrates the evolution of the artists printmaking from 1965 to 2012. The auction on 15 February marks the first time that these impressions will be offered for sale publicly, after having long been cherished by the artists family. Open to the public at 432 Park Avenue from 1 14 February, Phillips offers an extended opportunity for the public to view this unparalleled curation of Rosenquists print oeuvre. Interspersed throughout the main gallery installation will also be a selection of source collages on loan from the James Rosenquist Estate, displayed alongside those works being offered for auction, adding to the depth of work on offer and a glimpse into the artists creative process. One of the original Pop artists, Rosenquist consistently pushed the boundaries of image mak ... More | |
Gary Simmons. Hold Up, Wait a Minute (detail), 2021. Private collection. © Gary Simmons. Photo: Jeff McLane.
MIAMI, FL.- 'Gary Simmons: Public Enemy' is the first comprehensive career survey of the work of multidisciplinary artist Gary Simmons (b. 1964, New York; lives in Los Angeles). The most in-depth presentation of Simmonss work to date, the exhibition covers thirty years of the artists career, encompassing approximately seventy works. Since the late 1980s Simmons has played a key role in situating questions of race, class, and gender identity at the center of contemporary art discourse. Notable for his early application of conceptual artistic strategies, Simmons exposes and analyzes histories of racism inscribed in US visual culture. Over the course of his career, Simmons has revealed traces of these histories in the fields of sports, cinema, literature, music, and architecture and urbanism, while drawing heavily on popular genres such as hip-hop, horror, and science fiction. Guided by an internal logic, his approach ... More | |
Carl Larsson, Jenny Lind. One of three lunettes in single frame, 189697. Watercolour, ink, pencil and bodycolour on paper. NMB 2835C.
SWEDEN.- On a night at the Opera, the performance is of course the main focus. However, the interval can also serve up artistry of the highest order. The foyer of the Royal Opera in Stockholm is where Carl Larsson painted some of his best works for public spaces, featuring images from the history of musical theatre. Nationalmuseum has now acquired nine watercolour sketches for the foyers ceiling and wall paintings, dated 189697, illuminating the artists final vision. Carl Larsson is perhaps best known for his watercolours of his family and home life, as depicted in the 24 pictures from Lilla Hyttnäs in Sundborn, Dalarna, published in the book A Home in 1899. But during the same period that he was painting the watercolours for A Home, the artist was also working on the decorations for the foyer of the Royal Opera in Stockholm, known as the Golden Foyer, to which audiences can retire during ... More |
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| Lal Batman's 1st solo exhibition in Germany 'The Floor is Lava' at Anna Laudel Düsseldorf | | Norman Lear, whose comedies changed the face of TV, is dead at 101 | | 'Dayanita Singh: Dancing with my Camera' now showing at Serralves in Oporto |
Installation view of Lal Batman, The Floor is Lava, Photograph by Katja Illner , Anna Laudel Düsseldorf, 2023.
DÃSSELDORF.- Lal Batmans first solo exhibition in Germany "The Floor is Lava" is now open at Anna Laudel Düsseldorf. Drawing inspiration from popular playground games, the exhibition can be visited until February 4th, 2024. Inspired by common childrens games played in schoolyards, the exhibition exceeds beyond the innocence of childhood games, to delve into complex themes such as ridden anxiety, impending catastrophes, and haunting memories which one is faced with throughout adulthood. Through her art, Batman aims to explore the multifaceted aspects of the human psyche and the anxieties that can manifest as people transit from childhood to adulthood. "This exhibition will make you feel like your feet were swept off the ground," says Lal Batman about her first solo exhibition in Germany, Düsseldorf, which includes artworks that will be unveiled to meet the audience for the first time and differ distinctly in ... More | |
The television writer and producer Norman Lear in Beverly Hills, Calif. on April 29, 2010. Lear, who introduced political and social commentary into situation comedy with All in the Family and other shows, proving that it was possible to be topical as well as funny while attracting millions of viewers, died on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 101. (J. Emilio Flores/The New York Times)
by Richard Severo and Peter Keepnews
NEW YORK, NY.- Norman Lear, the television writer and producer who introduced political and social commentary into situation comedy with All in the Family and other shows, proving that it was possible to be topical as well as funny while attracting millions of viewers, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 101. A spokesperson for the family, Lara Bergthold, confirmed the death. Lear reigned at the top of the television world through the 1970s and into the early 80s, leaving a lasting mark with shows that brought the sitcom into the real world. The Jeffersons looked at the struggles faced ... More | |
Installation view of 'Dayanita Singh: Dancing with my Camera'.
OPORTO.- Dayanita Singh Dancing with my Camera, currently on view at Serralves, is organized by Gropius Bau, Berlin, in collaboration with Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich and Mudam Musée dArt Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg. The exhibition is curated by Stephanie Rosenthal. The Serralves presentation was supported by Inês Grosso and Filipa Loureiro, Museum curators. For four decades, Dayanita Singh (b. 1961, New Delhi) has developed a body of work distinguished by her genre-defying approach to photography, one that constantly pushes the limits of the medium. Dancing with my Camera, the most important exhibition dedicated to the artist to date, spans the entirety of her oeuvre, from her first photographic project devoted to the musical universe of the percussionist Zakir Hussain (b. 1951, Bombay) up until her most recent works, including Lets See (2021), inspired by the format of co ... More |
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| Jay Schwartz's music reflects a past of oceans and deserts | | Late American artist Melissa Shook's work is featured in exhibition at Miyako Yoshinaga | | Key works capturing themes of chance, memory, entropy, history and time at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia |
Composer Jay Schwartz in Stuttgart, Germany on Nov. 28, 2023. (Felix Broede/The New York Times)
by Jeffrey Arlo Brown
STUTTGART.- In early March 2020, composer Jay Schwartz traveled to San Diego from his home in Cologne, Germany, to attend the funeral of Don Bukovich his stepfather and the only person in his extended family with an affinity for classical music. Bukovich was especially fond of Bach. And, when the pandemic hit and Schwartz got stuck in San Diego and stayed with his brother, he found himself playing Bachs Komm, süÃer Tod (Come, Sweet Death) over and over on the piano. He also went for long swims in the Pacific Ocean, far from the shoreline. You reach a kind of euphoric state, Schwartz said in an interview. Youre in the ocean and youre euphoric because of the natural beauty, but also because youre on the cusp of extreme danger. As Schwartz swam ... More | |
December 1973, 5th Street, New York City, 1973. Geltin silver print, 4 3/8 x 4 3/8 in / 11.1 x 11.1 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miyako Yoshinaga is presenting Krissys Present, featuring 30 black-and-white photographs made between 1965 and 1983 by the late American artist Melissa Shook (1939-2020). The opening reception will be held on Friday, December 8, 6-8 PM with Kristina Shook, the artists daughter and the subject of this body of work. In the mid-1960s Shook, a single mother, began photographing her mixed-race infant daughter Kristina Krissy. Krissy recalls she could think of no other way to have grown up with her mother, holding the camera and photographing her all the time. My earliest memories are of being photographed with my friends on the Lower East Side of Manhattanrunning naked on the street or playing games in my friends apartments. My mother Melissa chasing after usnot interrupting us clicking away with her camera, an extension of her. ... More | |
In Conversation: Tacita Dean and Suzanne Cotter: The MCA and Destination NSW present a special in conversation between Tacita Dean and MCA Director Suzanne Cotter on December 9th.
SYDNEY.- The largest presentation in the Southern Hemisphere of acclaimed artist Tacita Dean's work is being presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia as part of the Sydney International Art Series 2023/2024. Berlin and LA-based Tacita Dean (b. 1965, Canterbury, UK) is renowned for her singular poetic vision and distinctive body of work, which encompasses film, photography, sound, installation, drawing, print-making and collage. This Sydney-exclusive exhibition will bring together key works that capture Deans investigations into themes of chance, memory, entropy, history and time. Featuring important bodies of work not previously seen in Australia, the exhibition includes recent film works, monumental chalkboard drawings, and photographic and print series. ... More |
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| The winners of the Nordic and Baltic Young Artist Award 2023 are announced | | Amine Habki, Mukenge/Schellhammer, Linnéa Sjöberg, weaving stitching and painting | | P·P·O·W at Art Basel Miami Beach will be at Booth C37 from December 8th - 10th, 2023 |
Agata Orlovska, Because Its Worse When You Get Home.
RIGA.- The international jury of the Nordic and Baltic Young Artist Award competition decided to hand out this years Grand Prix along with the 2000-euro prize to Lithuanian artist Agata Orlovska. The Young Painter Award and a 1000-euro prize were awarded to Katrina Laura Biksone, who recently completed her bachelor's studies at the Art Academy of Latvia. The Public Choice award, including a 500 euro prize, goes to a talented Estonian photographer, Andrea Margó Rotenberg, a Pallas University of Applied Sciences graduate. The winner of the Grand Prix, Agata Orlovska graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in the spring and submitted three mixed-media works to the competition: "Because Its Worse When You Get Home," "Preserve My Language Forever," and "Butterfly Effect + Lapis Lazuli." Previously, Orlovska has participated in group shows and received various ... More | |
Amine Habki, Mukenge/Schellhammer and Linnéa Sjöberg, Installation view Weaving, Stitching, Painting. Andréhn Schiptjenko, Paris, 2023. Courtesy of the Artists and Andréhn Schiptjenko. ©Alexandra de Cossette.
STOCKHOLM.- Andréhn-Schiptjenko Paris recently opened the group exhibition Weaving, Stitching, Painting, featuring works by Amine Habki, Mukenge/Schellhammer and Linnéa Sjöberg. The opening took place on Saturday December 2, in the presence of artists Amine Habki and Linnéa Sjöberg. Weaving, Stitching, Painting aims to explore the intersection of textiles, painting and socio-political narratives. Through the lens of fabric, threads, and various textile techniques, the exhibition looks at many facets of the textile, from the industrially produced to the physical traces, and occasionally the expertise, of the hand, in particular looking at its position within an expanded field of painting as well as a conveyor of political and ... More | |
Betty Tompkins, Smoking Section, 1999. Oil crayon on half tone paper, 8 1/2 x 7 ins., 21.6 x 17.8 cm.
MIAMI, FL.- Within booth C37, P·P·O·W is presenting works by Ann Agee, Grace Carney, Ishi Glinsky, Joe Houston, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Gerald Lovell, Guadalupe Maravilla, Pepón Osorio, Pat Phillips, Shellyne Rodriguez, mosie romney, Betty Tompkins, and Martin Wong. A selection of rarely seen historical works on paper by Betty Tompkins (b. 1945) is being presented as part of Art Basel Miami Beach Kabinett. Known for her unabashed portrayals of the female body and sexual desire, Tompkins has been shunned, censored, and celebrated in the five decades since she first began her iconic Fuck Paintings series. A self-proclaimed accidental dissident, Tompkins has ceaselessly questioned the rules of representation of womens bodies and what governs them. By appropriating imagery created for male self-pleasure, she reframes long-held taboos and ... More |
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'Manahatta' review: Tracing the blood-soaked roots of American capitalism
NEW YORK, NY.- Acknowledgments that New York was once home to the Lenape people have become a familiar refrain at arts venues. In Manahatta, playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle undertakes a vital investigation of that willfully forgotten history so often rendered in shorthand. Now open at the Public Theater, just a few subway stops away from Wall Street, Nagles play traces the origins of American finance and the follies of its bottomless appetite for capital to the exploitation of the Lenape by the citys Dutch settlers. The Lenape people have been so forcefully expelled from their Northeastern homelands that the descendants Nagle depicts, beginning in 2002, live in what is now Oklahoma. Jane (Elizabeth Frances), an MIT and Stanford graduate, is interviewing for an entry-level Wall Street job when her father dies on an operating table. ... More
Best classical music performances of 2023
NEW YORK, NY.- Last year ended with something approaching normalcy for the performing arts after a long crisis. It turns out, though, it was normalcy with an asterisk: The pandemic may be over, but orchestras and opera companies have emerged struggling with ticket sales, and the cost of goods and labor has spiraled; putting on shows is now more expensive, with less revenue coming in to square the books. These financial challenges notwithstanding, there were abundant musical riches in 2023 as these favorites, in chronological order, make clear. ZACHARY WOOLFE LElisir dAmore: Revivals of Donizetti chestnuts dont usually make it onto this kind of list, but the tenderly funny Elisir is one of my favorite pieces, and in January, it showed off the best of the Metropolitan Opera. Tenor Javier Camarena, glowing with sincerity, ... More
Winona Ryder's friends and fans celebrate the 'Eternal Cool Girl'
NEW YORK, NY.- Fans of Winona Ryder lined up outside Dover Street Market in Manhattan on a recent chilly evening to attend a launch party for Winona, a book of Polaroids and cellphone shots of the Gen X cultural idol. Shes so famously private that any peek into her interior life is delicious, Daniela Tijerina, a writer and editorial assistant for Vanity Fair, said. Ive molded so much about my own style after a woman I know so little about, and that makes her as cool as a person can possibly be. The shots in the book were taken by Robert Rich, who started photographing Ryder soon after becoming friends with her more than 20 years ago. His images capture her in unguarded moments: eating pizza during a sleepover at his Hells Kitchen apartment; and smoking a cigarette in a bathroom, while model Daria Werbowy quoted lines from ... More
Laguna Art Museum's 11th Annual Art + Nature reveals new exhibitions and events
LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- Laguna Art Museum has commenced its highly anticipated 11th annual Art + Nature, which began on November 2. This multidisciplinary celebration of art's interaction with the natural world is the highlight of LAM's yearly calendar. Art + Nature brings together a diverse community of thousands of people, fostering a deeper connection with the environment and bridging the realms of nature and art. "The 11th annual Art + Nature celebrates the enduring connection between art and nature, reinforcing our commitment to preserving California's rich artistic heritage and making the world a better place," said Julie Perlin Lee, Executive Director of Laguna Art Museum. This year's event boasts cutting-edge exhibitions, including: ... More
Nguyen Qui Duc, whose salon became a Hanoi hub, dies at 65
NEW YORK, NY.- Nguyen Qui Duc, the proprietor of a salon and exhibition space that became a Hanoi landmark, where both Vietnamese and foreigners gathered for music, poetry and long nights of drinks and sushi, died Nov. 22 in a hospital in Hanoi. He was 65. The cause was lung cancer, said his sister and sole survivor, Dieu-Ha Nguyen. A war refugee as a teenager, Duc found success as a radio commentator in the United States before returning to Vietnam in 2006 to make a new life there. His magnetic personality drew a diverse clientele to the salon, from underground artists to ambassadors. The salon provided shelter and camaraderie for new creative voices in Vietnam that blossomed after the trauma of war, Tom Miller, an American lawyer and longtime friend, wrote in an email. The experimental art installations ... More
How to design a girl group
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Last year, it became Humberto Leons job to shape the appearances of 20 young women, whose ages ranged from 14 to 21. He decided what kind of clothing, shoes and jewelry they would wear. He told them how their hair should be cut and their makeup applied. You have to imagine, with 20 girls, I want each and every one of them to stand out, Leon said. Still, young women do not always take kindly to being told how to dress. There were tears. Thats not how I like to do my hair, some of them told Leon. I said, I know, but trust me. Im helping you own your personality, Leon recalled. They think they know whats best for them. And I have to give them an objective opinion of what I think would look great on them. Professionally, it was in their best interest to listen to Leon. ... More
Waltham Forest Council embarks on revitalisation of Vestry House Museum
LONDON.- Waltham Forest Council has appointed architecture firm Studio Weave to lead on the
£4.5 million revitalisation of Vestry House Museum. Working in consultation with local residents, the project will transform the local history museum into a welcoming heritage destination where visitors can find a place to work, rest and discover the diverse stories of Waltham Forest and its people. The revitalisation will include an enhanced heritage and community offer, improved access, new creative workspaces and a café. A key part of the Councils Levelling Up Fund programme to deliver Walthamstows Culture for All projects and unlock the town centres potential as an inclusive, safe and welcoming cultural destination, the work will begin in early 2024 with a planned reopening date for the Museum at the start of 2026. ... More
Best theater of 2023
NEW YORK, NY.- If 2023 was a tragedy in the world, on New York stages it was a dramedy year, highlighted not only by serious plays with great jokes, but also by flat-out comedies with dark underpinnings. And although not all 10 shows (and various bonuses) on my mostly chronological list below fit that mongrel category, even the gravest of them seem to have gotten the memo that theater should not be a bore or a drag. It should thrill you into thought or, as the case may be, solace. On the cold February night I saw Love, New York City was teeming with people in need of warm places to be. That was also the case inside the Park Avenue Armory, which had been reconfigured to represent a temporary facility for people without homes. Its residents included an unemployed man in his 50s, his barely-holding-on mother, a pregnant ... More
Springfield Art Museum opens ancient artifacts exhibition with Missouri State University
SPRINGFIELD, MO.- The The Springfield Art Museum will be opening Ancient Artifacts Abroad, on Saturday, December 9 in the Hartman Gallery. This is the third and final of three guest-curated exhibitions mounted in this space during 2023. These special exhibitions are the result of collaborations between Museum staff, and staff and students at Missouri State University. These collaborations range from providing space and resources to mount exhibitions, to the study of permanent collection objects, to hands-on learning opportunities in museum work, including art curation, interpretive activities, and public programs. The objects in this special exhibition are travelers across both time and space. These artifacts, drawn from the Museums permanent collection, either come from or were inspired by items from the ancient Mediterranean ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter Diego Rivera was born December 08, 1886. Diego MarÃa de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y RodrÃguez (December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo (1929 - 1939 and 1940 - 1954). His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. In 1931, a retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In this image: A couple looks at the painting 'Portrait of Gilda Blanca' (R) by Mexican Diego Rivera during an exhibition to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City, Mexico, 04 July 2011.
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