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A photo provided by NOAA shows a view of the Titanics bow at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, taken during a 2004 expedition by the remote operated vehicle Hercules. The U.S. seeks to block the recovery of Titanic artifacts; Washington has gone to court to become a party to the salvage case involving the famous liner so it can stop any expedition it deems objectionable. (NOAA via The New York Times)
by William J. Broad
NEW YORK, NY.- In late 1985, weeks after the shattered remains of the RMS Titanic came to light, officials in Washington began seeking legal authority to regulate access to the famous shipwreck as part of a memorial to the more than 1,500 passengers and crew members who had lost their lives in 1912. Congress called for a global accord, as the wreck lay in international waters. Until then, Congress declared, no person should physically alter, disturb, or salvage the RMS Titanic. As nations debated a draft agreement, American salvors moved in. Over the years, thousands of artifacts have been retrieved, including a top hat, perfume vials and the deck bell that was rung three times to warn the ships bridge of a looming iceberg. Now, the federal government is taking legal action to assert control over who can recover artifacts from the storied liner and, potentially, to block an expedition planned for next year. The move comes as the Titan submersible disaster of June 18 raised questions ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day National Gallery of Denmark presents a major exhibition on Baroque art, unpacking the history of this time of turmoil in seventeenth-century Western Europe.
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| Henry Timms wants to tear down walls at Lincoln Center | | Richard Ekstract, magazine publisher with link to Warhol, dies at 92 | | Investigators seize 'Marcus Aurelius' statue from Cleveland museum |
Henry Timms, the president and chief executive of Lincoln Center, outside David Geffen Hall in New York, June 15, 2023.
by Javier C. Hernández and Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- For evidence that all is not business as usual at Lincoln Center these days, look no further than its stately travertine campus, which, for much of the summer, was dominated by a giant glittering disco ball, pink and purple flowers painted on the sidewalk and a flock of 200 flamingo lawn ornaments. There are some who will reasonably eye-roll at this, said Henry Timms, the centers president and chief executive, standing on the plaza recently. I get it. But it sends a message that we are here to have some fun. We can afford, he said, to loosen up a little. Since taking the helm in 2019, Timms has been on a mission to remake Lincoln Center. Having helped finally push through the long-delayed $550 million renovation of David Geffen Hall, he is working to forge closer ties with the ... More | |
Andy Warhol on Feb. 27, 1968.
by Penelope Green
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Ekstract, a magazine publisher who found success with niche audiences from trade journals like Tape Recording and Audio Times to a regional shelter franchise that started with Hamptons Cottages and Gardens and played a curious role in Andy Warhols career, died Aug. 7 in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was 92. His death, in a hospital, was announced by his son Steven. The cause was cancer. Ekstract was a media mogul of sorts, having amassed a small fortune creating a cottage industry of some 20 trade and consumer publications, moving from electronics to video to decorating and real estate. But he may be best remembered for an early collaboration with Warhol. In the summer of 1965, Ekstract, then a budding trade journal publisher in New York with one title under his belt, Audio Times, lent Warhol, who had been making 16-millimeter films, ... More | |
File photo of Charles Meyniers painting cycle Apollo and the Muses, 1798-1800, in the neoclassical gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, Aug. 28, 2021. (Sarah Rice/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- With its flowing robes and stoic posture, the larger-than-life bronze statue believed to represent the great Roman statesman Marcus Aurelius had, since 1986, held pride of place in the Greek and Roman galleries at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Now the statue is off display, seized under a warrant in August by the Manhattan district attorneys office. The office said Thursday that the seizure was related to an ongoing criminal investigation into a smuggling network involving antiquities looted from Turkey and trafficked through Manhattan. In their warrant, investigators put the value of the statue, which is headless, at $20 million, and said it was about 1,800 years old. They said it would be transported to New York in September. According to the district attorneys Antiquities Trafficking Unit, the accused traffickers were ... More |
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| Bonhams to offer collection from leading Asian art dealer & collector | | Decades after dictatorship, Chile mounts search for hundreds who vanished | | Oil painting by Louis C. Tiffany brings $108,900 in Ahlers & Ogletree sale |
A parcel-gilt silver and copper alloy figure of Ushnishavijaya, Tibet, Tashilunpo, 17th century, 17.2cm high. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams announced the auction of a unique collection from Jules Speelman, one of the worlds leading collectors and dealers of Asian Art. Jules Speelman: Completing a Cycle, 60 Years of Devotion will launch this September at Bonhams New York, and will tour internationally in the US, Asia, and Europe, before arriving at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris for the sale in June 2024. The auction marks the culmination of 60 years of Speelmans devotion to Asian Art and Buddhist Sculpture. This exceptional and very personal collection includes, 28 Tibetan, Nepalese and Chinese bronze Buddhist figures and vessels from the 11th to the 18th century. Reflecting on the sale, Jules Speelman notes, I feel mixed emotions bringing this collection to the market but also intrigued to see what the market perceives of what Ive put together over the years. Two things come to mind with the title of this sale, my own devotion to ... More | |
People visit a wall of photos of people missing from the Pinochet era at the Memory and Human Rights Museum in Santiago, Chile on Jan. 7, 2011. (Tomas Munita/The New York Times)
by Pascale Bonnefoy
SANTIAGO.- Thirty-six years after Fernando OrtÃzs abduction and disappearance, his family finally received his remains: five bone fragments in a box. OrtÃz, a 50-year-old professor, was kidnapped in 1976 during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, rounded up with other communist leaders in Chile and sent to a torture center so secret that no one knew of its existence for three decades. No one came out alive from the black site named for the street it was on: Simón BolÃvar. It was little more than a house in a rural area east of the capital run by the regimes intelligence agency, DINA. There were no witnesses or survivors to shed light on the detainees fates. For decades, there was only deafening silence. OrtÃz was one of 1,469 people who disappeared under Chiles military rule from 1973 to 1990. Only ... More | |
Lovely oil on canvas painting by the renowned artist and stained glass and jewelry designer Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933), titled Boat at Sea Bright (1888), artist signed and dated ($108,900).
ATLANTA, GA.- A lovely oil on canvas painting by the renowned artist and stained glass and jewelry designer Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933) sold for $108,900 in Ahlers & Ogletrees two-day Fine Estates & Collections auction held August 25th and 26th, online and live in the Atlanta gallery. The painting easily bested its pre-sale estimate of $50,000-$75,000 and ended up being the auctions top achiever. The auction featured 484 lots of Modernism, weapons, collectible books, jewelry and Asian arts on August 25th; and 474 lots of antiques and fine art, scrimshaw, silver and rugs on August 26th. Live gallery bidding was held in Ahlers & Ogletrees new gallery location on Atlantas Upper West Side, at 1788 Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard. Around 50 eager bidders attended the auction live and in person. The oil on canvas painting by Louis C. Tiffany, titled Boat at Sea Bright (1888), ... More |
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| The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston announces appointment of Erika Umali as Curator of Collections | | Museum Folkwang to exhibit classic masterpieces by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso | | Venice Film Festival: No Zendaya as the strikes change the picture |
Erika Umali, Curator of Collections at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.
BOSTON, MA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston announced the appointment of Erika Umali as the museums first Curator of Collections. In this newly created role, supported by the Leadership in Arts Museums initiative, Umali will lead strategy, acquisitions and exhibitions for the ICAs collection, as well as expanding access and visibility for the collection through public exhibitions and programming, publishing initiatives, and digital platforms. The ICAs collection, begun in 2006, has strong representation of women artists and artists of color, and reflects the exhibition program at the museum. We are thrilled to welcome Erika to our curatorial team, to learn from her, and to work together to make the collection an integral, driving programmatic force at the ICA, said Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs. The role of Curator of Collections will expand our capacity and s ... More | |
Marc Chagall, A midi, lété (Mittags, der Sommer), 1961. Blatt 11 aus dem Portfolio Daphnis et Chloé. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023. Foto: Museum Folkwang, Essen.
ESSEN.- The exhibition 'Chagall, Matisse, Miró: Made in Paris' is dedicated to Paris as the most important European center for the production of prints and artists books in the 20th century. It presents classic masterpieces by artists such as Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. With works by Roland Topor, Jim Dine and David Lynch, among others, the exhibition traces the development up to the present day. More than 250 exhibits at the Museum Folkwang bring to life a central chapter in the history of modern art. For 130 years, Paris has been a centre for the production of original graphic works of art. As early as the late 19th century, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec or Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen created prints and original lithographic posters here, which were enthusiastically received and passionately collected by their contemporaries. Following ... More | |
The red carpet of the Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Sept. 3, 2020. (Susan Wright/The New York Times)
by Kyle Buchanan
VENICE.- The sky in Venice wept on Wednesday, for there were no pictures to be taken of Zendaya in couture clambering from a speedboat. No? Too much? Well, its hard not to sound melodramatic at a film festival where the movies are big but the mood swings are even bigger. Let me clear my throat, take a swig of this Aperol spritz, and start again The 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival kicked off on this rainy Wednesday with several big-name auteurs in attendance but few of the stars that this event has come to count on. With dual strikes by the writers and actors guilds forcing a Hollywood shutdown, and the actors forbidden from promoting studio films during the labor action, Venice will inaugurate a fall film season that is still in significant flux. The first day was meant to be turbocharged by the presence of Zendaya, who turned heads ... More |
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| First North American museum exhibition dedicated to Korean Experimental art on view at the Guggenheim | | Mandy El-Sayegh transforms spaces at Thaddaeus Ropac London for her first solo exhibition there | | Patti LuPone sings for the LuPonettes |
Sung Neung Kyung, Apple, 1976 (detail). 17 gelatin silver prints (unframed), some annotated with marker pen, each 6 x 4 in. (15.2 x 10.2 cm). Daejeon Museum of Art © Sung Neung Kyung. Photo: Courtesy Junho JANG.
NEW YORK, NY.- Encounter nearly eighty groundbreaking and genre-defying works from an era of remarkable transformation in South Korea. Created by young artists who came of age in the decades immediately following the Korean War, the artworks reflect and respond to the changing socioeconomic and material conditions that were shaped by a tumultuous political landscape at home and a globalizing world beyond. This will be the first North American museum exhibition dedicated to Korean Experimental art (silheom misul) and its artists, whose radical approach to materials and process resulted in some of the most significant avant-garde practices of the twentieth century. Learn the story of how they harnessed the power of art to confront and reimagine an ever-shifting present. ... More | |
Portrait of Mandy El-Sayegh © Eva Herzog. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul.
LONDON.- For her first solo exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac London, Mandy El-Sayegh will transform the spaces of the gallery, intervening on their walls and floors to create an enveloping environment within which ideas of bodily, psychological and spatial interiors play out. Featuring new large-scale paintings, sculptures and multimedia installations, the exhibition layers diverse materials, referencing sensorial experiences and processes of accumulation. El-Sayegh will activate her installation with a new collaborative performance work, reflecting and reinterpreting the inner states experienced by the artist in her studio. The performance will take place amid the backdrop of new sound and video work, created through a process of visual and auditory collaging. The multimedia ... More | |
Michael Fisher and Gary Sacks, Cherry Grove residents at Fire Island in New York on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. On Fire Island, ardent fans described their affection for the Broadway star while waiting to see her perform at a Cherry Grove nightclub. (James Emmerman/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Last weekend on Fire Island, far from the bright lights of Broadway, Patti LuPone performed at the Ice Palace nightclub for some of her most adoring fans. These die-hards, sometimes called LuPonettes, included a man who had seen LuPone in the 1979 production of Evita and another who had a caricature of her tattooed on his back. Ben Rimalower, who arrived hours before doors opened, stood at the front of the line. I first fell in love with Patti when I saw the Evita commercial, he said. Ive now seen her live hundreds of times, but never on Fire Island. Nowhere else will Patti get an audience that understands her like here. Opened in the 1970s, the Ice Palace ... More |
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Cousins (and co-authors) write a love letter to New York
NEW YORK, NY.- In the new graphic novel Roaming, Dani and Zoe, best friends from a suburb of Toronto, meet up in Manhattan over spring break. Its 2009, and the teenagers have dreamed of visiting the city together, seeing the sights and reconnecting after several months apart. Before long, theyre savoring their first slice of New York pizza (huge, like a place mat!) and getting hassled for cash by a creepy Times Square busker dressed as Elmo. Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, the cousins who wrote and illustrated the book, drew from their own memories of traveling for the first time to New York City. Mariko, 47, who grew up in Toronto, recalled being spooked by the subways, among other things. I was afraid the whole time I was there, she said during a recent interview near her home in Hollywood. Jillian, who was raised in Calgary, Alberta, remembered ... More
'Timothy Barr: My Nature' exhibition of new paintings now on view at LewAllen Galleries
SANTA FE, NM.- LewAllen Galleries presents an exhibition of new paintings, entitled Timothy Barr: My Nature, opening today and a closing artist reception will be held Friday, September 29, from 5 7 p.m. during the Railyard Arts District Last Friday Art Walk. Barrs celebrated oil on panel paintings intimately convey rustic stone walled farmhouses, majestic old trees, and tranquil lakes that embody the solitude and grandeur of American pastoral life. Through years of experience and imagination, the artist has brilliantly captured the idyllic beauty of the architecture and landscape of the countryside. While recognized for his remarkable technique, skill, and focus on detail, Barr is especially noted for his sophisticated use of light. He has stated, Im interested in the contrast that light brings to a scene. [Light is] fleeting and needs to be slowed down with paint so we can love it always. Gloriously, Barr i ... More
Two-part solo exhibition by Swiss artist Rebekka Steiger begins today in Zurich and next week in Lucerne
ZURICH.- Galerie Urs Meile is looking forward to present ma quỷ vô đồng tử - ghosts without pupils, a solo show in two parts by Rebekka Steiger in Zurich and Lucerne. The Vietnamese title, as well as the works on display in both venues, bear evidence to the artists latest residence in Vietnam. In April 2023 Rebekka Steiger returned from Ho Chi Minh City, where she had lived and worked for seven months. Renting a tiny tube-house in a local neighbourhood and making an effort to learn and speak Vietnamese, the artist strived to submerse herself into an unknown surrounding and culture. The discovery of painting materials very different to their Swiss equivalents as well as the intensity of daily life, including the presence of Vietnamese animism, prompted Steigers visual language and working method to evolve yet again. ... More
Extraordinary writers find new meaning in Stanley Museum of Art collection
IOWA CITY, IOWA.- The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art merges visual and literary arts to generate new knowledge with In a Time of Witness, a book of original poems and short stories responding to artworks in the Stanleys rich collection. The book, slated for release Sept. 22, brings together 31 celebrated authors, including multiple Pulitzer Prize winners, U.S. Poets Laureate and National Medal recipients. All of the contributors are alumni of the University of Iowas renowned writing programs: the Iowa Writers Workshop, the International Writing Program and the Literary Translation Program. Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the 2012 National Humanities Medal, writes the foreword. The list of Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni who contributed to 'In A Time of Witness' exemplifies the Workshop's distinguished legacy. ... More
Sadie Dupuis confronts her darkest memories on Speedy Ortiz's new LP
NEW YORK, NY.- Ask me anything, even if its painful, Sadie Dupuis sings on Rabbit Rabbit, the fifth album by her band Speedy Ortiz. The lyric was, in part, a message to herself. After more than a decade of writing songs and poetry as well as painting her own album covers Dupuis, 35, found that she was asking herself ever more insistently about deep childhood trauma and her own survival mechanisms. There were aspects of my past that I was working through for the first time on this record, she said via video from her pink-walled (from long before Barbie) home studio in Philadelphia. Dupuis suggested the forced stillness of the pandemic led her to topics she hadnt tapped for songwriting before. As the songs were emerging, she wondered, Why do I feel so uncomfortable when Im on the precipice of crying? Why am I not able to cry in front of someone or even myself? ... More
'Reggie Burrows Hodges: Turning a Big Ship' features new suite of works at Addison Gallery of American Art
ANDOVER, MA.- Hayes Prize 2023: Reggie Burrows Hodges, Turning a Big Shipthe first solo museum exhibition of works by the artistpresents a new suite of nearly two-dozen paintings completed in 2022 and 2023, ranging from the monumental to the intimately scaled. This new body of work centers around the motifs of the sloop and the sea captain, engaging with and expanding the tradition of maritime painting. Masts and sails morph into female forms, stewarding and navigating vessels through uncertain waters. Here, using his distinctive formal approach, the artist contemplates the notion of turning a big ship, of marshalling collective will and labor to resist a powerful current. In earlier work, Hodges has captured glimpses into intimate, personal histories, rendering quiet scenes of community or solitude in soft focus, as if filtered through the hazy ... More
In Chicago, keeping the heritage of Black dance moving
CHICAGO, IL.- On a warm July afternoon, Princess Mhoon, the director of the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project, was sitting in a bustling cafe on the outskirts of the University of Chicagos campus in Hyde Park. Wearing a purple and orange dress that billowed around her arms, she gestured out of the window to show me where she went to high school Kenwood Academy, not quite visible from where we sat, but less than 2 miles away. I was a theater baby, she said, describing the Chicago arts world in which she grew up. Her parents met in an African dance class, and her father was a drummer for local dance companies. I have memories of sitting in the theater during tech rehearsals, she continued. We could not eat candy. In the Black Arts Movement, there was no junk food. So, we had cherry vitamin C that was my candy. Recounting her ... More
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum awards 24th Rappaport Prize to artist Tomashi Jackson
LINCOLN, MA.- deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announced Massachusetts- and New York-based artist Tomashi Jackson as the recipient of the 24th Rappaport Prize. Established in 2000 and endowed in perpetuity in 2010, the prize was established by The Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Foundation to celebrate the achievements of contemporary artists in New England. An in-person lecture is planned for May 2024. Tomashi Jackson (b. 1980, Houston) works across painting, textiles, sculpture, and video. Her artwork often features compositions of exuberant color, bold geometries, and intricate layering of material. Jackson currently has a mid-career survey exhibition on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, curated by Miranda Lash and entitled Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe. Her 2021 commission and residency ... More
"Claire Morgan: I only dared to touch you once I knew that you were dead" now open at Galerie Karsten Greve
COLOGNE .- Galerie Karsten Greve is now presenting the fifth solo exhibition by artist Claire Morgan in Cologne as part of this year's DC Open Galleries. "I only dared to touch you once I knew that you were dead" presents the artist's first figurative body of work in which women are the central protagonists alongside animals, woven in an unfolding, fractured narrative, throughout the galleries. In nearly thirty new works ranging from painting, installation, sculpture, drawing and printmaking, the exhibition explores the fear of the unknown and loss of control. Expanding on Claire Morgan's artistic vocabulary which has, until now, captivated with intricate compositions of plant seeds, insects, taxidermy, and multicoloured waste ... More
Robert Kelly's 'The Pearl Diver and Other Stories...' opens at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art
SANTA FE, NM.- There are stories everywhere. The story of the artist. The story of the magpie. The story of the stone on the beach. The story of the painting. The story of the goddess. The story of the buried city. The story of the sun-bleached bone. And our own story which itself is really the weave of a thousand stories, flaring out, radiating around us, brushing up against the other stories of the world. But often enough, we dont hear them, dont notice. Get tangled in noise, lose the thread. This is when sometimes the world reaches out to us, offering a spark, a reminder. It might be a crow landing at your feet. It might be a particular stone on a beach. It might be a painting: Aging paper, layered, overlaid, ghosted with images and text; cut, covered, framed and highlighted by thick, sen- suous black geometric forms. Through the yellowed layers, a strangely ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish artist Per Kirkeby was born September 01, 1938. Per Kirkeby (1 September 1938 - 9 May 2018) was a Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor. In this image: Danish Crown Princess Mary, left, talks with Danish artist Per Kirkeby, right, at the opening of his art exhibition in Tate Modern gallery in London, Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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