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In an undated image provided by Joe Michael/Mystic Seaport Museum, the glass artist Steffen Dams Marine Specimen Collection, 2008, one of several contemporary artworks in Spineless: A Glass Menagerie of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Stonington, Conn. A new show of marine invertebrates, modeled in Germany nearly 150 years ago, helps tell a story about the Connecticut coast today. (Joe Michael/Mystic Seaport Museum via The New York Times)
by Meredith Mendelsohn
MYSTIC, CONN.- An enterprising father and son in Dresden, Germany, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, found success in the 19th century by hand-blowing glass models of marine invertebrates and selling them to universities and natural history museums around the world, from New England to Tokyo. Harvard and Cornell bought around 1,000, in total, by mail order in the 1870s and 1880s. As it turns out, many of those same types of invertebrates were also traveling the world and they still are, transported by maritime traffic, clinging to the hulls of ships and riding in their ballasts. Some of those native European creatures, modeled in glass long before terms like invasive species and biofouling were coined, are now thriving in Stonington Harbor in the Mystic River Estuary, off the coast of Connecticut. Those well-traveled species are the inspiration behind Spineless: A Glass Menagerie of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates at the Mystic Seaport Museum nearby, through September 2024. Included in th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Barrikadenwetter installation view at MACRO Bibliographic Office @ michelapedranti.
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| O Museum in The Mansion announces "Through the Looking Glass Exhibition Of Classic Children's Literature" | | In Hitler's birthplace, soul-searching over a poisonous past | | He thought his Chuck Close painting was worth $10 million. Not quite. |
The exhibit, which opens November 28 at 5 pm, at 2020 O Street NW, will provide visitors with the opportunity to explore the secret gardens where the new sculptures will be installed.
WASHINGTON, DC.- O Museum in The Mansion and London-based Robert James Studio are thrilled to announce the "Through the Looking Glass Exhibition," a captivating showcase of unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll's beloved book series and an array of classic children's literature favorites. The exhibit, which opens November 28 at 5 pm, at 2020 O Street NW, will provide visitors with the opportunity to explore the secret gardens where the new sculptures will be installed, meet the sculptor James Coplestone, explore the O Museum's 100+ rooms and 87 secret doors, and enjoy complimentary Beefeaters Gin or Tea service with vintage teapot sets. Reservations, required to attend the opening night event, are available at www.omuseum.org/alice. "It's a chance to step into a whimsical world," said HH Leonards, founder of the O Museum in The Mansion, "where Alice, The Queen of Hearts, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Peter Rabbit, and many more iconic creation ... More | |
A plaque inscribed with the name of a victim of the Nazi regime, set in stone in Braunau am Inn, Austria on Oct. 27, 2023. (Marylise Vigneau/The New York Times)
by Graham Bowley
BRAUNAU AM INN.- This Austrian town, sitting just at the border with Germany, has a 15th-century church tower, cobblestone streets and cluttered rows of charming, colorful houses, some in green, pink and blue. It also has a fraught historical burden. On the upper floors of the house at Salzburger Vorstadt 15 on April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born. One recent afternoon, Annette Pommer, 32, a history teacher, stared through the window of the Sailer cafe at the three-story 17th-century building across the street where Hitler spent the first few months of his life. She could hear the pounding of jackhammers; an excavator was crawling over a pile of bricks at the rear of the house while workers in hard hats swept the soil. For many years, Braunau residents say, few gave the house a second thought, except when tourists asked for a photograph, or the occasional neo-Nazi showed up on the anniversary of Hitlers birthday ... More | |
A painting by Chuck Close is carried down the hallway of the building where dog walker Mark Herman lives in New York, on Aug. 8, 2023. (OK McCausland/The New York Times)
by John Leland
NEW YORK, NY.- Have you ever had this fantasy? You befriend a curmudgeonly stranger, and one day, out of the blue, the old grouch bequeaths you a gift to change your life. For most of us, that fantasy is priceless. But for Mark Herman, a former dog walker now living on Social Security, an auction house in Dallas told him exactly how much that fantasy was worth. In his cluttered apartment in upper Manhattan, New York, on Tuesday, Herman watched speechless as the auctioneer declared the final bid on Lot 77070, an untitled Chuck Close painting that briefly, improbably, belonged to him. On hand to record Hermans reaction was Amy Sargeant, one of two filmmakers who contacted him after the story of his painting appeared in The New York Times this summer. She had read about it on a ferry to a remote island in Tanzania. That story, in brief: About six year ... More |
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| Miller ICA to become ICA Pittsburgh; Reveals design for expanded new home by ZGF Architects | | Machine Art, +GRAPH explores the deep historical connection between coding and drawing | | Group of caregivers help Hamas attack survivors heal with art, music |
Rendering of the new Institute of Contemporary Art Pittsburgh, which will be housed within the Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences, designed by ZGF Architects. Image Credit: Atchain. Image Courtesy Carnegie Mellon University.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Mellon University unveiled the design for the Miller Institute for Contemporary Arts new 29,000-square-foot home, prominently located in the new Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences at the crossroads of the universitys campus and the city's iconic arts and cultural institutions along Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh. Designed by ZGF Architects, the new museum will nearly triple the Miller ICAs current size, with galleries and public programming spaces that will foster cross-disciplinary inquiry and community engagement. The university simultaneously announced that, upon its move, the Miller ICA will be renamed the Institute for Contemporary Art Pittsburgh ... More | |
Licia He, Fictional Lullaby artwork.
NEW YORK, NY.- Feral File announces the +GRAPH, artist-made generative software creating physical works, curated by Casey Reas. Two years ago GRAPH became an iconic Feral File exhibition, marking the exemplary artists that Feral File exhibits and the experimental nature of this new endeavor. Today, that early exhibition has evolved into +GRAPH, which, like its predecessor, explores the deep historical connection between coding and drawing and brings together artists who engage with both. On display are generative art NFTs, but the first collector of each in the series will receive the corresponding plotter drawing created in the artists studio. Each NFT includes millions of other images beyond the primary image for each in the series. The NFT and the plotter drawing arent linked together; the NFT can continue to be collected on a secondary market without ... More | |
Survivors of Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, attack on the Tribe of Nova trance party participating in an art therapy session at Ronit Farm, where they have been gathering with mental health professionals, outside Tel Aviv on Nov. 7, 2023. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times)
by Gal Koplewitz
NEW YORK, NY.- The gunning down of hundreds of partygoers at Tribe of Nova, a trance party in Reim, Israel, in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 terrorist attacks has wrought an outpouring of grief for those killed or taken hostage. Yet while the more than 1,000 attendees who survived may feel lucky to be alive, many are still grappling with the aftermath of the horrifying experience. In the weeks since, mental health professionals have scrambled to figure out how to help the partys survivors, some of whose trauma may have been compounded by the effect ... More |
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| Resurfaced works by Ãdouard de Bièfve and Guercino lead Heritage's Fine European Art Auction | | Hamburger Kunsthalle presents "OUTSTANDING! The Relief from Rodin to Taeuber-Arp" | | 'Marta MinujÃn: Arte! Arte! Arte!' opens at the Jewish Museum |
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino (Italian, 1591-1666), St. John the Baptist, half length, circa 1640s-1650s. Pen and brown ink on laid paper, 9-7/8 x 8-1/4 in. Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000.
DALLAS, TX.- We may think of our historic and leading creative minds as endlessly progressive, but in 1842, the indelible Charlotte Brontë came face to face with a controversial new painting, a true succès de scandale that by all evidence disturbed and irritated her so badly that she wrote at length about it in her final and some say her best novel, Villette. Brontës fictional proxy, the main character Lucy Snowe, stares at the painting (and its seductive subject) and thinks: ...this picture, I say, seemed to consider itself the queen of the collection. She lay half-reclined on a couch: why, it would be difficult to say She had no business to lounge away the noon on a sofa. She ought likewise to have worn decent garments; a gown covering her properly, which was not the case Then, for the wretched untidiness surrounding her, there could be no excuse it was on the whole an enormous piece of claptrap. Snowe is parked on a bench in front of the paint ... More | |
Alexander Archipenko (18871964), Zwei Gläser auf einem Tisch (Deux verres sur une table), 1919/20. Papiermaché auf Holz, 56 x 46 x 4,5 cm. Centre Pompidou, Paris © bpk / Centre Pompidou, Paris / CNAC-MNAM. Photo: Jacqueline Hyde © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023.
HAMBURG.- With some 130 exhibits by over 100 artists from Europe and the USA, the exhibition OUTSTANDING! focuses on the little-known art form of relief, tracing the many facets of its development from 1800 to the 1960s. Conjoining three- dimensional sculpture and flat painting, relief has always offered a field for experimentation. Even today its plastic presence still challenges our visual faculties, particularly in times when virtual worlds predominate. High-calibre works on loan from private and public collections in Aarau, Basel, Berlin, Den Haag, Geneva, Copenhagen, London, Lyon, Paris and Rotterdam allow visitors to experience the arresting diversity and innovative force of the art of relief. While neoclassical sculptors such as Bertel Thorvaldsen and Johann Gottfried Schadow still drew chiefly on works from antiquity, nineteenth-century artists ... More | |
Implosion! (2021), a highlight of the exhibition, recalls many of MinujÃns earliest soft sculptures, which could be entered and explored. © Marta MinujÃn, courtesy of Henrique Faria, New York and Herlitzka & Co., Buenos Aires.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum is presenting the first survey exhibition in the United States of Marta MinujÃn, a defining force of Latin American art whose trajectory intersected with the major artistic developments of the postwar period while reflecting a singular spirit and vision infused by her sharp intellect, irreverent humor, and performative presence. On view from November 17, 2023 through March 31, 2024, Marta MinujÃn: Arte! Arte! Arte!reflects the genre-defying arc of the artists six-decade career. This timely exhibition responds to a renewed interest in feminist, Pop, and Latin American art by investigating one of their leading figures. Marta MinujÃn: Arte! Arte! Arte! includes nearly 100 works drawn from the artists archives in Buenos Aires as well as private and institutional collections. Organized to reflect her bold experimentation over six decades, the exhibition charts MinujÃns influential career in Buenos ... More |
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| Tadao Ando's MPavilion 10 opens in Melbourne | | Dubai's costly water world | | Queen Elizabeth II, featured on banknotes from around the globe, celebrated in Heritage auction |
Aerial view of MPavilion 10, designed by Tadao Ando, by John Gollings courtesy of MPavilion.
MELBOURNE.- MPavilion opened its milestone MPavilion 10, designed by internationally renowned, Pritzker Prize-winner Tadao Ando, in Queen Victoria Gardens on 16 November. Andos design for MPavilion 10his first ever project in Australiareflects his signature use of striking geometric interventions in nature and his precise, assured use of concrete. The opening kicks off the five-month design festival of public programming offering over 150 events. Every event is free. MPavilion, which first began in 2014, has grown to become one of Australias most visited and impactful festivals, attracting more than 350,000 people during its ninth season. "There is a magic moment each season when an architectural vision becomes built reality, and when we welcome the public who gets to engage directly with the innovative space created by inspired ... More | |
An underwater view of Deep Dive Dubai, the deepest pool in the world, which contains roughly 3.7 million gallons of fresh water, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 16, 2023. (Katarina Premfors/The New York Times)
by Arielle Paul
NEW YORK, NY.- For a desert city, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, appears like a water wonderland. Visitors can scuba dive in the worlds deepest pool or ski inside a mega-mall where penguins play in freshly made snow. A fountain billed as the worlds largest sprays more than 22,000 gallons of water into the air, synchronized to music from surrounding speakers. But to maintain its opulence, the city relies on freshwater it doesnt have. So, it turns to the sea, using energy-intensive desalination technologies to help hydrate a rapidly growing metropolis. All of this comes at a cost. Experts say Dubais reliance on desalination is damaging the Persian Gulf, producing a brackish waste known as ... More | |
Incredible Serial Number 8 Rhodesia & Nyasaland 10 Pounds. Estimate: $30,000 - up.
DALLAS, TX.- Leaders whose portraits are selected to appear on currency are chosen for a number of reasons, among them their status as beloved leaders, military prowess and royal heritage. No monarch has appeared on more currency around the globe than Elizabeth II, the late Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 1952 until she died last year. Her reign of more than 70 years is the longest of any woman and the second-longest of any monarch ever. Nobodys image has appeared on more coins and currency around the globe. In an event befitting someone with her political, cultural and yes, numismatic reach, Heritage Auctions will offer one of the finest troves of currency featuring a single monarch ever assembled in its Queen Elizabeth II Collection World Paper Money Signature ® Auction December 8-10. The collection offered in this auction is a magnificent assemblage of absolutely beautiful and ... More |
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Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino receives $10 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian has received a $10 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support the design, development and construction of the National Museum of the American Latino. The grant will also support the development and implementation of strategies for highlighting the role of religion in Latino history and culture through the museums collections, exhibitions and public programming. Understanding how faith and spirituality have shaped Latino history helps us understand Latino life today, said Jorge Zamanillo, director of the museum. Lilly Endowments generous gift will ensure that the Latino Museum can explore and weave spiritual heritage into its public programs and exhibitions. The grant from Lilly Endowment represents another important step in the Smithsonians fundraising campaign for the ... More
Scientists find first evidence that groups of apes cooperate
NEW YORK, NY.- If a troop of baboons encounters another troop on the savanna, they may keep a respectful distance or they may get into a fight. But human groups often do something else: They cooperate. Tribes of hunter-gatherers regularly come together for communal hunts or to form large-scale alliances. Villages and towns give rise to nations. Networks of trade span the planet. Human cooperation is so striking that anthropologists have long considered it a hallmark of our species. They have speculated that it emerged thanks to the evolution of our powerful brains, which enable us to use language, establish cultural traditions and perform other complex behaviors. But a new study, published in Science on Thursday, throws that uniqueness into doubt. It turns out that two groups of apes in Africa have regularly ... More
Georges Adéagbo's "Create to Free Yourselves" opens at National Museum of African Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- Georges Adéagbos mixed-media installation Create to Free YourselvesAbraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America opened Nov. 18 at the Smithsonians National Museum of African Art and continues through Spring 2024. The culmination of a decades-long interest in Americas 16th president, the installation fills a gallery with paintings, sculptures, found objects and hand-written personal reflections that together express the artists exploration of one transformative human beingPresident Abraham Lincolnand the late presidents navigation of the tensions between life and purpose. Long fascinated with Lincoln and his role in emancipating Americas enslaved citizens, Adéagbo (Ah-day-augh-bo) created his first installation focused on Lincoln, AbrahamLami de Dieu, in 2000 at PS1 ... More
National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center turns 20
WASHINGTON, DC.- The 20th anniversary of opening the National Air and Space Museums Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center will take place in December. To commemorate this milestone, a celebration at the museum in Chantilly, Virginia, will take place Saturday, Dec. 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will be free and open to the public and offer a range of activities not available during a typical visit, such as the rare opportunity to go behind-the-scenes in the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar, expert talks by museum curators and staff, a conversation with aviation industry pioneer Steven Udvar-Hazy and hands-on activities for visitors of all ages. Onsite parking, normally $15, will be free Dec 2. The Udvar-Hazy Center opened Dec. 15, 2003. Since then, it has welcomed over 24 million people. There are currently 1,989 aviation ... More
Derek Hough, America's ballroom ambassador, hits the road
NEW YORK, NY.- In one week this fall, Derek Hough visited five states as part of his 60-city concert tour Symphony of Dance. After a show in Cincinnati, and a post-show ice bath, he flew to Los Angeles for 48 hours to appear on Jennifer Hudsons talk show, rehearse a coming Disney holiday special and film an episode of Dancing With the Stars, the hit television ballroom and Latin dance competition that helped start his career 16 years ago. Then he flew to Michigan for the next show. I guess Im just a glutton for punishment, Hough said with a laugh during a video interview from Minneapolis. I love the real-time interaction with audiences, where they see you on TV and then the next day, youre in front of them live. Since his 2007 debut on Stars as a pro a professional dance partner to an eclectic roster of celebrities with ... More
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery opens a memorial exhibition organized in collaboration with Mary Bauermeister's family
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is presenting Mary Bauermeister: Fuck the System, a memorial exhibition organized in collaboration with the artists family. The first solo exhibition to open since her passing in March 2023, Fuck the System surveys the diverse, interdisciplinary oeuvre Bauermeister executed across seven decades. Taking its title from an assemblage executed at a key turning point in Bauermeisters career, Fuck the System features works from each of her major series, including examples of rarely exhibited pastels, light boxes, and easel sculptures. A child of totalitarian Germany who rejected the Constructivist mandates of the countrys postwar schools of art and design, Bauermeisters ... More
David Del Tredici, who set 'Alice' to music, dies at 86
NEW YORK, NY.- David Del Tredici, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer who began as an experimentalist but became best known for a midcareer shift toward a style that came to be called the New Romanticism, which yielded a series of rich-hued, tuneful pieces based on Lewis Carrolls Alice stories, died Saturday at his home in New York. He was 86. Pianist Marc Peloquin, a longtime friend and collaborator and the executor of Del Tredicis estate, said the cause was Parkinsons disease. Flamboyant and gregarious, Del Tredici cultivated a reputation as a beloved scamp who did what he wanted. But he also had a gift for explaining his musical goals and how he had settled upon them. And he was frank about his personal life and his demons alcoholism, for one. If composer George Antheil had not already laid claim to the phrase ... More
Rowan University Art Gallery & Museum presents "Layers of Authenticity"
GLASSBORO, NJ.- In this group show five artists create work by altering imagery pulled from print, the internet, and their own photography. Utilizing unique processes of production, they reveal authentic and insightful statements about our current political and social landscape and the ambiguousness and misconceptions about historical events, places, and people. Maria Dumlao is a Filipino artist now based in Philadelphia. Her work reflects on the environmental and cultural impacts of colonialism in her home country and the multiple narratives that have thus been obscured and concealed. Gabriel Martinez is based in Philadelphia of Cuban descent. His work expresses feelings of displacement experienced with immigration and explores the complexities, incongruences, and significance of Cubas contemporary cultural, political ... More
Morgan Lehman opens an exhibition of new paintings by Audrey Stone
NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman announced the opening of Together and Apart, an exhibition of new paintings by Audrey Stone. This marks the artists third solo exhibition with the gallery. The works on display are decidedly abstract in their pictorial content, yet conceptually rich and rooted in ideas both personal and universal. At the forefront of Stones recent conceptual interests is the notion of reflection or mirroring. The artist has been taking stock of her studio practice, looking backward at past bodies of work and the shape of her creative trajectory to move forward as a painter. This very vulnerable act of looking into the proverbial mirror gave rise to a group of new paintings that possess a quiet knowing and self-awareness. They illustrate an evolution in Stones practice while highlighting the artists time-honored ... More
Exhibition at MACRO explores the construction, concept and iconography of the barricade
ROME.- Barrikadenwetter (barricade weather) is a term coined by the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in the newspaper Dresdner Zeitung on May 3, 1849: it denotes the moment of transition in which a revolutionary subject emerges within collective action, and reifies itself as an obstruction that stands in the way of the established order. Starting from a historical survey by the Arsenale Institutea research group which has long been engaged in projects related to visual arts as well as the critical analysis of the politics of representationthe exhibition explores the construction, concept and iconography of the barricade, from its beginnings in the late Renaissance to present times, tracing its historical connections with the roots of the 20th century avant-garde. The exhibition walls host an iconography of the barricade which through ... More
Ketterer Kunst to offer a paainting by Emil Nolde with remarkable provenance
HAMBURG.- Emil Nolde's Palms was privately owned for over 60 years however, the heirs of the Jewish collector Dr. Ismar Littmann lost it through Nazi persecution in 1935. In 2023, the anniversary year of the Washington Principles, an agreement is reached through the mediation of Ketterer Kunst: The work from 1915, which is considered of seminal importance for Nolde's later gaudy watercolors, is offered in an amicable agreement with the heirs of Dr. Ismar Littmann subject to a just and fair solution. Germanys leading auction house for art from 1900 to today is going to call it up with an estimate price of 600,000 800,000 in its Evening Sale on December 8, 2023. Works of this quality and with such an outstanding provenance are absolute highlights on the auction market, says Robert Ketterer, auctioneer and owner of Ketterer Kunst. The fact that this meaningful res ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico died November 20, 1978. Giorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 - November 20, 1978) was a Greek-born Italian artist. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. After 1919, he became interested in traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work. In this image: Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico stands in front of one of his paintings in his apartment in Rome, Italy on Feb. 12, 1955.
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