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A gallery at The New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary, in Santa Fe, N.M. on Sept. 27, 2023. The first show at the new Vladem Contemporary, which opened last month, spotlights works from 1970 to 2000 and centers on New Mexico artists. (Brad Trone/The New York Times)
SANTA FE, NM.- In some ways, the original New Mexico Museum of Art was too much of a good thing. The building, located just off the historic Santa Fe Plaza, is a prime example of the Pueblo Revival style of architecture that defines the capital and makes it a popular destination for tourists. Covered in earthy, brown stucco, and with roof timbers protruding through its exterior walls, the 1917 structure is decorated along doorways, stairs and ceilings with intricately carved wood trim. All of those design details were just right for the art the museum was collecting in the first half of the 20th century. The buildings local flavor enhanced the work of painters such as Marsden Hartley, Georgia OKeeffe and others who became famous for capturing the nearby land, sky and people. But art has evolved over the years. Abstraction, conceptualism, installations and video grew to become the dominant American art as the century closed, and none of it presented well in the old space. The building and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Arnolfini opened its autumn season for 2023 with Eregata እርጋታ, the first major solo European museum exhibition of one of Ethiopiaâs leading contemporary artists, Elias Sime, introducing audiences to a man and maker of extraordinary craftsmanship and collaborative spirit. Photo: Lisa Whiting Photography for Arnolfini. All rights reserved.
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| A museum takes a new, unvarnished look at a massacre | | An artist pushes back against cultural colonialism | | A South Florida museum showcases burgers, fries and beers, made of glass |
Museum visitors listening to Cheyenne and Arapaho audio accounts at the History Colorado Center in Denver. (History Colorado via The New York Times)
by Megan McCrea
DENVER, CO.- Just inside the lobby of the History Colorado Center in front of the familiar Welcome to Colorado sign stand two tepees. One is erected in Cheyenne style, the other Arapaho style, with doorways facing east to greet the morning sun. They sit atop an aerial map of Colorado, occupying the tribes traditional homelands. A visitor to the museum, in Denver, might wonder whether these tepees are just an empty symbol, pointing to a people who have been wiped out, leaving behind nothing but their homes and the objects they made their voices and contemporary selves absent. But these tepees are actually an introduction to a chorus of Indigenous voices echoing throughout the museum, telling their stories, in their words. One is the story of what has been called the deadliest day in Colorado history, a story that the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes nearly didnt get to tell themselves. It is the story of the Sand ... More | |
Artist Yinka Shonibare, who has made his name with work that tackled colonialism, in front of one of his sculptural pieces at his fabricators in London, Aug. 18, 2023. (Jane Stockdale/The New York Times)
by Laura van Straaten
LONDON.- Multimedia British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare made his name with work that tackled colonialism, the subjugation of peoples that enabled the global slave trade and carved a callous cartography across Africa and other continents. For more than three decades, Shonibares sculptures, paintings, videos, photography, films and installations have often employed Dutch wax fabric, the colorfully patterned textiles that are widely associated with Africa. But for Shonibare, the fabric is also the embodiment of colonialism: Dutch colonists in the 1800s copied the batiks they found in Indonesia and mass-produced the fabrics in Holland. Finding no market in Europe, they sold the textiles in West Africa, where the fabric became ubiquitous. Shonibares more recent works, including some on view in New York later this month, explore a different kind of colonialism in his words, ... More | |
A cheeseburger with all the toppings made of glass by artist John Miller, at his studio in Bloomington, Ill., Sept. 29, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
by Joseph B. Treaster
MIAMI, FLA.- John Miller makes supersize cheeseburgers and french fries crinkle-cut or curly. They look luscious. But dont even think about taking a bite. They are rock hard. Miller is an artist, and he works in glass. He will be displaying his big, glistening glass cheeseburgers, hot dogs, doughnuts, fountain drinks and a couple of beers at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami in nearby Coral Gables from Oct. 27 through Jan. 14, in an exhibition called, Order Up! The Pop Art of John Miller. His work is fun, said Sheldon Palley, a Miami collector of glass art and the principal sponsor of the exhibition. Its fun to look at. It really gives you a warm feeling. Miller, 56, began making giant glass cheeseburgers as a tribute to the good times he has had hanging out in roadside diners around the country. Its mostly about nostalgia, he said in a phone interview, about being transported somewhere ... More |
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| Dutch Royals confront their country's colonial legacy in South Africa | | Van Gogh Museum pulls Pokémon cards after frenzy | | A $96 million Hindu temple opens amid accusations of forced labor |
The king has previously apologized for his familys role in slavery, but some South Africans seek a direct apology and reparations from the Netherlands. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)
by Lynsey Chutel
NEW YORK, NY.- On their first visit to an African country since ascending the throne a decade ago, the king and queen of the Netherlands made a symbolic visit Friday to the Slave Lodge in Cape Town, South Africa, where Dutch colonists once enslaved thousands of Africans and Asians. As they entered the two-story building with creaky floors, they were confronted by members of another royal house: a small group of leaders of the Khoi and the San, the Indigenous groups who were first displaced 350 years ago by Dutch colonists in what is today Cape Town. The Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, formally apologized this year for his countrys role in slavery and colonialism. But South Africas Indigenous groups and the descendants of those enslaved by the Dutch want a direct apology as well as reparations from the Netherlands for atrocities committed in South Africa during 150 years of colonialism. The king struck ... More | |
Pikachu inspired by Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat. Naoyo Kimura (1960), The Pokémon Company International.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam stopped giving out Pokémon cards inspired by the Dutch artist after fans of the game caused a frenzy in the gift shop and scalpers positioned themselves outside the building. To obtain the special cards, which feature an image of Pikachu, the beloved mascot of the Pokémon universe, in a felt hat and painted in the style of Vincent van Goghs 1887 work Self-Portrait With Grey Felt Hat, fans must now go on eBay where the card can cost as much as $620. The cards were part of a collaboration between the museum and Pokémon Co. International to celebrate the museums 50th anniversary and recognize the link between van Gogh and Japanese art and culture. The museum also displayed paintings of Pokémon, including Pikachu and Snorlax, which were dispersed among van Goghs self portraits and famous sunflowers. To get one of the special cards, ticket holders had to complete a scavenger hunt in the museum, walking by van Gogh classic ... More | |
Inside the lavish Akshardham Mahamandir, a Hindu temple that sits on 180 acres and includes 10,000 statues that recently opened in Robbinsville, N.J., Oct. 4, 2023. (Hannah Beier/The New York Times)
by Sarah Pulliam Bailey
ROBBINSVILLE, NJ.- Hindu pilgrims walked barefoot on the marble floors of the enormous temple, examining intricate stone carvings of deities etched into the ceilings and images of musical instruments and elephants along the white walls. As they approached a large gold shrine, many gasped in wonder, having arrived at the place where they believe God resides in the form of sacred images. The recent opening of Akshardham Mahamandir in Robbinsville was a historic moment for Hindus in New Jersey and beyond. The temple, about 15 years in the making, is believed to be the largest in the Western Hemisphere and is expected to draw religious pilgrims and tourists from all over the world. It has also been clouded in controversy. Federal law enforcement agents raided the temple construction site in 2021 after workers accused the builders, a prominent Hindu sect with ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and ... More |
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| From sketch to runway, the making of a bridal collection | | 'Keith Sonnier: Live in Your Head' opens at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery | | Drone warfare comes to Washington's opera stage |
A list of fabrics that she selected and a grid of rough design sketches an inside peek at how she prepares for New York Bridal Fashion Week. (courtesy of Rebecca Schoneveld via The New York Times)
by Alix Strauss
NEW YORK, NY.- For the last decade or so, the designer Rebecca Schoneveld, who plans to relocate her studio to Pleasantville, New York, next month, has participated in more than a dozen bridal fashion shows, sometimes presenting twice in one year. Although her designs change with each season, her process remains the same. I start with the fabric, thats most important, said Schoneveld, 40, who usually begins working on her collection around six months before the presentation. Its the visual and textural foundation. This year, Schoneveld presented her spring 2024 line at New York Bridal Fashion Week, which took place Oct. 10-12. She debuted her designs at the Horizon Bridal Showcase, a white-box space near Hudson Yards in Manhattan that some bridal designers have used ... More | |
Keith Sonnier, Untitled Neon Corner Piece, 1969. Neon, aluminum, paint, 107 x 52 x 52 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- parrasch heijnen is presenting Keith Sonnier: Live in Your Head, a scholarly view of Sonniers oeuvre and his wide-ranging impact on generations of artists. This exhibition includes work by: Keith Sonnier, Mary Heilmann, Madeline Hollander, Ann Veronica Janssens, Terence Koh, Nabilah Nordin, Jessica Stockholder, Maya Stovall, and Kennedy Yanko. The shows title comes from the phrase Sonnier lent to the 1969 landmark exhibition Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form, (Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland), highlighting the conceptual nature of his oeuvre rather than simply its materiality. Throughout his five-decade-long career, Keith Sonnier (b. 1941, Mamou, LA - d. 2020, Southampton, NY) created works of spatial abstractions that exceed their physical material in expansive volume and form. Whether through engaging illumination, linear movement, or architectural interventions with non-art objects, his gestural ... More | |
The mezzo-soprano Emily DAngelo as the pilot Jess in Jeanine Tesori and George Brants new opera Grounded, in Washington, Oct. 4, 2023. In the spring, anger erupted after Washington National Opera listed the presenting sponsor of the production as General Dynamics, the military contractor. (Melissa Lyttle/The New York Times)
WASHINGTON, DC.- Wearing combat boots and a U.S. Air Force flight suit, mezzo-soprano Emily DAngelo took her place onstage one recent morning and began to sing about war. I break down the airfields, the refineries, the consulates and factories, she sang inside a rehearsal studio in Washington. I return them to desert, to particles. DAngelo was preparing to star in Grounded, a new work about drone warfare, composed by Jeanine Tesori and with a libretto by George Brant, that will premiere at Washington National Opera next weekend, ahead of a run at the Metropolitan Opera in New York next season. On that morning, she was learning how to move around the set in the role of Jess, an F-16 pilot reassigned to drone duty because of an unexpected ... More |
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| SantÃdio Pereira Un horizon végétal on view at The Xippas gallery | | The musée de La Boverie hosts a monographic exhibition on American artist Bill Viola | | 'History in the Making: Stories of Materials and Makers, 2000BC to now' opens at Compton Verney |
SantÃdio Pereira, Untitled, 2023. Woodcut print on 100% cotton paper, 168 x 117,5 cm | 66.14 x 46.06 in. Framed: 182 x 132 cm | 71.65 x 51.96 in. Photo: © EstudioEmObra. Courtesy de lartiste et galerie Xippas.
PARIS.- The Xippas gallery is presenting, for the first time in its Parisian space, an exhibition by Brazilian artist SantÃdio Pereira. The show brings together a selection of recent works, including monumental woodcuts, wooden objects and watercolors on paper. Over the past five years, the artist has focused on the representation of tropical plants and Brazilian landscapes. SantÃdio Pereiras artistic project reclaims and revitalizes the significant tradition of Brazilian woodcut, carried by renown artists such as Oswaldo Goeldi, Manoel Messias and Anna Maria Maiolino. These artists share a common approach where the woodcut technique is used to depict images of contingent reality within a refine and minimal aesthetic. In this sense, the formal synthesis enabled by the woodcut ... More | |
Bill Viola. Sculptor of Time © Tempora © Anthony Dehez. DBcreation.be
LIÃGE.- Wherever he is exhibited, from Melbourne to Bilbao, via Tokyo, New York, Rome or Paris, Bill Viola's art attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors. Now it's the turn of the The musée de La Boverie (Liège) is hosting a monographic exhibition on American artist Bill Viola. A major figure in contemporary art, Bill Viola is considered one of the pioneers of the medium of video art. Presented by Bill Viola Studio and Tempora, Bill Viola. Sculptor of Time is the first Belgian exhibition of international scope to celebrate the work of this unrivalled and hugely influential video artist. Sculpting time, but also shaping space, Bill Violas creations inhabit and transform the space they occupy. Whether intimate or gigantic, La Boverie offers Bill Violas works a majestic setting in which viewers are free to explore their own experience. Like an invitation to travel, the exhibition unveils a territory of spaces, silences, images ... More | |
Casket on stand, Thomas Parker, c.1812. From the Woburn Abbey Collection.
COMPTON VERNEY.- This compelling new exhibition shares the stories of the people and processes behind outstanding examples of historic and contemporary craft by bringing together a treasure-trove of objects from the Woburn Abbey Collection, the Crafts Council and Compton Verney in a unique exploration and celebration of materials and making. Taking place across both suites of temporary exhibition galleries at Compton Verney, the exhibition presents historic craft masterpieces from Woburn Abbey and Compton Verney alongside contemporary creations by some of the most exciting makers working today, many of which are being loaned for the first time, courtesy of the Crafts Council, the UKs national charity for craft. Works on display include ancient Chinese ceramics from Compton Verneys internationally renowned Chinese collection, 18th-century Indian bed textiles from Woburn ... More |
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28 Korean artists shine a spotlight on the vibrancy and complexities of their country
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Through the lens of 28 Korean artists, all born between 1960 and 1986, The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989 focuses on South Koreas growing influence on the world stage and how the country continues to grapple with its past. The late 1980s was a time of great political change for South Korea. Its long-standing military dictatorship transitioned to a legitimate democracy, and an international travel ban was lifted, creating opportunities for global engagement, powerful economic growth, and cultural exchange. This marked an important turning point for South Korean artists as they began to connect in earnest to the global art scene. Using a variety of mediums, including ceramics, painting, fiber, photography, lacquer, installation, metalwork, mixed media, embroidery, video, and performance, these artists explore themes ... More
Adapting 'All the Light We Cannot See' for TV, and the blind
BUDAPEST.- On a set on the outskirts of Budapest, as the crew reset cameras for the next take, Nell Sutton, 7, sat up in bed and asked her director, Shawn Levy, a question: How will you make it look like night? Levy explained that the blue lights, set up around the room, would convey nighttime on-screen. Sutton was satisfied, and settled back into position, headphones on, to start a scene in which her character, Marie-Laure, is listening to the radio way past her bedtime. Her father, played by Mark Ruffalo, comes in and catches her. She tells him that she is learning about the magic of radio waves. The most important light is the light you cannot see, she says. Sutton, cast as the young Marie-Laure in All the Light We Cannot See, Netflixs four-episode adaptation of Anthony Doerrs Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is blind. The actress playing ... More
'In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now' features more than 160 works of art
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- This October, the Minneapolis Institute of Art presents In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now, a major exhibition builds upon the work of Native artists, scholars, and knowledge-sharers to trace the intersecting histories of photography and First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Native American cultures, from the Rio Grande to the Arctic Circle. Developed in partnership with a curatorial council comprised primarily of Native advisors, In Our Hands centers the work of Native photographers with a diverse array of photographic objects that illuminate the ways in which Native people have advanced the medium of photography for over a century. The exhibition opened on October 21, 2023 and will be on view at Mia through January 14, 2024. In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now was collaboratively organized ... More
Seeds of Native knowledge grow in North Carolina
CHEROKEE, NC.- There is a mushroom whose beige caps grow wild in the mountains of western North Carolina. When plucked, their broken stems well up with milky droplets. To untrained eyes, the edible fungi can be tough to spot. But Amy Walker and Tyson Sampson have years of experience. One sunny fall afternoon, Walker spotted a few in the forest underbrush. We call them milkies, she said. Tyson can tell you the scientific stuff. Thats not important to me. Walker, 82, and Sampson, 49, who uses they pronouns and identifies as a two-spirit person, are among about 16,000 members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, many of whom call this mountainous corner of North Carolina home. And milkies, which are good breaded and fried, are one of the foods that they have learned to prepare in generous batches. The mottled beans that ar ... More
Danny DeVito, his daughter and a lot of baggage (onstage)
NEW YORK, NY.- The first time Lucy DeVito acted onstage an electrifying turn as an ant in a second-grade play about insects her father, Danny DeVito, watched proudly from the back of the room. (DeVito, who had already starred in the television series Taxi and appeared in films like Terms of Endearment and Throw Momma From the Train, didnt want to pose a distraction.) Now, as Lucy makes her Broadway debut, he has the best seat in the house: right onstage with her. Starring together in Theresa Rebecks new comedy, I Need That, they are playing the roles they know best: father and daughter. Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, the play, in previews at the American Airlines Theater, centers on the widower Sam, a recluse and hoarder facing eviction. His daughter, Amelia, and his best friend, Foster (played ... More
'The Persian Version' director has always lived in the in-between
NEW YORK, NY.- When Leila, the central character in the new comedy-drama The Persian Version, sashays across the Brooklyn Bridge and into a Halloween party carrying a surfboard and wearing a burkini niqab on top, bikini on the bottom while Wet Legs cheeky anthem Chaise Longue plays, its clear that whats to come will be a boundary-pushing take on straddling cultures that are at odds in the real world. Maryam Keshavarz wore a similar burkini costume once upon a time, and her semi-autobiographical film which spans decades and moves between Iran and the United States won an audience award and a screenwriting prize at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where it had its world premiere. The film, written and directed by Keshavarz, opened in a limited theatrical release in the United States ... More
Exhibition at Arnolfini focuses on work from the past six years by Elias Sime
BRISTOL.- Arnolfini opens its autumn season for 2023 with Eregata እርጋታ, the first major solo European museum exhibition of one of Ethiopias leading contemporary artists, Elias Sime, introducing audiences to a man and maker of extraordinary craftsmanship and collaborative spirit. Recently the subject of a major touring exhibition in North America, and a prominent artist in the Venice Biennale 59th international exhibition with The Milk of Dreams (2022), Simes approach to both life and art feels vital in the present moment. Eregata እርጋታ will primarily focus on work from the past six years, including Simes monumental Venice Biennale commission Veiled Whispers (2022), alongside intricately woven abstract topographies from the landmark series Tightrope (2009 present), key works from his ethnographically inspired stitch, yarn and button series, and the tactile fragility of ... More
Bobby Charlton, a soccer great, dies at 86
NEW YORK, NY.- Bobby Charlton, one of soccers greatest players, who won the World Cup with England in 1966 in a dazzling career that was tinged by the tragedy of losing eight of his Manchester United teammates in a plane crash at the start of his playing days, died Saturday. He was 86. His death was confirmed in a statement from Manchester United, which called him one of the clubs greatest and most beloved players. The statement did not say where he died or cite a cause. It was revealed in November 2020 that Charlton had dementia. Charlton was famed for his bullet shot and his relentless goal scoring, even though he did not play as a traditional striker. He was Englands top scorer, with 49 goals, for 45 years until Wayne Rooney beat the mark in September 2015. Charlton was also Manchester Uniteds top scorer for decades, with 249 ... More
Women testify that fashion mogul lured them to 'Sordid' bedroom
TORONTO.- The five women testifying that Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard sexually assaulted them described for jurors over the past four weeks how they ended up in the hidden bedroom suite at his office. Decades ago, they said, they each accepted Nygards invitation to visit the stylish Toronto headquarters of his fashion kingdom, Nygard International. He was an eager tour guide, they testified, showing off a high-end car in the garage as well as a glistening showroom. But, they said, he was most excited about bringing guests upstairs to the wood-paneled bedroom suite, fitted with a fireplace, a stone Jacuzzi, a stocked bar and a large bed. It was behind the sliding doors of that room, which Nygard could operate and lock from a keypad on the nightstand, that each of the women said he sexually assaulted them. I was a prisoner ... More
92NY pulls event with acclaimed writer who criticized Israel
NEW YORK, NY.- 92NY, one of New York Citys premier cultural venues, decided Friday to abruptly pull an event that evening featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen after he signed an open letter critical of Israel, drawing criticism that the organization was stifling dissenting voices. The event at 92NY, formerly known as the 92nd Street Y, was to have featured Nguyen in conversation with novelist Min Jin Lee about his new memoir, A Man of Two Faces, in an auditorium on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that seats roughly 900. But on Friday afternoon, after the Y said it would no longer go ahead with the event, the talks organizer, Bernard Schwartz, who leads the Ys poetry center, moved it to a bookstore in lower Manhattan where it drew a standing-room crowd of about 100. In a statement on Saturday, 92NY said the event ... More
Reframing the American landscape
EASTON, PA.- As a painter of the natural world for more than five decades, Kay WalkingStick says it is impossible not to be influenced by the 19th-century Hudson River Schools majestic depictions of the American landscape. But she finds these sublime, monumental scenes of pristine wilderness by artists like Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt and Asher B. Durand to be as problematic as they are inspirational. They were selling the American landscape as empty and of course it was not empty; it was populated, said WalkingStick, who in her bold, pared-down painting style revisits similar vistas on which she overlays geometric patterns used by the Native tribe connected to that specific land. I think of it as a reminder that were all living on Indian Territory. The exhibition Kay WalkingStick/Hudson River School opened Friday at the New- ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Andy Warhol "superstar" Baby Jane Holzer, was born October 23, 1940. Jane Holzer (née Bruckenfeld; born 23 October 1940) is American art collector and film producer who was previously an actress, model, and Warhol superstar. She was often known by the nickname Baby Jane Holzer. Movies she appeared in included Soap Opera, Warhol's Couch (1964), and Ciao! Manhattan (1972). She co-produced the 1985 film Kiss of the Spider Woman. Holzer is the subject of "Girl of the Year" in Tom Wolfe's The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) and is referenced twice in the 1972 Roxy Music song Virginia Plain from the album Roxy Music.
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