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Traveling through Portugal in 2022 during an artist residency in Cerdeira, Scott became aware that Lisbon was the city where the Slave Trade originated, with the blessing of the Pope under the guise of converting the Africans to Christianity.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lucy Lacoste Gallery brings to the world Isaac Scott in the artistâs first major gallery exhibition Mouros, through October 14, 2023, in Concord, Massachusetts. Here the artist pushes the boundaries of contemporary art by creating a dialogue between the two mediums of ceramics and photography to tell the culturally relevant story of the Slave Trade as it originated in Lisbon, Portugal in 1455. Isaac Scott received his MFA from Temple University in 2021 under Roberto Lugo. Introduced to Lucy Lacoste in 2022, Scott was included in a well-received group show at the Gallery that year in which he showed his #Philadelphia Series, sculpture inspired by the 2020 Riots in Philadelphia, the city where he lives, after the death of George Floyd. His photographs of the Riots were published by the New Yorker Magazine earning him the National Magazine Award for Feature Photographer of the Year. Traveling throug ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Ãdouard Manet's "Olympia," 1863-65, on display in "Manet/Degas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2023. Two titans of modern art face off in New York as the Met explores their enigmatic relationship. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times).
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| Ancient arrow is among artifacts to emerge from Norway's melting ice | | When Japan fell for John Cage and vice versa | | She's hoping to overhaul the Louvre |
An undated photo provided by Espen Finstad of a wooden arrow, about 3,000 years old and in unusually fine condition, that he found in the mountains of Norway in September 2023. (Espen Finstad via The New York Times)
by Livia Albeck-Ripka
NEW YORK, NY.- Espen Finstad was trudging through mud in the Jotunheimen mountains of eastern Norway this month when he happened upon a wooden arrow, bound with a pointed tip made of quartzite. Complete with feathers, it was so well-preserved that it looked as if it could have been lost just recently. But Finstad, a glacial archaeologist for the county of Innlandet, knew better. By his estimate, the arrow is probably about 3,000 years old. I was really excited, he said. Ive never seen something like this before because it was so complete. The find, which Finstad and his colleagues believe belonged to a reindeer hunter in the late Stone Age or early Bronze Age, is among thousands of artifacts and remains that have emerged from melting ice in recent years, as climate change thaws permafrost and glaciers around the world. Last month, the global surface ... More | |
John Cage visits Nanzenji Temple in Kyoto in 1962, on his first trip to Japan. (Yasuhiro Yoshioka/Sogetsu Foundation via The New York Times)
by Zachary Woolfe
NEW YORK, NY.- About 30 miles south of Tokyo is the city of Kamakura, where American composer John Cage was taken soon after arriving on his first visit to Japan, in 1962. There, D.T. Suzuki, a Zen authority from whom Cage had learned about Buddhism a decade earlier, greeted him and his close collaborator David Tudor at Tokei-ji, an ancient temple. Cage was given special permission to ring the temple bell; a photograph captures him inside the bell, slightly bent over and smiling a little as he listens to the reverberations. As Serena Yang writes in a recent dissertation on Cage and Japan, the discussion at Tokei-ji turned to the music of a Zen ceremony at another temple, near Kyoto. Cage exclaimed that this ceremony must be dominated by silence in other words, it must be similar to the works that had, by then, made him one of the worlds most important experimental composers. The similarity was, indeed, profound. The overlap between Cage and Japan ... More | |
Laurence des Cars, the director of the Louvre, walks past Gericaults Raft of the Medusa, in Paris on Sept. 14, 2023. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)
by Farah Nayeri
PARIS.- Laurence des Cars was a young curatorial recruit at the Musée dOrsay in 1994 when she had a dream: pairing two great French painters, Ãdouard Manet and Edgar Degas, in a single exhibition. Their most important works were on different continents, and some were never on loan, so no museum had ever explored their rivalrous friendship. Until now, that is. Manet/Degas opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Sunday after a four-month Paris run at the Musée dOrsay, where it drew 670,000 visitors. Making her maiden voyage to the United States is Manets famous Olympia. The instigator of the exhibition is none other than des Cars, who rose from being an Orsay curator to leading the museum for four years before taking the helm at the Louvre in 2021. Des Cars started plotting Manet/Degas while still at Orsay. When Max Hollein became the Mets director in 2018, she persuaded him to co-produce it with her, using works from bo ... More |
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| Peer through mesmerizing 'Alien Eye' Fluorite at Heritage's Fine Minerals Auction | | Schubert at the vast Park Avenue Armory: Intimate, lonely, exposed | | Arsenic preserved the animals but killed the museum |
Tanzanite, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region, Tanzania, 12.0 x 3.8 x 1.0 cm (4.72 x 1.50 x 0.39 in).
DALLAS, TX.- Dazzling fine minerals, including many from a trio of elite collections, will shimmer their way into the spotlight October 11 when they cross the block in Heritage's Fine Minerals Signature® Auction. Featured in the auction are the Bryan McLaughlin Collection and the worldwide suite from the Raúl Sanabria Collection. "These are extraordinary collections that show the wealth of knowledge and passion of those who curated them," says Nic Valenzuela, Director of Fine Minerals at Heritage Auctions. "These hand-picked collections bring together an array of exceptional crystallized mineral specimens from around the world, surpassing the quality of typical reference specimens and revealing Earth's natural geological art." Among the top attractions in the auction is an "Alien Eye" Fluorite from the Kudubis 19 farm in the Karibib District of Namibia. This magnificent example comes from a 2007 excavation that yielded a small but stunning find of fe ... More | |
The tenor Jonas Kaufmann, left, with the director Claus Guth at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, Sept. 19, 2023. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
by Joshua Barone
MUNICH.- In Schuberts song Der Doppelgänger, a piano resounds with increasingly tormented chords as the narrator recounts a realization: that a pained stranger, wringing his hands in the night, is in fact himself. I think there is something like a moment where your soul steps out, and your body is there, director Claus Guth said about the song over coffee in Munich. Its this shocking moment: You understand that youre dying. That instant, he said, is the heart of Schwanengesang, the posthumous collection of Schuberts final songs, which is often performed as a cycle, like the composers canonical Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise. And its that harrowing, transitional state that has inspired Guths staging of Schwanengesang, called Doppelganger, which premieres at the Park Avenue Armory in New York ... More | |
A polar bear and walrus on view at the Delbridge Museum of Natural History, in Sioux Falls, S.D. (Great Plains Zoo via The New York Times)
by Katrina Miller
NEW YORK, NY.- Usually, you go to the zoo to look at live animals. But at the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, people also went to see the dead ones. The attraction, called the Delbridge Museum of Natural History, hosted one of the most impressive taxidermy collections in the country, with some 150 animals from six continents, each meticulously positioned in a diorama depicting their natural habitat. There, visitors could encounter up close a (stationary) mob of kangaroos, a pouncing lion, a panda eating bamboo and more. On Aug. 18, Sioux Falls and Great Plains Zoo officials announced that the Delbridge Museum had closed after nearly 40 years, citing an increased risk of chemical exposure to staff and visitors as the animal specimens age. At a news conference, streamed live on Facebook on Aug. 29, they specified that a majority of the taxidermy ... More |
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| Christie's to offer masterpieces from the Collection of Sam Josefowitz | | Heritage's International Comic Art Auction features landmark killer pages from 'Batman: The Dark Knight Returns' | | Rare 16th century terrestrial globe recently restored with support from Friends of Florence |
Gustave Caillebotte, Capucines (1892, estimate: £900,000-1,400,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Presented as a series of auctions across Christies London and Paris salerooms, The Sam Josefowitz Collection will showcase the incredible breadth of one of the most carefully assembled and revered collections of the last half century, ranging from Antiquities to Post-Impressionism, and from Rembrandt to Les Nabis and Giacometti furniture. Masterpieces from The Collection of Sam Josefowitz: A Lifetime of Discovery and Scholarship, an Evening Sale taking place in London on 13 October, will be comprised of 38 lots that represent the unrivalled scale and breadth of Sams scholarship and passions. Following an international tour of highlights, the works will be on view in London from 6 to 13 October. Sam Josefowitz was a renowned collector of Vallottons works, and four works by the artist will be offered between ... More | |
Dave Gibbons Watchmen #1 Story Page 3 Original Art The Comedian's Death with Matching Color Guide (DC, 1986).
DALLAS, TX.- Death becomes these landmark works from a pair of comicdom's most influential creators. Two of the most renowned sequences from two of the most important comic books ever published both from 1986 serve as the centerpieces of Heritage's Oct. 6-8 International Original Art and Anime Signature® Auction. What's even more remarkable: Neither the Joker's death in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returnsnor the Comedian's murder depicted in the first issue of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmenhas ever been offered at auction. In fact, the latter page was thought lost until its recent discovery in Paris. "It was bought in 1988," says Olivier Delflas, Heritage's Director of International Comic Art and Anime, "and then forgotten." As though such ... More | |
Cornelis De Jodes terrestrial globe.
FLORENCE.- Cornelis De Jodes terrestrial globe, an extremely rare example of historical cartography made in Antwerp in 1594, and a paper astrolabe, dated 1668 and possibly made in northern France, are now on view at Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy. On September 6, 2023, the exquisitely crafted scientific instruments were presented to the public by Stefano Casciu, Regional Director of Museums for Tuscany, Roberto Ferrari, Executive Director of the Museo Galileo, and Polissena Brandolini dAdda, representing Friends of Florence. The Friends of Florence foundation supported the globes restoration thanks to a generous contribution from the Eric and Maxine Greenspan family. Florences Ministry of Culture recently acquired the objects on behalf of the Regional Director of Museums for Tuscany which, in turn, loaned them to the Museo Galileo on a ... More |
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| An operatic mess at a storied Italian theater | | Photographs featuring depth of field: The Alan and Dorothy Press Collection to be offered at Christie's | | Smithsonian's Latino museum faces political winds before a brick is laid |
The San Carlo in Naples is at the center of an offstage drama in which each of two respected figures believes he is the houses rightful leader. Photo: Jimmy G - Flickr: Napoli, CC BY 2.0.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
ROME.- Its hard to gauge whether the drama playing out behind the scenes at the San Carlo Opera House in Naples will end as opera seria (serious) or an opera buffa (comedy). Italys oldest opera house has two respected figures, each of whom believes he is its rightful general director after a convoluted dispute that critics say has cast the theater, and Italy, in an unflattering light. It has all the elements of high drama conflict, tension, perhaps even vendetta and is playing out like a farce, or, in the words of some Italian news outlets, un pasticcio: a mess. A quick plot synopsis: Act 1. In May, Italys government passed a law that said general directors of the countrys 13 state-run opera theaters could not serve beyond their 70th birthday. That immediately terminated th ... More | |
Alfred Stieglitz, A Venetian Courtyard, 1894. Platinum print, flush-mounted on board. Estimate: $150,000-250,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2023.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies presents Photographs, featuring Depth of Field: The Alan and Dorothy Press Collection. The sale opened online for bids on 19 September through 4 October. The Alan and Dorothy Press Collection, which kicks off the auction, includes a carefully curated assemblage gathered over the course of 30 years. The collection includes a select group of avant-garde photographs from the 1920s and 30s that exemplify some of the most important innovations in the medium and, more broadly, of 20th century art. Highlights include an early unique photogram by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, as well as a unique Rayograph from 1923 by Man Ray. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray each brilliantly explored photographic innovations including, notably, camera-less images. The excitement of experimentation thats palpable in photographic works by Man ... More | |
An undated photo provided by Johanna Fernandez, a historian who was hired as a guest curator for a planned exhibition about the Latino civil rights movement. (Johanna Fernandez via The New York Times)
by Jennifer Schuessler
NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonians National Museum of the American Latino, slated to rise on the National Mall in Washington, is meant to give a prominent presence to the story of Americas largest minority group. But the institution has been caught up in the broader partisan battles over American history, before a single brick has been laid. In July, a group of Latino Republican members of Congress led a vote to eliminate the museums funding in next years budget, calling its view of Latinos insulting and inaccurate. Some conservative commentators have harshly criticized the museums preview exhibition, blasting it as a Marxist portrayal that paints Latinos as victims of an ... More |
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The mystery of my mother's prayer book
NEW YORK, NY.- It started with an email. The subject line: Sylvia Kanners Siddur. Kanner was my late mothers maiden name. Siddur is the Hebrew word for prayer book. I was, to say the least, intrigued. The sender explained that she had purchased several Judaic items on eBay. One was a small, leather-bound prayer book. On the inner flap she found the name Sylvia Kanner, written in pencil. Curious, she searched Ancestry.com and discovered my mothers obituary, identifying me among her survivors. She kept digging. With more online digging, she found my profile and email link on the website for Rutgers University, where I am a part-time instructor. In the email, she stated her intention: I would like to return all of the items to you and your family. The email included a photo of the page with my mothers name. The careful script was unmistakably my mothers hand. T ... More
Our techno future is here: AI-scripted stories take the stage
NEW YORK, NY.- Seated behind a plain wooden table, theater maker Annie Dorsen is not costumed to catch our gaze, or lit dramatically. In the performance-lecture that is her AI-focused show Prometheus Firebringer, at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, you might assume shed be the boring part. Off to her right are her co-stars: a giant 3D-printed mask of a human head with video screens for eyes, and a flock of smaller masks faces that seem straight out of a horror film, with gaping black mouths and creepy blank eyes that are milky white windows to nonexistent souls. Its all made with AI, Dorsen tells us. Not what Im saying. But the other stuff. Jerking a casual thumb in their direction, she adds: The masks. Their voices. What they say. The flashy element of this production, presented by Theater for a New ... More
Robert Klane, writer of 'Weekend at Bernie's,' dies at 81
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Klane, a comic novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker with a taste for gleeful vulgarity who wrote the screenplay for Weekend at Bernies, the 1989 cult film about two young insurance company employees who create the illusion that their murdered boss is still alive, died Aug. 29 at his home in Woodland Hills, California. He was 81. His son Jon said the cause was kidney failure. Klane wrote Weekend at Bernies more than two decades into a career that began with the publication of two humorous novels: The Horse Is Dead: A Tasteless Novel (1968) and Wheres Poppa? (1970). He adapted Wheres Poppa? into the screenplay for a twisted comedy about a single lawyer (played by George Segal) who dreams of scaring to death or institutionalizing his aged, maddening mother (Ruth Gordon) ... More
Barbara Hepworth's Three Obliques (Walk In) to lead Christie's Modern British & Irish Art Evening Sale
LONDON.- Barbara Hepworths Three Obliques (Walk In) will lead Christies Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale on 18 October 2023. Three Obliques (Walk In), standing at almost three metres in height, is one of a rare and highly important group of monumental sculptures that were created by Barbara Hepworth in the 1960s. The works were intended to be set in open-air surroundings and invoke a new understanding of landscape. Three Obliques (Walk In) is on view in the garden setting of St Jamess Square, adjacent to Christies headquarters on Londons King Street, until 18 October, a unique opportunity to enjoy the work in a public outdoor space accessible to all. Angus Granlund, Head of The Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale, Christies: Barbara Hepworths exquisite sculpture Three Obliques (Walk In) was created ... More
Michael Leva, who found fashion fame early, is dead at 62
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Leva, who was a celebrated young fashion designer on the verge of national prominence, then pivoted to a career as a fashion executive and branding consultant, died Sep. 14 in Providence, Rhode Island. He was 62. His friend Maggie McCormick said the cause was heart failure. Womens Wear Daily in 1989 declared Leva one of The New Majors, noting a few months later that he was evolving into a design talent to be reckoned with. The short-lived New York City weekly 7 Days put him on its cover in March of that year for its Designers on the Verge feature. The Los Angeles Times in 1990 heralded Leva, then 29, as part of New Yorks new guard buzzy, young designers like Jennifer George, Rebecca Moses and Gordon Henderson. Were all very different in what we do but similar in the sense of affordability, ... More
Pi Artworks opens a solo exhibition by Mehmet Ali Uysal showcasing mixed media sculptures
ISTANBUL.- Pi Artworks Istanbul is presenting Life is so Beautiful!, a solo exhibition by Mehmet Ali Uysal showcasing mixed media sculptures that explore the fragility and imperfection of life. Uysals diverse selection of materials, such as polyester, glass, car tiles and rocks, both complement and contradict the concept. Uysals installations are renowned for their ability to challenge space while revealing imperfections hidden beneath the surface. He often creates site-specific installations that engage with the space and material at hand. In this exhibition, he takes a different approach by directing his attention to the inherent flaws within life itself. That said, he draws inspiration from personal experiences and unites several distinct series with unique purposes, harmoniously creating new layers of meaning. Life is so Beautiful!, revolves around ... More
New York loves to hate him. Can a $2.3 billion sphere redeem Jim Dolan?
NEW YORK, NY.- In his 26th-floor office, high above Midtown Manhattan, James L. Dolan sits on a white couch by a large desk and armoire decorated with family photographs, with an electric guitar on a stand in the corner. His eyes are trained on a wall-mounted surveillance screen. Dolan, 68, oversees a family empire that includes some of New Yorks most famous brands, including Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall, the Knicks and the Rangers. At the epicenter of professional sports, marquee concerts, politics and real estate, he is one of the most powerful forces in the city. He is also one of New Yorks most vilified public figures, a punching bag and a punchline. But New York is not where his brain or his video monitor are focused. Dolan son of Long Island, commander of beloved New York sports teams, and ... More
Gita Mehta, whose writing shaped perspectives of India, dies at 80
NEW YORK, NY.- Gita Mehta, whose books examined the impact of Western culture on modern India and vice versa, bringing an Indian and a womans perspective to subject matter that was long the province of white men, died Saturday at her home in New Delhi. She was 80. Nicholas Latimer, a vice president and director of publicity at Knopf, where Mehtas husband, Sonny Mehta, was president and editor-in-chief for many years, said the cause was complications of a stroke. Gita Mehta and her husband, one of the most influential editors of his time, were familiar faces in literary circles in New York, London and India, each of which they called home at various times. In 1979 Gita Mehta published her first book, Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East, a mix of anecdotes and commentary that took a satirical look at the faddish pursuit ... More
A century of art: Christie's to offer photographs from the Gerald Fineberg Collection
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies presents A Century of Art: Photographs from The Gerald Fineberg Collection, an online sale open for bidding 19 September through 3 October. The installment continues a series of sales for The Gerald Fineberg Collection which to date achieved $211 Million. The collection comprises a diverse and intricately detailed array of photographs, including Anna Atkins and Julia Margaret Cameron to Nan Goldin and William Eggleston. A strong showing of women photographers is one of the key thematic threads of the collection. The top lot of the sale is a portrait by August Sander of Anton Räderscheidt, painter and central figure of the New Objectivity movement which flourished in 1920s Germany. Sander and Räderscheidt, both served in World War I together and were deeply affected by the experience. Upon ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Latvian-born American painter Mark Rothko was born September 25, 1903. Mark Rothko (September 25, 1903 - February 25, 1970), was a Russian-American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter". In this image: A visitor passes three paintings by US-painter Mark Rothko which are on exhibition at the Foundation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, on February 15, 2001.
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