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Richard Prince, who incorporated photographs that had been posted on Instagram in his New Portraits installation, during an art show in San Francisco, May 30, 2019. Prince agreed to pay at least $650,000 to two photographers whose images he had incorporated in his own work, ending a long-running copyright dispute that had been closely monitored by the art world. (Brian Flaherty/The New York Times)
by Matt Stevens
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Richard Prince has agreed to pay at least $650,000 to two photographers whose images he had incorporated in his own work, ending a long-running copyright dispute that had been closely monitored by the art world. Two judgments filed Thursday in New York awarded damages to the photographers, Donald Graham and Eric McNatt, and barred Prince from reproducing the photographs known as Rastafarian Smoking a Joint and Kim Gordon 1 (of musician Kim Gordon). Those images were part of a Prince installation, called New Portraits, in which he printed several Instagram photos on large canvases and added his own Instagram-style comments below them. Grahams image was incorporated into a work referred to as Portrait of Rastajay92, which was exhibited at a New York gallery in 2014. McNatts image was used in a work referred to as Portrait of Kim Gordon, which was shown at a gallery in 2015. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Michael Osacky, who appraises the conditions of cards, at the Chicago Sports Spectacular at the Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill., on Nov. 18, 2023. Powered by its connections with leagues and star athletes, Fanatics, the merchandising giant has entered the hobby universe with deep pockets and sharp elbows. Not everyone is happy. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times).
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| One hope from changes at this Holocaust Museum: Fewer Nazi selfies | | Institutions are (quietly) taking Sackler money | | When masters of black-and-white spin the color wheel |
Inside the Zekelman Holocaust Center, which formally reopens on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2024, with a redesigned core exhibition. (Owen Kaufman via The New York Times)
by Ralph Blumenthal
NEW YORK, NY.- Students on school trips to a Holocaust museum outside Detroit would stand riveted at one stark display: a Nazi officers black uniform with a red swastika armband, guns and a whip. Some couldnt resist snapping selfies. Now, however, the exhibit, at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, has been redone as part of a major redesign. The showcase with the uniform is still there, but the view of those artifacts is partially blocked by photographs of German soldiers lounging at ease or leading Jews to mass shooting sites. I dont want them to see this uniform without facing the truth of these people who wore these uniforms, said Mark Mulder, the museums curator and a scholar of what is called atrocity imagery. In the same way, the museum has rearranged a pile of captured Nazi banners to obscure the swastikas. And gone alt ... More | |
The Louvre has removed the name of the Sackler family from its walls following protests over family members' ownership of the company that makes OxyContin, the frequently abused painkiller. (Guia Besana/The New York Times)
by Alex Marshall
NEW YORK, NY.- When arts organizations began shunning the Sackler family over its role in the U.S. opioid crisis, it wasnt just American institutions that cut ties. Museums in Britain that had accepted Sackler largess were among the first to take action. After the National Portrait Gallery in London canceled a $1.3 million Sackler donation in 2019, the Tate museum group announced it would not seek any more of the familys support. Other museums began discussing removing the Sackler name from their walls. Soon, the Sackler Trust a British nonprofit set up by members of the family that once owned Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the addictive painkiller OxyContin announced it would pause all new philanthropic giving, and its donations fell dramatically. The foundation continued to honor some existing pledges. But now, its donations ... More | |
Saul Leiter, Pull, c.1960. Chromogenic print; printed later. Image size: 19 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches; Paper size: 20 x 16 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Saul Leiter began shooting Kodachrome slides in New York in the late 1940s, color was scorned by most serious photographers, who thought of it as a hobby for vacationing dads or the commercial domain of magazines and advertising agencies. But Leiter, who died in 2013, was a lifelong painter as well as a photographer. As displayed in Saul Leiter: Centennial, an exhibition of photographs and paintings at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in Manhattan, closing Feb. 10, and a new monograph, Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, he took advantage of everyday filters a window smeared by raindrops or humidity, the flurries of snowflakes, reflections in glass to fragment reality into compositions that recalled paintings by the Abstractionists who lived near his place on East 10th Street. Although his pioneering color pictures are what he is best known for today, Leiter employed similar strategies in his masterly black-and-white ... More |
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| Will fanatics upend the world of sports collectibles? | | Exhibition displays a new series of paintings and shaped canvas by Mr. | | Fire rips through Abkhazia Gallery, destroying nearly 4,000 artworks |
Michael Rubin, the chief executive of Fanatics, at their offices in New York on Nov. 30, 2023. (Amy Lombard/The New York Times)
by Jordyn Holman and Ken Belson
ROSEMONT, ILL.- On the Saturday before Thanksgiving, thousands of people filed into a dated convention center near OHare International Airport to participate in the very American pastime of buying and selling sports trading cards. The Chicago Sports Spectacular, one of the countrys biggest and oldest card shows, is like a rummage sale from the days before eBay, but with way more money involved. The 400 or so collectibles dealers set up well-worn cardboard boxes packed with cards of various players past and present from various sports, their prices handwritten on Post-it notes: $45 for a Luka Doncic card, $100 for Zion Williamson and so on. To get inside, collectors paid a $15 cash-only admission fee, then spent hours lugging briefcases and wheelies through the maze of tables stacked high with cards. They rifled through boxes and piles of merchandise looking ... More | |
Mr., LisaA Pineapple Juice Afternoon, 2023. 150 x 70 x 70 cm. Indoor sculpture. Unique ©2023 Mr./Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy Perrotin Photographer: Yuta Saito.
PARIS.- Perrotin is presenting Invoke It and a Flower Shall Blossom the eighth exhibition of Mr. with the gallery and the fourth in Paris. The show displays a new series of paintings and shaped canvas, two sculptures and a set of works on paper. For a French audience, the work of Japanese artist Mr. is strangely fami- liar, as it draws on imagery that has become almost ubiquitous. Since the 1980s, anime films, video games, and manga have permeated youth culture almost as much as American productions. Their visual influence is reminiscent of the impact of ukiyo-e (floating world) in late 19th-cen- tury Europe and its decisive role in the advent of Modernism. Many contemporary Japanese artists combine and fuse these different visual styles, like the Superflat movement of the 1990s. According to Takashi Murakami, its theorist and foremost exponent, Superflat is not simply a Japanese pop art inspired by the entertainment ... More | |
File photo of the exhibition at the 2005 commemoration of the ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia, held on its 12th anniversary in Tbilisi. Photo: MIGAbkhazeti at English Wikipedia.
by Ivan Nechepurenko
TBILISI.- A fire in Abkhazia, a Russian-backed breakaway region of Georgia, destroyed thousands of paintings early Sunday morning, devastating a collection that locals had cherished as a national treasure albeit of a country only recognized as such by Russia and some of its allies, including Syria and Venezuela. Almost 4,000 paintings belonging to the National Gallery of Abkhazia were destroyed when a fire swept through an exhibition hall in central Sukhumi, the regions capital, Abkhazias acting culture minister said in a statement. The minister, Dinara Smyr, said that those included 300 works by Aleksandr Chachba-Sharvashidze, a celebrated Abkhazian artist and stage designer, who worked with renowned artists and theaters in Russia and France. This is an irreparable loss for Abkhazias national culture, ... More |
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| Bettina was much more than an eccentric of the Chelsea Hotel | | Goldin announces first ever pop culture Type 1 photo collection | | A beacon of modern architecture lands in the desert |
The artist Bettina Grossman at her Brooklyn Heights studio, before the fire, before she moved into the Chelsea Hotel. A gallery in New Yorks Chinatown has brought downtown buzz to the enigmatic artist, two years after her death. (The Estate of Bettina Grossman via The New York Times)
by Alex Vadukul
NEW YORK, NY.- One night in November, a procession of young artists, critics and curators climbed the creaky stairs of a building in Chinatown in lower Manhattan to attend an opening at a buzzy little gallery, Ulrik. The show, Bettina: New York 1965-86, was made up of rarely seen photographs and sculptures by an enigmatic artist who lived for five decades at the fabled Chelsea Hotel, where she created her works in a cluttered fifth-floor apartment until her death in 2021. Writers for Artforum and Frieze pushed through the crowd to get glimpses of the black-and-white street photography. Students from Pratt Institute drank cans of Budweiser as they studied the wavelike wood sculptures. ... More | |
1968 Jimi Hendrix Type 1 Original Photo by Jeff Mayer.
RUNNEMEDE, NJ.- As interest and demand for Type 1 photos continue to soar, Goldin announces its first-ever collection of pop culture Type 1 photos featuring some of the most historic moments in entertainment, music, art and politics. This inaugural collection is one of the largest collections of non-sport Type 1 photos ever curated at a major auction house. Iconic images of all-time legends such as Tupac, Bob Marley, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth, Frank Sinatra and more will be available for bidding through Goldins January Elite Pop Culture Auction. The auction marks a new frontier in Type 1 pop culture photos. Until now, sports photographs have long dominated the Type 1 photography scene, with some baseball photos selling for over $1 million. This surge in popularity and value of original photography can be traced back to PSAs adoption of the Photo Type Classification System© nearly 20 years ago. "Pop culture Type 1 photos are no longer as overlooked or undervalued as they've b ... More | |
Albert Freys Aluminaire House, one of the earliest and edgiest examples of the International Style of modernist architecture in America, being reconstructed on the grounds of the Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Springs, Calif. on Jan. 16, 2024. (Jake Michaels/The New York Times)
by Jori Finkel
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF.- The Aluminaire House, one of the earliest and edgiest examples of the international style of modernist architecture in America, was never meant to withstand a harsh desert climate. Originally it wasnt even designed to be outside. When 27-year-old Swiss architect Albert Frey moved to New York in 1930 and teamed up with an Architectural Record editor to build this affordable, modular some say prefab metal house, it was part of a design showcase inside the Grand Central Palace, a soaring exhibition hall made by the architects behind Grand Central Terminal. The house, a boxy three-story structure clad in aluminum panels that went up within 10 ... More |
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| Rockwell and Wyeth's visions of nostalgia take over the Polk Museum of Art | | Michaan's Auctions announces February Gallery Auction | | Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd anounces two days of online-only auctions |
Norman Rockwell, Threading the Needle, 1922. © 2023 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY.
LAKELAND, FL.- The Polk Museum of Art announced its newest exhibition, Rockwell/Wyeth: Icons of Americana. Featuring 40 paintings by Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth along with the complete set of 321 covers of The Saturday Evening Post illustrated by Rockwell this loan-based exhibition showcases the work of two of the most celebrated figures in American art, whose vivid illustrations captured the imaginations of Americans throughout the 20th century and are still admired for their nostalgic qualities to this day. This exhibition, exclusive to Polk Museum of Art audiences and developed in partnership with the National Museum of American Illustration, offers a rare juxtaposition of Rockwell and Wyeth examined side by side as a principal scholarly focus. Wyeth (1882-1945) and Rockwell (1894 ... More | |
Cloisonne Censers.
ALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans Auctions February Gallery Auction on Friday, February 16th features fine diamonds in excellent condition in addition to notable examples from the Fine Art and Asian Art departments. The auction is led by the jewelry department, which will be offering an unmounted pear-cut 2.45 carats colorless diamond and an unmounted pear- cut 2.96 carats colorless diamond. Also included in the sale is a lithograph by Grant Wood, an Arnaldo Pomodoro hanging sculpture, and a jade insert table screen. The Jewelry Department is featuring an Unmounted Pear-Cut 2.45 cts. Colorless Diamond ($10/15,000), and an Unmounted Pear-Cut 2.96 cts. Colorless Diamond ($10/15,000) in this months sale. Also on offer, is a Patek Philippe & Co. 18k Yellow Gold Pocket Watch ($2/3,000), a classic and refined edition from the Swiss luxury brand. Also available is a Jade, 18k White Gold Pendant ($1,5/2,500), and a Girard- Perregaux ... More | |
Circa 1970 softwood sculpture by Edmond Chatigny (Quebec, 1895-1985), with an owl at the top, four small birds in the middle, six birds and a frog at the bottom (est. CA$2,000-$3,000).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- Vibrant and colorful paintings by acclaimed Nova Scotia artists Maud Lewis (1901-1970) and Joe Norris (1924-1996), and a spectacular 18th century Quebec armoire, 82 inches tall by 51 inches wide, are the expected headliners in two days of online-only auctions scheduled for February 10th and 11th by Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. The Saturday, February 10th Canadiana auction features the Richardson, Blevins, Morawetz & Molson Foundation Collections and contains 329 lots of Canadiana, pottery, stoneware, textiles, art and Canadiana furniture. The February 11th Canadian Folk Art auction showcases works from the Maritime Provinces, Ontario and Quebec, and has 215 lots of folk art, art, Canadiana and decoys. The Canadiana auction is a rare opportunity to acquire items from ... More |
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'In the Summers,' a father-daughters tale, wins the top prize at Sundance
NEW YORK, NY.- In the Summers, an independent film about two sisters navigating fraught summer visits with their father, won the top prize in the Sundance Film Festivals U.S. dramatic competition Friday. The movie also won the competitions directing award for its first-time filmmaker, Alessandra Lacorazza. This film snuck up on us, read a citation delivered by the jury, which was made up of director Debra Granik, cartoonist Adrian Tomine and producer Lena Waithe. A film like this can easily slip through the cracks, and for that reason we have chosen to shed light on this beautiful piece of cinema and we hope it finds the audience it so well deserves. That appeared to be the animating ethos for many of the jurys picks, which went to worthy but lower-profile entries in competition, though the screenwriting award was given to Jesse ... More
David J. Skal, scholar who took horror seriously, dies at 71
NEW YORK, NY.- David J. Skal, a witty historian of horror entertainment who found in movies like Dracula and Rosemarys Baby both a mirror of evolving societal fears and a pressure-release valve for those anxieties, died Jan. 1 in a car accident in Los Angeles. He was 71. Skal was returning home after a movie and early dinner with his longtime partner, Robert Postawko, when an oncoming vehicle crossed a median and hit their car, said Malaga Baldi, Skals literary agent. Postawko was badly injured but survived the crash. Skal was an author with encyclopedic knowledge of a subject not always taken seriously movies meant to scare the bejesus out of people whose erudition, combined with a chatty writing style, made his books lively and entertaining. As an evangelist for horror, he was a regular guest on NPR, explicating ... More
Moran's achieved $1,000,000 in their 20th Century Photography sale
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On Wednesday, December 6th, 2023, John Moran Auctioneers presented their long awaited 20th Century Photography: The Emergence of Modernism auction. The impressive collection featured works by Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, and more. Collectors from all over the world took interest in this exciting auction, resulting in $1,000,000* of sales! The highlight of the event was lot 15. The 1929 work, "Two Callas," by Imogen Cunningham sold for an incredible $292,100*, making a new world auction record for the image! Cunningham's botanical photographs are a unique and significant part of her legacy in photography and American Modernism. "Two Callas," printed in the 1920s, stands out as one of her most celebrated works in this genre. Prints of this work, whether ... More
London's High Line will echo its New York inspiration, with local notes
LONDON.- The derelict rail bridge stretches across a busy north London street, green foliage peeking out of the gaps between the beams overhead, where bright blue paint flakes from rusting steel. Farther east, the railways grand Victorian-era arches span a small slice of park wedged between two streets, where tents belonging to homeless people, a discarded mattress and broken bottles are scattered about. Although the elevated train line and some of the areas it cuts through may look neglected now, if all goes according to plan, it will become the site of the Camden High Line, a planned public park that aims to turn this disused stretch of the city into a thriving green space. Theyre all unloved bits of Camden, Simon Pitkeathley, CEO of Camden Town Unlimited, the business improvement district behind the initiative, said of the areas ... More
5 classical music albums you can listen to right now
NEW YORK, NY.- Music doesnt have the power to end wars. Peace, said Daniel Barenboim, whose West-Eastern Divan Orchestra brings together Israeli and Palestinian artists, needs something else. But that doesnt mean musicians are powerless. On this album, recorded and released with white-heat urgency following the latest conflict in Israel and Gaza, Igor Levit documents a personal reaction while using his platform as a star pianist to support two organizations against antisemitism that are based in Berlin, where he lives. In the past, Levit has been accused of opportunistic political posturing, but his philanthropic projects have been virtually apolitical and too substantial to dismiss. Early in the pandemic, he spun his house concert livestreams into a marathon of Saties Vexations that raised money for artist relief. And ... More
The choreographer wore pointe shoes
NEW YORK, NY.- During rehearsals for New York City Ballets winter season, there was something very unusual about one of the choreographers creating a new dance. It wasnt just that the person in charge was a woman, though that would have been uncommon until a few years ago. Nor was it that the choreographer, Tiler Peck, was one of the companys star ballerinas, though that is still quite rare. The difference was what Peck wore on her feet as she made and rehearsed the work: pointe shoes. Wendy Whelan, City Ballets associate artistic director, said that in her nearly 40 years with the company she had never seen anyone choreograph in pointe shoes before. Peck, who has been with the company 19 years, said that she had never seen anyone else do it, either. But that didnt stop her. I dont think thats something that every ... More
The costumes of the very, very rich
NEW YORK, NY.- The night of the wolf moon the first full moon of the new year also happened to be the last night of the couture, when John Galliano re-created a decaying Paris nightclub in the vaulted caverns beneath Paris Pont Alexandre III bridge across the Seine. Crepe paper streamers the color of Madeira wine were draped across walls and dangled from the ceiling amid banged-up wooden bistro chairs and scratched-up tables. Then a shirtless chanteur with a Freddie Mercury mustache rose to croon a love song, a grainy black and white film was reflected in the mirrors and the Maison Margiela show began: a fashion fantasy built on extreme corsetry in which bodies became hourglasses; flesh became a fabric unto itself (and no actual fabric was quite as it seemed); and historical allusions ran in and out like time. At the end, ... More
Do not fear the robo-dinosaur. Learn from it.
NEW YORK, NY.- The origin of bird wings has long presented a puzzle to paleontologists: Why did these structures develop in the age of the dinosaurs? And what were some of the earliest wings used for, if not for flight? In research published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists used a robotic dinosaur and terrified grasshoppers to argue that small feathered dinosaurs might have flapped early wings to flush out insect prey. Their proposal adds an explanation for why wings evolved before flight. Its been shown that the larger the wing display, the more insects the birds are catching and bringing to the nest, said Piotr Jablonski, an ornithologist at Seoul National University and an author of the paper. And, of course, if you see it in birds, you think about dinosaurs. Feathers first evolved in dinosaurs as hairy bristles, most ... More
Marc Jaffe, publisher of paperback hits, is dead at 102
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Jaffe was at a New Years Eve party of Hollywood types in 1967 when a screenwriter named William Peter Blatty began chatting him up. Blatty said he had tried and failed to sell an idea for a novel about a young girl possessed by the devil and the tortured priest who tries to save her. But Jaffe, editorial director of Bantam Books, a paperback publishing house in New York City, thought the idea sounded pretty good. A few days later, Blatty wrote to him about a dream: I saw you standing at the confluence of Hollywood and Vine holding a massive cornucopia that spewed forth paperbacks and dubloons. Blattys dream was indeed prescient, and Jaffe gave him an advance of $26,000 (the equivalent of about $211,000 today) to secure the rights for the novel, The Exorcist. Blatty delivered the manuscript in 1970, and ... More
Jon Franklin, pioneering apostle of literary journalism, dies at 82
NEW YORK, NY.- Jon Franklin, an apostle of narrative short-story style journalism whose own work won the first Pulitzer Prizes awarded for feature writing and explanatory journalism, died Sunday in Annapolis, Maryland. He was 82. His death, at a hospice, came less than two weeks after falling at his home, his wife, Lynn Franklin, said. He had also been treated for esophageal cancer for two years. An author, teacher, reporter and editor, Franklin championed the nonfiction style that was celebrated as new journalism but that was actually vintage narrative storytelling, an approach that he insisted still adhere to the old-journalism standards of accuracy and objectivity. He imparted his thinking about the subject in Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction (1986), which became a go-to how-to guide for literary-minded journalists. In 1979, Franklin won ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Alice Neel was born January 28, 1900. Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 - October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers. Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. Neel was called "one of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century" by Barry Walker, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which organized a retrospective of her work in 2010. In this image: Ballet Dancer, 1950. Hall Collection. © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Victoria Miro, London.
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