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The exhibition spotlights Burtons genius as seen through the presentation of original models of beloved characters like Oogie Boogie Exposed, Bone Crusher and the storys hero Jack Skellington.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Marking the 30th anniversary of filmmaker Tim Burtons stop-motion animated film, The Nightmare Before Christmas, the McNay Art Museum presents Dreamland | Tim Burtons The Nightmare Before Christmas, . The exhibition features maquettes, small-scale working models, used to make the iconic 1993 film and accessioned into the McNays Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts in 1994. Visitors will be guided through the world of Burton and given an open invitation to conjure fantasy narratives of their own using surreal imagery from the McNays collection on display throughout the gallery. The exhibition spotlights Burtons genius as seen through the presentation of original models of beloved characters like Oogie Boogie Exposed, Bone Crusher and the storys hero Jack Skellington. Also included from the Academy ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Berenice Abbott's New York Album, 1929 presents selections from a unique unbound album of photographs of New York City created by American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898 - 1991), shedding new light on the creative process of one of the great artists of the 20th century. In this image: Installation view of, on view March 2nd - September 4th, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Hyla Skopitz, courtesy of The Met.
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| Berenice Abbott captured Manhattan in the throes of heady change | | 'The Topography of Memory' featuring the work of Teresa Baker, Elizabeth Hohimer, and Hank Saxe | | LGDR, superstar art gallery, implodes after just two years |
Berenice Abbott, Canyon, Broadway and Exchange Place, Manhattan, 1936.
by Karen Rosenberg
NEW YORK, NY.- If you were an American artist or writer in the 1920s, Paris was where you wanted to be. Springfield, Ohio-born photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) arrived there in 1921 by way of New York, and by early 1929 she had managed to establish herself in the French capitals flourishing interwar avant-garde scene first working as an assistant to Man Ray and later taking her own celebrated portraits of luminaries such as James Joyce and Djuna Barnes. She even changed the spelling of her name from Bernice to the more Gallic Berenice. Yet somehow this magnet for culturally minded expatriates lost its hold on Abbott the moment she set foot in Lower Manhattan on a messy January day, no less at the beginning of what was supposed to be a short trip back to the United States. She had lived in New York once, ... More | |
Hank Saxe, Snow Crop, 2015, stoneware with glaze and slip, 19 ½ x 9 x 8 inches. Images © 2023 Gerald Peters Contemporary.
SANTA FE, NM.- Gerald Peters Contemporary is presenting The Topography of Memory. Featuring the work of Teresa Baker, Elizabeth Hohimer, and Hank Saxe, the exhibition invites modern contemplation of the concept of landscape art. Through various mediums, these three artists explore the possibilities of landscape from a conceptual perspective, offering provocative and inspired takes on the enduring genre. TERESA BAKER: Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa, b.1985) currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Through a mixed media practice combining artificial and natural materials together, Baker creates abstracted landscapes that explore vast space, and how we move, see and explore within them. The materials, texture, shapes, and color relationships are guided by Baker's Mandan/Hidatsa culture to explore how identity can relate to innate objects. ... More | |
From left, Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy, Amalia Dayan and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn on Aug. 31, 2021, at Salon 94 in Manhattan, where the four art dealers merged their businesses. (Caroline Tompkins/The New York Times)
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- Just two years after four prominent dealers announced with great fanfare a merger of their Upper East Side operations, the new gallery has come apart, with one prominent member deciding to go back to running her own operation. On Friday, the group announced that Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn will leave the existing partnership to reopen Salon 94, returning her focus to exhibitions at 3 East 89th Street, and to her art advisory practice. Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy and Amalia Dayan will continue under the banner of Lévy Gorvy Dayan at 19 E. 64th St., presenting exhibitions and advising clients as the newly formed Art Family Office. By putting out the news on a summer Friday and delaying its announcement for months ... More |
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| Library of antique British boxing books, ephemera is main event at Chiswick's Books & Works on Paper auction | | Mitra Abbaspour appointed Curator and Head of Modern and Contemporary Art at Harvard Art Museums | | Ella West Gallery opens August 19 with inaugural exhibition celebrating Black artistic expression |
A rare autobiography from 1808, by Mendoza, titled Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Mendoza; Containing a Faithful Narrative of the Various Vicissitudes of His Life, and an Account of the Numerous Contests.
LONDON.- Chiswick Auctions Aug. 24 Books and Works on Paper features a collection of boxing books compiled by private collectors Brian and Debbie Watkins over five decades. Highlights include two rare Georgian manuals on the art of boxing written around 1790 by well-known bareknuckle prize fighters. Boxing Reviewed; or, the Science of Manual Defence, displayed on Rational Principles was penned by the Birmingham, England, pugilist Thomas Fewtrell. Dubbed the gentleman jaw breaker, he is said to have taken part in more than 1000 fights in his career. In this book, possibly the first written by an active pugilist, he studies the techniques of several leading Georgian boxers. The frontispiece depicts a scene titled Thomas Johnson the first Pugilist in the World, who was the English champion between 1784-91. It carries an estimate of £1,200-1,800. Fewtrell was a friend and sparring ... More | |
Mitra Abbaspour. Photo: Emile Askey; Courtesy of Princeton University Art Museum.
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- Martha Tedeschi, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums, announced the appointment of Mitra Abbaspour as the new Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. She will also become the new head of the museums Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, which oversees the collection of art from 1901 to the present day. A respected veteran in the arts field with over 20 years of experience, Abbaspour brings a dynamic vision and deep commitment to advancing global and inclusive narratives in the scholarship and presentations of art from the 20th and 21st centuries. She begins her new role at Harvard on September 11, 2023. Abbaspour is currently the Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Princeton University Art Museum, where since 2016 she has headed the modern and contemporary collections, the most active and interdisciplinary collections area at the museum. In that time, she cu ... More | |
This exhibition marks a significant milestone for Ella West Gallery as it endeavors to create a vibrant artistic space that champions underrepresented artists and cultivates a new era in the world of art.
DURHAM, NC.- Ella West Gallery opened in downtown Durham with the launch of its inaugural exhibition Return to Parrish Street: A Dream Realized. The gallery showcases extraordinary new works from North Carolina artists Kennedi Carter and Clarence Heyward and North Carolina native Ransome, and honor the legacy of its location in the heart of Durhams Black Wall Street. Dedicated to the memory of iconic artist and Durham native Ernie Barnes (American, 19382009), the exhibition opens with works on view by the celebrated late artist in conversation with new photography and paintings available for purchase by Carter and Heyward; portraiture by Ransome will be added September 11. These works probe perception, identity, and vulnerability, creating a visual dialogue around dreams and destiny. Return to Parrish Street: A Dream Realized is on view through October 21, 2023, ... More |
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| How Metallica hard-wires a different set list every night | | Springfield Art Museum welcomes traveling international group exhibition 'Tradition Interrupted' | | New species of Triassic reptile reveals lifestyle of ancient pterosaur relatives |
The set-list for Metallicas concert at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. on Aug. 4, 2023. (Patricia Wall/The New York Times)
by Austin Considine
NEW YORK, NY.- In Metallicas frenetic 1983 ode to headbanging, Whiplash, the bands guitarist and lead singer, James Hetfield, barks, Well never stop, well never quit, cause were Metallica. Somehow, across four decades marked by success but also death, addiction and at least one very public near-implosion, the band has kept its word. This year, Metallica released its 11th full-length studio album, 72 Seasons. Its debut LP, Kill Em All, also turned 40, just days before the quartet arrived in New Jersey for the first North American date on its M72 World Tour. Metallica isnt the only band doing stadium tours even as its members pass 60, but not every band makes its bones slamming through songs that regularly top 190 beats per minute. That tenacity was evident on a Friday night this month at ... More | |
Faig Ahmed, Hal, 2016, handmade woolen carpet, ed. 2/3, 107 H x 64 W x 16 D; Courtesy of the Rodef Family Collection, San Diego, CA.
SPRINGFIELD, MO.- The Springfield Art Museum is pleased to present Tradition Interrupted, is now open in the Eldredge, Spratlen, and Armstrong Galleries. Tradition Interrupted is an international group exhibition that explores the methods used by artists to conflate contemporary ideas with traditional art and craft in a range of media, from rugs and mosaics to metalwork and ceramics. The twelve featured artists merge age-old media and technique with innovation, and re-visioning culturally historic ideas to create new work that interrupt traditional practice but still collaborates with the past. For generations, traditional craft and art practices held steadfast and often visually defined a culture. Today, artists are unraveling certain traits and facets of these ancient customs to redefine or reclaim them for the contemporary world. For many of the artists in Tradition Interrupted, ... More | |
The claws of Venetoraptor gassenae may have allowed it to climb trees and find food in the canopy. Image courtesy: © Caio Fantini.
LONDON.- A new fossil is allowing scientists to get their claws into the tricky topic of Triassic evolution. While dinosaurs tend to grab the spotlight, there were a variety of smaller animals that lived alongside them. One group of these were the lagerpetids, close relatives of pterosaurs that lived during the Triassic. There are relatively few lagerpetids known to scientists, so the discovery of a new species, Venetoraptor gassenae, has excited palaeontologists. Even more exciting, however, is that unlike many other fossils from the group, large parts of its skull and hands still survive. This is important, because these areas of the body are crucial to understand an animals lifestyle as they can shed light on its diet and behaviour. With a sharp beak and claws, Venetoraptor could have been a predator, though theres not currently enough evidence to confirm this. Together with ... More |
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| Getty announces 2023/2024 Artist in Residence | | Jessica Poon's animated film 'Sunset Singers' now open at Museum Folkwang | | Walid Raad's 'Cotton Under My Feet: The Hamburg Chapter' coincides with International Summer Festival 2023 |
For the 202324 Artist In Residence program Caycedo will use the resources, archives, and libraries at the Getty Research Institute (GRI) to support the research and early editorial phase of the second volume of the Serpent River Book series.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- This years Artist in Residence Carolina Caycedo (1978) is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist born in London and living in Los Angeles. Her immense geographic photographs, lively artists books, hanging sculptures, performances, films, and installations are not merely art objects but gateways into larger discussions about how we treat each other and the world around us. Through her studio practice and fieldwork with communities impacted by large-scale infrastructure and other extraction projects, she invites viewers to consider the unsustainable pace of growth under capitalism and how we might embrace resistance and solidarity. Process and participation ... More | |
Jessica Poon, Still aus: Sunset Singers, 2022. © Jessica Poon.
ESSEN.- Museum Folkwang is now showing the animated film Sunset Singers by Jessica Poon (*1990) in its 6 ½ Wochen programme. The exhibition is accompanied by sketches and drawings from the production phase. In her film, Poon intertwines different realities of Hong Kong in 2019: the political unrest initiated by young people in the streets of the city and the leisure behaviour of an older generation who arrange to meet in community centres for their hobby of karaoke. The opening was on Friday, 18 August, as a prelude to this year's Museum Folkwang Summer Festival, with the artist in attendance. The animated film Sunset Singers by Jessica Poon (b. 1990), nominated for the German Short Film Award 2022, is presented for the first time in a compact solo exhibition. The film tells the animated story of Sophie ... More | |
Walid Raad, Epilogue II: The Constables, 2021, seven pigmented inkjet prints, 40 x 60 in. (101.6 x 152.4 cm.) © Walid Raad. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.
HAMBURG.- In cooperation with the International Summer Festival 2023 at Kampnagel in Hamburg, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is hosting a special project by the Lebanese- American artist Walid Raad (b. 1967). The Hamburg Chapter is an adaptation of Raads presentation Cotton Under My Feet at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid (2021/2022) and consists of a parcours through the galleries of the Kunst- halles original building. Beginning with the Old Masters, the intervention forges connections between artworks on view from the permanent collection by juxta- posing them with selected objects and Raads own works. Among the latter are supposed finds from the museums storage depot as well as video installations. ... More |
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Han Nefkens Foundation announces a new initiative: the Moving Image Commission 2023
BARCELONA.- Han Nefkens Foundationin partnership with MACBA Barcelona, MUAC Mexico City, and The Bass Miami Beachannounces a new art initiative: The Han Nefkens Foundation, MACBA, Barcelona, MUAC, Mexico City and The Bass MiamiMoving Image Commission 2023. The Moving Image Commission 2023 will be be an important resource and tool for increasing and supporting contemporary artistic production in the moving image field. This trans-institutional partnership is the inaugural edition of the commission: each will be biennial starting in autumn 2023and each edition will be guided by a thematic and investigative concept agreed upon by the three partner institutions. The awardee (an artist or a collective of artists) will receive 100,000 USD for the production of a new work, which will be co ... More
D'Stassi Art presents UK debut solo show of Trevor Andrew, Olympic snowboarder turned creative phenomenon
LONDON.- D'Stassi Art is presenting the eagerly awaited UK debut solo show of Trevor Trouble Andrew - the acclaimed artist also known as Gucci Ghost, whose journey from Olympic snowboarder to creative genius has captivated audiences worldwide. Drawing inspiration from his formative years in the Canadian countryside and its folk art scene, Andrews new painting series is an ode to the Western aesthetic. Developed over the course of six years, his new body of work leans into nostalgia, dismantling the archetypal Hollywood cowboy image of the 20th century. Andrews use of spray paint breathes new life into these iconic characters from his childhood, unveiling provocative and audacious reinterpretations. Alongside ... More
Historic Forten Family Bible donated to Museum of the American Revolution by descendants of James Forten
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A historic Bible, which is connected to one of the most significant African American families in Philadelphias history, has been donated to the Museum of the American Revolution by Atwood Kip Forten Jacobs and his daughter Taylor Jacqueline Rodriguez Jacobs, direct descendants of Black Revolutionary War veteran and abolitionist James Forten. The Bible is currently on display for the first time in public in the Museums special exhibition Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia. It will remain on permanent display at the Museum after the exhibit closes. The Forten family Bible is a tangible link to the past and a powerful reminder that we still have much work to build ... More
New British Library report confirms libraries are engines of economic recovery and growth
LONDON.- Published last month, Democratising Entrepreneurship 2.0 reveals the national impact the Business & IP Centre (BIPC) Network has had over a three year period. It shows how the British Library has continued to democratise entrepreneurship and support economic recovery at local, regional and national levels across the UK. Between April 2020 and March 2023, the BIPC Network: delivered excellent value for money with a benefit cost ratio (BCR) of £6.63 for every £1 invested helped to create 18,175 new businesses, equivalent to 24 new businesses every working day facilitated new and established businesses to create an estimated total of 6,124 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs increased turnover with an estimated net additional sales growth of £239 million boosted local economies with an estimated net additional gross value added (GVA) of £168 million ... More
An Arabic adaptation of 'Chicago' razzle dazzles Lebanon
NEW YORK, NY.- As the orchestra began vamping for roughly a thousand festivalgoers at a 19th-century palace in a mountainous town in Lebanon, Selma Fehmi the Velma Kelly character in a new Arabic version of the musical Chicago started to croon lyrics to the tune of All That Jazz. But this reimagining of the shows opening song quickly provided a Lebanese twist: Hurry, pick me up and lets take a drive/to a small place hidden in the center of Beirut. The Arabic adaptation of Chicago, the longest-running show currently on Broadway, debuted at the Casino du Liban in May with a sold-out run that extended to five nights. The team returned with three performances in August at an art festival in Beiteddine, a town some 20 miles southeast of Beirut where this adaptation takes place and now hopes to take the show abroad, within ... More
To stop an extinction, he's flying high, followed by his beloved birds
HILZINGEN.- Johannes Fritz, a maverick Austrian biologist, needed to come up with a plan, again, if he was going to prevent his rare and beloved birds from going extinct. To survive the European winter, the northern bald ibis which had once disappeared entirely from the wild on the continent needs to migrate south for the winter, over the Alps, before the mountains become impassable. But shifting climate patterns have delayed when the birds begin to migrate, and they are now reaching the mountains too late to make it over the peaks, locking them in an icy death trap. Two or three years, and theyd be extinct again, Fritz said. Determined to save them, Fritz decided he would teach the birds a new, safer migration route by guiding them himself in a tiny aircraft. And he was confident he could succeed in this daring, unconventional ... More
Heritage's jewelry auction celebrates sparkling diamonds, dazzling colored gems and chic designer beauties
DALLAS, TX.- If auctions were cocktail parties, Heritage's diamond-studded, gem-filled Fall Fine Jewelry Signature ® Auction would be the chicest soiree of the season. The September 28 event teems with fashionable A-listers of the jewelry world, including diamonds in a rainbow of hues, impressive colored gemstones and exceptional creations by designers both classic and contemporary. Highlights of the 325-lot event are so numerous, in fact, that naming a guest of honor is almost impossible. In the running, however, is a gorgeous diamond and platinum ring (estimate: $175,000-$225,000) with a stunning pear-shaped diamond weighing 8.38 carats, as well as another beautiful diamond and platinum ring (estimate: $115,000-$135,000) featuring a 5.20-carat sparkler. But colorless diamonds aren't the only diamonds on the distinguished guest list. ... More
Bridget Banton and Samir Patel join Museum of London Board of Governors
LONDON.- The Museum of London today announced the appointment of Bridget Banton and Samir Patel to its Board of Governors. They take up their post with immediate effect, bringing with them considerable experience and skills from the digital, creative and communications industries. Bridget Banton is a creative consultant and founder of Dear Creative Gurl, a consultancy delivering strategic advice, storytelling and content development to production companies, broadcasters and tech start-ups. She is a Strategic Advisor to B Corp UK, a full voting member of BAFTA, a fellow of the RSA and a volunteer mentor for ScreenSkills, the training body for the screen industry. Bridget has 15+ years creative leadership experience across television, digital and audio and has held commissioning roles at Channel 4, the BBC, and Penguin Random House UK. She ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Finnish architect Eero Saarinen was born August 20, 1910. Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910 - September 1, 1961) was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism. In this image: Eero Saarinen (1910 - 61) was one of the most prolific, unorthodox, and controversial masters of twentieth-century architecture.
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