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Mike Wimmer, An Acorn Scurry.
NEW YORK, NY.- ARC Select, an exciting special exhibition, is set to open today, April 4th, at New Yorks Rehs Contemporary. In partnership with the non-profit Art Renewal Center, ARC Select features eight of todays finest contemporary artists. Located in the heart of midtown, just off Fifth Avenue, the gallery invites art lovers and collectors to join them in celebration of these stellar works and their creators. The exhibition opening will take place on Thursday night, April 4th, from 5 8 PM, and will remain on view through May 3rd, 2024. This year marks the fifth edition of ARC Select hosted by Rehs Contemporary, though this will be the first since theyve moved to their new, spacious gallery on West 55th Street. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A boy plays in the burrow-esque entrance to The Rabbit Hole museum, which features hiding places, reading nooks and more than 3,000 books, in Kansas City, Mo., March 16, 2024. The tale behind the new immersive museum of children's literature is equal parts imagination, chutzpah and "The Little Engine That Could." (Chase Castor/The New York Times).
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| Protests over Gaza intensify at American art museums | | Rare Scottish provincial ring found among scrap gold leads the discoveries at Chiswick Auctions | | Max Fields named director of Visual Arts Center at The University of Texas at Austin |
Demonstrators rally outside the Museum of Natural History in New York to call for an end of Israels invasion of Gaza, on Dec. 2, 2023. A series of demonstrations about the Israel-Hamas war have rocked the cultural sector with protests, withdrawals and other calls for boycotts. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in February was titled Love Letter to SoMa, after the San Francisco neighborhood that the contemporary art museum calls home. But eight of the artists involved in it staged an intervention called Love Letter to Gaza, ... More | |
A rare Scottish provincial gold posy ring sold at £1900 at Chiswick Auctions last month. Based on the gold price on the day, its intrinsic value was around £110.
LONDON.- Discovered in a bag of modern gold jewellery, most of it of little more than bullion value, a rare Scottish provincial gold posy ring sold at £1900 at Chiswick Auctions last month. Based on the gold price on the day, its intrinsic value was around £110. Engraved to the interior with the motto or posy reading God alone made us two one, the ring is also struck with the makers mark CJ for the Inverness goldsmith Charles ... More | |
Max Fields has been named director of the Visual Arts Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
AUSTIN, TX.- The Visual Arts Center at The University of Texas at Austin announced the appointment of Max Fields as its new director. Fields joins the VAC from the FotoFest, where he served as curator and director of programs since 2019. As the director of an experiential, public-facing curatorial laboratory at UT Austin, Fields will provide vision and programmatic leadership in his new role at the Visual Arts Center. Fields begins his new role on April 8, 2024. Were thrilled to welcome ... More |
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| At New Directors/New Films, the kids are not all right (nobody really is) | | Bertoia's April 19-20 Annual Spring Auction is brimming with toys, banks, trains and toy soldiers | | Timken Museum of Art announces final phase of restoration of François Boucher masterpiece |
Malu. © Bubbles Project Pluto Film Distribution Network GmbH SchliemannstraÃe.
NEW YORK, NY.- The terrific Ukrainian documentary Intercepted screening in this years New Directors/New Films festival is an austere and harrowing chronicle of life, death and indifference. For roughly 90 minutes, it juxtaposes images from everyday life in Ukraine with audio gleaned from phone calls between Russian soldiers and their families. As the camera steadily focuses ... More | |
Althof Bergmann (American) Patriotic Suffragette bell toy. Circa 1874. Hand-painted tin with clockwork mechanism, added cloth display flag. Size: 8in long. Provenance: Covert Hegarty collection to Max Berry collection. VG-Exc. Condition. Estimate: $6,000-$9,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- One of the most enjoyable aspects of the toy hobby is visiting and discovering the hidden treasures in friends collections. The only downside is that youre likely to see a toy youd love to own but cant, because its not for sale. ... More | |
Public welcome to observe these last weeks of the restoration process and interact with the conservators as they apply finishing touches to the brilliant rococo painting.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- For the past five months, the Timken Museum of Arts 18th-century painting, Lovers in a Park (1758), by Rococo artist François Boucher has been undergoing an unprecedented transformation by a team of expert conservators from the Balboa Art Conservation ... More |
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| Sticks. And the people who love them. | | AstaGuru's 'Next Gen' Auction shines with iconic Anish Kapoor sculpture and contemporary masterpieces | | Kim Conaty named Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art |
Boone Hogg, who with a friend found minor fame on Instagram by reviewing sticks, shows off a good one in Ogden, Utah on March 30, 2024. (Lindsay D'Addato/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Stick Nation was born over the summer, during a hiking trip to Arches National Park in Utah. Boone Hogg, Logan Jugler and some friends were cracking jokes as they trekked toward Delicate Arch. From their free-associative silliness ... More | |
Lot no. 71 by Kapoor belongs to his vast oeuvre of mirror-like stainless steel discs that manipulate reflections, creating captivating distortions while providing a seamless view. This lot is estimated to sell at INR 5,00,00,000-7,00,00,000.
MUMBAI.- AstaGuru will present the next edition of its Next Gen Contemporary Art Auction with over 100 works by leading and famous contemporary artists. The finely curated catalogue is led ... More | |
Kim Conaty. Photograph by Bryan Derballa.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art has named Kim Conaty the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator. In this new role, effective April 8, Conaty will serve on the Museums senior leadership team and participate in shaping its mission and vision. She will oversee the Museums curatorial, publications, and conservation departments and assume responsibility ... More |
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| National Gallery Singapore's DBS Singapore Gallery to undergo phased revamp from 8 April 2024 | | Portland Art Museum to unveil campus transformation in late 2025 | | Rome's future is a walk through its past |
Gallery view of the DBS Singapore Gallery. Image Credit: National Gallery Singapore.
SINGAPORE.- National Gallery Singapores DBS Singapore Gallery will be undergoing a phased revamp of its inaugural exhibition, Siapa Nama Kamu? Art in Singapore since the 19th Century. This marks the Gallerys first revamp of its long-term exhibitions since opening in 2015. The revamp of the three gallery spaces within the DBS Singapore Gallery will be conducted ... More | |
Southwest view of the Portland Art Museums campus transformation at dusk from Madison Street. Rendering by Hennebery Eddy Architects and Vinci Hamp Architects.
PORTLAND, OR.- Portland Art Museum announced today that its campus expansion and renovation project, which will completely transform the existing Museum and create a vital cultural commons in the heart of downtown Portland, will open to the public in late 2025. Adding ... More | |
Tourists take pictures in front of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy on May 6, 2022. (Francesco Lastrucci/The New York Times)
ROME.- Conscious of the weight of its illustrious history, Rome has managed to preserve an impressive number of archaeological monuments in its city center. The Colosseum, the Circus Maximus and the Roman Forum and Imperial Fora are just a few of the sites clustered in the citys heart. As Rome, which will celebrate ... More |
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Klaus Mäkelä, 28-year-old Finnish conductor, to lead Chicago Symphony
CHICAGO, IL.- The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which has been led for decades by conducting titans including Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim and Riccardo Muti, announced Tuesday that its next music director would be Klaus Mäkelä, a 28-year-old Finnish conductor whose charisma and clarity have fueled his rapid rise in classical music. When he begins a five-year contract in 2027 at 31, Mäkelä will be the youngest maestro in the ensembles 133-year history, and one of the youngest ever to lead a top orchestra in the United States. Mäkelä, who will become music director designate immediately, said in an interview that he did not think his age was relevant, noting that he had been conducting for more than half his life, beginning when he was 12. I dont think about it, he said. Music doesnt really have any age. Mäkelä, who will also take over as chief conductor ... More
The bizarre Chinese murder plot behind Netflix's '3 Body Problem'
NEW YORK, NY.- Lin Qi was a billionaire with a dream. The video game tycoon had wanted to turn one of Chinas most famous science-fiction novels, The Three-Body Problem, into a global hit. He had started working with Netflix and the creators of the HBO series Game of Thrones to bring the alien invasion saga to international audiences. But Lin did not live to see 3 Body Problem premiere on Netflix last month, drawing millions of viewers. He was poisoned to death in Shanghai in 2020, at age 39, by a disgruntled colleague, in a killing that riveted the countrys tech and video-gaming circles where he had been a prominent rising star. That colleague, Xu Yao, a 43-year-old former executive in Lins company, was sentenced last month to death for murder by a court in Shanghai, which called his actions extremely despicable. ... More
Stefano Boeri Architetti China wins the competition for the new Museum of Technology in Xi'an
XI'AN.- The satellite practice of Stefano Boeri Architetti in China won the competition for the Culture CBD Modern Technology Experience Center, a technology museum designed to become a large scientific and cultural hub for the city and its visitors. The winning project by Stefano Boeri Architetti was inspired both by the ancient origins of the city of Xi'an capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi and by the local natural landscape, characterized by a tortuous system of rivers and mountains. The aim of the project is to create a permeable system open to the public, capable of activating new urban connections on different levels. The Xi'an museum will be an architecture open to everybody, designed to activate a process of urban regeneration in the area and involve a wide audience from technology enthusiasts to children ... More
Nicholas Galitzine wants to prove he's more than just a pretty face
NEW YORK, NY.- Ive often found that the way people see me is very different from how I see myself, Nicholas Galitzine said. People attribute a pristineness to me. This was on a recent morning in a rococo hotel room, just west of Madison Square Park. (How rococo? Imagine Fragonard macrodosing on psilocybin.) Galitzine, who recently relocated from London to Los Angeles, was in New York for a few days to promote Mary & George, a steamy historical drama in which he stars as George Villiers, the ambitious lover of King James I. It premieres Friday on Starz. Next month, he will also appear as Hayes, a boy-band sensation in an age-gap romance, in the giddy Amazon rom-com The Idea of You. Boyishly handsome, with lips like plumped throw pillows and a jawline that is frankly ridiculous, Galitzine, 29, is often cast as princes ... More
Jazz at Lincoln Center's new season includes tribute to Bayard Rustin
NEW YORK, NY.- Jazz at Lincoln Center announced its 2024-25 concert season Tuesday, which will include performances that celebrate the 20th anniversary of the centers Frederick P. Rose Hall, a tribute to civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and concerts by Grammy Award-winning artists. The season will run from Sept. 19 to June 14, 2025, and will begin with Hot Jazz and Swing, in which music director Loren Schoenberg will guide the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra through revitalized arrangements of 1920s and 30s tunes. On Oct. 18-19, Bryan Carter, a drummer and composer, will lead the Jazz at Pride Orchestra in honoring the life and legacy of Rustin. Other nods to the past will focus on the history of jazz. Led by Wynton Marsalis, the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the centers orchestra will perform 10 concerts ... More
Puccini's 'Butterfly' and 'Turandot': More than appropriation
NEW YORK, NYZ.- A key relic of the genesis of Giacomo Puccinis two operas set in Asia can be found not in Italy, where both works premiered, nor in China or Japan, where they are set, but of all places in Morristown, New Jersey. There, in the Morris Museums collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata, is a music box from around 1877. During a visit to the museum in 2012, musicologist W. Anthony Sheppard happened upon the box and, listening to it, was surprised to find that it contained melodies present in those Puccini operas, Madama Butterfly (1904) and Turandot (left unfinished at his death in 1924). Sheppard and other scholars came to believe that the box made in Switzerland, exported to China, returned to Europe and owned in Italy before it was acquired by the brewing ... More
John Barth, a novelist who found possibility in a 'Used-Up' form
NEW YORK, NY.- Nobody likes the comic who explains his own material, but writer John Barth, who died Tuesday, had a way of making explanations of gags, of stories, of the whole creative enterprise sing louder and funnier and truer than punchlines. The maxim Show, dont tell had little purchase with him. In novels, short stories and essays, through an astoundingly prolific six-decade career, he ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for them. He was styled a postmodernist, an awkwardly fitting title that only just managed to cover his essential attributes, like a swimsuit left too long in the dryer. But it meant that much of what Barth was doing cheekily recycling dusty forms, shining klieg lights on the artificiality of art, turning the tyranny of plot ... More
An English village hollowed out for a train that may never come
WHITMORE.- For those that can afford them, the large villas at Whitmore Heath offer the tranquility of the countryside within striking distance of urban centers like Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford, an hours drive north of Birmingham, the largest city in the English Midlands. Yet on Heath Road, where some house prices have exceeded 1 million pounds (about $1.3 million), padlocked gates and signs warn trespassers of CCTV security monitoring. Outside one house stands a dumpster filled with waste while the roof of another is carpeted with a veneer of moss. Peer through the large windows of a family home, and not a single piece of furniture can be seen inside. This scene of abandonment is a byproduct of a multibillion-dollar rail project that has spanned three decades and six prime ministers a case study in the problems Britain ... More
Maryse Condé, 'Grande Dame' of Francophone literature, dies at 90
NEW YORK, NY.- Maryse Condé, a writer from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe whose explorations of race, gender and colonialism across the Francophone world made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize in literature, died Tuesday in Apt, a town in southern France. She was 90. Her death, at a hospital, was confirmed by her husband, Richard Philcox, who translated many of her works into English. Condés work, beginning with her first novel, Hérémakhonon (1976), came at a pivotal time, as the notion of French literature, centered on the canonical works of French writers, began to give way to the multifarious notion of Francophone literature, drawing from all parts of the French-speaking world. Having lived in Guadeloupe, France, West Africa and the United States, Condé was able to imbue her work with a kaleidoscopic ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and poet Maurice de Vlaminck was born April 04, 1876. Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour. In this image: CaixaForum Barcelona, âla Caixaâ Community Projects exhibited in 2009 "Maurice de Vlaminck, a Fauve Instinct: Paintings from 1900 to 1915".
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