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A book opened to a Yiddish poem written by a woman at the Yiddish Book Center, in Amherst, Mass., on Feb. 12, 2024. The Yiddish Book Center has also commissioned translations, particularly of books by women, whose works were not given the same attention in the past as those by men. (Jillian Freyer/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Aaron Lansky was a young graduate student in Montreal in the late 1970s ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Refik Anadol, Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, 2024. Installation view, Serpentine North. Photo: Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy Refik Anadol Studio and Serpentine.
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| One way to preserve Alcatraz? Capture everything in 3-D. | | Introducing Tenacious Nostalgia, the first monograph from NYC by Oakland artist Colleen Longo Collins | | Frieze Los Angeles opens amid attention to Asian artists |
A hall inside the former prison known as The Rock, in Alcatraz Island, a mile north of San Francisco, on Jan. 30, 2024. (Cayce Clifford/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In May 1946, chaos erupted when six prisoners who were determined to escape from Alcatraz Island overpowered guards and grabbed weapons and keys. They seized ... More | |
From Girlgazing.
OAKLAND, CA.- Artist and photographer Colleen Longo Collins has released Tenacious Nostalgia, a limited edition photographic monograph spanning 15 years of her artistic life. Beginning at the pivotal age of 23 when Longo Collins moved from California to Brooklyn, New York to ... More | |
In a photo provided by Make Room, Los Angeles shows, Emilia Yin, a founder of Make Room, a gallery in Los Angeles. (Make Room, Los Angeles via The New York Times)
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Last year, Meeson Pae, a Korean American multidisciplinary artist, walked through the Frieze ... More |
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| Three new exhibitions now on view at the Walters Art Museum highlight new perspectives | | Frick publishes final volume in series on history of art collecting in America | | Major exhibition explores the history of Barbie and her influence on fashion and pop culture |
Joshua Johnson (American, 1765 - 1825), Child with Strawberries,1803-1805. Oil on canvas mounted on board.
BALTIMORE, MD.- Three exhibitions open at the Walters Art Museum this Winter, providing visitors with news ways to experience works in the museums expansive historic collection. Selections From the North American Collection: People And Places; Objects ... More | |
Cover of Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons: Collecting American Art in the Long Nineteenth Century
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection has published Tastemakers, Collectors, and Patrons: Collecting American Art in the Long Nineteenth Century, the sixth and final book in its Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America series. Edited by Linda S. Ferber, Margaret R. Laster, and ... More | |
Installation view of The Power of Pink, 2024. Phoenix Art Museum. Photo: Airi Katsuta.
PHOENIX, ARIZ.- On February 14, 2024, Phoenix Art Museum, in collaboration with Illusion Projects and Mattel, Inc., a leading global toy company and owner of one of the strongest catalogs of childrens and family entertainment franchises in the world, opened BARBIE: A CULTURAL ICON, ... More |
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| Auburn museum partners with Walter Hood on first exhibition of paintings | | Microsoft word's subtle typeface change affected millions. Did you notice? | | 'Desire to See: Photographs by Agnés Varda' retrospective exhibition is now on view |
Arc of Life features oil paintings by MacArthur Fellow Walter Hood. Photograph by: Charlotte Hendrix.
AUBURN, AL.- Walter Hood of Oakland, California, is undertaking a project with The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art Auburn University for a new exhibition. The artist debuts 10 biographical paintings through Sunday, July 7, in Arc ... More | |
In an undated image provided by Microsoft, Aptos, the new default typeface in Microsoft Office products after nearly two decades of Calibri.
NEW YORK, NY.- When you read a book, a traffic sign, a billboard, this article how much do you really notice the letters? If youre like most people, the answer is probably not at all. But even if you dont really ... More | |
Agnès Varda, Mosaic Self-Portrait, Paris, 1949. © Agnès Varda Estate, courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present Desire to See: Photographs by Agnès Varda, the first exhibition in the United States dedicated exclusively to Agnès Vardas ... More |
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| A quiet town has one of North America's oldest Chinese temples | | Lyman Allyn and Florence Griswold Museum collaborate on Leo Jensen exhibition | | 'ABSTRACTION' delves into dynamic ways the comprehension of abstract art has expanded |
Jon Lim at the Bok Kai Temple in Marysville, Calif., Feb. 20, 2024. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- For a brief time in the mid-19th century, one of the biggest cities in California was a place you might not have heard of: Marysville, about 40 miles north of Sacramento. Marysville ... More | |
Leo Jensen, Girl in Crash Helmet, 1964. Polychromed wood and Masonite, 39 x 41 x 6 in. Courtesy of the artists estate.
NEW LONDON, CT.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museums newest exhibition represents an innovative collaboration between Lyman Allyn and the Florence Griswold ... More | |
John Chamberlain, SPARKLINGSERPENT, 2008.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mnuchin Gallery presents ABSTRACTION, an exhibition that delves into the dynamic ways post-war and contemporary artists have defined, challenged, and expanded, our comprehension of abstract art. On view since February 6 ... More |
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Joel Mesler: âUntitled (Play the Hits)â | London | March 2023
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ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to NY for 64th edition
NEW YORK, NY.- The ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair - officially sanctioned by Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) and International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and produced and managed by Sanford L. Smith + Associates - returns to the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from April 4-7, 2024, for its 64th Edition. This year, the ABAA is celebrating its 75th Anniversary and will present a series of special events & programs tied to the New York fair. The NYIABF is a cultural pillar of New York and returns as a much-anticipated highlight of the Spring season. Universally referred to as the worlds finest antiquarian book fair, NYIABF is excited to reveal nearly 200 exhibitors this year from around the world, continuing to live up to its reputation as a highly international fair. The fair has attracted ... More
'Drop Shadows' Katherine Jones RA and Temsuyanger Longkumer at Sims Reed Gallery
LONDON.- Sims Reed Gallery and Oliver Projects are now showing Drop Shadows a unique exhibition bringing together, for the first time, two contemporary artists - Katherine Jones RA and Temsuyanger Longkumer. Opening next spring, the exhibition will be a fusion of artistic visions exploring the delicate and often deceptive - minutia of the natural world. Having known each other as part of London's printmaking community for over twenty years, Herefordshire-born artist Katherine Jones RA and Temsuyanger Longkumer, who grew up in Nagaland, Northeast India have formed a special and close friendship. Despite vastly different upbringings, their aligned artistic practices share an intense fascination with the subtly transformative forces of nature, and its power to represent both danger and refuge. In Drop Shadows, the artists explore nature's intricacies through three differe ... More
'Oliver Ressler: Dog Days Bite Back' is Belvedere's contribution to the Klima Biennale Wien
VIENNA.- In films, installations, artworks in the outdoor space and exhibitions, Oliver Ressler (*1970) has been addressing urgent aspects of the economy, democracy, migration, the climate crisis, forms of resistance and social alternatives for around three decades. His works, which have been shown in art institutions as well as at festivals and at events organized by social and activist movements, take their starting point in documentary formats and take a committed stand. Oliver Ressler's exhibition at Belvedere 21 focuses on filmic works on the climate crisis. Oliver Ressler produces installations, projects in public space, and films on economics, democracy, racism, climate breakdown, forms of resistance and social alternatives. He has completed forty-two films that have been screened in thousands of events of social movements, art institutions ... More
Series of 15 works on paper by artist Kara Walker revisit the history of the antebellum South
MANCHESTER, NH.- The Currier Museum of Art announced that Kara Walker: Harpers Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) will open to the public today. The series of 15 works on paper by Walker are being presented alongside a selection of prints by Winslow Homer (American, 18361910) that inspired them. The direct comparison between the original images by Homer and Walkers reinterpretation of the same material was first undertaken by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2017. Since then, the same exhibition format has traveled to several museums across the country to great critical acclaim. This comparative exhibition constitutes an important opportunity to revisit the history of the antebellum South and the ensuing Civil War through the contemporary lenses of race, slavery, gender, and politics. As a young ... More
A K-pop star's lonely downward spiral
SEOUL.- The K-pop star looked utterly drained. Her face scrubbed of makeup, Goo Hara, one of South Koreas most popular musical artists, gazed into the camera during an Instagram livestream from a hotel room in Japan. In a fading voice, she read questions from fans watching from around the world. You going to work, fighting? one asked. In halting English, she gave a plaintive answer: My life is always so fighting. By the time she climbed into bed at the end of the livestream in November 2019, she had reached a low point after a lifetime of struggle. As a child, she was abandoned by her parents. Her father at one point attempted suicide. After grueling training, she debuted in a K-pop group at 17, early even by the standards of the Korean hit-making machine. With the group, Kara, she found i ... More
'Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four' open at The James Museum
ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four, Masterworks from the Rijksmuseum Twenthe and the National Museum of Wildlife Art opened at The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art in downtown St. Petersburg, on February 17. The exhibition will be on view through May 26. The exhibition title references Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species, which had a revolutionary impact on how Western cultures envisioned their relationship with the other animals on Earth. In the post-Darwin era, a group of classically trained paintersnow known as the Big Fouremerged and helped establish a vision of wildlife and nature that remains with us today. German Richard Friese (18541918) is the Big Fours elder, followed chronologically by Swede Bruno Liljefors (18601939), German Wilhelm Kuhnert (18651926), and German- ... More
Richard Lewis, acerbic comedian and character actor, dies at 76
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Lewis, a stand-up comedian who first achieved fame in the 1980s with his trademark acerbic, dark sense of humor, and who later parlayed that quality into an acting career that included movies like Robin Hood: Men in Tights and a recurring role as himself on HBOs Curb Your Enthusiasm, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 76. His publicist, Jeff Abraham, said the cause was a heart attack. Lewis announced last year that he had Parkinsons disease. Lewis was among the best-known names in a generation of comedians who came of age during the 1970s and 80s, marked by a world-weary, sarcastic wit that mapped well onto the urban malaise in which many of them plied their trade. He became a regular on late-night talk shows, favored as much for his tight act as for his casual, open affability ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and illustrator Gil Elvgren died February 29, 1980. Gillette Alexander Elvgren (March 15, 1914 - February 29, 1980) was an American painter of pin-up models, advertising and illustration. Best known for his pin-up paintings for Brown & Bigelow, Elvgren studied at the American Academy of Art. In this image: Gil Elvgren, Bare Essentials, Brown & Bigelow calendar illustration, 1957. Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in. Estimate: $50,000 - $75,000.
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