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In an undated photo provided by Charlotte Vignau/MONA, the American artist and curator Kirsha Kaechele, left, at the court hearing. She said that Jason Laus experience of discrimination was central to the work. (Charlotte Vignau/MONA via The New York Times)
MELBOURNE.- A wall of vulvas. A performance featuring a recently slaughtered bull. A poo machine that replicates the journey of food through the human body. The Museum of New and Old Art, or MONA, in Hobart, the capital of the Australian state of Tasmania, is no stranger to works that may shock or appall, or the criticism they may draw. But this week, it found itself defending an unusual claim: An artwork, a visitor complained, broke discrimination laws. The Ladies Lounge plush green curtains, lavish surroundings, original ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This striking image of Maharana Jagat Singh II and Thakur Sirdar Singh stalking deer is one of the gems in the exhibition Gods, Gardens and Princes: Indian Works on Paper at Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd. Mewar, India, dated V.S. 1800 / 1743 A.D. Opaque colours with gold on paper, 11 3/8 by 18 ½ in., 28.8 by 47 cm. folio. Asia Week New York.
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| Study about purported ancient 'pyramid' in Indonesia is retracted | | This was village life in Britain 3,000 years ago | | World War II loot found in a Massachusetts home is returned to Okinawa |
The Gunung Padang archaeological site in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, Dec. 22, 2023. (Ulet Ifansasti/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY..- The American publisher of a study that challenged scientific orthodoxy by claiming that an archaeological site in Indonesia may be the worlds oldest pyramid says it has been retracted. The October 2023 study in the journal Archaeological Prospection made the explosive claim that the deepest layer of the site, Gunung Padang, appears to have been sculpted by humans ... More | |
A researcher sketches the position of timbers at Must Farm Quarry, a Bronze Age site on a river channel in eastern England. (Cambridge Archaeological Unit via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Three millennia ago, a small, prosperous farming community briefly flourished in the freshwater marshes of eastern England. The inhabitants lived in a clutch of thatched roundhouses built on wooden stilts above a channel of the River Nene, which empties into the North Sea. They wore clothes of fine flax linen, with pleats ... More | |
A photo provided by the FBI shows one of 22 historic artifacts that were looted following the Battle of Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. (FBI via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY..- During the brutal Battle of Okinawa in Japan, in the final months of World War II, a group of U.S. soldiers took residence in the palace of a royal family who had fled the fighting. When a palace steward returned after the war was over, he said later, the treasure was gone. Some of those valuables surfaced decades later in the attic ... More |
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| Legendary publisher Denis Kitchen offers 275 major works of original comic art April 4-7 at Heritage Auctions | | Disney legend inductees Marc and Alice Davis Archive comes to Heritage April 5-8 | | Andrew Crispo, disgraced Manhattan gallery owner, dies at 78 |
Will Eisner The Spirit Section Cover Original Art dated 5-25-47 (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1947).
DALLAS, TX.- To Denis Kitchen, the 275 works of original comic art hes offering in Heritages April 4-7 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction are more than just landmark works by some of the mediums most influential creators though, of course, theres that, too. Says Kitchen artist, historian, ... More | |
WED Designed Western Bar Shooting Gallery (Walt Disney, 1977).
DALLAS, TX.- What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation. -- Marc Davis Great collectors keep themselves primed for the appearance of a Holy Grail, and in the Disney universe, significant works by the original animation and concept artists from Disneys Golden Age fill that role. Walt Disneys Nine Old Men the studios ... More | |
The gallerist Andrew Crispo, at a space he was planning to open in the meatpacking district of Manhattan in August 1998. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY..- Andrew Crispo, a once high-flying art gallerist in Manhattan brought low by a long series of tabloid-worthy scandals, including tax evasion, extortion and implication in the grisly 1985 murder of a Norwegian art student, died Feb. 8 ... More |
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| Joan Jonas: A trailblazer shines at MoMA | | The Morgan Library & Museum announces new Co-Presidents of the Board of Trustees, G. Scott Clemons and Robert K. Steel | | Historic number of Rembrandts on view in Toronto |
Joan Jonass By a Thread in the Wind on display in the exhibition Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, March 15, 2024. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY..- Im not a humanist, Im a creaturist. Have been since childhood. The pyramidal view of the world that I grew up with Man as the crown of creation, with all other animals, four-legged, feathered and scaled, ranked and devalued downward has never made sense. Hierarchies ... More | |
G. Scott Clemons.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Board of Trustees of the Morgan Library & Museum has elected Robert K. Steel and G. Scott Clemons as Co-Presidents effective April 1, 2024. Along with Martha McGarry, newly elected as a Vice President, and other members of the Executive Committee, they will lead the institution into its second century and spearhead the execution of the Morgans new five ... More | |
Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of a Woman with a Lap Dog, c. 1665. Oil on canvas. Overall: 81.3 à 64.1 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Bequest of Frank P. Wood, 1955. Photo © AGO. 54/30.
TORONTO.- On view now at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Painted Presence: Rembrandt and His Peers is a rare and remarkable assembly of 17th century Dutch paintings. Featuring 15 intensely observed still-life paintings, detailed interiors, and mesmerizing ... More |
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| The walkway to nowhere: A monument to Hungary's patronage politics | | Martin Luther King Jr. biographer wins American history prize | | Christie's announces 'Timepieces from The Collection of Michael Schumacher' |
Children on a school trip to the wooden bridge, built as a "treetop canopy walkway," in Nyirmartonfalva, eastern Hungary, Feb. 20, 2024. (Akos Stiller/The New York Times)
NYIRMARTONFALVA.- Eager to get a small piece of the billions of euros provided to his country by the European Union, a mayor in eastern Hungary applied ... More | |
Jonathan Eig, the author of King: A Life, a recent biography of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Doug McGoldrick via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life, has been named the winner of the New-York Historical Societys 2024 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize, which is awarded annually for ... More | |
A unique F.P. Journe Vagabondage 1 Model timepiece, dating from circa 2004. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
GENEVA.- Marking the 30th anniversary of Michael Schumachers first Formula 1 Drivers Championship win in 1994, Christies will present selected timepieces from the private collection of one of the most successful drivers in F1 history. The Rare ... More |
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Aribert Reimann, masterful German opera composer, is dead at 88
NEW YORK, NY.- Aribert Reimann, whose powerful operas based on works by Willam Shakespeare, Franz Kafka, Federico GarcÃa Lorca and others made him one of the most significant opera composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, died March 13 in Berlin. He was 88. His publisher, Schott Music, announced the death. A prolific composer with widely performed works, particularly his operas and songs, Reimann was revered for his ability to fuse complex and often challenging modern music with lyrical texts. His works were frequently devastating in their emotional impact, sounding like organic expressions of the human voice. Like few other composers of his generation, Reimann knew how to tell stories in his operas which directly affected us humans living in the 21st century, Dietmar Schwarz, manager of the Deutsche ... More
Summers Place Auctions to sell eclectic mix of lots in March sale
LONDON.- The first auctions of the year at Summers Place Auctions take place live on 26th March 2024 followed by the sealed bid sale on the 27th March. They include an eclectic mix of lots that the auction house in Billingshurst has become well-known for - ranging from dinosaur footprints to Modern British sculptures with a wide range of garden statuary and even an historic barn frame in between. Highlight of the auction is a pair of rare Portland stone groups of a nymph and satyr by Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885-1934). They are each three and a half metres high and were created for Melchett Court, Hampshire in 1927 and stayed in the Melchett family, although in different locations, until 1947 and a year later Gilbert Beale bought them at auction for Beale Park, where they stayed until 2000. They are now expected to sell for ... More
The Philharmonic's new season: What we want to hear
NEW YORK, NY..- Next season, the New York Philharmonic will be without a full-time maestro or a designate music director for the first time in decades. But Gustavo Dudamel, the superstar conductor who takes over as the ensembles music and artistic director in 2026, will help fill the gap, leading three weeks of concerts, the Philharmonic announced on Tuesday. Dudamel, who currently leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is steadily ramping up his commitments in New York. He is already helping to shape programming and tours. And next season he might begin to take part in auditions, though talks are still underway, said Gary Ginstling, the ... More
'I love to be a beginner': Emma Portner's busy ballet era
NEW YORK, NY..- Islands, a ballet for two women, knits and knots its dancers together. They start out sharing a single pair of pants. Two of their arms meet to form a circle; a head snakes through, then an elbow, a wrist. Legs how many? whose? twine and untwine, a meticulous confusion of limbs. Emma Portner, the works choreographer, has spent her career interweaving genres and disciplines. She has made dances for Justin Bieber, collaborated with tap dancer Michelle Dorrance and worked on the West End musical Bat Out of Hell. She sings in the indie music duo Bunk Buddy and acted in the A24 film I Saw the TV Glow, set to be released in May. I think I go a little insane if I stay in any one place or in any one medium for too long, Portner, 29, said. I love to be a beginner. Islands, made for the Norwegian National ... More
Big changes are coming to California's classical music scene
NEW YORK, NY..- (California Today) Its a season of change for classical music in California. Esa-Pekka Salonen, the revered conductor and composer, announced on Thursday that he would step down as musical director of the San Francisco Symphony next year when his contract expires. Salonen, 65, has been a leading force in trying to redefine the modern symphony orchestra. Just the day before, James Conlon, music director of the Los Angeles Opera, said that he would step down in 2026. In his nearly 20 years on the job, Conlon, 74, has led more performances of the opera company than any other conductor. The departures do not appear to be connected. Salonen had a rift with his orchestras board, and Conlon said he was ready for his next chapter. But theyre serious losses nonetheless, as Californias classical ... More
Review: An affair to dismember, in the gory musical 'Teeth'
NEW YORK, NY..- So unexpected, contrarian and maximalist are the musicals of Michael R. Jackson that I spend a lot of time between them wondering what hell do next. First came A Strange Loop, about a fat, Black, queer man stuck in a cycle of shame by his faith. Then came White Girl in Danger, about soap opera characters so privileged and confident they feel total freedom to do what they like. Now, in collaboration with Anna K. Jacobs, comes the remix, Teeth, which opened Tuesday at Playwrights Horizons. It too is a show about faith and shame, but as experienced by an alpha white girl in the most biting ways. Literally. Teeth, with music by Jacobs, lyrics by Jackson and a book by both, manifests all three elements of the Jackson formula. Based on the 2007 cult horror film by Mitchell Lichtenstein, it is a parable set ... More
'Illinoise,' a Sufjan Stevens dance musical, is moving to Broadway
NEW YORK, NY..- Illinoise, a dance-driven, dialogue-free musical adapted from a much-loved 2005 album by Sufjan Stevens, will transfer to Broadway next month. The show, which is a collaboration between celebrated choreographer Justin Peck and Pulitzer-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury, is to open April 24 at the St. James Theater; the run is to be limited, with a scheduled closing date of Aug. 10. Illinoise depicts a group of young creative people gathered around a campfire to share stories about their lives; it ultimately focuses on the life of a man who is finding his way while confronting grief. A lot of the show is really about the catharsis of opening up to the community around oneself, Peck, who is directing and choreographing the show, said in an interview. Illinoise joins a crowded spring season on ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Hans Hofmann was born March 21, 1880. Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 - February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. Hofmann's art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships. He was also heavily influenced in his later years by Henri Matisse's ideas about color and form. In this image: Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings.
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