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A provided image shows the installation The Hare with Amber Eyes, at the Jewish Museum in New York. Lovers of Edmund de Waals book can get close to that netsuke in a compelling show of objects that endured across a century of violence, discrimination and dispossession. Iwan Baan via The New York Times.
by Karen Rosenberg
NEW YORK, NY.- In his bestseller The Hare With Amber Eyes, writer and ceramicist Edmund de Waal traces the journey of his Jewish family and their art collection from the late 19th century to the 21st. The book combines history and memoir with a kind of object-oriented ontology, drawing parallels between the diaspora of Jews after World War II and the Ephrussi familys dispersed possessions (many of them looted by the Nazis). It begins when the author inherits a collection of Japanese netsuke, palm-size carved sculptures dating from the Edo period that had been with his Ephrussi relatives for generations. I want to know what the relationship has been between this wooden object that I am rolling in my fingers hard and tricky and Japanese and where it has been, he writes of the feeling of handling one of the netsuke. I want to be able to reach to the handle of the door and turn it and feel it open. I want to walk into each room where this object has lived ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation shot of Faberge in London, Romance to Revolution at the V&A, from November 20 to May 8.
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| Exhibition of extraordinary American ceramics celebrates gift from scholar Martin Eidelberg | | imagineRio digital platform reveals centuries of Rio de Janeiro's urban evolution | | A million-pound artwork, once slated for demolition, finds a new home |
Frederick Hurten Rhead (designer), S. A. Weller Pottery, (manufacturer). Plaque with poppies, 1904. United States, Zanesville, Ohio. Earthenware, Diam. 10 1/2 in. (26.7cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2020 (2020.64.122)
NEW YORK, NY.- On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gifts from the Fire: American Ceramics from the Collection of Martin Eidelberg highlights over 150 works of American ceramics and pottery from the early 1880s to the early 1950s that detail the extraordinary and impressive accomplishments of American potters and ceramists working across the United States. The exhibition features a selection of works from the recent gift to The Met by scholar Martin Eidelberg, whose collection represents the new styles, techniques, and materials used by some of the foremost artists and potteries from the period and that exemplifies the nations artistic originality in the field of art ceramics and pottery. We are deeply grateful to Martin Eidelberg for this transformative gift, said Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The Met. "This collection is remarkable ... More | |
View of Botafogo area and Sugarloaf Mountain taken from Dona Marta lookout, circa 1910, Augusto Malta. Courtesy Instituto Moreira Salles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Scholars, tourists, and locals eager to learn more about Rio de Janeiro have a new way to dive into its history with imagineRio, a digital platform that makes visible centuries of dramatic change in the citys built environment. Supported by a grant from the Getty Foundation, the newly enhanced digital atlas will allow users to view thousands of digitized archival photographs, architectural plans, and landscapes that animate Rios evolving cityscape. Rios current geography is far different from its past, as city planners literally moved mountains, remade beaches, demolished neighborhoods, and constructed new buildings where there was once just water. imagineRio reveals hundreds of years of human intervention responsible for the metropoliss iconic vistas and invites users to explore its history through architectural drawings, painted views of its shifting landscapes, and pioneering Brazilian photograph ... More | |
MARABAR, National Geograhic Society, Washington, D.C., 1984. Photo © Elyn Zimmerman, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
by Rebecca J. Ritzel
NEW YORK, NY.- A million-pound art installation in Washington, D.C., once marked for demolition will instead be relocated, thanks to a new agreement reached between the National Geographic Society and American University. Executive staff members at National Geographic declined to be interviewed but issued a statement saying they were pleased with the plan to move Elyn Zimmermans iconic rock-and-water installation Marabar from its grounds to the universitys campus. The agreement ends a debacle that began nearly three years ago, when the society told Zimmerman it no longer wanted her sculptural work, erected in 1984. Its a piece thats part of the history of landscape architecture, said Jack Rasmussen, director of the American University Museum, who will now be charged with safeguarding Marabar. A woman sculptor in the 1970s and 1980s ... More |
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| Time capsule in Virginia yields a trove of memorabilia, but no prized picture | | How a pro skateboarder became an apostle of ancient tuning | | AstaGuru's Modern Indian Art Auction garners impressive sale value; creates world record for 3 artists |
Historians had hoped to find a rare, century-old photo of Abraham Lincoln in a box discovered beneath a pedestal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. It was not to be.
by Christine Chung
NEW YORK, NY.- An air of expectancy hung over the gathering: Virginia historical conservators, state officials, reporters and a digital audience of more than 5,000 reunited Tuesday to see if a century-old box this century-old box was the time capsule that held the treasures they anticipated. It does appear to be the box we were expecting, Kate Ridgway, a Virginia state conservator, said of the copper container they were about to open, the second container that had been hidden below a Robert E. Lee statue erected in 1890. A rare photograph of a deceased Abraham Lincoln in his coffin was speculated to be the prime treasure nestled in the capsule. We wont know until you know, Ridgway said. A team of experts pried open the mottled rectangular box and carefully removed its contents, just as they had six days earlier with a previously discovered time capsule. Over the next two hours, conservators gently unearthed miscellaneous items and Confederate memorabilia hi ... More | |
Duane Pitre goes through his copy of The Just Intonation Primer, with which he taught himself the tuning system, in Northville, Mich., Dec. 17, 2021. Jarod Lew/The New York Times.
by Grayson Haver Currin
NEW YORK, NY.- When he retired for the first time, Duane Pitre was 23. It was the winter of 1997, when money was starting to pour into professional skateboarding. Pitre was poised to become one of the sports lucrative stars as it transitioned from counterculture to commercial empire. He was an early member of Alien Workshop, an upstart equipment company that helped shape skatings aesthetic. The companys founders fell for Pitres lithe form and easy charisma. He effortlessly executed the tricks of street skating, a nascent urban approach, full of slides down handrails and grinds across picnic tables. He starred in seminal skate videos. Boards were printed with his name. Just as profits were rising, however, Pitre bought a cheap bass, realized his true love was making music and bid skating farewell. I was getting paid to do this thing I did not want to do, Pitre, now 47, said recently on a call from his home outside Ann Arbor, Michigan. There was no option for m ... More | |
Leading the auction were two paintings by artist Tyeb Mehta. Lot no.14 titled Figure With Bird is an important masterpiece in the artists signature style. Executed in the year 1987, the work is a profound interpretation of Tyeb Mehtas visual vocabulary expressed through the motif of the bird. It was realised at the value of INR ₹ 24,27,24,824 (US$ 3,324,997).
MUMBAI.- AstaGurus Modern Indian Art Online Auction concluded with outstanding results including world records for three Modern Indian artists. The auction garnered an impressive total sale value of INR 93,18,78,408 ( US$ 12,765,436) after witnessing competitive bidding for an impressive line-up of 41 iconic modern Indian masterpieces. Several of these works appeared in an auction for the first time. Speaking about the results, Sunny Chandiramani, Vice President Client Relations, AstaGuru Auction House said, AstaGuru is extremely proud and humbled with the outcome of our Modern Indian Art auction. The result is a testament to AstaGurus legacy and leadership of offering exceptional and unique works in the modern Indian art market. With every curation, we aspire to fulfil our collectors sentiment to acquire distinctive artworks that are rare to come by. With milestone creations by modern ... More |
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| Scientists digitally 'unwrap' mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I for the first time in 3,000 years | | Morphy Auctions reports blockbuster year with 2021 sales exceeding $50M | | Eve Babitz, a hedonist with a notebook, is dead at 78 |
Facemask of the never-before unwrapped mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I. Image courtesy: S. Saleem and Z. Hawass.
CAIRO.- All the royal mummies found in the 19th and 20th centuries have long since been opened for study. With one exception: egyptologists have never been bold enough to open the mummy of Pharaoh Amenhotep I. Not because of any mythical curse, but because it is perfectly wrapped, beautifully decorated with flower garlands, and with face and neck covered by an exquisite lifelike facemask inset with colorful stones. But now for the first time, scientists from Egypt have used three-dimensional CT (computed tomography) scanning to 'digitally unwrap' this royal mummy and study its contents. They report their findings in Frontiers in Medicine. This was the first time in three millennia that Amenhotep's mummy has been opened. The previous time was in the 11th century BCE, more than four centuries after his original mummification and burial. Hieroglyphics have described how during the later 21st dynasty, priests restored and reburied royal mummies from ... More | |
Outstanding 10-gallon visible gas pump with oil dispenser restored in Stanocola Gasoline livery. Blue-tint glass cylinder with unique metal gallon markers and 16 individual glass cylinders for oil disbursement. Sold at Morphys May 11-15, 2021 Coin-Op, Advertising, Petroliana & Railroadiana Auction for $87,600 against an estimate of $25,000-$50,000.
DENVER, PA.- Morphy Auctions reports a year of unprecedented new-buyer interest and stellar results across all categories in 2021, with gross sales surpassing $50 million. Throughout the year, we witnessed unwavering enthusiasm and willingness on the part of collectors to invest in high-quality antiques and historically important objects, said Morphys founder and president Dan Morphy. The market for exceptional pieces with great provenance was very strong, even in the midst of the second wave of the pandemic. Against all odds, the auction trade held fast and continued to evolve into a powerful microeconomy of its own. Morphys year of estimate-topping prices began with the February 27 sale of Bob and Judy Bradys prized mechanical banks. The ... More | |
A child of Hollywood, she wrote of the sensuous pleasures of Los Angeles, and sampled them enthusiastically.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eve Babitz, the voluptuous bard of Los Angeles, who wrote with sharp wit and a connoisseurs enthusiasm of its outsize characters and sensuous pleasures from taquitos to LSD and found critical acclaim and a new audience late in life, died Friday at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was 78. The cause was complications of Huntingtons disease, Mirandi Babitz, her sister and her only survivor, said. She was 30 when her first book, Eves Hollywood, a memoir in shardlike essays, was published in 1974. In the dedication, which runs to many pages, she thanked her orthodontist, her gynecologist, the Chateau Marmont, freeways, sour cream (Babitz was an unsung food writer, a Colette of the Sunset Strip), Rainier ale (an aid to losing her virginity) and the Didion-Dunnes, for having to be what Im not. To Babitz, Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, represented the chilly East Coast literary establishment, which did not q ... More |
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| Don Troiani's paintings of the Revolutionary War on view at the Museum of the American Revolution | | Shane MacGowan wants a lot more of life | | A trip through pop, rap and jazz's past, in 27 boxed sets |
62nd Regiment of Foot Cartridge Pouch. Photo: Troiani Collection.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Without the benefit of photography, the Revolutionary War can be difficult to envision. But what did the war actually look like? The Museum of the American Revolutions special exhibition Liberty: Don Troianis Paintings of the Revolutionary War brings together for the first time in public more than 45 original paintings by nationally renowned historical artist Don Troiani. Based on painstaking research, the paintings capture the drama and reality of life on the march, in camp, and in battle. The exhibition runs until September 5, 2022. Connecticut-based artist Don Troiani (b.1949) has dedicated much of his artistic career to imagining and recreating what the Revolutionary War truly looked like. His use of primary sources, archaeology, original artifacts, and other research methods imbues his paintings with an almost photographic-quality realism. Using a masterful combination of artistry and accur ... More | |
The singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan at his home in Dublin on Dec. 9, 2021. MacGowans next project is a book of artwork, handwritten lyrics and school essays titled The Eternal Buzz and the Crock of Gold. Ellius Grace/The New York Times.
by Mark Yarm
NEW YORK, NY.- While promoting his 2020 documentary Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan, British director Julien Temple frequently spoke of the many difficulties his subject presented during filming, as MacGowan the famously hard-drinking and irascible former frontman of the Anglo-Irish folk-punk band the Pogues engaged in conversation with, among others, actor Johnny Depp and former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams. During the making of the film, which is now streaming on Hulu and video on demand, MacGowan sometimes wouldnt show up where he was supposed to, and when he did, it could take hours to get a few minutes of usable material from the uncooperative musician. He made it as though you were ... More | |
A collection of decades of Ray Charles work in True Genius. Via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- In an era of abundance when every day brings a deluge of new music to consume, it may seem particularly futile to turn to the past. But this years resurrections and recontextualizations in boxed sets and reissues gathered up whats been forgotten or overlooked or in some cases, whats been dissected ad nauseam but still commands attention and put it back at center stage. As Taylor Swift proved this year, theres no reason the old cant be experienced as new, too. Almost Famous 20th Anniversary (UMe; multiple configurations with deluxe editions starting at $169.98) Cameron Crowes 2000 film, Almost Famous, was his fond reminiscence about writing for Rolling Stone during the hard-partying, all-access 1970s. The expanded anniversary editions are overstuffed with familiar songs alongside a few live rarities. They also include a disc of mostly folksy soundtrack instrumentals by Nancy Wilson, from Heart, and the complete r ... More |
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The Henry Art Gallery presents an exhibition of Diana Al-Hadid's work
SEATTLE, WA.- The Henry Art Gallery announces Diana Al-Hadid: Archive of Longings, on view alongside Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas. Al-Hadids work explores the interplay between the female body and the European art canon; Syrian, Muslim, and immigrant histories and mythologies; and architectural icons and the natural world. Born in 1981 in Aleppo, Syria, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Al-Hadid creates artworks that speak to her interest in the melding of cultures and the translation of disparate narratives. This monographic exhibition will consist of a selection of 13 sculptural works made between 2010 and 2021 brought into interpretive grouping for the first time. Together the sculptures identify the artists investigation of historical, mythological, and biblical narratives of women as a fundamental through-line of her practice. ... More
Major survey of Midwestern artists premieres at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI, OH.- This winter, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kemper Museum) in Kansas City, MO premiered a major exhibition dedicated to artists living and working throughout Midwestern America. The Regional is the first major multi-museum survey dedicated to contemporary artists based in the Midwest and features new and recent work, including several site-responsive commissions, by more than 20 artists working across painting, photography, installation, and performance. Showcasing artists that represent a wide variety of backgrounds, concerns, and approaches-including Conrad Egyir, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Gisela McDaniel, Devan Shimoyama, Alice Tippit, and Jordan WeberThe Regional celebrates the artistic and cultural complexity of the Midwest, offering ... More
Californians remember Joan Didion
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Shortly after Joan Didions death late last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed that she had been the best living writer in California. A fifth-generation Californian, Didion was raised in Sacramento, earned an English degree at U.C. Berkeley and lived for years in Los Angeles. Her career took off in New York, but it was her keen observations of her home state that often struck a chord with readers. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears, Didion wrote in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, her 1968 collection of essays. California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. After Didions death, New York Times readers shared how her 60-year career affected their understanding of their own lives and the world around them. ... More
J.D. Crowe, banjo virtuoso and bluegrass innovator, dies at 84
NEW YORK, NY.- J.D. Crowe, a master banjo player and bandleader who expanded the sound of bluegrass while attracting some of the genres most prodigiously gifted musicians into his groups, died Friday at his home in Nicholasville, Kentucky. He was 84. The death was confirmed by his friend Frank Godbey, who said Crowe had recently been hospitalized for pneumonia. Godbeys wife, Marty Godbey, who died in 2010, was the author of Crowe on the Banjo: The Music Life of J.D. Crowe (2011). As the leader of the Kentucky Mountain Boys in the 1960s and J.D. Crowe & the New South in the 70s, Crowe was among the first musicians to adapt rock and R&B to a bluegrass setting. Built around his impeccable tone and timing as a banjoist, the resulting hybrid was a harbinger of both the freewheeling newgrass movement of the 70s and the bluegrass-aligned ... More
Keri Hulme, New Zealand's first Booker Prize winner, dies at 74
NEW YORK, NY.- Keri Hulme, the Maori writer who became the first New Zealander to win the prestigious Booker Prize with her luminous debut novel, The Bone People, securing her place in the countrys literary canon, died Monday at a residential care home in Waimate, New Zealand. She was 74. The cause of death was complications from dementia, said Bruce Harding, her friend and literary biographer. When a British literary critic phoned her about her prize in 1985 from the award ceremony in London, which she did not attend, Hulme responded over a crackly connection. You are pulling my leg, arent you? she said. Then she concluded, Oh bloody hell. Published in 1984, The Bone People is the brutal, lyrical story of the friendship among a mute child, his abusive foster father, and the Maori hermit and lapsed painter Kerewin Holmes, ... More
Juliette Lewis, an 'Imagination Freak Fairy,' knows her worth
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Lately, Juliette Lewis has been thinking about being invincible. Shes not, of course witness the soft knee brace encircling her right, faux-leather-clad leg. Coming off a challenging shoot for the breakout Showtime psychological thriller Yellowjackets amid COVID isolation in Canada, Lewis made a beeline for a sunny getaway and promptly overdid it physically. She tore her ACL and meniscus, injuries common in athletes but in her case stemming from the years she spent doing exuberant stage dives and high kicks with her rock band, Juliette and the Licks. Invincibility was one of the theme words she gave to Cubs the Poet, a family member serving as the artist-in-residence at the Ace Hotel here; he writes poems on the spot. Too much vigor and enthusiasm, she told him, describing why she was now limping around New ... More
An interview with a man described as a modern-day Darwin
NEW YORK, NY.- Edward Osborne Wilson was one of the great biologists of the 20th century, a classical naturalist drawn to wild places. He was the worlds foremost specialist in the biology of ants. But his mind and talent ranged far beyond insects. He was a profound thinker who developed major theories in ecology and evolution. He became an unlikely celebrity, taking center stage in two controversies of 20th-century science. Over the course of his career, he won nearly every major award in science and two Pulitzer Prizes. The New York Times sat down with him in his office at Harvard in March 2008 for an interview to discuss his life and how his love of science grew out of his love of the natural world. Wilson: Future generations are going to forgive us our horrible genocidal wars, because itll pass too ... More
Kehrer Verlag publishes Jeffrey A. Wolin's 'Faces of Homelessness'
NEW YORK, NY.- Homelessness takes many forms beyond living on the streets. Factors besides mental illness and addiction contribute to the problem.There are homeless veterans;families who were evicted when their residences were foreclosed on; people with sudden medical expenses that insurance didnt cover. Job loss, divorce, death of a spouse or parent, domestic violence, discrimination based on sexual orientation, lack of affordable housing, etc., all drive homelessness. There are working poor who live in vehicles or tents and work full-time jobs. Most people experiencing homelessness are invisible, living doubled up with friends or family, in shelters, hospitals or Single Room Occupancy hotels. Jeffrey A. Wolin photographs and interviews a wide swath of this vulnerable population and includes their ownwords directly on their portraits to dispel ... More
The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents a new body of work created by Ahmed Alsoudani
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Fabric Workshop and Museum is presenting Ahmed Alsoudani: Bitter Fruit, on view from November 12, 2021 through May 1, 2022. The culmination of the artists two-year residency, the exhibition debuts a new body of sculptural works created in collaboration with FWM. Known for his vibrant, expressionistic paintings that allude to both shared and specific lived experiences, including the sustained exposure to violence society endures, Alsoudani collaborated with The Fabric Workshop and Museum's team of studio artists to translate the organic forms from his drawings into an array of large-scale sculptures. Created between FWM and the artists studio, and then hand painted by Alsoudani, these forms are placed throughout the gallery as though growing directly from the space itself. Alsoudanis interest in experimentation ... More
Centre Pompidou presents an exhibition of works by Pierre Bismuth
PARIS.- This exhibition by Pierre Bismuth, who was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1963 and lives and works in Brussels, opens with a title in the form of a paradox, subverting a famous declaration by German artist Joseph Beuys («Everyone is an artist»). It combines emblematic works by the French artist with others specially designed for the occasion, and offers an original approach to his work, one of the most singular artistic enterprises of the contemporary scene. Pierre Bismuth has no favourite domain of intervention, but gladly uses film extracts as well as works by other artists and found images. He is the only French artist to have been distinguished by Hollywood with an Oscar (awarded jointly in 2005 to Bismuth, Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman for the scenario of Gondrys film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Pierre Bismuth has used various ... More
David Wagoner, prolific poet of the Northwest, is dead at 96
NEW YORK, NY.- David Wagoner, a leading figure in poetry circles, especially in the Pacific Northwest, who turned a keen eye on nature, his childhood and numerous other subjects in more than 20 volumes published across half a century, died Dec. 18 at a nursing home in Edmonds, Washington. He was 96. His wife, Robin Seyfried, confirmed the death. Wagoner, who taught for decades at the University of Washington, also wrote novels, one of which, The Escape Artist (1965), about a teenage magician, was turned into a 1982 movie starring Griffin ONeal. But he was best known for poetry. In 1991 he won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious in the field. In 1991, poet Rita Dove, one of the judges in the Lilly competition, told The Seattle Post-Intelligencer why she thought Wagoner deserved that prize. He has never imitated himself, she ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian photographer and architect El Lissitzky died December 30, 1941. Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (November 23 [O.S. November 11] 1890 - December 30, 1941) was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant-garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union. In this image: El Lissitzky, "Proun, Street Decoration Design", 1921. Photo Peter Cox.
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