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New acquisitions on display in the permanent collection once the museum reopens. Photo: Jelle Draper.
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum has acquired four rare prints by the American artist Mary Cassatt for its collection. Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was part of the first generation of Impressionists, and was a contemporary of Vincent van Gogh. The new acquisitions three large colour etchings and a singular lithograph in black are considered highlights of her oeuvre. Cassatt was far ahead of her time: her decision to use colour etchings was daring, and she was closely involved with the complex and time-consuming production process; Cassatt designed and printed most of the etchings herself. Emilie Gordenker, General Director of the Van Gogh Museum: We have been hoping to acquire important prints like these for many years, and are delighted to now be able to add them to our collection. We are very grateful to the VriendenLoterij, the Mondriaan Fund, the Rembrandt Association as well as individual donors who make up the The Yello ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Golden shells and the gentle mastery of Japanese lacquer at NGV International from 25 November 2021 - 18 April 2022. Photo: Sean Fennessy.
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| Met increases pay to guards to address COVID-19-related shortages | | Netscape founder gives up $35 million in art said to be stolen | | Ronnie Spector, who brought edge to girl group sound, dies at 78 |
People inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on July 10, 2021. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to increase the salaries of its security guards, part of an effort to ease staffing shortages that have arisen as the institution is buffeted by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to increase the salaries of its security guards, part of an effort to ease staffing shortages that have arisen as the institution is buffeted by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Like many businesses, health care facilities and cultural organizations, the Met has struggled in recent weeks with employee absences, at times closing multiple galleries to cope with a security staff reduced, on the worst days, by as much as one-third because of illness. On one day in early January, for example, some 80 of the museums roughly 430 galleries were closed, including rooms displaying Medieval, Egyptian, Chinese, European and American art and objects. But while the immediate staffing issue is largely related to the surge of the highly ... More | |
Why would you want to own something that was stolen? said James H. Clark, who investigators said had been persuaded to buy dozens of looted items by a rogue dealer.
NEW YORK, NY.- Over a period of five years, James H. Clark, an internet pioneer whose Netscape browser once commanded that market, spent roughly $35 million, he recalled in an interview, to purchase dozens of Cambodian and Southeast Asian antiquities, many of which he used to furnish a penthouse in Miami Beach, Florida. On Tuesday, federal officials announced he had surrendered the collection of 35 items, now valued at much more than he paid, after investigators convinced him that they were all stolen and that he had been duped by a shady antiquities dealer. A bronze goddess of motherhood with four arms and elongated earlobes. A massive seated elephant deity in stone bearing a crown and an ornamented trunk. A boat prow with a depiction of a half-human bird of prey astride a mythic serpent. Items he very much appreciated. Gone. Gone. Gone. Investigators told him, Clark said, my doing this might inspire other people to do the same, but Im not sure its hard for people to give up ... More | |
Ronnie Spector in New York, June 21, 2000. Spector, the lead singer of the Ronettes, the 1960s vocal trio that gave a passionate, bad-girl edge to pops girl-group sound with hits like Be My Baby and Baby, I Love You, died on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. She was 78. Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times.
by Ben Sisario and Joe Coscarelli
NEW YORK, NY.- Ronnie Spector, the lead singer of the Ronettes, a 1960s vocal trio that gave a passionate, bad-girl edge to pops girl-group sound with hits like Be My Baby and Baby, I Love You, died Wednesday. She was 78. She died after a brief battle with cancer, according to a statement from her family, which gave no further details. With high-piled hair, tight outfits and seductive looks, the three young women of the Ronettes Ronnie, born Veronica Bennett; her sister, Estelle; and their cousin Nedra Talley transformed the virginal model that had defined female pop groups since the 1940s. We werent afraid to be hot. That was our gimmick, Spector wrote in her 1990 memoir, Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or, My Life as a Fabulous Ronette. When we saw the Shirelles walk on stage with their ... More |
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| Pace Gallery announces global representation of pioneering Korean artist Lee Kun-Yong | | Artists of the WPA opens the winter 2022 season at Swann | | Nationalmuseum acquires Rousseau landscape |
Lee Kun-Yong. Photo: ArtDrunk/Gary Yeh. Courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace announced it will begin representing the boundary-pushing performance artist Lee Kun-Yong on a global scale. The artists forthcoming solo exhibition at Paces Hong Kong space, which runs from January 14 to March 3, 2022, marks his third presentation with the gallery. Lee, whose practice spans performance, sculpture, installation, and video, rose to prominence as a leading figure of the Korean avant-garde during the 1970s, a period in which the country grappled with authoritarianism and repression of freedom of expression. He was a founding member of the artist group Space and Time, and he is widely regarded as a pioneer of performance art in Korea. Works from one of the artists most iconic series, Bodyscape, which he began in 1976, will be on view in Paces exhibition in Hong Kong. For these works, Lee approaches canvases from various angles, creating records of his physical relationships to his ... More | |
Dorothea Lange, Matriarch, South Dakota, silver print, 1939, printed 1950s. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Continuing a tradition of offering specialized auctions, Swann Galleries will offer its second edition of The Artists of the WPA on Thursday, January 27 which aims to call attention to the generation of artists that contributed to the Federal Arts Project and the varying alphabet agencies and helped form a new American identity in the twentieth century. Leading the sale is Peoples Follies #2, tempera on board, 1938, by one of the leading elders of American art during the New Deal, Reginald Marsh ($30,00050,000). Further works that embody the social realism movement of the era include Daniel Celentanos Pelham Bay, oil on canvas ($8,000-12,000), and Aaron Bohrods Getting Ready for Auction, oil on Masonite, 1942 ($5,0007,000). Additional artworks of note include Blanche Lazzells Cape Cod Cottage; The Coffee Pot, an original, double-sided carved color woodblock, 1936, ... More | |
Théodore Rousseau, A Pond in the Forest. La Mare aux Evées, Forest of Fontainebleau, 1840s (detail). Photo: Cecilia Heisser.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired a landscape painting of the Forest of Fontainebleau by Théodore Rousseau, believed to date from the 1840s. Rousseau was one of the most headstrong and innovative members of the French school of artists who took their name from the village of Barbizon and are considered the forerunners of the Impressionists. Over many years, Rousseau explored and documented various parts of the Fontainebleau forest. Théodore Rousseau (181267) showed signs of artistic talent at an early age, but his rebellious nature soon brought him into conflict with his academically minded teacher, Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond. As a result, he missed out on winning the prestigious Prix de Rome. Instead, at the age of just 18, Rousseau chose to go his own way with plein-air painting and a bohemian lifestyle. His landscapes soon caused a sensation ... More |
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| William Shakespeare's First Folio now on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery | | He lost fingers in an accident. Now it's inspiring his art. | | Michael Lang, a force behind the Woodstock Festival, dies at 77 |
Special exhibition on view for a limited time from January 15 to March 20, 2022. Photo: UBC Library Communications.
VANCOUVER.- For All Time: The Shakespeare First Folio celebrates the University of British Columbia Librarys recent acquisition of a complete first edition of William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories and Tragediesan extremely rare book published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death and credited with preserving almost half of his plays. UBC acquired the First Folio, formerly owned by a private collector in the U.S., through Christies New York with funding provided by a consortium of donors from across North America and with the generous support of the Department of Canadian Heritage. The opportunity to purchase a First Folio arose in early 2021. Katherine Kalsbeek, head of rare books and special collections (RBSC) at UBC Library, knew that with so few copies left in private hands the library had to act. The First Folio is a cornerstone of English literature and with this donation, we are able to bring this cultural treasure into public ownership," Kalsbeek said. ... More | |
The sculptor John Powers, who lost a ring finger and thumb to a table saw accident, at his home and studio on Oscawana Lake in New York, Dec. 29, 2021. Jasmine Clarke/The New York Times.
by Kriston Capps
BEACON, NY.- It was a hot day on Oscawana Lake. John Powers hosed down the dog, then started on some woodworking chores outside his lakeside cottage home in the Hudson Valley. When Powers is stationed at a table saw, hes usually making artwork. For his practice, he crafts small blocks that he assembles into otherworldly geometric sculptures. The futuristic objects he shows at galleries can comprise hundreds or thousands of pieces, like digital drawings rendered in real life. But on May 19, Powers was cutting decorative caps for the fence: a handyman task to please his wife, maybe impress the neighbor. He was four or so cuts in. Then something went wrong. The block kicked back and struck him in the face. The motion dragged his left hand through the saws thirsty blade. One bad cut at a tool hed relied on for 30 years. In a flash Powers lost his ring finger and thumb. His index and ... More | |
Michael Lang in Woodstock, N.Y., Dec. 17, 2018. Lang, one of the creators of the Woodstock festival, which drew more than 400,000 people to an upstate New York farm in 1969 for a weekend of peace and music plus plenty of drugs, skinny-dipping, mud-soaked revelry and highway traffic jams resulting in one of the great tableaus of 20th-century pop culture, died on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022, in a hospital in Manhattan. He was 77. Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times.
by Ben Sisario
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Lang, one of the creators of the Woodstock festival, which drew more than 400,000 people to an upstate New York farm in 1969 for a weekend of peace and music plus plenty of drugs, skinny-dipping, mud-soaked revelry and highway traffic jams resulting in one of the great tableaus of 20th-century pop culture, died on Saturday in a hospital in Manhattan. He was 77. Michael Pagnotta, a spokesperson for Langs family, said the cause was non-Hodgkins lymphoma. In August 1969, Lang was a baby-faced 24-year-old with limited experience as a concert promoter when he and three partners, Artie Kornfeld, John P. Roberts and ... More |
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| When Axel Webber was rejected from Juilliard, the internet stepped in | | Magazzino Italian Art celebrates breaking ground on its second building: The Robert Olnick Pavilion | | Seattle Gallery now representing Oscar Van Young Estate |
The 22-year-old actor documented his audition process for the world to see and became a star along the way.
by Taylor Lorenz
NEW YORK, NY.- On Monday morning, Axel Webber, a 22-year-old from Cumming, Georgia, a town outside Atlanta, posted a TikTok updating his followers on an audition hed completed the day before on Zoom for the Juilliard Schools undergraduate drama program. For the past month, Webber had used the platform to talk about his dreams of attending the prestigious, highly competitive drama school and the big audition that was required for the admissions process. When the verdict from Juilliard came in, Webber pulled up the message on his computer and read it aloud for his audience of 2.4 million followers on TikTok. It was a rejection. You are no longer under consideration for admission for Fall 2022, he read. Webber looked crestfallen. Now, were going to have to find a different way to be an actor. Thanks for watching ... More | |
Renowned Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo have collaborated for the first time to design the Robert Olnick Pavilion. Image: J.C. Bragado-J. Mingorance.
COLD SPRING, NY .- Magazzino Italian Art, the museum and research center dedicated to advancing scholarship and public appreciation of postwar and contemporary Italian art in the United States, is pleased to announce that they have broken ground on the Robert Olnick Pavilion. The new Pavilion, set to open in 2023, will be the second building on their campus in Cold Spring, New York. The nonprofit museum serves as an advocate for Italian artists as it celebrates the range of their creative practices from Arte Povera to the present. Through its curatorial, scholarly and public initiatives, Magazzino explores the impact and enduring resonances of Italian art on a global level. Meaning warehouse in Italian, Magazzino was co-founded by Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu. The 20,000 square-foot museum, designed by Spanish architect Miguel Quismondo, opened its doors in ... More | |
Oscar Van Young, Woman Seated, 1952. Oil on canvas, 28 x 22 in.
SEATTLE, WA.- Seattle-based Frederick Holmes and Company Gallery announced representation of the art-historic estate of American Modernist, Oscar Van Young (1906-1991). Oscar Van Young (born Joseph von Jung, but familiarly and legally known as Oscar) was born in Vienna, April 14, 1906. At a very young age he was introduced to literature, music, and art, which became the center of the young boys life. All of this was interrupted in 1917 when he was taken by his mother to Odessa, Russia, to visit his father, who had temporarily been living there for business reasons. But the family quickly found themselves in the middle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, surrounded by civil war and starvation. His father died of starvation after six months and though his mother desperately tried to keep them alive, she died two years later. For the next few years, the young Oscar lived on the streets of Odessa, doing what he could to survive w ... More |
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Marcus Jansen's second solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in London
LONDON.- Almine Rech London presents Victims and Victors, its first solo exhibition of American artist Marcus Jansen, on view from January 13 until February 19, 2022. This will be Marcus Jansen's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Each year, at 11am on 11 November, the world falls silent to remember those who lost their lives in the battlefields of World War I. The so-called Great War was meant to be the war to end all wars, but since then, countless other conflicts have unleashed their horror and despair across the globe. Again and again, governments insist that the best way to resolve an argument is to kill. How to disrupt this terrible cycle of violence? Art is one way. Unlike many of the artists whose work protests the cruelties of war, Marcus Jansens searing paintings and sculptures evolved from his direct experience. After spending his formative ... More
San Antonio's latest public art project pays homage to African American culture at Martin Luther King Park
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The City of San Antonios Department of Arts & Culture recently debuted Spheres of Reflection, a new public art project in the citys east side at Martin Luther King Park. The 13-foot-sculpture, which rests on a 4-foot-tall foundation, was created by local San Antonio Artist Kaldric Dow and celebrates African American culture. Spheres of Reflection depicts an ambiguous face topped by a cylindrical tower of dark, reflective spheres symbolic of hair. The spheres feature words that are common themes found in Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s work including dream, sincerity, bold, desire, brave, unity, gratitude, accountability, devotion and change. "To me, this sculpture represents the essence of what African American culture is, said Dow. It was important to me to use my portrait artistic style to create a piece that people can identify with and see themsel ... More
Exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Howard Smith opens at Jane Lombard Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery is presenting Marks in Time, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Howard Smith. Since the 1960s, Smith has dedicated his practice to exploring how brushstrokes and marks accrue to make color, space, shape and light. An abstract painter, he was a member of the Radical Painting group meeting in New York in the 1980s. In Smiths paintings the brushstroke is just as important as the paint applied to the surface. The mark, then, is always working with the plane to elicit light. Here, even with the use of only one color, the applied color is always interacting with the ground to make a new color. The artist primarily paints in his studio by natural light, which will vary depending on the time of day and time of year. Time becomes a visible theme within the work. The relationship between what is going ... More
Phillips appoints Jean-Paul Engelen as President, Americas
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced the appointment of Jean-Paul Engelen to President, Americas. In this newly created role, Mr. Engelen will be responsible for the oversight of Phillips client and business activities across the region, ensuring effective implementation of the companys strategic plans in the Americas. In addition to his role as President, Americas, he will continue as Worldwide Co-Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art. Jean-Paul has been instrumental in Phillips growth and success since joining the firm in 2015, said Stephen Brooks, Phillips Chief Executive Officer. From overseeing Phillips first Evening Sale in Hong Kong in 2016 to hosting the most successful auction in Phillips 225-year history this past November, Jean-Paul has helped to build and lead one of the strongest teams across the industry. We look forward to seeing ... More
Everson hires Director of Learning and Engagement
SYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art announced that after a nationwide search, Adam Carlin has been hired as Director of Learning and Engagement. In this newly-created senior leadership position, Carlin will develop a pedagogical strategy that aligns with the Eversons commitment to DEAI values, with a focus on expanding access to meaningful learning opportunities across the museum experienceonsite, in the community, and virtuallyfor all ages and abilities. Carlin will direct a department that encompasses youth and family programs, adult classes and events, community engagement and outreach, and an established docent-led tour program. Carlin will also provide staff leadership to the Equity & Engagement Committee of the Board of Trustees. He will take up his position at the Everson in mid-February. On entering ... More
James Mtume, whose 'Juicy Fruit' became a hip-hop beat, dies at 76
NEW YORK, NY.- James Mtume, a musician, songwriter, producer, bandleader and talk-radio host whose 1983 hit Juicy Fruit has been sampled in more than 100 songs, died Sunday at his home in South Orange, New Jersey. He was 76. The cause was cancer, his family said. Mtume started his career as a jazz percussionist. He was in Miles Davis band for the first half of the 1970s, appearing on Davis landmark 1972 jazz-funk album On the Corner and its successors. But in the late 70s he pivoted to R&B: He co-wrote hits for Roberta Flack and Stephanie Mills, produced albums and formed a group, Mtume, which had major hits with his songs Juicy Fruit and You, Me and He. His sparse, sputtering electronic beat for Juicy Fruit gained an extensive second life in hip-hop when it was sampled on the debut single by the Notorious B.I.G., Juicy, ... More
'Intelligent Life' review: Cecily Strong's 'awerobics' workout
NEW YORK, NY.- Of the many lines that have stuck with me since I saw the original Broadway production of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe in 1985, perhaps the sharpest was the one that seemed aimed directly at my generation of disappointed go-getters. All my life, Ive wanted to be somebody, a character named Chrissy says, but I see now I should have been more specific. Chrissy attends self-awareness seminars and considers suicide. She is angry at a world that offers false hopes but angrier at herself for failing to have it all. I feel I am somewhat creative, she explains to a friend after aerobics class. But somehow I lack the talent to go with it. That was never the problem with Jane Wagners play; it bristles with barbed insights that have kept me nursing the beautiful bruises for 35 years. And the good news ... More
Seattle maestro resigns by email and says he felt 'not safe'
NEW YORK, NY.- On Christmas morning, at his seaside home near Copenhagen, Danish conductor Thomas Dausgaard made a difficult decision: He would step down as the music director of the Seattle Symphony, effective immediately, more than a year before the end of his contract. He pressed send on a resignation email Jan. 3 blindsiding an orchestra that was expecting his arrival a few weeks later to lead a world premiere and a Tchaikovsky symphony, and forcing the organization to scramble to find replacements for his remaining dates this season. Dausgaard, 58, had seemed a good fit for his position, which he had held just since fall 2019. But he was separated from the acclaimed orchestra for much of 2020 and 2021 because of pandemic-related travel restrictions. And he had grown increasingly frustrated by what he described in an interview ... More
Poitier and Bogdanovich: The defiant ones
NEW YORK, NY.- Last week, the movies lost two giants Sidney Poitier and Peter Bogdanovich who each made history in his own way. Our chief film critics discussed the men, their careers and their legacies. Manohla Dargis: When Poitier and Bogdanovich died last week, you and I talked about how each had helped shape the periods in which they emerged. Ive been thinking about that ever since. We know their careers briefly overlapped: Bogdanovich directed Poitier in the 1996 TV movie To Sir, With Love 2, a sequel to the 1967 film. For the most part, though, they had separate trajectories partly shaped by race, personal choices and what was happening both in the country and the industry. Its fascinating to trace the arcs of these separate paths. Poitiers begins first, with his big big-studio break, the 1950 drama No Way Out. He was working ... More
Dissident poet, jailed by Iran for his writing, dies of COVID
NEW YORK, NY.- He was a renowned poet. A documentary filmmaker. A prisoner. Baktash Abtin was serving a six-year prison sentence in Iran, on national security and propaganda charges, when he died Saturday of COVID-19 complications. Abtin, who was about 47 years old, had contracted COVID once before in prison and was hospitalized, but then he was returned to the feared Evin prison. He was infected again and fell ill last month, was hospitalized again, and was placed in an induced coma in early January as his health deteriorated. Human rights organizations, which have said that Abtin was imprisoned for nothing more than speaking out, announced his death and blamed Irans government. They accused prison authorities of denying him a medical leave despite his vulnerable condition and of delaying his medical care once he got sick. COVID ... More
Jonny Greenwood: First Radiohead, now orchestras and film
NEW YORK, NY.- Jonny Greenwood had long since achieved global fame, as the lead guitarist of Radiohead, when he ventured into scoring films nearly 20 years ago. To some, this seemed at first like a side hustle, something to keep Greenwood occupied between albums and tours. But over the past decade in particular, its become clear that is not the case. With 11 scores to his name, including two for Jane Campions The Power of the Dog and Pablo LarraÃns Spencer that may figure in this years Academy Awards race, what was once a subsidiary career now vies for preeminence with Greenwoods day job. As he has moved further into film, he has also achieved some prominence as an orchestral composer, with his concert music often fueling his soundtracks. In a recent interview with Alex Ross of The New Yorker, Greenwood described ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Belarusian-French painter Chaim Soutine was born January 13, 1893. Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 - 9 August 1943) was a Russian-French painter of Jewish origin. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris. Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism. In this image: Chaim Soutine, Two Pheasants.
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