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A Shakespeare bust in the window of a liquor store in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in April 2024. Stratford-upon-Avon lies two hours northwest of London in the Midlands, more or less the heart of England. (Andy Haslam/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Sometime in the late 18th century, a sign appeared outside a shambly butchers hut in the English town of Stratford-upon-Avon: The Immortal Shakspeare was born in this house, it announced, using a then common spelling of his name. Devotees began making pilgrimages dropping to their knees, weeping, singing odes: Untouched and sacred be thy shrine, Avonian Willy, bard Divine! A tradesman grew rich selling carvings from a local mulberry tree, like pieces of the true cross. Some skeptics suspected that ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Mexican Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia unveiled "AS WE MARCHED AWAY, WE WERE ALWAYS COMING BACK," a compelling video installation by the multidisciplinary artist Erick Meyenberg. Curated by Tania Ragasol, this project has been thoughtfully selected through a public call initiated by the Ministry of Culture and INBAL under the poignant theme "Foreigners Everywhere," as conceived by the Visual Arts Sector's director and the curator of Venice Biennale 2024, Adriano Pedrosa.
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| Britain memorializes a queen, with smiles and bronze corgis | | Hall of Fame Pitcher Walter Johnson's 104-year-old photo-matched jersey brings the heat at Heritage Auctions in May | | Newly unearthed Agnes Pelton painting leads Heritage's American Art Auction |
Photographs of Queen Elizabeth II used for reference in the studio of Hywel Pratley, who sculpted the 7-foot bronze statue of the monarch unveiled on Sunday, April 21, in the Oakham Library Gardens, in London, April 16, 2024.
OAKHAM.- It looked like a corgi convention. On Sunday afternoon in Oakham, a quaint English market town, hundreds of local residents stood behind a temporary barrier and craned their necks to ... More | |
1920 Walter Johnson Game Worn Washington Senators Jersey.
DALLAS, TX.- Countless offerings among the almost 3,200 available in Heritages May 16-18 Spring Sports Catalog Auction could serve as its centerpiece, its highlight that one thing that belongs in a museum, if not a Hall of Fame. Like, say, the road New York Yankees jersey worn by Mickey Mantle during his final season in 1968, then signed ... More | |
Agnes Pelton (American, 1881-1961), Purple Star Icon, conceived 1936, completed circa 1939-1940. Oil on canvas, 23-1/2 x 14-1/2 inches.
DALLAS, TX.- Theres something in the American Southwest that not only calls out to generations of artists, but has enabled some of the greatest American and European painters to ascend to the realm of visionary. In the early and middle part of the last century, some of those artists experienced ... More |
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| Tiffany Studios, Gallé and R. Lalique take Heritage's Art Nouveau, Art Deco & Art Glass Event to $1.33 million | | Lots of Italy, on many collectible plates | | Bob Heil, whose innovations enhanced the sound of rock, dies at 83 |
Argy-Rousseau Pâte de Verre and Wrought Iron La Prairie Lamp, circa 1926.
DALLAS, TX.- Collectors cant get enough of the endlessly innovative art movements that defined the turn of the last century. The fantastic creations from the studios of Tiffany, Gallé, R. Lalique, the Martin Brothers and more led a strong Pursuit of Beauty: Art Nouveau, Art Deco & Art Glass event at Heritage on April 18 and brought in $1,335,740. The auction totaled above its high estimate with a 98% sell-through rate. Our Pursuit of Beauty ... More | |
Buon Ricordo plates, a style of Italian tableware introduced as a marketing tool for an association of regional Italian restaurants. (Luciano Paselli via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- For his 73rd birthday in April, Felice Macchi had lunch at La Bettola Del Gusto, a restaurant in Pompeii, Italy, with a focus on seafood. He ordered the house specialty: spaghettoni, a thicker spaghetti, in a fermented anchovy sauce with black truffles and butter made with milk from water buffalo native to the Mediterranean ... More | |
An undated handout photo shows the audio engineer Bob Heil in 1959, when he worked as a demonstrator of Hammond organs. (Heil Sound via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Bob Heils career as a groundbreaking sound engineer who brought thunder and rich sonic coloring to tours by rock titans like the Grateful Dead and the Who began behind a pipe organ in a 1920s movie palace. Heil, who helped usher rock into its arena-shaking era by designing elaborate sound systems that allowed ... More |
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| Christie's presents the Rosa de la Cruz Collection | | Chistie's to sell the personal wardrobe of pioneering fashion designer Vivienne Westwood | | Ryan Sullivan joins BLUM |
The collections leading highlight is an iconic light string sculpture, Untitled (America #3) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, estimated to realize $8,000,000 12,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced The Rosa de la Cruz Collection as a highlight of the Spring Marquee Week of sales. The collection will be presented beginning with a single-owner Evening Sale on May 14, 2024 featuring a group of more than 20 exceptional works by Rosa de la Cruzs most ... More | |
Spanning four decades, more than 200 lots will be offered across the two sales, each of them representing a significant moment in Vivienne's life and career, with the earliest look dating from Autumn/Winter 1983/84.
LONDON.- Christies announced the sale of the personal wardrobe of the revolutionary British fashion designer and activist Vivienne Westwood to raise funds for charitable causes she championed. Dame Vivienne Westwood is recognised globally as one ... More | |
Ryan Sullivan, Untitled, 2024, Photo: Ron Amstutz.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- BLUM announced the representation of New York-based artist Ryan Sullivan on the occasion of his first solo exhibition with the gallery. This presentation also marks the artists first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Sullivan will be represented by BLUM, in collaboration with Sadie Coles HQ in London and Galerie Gisela Capitain in Cologne. Sullivans work commingles paintings formal concerns and sculptures ... More |
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| The Brooklyn Museum expands curatorial department with two new appointments | | Holabird announces results of Wild West Relics Auction | | Did wolves revive Yellowstone? |
Pauline Vermare. Photo: Courtesy of Pauline Vermare.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Reinforcing its dedication to the highest standards of excellence in collections and exhibitions, the Brooklyn Museum announced two new curatorial appointments. Pauline Vermare has been appointed Phillip and ... More | |
California Gold Rush-era gold and quartz nugget, discovered in the Shasta area, so large (2 ½ inches by 3 ½ inches, weighing 1.75 pounds) it almost looked like a small boulder ($25,000).
RENO, NEV.- A large California Gold Rush-era gold and quartz nugget sold for $25,000; an original 1881 photograph ... More | |
In an undated image provided by Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service, a cow bison and its calves, or red dogs, in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park. (Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service via The New York Times)
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYO.- In 1995, 14 wolves were delivered by truck and sled to the heart ... More |
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'Grenfell' listens to the survivors of a towering infernoNEW YORK, NY.- The notion of creating a safe space for an audience to experience a work of theater tends to provoke the tough-guy purists, because it sounds like coddling. Shouldnt the stage be a place of daring, unhampered by any content revelations that might spoil the surprise? Presumably, anyone who arrives at St. Anns Warehouse in Brooklyn to see Grenfell: in the words of survivors, a tense and enthralling documentary play about a 2017 residential fire in West London that killed 72 people, is aware of the potentially upsetting subject matter. But before the storytelling even starts, the actors in this National Theater production set about making a safe space with a preamble whose clear language and kind tone are not the least bit soppy. We do want to reassure you that we will not be showing any images ... More Marjane Satrapi on resistance in Iran: 'A Real Revolution Is Cultural'NEW YORK, NY.- Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel series, Persepolis, about growing up in and leaving Tehran, Iran, won her international acclaim and millions of book sales, turned away from the form two decades ago and hadnt looked back since. Then, in the fall of 2022, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini was detained by Irans morality police for allegedly violating the countrys hijab law, which requires women and girls to cover their hair. A photo of Amini bruised and bloodied in a hospital bed after her encounter with police went viral. Days later, she died, and her country erupted. The Iranian government has said she died because of underlying health issues, but her family said that she had none, and that she died because she was beaten by police. Women took to the streets and tore off their ... More 'Patriots' review: What happened to the man who made Putin?NEW YORK, NY.- In the West, you have no idea. So begins Peter Morgans play Patriots, which opened Monday at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. The line is spoken by Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, referring to the foods, sights and music that supposedly feed the great Russian soul. These are represented, in Rupert Goolds entertaining if overcaffeinated production, by boozy singing and balalaikas, sometimes even fur hats. But Patriots also sets out to demonstrate how little the West knows about the real world of realpolitik: the grudges, enmities and insulted dignities that in the post-Soviet 1990s, with casino capitalism rampant in Russia, created Vladimir Putin. If you could ask Berezovsky, though, hed tell you it was he who created Putin, a 10th-rate provincial nobody he eased into power, first as prime minister ... More It's all right to groove to Huey in 'The Heart of Rock and Roll'NEW YORK, NY.- Its 2024, and Huey Lewis is having a moment. Just let that sink in. Lewis was an unexpected highlight of the recent Netflix documentary The Greatest Night in Pop, about the star-studded 1985 session where We Are the World was recorded. An everyman rocker, Lewis was amazed (and still is) that he was rubbing elbows with Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Tina Turner and Bruce Springsteen. He even got to sing the part originally intended for Prince. Now comes the new Broadway show The Heart of Rock and Roll, which is not so much a Huey Lewis (and the News) musical as the Huey Lewis of musicals: not taking itself too seriously, doing what it does well, and just happy to be on Broadway, keeping company with starrier productions. Like most jukeboxes, The Heart of Rock and Roll shoehorns big hits, ... More Phyllis Pressman, luxury superstore matriarch, is dead at 95NEW YORK, NY.- Phyllis Pressman, the matriarch of the family that founded Barneys New York, the discount menswear store turned luxury emporium and the creator of Chelsea Passage, the stores home goods bazaar, a pivot point in its evolution from a suit merchant to an elite lifestyle behemoth died April 16 in Palm Beach, Florida. She was 95. Her death, in a hospice facility, was announced by her son Gene Pressman. Barneys was always a family affair. It was named for Barney Pressman, who in 1923 pawned his wifes ring, at her encouragement, for $500 to buy the lease of a small store on Seventh Avenue and 17th Street in Manhattan. There, he built an empire selling brand-name suits at cut-rate prices. His son, Fred, who took over in the 1950s, transformed the place into an haute mens retailer that included ... More PEN America cancels literary awards ceremony amid Gaza falloutNEW YORK, NY.- Free expression group PEN America has canceled its 2024 literary awards ceremony following months of escalating protests over the organizations response to the war in the Gaza Strip, which has been criticized as overly sympathetic to Israel and led nearly half of the prize nominees to withdraw. The event was set to take place April 29 at Town Hall in Manhattan. But in a news release Monday, the group announced that although the prizes would still be conferred, the ceremony would not take place. We greatly respect that writers have followed their consciences, whether they chose to remain as nominees in their respective categories or not, the groups chief officer for literary programming, Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf, said in the release. We regret that this unprecedented situation has taken away the spotlight ... More For her Met Opera debut, Lileana Blain-Cruz directs 'El Niño'NEW YORK, NY.- When Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Operas general manager, asked director Lileana Blain-Cruz what she wanted to stage, she didnt need any time to think about her answer: El Niño. A couple of years ago, she had already been hired to direct Missy Mazzolis Lincoln in the Bardo, an adaptation of the George Saunders novel that will premiere in the 2026-27 season, but Gelb was curious about what else she might be interested in. Long a fan of John Adams and his collaborations with director-librettist Peter Sellars, Blain-Cruz particularly loved their 2000 oratorio El Niño, a blending of the Nativity story with ancient and modern texts, like poetry by Rosario Castellanos and Gabriela Mistral. It makes you weep, and you dont expect it, Blain-Cruz said of the piece. It shook me and stayed in my imagination for ... More Lourdes Portillo, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, dies at 80NEW YORK, NY.- Lourdes Portillo, an Oscar-nominated Mexican-born documentary filmmaker whose work explored Latin American social issues, died Saturday at her home in San Francisco. She was 80. One of Portillos best-known works is her 1994 documentary The Devil Never Sleeps, a murder-mystery in which she investigates the strange death of her multimillionaire uncle, whose widow claimed he had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. In 2020, the Library of Congress selected the film for the National Film Registry. Using vintage snapshots, old home movies and interviews, the film builds a biographical portrait of Oscar Ruiz Almeida, a Mexican rancher who amassed a fortune exporting vegetables to the United States and went on to become a powerful politician and businessman, Stephen Holden, a New ... More Fine Art and Furniture & Decorations Departments lead April Gallery AuctionALAMEDA, CA.- Michaans Auctions April Gallery Auction, held on Friday, April 19th realized a strong sell-through rate as Michaans Auctions orchestrated another successful sale for its consigners. The sale was headlined by the Jewelry Department, as its modernist jewelry suite and selections of diamond, gold, and platinum pieces inspired intense action from bidders, while several items from the Furniture and Decorations Department also achieved significant prices. The Jewelry Department was led by a Modernist Henri Leighton 14k Yellow Gold Jewelry Suite a beautiful collection of pieces that reached $9,750 after sustained interest by absentee bidders throughout the week. The department continued its strong showing with the Diamond, 18k White Gold Tennis Bracelet, which reached $5,525, and a Diamond, Platinum Ring, which ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-American painter Willem de Kooning was born April 24, 1904. Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 - March 19, 1997) was a Dutch abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. He moved to the United States in 1926, and became an American citizen in 1962. On December 9, 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried. In this image: Installation view.of exhibition of Willem de Kooningâs late paintings at Skarstedt. © The Willem de Kooning Foundation Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London 2017.
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