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In an undated image provided by Michal Podsiadlo, a 4,000-year-old skeleton found in Bulgaria of a member of the Yamnaya, the Bronze Age pastoralists who lived on the steppes from Ukraine to Kazakhstan and from whom most people in northern Europe can trace their ancestry. DNA fragments from thousands of years ago are providing insights into multiple sclerosis, diabetes, schizophrenia and other illnesses. (Michal Podsiadlo via The New York Times)
by Carl Zimmer
NEW YORK, NY.- Multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects 2.9 million people, presents a biological puzzle. Many researchers suspect that the disease is triggered by a virus, known as Epstein-Barr, which causes the immune system to attack the nerves and can leave patients struggling to walk or talk. But the virus cant be the whole story, since nearly everyone is infected with it at some point in life. A new study found a possible solution to this paradox in the skeletal remains of a lost tribe of nomads who herded cattle across the steppes of western Asia 5,000 years ago. It turns out that the nomads carried genetic mutations that most likely protected them from pathogens carried by their animals but that also made their immune systems more sensitive. These genes, the study suggests, made the nomads descendants prone to a runaway immune response. The finding is part of a larger, unprecedented effort to understand how the evolutionary past has shaped the health of living people ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day rodolphe janssen is presenting Roger-Edgar Gilletâs second solo show at the gallery.
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| Months after cyberattack, British Library crawls back online | | Gagosian presents exhibition of new paintings by Jennifer Guidi in New York | | Museum director Laura Raicovich gets a second act: Barkeep |
The British Library in London, April 12, 2023. Britains national library made the first major steps in its recovery process after a ransomware group took down its website and online catalog. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times)
by Jenny Gross
LONDON.- The British Library on Monday began restoring its online catalog, which holds details of books, journals and music scores, the first step in its recovery from a brazen cyberattack in October, the library said. For the first time since the attack, the majority of physical books, archives, maps and manuscripts held in the basements at our St. Pancras site will once again be discoverable and usable by our readers, said Roly Keating, the British Librarys CEO, referring to the librarys building in central London. Accessing the items would be slower and more manual for users than before the cyberattack, he added in a statement published last week. A full recovery could take several more months. Other organizations that have experienced similar attacks have taken more than a year to reestablish operations, ... More | |
Jennifer Guidi, Hour after Hour Like an Opening Flower, 202223. Sand, acrylic, oil, and rocks on linen, 41 à 35 inches (104.1 à 88.9 cm) © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Brica Wilcox.
NEW YORK, NY .- Gagosian is presenting Rituals, an exhibition of new paintings by Jennifer Guidi, on view at 541 West 24th Street from January 17, 2024. Rituals features a series of paintings that explore the sublime beauty of mountainscapes and the color spectrum. These carefully crafted compositions are not mere representations; they imagine elevated terrains inspired by the artists deep connection to nature and her personal and artistic rituals. Developed through repetitive actions and processes, each painting emerges as if from a meditative journey, manifested through Guidis investigations of color, form, texture, and material. To make these radiant works, Guidi uses an intricate technique, shaping them with a mix of oil and acrylic paint and sandand rocks in some instancesto construct imagined landscapes from a careful orchestration of marks. To the linen canvas support she applies a base layer of sand permeated with pa ... More | |
Laura Raicovich, a former museum executive who is entering her second act as a bar impresario, at the Francis Kite Club in New York, Jan. 12, 2024. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- There is something bigger than beer brewing at the Francis Kite Club, a new haunt in the East Village whose artists hold performances, shape its programming and debate politics from their bar stools. Above the patrons, including art stars such as Marina Abramovic, is a mural by painter Nina Nichols that imagines New York City repopulated with native plants and animals. A central panel features Annie Sprinkle, an artist and sexologist, and Naked Bear, a figure of Iroquois mythology, setting fire to the Merchants House, a local historic landmark. Cocktails are named after the picture, with the buildings destruction memorialized by vodka, Earl Grey tea, lemon and honey. I wanted to build somewhere warm and convivial, with cheap drinks and good people. Somewhere that definitely does not feel exclusive, said Laura Raicovich, a former museum executive who is ... More |
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| Inaugural solo exhibition by Léon Wuidar now on view at White Cube | | Do you have 'Bookshelf Wealth'? | | Reinterpretations of Picasso, Duchamp and Simpson's works by Tom Sachs at Thaddaeus Ropac |
Léon Wuidar, Orient, 30 november, 1972.
HONG KONG.- Marking the artists inaugural show in Asia, White Cube is now presenting a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Léon Wuidar. Chronicling the artists remarkable six-decade career, the selection of paintings spans from the early 1960s to the present day, uniting Wuidars exuberant simplicities of form with his distinctive, exacting technical precision. Further illustrating the artists enduring experimentations with colour, line and composition, accompanying the paintings is a series of previously unseen works on paper, created by the artist in the 1990s. Léon Wuidars abstracted representations of the world around him are masterfully conceived; harmonised in their balance of shapes and colours, distinguished by a formal precision and animated by a subtle humour. Dedicating over six decades to this artistic practice and maintaining a steadfast commitment as a student ... More | |
A TikTok home-décor trend has irked some bibliophiles.
by by Madison Malone Kircher
NEW YORK, NY.- When it comes to aesthetic trends, social media loves a catchy name. Cottagecore. Dark academia. Eclectic grandpa. Now theres a new entry to the canon: bookshelf wealth. On TikTok and other digital platforms, there has lately been much ado about people who own a great number of books and this is critical have managed to stage them in a pleasing manner. If youve ever seen a Nancy Meyers movie, the look might ring a bell. Warm and welcoming. Polished, but not stuffy. A bronze lamp here. A vintage vase there (with fresh-cut flowers, of course). Perhaps there is a cozy seating area near the floor-to-ceiling display, with an overstuffed couch topped with tasteful throw pillows. Kailee Blalock, an interior designer in San Diego, posted a video ... More | |
Tom Sachs, Seated Woman, 2023.
PARIS.- For this exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais, Tom Sachs has immersed himself in paintings Pablo Picasso produced during his so-called War Years, between 1937 and 1945. Reimagining Picassos work using his own distinctive painterly language, Sachs also challenges Picasso by contrasting him with two opponents: longstanding rival Marcel Duchamp and a more contemporary adversary, Lisa Simpson. This exhibition brings Sachss reinterpretations of Picasso, Duchamp and Simpsons works into conversation to create a wry reflection on the purpose of painting. Painting is a medium Sachs has returned to several times over the years, and the works on view were conceptualised in a period of focus on drawing and colour for the artist. In his New York studio, he surrounded himself with the work of some of the masters of Modern art: Picasso and Duchamp, two giants of the 20th century. The Modernist painter ... More |
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| Indigenous tourism goes deeper than 'Dinner and a Show' | | National Gallery of Art receives major gift of Joseph Cornell Boxes | | 'Space Race' curated by Dexter Wimberly now opening in London at Lehmann Maupin |
In an undated image provided by Phlip Vids and Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel, snorkelers on a Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel excursion to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. (Phlip Vids and Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel via The New York Times)
by Michael Harmon
NEW YORK, NY.- For visitors to New Zealand, the chance to see a haka, the ceremonial Maori dance, has long been as much a part of the countrys allure as its glaciers, geysers and glowworm caves. But increasingly, instead of merely catching a cultural performance en route to New Zealands Fiordland, travelers are lingering longer and going deeper, seeking out more immersive ways to engage with the countrys Indigenous heritage. Were seeing a shift from the checkbox mentality to a hunger for deep, transformative experiences, said Sarah Handley, general manager for North America and Europe at Tourism New Zealand, the countrys tourism marketing agency. Its not just about witnessing ... More | |
Joseph Cornell, A Parrot for Juan Gris, winter 19531954. Box construction, overall: 45.09 x 30.96 x 11.75 cm (17 3/4 x 12 3/16 x 4 5/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington.Collection of Robert and Aimee Lehrman, Washington, D.C., in honor of Aimee Lehrman 2023.124.1
by Deborah Solomon
NEW YORK, NY.- Joseph Cornell, who died in 1972 at the age of 69, belongs to the tradition of the homebody-artist. A gray whisper of a man, he eschewed the excitements of travel in favor of a tea-filled life in his house on Utopia Parkway in the New York City borough of Queens. His medium was the Box that is, the Victorian-era shadow box, and he spent his days in his basement workshop, assembling cork balls, paper cutouts of birds and other dime-store material into improbably poetic arrangements that owed something to French surrealism. Among the cities he never visited was Washington, D.C. So, one wonders what he would make of the news that the National Gallery of Art has just acquired ... More | |
Leonardo Benzant, Electromagnetic, 2023. Photo courtesy of Lehmann Maupin.
LONDON.- Lehmann Maupin presents SpaceRace, an exhibition curated by Dexter Wimberly, that gathers five artists whose work is informed by a masterful understanding of pattern, materiality, and symbology: Leonardo Benzant, McArthur Binion, Alteronce Gumby, Nicholas Hlobo, and Brittney Leeanne Williams. The works on view, which include painting, sculpture, and mixed media, use light, color, and unexpected source materials to prompt us to contemplate our place in the universe, explore ideas of spirituality, and engage with varied perceptions of reality. In this context, the term SpaceRace has a dual meaning. It is a reference to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals (the United States and the Soviet Union), who sought dominance in space beyond our planet. It is also a satirical reference to the commodification of Black art in the 21st century. Leonardo Benzant creates structures that reflect multiple patterns and chance- ... More |
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| In Tokyo, rescuing the residential spaceship that fell to Earth | | A distinctive cast of figures and animalian forms featured in 'Amplifiers' by Tamara Gonzales | | Six new sculptures composed of joined parabolic mirrors and a rotating base are center of 'Entanglement' at Bortolami |
Fifty years ago, the Nakagin Capsule Tower was hailed as a marvel of biological design. Now its legacy lives on through 23 orphaned capsules. (Noritaka Minami, via SFMOMA via The New York Times)
by Tim Hornyak
TOKYO.- In 1972, residents of Tokyo looked up to see something extraordinary looming over downtown. It looked like something out of a science-fiction film a futuristic tower composed of 140 detachable capsules, each suitable for a single resident and with a porthole looking out, like a pile of eyes fixed on the city. With its modular design and minimal aesthetics, the 13-story Nakagin Capsule Tower was a marvel of 20th-century design intended to express a postwar Japanese theory of architecture as a living organism. Metabolism, as explained by architect Kisho Kurokawa, who designed the tower, envisioned cities and buildings with modular parts that could be attached and detached as needed, just as some organisms grow new appendages. If you replace the capsules every ... More | |
Tamara Gonzales, 2023. Acrylic and pastel on canvas, 60 Ã 48 inches (152.40 Ã 121.92 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Klaus von Nichtssagend has commenced an exhibition of paintings by Tamara Gonzales, opened on January 12 and on view through to February 17, 2024. Titled Amplifiers, the show will feature new works focusing on ornate frame motifs that encompass the outer bounds of each canvas as well as paintings featuring Gonzaless distinctive cast of figures and animalian forms. In medicinal discourse, an amplifier is something that enhances the effect of a substance to push ones experience to a desired effect. The image of the frame is foregrounded in these new works, alluding to a time when an elaborate frame served as the finishing touch on a work of art, meant to enhance its beauty in the eye of the beholder. Gonzaless frame images are patterned with frolicsome lines and marks, which are developed through her direct drawing process The interior of the canvases lack a rendered subject and are instead ... More | |
Madeline Hollander, Entanglement Choreography (detail), 2023, glass optical mirrors, cast aluminum, electric turntable, wood pedestal
Bortolami is showing the gallerys fourth presentation and third solo exhibition by artist and choreographer Madeline Hollander. Entanglement continues Hollanders expansion of movement notation, transcribing dance and complex patterns as a series of moving objects. At the center of Entanglement are six new sculptures composed of joined parabolic mirrors and a rotating base, generating the optical illusion of a floating object just above their surface, like a dervish mirage. Here, the mirrors house a sequence of unique action figures. Each represents a singular choreographic movement that collectively creates a 24-sequenced holographic choreography over the course of the exhibition. They are spectral ballerinas pirouetting in a jewelry box, springing into motion with the viewers glance. They are also miniature metonyms for a broader inquiry into choreographic notation ... More |
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Peruvian ancient art repatriated: Pressure increases to return looted antiquities
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Caroline Monnet's new body of work exploring language and land, opens at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto
ONTARIO .- The Art Museum at the University of Toronto is pleased to present Pizandawatc / The One Who Listens / Celui qui écoute, featuring works by Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist Caroline Monnet. Her first exhibition in a Toronto public gallery, Pizandawatc comprises a survey of Monnets prolific production, centering around a new series of sculptures that reveal the connection between language and land, offering poetic strategies of reclamation and intergenerational transmission. The title, Pizandawatc, comes from the traditional name of Monnets family before surnames were changed in Kitigan Zibi by the Oblates. Meaning "the one who listens," the title honours the artists great-grandmother, ... More
Winter Jazzfest has company: Unity Jazz Festival
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2005 when the first NYC Winter Jazzfest was held at the Knitting Factory in lower Manhattan, and Jazz at Lincoln Centers multimillion-dollar facilities had recently opened on the Upper West Side it was clear which represented the establishment, and which was proposing an alternative. Today, its not such an easy distinction. Steered by its artistic director, Pulitzer Prize-winning trumpeter and retro jazz philosopher Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center was cultivating an older and affluent audience, adjacent to the opera-going crowd. Marsalis bookings proudly held the line for what he considered jazzs defining virtues. Two decades later, those things are still true. Winter Jazzfest was geared toward disruption. The mid-2000s were lean years for the music: Online file sharing hit jazz musicians especially hard, and ... More
'Harmony,' Barry Manilow's passion project, to close on Broadway
NEW YORK, NY.- Harmony, Barry Manilows long-in-the-works musical about an early-20th-century German sextet that ran afoul of the Nazi regime, will end an abbreviated Broadway run Feb. 4. Manilow and his longtime collaborator Bruce Sussman have been working on the show for more than a quarter-century, inspired by a documentary film about the Comedian Harmonists, an ensemble that included some Jewish members, which was unacceptable to the Nazis. The musical, directed by Warren Carlyle, opened Nov. 13; at the time of its closing it is expected to have played 24 previews and 96 regular performances. It was capitalized for up to $15 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission; that money has not been recouped. Manilow wrote the music for the show; Sussman wrote the book and the lyrics. ... More
Bringing a diversity of hip-hop dance to the concert stage
NEW YORK, NY.- Fifty years into the history of hip-hop, street to stage transfers remain tricky. Hip-hop dance is diverse and globally dominant, but when its put on concert stages, something often gets lost. Over the past two weekends, the citys newest theater, the marble cube of the Perelman Performing Arts Center, hosted Motion/Matter, a festival of street dance. Sampling both local artists and international ones, from Africa, Europe and Asia, it focused on theatrical productions in several styles but also hedged its bets and honored roots by finishing with an all-styles dance battle. If the range was more impressive than the individual entries, the festival was still valuable, bringing news of whats happening around the world along with reminders of bars already set by earlier generations. The first selection, Afrikan Party, was intriguing ... More
Bradley Cooper, Paul Giamatti and Lily Gladstone pick up awards in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- On a not-at-all red carpet inside Cipriani 42nd Street in midtown Manhattan on Thursday night, DaVine Joy Randolph was glowing. The fact that these people actually even seen my work is just mind-blowing, said the actress, a star of The Holdovers, who was being honored with the National Board of Reviews best supporting actress prize at its annual film awards gala, just days after she had won her first Golden Globe for her role in the film. A few feet away on the gray carpet was Celine Song, who came to accept the prize for best directorial debut for Past Lives. She was sporting a tuxedo jacket, a long skirt and a bow tie. Because the movie is so personal, any time somebody connects to the film, I always feel less lonely; I feel very seen and understood and embraced, said Song, who based the romantic ... More
Roland Debucquoy, a 95-year-old artist in the spotlight
ANTWERP.- ArtDependence Magazine has shared that a selection of paintings by 95-year-old artist Roland Debucquoy will be on view at the ArtDependence Concept Store until February 15th. Roland Debucquoy, was born in 1928 in a small town in West Flanders, Belgium, where he worked as a physician, but his heart and soul were always intertwined with the world of art. Roland Debucquoy has worked passionately with brushes and chisels, creating a diverse body of work that reflects his deep connection to the artistic realm. His sculptural masterpiece, "De Vlasser," is recognized as cultural heritage and is located in Wielsbeke. Using his memory as inspiration, Debucquoy breathes new life into landscapes and still lifes in his paintings. His artistry is marked by a profound play with light, infusing his canvases with a vividness that allows viewers to experience ... More
Rubell Museums publish comprehensive catalogue of collection highlights and artist writings
MIAMI, FL.- The Rubell Museums have released a of Collection Highlights and Artist Writings, a new publication detailing the Rubell Familys decades-long history of identifying, engaging with, and supporting leading artists of the day and building a world-renowned contemporary art collection. Serving as a testament to the Rubells mission of sharing their extraordinary collection with the public and championing the artists represented therein, this catalogue showcases the Rubell Collections unprecedented range, depth, and diversity. Published by Rubell Museum / Contemporary Arts Foundation, the 288-page hardcover catalogue features a rich selection of artwork illustrations and writings by over eighty artists included in the Rubells collection of more than 7,700 artworks, among them many of the most illustrious contemporary artists ... More
The Photographers' Gallery reveals details of 2024 edition of Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
FRANKFURT.- The 2024 exhibition will feature work by the international shortlisted artists: VALIE EXPORT, Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad, Lebohang Kganye and Hrair Sarkissian, at The Photographers Gallery in London, from 23 February until 2 June 2024. Now in its 28th year, the Prize has become renowned as one of the most important international awards for photographers, spotlighting outstanding, innovative and thought-provoking work. This years edition marks the 20th anniversary of Deutsche Börses partnership with The Photographers Gallery. The 2024 shortlisted artists and their projects all critically engage with urgent concerns, from the remnants of war and conflict, experiences of diasporic communities and decolonisation, to contested land, heritage, equality and gender. Together these artists demonstrate photographys ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American stained glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany died January 17, 1933. Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 - January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau[1] and Aesthetic movements. He was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. In this image: Louis C. Tiffany, Fenêtre du "Bella Apartment", c.1880. Verre, plomb. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Don de Robert Koch, 2002 ©Photo : The Metropolitan Museum.
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