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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, March 31, 2020. The risk may be no higher, but consultants who help protect museum collections say additional safeguards are in order, given the closures caused by the virus. Juan Arredondo/The New York Times.
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The location of where they work is a secret they keep, even from old friends. The artisans who operate out of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museums storage facility on the West Side of Manhattan have long understood that it is part of their job to keep quiet about their place of employment, an off-site warehouse filled with much of the worlds finest art. So now, even as they shelter at home and worry about possible furloughs or layoffs by a museum struggling without admission revenue, the workers who help maintain the collection and prepare it for display say they understand the commitment they have made. They feel a moral responsibility to protect this work, said Andres Puerta of Local 30 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, which represents those workers. They know the heavy weight of that responsibility. Their concerns are mirrored across the quiet streets of a shuttered world, as museums work to figure out how to contend with the possib ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day On Thursday, Apr 09, 2020 at 9:00 AM Artemis Gallery will hold an auction of Antiquities | Asian | Ethnographic | Fine Art. The sale features select items from a lifetime collection of Oceania, plus classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. In this image: Complete Roman Lead Sarcophagus Panel Leaping Dolphins. Estimate $15,000 - $20,000.
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| | Lessons from the plagues, painted for Passover | | Beatles Shea Stadium poster sets world record to lead Heritage Auctions' Entertainment Auction beyond $1.6 million | | John Prine, revered American folk songwriter, dies of coronavirus complications |
The artist Zoya Cherkassky near her house in Ramat Gan, Israel, April 3, 2020. Cherkassky evokes Jewish life in the shtetl in her new virtual exhibition. Uriel Sinai/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In quarantine at her home in Tel Aviv last month, the artist Zoya Cherkassky came across a YouTube video of a wedding ceremony held in a Jewish cemetery just outside the city during the early days of the coronavirus outbreak. She learned that such plague weddings had evolved in the 19th century across Eastern Europe as a ritual to ward off cholera epidemics. The artist drew Black Chuppah in response, a quick work on paper in ink of a sweetly somber bride and groom in black, holding hands under the Jewish wedding canopy erected amid tombstones. Every day since, Cherkassky has completed another melancholic vignette evoking pre-World War II Jewish life. But the past feels simultaneously contemporary in these intimate ... More | |
The Beatles 1966 Genuine Shea Stadium NY Concert Poster, Long-Lost Original Just Found. Sold for $137,500. Imaged by Heritage Auctions.
DALLAS, TX.- A rare 1966 concert poster from The Beatles performance at New Yorks Shea Stadium set a world record for the most expensive concert poster ever sold at public auction when it brought $137,500 to lead Heritage Auctions Entertainment Auction to $1,681,747 in total sales Saturday, April 4, 2020. The sale more than doubled its pre-auction estimate of $816,767 and boasted a sell-through rate of 96.5% by value sold. The authentic cardboard advertising poster for the Fab Four's appearance had been owned for the last 54 years by a Boston family who saved it out of pure Beatles fandom. Heritage Auctions previously sold another Beatles Shea Stadium poster for $125,000 in November 2019. This sale reinforced that music and entertainment memorabilia is something of a time capsule, mementos that preserve the work of great artists for their biggest fans, said Pete Howard, concert posters expert ... More | |
In this file photo taken on February 10, 2019 US singer-songwriter John Prine arrives for the 61st Annual Grammy Awards pre-telecast show in Los Angeles. VALERIE MACON / AFP.
by Maggy Donaldson
NEW YORK (AFP).- John Prine, an American folk legend widely considered one of his generation's most influential songwriters, died following complications of coronavirus Tuesday, his publicist said on behalf of his family. He was 73 years old. On April 3 Prine's wife Fiona had posted on social media the beloved country and folk star was on his eighth day in the ICU on a ventilator, and had pneumonia in both lungs. Once dubbed the "Mark Twain of American songwriting," over his five decades in the music business Prine carved an image as an off-the-cuff wordsmith who forged melancholy tales with a dose of surrealist wit. Bob Dylan has named Prine among his favorite songwriters, citing the literary yarn "Lake Marie" as a favorite from his fellow folk bard's vast catalogue. "Prine's stuff is pure ... More |
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| | David Nolan Gallery presents "The State of Play," an exhibition of new works by Jorinde Voigt | | Sergio Rossi, Italian shoemaker and ready-to-wear ally, dies at 84 | | Christie's announces Jewels Online Sale, features a broad selection of iconic designs by renowned jewelers |
Jorinde Voigt, b. 1977, Potential V, 2020. India ink, gold leaf, pastel, oil pastel, and graphite on paper in artist-designed frame, 82 1/4 x 55 1/8 in, 209 x 140 cm, framed: 87 x 59 1/2 x 3 3/4 in, 221 x 151.1 x 9.5 cm. Image credit: © Jorinde Voigt. Courtesy of the artist and David Nolan Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery presents The State of Play, an exhibition of new works by Jorinde Voigt. For the artists fifth solo exhibition with the gallery, Voigt continues to expand upon her singular practice of methodical and conceptually rigorous visual scores that transcend everyday perceptual experiences and attempt to translate into color and form that which is most ephemeral and impenetrable. Working serially and within a predetermined structure and set of formal restraints, Voigts process begins by hand dying each sheet of paper a hue that corresponds to specific stimuli or emotion. In the case of her newest series, Potential (2020), Voigt selected a midnight blue, albeit with its various reallife associations (i.e. time of day, nautical and cosmological phenomena, et al.) put into question. Voigts meticulous notations and gestural markings then ... More | |
Sergio Rossi in the late 1990s. Photo: Sergio Rossi via The New York Times.
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As a teenager, Sergio Rossi and his brother, the sons of a bespoke shoemaker, would travel up and down the Italian Riviera selling shoes in the years after World War II, as the country was rebuilding. Rossi fully joined the family business in the 1950s and by 1968 had introduced a namesake line, becoming one of the first major figures in the Italian footwear industry Rossi died Thursday in Cesena, Italy at 84. The cause was coronavirus, a spokeswoman for the company that carries his name said. Known for his perfectly balanced, albeit often spindly, heels, and styles such as the Opanca sandal, with a sole that curved up the sides to blend in with the foot, and his signature Godiva stiletto, Rossi was part of the generation of Italian artisans who emerged after World War II determined to take the countrys expertise in leatherwork and accessories from local family businesses to the world. He was also among the first footwear specialists to ... More | |
Verdura, Aquamarine and Iolite Ring, $3,000 - $5,000; Tiffany & Co., Diamond, Sapphire and Turquoise Bracelet, $5,000-7,000; Boucheron, Turquoise and Diamond Giraffe Brooch, $3,000-5,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies Jewels Online Sale (April 13-24), features a broad selection of iconic designs by renowned jewelers including Boucheron, Bulgari, Cartier, David Webb, Graff, Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels and Verdura. With over 160 jewels offered and bidding on lots starting below $2,000, this online auction includes an exceptional range of jewels that is sure to excite collectors and enthusiasts alike. Featured within the sale is a beautiful selection of Spring inspired jewels spanning floral and animal motifs, colored gemstones, pearls, and gold statement pieces evoking the warmth of the season. Highlights include a Diamond, Sapphire and Turquoise Bracelet, by Tiffany & Co. ($5,000-7,000); Aquamarine and Iolite Ring, by Verdura ($3,000 - $5,000); Coral and Chrysoprase Pendant Brooch, by Van Cleef & Arpels ($4,000-6,000); and a charming pair of Diamond and Enamel Flower Brooches, ... More |
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| | Leïla Menchari, who turned store windows into art, dies at 93 | | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's International Center for the Arts of the Americas launches expanded, enhanced website | | Dr. Claudia Perren appointed as the new director of FNHW Academy of Art and Design in Basel |
A display at an exhibition devoted to Leïla Menchari, at the Grand Palais in Paris. Guillaume de Laubier via The New York Times.
by Vanessa Friedman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For more than a half-century, Leïla Menchari transformed the windows of the Hermès flagship store in Paris into exotic worlds that allowed any passerby, even for just a minute, free access to the fantasies of a luxury brand. She built enormous winged feet and spinning meteorites and embedded a sparkling Pegasus within a jeweled geode. She brought in artists to lend their visions to the displays. In the process she elevated the store window into an art form unto itself. Her windows at 42 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, the stores address, became so famous that the Grand Palais in Paris in 2017 held an exhibit devoted to her work, Hermès Takes Flight: The Worlds of Leïla Menchari. Hermès wouldnt be Hermès without Leïla, Axel Dumas, the chief executive of the luxury house, said at the opening of the exhibit. The filmmaker Josée ... More | |
Irradiación inaugural in Irradiador (Mexico D.F.) no. 1 (1923). D.R. © 2011 Banco de México, Fiduciario en el Fideicomiso relativo a los Museos Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo. Av. Cinco de Mayo no. 2, Col. Centro, Del. Cuauhtémoc 06059, México, D.F.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and its research institute, the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), today launched a redesigned and enhanced website and database for the landmark Documents of Latin American and Latino Art Digital Archive Project. First launched in 2012, the ICAA Documents Project, available at icaa.mfah.org, offers access, free of charge, to source materials crucial to the study and understanding of these major fields of 20th-and 21st century art. The site makes available a wealth of writings by artists, critics, and curators from Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the U.S. Latino communities--Chicano/a, Puerto Rican/Nuyorican, Cuban-American, and Dominican among others. ICAA has now brought the Documents Project into a new era through institutional partnerships ... More | |
Dr. Claudia Perren served as director and board member of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. © Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau. Photo: Franziska Sinn.
BASEL.- On March 30, 2020, the University Board of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland appointed Dr. Claudia Perren as the new director of FNHW Academy of Art and Design in Basel. Dr. Claudia Perren completed her studies in Architecture at the Kunsthochschule Berlin WeiÃensee in 1997, continued with a MAS in History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich from 1997-1998, and then completed her PhD in Theory of Art and Architecture at the University of Kassel in 2005. After receiving her degree, Dr Claudia Perren taught Design, Architecture, and Urban Planning at the University of Sydney and at the Sydney University of Technology for eight years. As from 2014, Dr. Claudia Perren served as director and board member of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Over the last fifteen years, Claudia Perren has organized and realized a wide range of festivals, conferences, as well as teaching and education ... More |
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| | Excuse my French: Franglais rappers raise hackles in Quebec | | James Drury, taciturn star of 'The Virginian,' dies at 85 | | New Head of Collections invites you to help document COVID-19 in the Evergreen State |
Members of the Franglais rap group Dead Obies, in their studio in Montreal, March 17, 2020. Nasuna Stuart-Ulin/The New York Times.
by Dan Bilefsky
MONTREAL (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As pungent pot smoke filled the air in a bunkerlike, dimly lit basement recording studio in Montreal, the Quebec rapper Snail Kid pondered a question befitting these pandemic times: What word rhymes with Purell? Mulling how to fit the hand sanitizer into his latest rap lyric, he considered the English words well, smell and toaster strudel before toying with the French words pluriel and ruelle. Then, Snail Kid, 30, a member of the popular Quebec hip-hop group Dead Obies began to rap: Le monde ici est cruel On nest plus well (The world here is cruel. We are no longer well.) Now everyone is going to be competing to find the best rhyme for quarantine or corona, mused Snail Kid, whose real name is Gregory Beaudin. Beaudin grew up speaking the native English of his Jamaican-born father, a reggae singer, as well as the French of his Montreal-born mother, a French teacher. ... More | |
James Drury as The Virginian from the television program The Virginian, also known as The Men from Shiloh. Photo: NBC Television.
by Daniel E. Slotnik
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- James Drury, an actor best remembered as the stolid, black-hatted title character of the long-running NBC western The Virginian, died on Monday at his home in Houston. He was 85. Karen Lindsey, his assistant, confirmed the death in an email but did not specify a cause. Drury, who had iceberg-blue eyes and a no-nonsense mien befitting a frontier hero, appeared on television westerns like Broken Arrow, Cheyenne and Wagon Train before he landed the role on The Virginian. The show, which was loosely based on Owen Wisters novel The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (1902), began airing in 1962. Drurys character, the tough but fair foreman of the Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming, was never named, and little of his history was revealed. He tussled with cattle rustlers and other outlaws threatening the ranch until The Virginian was canceled in 1971, after 249 ... More | |
Margaret (Maggie) Wetherbee installing artifacts at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles during her tenure as the museums collections manager.
TACOMA, WA.- Margaret Wetherbee hit the ground running at the Washington State Historical Society, joining the organization days after its buildings closed due to safety protocols around the coronavirus pandemic. My first day included developing a remote working plan for the Research Center team, said Wetherbee. Now, Im reaching out to citizens across the state to ask for their participation in documenting this historic event for the Historical Societys collections. We want to capture what youre going through right now as it unfolds, because this is an extraoridinary time in our history. We will continue to collect as we experience the impacts over the coming years. Washingtons coronavirus history will be notable as one of the first pandemic hot spots in the United States. The Historical Societys director, Jennifer Kilmer, remarked, Future Washingtonians will research these days, asking how we coped with the suddenly vacated office buildin ... More |
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Casula Powerhouse goes digital with free online programming
SYDNEY.- Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (CPAC) will soon connect with the public in the digital realm, introducing an ongoing series of free online programming designed to engage artists, educators and the community during a difficult time when COVID-19 is forcing people into isolation. Rolling out over the coming weeks and months, the series of online experiences includes backstage curatorial tours, interviews with artists, podcast recordings, an online market, cooking classes with CPACs resident chef Frederico Rekowski, edible gardening tips with in-house gardener Lauren Booth and much more. Kids activities will be a focus in the initial stages with the CPAC team rolling out their usual school holiday programming online. Comic creations, Claymation, drawing, science and art classes will all be made available online for free. Families can join in and be ... More
Harvard University Graduate School of Design shortlists three architects for 2020 Wheelwright Prize
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Harvard University Graduate School of Design has announced three shortlisted architects for the 2020 Wheelwright Prize. Now in its eighth cycle, the Wheelwright Prize supports innovative design research, crossing both cultural and architectural boundaries, with a $100,000 grant intended to support two years of study. Previous winners have presented diverse research proposals, including studies of kitchen typologies around the world; the architecture and culture of greenhouses; and material flows and techniques as used in the design and construction of film sets. The 2020 Wheelwright Prize drew 168 applicants from over 45 countries. A first-phase jury deliberation was conducted in early March; a winner will be selected in late April. Wheelwright Prize finalists traditionally present their work and proposal to an audience ... More
The Museum of Neon Art announces the appointment of Corrie Siegel as Executive Director
GLENDALE, CA.- The Museum of Neon Art announces that after a year long public search it has selected Corrie Siegel to serve as the Museums Executive Director. Siegel officially began her role on April 1st, 2020. She has taken over fully from Kim Koga who retired from her post of 20 plus years in July 2019. MONA is grateful for the leadership of Interim Director Laura Darlington in this time, as well as the visionary leadership of Koga over the past two decades as we look forward to a new chapter of MONA. Siegel brings to MONA twenty years of experience working to empower and engage communities through the arts. Her work as a museum professional is rooted in collaboration, creativity, and pedagogy. Siegels experience as a gallery director, exhibit curator, museum educator, museum administrator, and artist provides her with a solid foundation ... More
Cranbrook names new Photography and Painting Artists-in-Residence
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI.- The Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum Board of Governors and Susan R. Ewing, the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art, announced today that new Artists-in-Residence have been named to lead the Painting and Photography departments at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Chris Fraser will serve as the new Photography Artist-in-Residence and Martha Mysko and Willie Wayne Smith will serve as Co-Artists-in-Residence overseeing the Painting department. This year, we launched two international searches to find leaders for the Painting and Photography departments, said Ewing. Our Search Committees worked diligently to bring a variety of candidates to campus who met with students and staff and delivered lectures to the entire student body. The Academy ... More
Italian tenor Bocelli to sing on Easter from empty Milan Cathedral
MILAN (AFP).- Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will sing on Easter Sunday in a presentation from Milan Cathedral to be streamed online, the city's mayor said on Tuesday. "At 7 oclock, in an empty Duomo, he will present a few pages of sacred music," Mayor Giuseppe Sala said in his daily Facebook message, saying the famous singer would "offer his voice to the whole world". The region of Lombardy, of which Milan is the capital, has been the hardest hit in Italy's coronavirus crisis, with more than 9,000 deaths. Bocelli's broadcast from the gothic Duomo will be accessible on YouTube, wrote Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera. "This won't be a concert," said Bocelli, in an interview published in the paper. "It will rather be an opportunity to pray together." "We will concentrate all our energy to give courage and confidence to this marvellous city," Bocelli ... More
Phillips appoints Elie Massaoutis as Head of Design, France
PARIS.- Phillips announced that Elie Massaoutis has joined the company as Head of Design, France and Senior International Specialist. He is based in Paris. Elies expertise and deep relationships with collectors will add even greater depth to Phillips global Design team and our growing presence in France, said Domenico Raimondo, Head of Design, Europe and Senior International Specialist at Phillips. Elie brings extensive pre-war Design expertise, with a great passion for and knowledge of Art Nouveau and Art Déco. His hiring continues our strategy of engaging with clients around the world so we can continue to grow and expand our market share in this important segment. Mr. Massaoutis studied History of Furniture at L'Ifage in Geneva. He went on to study History of Art and Modern Greek at Genevas Facultés ès Lettres, whilst working ... More
World's top animation festival moves online over virus
PARIS (AFP).- The world's top animated film festival was cancelled Tuesday because of the coronavirus, but organisers said they would hold an online version instead. The Annecy Festival in eastern France is the latest in a string of major cultural events to be cancelled or postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The 60th annual gathering was due to start on June 15. The organisers said they were working on staging an online version of the festival "which would allow access to the films", with the line-up to be announced on April 15. The South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, came up with a similar solution, showing its films on Amazon Prime. The Cannes film festival, the world's biggest, still hangs in the balance after it was postponed from May until the end of June. ... More
Sam Fox School announces 2020 Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Awards
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Portland, Ore.-based artist Lyndon Barrois Jr. and artist Wyndi DeSouza, who divides her time between St. Louis and Newark, N.J., have won the 2020 Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Awards. Presented by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, the Stone & DeGuire awards are open to all alumni of the Sam Fox Schools bachelors and masters of fine arts programs (with the exception of full-time Sam Fox School faculty). Recipients are chosen by a faculty committee. Winners receive $25,000 to advance their studio practice. Lyndon and Wyndi are ambitious, aesthetically rigorous young artists, said Amy Hauft, director of the College of Art in the Sam Fox School. Wyndi illuminates the tensions between large-scale data visualization versus the ways we experience individual ... More
The Baltimore Museum of Art expands digital resources for art experiences at home
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art remains temporarily closed and looks forward to announcing its reopening date in accordance with health and safety guidelines. In the meantime, it has expanded its digital resources to continue offering unique art experiences for virtual visitors quarantined or self-isolating at home. The museums newest digital assets include Virtual Gallery Walks, BMA Stories, and Free Family Sundays at Home, a weekly family art project. The health of our community, staff, and volunteers is our primary concern during this unprecedented global health crisis, said Christopher Bedford, BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director. The BMA had opened 10 extraordinary exhibitions by female-identifying artists as part of its 2020 Vision initiative just a few days before the closure began and I am very proud of the creative ways ... More
Daylight Books publishes 'Diane Durant: Stories'
FORT WORTH, TX.- Diane Durant: Stories, 1986-88 (Daylight, April 2020) is a unique collaborative project between multidisciplinary artist, Diane Durant, and her daughter Andie. Pairing deadpan portraits with handwritten personal texts, Durant recreates scenes from a pivotal period in her childhood and poses her daughter in authentic '80s ensembles to reinterpret the memories. "Stories, 1986-88 puts a new spin on old histories as my daughter stands in for a youthful me -- the one I remember and the one I wasn't quite allowed to be." Together, Durant and her daughter relive and rewrite childhood stories through this restorative approach to image-making and storytelling. In her essay in the book entitled The Difficult Business of Being Human, Durant describes Stories: 1986-88 as a "a photographic reconciliation of all the things I ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso died April 08, 1973. Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. In this image: Pablo Picasso, Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), December 1937. Courtesy SothebyÂs.
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