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Some of the medieval French silver coins on June 29, 2021, discovered near Biskupiec, Poland. Lukasz Szczepanski, a Polish archaeologist, believes that the coins may be part of the lost booty once extorted by Vikings to spare Paris from ruin in A.D. 845. Maciek Nabrdalik/The New York Times.
by Andrew Higgins
BISKUPIEC (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- During more than 10 years of tramping through fields and forests with a metal detector, a Polish treasure hunter has found the wreckage of an American-made Sherman tank, the scabbard of a French sword used by a soldier in Napoleons army, a Prussian helmet and many other relics of Europes bloody past. In November, however, he made a discovery that has startled even scholars steeped in the ebb and flow of European warfare and left them wrestling with a tantalizing question: How did a cornfield in northeastern Poland come to hold silver coins minted more than 1,100 years ago and nearly 1,000 miles away by the medieval rulers of what is now France? One theory, promoted by a Polish archaeologist leading the hunt for an explanation, is that the silver coins date from one of Europes earliest and most traumatic episodes of armed extortion when an invading Viking army laid siege to Paris in A.D. 845, and had to be paid off with more than 2 tons of silver to prevent it f ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day 303 Gallery opened seventh exhibition of new paintings by Tim Gardner. Known for his masterful watercolors marking moments in time, Tim Gardner depicts scenes that collectively form a vivid portrait of contemporary life. Drawing primarily on an extensive personal image archive, he uses photography as a point of departure to elucidate the psychological realism of lived experiences.
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| Getty exhibition reassembles Medieval Italian triptych | | Super Mario 64 video game sells for $1.56 million | | Frans Hals Museum acquires Dirck Hals and Dirck van Delen masterpiece |
The Crucifixion, about 1340-1345 Paolo Veneziano (Italian (Venetian), about 1295 - about 1362) Tempera and gold leaf on panel Unframed: 33.9 Ã 41.1 cm (13 5/16 Ã 16 3/16 in.) Framed: 37.2 Ã 45.4 Ã 5.7 cm (14 5/8 Ã 17 7/8 Ã 2 1/4 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.143.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Paolo Veneziano (about 1295about 1362) was the premier painter in late medieval Venice, producing religious works ranging from large complex altarpieces to small paintings used by Christians for personal devotion. A new exhibition, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, from July 13 through October 3, 2021, brings together numerous paintings that reveal the delicate beauty and exquisite colors that distinguish Paolo Venezianos art. The centerpiece of the show reunites painted panels that originally belonged together but are today housed in different collections. It is fairly commonplace for museums around the world to own fragments of what were once larger ensembles, dismantled in later centuries for saÂÂÂle on the art market, explains Timothy Potts, Maria Hummer-Tuttle and Robert Tuttle Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. ... More | |
Super Mario 64 - Wata 9.8 A++ Sealed, N64 Nintendo 1996 USA.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- An anonymous buyer has paid $1.56 million for a 25-year-old copy of Super Mario 64 in its original packaging, a record price for a video game, according to the auction house that sold it. Heritage Auctions said that it received 16 bids leading up to and during the live auction Sunday for the mainly pristine condition 3D Super Mario game, which sold for about $60 when it was released in 1996 and was the bestselling game for the Nintendo 64 console. The top bid was $1.3 million, according to Heritage Auctions, which added a buyers premium of 20% to the gavel price to bring the total to $1.56 million. The price sent shock waves through gaming and collecting circles, even after a recent uptick in five- and six-figure sales of rare video games to investment-minded buyers. The sale was announced just two days after Heritage Auctions said that an early production copy of The Legend of Zelda from 1987 had sold for $870,000. Valarie McLeckie, the consignment director for video games at He ... More | |
Dirck Hals (Haarlem 15911656) and Dirck van Delen (Heusden 1604/5-1671 Arnemuiden), Festive Company in a Renaissance Room (detail). Signed and dated 'D. van Delen / fecit / 1628' (in the centre of the cartouche above the doorway) Oil on panel 92.5 x 157 cm.
HAARLEM.- The Frans Hals Museum has succeeded in acquiring a masterpiece for the Haarlem municipal art collection thanks to the generous support of external funds. Festive Company in a Renaissance Room is a collaborative work by Dirck Hals and Dirck van Delen. Only five such collaborations by the two artists are known to exist, none of which were in Dutch museum collections until this acquisition. The purchased work was also their largest and most elaborate collaboration, and illustrates the unique position Haarlem occupied as a breeding ground of innovation in 17th-century Dutch painting. The painting is a wonderful example of the merry company genre that was popular in Haarlem in the 1620s and 1630s. These representations typically depict lavishly attired, fashionable young men and women. Dirck Hals (Haarlem 1591-1656), younger brother of Frans Hals, was one ... More |
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| Michael Landy's art of destruction | | Pace Gallery appoints Jessie Washburne-Harris as its new Vice President | | 9/11 Museum's 20th-anniversary exhibitions become victims of cuts |
The artist Michael Landy at the Firstsite gallery in Colchester, England, June 17, 2021. Tom Jamieson/The New York Times.
by Scott Reyburn
COLCHESTER (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Michael Landy is a British artist best known for a project in which he systematically inventoried all 7,227 of his personal possessions. Then systematically destroyed them. This year is the 20th anniversary of that installation-cum-performance, Break Down, which brought Landy international fame as The Man Who Destroyed Everything. It isnt often that conceptual works of art that no longer physically exist are still being talked about two decades later. But a display to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Break Down, as well as a new installation by Landy, on show at Firstsite, a gallery in southern England, show the artist is still a prescient critic of consumerism. The exhibition, Michael Landys Welcome to Essex, named after the county surrounding the gallery where the artist grew up, runs through Sept. 5. Its a good time ... More | |
Jessie Washburne-Harris is a veteran of Marian Goodman GalleryPhoto: Axel Dupeux, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Glimcher, CEO and President of Pace Gallery, today announced the appointment of Jessie Washburne-Harris as Vice President. Washburne-Harris, a veteran of Marian Goodman Gallery, where she worked for the past 8 years and most recently served as Executive Director, will join Paces global sales team later this month. While at Marian Goodman, Washburne-Harris led the gallerys sales team, driving sales in the primary and secondary markets. In addition, Washburne-Harriss role encompassed high level artist support, developing strategies related to the gallerys presence at art fairs, managing relationships with auction houses, and establishing the gallerys online sales presence. Prior to her tenure with Marian Goodman, Washburne-Harris founded Harris Lieberman, which grew to become one of New Yorks most respected and successful young galleries focused on emerging international artists. She has als ... More | |
Alice Greenwald, the president and chief executive of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, stands at one of the reflecting pools at the memorial in New York, June 21, 2021. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The 9/11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan has dropped plans for special exhibitions commemorating the 20th anniversary of what was perhaps the most traumatic day in modern American history, museum officials said. The reduction came after a severe budget crisis forced the nonprofit museum to make cuts that included furloughs and layoffs affecting around 60% of its staff. Before the coronavirus pandemic, curators had discussed a large anniversary exhibition examining musics role in uniting Americans after 9/11 and other tragedies, such as the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando, Florida. But when more than half of the exhibitions department was laid off, museum leaders shelved the project, according to three former department members. A spokeswoman, Lee ... More |
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| Springsteen presents Holding Patterns, a solo exhibition by Amy Stober | | For Spike Lee, the secret to surviving Cannes is sleep (and cool clothes) | | Cari Sacks is new Board Chair at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago |
Amy Stober, Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue, 2021, cast polyurethane, acrylic, 12 x 12 x 9 inches.
BALTIMORE, MD.- Springsteen is presenting Holding Patterns, a solo exhibition by Amy Stober, marking her solo debut. Holding Patterns alludes to a moment of stasis, the pregnancy of stillness. A plane suspended in flight, waiting on the go-ahead for landing. In stillness or perceived immobility there exists a process borne of latency, anxiety, calculation. Obsessively process-oriented, Stober catechizes the given in favor of the exceptional. How to pervert forms and conceptions? Basking in the autogenous gives way to a universal spirit. Look within to implore without. Presuppositions fall away as new understandings of essence metamorphosize. Stober is meticulous, presenting objects charged with potential, memory, the interrogation of time, and presence. Her practice is deeply rooted in the processional, a creative digestive tract. She ... More | |
US director and Jury President of the 74th Cannes Film Festival Spike Lee (R) and his wife Tonya Lewis Lee arrive for the screening of the film "Flag Day" at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on July 10, 2021. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP.
by Kyle Buchanan
CANNES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Sprawled out over two weeks, Cannes can be an awfully overwhelming film festival. There are so many movies to see and so many glamorous events to go to that you could easily burn out or worse, fall asleep during a future Palme dOr winner. More responsible Cannes-goers attend one or two films a day and then retire to their hotel rooms, but I am not such a person. I know that the wildest things often happen after midnight here, like the time a few years ago when I watched Channing Tatum and Jane Campion freak it on a beachside dance floor to Lykke Li. Whod want to go to bed early and miss that? On Sunday night ... More | |
Cari Sacks. Photo: Maria Ponce.
CHICAGO, IL.- Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, has announced the election of Cari B. Sacks as the new Chair of the Board of Trustees of the MCA. The election was official on June 29, 2021, and Sacks succeeds the former Board Chair Michael OGrady. We are delighted to welcome Cari Sacks as our new Chair of the Board of Trustees, says Madeleine Grynsztejn. Her longstanding support of the MCA demonstrates her passion and commitment to our staff, our vision, and our values. She brings a wide range of experience, capability, and leadership to the MCA and we look forward to the ways her wisdom and dedication to contemporary art and education will contribute to the MCAs vision for the future. Cari is an active philanthropist involved in supporting numerous civic and cultural organizations. At the MCA, she has served on the Board of Trustees since 2004 and is Vice Cha ... More |
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| Los Angeles's first digital art fair, File Not Found, announces 2022 launch | | RETNA's tribute to Aaliyah is the 'queen' of Heritage Auctions' July 28 Urban Art event | | Andrew Lloyd Webber's new act: Activism |
Puks, Watermelon for Two, 2021, MP4, 2160 Ã 2,728.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- File Not Found announced its launch as Los Angeless first fair for digital art, scheduled for Spring 2022. File Not Found invites galleries and artists who work within the digital space to come together offline and foster community and collaboration within the field. File Not Found will be the first of its kind, offering an environment tailored to creatives who are exploring the full potential of the realm and the cultural relevance of new mediums. In lieu of the conventional fair model, File Not Found will develop a stronger sense of community and enhance public engagement through interactive and immersive artist installations, gallery presentations and educational programming. The fairs host city, Los Angeles, was selected for its diversity a cultural hub at the intersection of tech, talent and entertainment. File Not Found seeks to shape and build a culture that celebrates digital and new-media work by facilitating strong and meaningful relationships between a cr ... More | |
RETNA (b. 1979), Aaliyah (Queen of the Damned), 2010. Acrylic on digital pigment print, 61-1/4 x 42-1/2 inches.
DALLAS, TX.- The artist called RETNA has long said that his work, most of it stuffed full of hieroglyphics dripping with spray paint, is meant to bridge the chasm between graffiti art and fine art. As though there were a distinction between such things in 2021, as myriad languages morph into a single tongue and lines separating genres melt into new style and sounds and scenes blur and merge and mutate. The revolution may not be televised. But it will eventually wind up on a canvas, whether its made of brick, tin, train car or paper. And RETNA, né Marquis Lewis in 1979, is among the worlds foremost street-art insurgents; one of its most collectible, too, given the record $175,000 paid for his 2015 work They Cant Come at Heritage Auctions in November. As Maddox Gallery noted in 2017, when commenting upon the dramatic increase in interest in Lewis work, RETNA ... More | |
The composer Andrew Lloyd Webber in London, July 1, 2021. Tom Jamieson/The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Andrew Lloyd Webber, 73, has for decades been a household name in Britain for his flamboyant, quasi-operatic musicals. Now, hes becoming known for something more unexpected: activism. For over a year now, Lloyd Webber who redefined musical theater with shows like The Phantom of the Opera and Cats, and served for years in the House of Lords has been harassing Britains conservative government to get theaters open at full capacity, at times making scientifically questionable claims along the way. This June alone, he made newspaper front pages here after pledging to open his new Cinderella musical come hell or high water even if he faced arrest for doing so. (He quickly pulled back from the plan after learning his audience, cast and crew risked fines, too.) ... More |
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A festival has a monumental premiere (and some other operas, too)
AIX-EN-PROVENCE (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- I mean it as high praise when I say that at this summers edition of the Aix-en-Provence Festival, none of the operas come close to Kaija Saariahos Innocence, which premiered here July 3. Ushering new work into the world is perhaps an operatic institutions most difficult task. This is an art form so stubbornly lodged in the past that it always feels like a miracle when a création, as the French call it, succeeds. And Innocence, which explores the aftermath of a deadly school shooting, does more than succeed. With riveting clarity and enigmatic shadows, and through a range of languages in different registers of speaking and singing, it captures both the promise and darkness of cosmopolitanism itself. It is a victory for Saariaho and her collaborators, and for the Aix Festival and Pierre Audi, its director ... More
SFER IK Museion announces Marcello Dantas as new museum Director
TULUM.- Having established itself as the premier destination for art in the Yucatan Peninsula with holistically inspired, ecologically conscious and alchemically transformative exhibitions, SFER IK, the unique multidisciplinary creative sphere founded by the renowned social entrepreneur and visionary Roth, announces Marcello Dantas as its new Museum Director. Dantas specializes in interdisciplinary practices and is responsible for innovating the concept of museology through his unprecedented immersive experiences that engage all senses and alter perceptions. He was the name behind the conception of distinct museums and cultural institutions across South America, such as the Museum of Portuguese Language, Japan House São Paulo and the Museum of Nature in Brazil; Museo del Caribe and Museo del Carnaval in Colombia; and the ... More
Rachel Kent announced as new CEO of Bundanon ahead of new museum opening this november
ILLAROO.- The Chairman of Bundanon Trusts Board of Directors, Jennifer Bott AO, announced today the appointment of Rachel Kent as the new CEO of Bundanon Trust after a six-month international search and recruitment process. Rachel will commence on 6 September 2021. She will work with current CEO, Deborah Ely AM, on a full handover in the period leading up to this date. Deborah Ely announced her decision to step down from the role in December 2020. Rachel Kent is an experienced arts leader, art historian, and head curator with extensive experience working with international museums and cultural institutions as well as extended family connections in the Shoalhaven region. She is currently Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia where she leads the curatorial team, delivering its artistic vision and programs. Rachel is an outstanding ... More
Neue Auctions announces online Summer Estates Auction
BEACHWOOD, OH.- Neue Auctions has a Summer Estates auction planned for Saturday, July 24th, at 10 am Eastern time, and the emphasis will be on sterling silver, fine art glass, lighting, modern and antique furniture, fine carpets, porcelains, glassware, garden sculptures and planters, fine jewelry and decorative objects for the home. Nearly 400 lots will be sold. The auction is online-only. There is no competing floor audience; however, bidding is offered across three platforms: Liveauctioneers, Invaluable and BidSquare. Absentee bids are always welcomed and phone bidding is available on select lots. Both must be received by or scheduled at the latest 24 hours in advance of the auction or by 5pm Friday July 23rd. The auction gallery is open for preview Monday July 19th through Friday July 23rd, 9am-5pm daily, or by appointment. ... More
Suzy Delvalle named Interim Director of Socrates Sculpture Park
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Suzy Delvalle has been named Interim Executive Director of Socrates Sculpture Park, effective immediately. Suzy is taking over for John Hatfield, Socrates Sculpture Parks Executive Director of nine years, who announced his plans to depart the organization in October 2020. A search for the Parks permanent Director is still ongoing. Suzy most recently served as President and Executive Director of Creative Capital, a national nonprofit organization that supports innovative and adventurous artists across the country through funding, counsel, gatherings, and career development services. She is a fierce advocate for art and artists. With over 20 years of leadership experience in the cultural sector, she has committed her career to enhancing the impact of mission-based organizations and building opportunity ... More
Admiral Lord Nelson's protégé's gold medal sells for £120,000 at auction
LONDON.- The superb and exceptionally rare small naval gold medal for the Battle of Lissa in the Adriatic Sea in 1811, awarded to Captain Sir William Hoste K.C.B., Royal Navy, one of Admiral Lord Nelsons most highly regarded protégés fetched £120,000 at auctioneers Morton & Eden in London today (13 July 2021). The medal had been estimated to fetch £60,000-80,000 (lot 428). It was bought by an anonymous private collector bidding by telephone. David Kirk, Morton and Edens medal specialist said: We are delighted for the family, and we feel that this result does real justice to what is, without doubt, a superb medal. Captain Sir William Hoste was an extremely important naval figure, as well as being a protégé and friend of Nelson. Captain Sir William Hoste K.C.B. (1780-1828) was born on 26 August 1780 at Ingoldsthorpe, Norfolk and entered ... More
Rosie Cooper announced as the new Director of Wysing Arts Centre
CAMBRIDGE.- Wysing Arts Centre announced that Rosie Cooper has been appointed as the new Director from September 2021. Currently Head of Exhibitions at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, Cooper brings with her extensive experience of working in the UK visual arts sector, and a strong record of championing art as a tool for social change. She succeeds the late Donna Lynas MBE who was Wysings Director from 2005 to 2021. Rosie Cooper said, It is a huge honour to take up the role of Director of Wysing Arts Centre. I see Wysing as a beacon for the freewheeling, radical imagination: an environment that empowers artists, communities and publics to re-make the world. Wysing is an exceptional organisation known for its generosity, integrity and inclusivity qualities we need more than ever. I look forward to collaborating with ... More
Joe Bonamassa stands to forever reshape the music industry with NFT of 'one-song music industry'
DALLAS, TX.- Blues rock hero Joe Bonamassa is partnering with Heritage Auctions to announce a game-changing NFT collection that stands to reshape the music industry forever by tokenizing the original master and publishing rights to a brand-new song titled "Broken Record." This lot is truly unprecedented as the chart-topping guitarist is the first artist in music to sell his publishing in an NFT as part of this digital + physical collection, which also features his own Holy Grail 1959 Gibson Les Paul Sunburst guitar and 1963 Fender Vibroverb amp that were used to record the song. The auction is set for July 31. Bonamassa calls this lot "the one-song record company" because it totally transforms the way musicians can make a business from their intellectual property. Joes business partner Roy Weisman elaborates: That is what this NFT concept ... More
'Boyz n the Hood' at 30: A vivid examination of white supremacy at work
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When John Singletons first film, Boyz n the Hood, was released July 12, 1991, it immediately made him a household name in many Black communities across the country. The movie was so well received that my mother decided to take me to see the film in the theater. This was a big deal. I was only 10 years old, but, despite my mothers reluctance to let me watch movies with sex scenes, she explained that it was important that I experience Boyz. After the credits rolled, I understood why. Ostensibly the story of three friends, Tre, Ricky and Doughboy, growing up in south-central Los Angeles, the film showed how white supremacy set the conditions that ended in neighborhoods devastated by crime and, ultimately, violence. Not many white people are featured in the film, but the impact of whiteness on Black ... More
Emerging from COVID, small theaters in Los Angeles face a new challenge
LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- And here she is, in all her glory. With a clank of a switch, Gary Grossman, artistic director of the Skylight Theatre Company in Los Angeles, turned up the lights over the 99 seats of his shoebox of a theater in Los Feliz the other morning. The Skylight looked pretty much the way it did when it abruptly shut down in March 2020. Planks of scenery from its last production, West Adams, were gathering dust, leaned up against the rear of the stage. Concert halls, arenas, movie houses, baseball stadiums and big theaters are reopening here and across the country as the pandemic begins to recede. But for many of the 325 small nonprofit theater companies scattered across Los Angeles, like the Skylight, that day is still months away, and their future is as uncertain as ever. How long will it be until we get back ... More
Byron Berline, master of the bluegrass fiddle, dies at 77
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Byron Berline, the acclaimed bluegrass fiddle player who expanded the vocabulary of his instrument while also establishing it as an integral voice in country-rock on recordings by Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and others, died Saturday in Oklahoma City. He was 77. His death, in a rehabilitation hospital after a series of strokes, was confirmed by his nephew Barry Patton. Berline first distinguished himself as a recording artist when he was 21 on Pickin and Fiddlin, an album of old-time fiddle tunes set to contemporary bluegrass arrangements by the innovative acoustic quartet the Dillards. The album features Berlines heavily syncopated playing, along with long bow strokes that incorporate more than one note at the same time. Later in the decade, Berlines lyrical phrasing was heard on pioneering recordings ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter Gustav Klimt was born July 14, 1862. Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by frank eroticism. In this image: Lady with a Muff (1916 - 1917).
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