May 10, 2023
When you hear the name Gustav Klimt, you think of glorious portraits of women adorned with gold leaves. But did you know he also painted Impressionistic landscapes? One such rare canvas is heading to auction and can be yours if you have some $45 million in the bank.
If you don't have that kind of cash, you can console yourself with an AI-generated feline version of Klimt's "The Kiss," courtesy the Vienna Tourist Board. The new tourism campaign is good news for cat lovers, but bad news for Austrian graphic designers.
There's much more to read today, including a selection of 20 art shows to see in New York City this month, artists probing the huge industry around the sport of basketball, a new documentary about Little Richard, and the unfortunate story of the museum visitor who tripped and damaged an ancient Chinese owl vessel.
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20 Art Shows to See in New York This May
This month: Wendy Red Star, Bob Thompson, Daniel Lind-Ramos, art by MFA students, and much more. | Hakim Bishara, Valentina Di Liscia, and Hrag Vartanian
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SCAD Alumni Artists at Photo London Explore Womanhood and Femininity
Photographs by Mona Bozorgi and Emma Creighton Hopson are on view at the UK photo fair from May 10 to 14.
LATEST NEWS
- The city of Vienna has launched a new cat-paign — ehm, campaign — that uses AI to put a feline spin on famous Austrian artworks.
A rare Klimt landscape of Austria’s Lake Attersee heads to auction.
A museum visitor tripped and damaged an ancient Chinese owl sculpture at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Who Is Connie Butler, the New Director of MoMA PS1?
Connie Butler is leaving LA’s Hammer Museum to lead the New York museum, which has been under interim leadership for a year. | Elaine Velie
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Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown Opens at the Crocker Art Museum
The most comprehensive exhibition of this California couple ever mounted is on view in Sacramento.
REVIEWS
Artists on Basketball and Its Discontents
Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art both celebrates and critiques a game that has grown into a global mega-industry. | Rachel Harris-Huffman
The A-Lot-Ness of Little Richard
Little Richard: I Am Everything honors the a-lot-ness that made him a 20th-century pioneer, while acknowledging the bumps along the trail he blazed. | Eileen G’Sell
AND MORE...
Why We Never Visited Michael Heizer’s City
We counted down the minutes until we hit the stretch of highway closest to the installation, but we didn’t stop. | Rebecca Uchill and Ana María León
60 Films That Say “I Love New York”
A festival opening this week at Film Forum highlights NYC-based, critically acclaimed films throughout the decades, from Scorsese to blaxploitation. | Maya Pontone
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