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| Museum calls off Kehinde Wiley show, citing assault allegations | | Hello, Dolley? Earliest known photograph of a first lady comes to auction | | Air Mail reports art-market abuses and inappropriate sexual behavior at Carpenters Workshop Gallery |
Foreground: The Virgin Martyr St. Cecilia, 2021, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Calif., on March 14, 2023. Background: Young Tarentine II (Ndeye Fatou Mbaye), 2022. The Minneapolis Institute of Art announced Thursday, June 13, 2024, that it had decided not to move forward with a planned Kehinde Wiley exhibition, citing recent allegations of sexual misconduct against the artist, which he has denied. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Minneapolis Institute of Art announced Thursday that it had decided not to move forward with a planned Kehinde Wiley exhibition, citing recent allegations of sexual misconduct against the artist, which he has denied. The exhibition, called An Archaeology of Silence, originated at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and has been traveling around the country. The Minneapolis museum put plans to stage the exhibition on hold after several men made accusations against Wiley, all of which he has denied. The first was in May, ... More | |
In an undated image provided by Sothebys, a recently surfaced 1846 daguerreotype of Dolley Madison, taken by the photographer John Plumbe Jr., being sold by Sothebys. Madison is credited with inventing the role of first lady. (Sotheby's via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Sometime around May 1846, Dolley Madison made her way from her home near the White House to the studio of an enterprising photographer who had begun a quixotic effort to create a daily publication featuring portraits of interesting public characters. The nearly 80-year-old former first lady and reigning grande dame of the capital sat for a portrait draped in a crocheted shawl, her curls peeking out from under her signature turban. But the photographers enterprise soon went bust, and the images captured that day disappeared into the slipstream of history. Now, one of the daguerreotypes made that day is set to be auctioned by Sothebys, which is billing it as the earliest known photograph of a first lady. ... More | |
Sebastian Brajkovics Fibonacci chair at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery during the Salon Art + Design exhibition in New York, Nov. 12, 2015. (Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Julien Lombrail and Loïc Le Gaillard, founders of the influential Carpenters Workshop Gallery, have made a significant impact in the world of high design since establishing the gallery 18 years ago. Known for representing prominent artists and designers such as Zaha Hadid, Charlotte Perriand, and Virgil Abloh, Carpenters Workshop Gallery has become a powerhouse in the design industry. However, beneath their polished exterior, allegations of mistreatment, art-market abuses, and inappropriate behavior have surfaced, casting a shadow over their success. ... More |
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| In a film camera resurgence, negatives are left languishing | | Art Basel opens to safe sales and fears of a weaker market | | Sarah Ganz Blythe appointed director of Harvard Art Museums |
Carl Saytor, founder and owner of Luxlab, assess negatives for print in Manhattan on April 18, 2022. Film cameras are seeing another renaissance. But some new photographers are leaving something behind: the tea-colored originals that determine the life of pictures. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Silvio Cohen has been doing this for years. Soak, rinse, soak, dry, repeat. Thirty-five millimeter, medium format, old cameras, new film. Analog work in a digital age. When I tell my friends that we still do developing, they laugh, Cohen said. Its a different feel. The finish is a different finish. Cohen works at 42nd Street Photo, one of a handful of legacy shops in New York City that still develop film. They have been at it for a century, riding the mediums ebbs and flows from films first plummet in the 2000s, to its resilient return in ... More | |
kaufmann repetto. Courtesy of Art Basel.
BASEL.- The international art trade faced a crunch moment in Switzerland this week. Art Basel, the worlds biggest and most prestigious fair for dealers in modern and contemporary works, opened to VIPs on Tuesday against a backdrop of declining auction sales and gloomy talk of a market downturn. Sales were down 22% over last season at the latest May series of marquee modern and contemporary auctions at Sothebys, Christies and Phillips in New York. Christies is reeling from a ransomware attack and has cut back sales in London. Sothebys ... More | |
Ganz Blythe is an active scholar who has taught at Brown University, Wellesley College, and RISD, and has published widely throughout her career. Photo: Josephine Sittenfeld.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Sarah Ganz Blythe, a highly respected curator, educator, and scholar with more than 25 years of museum experience, will be the new Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums, interim Provost John Manning announced Wednesday. ... More |
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| The Napoleon of your living room | | Vandals splash graffiti on homes of Jewish leaders of Brooklyn Museum | | $14 million art collection donation establishes The Linda and J. Randolph Lewis Wing at the Figge Art Museum |
Friedman is nicknamed The Sun by some executives: he gives off a warm glow on good days and burns you on bad ones. (Cayce Clifford/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Gary Friedman hates meetings. A 66-year-old with apparently limitless energy and a perpetual tan, Friedman is the CEO of RH, one of the countrys largest high-end furniture sellers, and he never holds meetings. Instead, he convenes ... More | |
File photo of installation view of Arts of the Himalayas at the Brooklyn Museum. Photo: Danny Perez.
NEW YORK, NY.- The homes of the Jewish director and trustees of the Brooklyn Museum were vandalized early Wednesday morning in a coordinated attack, according to a museum spokeswoman. Vandals attacked the Brooklyn Heights home of Anne Pasternak, director of the museum, by smearing red paint and graffiti across the entry of her apartment building and hanging a banner that accused her of being a white-supremacist Zionist. ... More | |
Dr. Randy and Linda Lewis.
DAVENPORT, IA.- The Figge Art Museum announced the establishment of The Linda and J. Randolph Lewis Wing, made possible by the extraordinary generosity of Dr. Randy and Linda Lewis of Davenport, Iowa. The Lewises remarkable gift of forty-four works of modern and contemporary American art valued at $14 million by Christies, New York marks a momentous addition to the Figges collection. For fifty years, the Lewises ... More |
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| The magnet fisherman's dilemma: What to do with $70,000 before it disintegrates | | Luminous domestic scenes address boundaries between public and private selves; gay identity and social norms | | Boca Raton Museum Presents Photography from the Doug McCraw Collection |
James Kane, a magnet fisherman, and his partner, Barbie Agostini, outside the U.S. Treasurys Bureau of Engraving and Printing. (Tom Brenner/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- James Kane was bleary-eyed as he climbed onto the upper deck of a Megabus, wearing a cowboy hat with stickers and carrying a backpack that contained a small fortune. Hed only gotten three hours of sleep the night before, as the previous day had been a blur of interviews with news wires, TV stations and radio programs. He was headed to Washington, more specifically ... More | |
Kyle Dunn, Studio Life, 2024 (detail). Acrylic on panel. Photo: JSP Art Photography.
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents figurative painter Kyle Dunn in his first museum exhibition featuring recent works and new paintings created in response to the museums extraordinary collection. This exhibition is the 194th in the nearly 50-year-old MATRIX contemporary art series at the Wadsworth. Kyle Dunn / MATRIX 194 will be on view June 7 September 1, 2024. Kyle ... More | |
From the Young Americans series by Sheila Pree Bright: Shanae Rowland (2007), and Shawn Ole T. Evangelista (2006). Chromogenic prints, from the Doug McCraw Collection.
BOCA RATON FLA.- The Boca Raton Museum of Art presents Myths, Secrets, Lies, and Truths: Photography from the Doug McCraw Collection featuring five artists: Sheila Pree Bright, Liesa Cole, Karen Graffeo, Spider Martin and Hank Willis Thomas (June 12 ‒ Oct. 13). The artists explore themes of survival, concealment, exploitation, and race. These five distinct voices illuminate many aspects of life," says Irvin Lippman, the Executive Director of the Museum. "Our thanks to Doug McCraw who has built an extraordinary and stimulating collection that will facilitate insightful conversations. Doug McCraw is the co-founder of one of South Floridas cultural gems: the FATVillage Arts District which promotes creativity, artist residences, exhibitions, and education. The exhibition was curated ... More |
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| How an American dream of housing became a reality in Sweden | | Closure of Philadelphia Art School spurs review by state attorney general | | The last picture show for Fotografiska |
A modular apartment building in Piteå, Sweden on Feb. 8, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- As an architect, Ivan Rupnik thinks the solution to Americas affordable housing shortage is obvious: Build more houses. Start today. But the way homes are built in the United States makes speed impossible. Years ago, Rupniks Croatian grandmother, an architect herself, pointed him to an intriguing answer to this conundrum: modular housing projects built ... More | |
The University of Arts main building in Philadelphia, June 2, 2024. (Hannah Yoon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pennsylvania attorney generals office and state lawmakers said Friday that they were reviewing the abrupt closure of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, which blindsided students and faculty members. We are very concerned by the sudden closure of the University of the Arts, said Brett Hambright, ... More | |
The exterior of Fotografiska at 281 Park Avenue South in New York on June 11, 2024. (Graham Dickie/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Vivian Maier: Unseen Work will be the final show at the six-story Flemish Renaissance Revival building that Fotografiska New York has occupied since opening at the end of 2019. Its a very beautiful building, but everything has to be in tandem to work, said Sophie Wright, the private museums executive ... More |
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 A four-hour hotel review that is actually about so much moreNEW YORK, NY.- One of the most captivating pieces of entertainment Ive seen so far this year is a four-hour-long YouTube video in which one woman describes her stay at a Disney World hotel. Im as shocked by this as anyone. To be clear: I was initially resistant when my partner encouraged me to watch Jenny Nicholsons epic The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel, which breaks down in microscopic detail her visit to Disneys Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. During the experience, now closed, guests on vacation were encouraged to live out their George Lucas dreams by participating in a role-playing game while staying in a structure on the outskirts of the park near Orlando, Florida. Nicholsons monologue, which runs longer than Lawrence of Arabia, has been viewed more than 7 million times since it was uploaded last month and has been the talk of social media, yet I was still unprepared for how absolutely riveting it was. While it highlights a lit ... More  How Venice might remake itself as a contemporary art hubVENICE.- Venice is a magic trick, a city on stilts rising from the water. Yet that very magic trick has also created a seemingly intractable problem, as Venice has become famously overtouristed. Today, the citys population has dipped below 50,000, while it contends with, by some estimates, 20 million to 30 million annual tourist visits. On an average day, that means there are more tourists on the citys antiquated streets and canals than there are residents. That leaves Venice feeling less magical and more like a cheap amusement park a city whose very identity is being erased by the tourist onslaught. Political responses have been meager, though officials did roll out a new access fee for day trippers in April. (The fee, however, is projected to cost the city more to administer than it will actually collect.) While the results of that initiative remain to be seen, some commentators including those at the Art for Tomorrow conference in Venice last week have sugges ... More  A Venice show pays tribute to Jean Cocteau, the maverick artistVENICE.- A 1949 photograph of Jean Cocteau, shot by Philippe Halsman for Life magazine, playfully depicts the suave and influential Cocteau, a leading figure of the 20th-century French avant-garde, with a surreal number of hands, holding a pen, a paintbrush, scissors, a book and, of course, a lit cigarette. That image, now on posters all over Venice, Italy, beckons passersby to the exhibition Jean Cocteau: The Jugglers Revenge, at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection through Sept. 16. The show highlights the dexterity of the multitalented artist, writer, filmmaker and jewelry and fashion designer working fluidly across different media. Cocteau had kind of a bad rap as a dilettante that accusation has haunted him, said Kenneth E. Silver, a historian who organized the show with Blake Oetting, one of his doctoral students at New York Universitys Institute of Fine Arts. Moving all over the creative map is a given with artists now, but Cocteau was doing it ... More Want to succeed as an artist? Click here.NEW YORK, NY.- From 2005 to 2017, Paddy Johnson ran a respected art-world blog, Art F City. Fiercely Independent, began its tagline. But art criticism is a precarious business. She tried teaching as an adjunct, but that wasnt much better. Gradually, Johnson shifted to providing career counseling to artists and helping them workshop their statements of purpose and grant applications. She realized it could be a business. In February 2021, she invited her mailing list to a webinar on the value or not of a fine arts degree, titled Is It Time to Kill the MFA? A follow-up email included a link to Book a free consult with our coaches. In May of that year, Johnson founded Netvvrk, an app-based resource for artists, with message boards, how-to guides and frequent Zoom seminars. It now has more than 900 members, most of whom pay between $49 and $87 a month. ... More |
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