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Sloane Street Auctions to sell extensive art holdings from the collection of the father of modern Jeddah
LONDON.- Dr Mohammed Said Farsi’s remarkable art collection has supplied landmark auctions with millions of pounds worth of Middle Eastern and Western art over the past two decades. Credited with having the greatest group of modern Egyptian art in private hands, his collection now promises to dominate Sloane Street Auctions’ June 12 sale in London, with exceptional pieces, adding works by Henry Moore, Salvador Dalí and David Hockney to the mix. The former Mayor of Jeddah (1972-86) – he is known as the father of Saudi Arabia’s modern port city – also led the planning for redeveloping Mecca and Medina. That extended vision placed art at the centre of the urban environment as he embarked on replicating the glories of Beirut’s corniche in Jeddah. In doing so, Dr Farsi looked to artists such as Lebanon’s Aref El Rayess and Shafiq Mazloum, Egypt’s Mustafa Senbel and several ... More

Exhibition of new work by artist Michael Raedecker opens at GRIMM
AMSTERDAM.- GRIMM presents back on earth, an exhibition of new work by London-based Dutch artist Michael Raedecker at the gallery in Amsterdam (NL). This marks Raedecker’s eighth solo exhibition with GRIMM, and coincides with Amsterdam Art Week, a city-wide programme celebrating the Dutch contemporary art scene. To accompany this event, the artist will be signing copies of his recent monograph published by Phaidon titled everything, but not everything at GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL), from 2 - 5 pm on Saturday, 1 June. back on earth continues Raedecker’s exploration into the symbiotic and often parasitic relationship between nature and humanity – to understand our place in the world and draw attention to the proximity and power of nature in relation to the urban environment. The exhibition’s title refers to the idea ... More

Cinematic, undiscovered, Cilento
NEW YORK, NY.- From a piazza in the town of Castellabate on the Cilento coast of Italy, you may lift your eyes over the rim of your cappuccino and drink in a panorama of sky and Mediterranean Sea from Salerno to the Gulf of Policastro. Looking way, way down, a fruited plain of vineyards, lemon trees and white fig stretches to the flanks of green mountains decked with wisps of vapor. Standing at the same point in 1811, Napoleon’s brother-in-law, appointed king of Naples in the early 19th century, uttered words that the town has engraved on a wall near the castle: “Qui non si muore.” Roughly, “Here you do not die.” Of course, people do die in the Cilento, a region south of the Amalfi Coast. But they also live longer than most, thanks to the Mediterranean diet, first studied in these parts. It is more accurate to say that here, eternal life is a more ... More

Two more 'Succession' actors are Broadway bound, in 'Job'
NEW YORK, NY.- “Job,” a two-character thriller about a psychological evaluation going awry, started small, with a run last year at SoHo Playhouse. Word-of-mouth was good, the New York Times review was positive and sales were strong, so this year it transferred for another off-Broadway run at the Connelly Theater in the East Village. Now the play, written by Max Wolf Friedlich and directed by Michael Herwitz, is planning to make the leap to Broadway, with a two-month run beginning this summer at the Hayes Theater. The Broadway production, like the off-Broadway runs, will star Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon. Both of them appeared in the HBO series “Succession” — Friedman was a member of the principal cast, playing Frank Vernon, the chief operating officer of Waystar Royco, and Lemmon appeared in the show ... More

Billionaire plans dive to the Titanic in a newly designed submersible
NEW YORK, NY.- A real estate billionaire in Ohio is planning an underwater voyage to the site of the Titanic shipwreck, where a submersible imploded on its approach to the sea floor a year ago, killing all five passengers on board. Shortly after the OceanGate disaster, Larry Connor, 74, a real estate investor and amateur adventurer, contacted the co-founder of Triton Submarines, Patrick Lahey, imploring him to build a submarine that could reach the depths of the Titanic safely and repeatedly, according to The Wall Street Journal. The two men aim to explore and conduct scientific research at the site, located off the coast of Newfoundland, 12,500 feet under the sea, in a two-person submersible that Triton is designing in the summer of 2026. “Our is just not a trip to the Titanic,” Connor said in an interview Tuesday. “It’s a research mission.” “The other purpose is to ... More

Where royals once hunted in France, a green forest welcomes everyone
NEW YORK, NY.- In popular imagination, France’s Fontainebleau is inextricably linked to its grand Château. But when I visit, I typically skip it entirely. Yes, the 1,500-room Château de Fontainebleau that was inhabited by French kings and emperors for eight centuries may seem the most arresting attraction in this region 37 miles south of Paris. Instead, it’s the surrounding forest that entices me to return again and again. The 50,000-acre Forest of Fontainebleau was once prized by the royals for its exceptional hunting grounds. Now it is France’s second-largest national forest and part of the Fontainebleau & Gâtinais UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, drawing 15 million visitors annually for bouldering, trail running, forest bathing and other activities, thanks to a topography that combines forested, wet and dry environments, and three massifs ... More

The man behind the effortless, viral grooves
NEW YORK, NY.- Dancers sometimes talk about finding the pocket — a kind of flow state where rhythm and movement are so perfectly married that the dancing is not just on the music, but in it. Choreographer and dancer Shay Latukolan lives in the pocket. His deceptively simple dances have an effortless groove, yet attend to every detail of the pop hooks they’re often built for. And like those hooks, they get stuck in your head. That catchiness acts as a lure in rapper Childish Gambino’s “Little Foot Big Foot” video, released this month. Latukolan’s choreography blends old-school Nicholas Brothers-style showmanship with TikTok dance vocabulary, an irresistible mix. Its charm makes the video’s dark second-act twist — a signature move for Gambino (alter ego of actor Donald Glover) — all the more shocking. The tone is lighter ... More

Exhibition at Galerie Miranda brings together 5 contemporary positions
PARIS.- A selection of photographs by established contemporary artists, all represented by Galerie Miranda and whose different practices illustrate the wealth of the landscape genre. With some new works, the exhibition offers a dialogue between formal and documentary approaches - such as Gérard Dalla Santa's beautiful homage to Walker Evans - and others, more radical, like that of John Chiara whose monumental approach that sublimates the ordinary. Marina Berio (is a visual artist from New York City. She studied photography, drawing, sculpture and art history in college, obtaining her MFA in Photography at Bard College. Marina Berio has been awarded grants by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock/Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Aaron Siskind Foundation, and ... More

Fondation Louis Vuitton opens 2024 spring exhibitions: Henri Matisse and Ellsworth Kelly
PARIS.- Fondation Louis Vuitton is reaffirming its mission: to promote the art of our time to the widest possible audience. Committed to presenting ”landmark works of modernity,” the Fondation celebrates modern artists who proposed new models and challenged perceptions. At the same time, through the Open Space program, which aids and promotes emerging talent, the Fondation supports contemporary creators who boldly set out to reinvent our times. From May 7 to September 9, 2024, a landmark exhibition dedicated to The Red Studio (1911) by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is being presented simultaneously with a new retrospective of the work of Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), which features paintings, sculptures, photographs, and drawings. Additionally, as part of LVMH’s support of the Olympic Games ... More

Susanne Page, who took rare photos of the Hopi and Navajo, dies at 86
NEW YORK, NY.- Susanne Page, whose intimate photographs of the Hopi tribe and Navajo nation opened a rare window on the everyday culture of Indigenous people in America’s Southwest, died May 13 in Alexandria, Virginia. She was 86. The cause of her death, at the home of her daughter, Kendall Barrett, was brain cancer, another daughter, Lindsey Truitt, said. Page was in the midst of a 40-year career as a photographer for the United States Information Agency when she began creating vivid images of Native Americans and the flora and fauna that sustained them — work that embraced the beauty of the natural world and its profound spiritual significance to those Indigenous people. Her work appeared in magazines such as National Geographic and Smithsonian and in several books. Along the way she introduced the subject of Native ... More

Barry Kemp, who unearthed insights about ancient Egypt, dies at 84
NEW YORK, NY.- Barry Kemp, an archaeologist whose decades of painstaking digging at the abandoned capital of a mysterious pharaoh helped revolutionize our understanding of how everyday ancient Egyptians lived, worked and worshiped, died May 15 in Cambridge, Britain, one day after his 84th birthday. The death was announced by the Amarna Project, an archaeology nonprofit where Kemp was director. It did not specify a cause or exact location. Almost from the moment he arrived to teach at Cambridge University in 1962, fresh out of college, Kemp was a phenomenon. When he was just 26, he published an article in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology that greatly shifted the debate about a set of burial structures from around 3000 B.C., showing they were most likely forerunners to the pyramids. Much of his work had little to ... More