Gillian Laub photographs Prof. Asher Matathias, 80, for her project about Holocaust survivors, in Brooklyn on Jan. 11, 2024. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
by Katherine Rosman and Gaya Gupta
NEW YORK, NY.- Rabbi Aliza Erber, 80, stood at the edge of a pier in lower Manhattan and told those around her to draw closer — and to look out toward the Brooklyn Bridge. A few seconds later, there it was: a portrait of her face projected onto the bridge, against the backdrop of the Brooklyn skyline, along with her own words. “It was not okay then, it’s not okay now.” She took in the moment, mesmerized. “That’s me,” she said, her eyes shining. “That’s me.” Erber is a Holocaust survivor who was hidden in a forest in the Netherlands as a baby during World War II. Standing alongside her Saturday evening was Gillian Laub (Editors Note: We are publishing this story because of its importance but would like for our readers to know that Gillian Laub tried to extort 3,000 dollars from ArtDaily for copyright infringement, a case which she lost)), a multimedia artist, who had orchestrated a sweeping public art project that unfurled across Manhattan and Brooklyn ... More
This world and the writer’s place in it has come up for reevaluation with the arrival of “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” an eight-part television series on FX.
by Ginia Bellafante
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1979, five years before he died and four years after his exile from the Upper East Side’s social cockpit, Truman Capote appeared on a talk show as a friend of the common man. The host, David Susskind, remained unpersuaded. “You are always on people’s yachts” and in “great mansions on Long Island,” he pointed out. “The thing in Spain with the Pamplona bull runs.” Come on. Capote gave up, reverting to a defense of his affection for the moneyed class. It had come to define him as much as his written work, the output of which had notoriously stalled after the publication of “In Cold Blood” in 1966. “I like rich people,” Capote said, “because they aren’t always trying to borrow something from me.” The joke sprang from the underbrush, inadvertently poignant. If Capote was not on loan, he was there — at the most rarefied parties and dining halls, as the favored guest at Cap Ferrat — to be bartered ... More
Albert Bierstadt, Western River, 1860s (detail), oil on mill board, 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches, framed by Eli Wilner for the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT.
NEW YORK, NY.- In honor of their 40th anniversary, Eli Wilner has announced that they again have matching grants available to cover part of the cost of selected replica reframing and frame restoration projects for museums. To apply, interested institutions should email the details of their reframing or frame restoration projects to info@eliwilner.com. No project is too small or too large. Wilner is very proud of two frames that they recently created for the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut, that were made possible through this program, for paintings by Frederic Edwin Church and Albert Bierstadt. The largest project completed through the matching grant program was the recreation of a monumental frame for Emanuel Leutze’s 12-by-21-foot painting Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851), at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, based on the discovery of long-lost documentary photographs by Mathew Brady. The original frame shown in the Brady p ... More
Visitors in New York on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Eastern Woodlands, which is being closed this weekend as the museum works to comply with new federal rules governing the holding and display of Native American cultural items.
by Julia Jacobs and Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Museum of Natural History will close two major halls exhibiting Native American objects, its leaders said on Friday, in a dramatic response to new federal regulations that require museums to obtain consent from tribes before displaying or performing research on cultural items. “The halls we are closing are artifacts of an era when museums such as ours did not respect the values, perspectives and indeed shared humanity of Indigenous peoples,” Sean Decatur, the museum’s president, wrote in a letter to the museum’s staff on Friday morning. “Actions that may feel sudden to some may seem long overdue to others.” The museum is closing galleries dedicated to the Eastern Woodlands and the Great Plains this weekend, and covering a number of ... More
BASEL.- At the beginning of the new year, the Fondation Beyeler is devoting a comprehensive solo show to Canadian artist Jeff Wall (b. 1946). It is the first exhibition of such scope in Switzerland in close to two decades. Wall has contributed significantly to establishing photography as an autonomous art form and is regarded today as one of its foremost practitioners. Featuring more than 50 works spanning five decades, the exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of the artist’s ground-breaking oeuvre, from his iconic large-scale transparencies displayed in lightboxes to his large-format black-and-white photographs and inkjet colour prints. The exhibition places particular emphasis on works produced in the last two decades, among them photographs on public view for the first time. The exhibition has been conceived in close collaboration with the artist. In his work, Jeff Wall probes the boundary between fact and invention, ... More
Dara Gottfried pages through photo prints made by her sister-in-law, the heralded New York City street photographer Arlene Gottfried, at a storage facility in New York, Jan. 13, 2024. (Sara Messinger/The New York Times)
by Corey Kilgannon
NEW YORK, NY.- A nondescript locker in a lower Manhattan storage center is a portal to a New York City still plagued by crack, AIDS and rampant crime. A drug user squats for a fix in a squalid Manhattan heroin den. A man wearing a Savage Riders biker gang jacket holds a yawning baby. A child straddles a stripped bicycle on a trash-strewn street in Spanish Harlem. Not everything is bleak. There’s a pig roasting on a spit in an abandoned Brooklyn lot. A smiling, bikini-clad bodybuilder flexes next to a Hasidic rabbi on a Queens beach. These images and countless others are crammed into hundreds of boxes left behind by street photographer Arlene Gottfried, who trained her unflinching lens on New York’s ... More
A library featuring Dutch literature at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. From gardens and child care to libraries and swimming pools, free amenities can be found in airports around the globe. (Schiphol Airport via The New York Times)
by Christine Chung
NEW YORK, NY.- For many travelers, airports are places to pass through as swiftly as possible, not places to savor. The incessant drone of announcements, the frustration of being shut out of increasingly exclusive lounges, the overpriced food, the serpentine lines and the fruitless search for an electrical outlet all can make for a hellish experience. But every now and then an airport can offer unexpected and delightful amenities that ease travel’s pain points. For Bill Tsutsui, 60, it was the vending machine at Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport in eastern Washington that sells canned cheese. “You get really jaded going through airports. Oh, yawn, another yoga room,” said Tsutsui, of Ottawa, ... More
This 75-piece installment is accompanied by works from two former Memphis College of Art professors, valentines from the Victorian era, and Dixon’s Teen Counsel.
MEMPHIS, TENN.-Dixon Gallery and Gardens presents winter exhibitions featuring works by San Francisco Bay Area artists Paul Wonner and Theophilius Brown, along with pieces by artists Remy Miller and Joe Morzuch. The winter series also includes an exhibition featuring 16th-century valentines. Finally, Dixon’s Teen Counsel curated an interactive exhibition featuring 19 local teenagers. Inspired by the widespread pursuit of abstract expressionism in the late 1940s and early 1950s, artists Wonner and Brown began to reengage with the visible world, applying the gestural style of action painting to depictions of people, landscapes, and still lifes. Both artists' styles evolved moving toward more representational works, as seen in “Breaking the Rules” on view in the Dixon’s main galleries Jan. 28-March 31. Former ... More
Signs for the upcoming 2024 Olympics at Hotel de Ville in Paris, where many well-known monuments are being transformed into sports and entertainment venues, Dec. 17, 2023. Want a prime spot to watch 10,000 athletes float by on the Seine or to catch beach volleyball in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower? Get ready for sticker shock. (Joann Pai/The New York Times)
PARIS.- The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics promises to be spectacular: On the glittering waters of the Seine, a flotilla of barges will carry about 10,000 athletes to the foot of the Eiffel Tower, as nearly 500,000 spectators line the 4-mile route to cheer on the event of the century. Good luck, though, getting any one of the 100,000 ticketed seats to be front and center at the party. Those are mostly sold out — and the few left cost an eye-popping 2,700 euros (about $2,930) each. Tickets to watch another popular Olympic event, 10-meter men’s platform diving, are now only available through special-service hospitality packages starting at 875 euros, or women’s artistic gymnastics ... More
Mirza Ramic performs at Mezzanine in Kyiv, Oct. 7, 2023. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
by Carlotta Gall
KYIV.- When the owner of an underground club in Kyiv reached out to Western musicians to play in Ukraine, long before the war, there were not so many takers. But an American from Boston, Mirza Ramic, accepted the invitation, spawning a lasting friendship with the club’s owner, Taras Khimchak. “I kept coming back,” Ramic, 40, said in an interview at the club, Mezzanine, where he was preparing for a performance during a recent tour of Ukraine. The country, he said “is one of the places that has welcomed me most and been the most supportive of my music.” And so especially after the Russian invasion two years ago, he added, “I wanted to come now, to show my support in these hard times.” Ramic, born in Bosnia, is a child of war himself. At 11, he lost his father in the shelling of his hometown, Mostar, and spent years ... More
Max Beckmann,Bathers with Green Cabin and Boatmen in Red Trousers, 1934. Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm. Kunstmuseum Den Haag, purchased with financial support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, het Mondriaan Fonds, VriendenLoterij, Fonds Kunstmuseum en de Mondriaan Business Club.
THE HAGUE.- Sharp angles, disconcerting perspectives, restrictive framing. Artist Max Beckmann used all kinds of techniques to manipulate space in his paintings. The painted surface was his domain. Painting allowed Beckmann to control reality, which he believed had both physical and spiritual dimensions. His unique depiction of space made him one of the most extraordinary and idiosyncratic artists of the twentieth century. In Universum Max Beckmann Kunstmuseum Den Haag is – for the first time – exploring his ... More
Hadieh Shafie’s installation, Floor, and Ceiling Circles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In collaboration with nonprofit Farhang Foundation, a compelling new group exhibition, ART IRAN: Falling into Language, opened at the art museum Craft Contemporary on Jan. 28, 2024 and runs through May 5. ART IRAN: Falling into Language presents nine expatriate Iranian artists who engage diverse forms of the Persian alphabet, handwriting, and fragments as an essential part of their artistic practice. This exhibition includes installation works, drawings, collages, site-specific art, and an interactive installation. The methods used range from sewing; assemblages of letters, words, and ceramics; and wall painting. “The technique of handwriting on objects of different materials, from dishes ... More
Malia Obama, credited as Malia Ann for her short film “The Heart.” (Roman Cuba Brown/Sundance Institute via The New York Times)
by Kyle Buchanan
PARK CITY, UTAH.- If you’re a celebrity seeking to rebrand, the Sundance Film Festival can offer a useful assist. From Marvel superheroes seeking an indie turn to teenage movie stars hoping to segue into spicy adult roles, the snowy event is the perfect place to debut a new direction. This year’s big rebrand was so skillfully executed that many people I ran into here at Sundance didn’t even know it had happened. If they had, we might have gotten a mob scene at one of the typically sedate short-film showcases, where an 18-minute project called “The Heart” premiered from a fledgling filmmaker credited as Malia Ann, though she’s much better known as Malia Obama, the daughter of the former president. Now 25, Obama is no Hollywood neophyte: After interning at the Weinstein Co. in 2017, she studied filmmaking at Harvard University as a visual and environmental studies major and then, upon graduation, wrote for the Amazon series “Swarm.” That show was co-created by Donal ... More
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'Once Upon a Mattress' review: Sutton Foster as a perfectly goofy princess NEW YORK, NY.- Some casting choices are blindingly obvious. That does not make them lazy; it makes them right. Such is the case with Sutton Foster as the eccentric Princess Winnifred in the Encores! revival of “Once Upon a Mattress,” which opened Wednesday at City Center. The central role in this broadly goofy musical was exuberantly, indelibly originated by Carol Burnett in 1959. While Foster has displayed range over the course of her musical-theater career — she’s stepping into Mrs. Lovett’s kitchen in “Sweeney Todd” on Feb. 9, five days after completing this show’s two-week run — many of Foster’s best roles, like Janet Van De Graaff in “The Drowsy Chaperone” and Reno Sweeney in “Anything Goes,” are imprinted with an ebullient, joyful relish in the very act of performance. And Winnifred, described by another character ... More
Lily Gladstone on her history-making Oscar nomination NEW YORK, NY.- Lily Gladstone shed a few tears when she heard Jack Quaid read her name in the best actress Oscars category on Tuesday morning. “I didn’t expect that I would cry the way that I did,” she said. But it was nothing compared with the reaction of her parents. “It definitely turned on the waterworks,” said Gladstone, who stars as Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman whose white husband is part of a murderous conspiracy in the Martin Scorsese epic “Killers of the Flower Moon.” She was calling from Pawhuska, Oklahoma, shortly after watching the Oscar nominations announcement on FaceTime with her parents. After all, it’s not every day that you’re nominated for your first Oscar — or that you become the first Native American person to be nominated for a competitive acting Academy Award. “It’s something that I wasn’t sure I ... More
Calista Flockhart is back, with a flock of venomous swans SANTA MONICA, CALIF.- On a chilly January weekend in Los Angeles, I turned into a truffle pig. I foraged relentlessly all over town, looking for truffle fries. By Monday, when it was time to go to my interview, the only thing in my suitcase I could squeeze into was a Spanx dress. “My sister gave me this for Christmas,” I explained sheepishly to the famously lissome Calista Flockhart as I slid into a booth on the terrace of the Georgian Hotel. “I guess you’ve never owned any Spanx.” “I love Spanx!” she said. “In fact, I just ordered — no kidding — a pair of Spanx jeans. They make really cute jeans. They’re very wide.” Seeing my skeptical look, she reminded me: “It’s not only about sucking it all in. It’s about smoothing it all the way. No panty lines.” And then, as we sat in this romantic sp ... More
You saw Jason Kelce. This guy saw 'The Feast of Bacchus.' NEW YORK, NY.- LJ Rader tries to be online as much as possible during big sporting events, but he missed the first half of last Sunday’s NFL playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs because of a dinner engagement. After he left the restaurant, Rader checked his phone and saw an unusual request: The NFL had tagged him on X, formerly known as Twitter, hoping he would deliver one of his signature creations. “I would’ve been so mad if I was still eating and had missed this,” Rader said. On social media, Rader is the wizard behind Art But Make It Sports, where he uses accounts on X and Instagram to pair photographs from the world of sports with paintings and other pieces of art that mirror them. Witty, irreverent and often poignant, the accounts have a combined 365,000 followers. Last Sunday, the ... More
Jo-El Sonnier, who sparked a revival of Cajun music, dies at 77 NEW YORK, NY.- Jo-El Sonnier, a singer and accordionist who revived Cajun music in popular culture with hit versions of Richard Thompson’s “Tear-Stained Letter” and Slim Harpo’s “Rainin’ in My Heart,” and with appearances on recordings by Mark Knopfler and Elvis Costello, died Jan. 13 after a performance in Llano, Texas. He was 77. The cause was a heart attack, music promoter Tracy Pitcox wrote on social media. He said Sonnier had been airlifted to a hospital in Austin, Texas, where he was pronounced dead. Recordings by Cajun singers and players of stringed instruments like Rusty and Doug Kershaw and Jimmy C. Newman often reached the country Top 40 in the 1950s and ’60s. But it wasn’t until Sonnier’s arrival three decades later that Cajun accordion music became more than a regional phenomenon. His album “Come ... More
Review: A Japanese 'Boléro'? It's a spooky ride of revenge. NEW YORK, NY.- For better or worse, Ravel’s “Boléro,” with its churning swell of sound, has stirred the imagination of artists over time, among them choreographer Maurice Béjart and the ice dancing team of Torvill and Dean. It even found a seductive partner, Bo Derek — along with her cornrows — in the Blake Edwards movie “10.” With “Nihon Buyo in the 21st Century: From Kabuki Dance to Boléro,” performed at the Japan Society on Wednesday, it has a new rendering. In “Boléro — The Legend of Anchin and Kiyohime,” director-choreographer Hanayagi Genkuro uses Ravel’s score to retell the folk tale “The Legend of Dojoji.” In the tale, Kiyohime (the striking Azuma Tokuyo, well known in Kabuki theater as Nakamura Kazutaro), an innkeeper’s daughter, falls in love with Anchin, a monk who promises to return to her but never does. ... More
Powerhouse Museum announces the passing of Trustee Mr Lang Walker AO SYDNEY.-The Powerhouse Museum is saddened to hear of the passing of Trustee and Powerhouse Parramatta Foundation Donor, Mr Lang Walker AO. Mr Walker was appointed to the Powerhouse Trust in November 2020. One of Australia's greatest visionaries, Mr Walker was a titan of industry and an incredible business leader and philanthropist who led investment into culture in Western Sydney. In partnership with Western Sydney University, the Walker Family Foundation was the first philanthropy partner to invest into Powerhouse Parramatta. Alongside his wife Sue, Mr Walker made a visionary investment of $20 million into the Powerhouse to support the education of future generations in Western Sydney through the establishment of the region's first state cultural institution. One of his great legacies will be the Lang ... More
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September 29, 1905. Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 - July 4, 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. His paintings are existential in tone and content, explicitly composed with the intention of communicating a sense of locality, presence, and contingency. In this image: Barnett Newman, Thirteenth Station, 1965/1966. Acrylic on canvas, 198.2 x 152.5 cm (78 1/16 x 60 1/16 in.). Collection of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff.
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