In a photo provided by the Trustees of the British Museum shows, a glass intaglio of a beardless Roman. The British Museum recovered more than 350 ancient artifacts that were looted from its store rooms and is
LONDON.- For six months, a team at the British Museum has been working with police to recover hundreds of engraved gems ... More
Fairfield Porter (American, 1907–1975). Cityscape with Yellow Taxi, 1945. Oil on canvas, 32 ¼ x 24 ¼ in. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y. Gift of the Estate of Fairfield Porter, 19882.9.2.
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum proudly presents Across the Avenues: Fairfield Porter in New York, a permanent collection exhibition featuring 26 paintings and prints. The exhibition focuses on Porter's cityscapes of New York between the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s, showcasing his ability to capture the bustling energy of the city, both day and night. The works featured in the exhibition explore the city from various perspectives, including views from above through an apartment window, scenes of hurried sidewalks during the mid-afternoon rush, and below the noisy avenues on subway platforms. The selection, drawn from the Museum's extensive Porter collection of over 240 works, includes 23 paintings and three lithographic prints that illuminate the artist's use of varied hues. In the few evening scenes included in the exhibition, Porter’s palette dramatically shifts from warm yellows and light blues with tones of pink dispersed throughout the skies to capture daytime scenes to moodier tones o ... More
Amy Yao, Doppelgängers, 2016. Installation view at Various Small Fires, January 23–March 19, 2016. Image courtesy the artist and 47 Canal, New York. Anna Sew Hoy, Hard Swamp Ecstatic Return, 2022. Image courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, Mexico City.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Curated by artist Anna Sew Hoy and ICA LA Executive Director Anne Ellegood, Scratching at the Moon is the first focused survey of Asian American artists in a Los Angeles contemporary ... More
Frederick Brosen, Fall, Bethesda Fountain. Watercolor over graphite on paper, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.-Museum of the City of New York, the city’s storyteller for over a century, has opened its special exhibition, Four Seasons of Central Park: Watercolors by Frederick Brosen, on February 9th. The installation marks the public debut of the artist’s new quartet of paintings capturing Central Park's changing seasons. Traversing the masterpiece that is Central Park, arguably the bucolic ... More
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston presents Wu Tsang: Of Whales, an immersive video installation inspired by Herman Melville’s classic 1851 American novel Moby Dick; or, The Whale. In Of Whales, Wu Tsang (b. 1982, Worcester, Massachusetts) ... More
Augustin Cardenas: Untitled Abstract Totem sculpture, made from carved and painted wood by the Cuban-French artist Augustin Cardenas (1927-2001), stands 61 ½ inches tall, monogrammed (est. $20,000-$30,000).
ATLANTA, GA.- The 458-lot Art Deco to Post-Modern Art & Design auction, starting at 10 am Eastern, will feature contemporary and modern art and furniture, and the collection of interior designer Bill Stewart. A 1965 offset lithograph in colors of Andy Warhol’s ... More
Sami Saastamoinen / Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design.
HELSINKI.- Helsinki City Council has voted to provide a capital donation of 60 million euros to the foundation responsible for establishing the new national museum of architecture and design. The Finnish state will match this funding, with an additional 30 million euros to be raised from private donations. With these commitments in place, an ... More
Mao Zedong Historically Important Signed Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao (The Little Red Book).
BOSTON, MASS.-RR Auction's first-ever February installment of its Remarkable Rarities series brings an extraordinary collection of historical artifacts to the auction block, featuring over 50 pieces of ... More
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-Paul Thiebaud Gallery hosted the opening of Arthur Okamura: Buddha’s Garden, its debut exhibition of works from the Estate of Arthur Okamura yesterday. On view are ten acrylic ... More
An American director’s adaptation of the beloved novel is resonating with moviegoers, who may recognize some similarities in its satire of authoritarian rule.
NEW YORK, NY.- By all appearances, the movie adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s cult favorite novel “The Master and Margarita,” in Russian theaters this winter, shouldn’t be thriving in President Vladimir Putin’s ... More
Jane Harris, Buff and Tan, 2005. (detail). Oil on canvas. Collection Frac Nouvelle Aquitaine MÉCA.
BORDEAUX .-Frac MÉCA, Bordeaux, has staged an exhibition of paintings and watercolours by British artist Jane Harris (1956–2022), that opened on Friday 16 February 2024. Ellipse, ... More
Karel Dicker, Cracking A Nut (2023). Acrylic on Canvas, Walnut Frame, 36 x 29 cm.
AMSTERDAM.- An evening of art and connection began this past February 10th at Marian Cramer Projects in celebration of the opening of ‘Luxe Benen’. "A group show that holds a special place ... More
Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Palais de Tokyo, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
LONDON.- Marking the artist’s inaugural solo show with the gallery, White Cube recently opened ‘A MERCY | DUMMY,’ an exhibition of sculpture, installation and painting by Tiona Nekkia McClodden. ... More
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Montclair Art Museum presenting a landmark exhibition 'Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM' MONTCLAIR, NJ.-The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) announces the grand opening of its landmark exhibition, Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM. With over 70 works in various mediums by 59 ground breaking artists, Century is the largest and most comprehensive show of its kind at MAM, underscoring a longtime commitment since the 1940s to the curation and appreciation of artworks by Black artists. Curated by Adrienne L. Childs and nico w.okoro (see Curators’ bios), Century is complemented by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring multiple essays that offer insightful explorations of the rich historical and cultural context of Black art. The exhibition has been coordinated at MAM by Chief Curator Gail Stavitsky. With focus on the depth, breadth, and variety of art by African Americans, Century explores art as a living, generative ... More
Schubert's operas were failures. Is their music worth saving? NEW YORK, NY.- “I feel myself the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world,” Franz Schubert, suffering from syphilis and reeling from professional failures, wrote in March 1824 to his friend, painter Leopold Kupelwieser. Imagine a man, he said, who will never be healthy again, and “whose most brilliant hopes have perished.” In the same breath, Schubert expressed sorrow over the fate of his attempt at a grand Romantic opera, “Fierrabras,” which had been canceled in Vienna, and that of another stage work, “Die Verschworenen,” which didn’t make it past a private performance. “I seem once again,” Schubert, then 27, wrote in his letter, “to have composed two operas for nothing.” He wouldn’t return to the genre again. And even after his death in 1828, at 31, when many of his works enjoyed posthumous adulation and were performed widely, ... More
The barefoot memoirist: Ina Garten takes her story to a new publisher NEW YORK, NY.- In 2019, celebrity chef Ina Garten set off a flurry of excitement among her millions of fans: Garten, a Food Network star, bestselling cookbook author and social media sensation, was writing a memoir. The publisher behind the book, Celadon, celebrated the acquisition of what was sure to be a bestseller in a news release. “Ina Garten is beloved by all, a national treasure who has become iconic beyond the food world,” Deb Futter, now the president and publisher of Celadon Books, an imprint of Macmillan, said in the release. “Her memoir will cement her legacy in the cultural landscape.” When Garten recently updated her Instagram bio to note the book’s October release date, the revelation once again led to online chatter and a cascade of news articles. One crucial detail was missing: The book was no longer coming from Macmillan. Instead, it will be published by Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House. There’s little information about the memoir online, and t ... More
'Between Two Knees' review: A virtuosic romp through a century of terrors NEW YORK, NY.- Rapid-fire punchlines and crafty sight gags may not seem the most obvious means to convey a brutal history of displacement and extermination. But “Between Two Knees,” which opened at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Manhattan on Tuesday, uses both in an audaciously sidesplitting comedy that’s an indictment of Native American persecution. The show’s antic account of Indigenous struggle was written by the 1491s, an intertribal sketch comedy troupe that includes Sterlin Harjo, a creator of “Reservation Dogs.” The action is bookended by two deadly standoffs: the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, where U.S. soldiers killed as many as 300 members of the Lakota Sioux tribe, and the occupation of that site in 1973 by the American Indian Movement and its supporters, who were protesting government injustice. A ... More
With $60 million gift, San Francisco Ballet plans focus on new works NEW YORK, NY.- San Francisco Ballet has a vibrant new artistic director: celebrated Spanish dancer Tamara Rojo. And the company has had a relatively strong recovery from the pandemic, with ticket sales recently approaching pre-COVID levels. Now, San Francisco Ballet has received a groundbreaking gift: It announced Thursday that it had secured a $60 million contribution from an anonymous donor, the largest in the company’s 91-year history and one of the biggest to an American dance company. “It was, for me, an enormous surprise,” Rojo, who joined the company in 2022, said in an interview. “The impact is immeasurable.” The vast majority of the gift, $50 million, will be used to bolster the company’s endowment, currently valued at about $108 million, and to help finance the creation and acquisition of new works. The remaining $10 ... More
Using opera to shine a light on wrongful imprisonment MONTCLAIR, NJ.- Near the end of “Blind Injustice,” an opera about six people who were wrongfully convicted of crimes and later freed, the exonerees reflect on the time they have spent behind bars. “What makes a person strong enough to endure injustice?” they sing. “What makes a person free?” Questions of prejudice, guilt and resilience run throughout “Blind Injustice,” composed by Scott Davenport Richards to a libretto by David Cote, which has its East Coast premiere on Friday at Peak Performances at Montclair State University. The work, which was commissioned by Cincinnati Opera and premiered there in 2019, explores the effects of wrongful convictions on the prisoners and their families, and the help to overturn their convictions that they received from the Ohio Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. One man who was sent to deat ... More
Booksellers on the Seine in Paris get an Olympic reprieve PARIS.- Gold-leafed books with engravings, 200-year-old leather-bound books, books so rare and precious they are wrapped carefully in cellophane before being nestled into place inside an antique wooden box set on the Seine’s stony shoulder for students, intellectuals, power brokers and tourists to browse. For centuries, the wooden bookstalls have been a fixture in the heart of Paris, and so when the city’s police, citing security concerns, ordered them closed during this summer’s Olympic Games, an uproar ensued. Now President Emmanuel Macron has stepped in. In a decision that resounded across the city this week, Macron deemed the booksellers “a living heritage of the capital” and said they could stay. The relief was obvious, and not only among the bouquinistes, who had threatened legal action and barricades before their stalls, but ... More
'Six' creators announce their second act LONDON.- In January 2019, Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow, the creators of the musical “Six,” were on a writer’s retreat in Connecticut, wondering how to follow up their celebrated first show. That month, “Six” — in which Henry VIII’s wives tell their stories via pop songs — was starting a major West End run, and a Broadway transfer was on the horizon. The show had already been a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and a growing number of American fans were streaming the show’s soundtrack. More and more, people wanted to know what the pair would do next. During the Connecticut retreat, they struggled to come up with new ideas, Marlow recalled in a recent interview, and instead gossiped about their love lives. Then, they had a breakthrough: “Maybe this is what we should write about,” Marlow said. On Wednesday, Marlow, ... More
For Tobias Menzies, acting is a less-is-more kind of thing NEW YORK, NY.- On a morning in early February, actor Tobias Menzies walked the Brooklyn Heights Promenade in the relative anonymity he prefers. Menzies wasn’t hiding. He wore no sunglasses, no cap — just Blundstones, jeans, a shearling coat. He didn’t duck when people came his way. But the past few years, including multiseason stints on “The Crown” and “Outlander,” have brought him a new visibility, which still makes him uneasy. “I’m not that confident about my life or what it is to be able to put it out in the public,” he said, shoulders hunched against the breeze. “I’m just bumbling along as best I can.” Menzies, 49, had come to New York City to rehearse “The Hunt,” a theatrical adaptation of the Thomas Vinterberg movie that begins performances at St. Ann’s Warehouse on Friday. Back in 2019, Menzies had originated the stage role ... More
San Francisco dedicates a cable car to Tony Bennett SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Cable car No. 53 took a special Valentine’s Day ride up Nob Hill in San Francisco on Wednesday morning, including a stop outside the Fairmont Hotel, where the car was officially dedicated to the singer Tony Bennett, who died in July at age 96. It was inside that hotel — at the Venetian Room, in 1961 — that Bennett first publicly performed his signature song, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” with its lyrics about cable cars climbing halfway to the stars. The tune still stirs pride and nostalgia in many San Franciscans, and the Giants play it after every home victory. The dedication, attended by Susan Benedetto, Bennett’s widow, added to a recent string of positive news about the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates the city’s buses, streetcars and light rail lines. Not long ago, the ... More
Alonzo King wants to wake up the world with ballet NEW YORK, NY.- Choreographer Alonzo King sees ballet differently. A dance is never just a dance. It’s a kind of faith, and the training necessary for it — day in and day out — is a way to keep that faith alive. His ballets have a way of sailing through sensations, of calming the nervous system, of realigning the body and mind. “Deep River,” which will have its New York premiere at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater beginning Thursday, is named after the spiritual, which is part of its score, and is rooted in ideas about courage and hope. It’s about a belief that King has: Within every person, a river flows. “You can’t live a full life without having gotten in contact with the river that is inside of you,” he said in a video interview from San Francisco, where he lives and where his company, Lines Ballet, is based. “And it’s a knowing, it’s a knowledge. It’s your ... More
On a day like today, Italian artist Michelangelo died
October 18, 1564. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni[a] (6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo,[b][1] was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. His work was inspired by models from classical antiquity and had a lasting influence on Western art. In this image: Plaster cast after Michelangelo Buonarroti, Night (Notte). Original c. 1524-26, cast 1897. The Royal Cast Collection, SMK – National Gallery of Denmark. Photo: SMK.
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