Jacqueline Lamba (France, 1910-1993), In Spite of Everything, Spring, 1942. Oil on canvas, 44 7/8 x 60 in. 114 x 152.4 cm.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-Weinstein Gallery kicks off its 30th anniversary season with Jacqueline Lamba – Painter , a retrospective featuring over forty paintings and works on paper created from 1927 - 1988. This exhibition marks Lamba’s first gallery exhibition in the United States in seventy-four years. Lamba showed her paintings, drawings, and objects in almost all of the significant surrealism exhibitions of the 1930s. She was also included in Peggy Guggenheim’s groundbreaking 31 Women exhibition at the Art of the Century in 1941, had a solo exhibition at Norlyst Gallery in 1944, and was featured with her second husband, David Hare at the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA) in 1946. In 1967, she had a retrospective at the Museé Picasso in Antibes, with Picasso himself initiating the event. Despite six decades of making and exhibiting artwork, Lamba remains less well-known as an artist than her dear friends Dora Maar, Claude Cahun, an ... More
Nancy Yao, president of the Museum of Chinese in America. The Smithsonian Institution has announced that Yao will become the founding director of the American Women’s History Museum. (Museum of Chinese in America via The New York Times)
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- There are still many unanswered questions about the Smithsonian’s proposed American Women’s History Museum despite the new institution’s receiving congressional approval more than two years ago. Nobody knows how much construction will cost, what objects will be displayed in the galleries or precisely where the building will stand on the National Mall in Washington. But the museum is one step closer to determining its future: On Monday, the Smithsonian Institution announced that Nancy Yao, who currently leads the Museum of Chinese in America, will become the cultural center’s founding director. “Never did I think that I would have this opportunity,” Yao ... More
Banksy (born 1974) Nola (White), 2008 (Published by Pictures on Walls, London, with their blindstamp) Estimates: 70,000 - 100,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- British. Cool. returns to Bonhams New Bond Street on Wednesday 29 March. Bringing together an array of art, prints, fashion, photographs and popular culture memorabilia, the third edition of the interdepartmental thematic sale will include prints by Banksy, a bag by Tracy Emin, and clothing by the late Dame Vivienne Westwood, amongst many other British cultural highlights. One of the standout lots is a print of Mick Jagger from Mick Jagger Portfolio by Andy Warhol. Demonstrating the spread of the British influence across the Atlantic, as well as Jagger’s enduring sense of cool, the work has an estimate of £60,000 - 80,000. Janet Hardie, Bonhams Co-Head of Sale, commented: “British. Cool. is such a fun sale and it’s a wonderful showcase of British creativity across different decades and artforms. This year’s selection is as diverse as ever ... More
Il Vittorioso n.8, 1963, Ed. A.V.E.
ROME.- Palazzo Arti Fumetto Friuli broadened its horizons, becoming the PAFF! International Museum of Comic Art. This innovative cultural hub based in Pordenone organises, promotes and hosts national and international temporary exhibitions featuring the great masters of comic art from around the globe. On March 10th, 2023, with support from the Ministry of Culture, it inaugurated a new permanent collection, boasting a multimedia library and, by the end of the year, will include an archive with climate-controlled storage. In its new form, the Venue enhances an already impressive offering. With the support of the Regional Authority of Friuli Venezia Giulia and the Municipality of Pordenone, Paff! has been combining culture, training, education, learning, research and entertainment through the communicative format of comics since 2018. Under the artistic direction of its founder, Giulio De Vita, PAFF! International Museum of ... More
A space for children at the Brooklyn Heights Library in Brooklyn, Feb. 28, 2023. Mayor Eric Adams, facing a giant budget deficit, wants to slash funds for New York’s libraries, which have long played an outsized role in offering services and safety to the city. (Justin Kaneps/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A city is only as good as its public spaces. The COVID-19 pandemic was another reminder: For quarantined New Yorkers, parks, outdoor dining sheds and reopened libraries became lifelines. But now Mayor Eric Adams wants to slash funds for parks ($46 million) and for libraries ($13 million this fiscal year, more than $20 million next), and the City Council is debating the dining sheds. The sheds need regulation and the city budget needs to be cut by perhaps $3 billion. That said, if you don’t find the current political conversation shortsighted, you might want to do what I recently did and check out some of the library branches that have opened since the start of 2020. I ... More
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II "Dr. Manhattan" Blue HERO Facemask with comfort strips from Watchmen, Episode 8: "A God Walks into Abar" (HBO® Original, 2019).
DALLAS, TX.- Following its 2019 debut on HBO, Damon Lindelof's nine-episode Watchmen garnered 26 Primetime Emmy® Awards nominations and 11 wins, among them a statue for Outstanding Limited Series. It also retains its rightful place high on some critics' lists of the greatest TV shows of all time. At last, fans of Watchmen can now own a piece of it: On April 5, Heritage Screenbid, in conjunction with HBO, will auction nearly 300 items from the acclaimed series, from its heroes' costumes and screen-used props to pieces of the sets, including the extraordinarily detailed center console, steering wheel and bucket seats from the reconstructed Owlship that took flight in the series' first episode. With its working ... More
Dr. R. Scott Stephenson. Photo: MoAR.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Dozens of artifacts stolen during the 1970s have been recovered and returned to the owning institutions, announced Jacqueline Maguire, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division; Jacqueline Romero, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and Kevin Steele, Montgomery County (Pa.) District Attorney. At a ceremony held at Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution this morning, the FBI’s Art Crime Team and its law enforcement partners repatriated 50 items — the oldest dating back to the French and Indian War — belonging to 17 institutions located in five different states. The artifacts returned to their owning institutions this morning included an 1847 Mississippi rifle stolen from a Mississippi museum; a World War II battlefield pickup pistol belonging to General Omar Bradley, stolen from the U.S. Army War College Museum; and 19th century ... More
NWA 15368 Lunar Meteorite - Main Mass Lunar (fragmental breccia) Mali. Found: 2021.
DALLAS, TX.- Few things have sparked as much curiosity, creativity and wonder as the moon. English author Arthur C. Clarke called the largest light in the night sky "the first milestone on the road to the stars." The moon helps control tides. It has become a measuring stick of ambition, when someone is urged to "shoot for the moon," or a qualifier of unlimited joy for someone who is "over the moon." It has captured the fascination of people for generations, from the first human moon landing in 1969 to one of the most celebrated classic rock albums, which was released four years later. But while everyone can see the moon each time the skies above go dark, it is much more difficult to own a part of it. Each of the 12 people who have walked on the moon's surface were Americans, and any sample any of them picked up immediately became the possession of NASA and the U.S. government. But ownership is still possible ... as will be the case when a massive NWA 15368 Lunar Meteorite is offered March 31 in More
A plaster cast of Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y., March 6, 2023. After 125 years, the male-dominated architectural fixture of New York’s Capitol is getting an update. (Cindy Schultz/The New York Times)
ALBANY, NY.- Even then, the gender imbalance was glaring. The so-called Million Dollar Staircase, spanning 444 steps and four floors of the New York State Capitol, memorialized the faces of dozens of distinguished figures in delicate carvings, but not one was a woman. Scrutiny prompted a state official to hastily authorize the addition of several women to the staircase’s lower level. The year was 1898. Now, after 125 years, the state will make the first addition to the roster of honorees, and it will again be a woman: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the trailblazing Supreme Court justice, feminist icon and Brooklyn native. The new carving will be fashioned from the same Corsehill sandstone used for the original stairs. Flown in from a quarry in Scotland, it is expected to cost about $150,000 and to be ready for unveiling sometime this spring, although it seemed unlikely ... More
TACOMA, WA.- On Saturday, March 4th, Museum of Glass hosted an exclusive, 200-person celebration of Lino Tagliapietra. With family, friends, and colleagues, as well as artists the maestro has inspired in attendance, Tagliapietra made his final appearance in the United States. The artist plans to retire and spend his time with his family in Italy. The highlight of the evening was the announcement that Tagliapietra has selected Museum of Glass as the place for his work and legacy to reside. The artist will contribute art from his own archive that will fill a new permanent gallery space at Museum of Glass. “The planned Lino Tagliapietra exhibition at Museum of Glass is a key part of our strategic plan moving forward and represents our goal to celebrate glass artists. We are honored that maestro Lino Tagliapietra has chosen Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington as the place to tell his legacy story, and that he will generously provide art ... More
Jamie Lee Curtis with her Oscar for best actress in a supporting role for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” at the 95th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, March 12, 2023. (Noel West/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In the late 1960s, young cineastes shook up a moribund film industry by delivering idiosyncratic, startlingly original work. The moment became known as New Hollywood. When film historians look back at the 95th Academy Awards, they may mark it as the start of a new New Hollywood. Voters honored A24’s head-twisting, sex toy-brandishing, TikTok-era “Everything Everywhere All at Once” with the Oscar for best picture — along with six other awards — while naming Netflix’s German-language war epic “All Quiet on the Western Front” the winner in four categories, including best international film. The Daniels, the young filmmaking duo behind the racially diverse “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” won Oscars for their original screenplay and directing. (The Daniels is an ... More
Oaxacan alebrije dragon. Mexico, 20th century, painted paper-mâché dragon figure, 22.5" H est. $500-700.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On Tuesday, April 4th, 2023, at 12:00pm PST, John Moran Auctioneers invites you to travel south of the border and experience the wide array of artisanal wonders presented in their Made in Mexico auction. This spring sale has over 330 lots and will offer everything from fine art to Folk Art furniture, drink sets to saddles, and over 150 lots of jewelry including an impressive collection of Mexican silver designs. Featured artists and designers include Emilio Rodriguez Larrain, Arnold Belkin, William Spratling, Rene Contreraso Osio, Antonio Pineda, and Matilde Poulat. Leading the category of fine art is Llansa-Cadaques Julio Agosto, 1963, by Emilio Rodriguez Larrain (1928-2015). The Peruvian Modernist exhibited throughout Europe, including Madrid, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, Florence, Milan, and Rome. In 2106, the Lima Art Museum in Peru held a retrospective of his work, praising him as “an ... More
Grace Ndiritu. Photo: Steve Smith.
LONDON.- Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan artist born in 1982. Concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world, Ndiritu works across film, painting, textiles, performance and social practice. In 2012 she began creating a new body of work under the title Healing The Museum, which sets out to re-introduce non-rational healing methodologies such as shamanism to re-activate the ‘sacredness’ of art spaces. Ndiritu has an upcoming mid-career survey, Healing The Museum at S.M.A.K., Ghent in April 2023. The exhibition at Kate MacGarry includes a new monographic publication published by Motto Books for the special occasion. Ndiritu won the Jarman Film Award 2022 for her films Black Beauty and Becoming Plant. Her films have also been selected for the 72nd Berlinale (2022), BFI London Film Festival (2022) and FIDMarseille (2021). Recent solo exhibitions include Grace Ndiritu Reimagines the FOMU Collection, Foto Museum, Antwer ... More
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Noonans to sell newly discovered 18th century gold 'Memento Mori' ring today LONDON.- It was in late 2022 in the Vale of Glamorgan that David Nicklin aged 65, a retired civil servant was metal detecting with a friend using his Minelab Equinox 600 on a field that had been searched before many times. This time, however, it had been deep ploughed for the first time in 40 years after a potato harvest. After finding nothing but one old farthing, David decided to finally search around the edge of the field when he unearthed a gold ring at a depth of 3-4 inches. At first David thought it was a posy ring, but his friend noticed it had a skeleton in black enamel around the hoop. The ring which is in excellent condition will be offered at Noonans in a sale of Jewellery, watches and objects of vertu on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, with an estimate of £3,000-4,000. As Nigel Mills, Consultant (Coins and Antiquities) at Noonans commented: ... More
Single owner collection of Holy Land paintings to be put up for auction by Sworders LONDON.-Sworders’ sale of Old Masters, British and European Art on April 4 features some very fine English watercolours from an English private collection. They include a painting from David Roberts’s famous Holy Land series that is guided at £20,000-30,000. Jane Oakley, head of paintings at Sworders, describes allure of the collection that was assembled over many years by a well-travelled private individual. “It is always a pleasure as an auctioneer to handle a single owner collection. We gain a unique insight into the owner’s character and interests, and items that might on their own seem insignificant, make much more sense as part of a larger whole. This collection includes a variety of topographical works of places that were important to the owner – most noticeably Israel and Palestine, but also northern France and ... More
Drum-and-bass is rising again, with Nia Archives in the spotlight LONDON.- About 300 dance music fans were packed into a north London club late last year, waiting for Nia Archives, a jungle artist and DJ, to begin her set. Jungle and its successor drum-and-bass emerged in Britain in the 1990s, and club nights dedicated to these styles of dance music can often attract older crowds dominated by men looking to hear the relentlessly rhythmic sounds of their youth. But this evening was different: Young women were front and center in the crowd. As Archives, 23, sang over her own soulful tracks or dropped frantic remixes of rap hits with rumbling bass lines, groups of men tried to barge their way forward, but the women stuck out their elbows, held the men back and kept on dancing. Casey Forbes, 19, felt she “had to” stay at the front, she said afterward. “I’m a big fan of jungle music,” she added, “but there’s not much ... More
Restoring glory of Angola's carnival, with a puny budget but much passion LUANDA.- The singer stood in a rubble-strewn courtyard in one of the hard-knock neighborhoods of Luanda, Angola’s capital, antsy as he got the performers in line for their final rehearsal before the big competition. “United Af-ri-caaaa,” a voice hummed over a loudspeaker before a percussion-heavy beat kicked in. More than a dozen young people facing the singer, Tony do Fumo Jr., swiveled their hips and arms and stomped their feet. The group of mostly teenagers, led by do Fumo, was preparing for its inaugural performance at Carnival, a celebration — and contest for prize money — that ushers in the Christian season of Lent. Pacing with the glare of a drill sergeant, he blew a whistle and waved an arm. The dancers froze. Another whistle and gesture, and they were back on beat, do Fumo bobbing along with them. The son of an Angolan ... More
For France's protesters, the streets are the ultimate stage PARIS.- In large-scale theater and dance works, bodies moving in space have a momentum of their own; their collective power often feels like it could move mountains. Yet no number of monumental performances can compare to the enveloping force of tens of thousands of people, announcing as they did in Paris last week: “We are the show.” Street protests — a time-honored French tradition — are generally not for the agoraphobic, but on Tuesday, the crowds were the biggest on record this century. France’s Interior Ministry estimated there were 1.28 million marchers, while trade unions said there were 3.5 million. In Paris, the crowds were so large that some protesters branched off on a different course, along the Left Bank. The mountain the protesters were trying to move, for the sixth time in two months, was President Emmanuel Macron’s ... More
Some of the world's most historic comic books leap to auction March 31-April 2 DALLAS, TX.-Heritage's latest Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction, which takes place March 30-April 2, will rank among the auction house's most historic. This isn't the inevitable hyperbole of a media release, just mere fact, as this event counts among its essential offerings one of the most significant groups of key Golden Age books ever available in a single auction, especially at such high grades, among them Detective Comics No. 27, Superman No. 1, Marvel Comics No. 1 and a Batman No. 1 never before seen at auction. These books introduced us to the brightly-tightly clad men and women who fueled limitless fantasies and became immutable myths, the orphans and outsiders searching for truth, justice, maybe vengeance, always a better tomorrow. These are the pages in which our forebearers first met Superman, Batman, ... More
One-of-a-kind Banksy street signs lead Heritage's March 30 Urban Art event DALLAS, TX.- In the 1980s and early '90s one of the most common discussions in the art world was whether or not street art, a.k.a. graffiti (a.k.a. urban art), belonged in institutions, galleries and private collections. The question focused on relocation: Would transferring a would-be temporary work from the "wild" to a clean well-lighted place have a neutralizing or even castrating effect on the work (if not the artist's intentions)? Could urban art maintain its original impact or credibility if it's displayed, bought and sold alongside more conventional studio-made artworks? Then came Banksy, whose explosive success changed the course of the urban art market. Which is not to overlook the importance of Keith Haring or Kenny Scharf or DAZE (or later, Shepard Fairey) to this discussion, let alone the most famous artist who ever made the crossover feel ... More
From music to writing, This is how you move on NEW YORK, NY.- Sayre Quevedo had reached the end of a five-month affair with a married man when, in the middle of a snowstorm in the winter of 2017, he received a text from his former lover, asking to see him one last time. This particular whirlwind of a relationship, which they decided together could no longer continue, was very intimate and intense. “I was like, you know what? OK, fine,” Quevedo, a 30-year-old documentary artist in Brooklyn, recalled in a recent interview. “And he came over and again, I work in documentaries and I record instinctively as part of my practice, and I just remember thinking, like, Oh, I would really like to remember this conversation. I would really like to remember this moment.” To Quevedo’s relief, the man agreed to the unusual request. After not touching the recording for a long time (“I couldn’t bring myself to listen ... More
A24 achieves art-house supremacy with triumphant Oscar night NEW YORK, NY.- Six years after nabbing the best picture Oscar for “Moonlight,” the hip, art-house studio A24 succeeded at Sunday night’s Academy Awards on a scale that seemed to surprise even its executives, who entered the post-show Governor’s Ball with what-just-happened-looks on their faces. The studio became the first in the 95-year history of the Oscars to capture the top six awards at once: the four acting categories, director and picture. It won nine trophies in all — out of 18 nominations — with seven, including best picture, going to “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” That film, about a family of Asian immigrants who travel through a multiverse in their quest to find one another, was made for $20 million and grossed $106 million worldwide. The acting awards went to Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) and ... More
A conductor arrives at encores! With a Jerry Herman rarity NEW YORK, NY.- In 1969, musical theater composer-lyricist Jerry Herman achieved a Broadway milestone. With the opening of “Dear World” — joining his earlier “Hello, Dolly!” and “Mame” — he had three shows running at the same time. But the celebration didn’t last long: “Dear World” was a flop. Over-revised because of conflicting artistic visions and commercial pressures, it didn’t have the easier success of Herman’s hits, despite its elegant, French-inflected score and Angela Lansbury’s Tony Award-winning lead performance. Other beloved shows would come later — particularly the pathbreaking “La Cage aux Folles,” which in 1983 brought a gay love duet to Broadway — but as the decades went on, “Dear World” became a curiosity rather than canon. That, of course, is what New York City Center’s Encores! specializes in: brief revivals of Broadway ... More
'The Coast Starlight' Review: Strangers on a train NEW YORK, NY.- A northbound trip on the Coast Starlight, a gleaming Amtrak sleeper, lasts about 35 hours. The train leaves Los Angeles mid-morning and delivers its passengers to Seattle late the next day. By contrast, “The Coast Starlight,” Keith Bunin’s play at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater runs express, filling just a fraction of that time. A gentle, rueful play, directed with a steady and sympathetic hand by Tyne Rafaeli, it settles down among six passengers sharing a single coach. Narrow, nimble, self-contained, the ride it offers is as smooth as it is wistful. Because Bunin (“The Credeaux Canvas,” “The Busy World Is Hushed”) knows that any trip involves leaving something or someone behind. The narrative engine of “The Coast Starlight” is powered by T.J. (a jittery, ingenuous Will Harrison). T.J.’s journey is the most urgent, and his secret, ... More
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