DRESDEN.- 2020 was an unprecedented year, a year of crisis in which our personal experiences of instability, of certainties dissolving, and of the fundamental connection between vitality and transience became universal experiences, touching people in societies around the world. Still Alive, the first comprehensive presentation of the Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, may be understood as a response to these experiences. But the decision to focus on the themes of fluidity, process, vitality and transience, goes back well before the current crisis: it was set in motion through the act of the donation itself. When the Sammlung Hoffmann was gifted to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in 2018, it was not tied to a fixed exhibition venue, to its own building. Rather, the donated works were meant to enter into an ongoing exchange with all the collections of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, thus making room for the dynamic nature of art, its openness and its simultaneous reliance on time and cont ... More
Veronica Ryan at Spike Island, 2018. Photo: Jeff Moore, courtesy Spike Island, Bristol.
NEW YORK, NY.-Paula Cooper Gallery announced representation of artist Veronica Ryan, born in 1956 in Plymouth, Montserrat and raised in England. Ryan's evocative sculptures and installations employ a wide range of materials, including bronze, plaster, marble, textiles and found objects, and a similar breadth of processes, from casting and carving to stitching, modelling and assembling. Much of her work draws on personal memories and experiences, making connections across time and place and reflecting the wider psychological implications of history, trauma and recovery. Over her forty-year career, Ryan has been the subject of numerous exhibitions both within the U.S. and abroad, including two major projects that will debut in 2021. She was awarded the Windrush Commission to create a public artwork in Hackney Town Hall Square in London, honoring the local Windrush ... More
People visit the M+ Pavilion, the first building of the West Kowloon Cultural District to be completed, in Hong Kong, April 9, 2017. Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times.
by Vivian Wang
HONG KONG(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- With its multibillion-dollar price tag and big-name artists, M+, the museum rising on Victoria Harbor, was meant to embody Hong Kong’s ambitions of becoming a global cultural hub. It was to be the city’s first world-class art museum, proof that Hong Kong could do high culture just as well as finance. It may instead become the symbol of how the Chinese Communist Party is muzzling Hong Kong’s art world. In recent days, the museum, which is scheduled to open later this year, has come under fierce attack from the city’s pro-Beijing politicians. State-owned newspapers have denounced the museum’s collection, which houses important works of ... More
Maratus nemo. Image by Joseph Schubert.
MELBOURNE.- Published today in international life science journal Evolutionary Systematics, Museums Victoria’s Joseph Schubert has released new research scientifically describing a new species of peacock spider of the genus Maratus. This brings the total number of species within this genus to 92. Bright orange in colour, Joseph chose to name this new species Maratus nemo after a nostalgic childhood favourite, Pixar’s Finding Nemo. ‘It has a really vibrant orange face with white stripes on it, which kind of looks like a clownfish, so I thought Nemo would be a really suitable name for it’, says Joseph of the name. The discovery was made thanks to a citizen scientist near Mount Gambier, South Australia. Sheryl Holliday, an ecological field officer for Nature Glenelg Trust, posted images of some spiders she had found while field sampling onto a peacock spider appreciation page on Facebook. Joseph ... More
Anonymous portrait of the child Mozart, possibly by Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni; painted in 1763 on commission from Leopold Mozart.
by Zachary Woolfe
NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For a musician, there could hardly be a more perilous task than completing works left unfinished by Mozart. “It was bloody cheek of me to even try,” Timothy Jones said in a recent interview. What began as a musicological lark for Jones, a Mozart expert who teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London, has now been captured on disc. His completions of several fragments for violin and keyboard were released Friday on the Channel Classics label, played by violinist Rachel Podger and fortepianist Christopher Glynn. Posthumous completions are not unheard of in the classical world. Mozart’s Requiem as it’s generally presented contains much material by Franz Xaver Süssmayr. Deryck Cooke’s realizations of Mahler’s 10th Symphony — of which only a single movement was substantially finished at its composer’s death — are widely performed, if still controversial in certain ... More
Her books sold more than 85 million copies.
by William Grimes
NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Beverly Cleary, who enthralled tens of millions of young readers with the adventures and mishaps of Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, the bratty Ramona Quimby and her older sister Beezus, and other residents of Klickitat Street, died Thursday in Carmel, California. She was 104. The death was announced by HarperCollins, her publisher. With “Henry Huggins,” published in 1950, Cleary, a librarian by trade, introduced a contemporary note into children’s literature. In a humorous, lively style, she made compelling drama out of the everyday problems, small injustices and perplexing mysteries — adults chief among them — that define middle-class American childhood. Always sympathetic, never condescending, she presented her readers with characters they knew and understood, the 20th-century equivalents of Huck Finn or Louisa May Alcott’s little women, and every bit as popular: Her books sold more than 85 million copies, according to HarperCollins ... More
This illustration picture shows a virtual road trip on a computer and the travel application logo from Alcove displayed on a smartphone in Arlington, Virginia on March 19, 2021. OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP.
WASHINGTON(AFP).- Jem Jenkins Jones was stuck at home in Wales for much of the past year amid pandemic lockdowns but managed to fulfill a promise to her 10-year-old daughter to see the northern lights from Iceland and South Africa's game reserves -- in virtual reality. "She was amazed," she said, calling the VR travel experiences "a lifesaver for us." Strict lockdowns and travel limitations during the pandemic have sparked fresh interest in immersive virtual travel experiences, which have become more accessible and affordable with new apps and VR hardware. Even those confined to their homes can take a virtual jaunt to Machu Picchu, the rainforests of Borneo or a road trip across the United States in a convertible. Data on VR travel usage is limited but developers have seen surging interest since the pandemic hit. "It has been skyrocketing," said Cezara Windrem, creator of the Alcove VR platform at AARP Innovation Labs. "We're getting more adoption ... More
DUSSELDORF.-Beck & Eggeling is presenting the new series of works ‘Boo!-tiful’ by Stefan à Wengen exclusively and for the first time in a solo exhibition entitled ‘Boo!-tiful. 100 Boo!-ties’. ‘Boo!-tiful’ – what is behind the unusual title? Well, it is cleverly chosen, as it unites two opposing poles - the frightening and the beautiful - and thus aptly describes the thematic focus of the series of works begun in 2020. The two-part title, which may sound like a dichotomy, indicates what is clearly reflected in the motifs. The so-called ‘Boo!-ties’, as Stefan à Wengen – with a wink - refers to the one hundred paintings in his new series of works, show bizarre monster figures that mostly carry their female victims – the beauties – paralysed by the shock and fainting in their arms or actively frighten them with their creepy appearance. They are almost without exception scenes from so-call ... More
Frederic Geurts and John Van Oers, F+J+F+J-01.
ANTWERP.- When the Surrealists invented the technique of 'cadavre exquis' at the beginning of the last century, an extraordinary interaction of language, sign and coincidence emerged. A poem was written by several poets without knowing the lines written by the others. The game was named after the first words of the first poem written in this way, in which originally five different people entered five phrases in succession: a noun, an adjective, a verb, a direct object and an adjective that can go with it. The result was a grammatically correct, but content-wise completely unexpected construction: "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau" (The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine). And when André Breton, Paul Eluard, Yves Tanguy or Jacques Prévert deployed the process, they embraced automatic writing and challenged the subconscious. The same principle was applied to drawings, so that images are created collectively from chance and intuition. Separate, self-contained creations ... More
Audience members wear masks and maintain social distancing shortly before a performance at the Berliner Ensemble theater in Berlin, March 20, 2021. Gordon Welters/The New York Times.
by Christopher F. Schuetze
BERLIN(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On a snowy, gray morning last Friday, as a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Germany was taking hold, Anna Schoras, 30, lined up outside a pop-up testing site inside a repurposed art gallery in Berlin. Cultural life in the German capital has largely shut down because of the virus, but if Schoras’ test came back negative, she would be allowed to attend the first live stage production in the city in about five months, scheduled for that evening. “I’m just really looking forward to getting out of the house and to consuming live culture,” she said, adding that before the pandemic, she would go to the theater or the opera about twice a month. Earlier that week, Schoras had been among the lucky few to secure one of 350 tickets to the show at the venerated ... More
BALTIMORE, MD.-The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today that it will reopen with limited capacity on Sunday, March 28. The museum will be open Wednesdays through Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with timed-entry passes available to the general public beginning Monday, March 22 through the BMA’s website. The BMA plans to welcome up to eight people per each 30-minute time slot for a maximum of 112 people per day—well below Baltimore City’s 25 percent capacity guidelines. All visitors are required to answer two questions about COVID-19 exposure on the day of their appointment and wear face masks and observe gallery capacity limits and social distancing. The BMA is prepared to alter its plans should further precautions be necessary to slow the spread of COVID-19 and ensure the safety of staff and visitors. Coinciding with the reopening, the BMA will debut three new 2020 Vision exhibitions originally scheduled to open in fall 2020. Shar ... More
The legendary Edward VIII Pattern 5 Pounds - The coin even a king couldn't have.
DALLAS, TX.- A 1937 Edward VIII 5 Pounds Pattern coin — one of only a small number of commemorative British gold coins produced for the would-be coronation of Edward VIII — set a world record as the most expensive British coin when it sold for $2,280,000 during a public auction of rare world coins held by Heritage Auctions on Friday, March 26. Both rarity and condition contributed to its record setting auction price, according to Cristiano Bierrenbach, Executive Vice President of International Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. "The gold Edward VIII 5 Pound is one of the greatest prizes in British numismatics,” Bierrenbach said. "Uncompromising in terms of its beauty and quality, this coin is one of less than a half dozen believed to be in private hands.” The previous record for the most expensive British coin sold at auction was for a William IV proof 5 Pounds from 1831, which sold in Monaco in October 2020 for a hammer price of 82 ... More
Katinka Bock, Segment with unknown radius, 2021. Katinka Bock.
VITORIA-GASTEIZ.-Artium, Basque Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition Katinka Bock: Logbook (Gallery A2, until 12 September 2021). This first exhibition dedicated to the artist in Spain provides the opportunity to explore recent works that display the basic characteristics of her career: the constant exchange between the fields of sculpture, architecture and language. Some of the works in the exhibition are pieces arising from the communication between the artist and local artisans as well as her association of the Museum’s spaces with the belly of a whale or the hold of a ship. The exhibition’s curator is Beatriz Herráez and it has been produced in collaboration with Albaola: The Sea Factory of the Basques. In each of her exhibitions, Katinka Bock defines the space in which the works are incorporated based on interventions that modify and affect the place, opening doors, windows and tunnels or adding new elements that ... More
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Craig muMs Grant, actor and slam poet, dies at 52 NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Craig muMs Grant’s biggest success as an actor was the role of Poet on the HBO prison drama “Oz,” but fans of that series were accustomed to seeing him credited simply as muMs. It was a name he adopted as a young man when he was exploring rap and slam poetry, influences that he said changed his life. “Before hip-hop,” as he put it in “A Sucker Emcee,” an autobiographical play he performed in 2014, “I couldn’t speak.” Grant compiled a respectable career as an actor. He appeared on “Oz” throughout its six-season run, which began in 1997, and turned up in spot roles on series including “Hack,” “Boston Legal” and “Law & Order” and its spinoffs as well as in movies like Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled” (2000). But before his “Oz” breakthrough, he was a familiar presence on the slam poetry circuit in New York and ... More
National Air and Space Museum receives $5 million gift from David M. Rubenstein WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has received $5 million from David M. Rubenstein in support of the newly redesigned “The Wright Brothers & the Invention of the Aerial Age” exhibition. The gift will contribute to the safe preservation and display of the 1903 Wright Flyer, one of the Smithsonian’s iconic artifacts and the centerpiece of the gallery. The redesign of the exhibition is part of the museum’s ongoing transformation of all its galleries in the flagship building in Washington, D.C., and is scheduled to open in 2022. “David’s support demonstrates his continued generosity and commitment to the Smithsonian and American history,” said Chris Browne, acting director of the National Air and Space Museum. “His gift will help ensure this one-of-a-kind object that represents the heights of American ingenuity ... More
Unit London opens an exhibition of works by Oh de Laval LONDON.- Above all, Oh de Laval is interested in human behaviour; the decisions we make, why we make them and how we feel as a result. These decisions are windows into our very personalities. In this spirit, each of de Laval’s paintings acts as a window into her character, her pleasures and her imaginings. The act of painting is able to produce infinite potential scenarios. For de Laval, painting is a space of pure imagination where anything can happen at any moment. With this in mind, the artist resists the intellectualisation or politicisation of her works, choosing instead to let joy and excitement govern her painted world. De Laval’s paintings do not fit into the mould of any particular movement, style or narrative. They elude the boundaries of specific meanings, but they can be linked together by their singular sense of humour and their reoccurring ... More
World record price for 1960 AC Aceca Bristol restoration project LONDON.- The garage collection of the late Terry Harrison - ex-Works BMC Navigator, keen amateur racer and authority on motorsport history - was sold by H&H Classics yesterday at a Live Auction Online without Reserve. Terry Harrison’s Princess Blue 1960 AC Aceca Bristol had been off the road for decades. Partially disassembled, it was nevertheless highly original and as such prompted a bidding war which saw it sell for a record breaking £101,200 (the highest auction price ever achieved by an Aceca Bristol restoration project). Crashed in 1975, Terry Harrison’s c.1956 Lotus Eleven Series 1 ‘Le Mans’ made an impressive £46,000, while a second, less complete Eleven Series 1 commanded £28,750. The whole auction, including automobilia, motorcycles and cars, achieved a sale rate of 85% with a total of one million sterling (£1m). Some 800 ... More
'A New Normal' exhibition wins Melbourne Design Week Award presented by Mercedes-Benz MELBOURNE.- The 2021 Melbourne Design Week Award, presented by Mercedes-Benz, has been awarded to A New Normal, an exhibition featuring fifteen installations by leading Australian architects and designers that challenges Melbourne to become an entirely self-sufficient city by 2030. Presented as part of Melbourne Design Week and staged on the roof top of a repurposed office building, the exhibition features prototypes, concepts and designs for large-scale, real-world projects that could create “a new normal” for Melbourne, including an arresting solar-panelled roof top pavilion by John Wardle Architects and a bespoke, energy-producing greenhouse designed by Ha. Drawing on exemplary case studies and scientific research, as well as empirical evidence of the Melbourne’s consumption of resources, the fifteen installations present responses ... More
Morris Dickstein, critic and cultural historian, dies at 81 NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Morris Dickstein, a literary critic, cultural historian and City University of New York professor who was among the last of the first generation of Jewish public intellectuals reared on the Lower East Side, died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 81. His daughter, Rachel Dickstein, said the cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease. A baby-faced scholar who studied at Columbia, Yale and the University of Cambridge, Dickstein could ruminate on Keats and Allen Ginsberg as well his recollections of his immigrant parents and the campus upheaval at Columbia University when he taught there in the late 1960s (“pot, but no LSD, protest but no ‘days of rage’”) — all in a single paragraph — and still seem completely syllogistic. His books often challenged conventional wisdom and were sometimes prescient. ... More
Amanda Gorman's poetry united critics. It's dividing translators. NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hadija Haruna-Oelker, a Black journalist, has just produced the German translation of Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb,” the poem about a “skinny Black girl” that for many people was the highlight of President Joe Biden’s inauguration. So has Kübra Gümüsay, a German writer of Turkish descent. As has Uda Strätling, a translator, who is white. Literary translation is usually a solitary pursuit, but German publisher Hoffmann und Campe went for a team of writers to ensure the translation of Gorman’s poem — just 710 words — wasn’t just true to Gorman’s voice. The trio was also asked to make its political and social significance clear and to avoid anything that might exclude people of color, people with disabilities, women or other marginalized groups. “It was a gamble,” Strätling said of the collaborative approach. ... More
How Lonnie Smith found an unlikely new collaborator: Iggy Pop NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In 2018, Iggy Pop was recording a pair of covers for an upcoming album by soul-jazz pioneer Dr. Lonnie Smith. At first, the punk icon couldn’t quite find the groove, said guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg, who was in the studio that day. Then something clicked. “Suddenly, in the middle of the take, it just started sounding really in the pocket, and had all this energy,” Kreisberg recalled. “I turned my head over and looked through the control room glass, to the room he was in, and he had taken off his shirt. He had become Iggy Pop.” Pop’s covers of Donovan’s “Sunshine Superman” and Timmy Thomas’ “Why Can’t We Live Together” appear on Smith’s joyous, intimate “Breathe,” released Friday on Blue Note Records. The rest of the album, which includes a four-piece horn section, guest vocals from Alicia Olatuja ... More
Batia Shani's latest exhibition centers on one of the pillars of her artistic project: envelopes. TEL AVIV.- For the last three decades, Batia Shani has created thousands of envelopes by way of sewing, embroidery, painting, and collage. Every envelope Shani created was sent to a destination somewhere in the world before ultimately being returned to the sender. In “Signed and Sealed,” this vast collection of envelopes becomes the artist’s ready-made – the raw material from which she creates her installations: the knitted dress, the floating veil, and the cardboard columns. Shani’s medium, the returned envelope, is charged with meaning: while they are invested with the artist’s care, they are also sealed and empty. For Shani, they symbolize human connection, both lost and found. The possibility of playfulness, imagination, and escapism is encoded in the envelopes alongside absence, longing, and loss. Signed & Sealed presents for the ... More
Tony Albert's 'Conversations with Margaret Preston' on view at Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney SYDNEY.- In their second major show of the year, Sullivan+Strumpf are presenting the latest offerings from one of Australia’s most exciting young Indigenous artists, Tony Albert, in a metaphorical collaboration with one of the country’s leading early 20th century modernists, Margaret Preston. Born in 1875, Margaret Preston was progressive for her beliefs that the richness and sophistication of Indigenous Australian iconography should be incorporated into a national visual language that would set Australia apart. In her quest to foster an Australian brand identify she was one of the first non-Indigenous Australian artists to use the unique designs and motifs and natural-pigment colour schemes of local Aboriginal artists in her work. Whilst Albert perceives that Preston’s intentions were meaningful, her success unintentionally opened the door to an onslaught ... More
Comprehensive retrospective of photographer Timm Rautert's work on view at Museum Folkwang ESSEN.-Museum Folkwang presents a comprehensive retrospective of photographer Timm Rautert’s oeuvre. The exhibition Timm Rautert and the Lives of Photography spans five decades of his artistic production: beginning with Rautert’s experimental early work as a student of Otto Steinert, it shows his famous portrait series such as “Deutsche in Uniform (Germans in Uniform)” or “Eigenes Leben (Own Life),” as well as his artwork collages and his 2015 photographic installation work L’Ultimo Programma. The nearly 400 works illustrate not only the thematic and methodological versatility of Rautert’s oeuvre, but can also be read as documents of photography’s long journey into the museum and the art canon. Timm Rautert (born in 1941 in Tuchola, then West Prussia) is considered one of Germany’s preeminent contemporary photographers. ... More
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