AMSTERDAM.-The Rijksmuseum is set to return six objects currently in its in collection to Sri Lanka this year. It marks the first time colonial objects from the Rijksmuseum collection will be returned. The objects concerned are two swords, two rifles, a dagger and the Cannon of Kandy decorated with precious stones. Taco Dibbits, General Director of the Rijksmuseum: We appreciate the Secretary of State’s decision and regard this restitution as a positive step in cooperation with Sri Lanka. The relationship and exchanges of knowledge built up between the two nations in the fields of research and common history constitute a strong foundation for the future. One of the six objects to be returned is the famous and richly ornamented Cannon of Kandy. The cannon is made of bronze, silver and gold, and inlaid with rubies. The barrel is decorated with the symbols of the King of Kandy: a sun, a half-moon and a Sinhalese lion. The cannon had a pure ... More
A copy of the famed Winter 2014 issue of Paper, with Kim Kardashian on the cover, at the home of editor and cofounder Kim Hastreiter in New York on June 8, 2023. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
by John Ortved
NEW YORK, NY.- Paper magazine made its debut in June 1984. The first issue was a foldout poster with a look as minimalist as the publication’s name, matching the raw aesthetic that reigned over lower Manhattan in those days. With its mix of bubbly enthusiasm and Gen-X skepticism, Paper became the scrappy kid sibling to the argumentative Village Voice and the lustrous Interview. Its readers were beautiful people and misfits, insiders and outsiders. Cover subjects included Sandra Bernhard, Naomi Campbell, Deee-lite, Kim Gordon, Cyndi Lauper, Queen Latifah, Chloë Sevigny, Venus Williams and Kim Kardashian. The brains behind the operation were Kim Hastreiter and David Hershkovits, who had met while working at The SoHo Weekly News, an alternative paper that folded ... More
The show has been organized by Australian-born, LA-based sculptor Ricky Swallow, who discovered Lane’s pots in an antiques mall in Pasadena, California, in 2010.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK, NY.- The David Kordansky Gallery has mounted a wonderful wormhole of an exhibition, “Doyle Lane: Weed Pots.” Its point of access is the small, unassuming “weed pot,” a frequent accent in modern California interiors starting in the late 1950s. Thrown on a wheel, Lane’s pots were rarely more than 3 or 4 inches high, spherical or elliptical in volume and usually topped by a short, narrow neck, small mouth and turned lip, designed to hold a dried sprig of weed. From this seemingly modest beginning, Lane (1923-2002), who was African American, created a dazzling universe of color, shape, texture and proportion. He also made ceramic tile, pendant jewelry, paintings and murals, but the “weed pot" is his signature. Kordansky’s generous display of 100 pots is Lane’s first solo show in New York. It is also a refresher course in close looking and a reminder ... More
Sung Tieu, Radial, Detail, 2022. Installation view: Sung Tieu: Civic Floor, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, 2023. Courtesy Emalin, London. Photo: Dario Lasagni.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- With Civic Floor, the MIT List Visual Arts Center is presenting the US debut of recently co-commissioned works by German-Vietnamese artist Sung Tieu. Tieu employs sculpture, drawing, sound, video, and installation to examine a wide range of subjects in which social or political power is articulated through sensory and psychological realms. Perception is a key node in Tieu’s work as she elaborates the often alienating effects of sound, architecture, design, and language. Working across various media, Tieu crafts a spatial narrative in each of her exhibitions that reflects her research into bureaucratic systems and their affective spaces as well as her lived experience with them. At the List Center, Tieu’s exhibition Civic Floor presents a suite of abstract steel sculptures imposing in substance and weight, which reference spaces designed for detention and require the viewer’s aerial perspective. A new series of tablet ... More
William Herbet Dunton - A Race for the Chuckwagon, oil on canvas, 34” x 51”; estimate: $500,000 - 750,000.
RENO, NEV.- The Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, known for selling the highest-quality Western paintings and sculpture from historical and contemporary artists, is pleased to announce its 38th annual Western art auction, to be held July 15, 2023, at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada. With over $ 325 million in sales over the last 15 years alone, the auction has been hailed as “The Biggest and Most Successful Auction of Western Art” by the Wall Street Journal, and was named “The Most Important Annual Event for Collectors of Western Art” by the New York Times. Once again, the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction is certain to be the high point of the Western Art world. “This is the year for the true trophy hunters,” states auction partner Mike Overby. “We haven’t seen this number of masterpieces hit the market in almost 20 years.” Headlining the sale will be two once-in-a-lifetime collecting opportunit ... More
LONDON.-Christie’s will soon be presenting the largest exhibition of Arab Art in London to date, at Christie’s Headquarters in London this summer. Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World will bring together works of art across mediums in an exhibition which collectively celebrates the creativity, diversity and history of Arab Art, situated within two distinct sections, Kawkaba: Highlights from the Barjeel Art Foundation, and Emirati Art Reimagined: Hassan Sharif and the Contemporary Voices. This will be the first time that such an extensive exhibition of Arab art will have been on view in London via a unique partnership with the UAE Ministry ... More
NEWPORT, RI..- The Board of Trustees of the Newport Art Museum (NAM) has announced Danielle Ogden as its next Executive Director. Ogden has recently served as Interim Executive Director, where she demonstrated extraordinary leadership and initiative. With an innate knowledge and talent for planning and execution, she has energized and expanded programming, activities, and partnerships. She brings coherent strategies for the museum's financial sustainability, advancement, outreach, educational mission, curatorial vision, and board engagement. After starting the process of a national search in January this year, the Search Committee ultimately recommended to the Museum’s Board of Trustees that they select Ms. Ogden as Executive Director, continuing the leadership and the exciting ... More
Atlanta University Center for Center's Robert W. Woodruff Library.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) have announced that “For the Record,” the digital interactive archive launched in conjunction with The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, will find a permanent home at the Atlanta University Center’s (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library following the completion of the exhibition’s international tour in 2025. The AUC Woodruff Library serves the world’s largest consortium of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs)—Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, and the Interdenominational Theological Center—and is committed to advancing scholarship about the history and global influence of hip hop. “For the Record” was developed in recognition of hip hop’s deep roots in local community and its global reach to collect, share, and pres ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-CLAMP opened yesterday “Engaños,” an exhibition of photographs by Daniel Handal, the artist’s third solo show with the gallery. “Engaños” (Spanish for “deceptions” or “illusions”), draws inspiration from Joris-Karl Huysmans’ 1884 literary classic Against the Grain, which explores themes of individuality, nonconformity, and authenticity. The novel, a seminal work of Decadent literature, centers on Jean des Esseintes, a reclusive aesthete who attempts to create a perfect, artificial world for himself. As part of his experiment, he collects artificial flowers that appear to be natural. Later, as his intel- lectual curiosity progresses, des Esseintes starts seeking out natural flowers that appear to have been artificially made. Handal’s project takes this concept a step further by presenting flowers as optical illusions, blurring the line between reality and ... More
Karyn OLIVIER, Driftwood, Door, Man, and Boat (Gorèe Island/Matinicus Island), 2023. Steel, driftwood, Sintra print, 58 x 57 x 49 inches; 147.3 x 144.8 x 124.5 cm
Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.-Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is currently hosting Karyn Olivier: How A Home Is Made, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Karyn Olivier’s artistic practice merges multiple histories and collective memory with present-day narratives. Through the manipulation of familiar objects and spaces, the artist re-contextualizes the viewer’s relationship to the ordinary. Questioning what we presume to be the function or facts of an object or space, she asks us to reconcile the immediate with the remembered. In How A Home Is Made Olivier explores themes of displacement, migration, and absence using discarded items and common construction materials. Combining these with photographic imagery, Olivier asks the viewer to reflect on building ... More
Photographer Svetlana Timofeyeva, who spent much of the past year jailed by Albanian authorities who say she is a Russian spy, visits a communist-era bomb shelter that was turned into an art museum in Tirana, Albania, June 24, 2023. (Armend Nimani/The New York Times)
by Isabella Kwai
TIRANA.- Striking pictures of urban decay, including Soviet-era bomb shelters overgrown with weeds and the crumbling remains of factories across Eastern Europe, won a Russian photographer hundreds of thousands of Instagram followers eager to track her travels. But these days, the photographer, Svetlana Timofeyeva, 34, cannot travel much to satisfy fans of her exploits. Her passport was confiscated by authorities in Albania, where she spent much of the past year in a women’s jail detained on accusations that have gained her a different kind of fame: that she is a Russian spy. She has denied those accusations, saying that geopolitical tensions stemming ... More
An undated photo provided by Raab Collection shows a letter written by President Abraham Lincoln in 1861. (Raab Collection via The New York Times)
by Johnny Diaz
NEW YORK, NY.- A recently discovered letter written by President Abraham Lincoln that offers a glimpse into his thinking during the early part of the Civil War sold this week in Pennsylvania for $85,000, according to an autograph dealer. The previously unpublished letter had been in the same private collection for at least a century before it was acquired this year, said Nathan Raab, principal of the Raab Collection, which buys and sells historical autographs, documents and signed letters. “Discovering unpublished, unknown letters of Abraham Lincoln is increasingly rare,” Raab said in a statement about the document on the Pennsylvania collection’s website. The letter, which measures 5 inches by 8 inches, was sold to a private collector in the southeastern ... More
LONDON.-The British Library has announced it opened a new exhibition, Digital Storytelling (2 June - 15 October 2023), that explores how evolving online technologies have changed how writers write, and readers read. The narratives featured in the exhibition will prompt visitors to consider what new possibilities emerge when they are invited as readers to become a part of the story themselves. Visitors will get to discover how technology can be used to enhance their reading experience, from Zombies, Run!, the widely popular audio fiction fitness app, to Breathe, a ghost story that “follows the reader around”, reacting to users’ real-time location data. On display for the first time is a playable preview of Windrush Tales, the world’s first interactive narrative game based on the lived experiences of Caribbean immigrants in post-World War II Britain. The game is still in development; the preview is its first public launch, and is ... More
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Lawrence Turman, producer who spotted a winner in 'The Graduate,' dies at 96 NEW YORK, NY.- Lawrence Turman, who as a novice movie producer in 1963 read about a novel by a largely unknown writer named Charles Webb, took a $1,000 option on it and thus set in motion the making of “The Graduate,” a landmark film that helped define the 1960s and the antihero genre, died Saturday at his home in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles. He was 96. His son John confirmed the death. Turman had producing or executive producing credits on more than 40 feature films and television movies, including the boxing film “The Great White Hope” (1970), with James Earl Jones; “The Drowning Pool” (1975), a drama that starred Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward; the thriller “The Mean Season” (1985), with Kurt Russell and Mariel Hemingway; the family comedies “Short Circuit” (1986) and “Short Circuit 2” (1988); and the drama ... More
When the street moves to the opera house (and subverts it) PARIS.- In 2019, Bintou Dembélé, a hip-hop pioneer in France, became the first Black female choreographer to be hired by the Paris Opera. Two years later, during a residency in Chicago, she discovered an English word that has no equivalent in French: “tokenism.” It helped her articulate what she “sensed but couldn’t yet grasp,” she said in an interview in Bagnolet, a suburb of Paris. Outwardly, all was well during and after her work at the Paris Opera on “Les Indes Galantes”: Her group of fierce dancers, performing a range of street and club styles like krump, electro and voguing, became a symbol of diversity at the heart of a venerable opera house. Dembélé’s profile rose too. Invitations to contribute to screen and stage projects poured in, and this week, she opened the dance portion of the Avignon Festival, the most prestigious event on the French ... More
Ravi Zupa Typewriter Gun installation on view at Shepard Fairey's art gallery LOS ANGELES, CA.- These Five Kings, by Denver-based artist Ravi Zupa, is now on view through July 22nd at Subliminal Projects. For his second solo exhibition with the gallery, Zupa has taken over the entirety of the space presenting four different bodies of work that highlight his multidisciplinary practice, featuring a site-specific gun store installation, sculptures, print-based originals, drawings, and paintings. At the entry of the gallery, viewers step foot into a retrofitted traditional American-style gun store featuring Zupa’s ongoing series “Mightier Than,” which originally debuted at Subliminal Projects in 2015. With intricate craftsmanship, Zupa welds vintage typewriter parts together to create realistic-looking modern assault-style guns. We invite viewers to reflect on this thought-provoking series that challenges ideas of violence and communication, ... More
'Uncle Vanya' review: Confidences by candlelight NEW YORK, NY.- Leaning close in the flickering candlelight, Sonya and the man who makes her stomach flutter share a sneaky midnight snack. He is Astrov, her houseguest, and he is frankly a bit of a mess — drinks too much, is in fact drunk at the moment. He is also endearingly odd and smart and sweet, an eco-nerd physician who’s sending her some incredibly mixed signals. “We’re all alone here,” he says, sotto voce. “We can be honest with each other.” It is a scene so beguiling, so full of crushy hope on one side and obliviousness (or is it?) on the other, that it’s like watching Laura and the Gentleman Caller in “The Glass Menagerie.” But this is “Uncle Vanya,” and if Anton Chekhov has never before made you want to match-make a couple of his characters on Tinder, this version — directed by Jack Serio in a loft in the Flatiron District of Manhattan ... More
Director of new Women's History Museum withdraws, citing family issues NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonian’s choice for the founding director of its developing American Women’s History Museum has withdrawn from the role, the institution said Wednesday. A Smithsonian spokesperson, Linda St. Thomas, said that the new director, Nancy Yao, had cited “family issues that require her attention” in deciding to withdraw. The announcement came after the completion of an investigation into how Yao had handled sexual harassment claims in her previous role as the leader of the Museum of Chinese in America, in New York City’s Chinatown neighborhood, for eight years. The Smithsonian declined to elaborate on the findings of the outside firm hired to investigate the sexual harassment issue and it did not detail the family issues Yao cited. But in a post on LinkedIn, Yao said that her father is in hospice care, her two teenage ... More
ROTATIONS featuring a variety of works in glass now on view at Heller Gallery NEW YORK, NY.-Heller Gallery is now presenting ROTATIONS, a series of exhibits showcasing new and recent works from gallery artists including Pamela Sabroso + Alison Siegel, Morten Klitgaard, Anja Isphording, and Tobias Møhl. Since July 7th through September 22nd, four consecutive exhibitions will feature the diverse voices of these artists, designers and makers in the gallery program. Pamela Sabroso and Alison Siegel’s exuberant, vessel-based forms take on the shape and surface structure of plants, fruits and vegetables, which they use to make their molds. While their pieces imprint as colorful, fresh and unconventional, and their sophisticated, labor-intensive process and skill level date-stamps their work, the two artists also channel a more essential creative freedom that recalls the early American Studio Glass practitioners’ exploration ... More
When Animals Become Art: Leiko Ikemura at The Feuerle Collection BERLIN.-The Feuerle Collection has now opened When Animals Become Art. Leiko Ikemura at The Feuerle Collection. Curated by Désiré Feuerle, this represents the second exhibition to be shown in the Silk Room and is on view since 7 July 2023 until 7 January 2024. The show presents a selection of works realized between 1990 and 2022 by artist Leiko Ikemura. The works are juxtaposed with personal plush toys collected by the artist and immersed in a refined, dreamlike scenography, designed by Désiré Feuerle especially for the installation. When Animals Become Art. Leiko Ikemura at The Feuerle Collection symbolically brings into being an intimate and colorful nest, where precious animal sculptures, made of cast glass, glazed terracotta, patinated bronze, and papier-mâché, will interact with small plush creatures from a domestic environment. ... More
Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham announces site-specific exhibition with new works by Phoebe Boswell TWICKENHAM.- In this immersive new work, the artist Phoebe Boswell inhabits Orleans House Gallery and its surrounding woodlands, engaging the audience in an intergenerational call and response, where trees become repositories of enquiry. Boswell creates a sanctuary for us to raise our questions and listen to the voices of our elders as they endeavour to articulate life. What are the questions you have always wanted to ask? What advice do you need right now? What do you still need to know? Taking inspiration from Hermann Hesse’s ‘Trees are Sanctuaries’, the artist gathered questions through an open call which became the basis of her interviews with a vast and global group of nominated elders: from a freedom-loving feminist activist from Gorée; to an Irish ex-nun turned actor; to a Greek scientist with a passion for plants; to a psychologist ... More
'The Verbal Visual' abstractions of language now on view at Shin Gallery NEW YORK, NY.-Shin Gallery is currently holding "The Verbal Visual," an exceptional exhibition that delves into the intricate applications and captivating abstractions of language through the rich heritage of alphabets and numeral systems. This thought-provoking showcase unveils the genealogy of the English alphabet, tracing its origins back to the ancient Egyptian writing systems of Hieroglyphics and Hieratics. These remarkable systems comprised approximately 1000 characters, meticulously carved, inscribed, or written across Egyptian artifacts, serving as radiant beacons illuminating our understanding of the past. As time progressed, a Semitic ethnic group simplified this elaborate system during the transition from the Copper to Bronze Age. The Hyksos reduced the Egyptian writing system from around 1000 characters to roughly 22 during the transition ... More
'Twenty-Five Treasures' is now on view at Paul Thiebaud Gallery SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-Paul Thiebaud Gallery opened the exhibition Twenty-Five Treasures yesterday. This signature series, originated in 1990 by gallery founder Paul LeBaron Thiebaud (1960-2010), brings together works by 25 artists and makers from a wide range of backgrounds. The 14th edition mixes together paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by 20th century masters; contemporary American artists; African, pre-Columbian, and 19th century Mexican folk art; and 21st century industrial design. The exhibition will be on view through August 19, 2023. While not curated around a specific theme, the show unites 25 works of art and cultural objects that can be qualitatively viewed as exceptional or extraordinary. The works on view span over a thousand years of history, diverse civilizations on three continents, and give viewers the feeling ... More
What's the story with Colleen Hoover? NEW YORK, NY.- There are the novels the literary world acclaims, and there are the novels people actually read. Occasionally — perhaps with decreasing frequency — they are one and the same. But apart from momentary blips when bestseller and critical darling align (Colson Whitehead, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong), they usually diverge. Every era has its authors whose novels are at best overlooked and at worst disparaged by the literary cognoscenti and still dominate bestseller lists. These books succeed not only despite the critics but almost as if to spite them. Thus E.L. James, whose gray-shaded erotica in the 2010s gave readers edgy princess narratives. James’ books emerged out of fan fiction she wrote based on the “Twilight” saga, Stephenie Meyer’s romance successes from a few years before. Meyer, in turn, offered a chaste ... More
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On a day like today, Mexican painter Saturnino Herrán was born
September 09, 1887. Saturnino Herrán Guinchard (9 July 1887 - 8 October 1918) was a Mexican painter influential to Latin culture in the late 19th and early 20th century. Herrán completed majestic paintings of Mexican Indigenous people, giving them heroic strength, beauty, and dignity. In 1910, he participated in the exhibition commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of Mexico's Independence. Herrán died suddenly in Mexico City on 8 October 1918, at the age of 31, "from a gastric complication. In this image: La Cosecha (The Harvest), 1909.
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