Andrea del Castagno’s painting of Dante Alighieri, on display in the visitors’ center of the Casentinesi Forest National Park, as part of the “Uffizi Diffusi” program, in Italy, Aug. 18, 2021. The Uffizi Gallery in Florence is lending artworks from its depots to smaller towns throughout Tuscany, increasing their appeal and strengthening its ties to the region. Clara Vannucci/The New York Times.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
CASTAGNO D’ANDREA(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- This tiny hamlet with a population of around 300, located 40 winding miles northeast of Florence, has never been on Italy’s must-see A-list. Its main claim to fame is that it was the birthplace of Renaissance painter Andrea del Castagno, who left as a child, most likely before he was old enough to doodle on the local walls. (If he did, there are no remnants of his scrawls.) But this summer, cultural tourism here sharply increased after the Uffizi Gallery lent the village a recently restored del Castagno fresco depicting poet Dante Alighieri. The loan coincides with national celebrations for the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, as well as the 600th anniversary of the artist’s birth. The fresco’s arrival was one of the first actions in a program called “Uffizi Diffusi,” or “Scattered Uffizi,” an initiative concocted by the gallery’s director, Eike Schmidt. Uffizi Diffusi aims to build stronger ties between the famous Florentine museum and t ... More
The artist Chuck Close at the at Art Basel in Miami Beach, Fla., Dec. 5, 2017. Elizabeth Lippman/The New York Times.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Chuck Close’s life as an artist divided into three distinct phases — two successful, one not. From 1967 to the end of 1988, he was a celebrated painter, a singular kind of photorealist known for enormous grisaille portraits of intimate friends and family (and himself, perhaps his favorite subject) rendered on a pencil grid with watered-down paint and an airbrush. His work was immanently desirable. Museums and private collectors started vying for it even before he had his first solo gallery show in New York in 1970. It had the instant pow of pop art — indeed the artist had stated his desire to knock people’s socks off. But it also had the haughtier, more conceptual imprimatur of post-minimalism, arguably the last avant-garde art movement of classic modernism. He was equally admired by the cognoscenti and the public. The artist himself projected an impressive authorial persona. At 6-foot-3 with a deep voice, a quick ... More
This photograph taken on August 18, 2021 shows a copy of the original statue preserved at the Museum of Baiae, representing Baios offering a cup of wine to Polyphemus, in the Nymphaeum of punta Epitaffio, the submerged ancient Roman city of Baiae at the Baiae Underwater Park. Andreas SOLARO / AFP.
by Andrea Bernardi
BAIAE(AFP).- Fish dart across mosaic floors and into the ruined villas, where holidaying Romans once drank, plotted and flirted in the party town of Baiae, now an underwater archaeological park near Naples. Statues which once decorated luxury abodes in this beachside resort are now playgrounds for crabs off the coast of Italy, where divers can explore ruins of palaces and domed bathhouses built for emperors. Rome's nobility were first attracted in the 2nd century BC to the hot springs at Baiae, which sits on the coast within the Campi Flegrei -- a supervolcano known in English as the Phlegraean Fields. Seven emperors, including Augustus and Nero, had villas here, as did Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony. The poet Sextus Propertius described the town as a place of vice, which was "foe to virtuous creatures". It was where ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-The Jewish Museum is presenting Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art, an exhibition that situates the subject of art looting during World War II within a unique thematic premise, focusing on the seizure and movement of works as they traveled through distribution centers, sites of recovery, and networks of collectors, before, during, and after the war. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, and Judaica that survived this traumatic period of violence and upheaval against tremendous odds. By tracing the fascinating timelines of individual objects as they passed through hands and sites, their myriad stories have been brought forward, often in dialogue with archival documents and photographs that connect them to history. The exhibition is on view from August 20, 2021 through January 9, 2022. During World War II untold numbers of artworks and pieces of cultural property were stolen by Nazi forces. After the war ... More
One of the new seats at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Aug. 9, 2021. Kelsey McClellan/The New York Times.
by Adam Nagourney
SAN FRANCISCO(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Wagner was the worst. Five hours — sometimes more — of squirming in 1932-era seats at the War Memorial Opera House here, sinking into lumpy, dusty cushions, suffering the bulge of the springs and the pinch of the wide armrests, craning for a glimpse of the stage around the head of the tall person one row ahead. “Particularly on a long opera — oh, my God,” said Tapan Bhat, a tech executive and a season-ticket holder at the San Francisco Opera since 1996. When the San Francisco Opera opens Saturday, starting its scaled-back 99th season with Puccini’s “Tosca” after a shutdown of more than a year, those punishing seats will be gone. The opera has used its forced sabbatical to complete a long-planned $3.53 million project to replace all 3,128 seats with more comfortable, roomier ones. And San Francisco is not alone. Theaters, ... More
In this file photo demonstrators affiliated with global environmental movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) stage a protest backdropped by the victory column in Berlin on August 17, 2021. Odd ANDERSEN / AFP.
BERLIN(AFP).- Thieves have made away with copper plates of "significant material and historical value" from the entrance buildings of Berlin's Victory Column monument, German police said Saturday. Repair workers had discovered that the "big parts" of the plates covering the roofs were missing on Friday, said Berlin police. Local newspaper B.Z. said the damage reached several hundred thousand euros and that three of the four entrance buildings were hit. The Victory Column standing in central Berlin is one of the capital's most recognisable landmarks. It originally stood in front of the Reichstag parliament building, before being relocated by the Nazis in 1938 to its current location at a key roundabout at Tiergarten park. Germany's monuments and museums have been hit by several high profile thefts. In 2017, burglars made away with 100-kilogramme (220-pound), 24-karat giant gold coin from Berlin's Bode Museum. ... More
A view of the audience during the We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert Produced by NYC, Clive Davis, and Live Nation on August 21, 2021 in New York City. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Live Nation/AFP.
by Maggy Donaldson
NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and Paul Simon headlined a massive Central Park concert Saturday to mark New York City's "homecoming" in the wake of the pandemic's worst devastation there. But a hurricane heading towards the US east coast along with a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases due to the highly contagious Delta variant threatened to dampen spirits at the star-studded event, expected to host some 60,000 people. People streamed onto Central Park's Great Lawn Saturday afternoon, as the New York Philharmonic played rousing renditions of classics including "New York, New York." Groups of revelers cheered and danced, snagging spots by laying down picnic blankets ahead of five hours of live music that kicked off at 5 pm (2100 GMT). While ... More
HAMBURG.- In Out of Space, the Hamburger Kunsthalle examines how artists have defined and constructed »space« from the 1960s to the present day. Examples of Minimal and Conceptual Art are placed in dialogue with works by young contemporary artists that render tangible their exploration of physical space in the digital age. The starting point for the exhibition is formed by the performative work Untitled (1968) by Robert Morris – one of the leading representatives of Minimalism – in which 16 aluminium screens set up in the gallery invite visitors to walk through them as if in a labyrinth, whereby they themselves become the objects of contemplation and part of the installation. Donated to Hamburger Kunsthalle by Susanne & Michael Liebelt (Hamburg) in 2020 it is the centrepiece of the exhibition. Examples of (spatial) installations, sculptures and videos by around 20 international artists have been arranged according to ... More
Alejandro Cartagena, Car Poolers #58, 2012/2021. Archival pigment print, 22 x 14.3 inches. Edition 3/10, signed certificate of authenticity. Framed. Courtesy of the artist and Assembly. Estimated value: $2,500.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-SF Camerawork teams up with the online platform Artsy to present its 42nd annual benefit auction this September. Titled The Roof is on Fire, the highly-anticipated auction features the work of over 60 photographic artists including such critically-acclaimed established artists as Tammy Rae Carland, Binh Danh, and Larry Fink, as well as contributions from a number of important up and coming artists including Marcela Pardo Ariza, Kris Graves, Jarod Lew, and Mikael Owunna. This year’s event also features, for the first time, a collection of NFTs by pioneering artists such as Chuck Anderson, Synchrodogs, Raven Trammell, and more curated by Mark Sabb, CEO and Founder of FELT Zine. Leading up to and throughout the two-week bidding window open September 14-28, 2021, SF Camerawork will offer several online events throughout the month that include a panel discussion by participating artists who engage with the climate crisis in their ... More
A 3D light projection on May 20, 2019, in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, of how a destroyed Buddha, known as Solsol to locals, might have looked in its prime. Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times.
by Graham Bowley, Tom Mashberg and Anna P. Kambhampaty
NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Taliban officials have promised to protect the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul and its valuable collection of cultural artifacts, the museum’s director said in an interview Thursday. The Taliban posted a small group of armed guards outside the museum to prevent looting, according to the director, Mohammad Fahim Rahimi, who said that he had met with Taliban officials Wednesday. “Had there been fighting, it could have been a disaster and could have destroyed a lot of things here and many monuments throughout the country,” Rahimi said. “We are a bit fortunate for now that the change of power has not cost such death and destruction.” “We still have great concern for the safety of our staff and our collection,” he added. Caution seemed appropriate as scenes of chaos continued to emerge from Kabul, where thousands ... More
Abdellah El Gourd at the Dar Gnawa in Tangier, Morocco, July 11, 2021. Yassine Alaoui Ismaili/The New York Times.
by Aida Alami
TANGIER(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For more than a half-century, a Moorish-style house in the old city of Tangier considered one of Morocco’s cultural gems drew musicians and other artists from around the world seeking to learn about the Sufi music and rituals of the descendants of slaves in the country. But the one-of-a-kind center for traditional Gnawa music was abandoned early this year because it was in danger of collapse, and long delays to restore it as part of a government rehabilitation plan for this city on Morocco’s northern coast put its future in peril. The battle to save Dar Gnawa, or the Gnawa House, has shed light on just how precious and precarious traditional talents are in the North African kingdom. Abdellah El Gourd, 75 and a world-renowned master of Gnawa music, has lived in the historic house since he was 5. Over ... More
In this file photo schoolgirls attend class in Herat on August 17, 2021, following the Taliban stunning takeover of the country. AREF KARIMI / AFP.
NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For more than a decade, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music has stood as a symbol of the country’s changing identity. The school trained hundreds of young artists, many of them orphans and street hawkers, in artistic traditions that were once forbidden by the Taliban. It formed an all-female orchestra that performed widely in Afghanistan and abroad. But in recent days, as the Taliban have been consolidating control over Afghanistan again, the school’s future has come into doubt. In interviews, several students and teachers said they feared that the Taliban, who have a history of attacking the school’s leaders, would seek to punish people affiliated with the school as well as their families. Some said they worried that the school will be shut down and that they will not be allowed to play again. Several female students said they had been staying inside their homes since the capital ... More
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SOUTHAMPTON, NY.-The Untitled Space is featuring a number of their artists in the exhibition Les Femmes, a group show curated by Indira Cesarine at Tethys Art in Southampton, New York on view through September 6th. The 3rd and closing Summer exhibition of Tethys Art, Les Femmes, presents the vision of many notable female artists including the likes of legendary artists Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger, pioneering feminists Robin Tewes and Grace Graupe-Pillard, social media sensation Leah Schrager, as well as emerging voices including Fahren Feingold, Alexandra Rubinstein, and Loren Erdrich among a number of others. Through the array of works by these artists, Les Femmes explores the contemporary narrative of the female gaze, while addressing dialogues of representation of women in contemporary culture. Featured artists include Alexandra Rubinstein, Alison Jackson, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Dana Schutz, Fahren Feingold, Grace Graupe-Pillar ... More
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Twenty-fifth edition of miart will be held 17-19 September MILAN.- A place of discovery, research and dialogue between different generations, a unique opportunity to explore the history of art of the last one hundred and twenty years along with works by national and international artists. The twenty-fifth edition of miart confirms an identity built on a constant exchange between past and present, between modern and contemporary, between tradition and experimentation, in the belief that our time can be read more clearly through the lens of history. The two main sections of the fair, Established Masters and Established Contemporary comprising 107 galleries, further underline the significance of this Milanese event, showcasing the broadest chronological display among Italian fairs. Among the highlights of the Established Masters section, the Gomiero gallery (Milan) presents a series of precious arazzi (tapestry) created ... More
Exhibition of new works by Mikala Dwyer on view at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery SYDNEY.- Mikala Dwyer can’t stop doing this: it’s her strange attractor. This eccentric architecture of the alien visitor who by borrowing, burrowing and building has made part of this world, but only for the time being, their home. In Dwyer’s idiom, this household is a capricious cocktail of animal, insect and human architecture, but so often impelled and inflected by the fantastic capacity of children to convert and subvert habituated domestic decor into a camp. When children go camping in a sleepover, for instance, they are like migrating species able to inventively forage and transfigure their invaded habitat: upending chairs as bunkers, hoisting bed linen into tents that shade the souks of a caravanserai, or tunnelling and caving inside clothing heaped into stupas or mountains. Elsewhere, Dwyer’s camps can assume the fantastic ... More
Gallery Weekend Berlin announces participating galleries and artists BERLIN.- The galleries of Gallery Weekend Berlin announced that this year, in addition to the traditional date in May, a second Gallery Weekend is being held in the fall. Gallery Weekend *Discoveries launches an exhibition series that links participating galleries via a thematic premise that changes annually. This autumn, many of the participating galleries place a special focus on new discoveries: artists who have not yet held exhibitions in the galleries and who will be presented here to the broader public for the first time, whether in solo shows or group exhibitions. The website gallery-weekend-berlin.de provides key information on all gallery exhibitions, as well as provides regular articles and insights into the Berlin art scene throughout the year. Gallery Weekend *Discoveries is an event developed and organized by the Gallery Weekend ... More
Exhibition explores the significant dialogue between Max Bill and the Argentine avant-garde NEW YORK, NY.-The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art announced the opening of “From Surface to Space”: Max Bill and Concrete Sculpture in Buenos Aires, curated by Francesca Ferrari. The first in a new series on Latin American modernism at ISLAA, this exhibition explores concurrent experiments in concrete sculpture amid the formative, transnational creative dialogue between the Swiss artist Max Bill and the Argentine avant-garde from 1946 to 1955. It is conceived as a complementary exhibition to max bill global, curated by Fabienne Eggelhöfer and Myriam Dössinger, at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland. “From Surface to Space” brings together sculptures by Carmelo Arden Quin (Uruguayan, 1913–2010), Max Bill (Swiss, 1908–1994), Claudio Girola (Argentine, 1923–1994), Enio Iommi (Argentine, 1926–2013), ... More
A fun place to play, if the show fits NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Like proud proprietors of performing arts centers everywhere, Joshua William Gelb is eager to show off his theater. But the tour takes only five seconds, because the theater is a closet. Still, it’s a privilege to step inside. Since he started doing shows in the 2-foot-by-4-foot-by-8-foot enclosure in March 2020, when the pandemic landed on live entertainment like a lead apron, no one but Gelb has been in it. For that matter, only six people besides himself have set foot in the East Village shotgun apartment where he and the closet live. The first three, last summer, worked with him on a sci-fi-meets-Three Stooges mashup called “The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy.” The fourth, five months later, was Jianqiao Lu, who, gloved and N95’d, applied makeup for “I Am Sending You the Sacred Face,” in which Gelb played Mother ... More
A quiet summer at Edinburgh's festivals EDINBURGH(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Quiet isn’t a word usually associated with August in Edinburgh, Scotland, where the International Festival and the bigger, more ragtag Fringe usually promise a cultural hurly-burly. But the pandemic here, as elsewhere, has readjusted realities, as was evident from the moment I arrived last week, primed for a whirlwind weekend of playgoing. Gone were the theatrical hopefuls eagerly buttonholing visitors, and, with them, the barrage of flyers that can quickly weigh down a knapsack. This year, there are hundreds of shows, as opposed to thousands, and many of them are online. It was as if the Scottish capital were taking its cue from the title of a show I saw here: “Still.” That play, by Frances Poet, running at the Traverse Theater as part of the Fringe, is an intriguing study of five people whose lives ... More
Eloise Greenfield, who wrote to enlighten Black children, dies at 92 NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Eloise Greenfield, an award-winning children’s book author whose expressive poetry and prose illuminated the lives of Black people, including those of midwives during slavery and the Southerners who, like her family, moved north during the Great Migration, died Aug. 5 in a hospital in Washington. She was 92. Her daughter, Monica Greenfield, confirmed the death. Greenfield began writing for children in her early 40s with a mission to “document our existence and depict African Americans living, as we do in real life,” she told the website Brown Bookshelf in 2008. In 48 books, she wrote about everyday subjects (the things a young girl loves, a boy rapping, a father’s death) and historical figures (biographies of Paul Robeson, Rosa Parks and Mary McLeod Bethune). “When I write, I’m composing — combining meanings, ... More
Horsens Kunstmuseum presents a mid-career retrospective of distinctive New York artist HORSENS.-Horsens Kunstmuseum is presenting the mid-career retrospective and museum debut of New York artist Elizabeth Schoettle, the artist behind PhoebeNewYork. Organized by Horsens Kunstmuseum curator Julie Horne Møller in close collaboration with the artist MY PAPER WORLD: PhoebeNewYork surveys Schoettle's well-documented journey from an introvert searching for artistic existence to the birth of PhoebeNewYork and their development. The white box walls of the Kunstmuseum in Caroline Amalie Lunden have been 'taken over' by PhoebeNewYork. Just as she does in her West Village neighborhood, PhoebeNewYork has already spread into Denmark's streets and urban spaces from Horsens to Copenhagen. MY PAPER WORLD: PhoebeNewYork opened Saturday, 21 August, kicking off the autumn season, and runs through ... More
Shahzia Sikander's exquisite, entangled worlds NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In a recent essay in The New York Times, Pakistani-born artist Shahzia Sikander recalls the first question she was asked when she arrived at her Master of Fine Arts program in the United States: “Are you here to make East meet West?” The question chafed. What could those terms possibly mean for Sikander, whose work borrows from and upends the sumptuous and exquisitely detailed Central and South Asian miniature (or manuscript) painting of the 16th to 19th centuries — an art form woven from the intermingling of Safavid, Mughal, and European empires? In the paintings, drawings, sculpture and animations on view in “Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities” at the Morgan Library & Museum, East and West, along with other apparently opposed terms — masculine and feminine, abstraction and figuration, ... More
Sound installation after dark captures the daytime bustle of Brighton Beach basketball court BRIGHTON.- Ready to Drop is a new sound art installation conceived and created by Orlando Gough and John Del ‘Nero. Inspired by the thousand twangling instruments that hummed around Caliban’s ears in The Tempest, it is being presented at the Brighton Beach Basketball Court over seven nights from 20 - 26 August. Whilst walking together through Gough’s hometown last year, the two were struck by the energy, joy, competition, and communication of the court and its users, from basketball players to roller skaters. Ready to Drop is their response to this poetry in sound, field recordings of the collective sounds made by people at play on the basketball court and those of the adjacent dingy stand, the wind and the sea, combined with original composition. The hour-long sound installation is being played on a continuous loop each night, filling ... More
Tom T. Hall, country music's 'storyteller,' is dead at 85 NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Tom T. Hall, a country singer and songwriter known for wry, socially conscious hit songs like “Harper Valley PTA,” died Friday at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. He was 85. His death was confirmed by a director at the Williamson Memorial Funeral Home in Franklin. Known to his fans and fellow musicians as “the Storyteller,” Hall was among a small circle of Nashville songwriters, including Kris Kristofferson, Roger Miller and others, who imbued country lyrics with newfound depth and insight in the 1960s and ’70s. As his nickname suggests, he was a skilled narrator, although he told his stories less through the unfurling of linear plots than through the presentation of one-sided conversations or interior monologues that invited listeners into the lives of his often conflicted protagonists. “Homecoming,” his 1969 Top ... More
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On a day like today, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was born
February 22, 1908. Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 - August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed. In this image: A man looks at images at the opening of a photo exhibit Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2004, at The Museum of The City of New York, which features the work of photographers from the Magnum photo agency. At right is Harlem,1947 (Easter Sunday) by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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