Grecas, or stone mosaics, from pre-hispanic Zapotec structures in a room inside the archeological ruins of San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico on Sept. 26, 2023. An archaeological expedition in Mexico seeks what’s left of the sprawling, centuries-old catacombs hidden below the ruins of Mitla. (Meghan Dhaliwal/The New York Times)
by Franz Lidz
SAN PABLO VILLA DE MITLA.- The ruins of Mitla sit about 30 miles from Oaxaca in the mountains of southern Mexico, built on a high valley floor as a gateway between the world of the living and the dead. The site was established in roughly A.D. 200 as a fortified village and then as a burial ground by the Zapotecs, the so-called Cloud People, who settled in the region around 1500 B.C. Five main sets of ruins are scattered throughout the small modern tourist hub that is San Pablo Villa de Mitla. Some are royal houses and ceremonial centers featuring central plazas. One is a crumbling pyramid, and another is a domed Spanish church with adjoining Zapotec courtyards. Elaborate mosaics cover the walls, meandering geometric friezes resembling carved lace; “petrified weaving” is how Aldous Huxley described them in his 1934 travelogue, “Beyond the Mexique Bay.” Traces of color linger on masonry that was once slathered in bright-red paint made by grinding cochinillas, wood lice that live on nopal cactus ... More
Frank Paulin (1926-2016), Times Square, The Best Things in Life are Free, 1956. Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1970s. 9 x 13 in (22.9 x 33 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.-Bruce Silverstein Gallery is presenting Frank Paulin: Fashion, Culture, and the Golden Age, an exhibition of photographs taken during the period of remarkable economic and cultural growth in the United States, the 1950s. Featuring a selection of forty-six photographs, this exhibition highlights some of Frank Paulin's most striking images - some of which have never been exhibited - that truly capture the zeitgeist of the time and reinforce Paulin as a true visual poet. One of the few known early graduates of the Institute of Design in Chicago (New Bauhaus) to become a member of the New York School, his pursuit of capturing the city streets of New York, Chicago, and New Orleans was informed by his experience as a fashion illustrator, and helped create a new vocabulary for street photography- one that emphasizes subjectivity and personal experience, ... More
Coleoptera Section, Anophthalmus hitleri, a beetle named 86 years ago by an Austrian admirer of Hitler, in the Coleoptera section of London’s Natural History Museum (Natural History Museum, London, Coleoptera Section via The New York Times)
by Franz Lidz
NEW YORK, NY.- Since the end of World War II, no scientific animal name has caused more of a stink than has Anophthalmus hitleri, a designation that describes a rare, amber-colored carabid beetle that dwells in a few damp caves in central Slovenia. The problem isn’t the genus name, Anophthalmus, which denotes that, like other cave beetles living in perpetual darkness, this one has no eyes. What many zoologists find appalling is the species name, hitleri, which an Austrian bug collector bestowed upon the beetle in 1937 in homage to Adolf Hitler in spite of the leader’s ruthless and racist actions, including the Night of the Long Knives in 1934 and the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935, with ... More
“Murnau“ by Kandinsky landed at 3.9 million (incl. premium) and is the most expensive artwork sold in Germany this autumn.
MUNICH.- Eleven consecutive times: Number One Art Seller! Germany’s biggest art auction with four results in the millions and once more with the season’s highest hammer price. Second half of 2023: With sales of € 49 million** in the second half of 2023, Ketterer Kunst recorded the best seasonal result in the industry for the eleventh consecutive time. Total figures for 2023: With a total of € 90 million* realized in 2023, Ketterer Kunst once again is Germany's number one auctioneer of 19th Century Art, as well as of Modern and Contemporary Art, and outpaces its competitors. A total of 145 results in six-figure price realms and 9 works that crossed the magic million euro mark confirm the company's success in 2023. “I have seldom seen such an extremely emotional auction – seemingly endless bidding fights, world record prices but also with great works that sadly ... More
Baldwin Guggisberg, View with Labyrinth, 2023, Amphore Metaphor, 2023, The Rational and the Intuitive, 2023. Photo: Christoph Lehmann.
ROMONT.- In the exhibition Baldwin Guggisberg – Into the Labyrinth: A Liminal Journey, Philip Baldwin (1947) and Monica Guggisberg (1955), explore the theme of the labyrinth. Their interest in history ancient times, the wanderings of humanity and the reciprocal relationships between form, function, beauty aesthetics and symbolic meaning of the objects illustrates the artists' unique point of view on the thousand-year-old civilizations. The exhibition highlights current artistic trends and presents works from the most recent creative period of Baldwin & Guggisberg as well as glass installations specially designed for the exhibition at the Vitromusée Romont. Their presentation in two historic rooms of the Château de Romont takes visitors into a liminal journey which makes them realize that human existence very often takes labyrinthine paths. “Nearly forty-two years ago, on August 8th, 1981, (the same day Roger Federer was born!), we crossed the border into Switzerland, having left Swede ... More
Sandro Botticelli, The Devout People of Jerusalem at the Pentecost, ca. 1505. Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, highlighted with white gouache on paper, 9 1/8 x 14 3/8 in. (23.1 x 36.5 cm.) Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. Photograph by Wolfgang Fuhrmannek.
NEW YORK, NY.-Master Drawings New York, the premier U.S. drawings showcase, announces programs for the 2024 fair, on view from January 27 through February 3 in more than two dozen galleries on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The annual show, a well-established and highly anticipated hybrid art fair and art walk, will open with a preview event on Friday, January 26 from 3 p.m.–8 p.m. The exhibiting galleries will feature exceptional and rare works on paper from the 15th to the 21st centuries, as well as paintings, sculpture, and photographs. The MDNY 2024 programs have been organized by The Drawing Foundation, a newly formed New York-based nonprofit that celebrates the art of drawing. Twelve events including conversations, tours, lectures, and special exhibition viewings at leading museums and galleries will be presented, and highlights include: the MDNY Inaugural ... More
Jessica Socha bends a metal rod to form a hook during a blacksmithing class in Brookfield, Conn., Sept. 9, 2023. Hobby crafts are growing in popularity. Sometimes they include anvils and fire. (Jordan Semanick/The New York Times)
by Amelia Nierenberg
NEW YORK, NY.- The amateur blacksmiths were hard at work: heating metal rods, then hammering them into shape. Reheating, hammering some more, twisting and bending, and finally, hours later, creating small metal hooks. It was hot, slow, painful work. For some, it was also thrilling. “Metal and fire and hitting stuff hard? You can’t go too far wrong,” Chris Doherty, an artist and blacksmith in Brookfield, Connecticut, said as he watched his students work on a recent Saturday morning. Amateur blacksmithing has gained traction in recent years. (So has bladesmithing, the art of making knives and daggers.) Weekend classes can fill up months in advance. “Forged in Fire,” a bladesmithing competition show on the History Channel that has inspired many hobbyists, keeps getting renewed. And as more enthusiasts join the fray, ... More
Irwin Cohen, an inventive developer who transformed a derelict factory where the first Oreo cookie was produced in 1912 into Chelsea Market, an exuberant 21st-century food bazaar that helped revitalize its New York City neighborhood, died on Dec. 18 in Manhattan. He was 90. (via Chelsea Market via The New York Times)
by Sam Roberts
NEW YORK, NY.- Irwin Cohen, an inventive developer who transformed a derelict factory where the first Oreo cookie was produced in 1912 into Chelsea Market, an exuberant 21st-century food bazaar that helped revitalize a New York City neighborhood, died Dec. 18 in Manhattan. He was 90. His son-in-law Blair Effron said he died of pneumonia in a hospital. In creating the market, Cohen reconfigured the former National Biscuit Co. plant — a complex of 17 brick buildings dating to the 1890s, filling a block between Ninth and 10th avenues and West 15th and 16th streets — into an industrial-chic destination for foodies and a home for video production ... More
HONG KONG.-M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, has unveiled the new exhibition Ay-O: Hong Hong Hong, highlighting the practice of Japanese artist Ay-O (b. 1931, Japan), widely known as the ‘rainbow artist’, which opened to the public on Friday, 15 December 2023 in the Cissy Pui-Lai Pao and Shinichiro Watari Galleries. This exhibition inaugurates M+’s new Pao-Watari Exhibition Series, focusing on significant and yet underexamined figures and moments in the history of art and visual culture of Asia. It is also the first solo exhibition of the artist’s works in Hong Kong. The presentation features nearly fifty works by Ay-O from the 1950s to the 2000s, alongside a selection of works by his Fluxus collaborators and counterparts. Born in 1931 as Iijima Takao, Japanese artist Ay-O adopted the unusual alias, which consists of two ... More
Watercolor and gouache on cardboard by George Viavant (La., 1872-1925), titled Swamp Scene with Herons (est. $3,000-$5,000).
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Nearly 800 fine lots pulled from prominent local and regional estates and collections will come up for bid in a two-day Important Estates Auction planned for Friday and Saturday, January 19th and 20th, by Crescent City Auction Gallery, online and live in the gallery at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. Start times both days will be 11 am Central. It will be an eclectic sale, one featuring couture purses by Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Hermes, Gucci and Givenchy; ladies’ rings and other jewelry, plus a men’s 18k yellow gold and steel 36mm Rolex Datejust wristwatch (est. $3,000-$5,000); bronzes, including works by Carl Brose and Jules Moigniez; and an unglazed pottery bowl by George Ohr (1857-1918) (est. $1,500-$2,500). The rest of the two days will feature the kinds of quality items people have come to expect from Crescent City Auction Gallery: fine French, English and American ... More
Photographer of the Year 2023: Irina Jomir - Poppyseed Dancer II.
BUDAPEST.- The global panel of judges has recently revealed the Photographer of the Year, Best New Talent of the Year, and the category winners for the Budapest International Foto Awards 2023. Chosen from a vast pool of entries worldwide, these winners showcase incredible talent as demonstrated by their breathtaking works of photography. From capturing casualties and damage caused by earthquakes and the terror of wars to documenting uniquely composed fine art photography, these photographers have adeptly captured diverse facets of our world through their lenses. Founder of the BIFA, Mr. Hossein Farmani, shared his thoughts on this year's winning entries. "The submissions for this year's BIFA encapsulate the mesmerizing depths of the underwater world, illuminate the stark realities of warfare, explore the repercussions of global warming, and exhibit ingenious fine art photography. I extend my heartfelt appreciation ... More
MaHaoran,"YuXiang--The Portraiture of Henan People",2021. Archival pigment print on Hahnemüehle Photo Rag Baryta, 150 x 120 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
XIAMEN .- The 9th Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival is being held in Xiamen since December 15, 2023, to January 21, 2024. We look forward to having you with us in appreciating and celebrating this annual grand event of photography! Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival was co-initiated by Three Shadows Photography Art Centre and Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2015, supported by Jimei District Committee of the CPC and the Government of Jimei District, and co-hosted by Three Shadows and Xiamen Tianxia Jimei Media Co., Ltd. Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival introduces excellent photography works from over- seas with an inclusive and multicultural attitude while synchronizing with the latest international insight. It supports and encourages the creation, studies and curation of Chinese photography so as to facilitate its presence in the public as well as on the international stage. Since ... More
Jargal Lhagvasuren practices juggling at the Mongolian Circus School in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on May 18, 2023. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
by David Pierson
ULAANBAATAR.- It’s cold as a walk-in refrigerator at the Mongolian Circus School, housed in a once proud edifice now on the verge of collapse with cracked walls, moldy ceilings and the stale smell of decades of cigarette smoke embedded into the venue’s wooden frame. A group of teenage acrobats shrug off the frigid, fraying surroundings to practice leaping and somersaulting through the air, kicking up dust as they land, and enduring the bark of a gruff instructor needling them after each imperfection. Outside on an unpaved driveway, a pair of girls in leotards, one 11 and the other 13, tiptoe around puddles of muddy water to practice one of the most difficult and dangerous contortionist poses, the Marinelli bend. They bite a pad of leather attached to the end of a metal stand and use their jaws to help lift up ... More
Quote A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous stories than anything else in the world. Goncourt
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Beyond Bollywood's glitz, a subtler Indian cinema embraces new stories KOCHI.- It is an Indian film without song and dance. The lovers don’t share a word, their main interaction a fleeting moment of eye contact in the monsoon rain. There are no car chases and no action stunts. The men are vulnerable. They cry. And yet when “Kaathal — The Core,” a film in the Malayalam language about a closeted middle-aged politician, was released last month, it became a commercial success as well as a critical one. Cinemas in the southern state of Kerala, home to the Malayalam film industry and about 35 million people, sold out. That one of south India’s biggest stars had taken on the role of a gay man, and portrayed him so sensitively, started conversations well beyond Kerala. Outside India, the country’s cinema is often equated with the glamour and noise of Bollywood, as the dominant, Hindi-language film industry ... More
A white Christmas in New York City (if you squint a little) NEW YORK, NY.- It has been more than 680 days since Central Park was dusted with more than 1 inch of snow, the longest, un-snowiest stretch in New York City since snowfall records began here in 1869. It hasn’t snowed on Christmas in 14 years. And yet, if you knew where to look for it, there was snow to be found this holiday. It swirled on Mulberry Street inside scores of snow globes in a gift shop window. It fluttered near Union Square, shot from nozzle mounted on a building’s third floor. At Lincoln Center, 60 pounds of ersatz snow gently wafted atop still more snowflakes — well, dancers dressed like snowflakes — waltzing onstage. In a season free of actual snow falling from the actual sky, New Yorkers did White Christmas as they do things best: their way. At Paragon Sports, a shop near Union Square where skis and snowboards were ... More
2 friends, still in step, get a kick out of the Rockettes NEW YORK, NY.- Sheila Sullivan turned 86 this summer, and she had aging on her mind, because she was genuinely curious. What do all those old people you hear about, those poor souls, do with themselves all day? She had no idea. “I’m much too. …” and there was a pause, like in the theater, “whatever-it-is, to be old,” she once told me. Sullivan is an actress whose resume begins in the Atomic Age and traces the history of late-20th century Hollywood and all its ups and downs like a line on a healthy EKG scan. A couple of Tuesdays ago, she stepped out in style with Tina Dupuy, a writer and her former neighbor who has been a close friend for 10 years. They arrived at Radio City Music Hall to see the Rockettes. It was, remarkably for Sullivan, who has seen everything, her first time. “I wanted to be one!” she recalled recently. She showed up one ... More
2023 box office lessons: Audiences sought comfort, skipped spectacle LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hollywood’s movie factories run on conventional wisdom — entrenched notions, based on experience, about what types of films are likely to pop at the global box office. This year, audiences turned many of those so-called rules on their heads. Superheroes have long been seen as the most reliable way to fill seats. But characters like Captain Marvel, the Flash, Ant-Man, Shazam and Blue Beetle failed to excite moviegoers. Over the weekend, “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” which cost more than $200 million to make and tens of millions more to market, arrived to a disastrous $28 million in ticket sales in the United States and Canada. Overseas moviegoers chipped in another $80 million. In the meantime, the biggest movie of the year at the box office, “Barbie,” with $1.44 billion in worldwide ticket sales, was directed ... More
Artist talk and book signing 'Girlhood: Lost and Found by Jamie Schofield Riva' at Usher Gallery PETALUMA, CA.- "As I raise a young girl while attempting to age naturally in a beauty-obsessed world, I long for the freedom that comes with unlearning. This unraveling of false teaching is my personal challenge, this work the vehicle by which I am traveling the course." —Jamie Schofield Riva. Through conceptual imagery, intimate portraits, and reflections in writing from a wide array of women and girls ages 13-81, artist and former actor and model Jamie Schofield Riva presents an in-depth exploration of a world full of "preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman." Her selection of images presents an assessment between generations of the intersections between cultural and social conditioning and messages about the female gender, and considerations of the implication of the stereotypes of femininity. An interesting aspect to Riva’s ... More
Resonances: Visit 'The Echo of Picasso' with Curro González at Museo Picasso Málaga MALAGA.- The Museo Picasso Málaga has invited Sevillian-born artist Curro González to give his views on The Echo of Picasso exhibition. For an activity entitled Resonances, the museum’s galleries will be a meeting place and host a discussion on Pablo Picasso’s work and its repercussions on contemporary art. Through a guided tour, several artists present their different interpretations of the themes examined in the exhibition. Spanish painter Curro González is a representative of the generations of the 1980s in Seville. His works explore the practice of painting with new discourses and reflect on representation as a place from which to build the illusion of reality. Irony and a sense of humour are common in this artist’s work and are two elements he uses to eschew the serious, solemn discourse with which part of today’s art ... More
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