Members of the Black-Jewish Alliance of Charlotte, N.C., an organization created to forge friendships between the two communities, participates in an interactive civil rights exhibit at Temple Beth El, the historic synagogue in Birmingham, Ala., March 14, 2024. The exhibit at the synagogue in Birmingham argues that listening to people who stay on the periphery can deepen our understanding of the past, and the present. (Charity Rachelle/The New York Times)
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.- The contents of the suitcase, more or less, told Emil Hess life story. A report card from the University of Pennsylvania, dated 1939. A photograph of him in his Navy uniform during World War II. An advertisement for the Parisian, the department store that he owned in the center of Birmingham, Alabamas largest city. And a recording from his son, describing how his father, in the face ... More
The auction house says that its upcoming marquee sales of 20th- and 21st-century art will go ahead, both in person and by phone, despite the breach. (Li Qiang/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Officials at Christies auction house said Saturday that the marquee sales that account for nearly half of its annual revenue would continue, despite the company having lost control of its official website Thursday in a hack that is testing the loyalty of its ultrawealthy clients amid ... More
Galerie Kornfeld is a privately owned Swiss auction house in Bern and one of the leading auction houses in Switzerland in the fields of Modern Art (paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures) as well as Old Master prints and drawings.
NEW YORK, NY.- For more than a half-century, Eberhard Kornfeld, a renowned art auctioneer, dealer, collector and scholar, presided over an annual June auction under a tent adjoining his Galerie Kornfeld, which made its home in a grand 19th- ... More
SEOUL.- On view from May 11 to June 15, this presentation, which marks the artists first-ever solo show in Asia, spotlights photographs from his On the Beach, Shorebreak and Icarus Suite series along with his never-before-exhibited Elephant Parable body of work. Together, these mesmeric imagesexhibited across two floors of Paces Seoul gallerymeditate on humans relationships to the natural ... More
Tanya Merrill, Cecropia moth, white birch, 2024. Oil and graphite on linen, 18 x 14 inches (45.7 x 35.6 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.-303 Gallery is presenting Watching women give birth on the internet and other ways of looking, Tanya Merrills second solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring new works. True to her propensity for a cyclical and narrative installation, the show begins and ends with the creation of life. Each painting represents a diverse point of interest and concern to the artist ... More
Creature From the Haunted Sea.
NEW YORK, NY.- Roger Corman, who for decades dominated the world of B movies as the producer or director of countless proudly low-budget horror, science fiction and crime films, has died. He was 98. He died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, California, his family said in a statement posted late Saturday on his official Instagram page. The statement did not specify the cause of death. Corman produced more than 300 films and directed roughly 50 of them (the exact number ... More
The nearly 90 international exhibitors, including nine new galleries, welcomed visitors with exceptional works on view from modern and contemporary art, antiquities, jewelry, and design objects.
NEW YORK, NY.- A bustling crowd filled the historic Park Avenue Armory yesterday, signaling the start of TEFAF New York, boasting more than a 10% increase in attendance from the previous years edition. The fairs tenth edition kicked off on Thursday, May 9, with an invite-only Preview Day, followed by a public opening on Friday, May 10. ... More
Fans react as final points were given out during the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest at the fan village in downtown Malmo, Sweden on May 11, 2024. (Charlotte de la Fuente/The New York Times)
MALMO.- The run-up to Saturdays Eurovision Song Contest final in Malmo, Sweden, was unusually tense and anguished, with months of protests over Israels involvement in the competition, a contestant suspended just hours before the show began and confrontations between police and pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside ... More
Joseph Algieris Construction vase, in which a flood of pigmented foam breaks through the ceramic barriers. Symbolizing tranquillity and clarity, water is the inspiration behind many brands creations. (Handout via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Water is a popular motif with product designers because it symbolizes tranquility and clarity. But this force of nature also adds movement, freedom and flow in a space, said Golnar Roshan, who with her partner, Ruben de la Rive Box, recently introduced a rug collection ... More
A large George III London repeater bracket clock, c.1785, £4,500 from William Cook Antiques.
PETWORTH.-Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair opens from Friday 17 to Sunday 19 May in the extensive grounds of Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex for the tenth year. This acclaimed annual event attracts interior designers, collectors and those who enjoy surrounding themselves with fine and interesting art, decorative accessories and furniture. Always supported by the National Trust and the local market town, the ... More
NEW YORK, NY.-David Zwirner is presenting new work by Brazilian artist Lucas Arruda, on view at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location in New York. The exhibition includes paintings and a site-specific light installation from his ongoing Deserto-Modelo series, marking the artists fourth solo presentation with the gallery. Assum Preto continues Arrudas investigations into the painted medium and its ability to serve as an evocative and transcendental conduit ... More
VIENNA.-Kunsthalle Wien presents Rene Matić (b.1997, Peterborough, UK) and Oscar Murillo (b. 1986, La Paila, Colombia) together for the first time. For JAZZ. both artists present existing works as well as new commissions made specifically in response to the space and the city of Vienna. Encompassing painterly gestures, installation, film, photography, and sound, each element on show is in dialogue, shaped by Murillos black ... More
PARIS.- Set around the reconstruction of a noh stage, the exhibition presented at the Institut Giacometti highlights the closeness between the researches of both artists, in which apparitions and reality enter into dialogue. Referring to the theatre, this exhibition proposes a selection of sculptures by Alberto Giacometti and photographs by Hiroshi ... More
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Lisson Gallery Shanghai presents a dynamic array of new works by Laure Prouvost SHANGHAI.- This Spring, Laure Prouvost presents her inaugural exhibition with Lisson Gallery in Shanghai, titled 'Pulled Towards You'. Showcasing a dynamic array of new works, Prouvost invites viewers into her world through paintings, a new tapestry from her celebrated series We Will Keep You Cool, and sculptures in Murano glass. The exhibition also offers a multi-sensory experience with a film installation and a hidden VR adventure nestled within a hanging basket. Prouvost's signature visual language resonates throughout, exploring themes of language, motherhood and ecological consciousness with her characteristic blend of intimacy and humour. This exhibition is an extension of Prouvosts major solo show Above Front Tears Oui Float, presented in The Light Hall at Norways Nasjonalmuseet in October 2022, which subsequently travelled ... More
Freeman's | Hindman appoints Dianne Batista as SVP, Jewelry & Watches based in New York NEW YORK, NY.-Freeman's | Hindman announces that Dianne Batista has joined the merged firm as Senior Vice President, Jewelry & Watches, expanding the team of experts in the firm's New York office. Batista will lead the development of Freeman's | Hindman's jewelry and watch presence in New York and the greater Northeast region. Batista will work closely with SVP, Head of Department, Jewelry, April Matteini, and the Chicago, Philadelphia, Palm Beach, Denver, Detroit, and San Diego Jewelry and Watches team to build the firms Important Jewelry auctions. Batista brings 30 years of deep and wide-ranging jewelry experience to this role. Before joining Freemans | Hindman, she was the Director of Jewelry & Watches and Senior Specialist at Rago/Wright Auction House. Prior to joining Rago/Wright, she consulted independently ... More
How do you turn 'urban decay' into a garden? NEW YORK, NY.- Dont throw it away. There is no away. That waste-conscious message was scrawled on the back of a decades-old pickup in the Nebraska town where Martha Keen grew up. The doctor who drove it could have afforded a new one, but no: The truck had plenty of life left in it. Onward. The phrase there is no away has become a tenet guiding Apiary Studio, a Philadelphia landscape firm founded in 2015 by Keens partner, Hans Hesselein, a landscape architect. Keen joined him soon after, and now the couple design and build outdoor urban spaces, many of them in residential settings, using as light an environmental touch as possible and creatively reusing what each site has to offer. Yes, even slabs of old concrete, as well as what passes for soil in those urban settings. Really, its more like the stuff of a landfill, Hesselein ... More
After five centuries, stars rise in Istanbul ISTANBUL.- On May 3, Zeyrek Cinili Hamam, a 500-year-old public bathhouse, reopened in Istanbul after a 13-year, $15 million-plus restoration. Named for its original cobalt-and-turquoise cladding (cinili is the Turkish word for tiled), the hamam is the jewel of the Zeyrek district, a historic neighborhood in Istanbul that is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. Visitors can enjoy a traditional Turkish bath under soaring domes pierced with star-shaped skylights that send shimmering rays into the rooms. A typical hourlong bath costs 95 euros (about $101) and includes an exfoliation scrub and a massage accompanied by the soothing sound of water splashing into marble basins. Just as in Ottoman times, anyone who can afford the entrance fee is welcome, regardless of faith, class or profession. Restoring the bathhouse, which was built from 1530 to 1540, was Bike Gursels self-described obsession. ... More
George Takei keeps faith with democracy NEW YORK, NY.- I was born April 20 of 1937. Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941. I had turned 5 by the time a morning arrived that I can never forget. Two months after Pearl Harbor, in February 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, decreeing that all Japanese Americans 125,000 of us by the latest count on the West Coast were to be imprisoned with no charge, no trial and no due process, only because of how we looked. A few months after the order was issued, we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway in Los Angeles carrying rifles and shiny bayonets. They banged on our door with their fists and one said, Get your family out of this house. At the time Henry was 4, I was 5 and my baby sister was not yet 1. My father had had the foresight to prepare a box of underwear tied with twine for each of us. He ... More
36 hours in Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Minneapolis, with more than a dozen lakes and a sprawling urban park system, appeals not only to outdoorsy types but also to travelers seeking a robust cultural scene, top-notch restaurants and fun bars and breweries. In recent years, residents have struggled to recover from the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in May of 2020 and the protests and rioting that followed. But visitors today will find a resilient city primed for discovery, from the trendy Warehouse District, where nightlife hot spots have taken root within industrial brick buildings, to the growing northeastern arts district. The city is at its most welcoming in the springtime, when nature blooms and there are community events such as Art-a-Whirl, an annual festival of art, music, food and beer, held from May 17 to 19 across Northeast Minneapolis. ... More
Anya Taylor-Joy still can't make Sense of what she went through LOS ANGELES, CA.- Theres nothing normal about making a Mad Max movie, and Anya Taylor-Joy knew that when she signed on to star in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the newest film in George Millers long-running action series. I wanted to be changed, she said. I wanted to be put in a situation in extremis where I would have no choice but to grow. And I got it. Trials by fire dont burn much hotter than the conflagration that consumed Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), the most recent film in the franchise, which was one of the most infamously difficult productions in Hollywood history. In the works for nearly two decades, the movie was shut down several times by studio executives, who feared they were producing a big-budget boondoggle. And the constant clashes between Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, two of its stars, in the remote Namibian desert required outside intervention. ... More
Mary Wells Lawrence, high-profile advertising pioneer, dies at 95 NEW YORK, NY.- She splashed jazzy colors on Braniff airliners. She put the plop plop, fizz fizz into Alka-Seltzer. She warned Benson & Hedges smokers that long cigarettes might pop balloons or set fire to beards. And from Niagara Falls to Broadway, she reached millions with her I (heart) NY campaign. Mary Wells Lawrence, who grew up in Ohio, at 22 took her imagination and ambition to New York, where she broke through advertisings male bastions of the 1960s, quit a prestigious job when she was denied a presidency, founded her own agency and dazzled Madison Avenue with vivid campaigns that became embedded in American culture. She died Saturday morning in London. She was 95. Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by her daughter Katy Bryan. Wells Lawrence was the first woman to own and run a major ... More
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza opens an exhibition of works by Robert Nava MADRID.- Continuing with its programme devoted to the collection of Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza, the museum is presenting an exhibition of the work of the American artist Robert Nava (born 1985). Curated by Guillermo Solana, this is the first solo museum exhibition by the artist. It features 17 large-format works, including Castle Back Flyer (2021) and Red River Storm (2023), both from this collection. From an early age, Robert Nava was interested and began to paint in an academic style. In 2008 he graduated from Indiana University Northwest with a degree in Fine Arts, and in 2011 obtained a Masters in Fine Arts from Yale. Today his work is represented in the collections of the Musée dArt Moderne de Paris, the Art Institute de Chicago, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the Museum ... More
Venus Over Manhattan opens a major solo exhibition of new and recent paintings by Chéri Samba NEW YORK, NY.-Venus Over Manhattan is presenting a major solo exhibition of new and recent paintings by Chéri Samba, one of the preeminent artists at work in Africa today. Samba is a pivotal figure in the history of African contemporary art, celebrated for his vibrant and detailed paintings that depict everyday life in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as well as broader social, political, and economic issues facing his country, his continent, and the world. Born in 1956 in Kinto MVuila, DRC, Sambas work transcends the local, and has garnered him international recognition, with his work held in major institutions around the world, including the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Fondation Cartier. Following a retrospective of his work at the Musée Maillol in Paris, his exhibition at Venus Over ... More
All About Photo reveals the winners of All About Photo Awards 2024 LOS ANGELES, CA.-All About Photo unveiled the winners of this years All About Photo Awards 2024, celebrating the finest single images from photographers around the world. Visionary photographers, both professional and amateur, shared their unique perspectives and competed for international recognition as the next "Photographer of the Year," $10,000 in cash prizes and publication in the printed magazine Special Edition All About Photo Awards 2024 A panel of 8 expert jurors, including Clare Freestone, Curator of the Photography Department at the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Ann Jastrab, Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA; Klavdij Sluban, Photographer and Founder of Le Masterclass; Dewi Lewis, Publisher and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society; Priyo Widdi, Photographer ... More
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