"Hopi Girl" is on display at Museum of Art DeLand, March 15 - July 14, 2024.
Photo by Luz Marina Escobar
ORLANDO, FLA.- Renowned American artist Mateo Blanco is known for taking the ordinary and making it extraordinary! Visitors to the Museum of Art DeLand can enjoy seeing one of his well-known pieces in person. Blancos Hopi Girl is on display through July 14, 2024, as part of the museums exhibition, The Figure: Selections from the Permanent Collection. The piece features a young Hopi girl created entirely out of recycled rope Blanco found while sitting on a Florida beach. ... More
Emily Mason Tropic, 1989. Oil on canvas, 154.6 x 133.7 x 6.3 cm - 60 1/4 x 52 x 1 1/2 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gesture & Form: Women in Abstraction brings together twenty modern and contemporary artists working within the mode of abstraction. In recent years, greater efforts have been made to remediate the imbalanced presence of women artists in the story of abstract painting, and this exhibition engages in that change by celebrating ... More
Purvis Young, Untitled (pregnant women), ca. 1990s, mixed media on carpet, 23 x 13 x 1/2 inches. Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, gift of Gordon W. Bailey in honor of the museums 100th anniversary.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (MOCA Jacksonville), a Cultural Institute of the University of North Florida, announced an important gift from Los Angeles-based scholar, advocate, and collector ... More
Zendaya at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- By Monday morning, the answer to one of the biggest questions looming over the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York had emerged. Would members of the union representing employees of Vogue and other Condé Nast publications proceed with threatened ... More
File photo of the museum at the Rhode Island School of Design, designed by Rafael Moneo and built during Roger Mandles 15-year tenure as president, on Aug. 14, 2008. (Erik Jacobs/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Pro-Palestinian protesters barricaded themselves inside the main administrative building at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, on Monday night, protest organizers said. The school said its president ... More
An Attic Red-Figured Nolan Amphora. Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000.
CHICAGO, IL.-Freemans | Hindman presents its inaugural Antiquities and Ancient Art auction as a merged firm on May 23, highlighting objects from the Estates of Donald H. Wonder and Philip Pearlstein, as well as other esteemed collections. Our auction brings together the remarkable legacies of Donald H. Wonder, with his profound ... More
Two authenticated locks of Beethoven's hair collected by Alexander Thayer, which were found to contain astounding levels of lead per gram of hair. (Kevin Brown via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- At 7 p.m. May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven, then 53, strode onto the stage of the magnificent Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna to help conduct the world premiere of his Ninth Symphony, the last he would ever complete. That performance, ... More
Pamela Anderson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Pamela Anderson never thought she would go to the Met Gala. She was, in her most famous years, not a Met Gala kind of girl; her pictures in Playboy, not Vogue. But ahead of the first Monday in May there she was, finally, at age 56, getting ready to take her place on the red carpet at the museum. I feel like everything has led me ... More
A monumental work by British 20th century sculptor Alfred Horace Gerry Gerrard (1899-1998), titled Joy, (estimate Ł270,000-300,000).
STANSTED MOUNTFICHET.- This spring, Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers presents selected contents from The Sculpture Park, Churt in the Surrey borough of Waverley. The dedicated auction of modern and contemporary outdoor sculpture runs online from April 26-May 19, with viewing available at The Sculpture Park. The auction offers ... More
Anna Wintour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- While stars, celebrities and Anna Wintour ascended the steps at the Met Gala on Monday night, protesters began assembling on the streets just surrounding the museum. In Central Park, a small group of protesters, accompanied by an American Civil Liberties Union observer in a blue vest, gathered with cardboard ... More
Early acrylic on canvas painting by Polish-born American artist Julian Stanczak (1928-2017), an untitled work done in 1965, hand-done, before the use of tape ($27,675).
BEACHWOOD, OHIO .- Eager bidders blew past high estimates for many of the lots in Neue Auctions online-only Art in Bloom sale held on April 27th. The top achievers of the 363 lots that came up for bid were a lithograph by M.C. Escher (Dutch, 1898-1972) that sold for $33,825 and an untitled acrylic on canvas by Julian Stanczak (American, 1928- ... More
Cantets best-known film was Entre les Murs (The Class), which won the Palme dOr, the Cannes Film Festivals top prize, in 2008 and was nominated for an Oscar as best foreign-language film.
NEW YORK, NY.- Laurent Cantet, an eminent director who made penetrating films about the prickly undersides of French life and society, died April 25 in Paris. He was 63. His screenwriter and editor, Robin Campillo, said he died of cancer in a hospital. Cantets best-known film was Entre ... More
LUXEMBOURG.- In the context of the group exhibition A Model, Jason Dodge (b. 1969, Newtown, Pennsylvania) has been invited to conceive an epilogue. Tomorrow, I walked to a dark black star will materialise as a solo show within this group exhibition. Mudam Director Bettina Steinbrügge ... More
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Gayle McKinney-Griffith, Dance Theater of Harlem star, dies at 74 NEW YORK, NY.- When Gayle McKinney-Griffith was an aspiring ballerina auditioning for Juilliard in the late 1960s, her excitement was tempered by a daunting realization. When you walk into a room and youre the only Black person there, she later said, you right away develop this persona that is protective but also standing strong. Youre used to thinking two things at once: Yes, Im the only Black person here, and Yes, lets do this. That attitude not only helped her gain admittance to that elite arts institution; it also carried her through a nine-year career as a founding member of Dance Theater of Harlem, the groundbreaking New York troupe that provided overdue opportunities and international acclaim to Black ballet performers. As was the case with many dancers with the company in the early years, McKinney-Griffiths accomplishments faded over time, an ... More
Coming soon to Little Island: An arts festival with powerful backers NEW YORK, NY.- Little Island, the $260 million park on the Hudson River that opened in 2021, was imagined as a haven for innovation in the performing arts. But the parks cultural offerings mostly sporadic, one-off works have so far fallen short of those ambitions. Now Barry Diller, the billionaire media mogul who paid for the park, is setting out to deliver on the original vision, financing a robust, four-month annual performing arts festival on Little Island, the park announced Monday. He is doing so with the guidance of Scott Rudin, a film, television and theater producer who retreated from public view in 2021 amid accusations of bullying by workers in his office. Diller said in an interview that he and his family foundation were prepared to spend more than $100 million over the next two decades on programming. The festival, one of the most ambitious ... More
A master of 'Subtle Dazzle' and a quiet force in Downtown dance NEW YORK, NY.- Carol Mullins knows the secrets of St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery. She knows that its strangely colder by the crypt of Peter Stuyvesant, who had the first chapel built on the site, now in the East Village, in 1660. She knows which architectural features predate the fire that destroyed much of the late-18th-century building in 1978. She knows the location of the hidden trapdoor that leads to the rafters of the arch above the nave. Its a wonderland of wood, she said recently. It looks like an upturned boat in there. Mullins, 85, knows all this because just before that fire, she started designing lighting for Danspace Project, which has been presenting performances in the church since 1974. In 1982, she became the resident lighting designer, a position she still holds. At Danspaces 50th anniversary gala Tuesday, Mullins will be among ... More
Can Marin Alsop shatter another glass ceiling? BALTIMORE.- Marin Alsops conducting students were taking turns on the podium recently in a rehearsal room at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore. They waved their batons in front of an imaginary orchestra, practicing Igor Stravinskys notoriously complex The Rite of Spring. Some conductors teach in poetry: what a piece means, how a certain sound should feel. Alsop, who spent untold hours at Meyerhoff Hall during her 14 years as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, a tenure that ended in 2021, teaches in technical, tangible details. In a measure with 11 beats, she suggested using the last as a pickup to the following bar, to give the players an extra bit of clarity. She flagged trouble spots: a transition that was usually too loud, too fast, too soon, and a moment when the winds tend to come in just after the strings, rather ... More
David Messum Fine Art opens an exhibition of 61 paintings by Matthew Alexander LONDON.-David Messum Fine Art presents an exhibition of 61 paintings by the British artist, Matthew Alexander, one of the most widely recognised and dynamic plein air painters working on the East coast today. Known for his dramtic land and seascapes, Matthew invites viewers to experience the world from his perspective, revealing the beauty and theatre of the Kentish and East coast. With a deep-rooted connection to his home in Kent, Matthews paintings demonstrate a profound grasp of light, colour, and emotion, influenced by both artistic tradition and personal experiences. Marking his return to the West End since 2005, this exhibition takes viewers on a visual journey from Matthews childhood home on the Isle of Thanet along the Southeast Coast. From the towns of Broadstairs and Margate to the tranquil vistas of the Isle of Sheppey ... More
Ippodo Gallery opens Laura de Santillana's second posthumous solo exhibition in New York NEW YORK, NY.-Ippodo Gallery presents Laura de Santillana: Echoes of Her Gaze, Impressions of Tokyo and Kyoto in Glass, the artists second posthumous solo exhibition in New York. A curation of over 25 glass artworks evoking the dichotomy of Tokyos neon lights and subdued glow of Kyotos aesthetics, on view from May 8June 6, 2024. Representing the later years of her career, this collaboration between the de Santillana Estate and Ippodo Gallery includes artworks traveling from Venice and those which exhibited exclusively in Japan. Deeply inspired by the ingenious craftsmanship of Japanese architecture, this series of glass tablets draws together the vibrant colors that de Santillana saw in Tokyos bustling nightlife districts with the traditional modesty of Kyoto, where she felt a natural fondness of ancient Japanese culture analogous to the grand ... More
Springfield Art Museum appoints new museum educator SPRINGFIELD, MO.-The Springfield Art Museum announced today that Joshua Best accepted the role of museum educator. Best most recently served as museum affairs officer for audience development from 2021-2024. He joined the Springfield Art Museum as development and marketing coordinator in 2015. As museum educator and a member of the Springfield Art Museum leadership team, Best will plan and lead the Museums public programs as well as in-school and out-of-school tours and programs like the annual Fifth Grade Field Trips. Best and Museum curatorial staff will continue mounting the long-standing and popular All School Exhibition. Best will also manage the Museums volunteer docent corps. Best says, Ive strived to place art interpretation, accessibility, and inclusion at the core of my work for the Museum through engagement events ... More
A Herter Brothers mantel sold for $152,400 in Moran's 2-day sale LOS ANGELES, CA.-John Moran Auctioneers presented their highly-anticipated 2-day The Traditional Collector: Featuring The Collection of Walter and Nesta Spink sale, Tuesday, April 9th & Wednesday, April 10th, 2024. Day 1 featured The Collection of Walter and Nesta Spink along with other Asian and Southeast Asian works from remarkable private collections. Day 2 offered fine and decorative art, furnishings, tableware, lighting, clocks, and more. The sale began with property from Walter and Nesta Spink, two highly respected figures in the world of art history, academia, and collecting. Walters scholarly focus on early Buddhist art and architecture, particularly at the UNESCO World Heritage designated Ajanta Caves in western India, reshaped our understanding of these ancient sites. Day 1 started with The Collection of Walter and ... More
Conversing with Collections: New Spins on Ceramics with Steven Young Lee
Flashback
On a day like today, Finnish illustrator Tom of Finland was born
May 08, 1920. Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 - 7 November 1991), best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist known for his stylized highly masculinized homoerotic fetish art, and for his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade. In this image: Tom of Finland, Untitled, c.1978. Graphite on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm; 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 ins. Copyright Tom of Finland Foundation.