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A Retired Seamstress Was Reunited With the Statue She Posed For 40 Years Later at the Italian American Museum
via artnews.comWhodunnits in the garment center are few and far between these days, but one case of a missing statue was recently cracked by the subject’s granddaughter.More than 40 years after the retired seamstress Maria Pulsone posed for a statue, she was reunited with it at an unveling at the Italian American Museum, which will reopen this summer.Her granddaughter Jennifer Pulsone said that she always knew growing up that her grandmother had a statue that rested in the lobby of the Broadway building -
Pro-Gaza Protestors Stage Action at Brooklyn Museum, Calling for Divestment from Israel
via artnews.comAs afternoon dimmed into evening Friday, the Brooklyn Museum became the stage of one the most fervent Gaza solidarity actions yet to descend on a New York City art institution. Starting at 4:30 p.m. inside the lobby, a group of cultural workers, artists, and New York City community members brandished banners, beat drums, and blew whistles, calling for the museum to condemn the killing of Palestinians in Gaza, as well as disclose and divest its financial ties to Israel. Outside the muse -
Basquiat Painting Sells for $12.6 M. at Phillips Hong Kong
via artnews.comJean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 work Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari sold for $12.6 million at a Phillips modern and contemporary art evening sale in Hong Kong this week. That figure, which includes premium, means the work sold for just above its low estimate of $12 million, but it also makes the picture is the most expensive piece to sell this season in Hong Kong.That record follows the sale of Basquiat’s Untitled (ELMAR), also from 1982, at&nbs -
Following Calls to Remove ‘Unflattering’ Portrait from Australia’s National Portrait Gallery, Billionaire Gifted a Different Portrait of Herself
via artnews.comIf you can’t beat them, join them—as the old saying goes—or, perhaps, give them something else to discuss. This seems to be the attitude of Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart, who gifted a portrait of herself to Australia’s National Portrait Gallery, following calls to remove an unflattering painting of her from the institution. Rinehart, who is the richest person in Australia and a major donor to the National Gallery of Australia, previously requested that a pai -
Curator Vincent Honoré’s Suicide Labeled a ‘Work Accident’ by French Social Security
via artnews.comThe suicide of Vincent Honoré, a well-known French curator who served as head of exhibitions at the MO.CO Montpellier museum, was the subject of a three-month investigation, according to Le Quotidien de l’Art.The French art publication reported that Caisse primaire d’assurances maladie, a public health organization that is part of the nation’s social security system, has now concluded that inquiry and deemed Honoré’s suicide a “work accident.” Th -
“I Still Can’t Look At My Nonfiction Shelf Without Flinching A Little” — Ed Yong On Being A Pulitzer Judge
via buttondown.email“When you’re searching for excellence, even books you might have enjoyed under normal circumstances start looking mediocre, and the process quickly becomes a slog that drains the joy from reading. But the monthly discussions with my fellow jurors — always lively, thoughtful, and respectful — were restorative.” – The Ed’s Up -
Report: When Listeners Move To Podcasts, It Becomes Their Primary Source
via insideradio.comEdison Research’s Share of Ear data shows podcast listeners spent a third (32%) of their audio listening time with podcasts. That beats out AM/FM radio by ten points and it’s well above streaming music (18%) or satellite radio (5%). – Inside Radio -
Iraqi Government Recovers 6,000 Looted Artifacts
via artnews.comMore than 6,000 historical artifacts smuggled out of Iraq after the fall of Mosul in 2014 have been recovered, according to the publication Al-Monitor.The announcement was made on Wednesday by Ali Obaid Shalgam, the head of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, during a conference on Iraqi cultural heritage in the Mosul province.A majority of the recovered works were stolen by the Islamic State beginning in 2014. During their control of Iraq and parts of Syria, ISIS destro -
6,000 Looted Artifacts Recovered by Iraqi Government
via artnews.comMore than 6,000 historical artifacts smuggled out of Iraq after the fall of Mosul in 2014 have been recovered, according to the publication Al-Monitor.The announcement was made on Wednesday by Ali Obaid Shalgam, the head of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, during a conference on Iraqi cultural heritage in the Mosul province.A majority of the recovered works were stolen by the Islamic State beginning in 2014. During their control of Iraq and parts of Syria, ISIS destro -
When Art Institute Of Chicago Students Put Henri Matisse On Trial
via news.artnet.com“In 1913, on the last day of the history-making Armory Show, … displeased with … Matisse’s Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra), the students accused ‘Henry Hair Mattress’ of ‘artistic murder, pictorial arson, artistic rapine, total degeneracy of color, criminal misuse of line, general esthetic aberration, and contumacious abuse of title.'” – Artnet -
Hollywood’s Number Of “Blue Collar” Workers Declines
via variety.comCombined, the “white collar” class of creatives, managers and specialists accounted for eight out of ten jobs in Hollywood in 2022, up from seven out of ten jobs in 2013. – Variety -
Want To Know Why There’s Really No Oscar For Best Stunts?
via msn.comCritic Bilge Ebiri, who’s been advocating for such an award for years, walks through, and takes down, the arguments that have for decades been put up against a Best Stunts Oscar. Then he recounts an anecdote that points to the likely truth of the matter. – Vulture (MSN) -
Marc Camille Chaimowicz obituary
via theguardian.comArtist whose installations combined the melancholic and camp, the romantic and cerebralMarc Camille Chaimowicz’s recent exhibition at Cabinet Gallery in London, which closed five days before the artist died, aged 78, was typical in its arch mix of art, decor and autobiography.The show featured a series of sewing exercises created by the artist’s mother when she worked as a seamstress at the House of Paquin in Paris during the 1940s. The geometric patterns she produced as she practise -
John Lennon’s ‘Help!’ Guitar Just Sold for a Record $2.9M. at Auction
via artnews.comJohn Lennon’s guitar needed no help setting a new world record on Wednesday.The famous “Help!” Framus Hootenanny hammered down an astonishing $2.86 million during Julien’s two-day Music Icons sale at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York, making it the most expensive Beatles guitar ever sold at auction. (The record was previously held by Lennon’s J-160E Gibson, which sold for $2.41 million in 2015.) The instrument was initially expected t -
Report: AI Threats To The Art World
Both art institutions and artists face existential challenges in negotiating this AI universe and its emerging financial model. Art-world experts consulted by The Art Newspaper have offered a mix of pragmatic, creative, combative and hopeful responses to the report and to the state of the AI industry. – The Art Newspaper -
Audience Member Sues Madonna And Live Nation For Ambushing Him With “Pornography”
via theguardian.comWhile he’s also angry that the concert started late, the arena was hot, and Madonna was lip-synching, his legal complaint says, “During the performance plaintiff was forced to watch topless women on stage simulating sex acts. Plaintiff felt like he was watching a pornographic film being made.” – The Guardian -
Grace Jones shakes her bones! Great moments in after-dark photography
via theguardian.comThe perfect post-sundown shot has long proved elusive. But a new book called Night Fever is celebrating the trailblazers who caught not just what the small hours look like – but how they feelIn 2008, the celebrated photographer Dayanita Singh discovered that using daylight colour film stock at night yielded strange results. When she shot at dusk, the photos came out blue. Feeling experimental one night, she decided to leave her camera on a long exposure. The following morning, she woke to -
The Fight To Save Louisiana’s Only French-Language TV Programming
via theadvocate.comWith funding from the state, Télé-Louisiane has been airing, on Louisiana Public Broadcasting, a weekly news-and-culture program called La Veillée and a children’s cartoon, Les Aventures de Boudini et Ses Amis. Legislators have eliminated Télé-Louisiane’s funding, and supporters are rallying to reverse that decision. – The Acadiana Advocate -
How A Self-Help Book With No Publisher And No Brick-And-Mortar-Bookstore Presence Sold Over A Million Copies
via nytimes.comTikTok, that’s how. With The Shadow Work Journal, Keila Shaheen has become “perhaps the first self-published nonfiction author to break out in a big way on the platform, a feat she accomplished by fully harnessing its potential not just for marketing, but for direct sales.” – The New York Times -
Colombia Bans Bullfighting
via apnews.com“The bill calls for … making the tradition illegal by the start of 2028. The new law now needs to be signed by President Gustavo Petro, who has been a longtime opponent of these events. Bullfighting … is still legal in a handful of countries, including Spain, France, Portugal, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico.” – AP -
Canada’s National Ballet School May Be Forced To Rescind Offers To Overseas Students
“Canada’s National Ballet School says it may be forced to rescind or defer offers for its competitive teacher-training program because its status as a career college has caught it in a tangle of jurisdictional red tape over new student immigration rules.” – The Globe and Mail (Canada) -
Foundation Plans A 100,000-Square-Foot Arts Campus In A Working-Class Philadelphia’s Neighborhood
via msn.com“The Forman Arts Initiative, an arts organization that awards grants to local creatives and arts nonprofits, plans to renovate four buildings on American Street (in West Kensington). The multipurpose space will hold a gallery, performing arts venue, and garden area, in addition to FAI’s offices.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN) -
Edinburgh Int’l Book Festival Also Gives Up Baillie Gifford Sponsorship Also Under Pressure)
The decision comes just a week after the Hay Festival cut funding ties with the investment firm. Both festivals cite “intolerable pressure,” referring to boycott threats and withdrawals by participants who object to Baillie Gifford’s financial ties to the fossil fuel industry and Israel. –The Herald (Scotland) -
‘To represent blackness as beautiful was radical’: the astonishing art – and lives – of the Holder brothers
via theguardian.comFrom ballet-dancing in New York to playing a Bond villain, Trinidad-born brothers Boscoe and Geoffrey Holder led extraordinary lives. But it’s as trailblazing painters of the black nude that they will be rememberedThe first time I ever saw a black male nude was in a Boscoe Holder painting in a private collection in Trinidad. It was beautiful – and so brazen that I wondered whether it broke the country’s lingering Victorian-era indecency laws. I would later discover he had paint -
Why Carla Accardi Abandoned Abstraction for Activism—and Then Came Back
via artnews.comIn the early 1970s, Carla Accardi began to doubt the scrawling, colorful abstractions for which she had become known. Wanting to impact the world in more tangible ways, she cofounded Rivolta Femminile (Women’s Revolt), a Rome-based feminist group whose formative publishing house served as a model for how women might obtain both editorial and economic independence from men. While focused on the group, Accardi scaled back her artistic output. The few paintings she produce -
When El Anatsui Isn’t Busy Being One of Africa’s Biggest Artists, He’s Collecting Vinyl
via artnews.comEl Anatsui may be known best for his metallic tapestries made from bottle caps, but he is also a musician.In his university days, he played trumpet, performing music by Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington in a school band guided by an American music director. The band’s leader, Anatsui once said, introduced him to the music of Fela Kuti, founder of the Afrobeat genre. The band would later meet the Nigerian musician when he toured Ghana, Anatsui’s homeland—and even ended opening fo -
Joyce C. Scott’s Beaded Sculptures Confront Racist Tropes
via artnews.comIn the 1970s, when the artist Joyce J. Scott was starting out, she crafted one-of-a-kind garments—glamorous and earthy looks made of materials including fur, snakeskin, and safety pins. She also plied her wild style in works of jewelry and sculpture that took on abstract and figurative forms, many of them ornamented by her signature beadwork. Her “Mammy/Nanny” sculpture series from the 1980s and ’90s includes Mammie Wada (1981), a doll-size figure of a Black woman seeming -
Degas at the circus, Emin’s rebirth and rococo inspo – the week in art
via theguardian.comRichard Wright hits Glasgow, London Gallery Weekend brings the glamour and fashion photography claims its place as art – all in your weekly dispatchLondon Gallery Weekend
The capital’s commercial gallery scene perhaps needs this booster celebration that features talks, openings and fun in a host of glamorous venues.
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44 Museum Shows to See This Summer
via artnews.comPerhaps you seek more at a museum this summer than just strong AC and a good permanent collection? You’re in luck. The summer, typically a slow period for institutions, is livelier this year than usual, filled with the kinds of big shows that normally mark the spring and fall seasons.Anne Imhof, who won the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, is set to take over Austria’s Kunsthaus Bregenz with her latest creations while Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie is mounting an Andy Wa -
The “Worst Ever” Carmen — Take Two: A Way Forward
via artsjournal.comKelli O’Hara, Renee Fleming, and Joyce DiDonato in “The Hours” [Photo: Evan Zimmerman/Met Opera]In response to my two-day-old blog about the
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