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‘A special bond between music and art’: Bath piano shop turns old parts into palette
via theguardian.comFrom an eagle to Elton John, the Played and Remade project enables artists to ‘make something magical’ from free materialsThe task of loading once-loved but now unwanted pianos into a van and carting them off to the recycling centre is a disheartening and melancholy one. So a music shop in Bath that scraps as many as 300 redundant and unfixable pianos a year has launched a project to repurpose the thousands of parts that make up each instrument into pieces of art.The Piano Shop Bath -
‘An incredible phallic landmark!’ The grain silo gallery, a gift from the trillion dollar man
via theguardian.comLe Corbusier called grain silos ‘the magnificent first fruits of the new age’. But what can be done with these soaring industrial cathedrals when they’re redundant? A Norwegian tycoon has the answerIf you’ve ever wondered what it would feel like to be as insignificant as a kernel of corn, you can now get a good idea in Kristiansand, a city in southern Norway. Standing on the fourth floor of its new Kunstsilo art museum, carved out of an old 1930s grain silo, you can peer -
Vincent Namatjira says ‘people don’t have to like my paintings’ after Gina Rinehart demands portrait be removed
via theguardian.comBillionaire wants painting of her removed from National Gallery of Australia but Archibald-winning artist says he hopes people think about what he is trying to sayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastArchibald-winning artist Vincent Namatjira has responded after the mining billionaire Gina Rinehart demanded that a portrait he painted of her be removed from the National Gallery of Australia (NGA).The paintin -
Sotheby’s Modern Evening Sale Yields $235 M. Led by $38.4 M. Monet and Record-Smash for Leonora Carrington at $28.5 M.
via artnews.comAfter tepid sales results during the first two nights of the marquee art auctions in New York, Sotheby’s Modern evening sale netted $235 million, led by Claude Monet, Leonora Carrington, René Magritte, and Alexander Calder.While 96 percent of lots sold and several bidding wars broke out, nervousness continued to be evident among buyers through the large number of incremental bids, 32 out of 50 works sold with guarantees and irrevocable bids, as well as several works by blue-chip art -
New Record for Leonora Carrington as Surrealist Painting Sells for $28.5 M. at Sotheby’s
via artnews.comLeonora Carrington’s 1945 painting Les Distractions de Dagobert sold for $28.5 million with fees on Wednesday night during Sotheby’s evening sale for modern and contemporary art, setting a record for the Surrealist artist at auction.The painting, carrying a $12 million–$18 million estimate, hit that price after 10 minutes of bidding. According to Artnet News, Argentinian developer and businessman Eduardo F. Costantini—who was in the room—bid against buyers on the ph -
NYC Building Film Production To Rival Hollywood
via latimes.comThe aggressive studio expansions signal New York’s continued determination to double down on the film business and compete with its main rival, Los Angeles, for a bigger slice of the Hollywood pie — even as the industry is struggling to rebound nationwide. – Los Angeles Times -
Steve Martin Writes About Being Friends With Peter Schjeldahl
via newyorker.comPeter’s goal, per him, was to have one idea, at least, per sentence. His best mentoring, he said, came from journalists, which makes sense. His reviews have an urgent quality. Breaking news! – The New Yorker -
Are You A Music Or Lyrics Person?
via dirt.fyiDo you consider yourself more of a music person or a lyrics person, and why? – Dirt -
YouTube Is Now The Second-Most Popular TV Network
via wsj.comOnce a repository of amateur videos, the service owned by Alphabet’s Google has grown into a streaming behemoth with full-length films, highly produced series, sports highlights and live events. – The Wall Street Journal -
A Four-Step Method To Spot Fake News
via bbc.comWhen it comes to not falling for misinformation, being aware of our human fallibilities, such as our quickness to believe what we want to believe, is a good first step. – BBC -
Assessing The “Devastating” Cyberattack On Christie’s
via news.artnet.comIt was not immediately clear whether it is only the public-facing website that is affected, or whether any client information was at risk. Christie’s did not immediately answer an email requesting clarification. – Artnet -
Getting Meta: A Regional Theater’s Play About A Regional Theater’s Search For An Artistic Director
via msn.com“Oakland playwright Jonathan Spector jokes that if his satire Best Available had a trigger warning, it would be ‘realistic portrayals of working in nonprofit theater.’ … To write the show, Spector … interviewed dozens of artistic directors nationwide about how they got their posts.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN) -
LA’s East West Players Chooses Lily Tung Crystal As Its New Director
via latimes.comTung Crystal is currently the artistic director of Theater Mu, the largest Asian American theater company in the Midwest, as part of its first female co-leadership team with Managing Director Anh Thu T. Pham. – Los Angeles Times -
An Anxious May Auction Season Kicks Off With Tepid Results At Best
via artnews.comEditor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.One of the most startling things I saw happen during the first two days of art auctions in New York took place before any bids had been made.A few minutes before Sotheby’s ultra-contemporary evening sale, “The Now,” was set to begin, a cameraman tripped over a stanchion and narrowly av -
You’re In College Getting A BFA In Dance. How Much Do Good Grades Matter?
“Rather than exams and essays, the studio classes that make up the bulk of BFA programs evaluate students on less tangible benchmarks like artistry, technique, and performance. How much weight are BFA programs really putting on grading — and how much do students’ grades matter during, and after, their time in college?” – Dance Magazine -
An Emotional Show in Ghana Marks the Return of Looted Asante Culture from the UK
via artnews.comRepatriation ceremonies tend to be bureaucratic affairs done for show—the deal to return a looted artwork is conducted long before the object is actually handed over to its rightful owner. But earlier this month, when objects related to Asante culture made their way back to Ghana after about a century and half abroad, many were deeply affected.Ivor Agyeman-Duah, the lead negotiator for Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the monarch of the Asante Kingdom, described the historic occasion as &l -
Inflation Has Wrecked UK Musicians’ Ability To Make Money
via theguardian.com“Music labels, even if they’re small, still have such a hold over artists who can’t afford to pay for production themselves. You’re always owing someone something.” – The Guardian -
When Benjamin Millepied Choreographed A Gender-Neutral “Romeo And Juliet”
via theguardian.comYou’d expect any controversy to be over his decision to have dancers leave the auditorium and perform around the building while cameras transmit their movement to an onstage screen. But no, discussion in France (in 2022!) centered on the variable-gender casting. Millepied says, “They were talking about it on gameshows.” – The Guardian -
American Museum of Natural History Curator Cleared of Smuggling Claims, Turkish Judge Rules
via artnews.comA Turkish judge cleared the American Museum of Natural History curator who was arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle spider and scorpion samples from Istanbul. He was released from custody after spending a night in jail.“I was completely cleared of all charges by a Turkish judge and released. I do not wish to comment further at this time,” Lorenzo Prendini wrote in an email to Artnet News.The arachnid expert was held by police at the Istanbul Airport for trying to take roughly 1,5 -
Using Technology To Enhance Audience Engagement
via sfcv.orgThe performances that work best for both haptic tours and live audio descriptions are dance and theater productions that offer a mix of visual and auditory elements. – San Francisco Classical Voice -
Not all culture was lost during the war | Brief letters
via theguardian.comPaintings kept safe | The red king | A heart-stopping euphemism | Uses for olive oil | Useless toolsI was fascinated to read about the wartime safe-keeping of National Gallery paintings (Canaletto masterpiece returns to Wales 80 years after it was hidden in slate mine, 7 May). I remember my mother taking me and my sister to the gallery early on in the war to see the one painting remaining for people to see, and she told us then that all the others had gone to be safely stored within caves in the -
There Are Still Butlers Today, But They’re Not Like Downton Abbey’s Mr. Carson Anymore
via nytimes.comToday’s “executive butlers,” who service the ultra-wealthy (who aren’t just old-line nobility anymore) at England’s grand country houses, are a cross between chief housekeeper, maître d’, executive assistant, and concierge. – The New York Times -
Rachel Martin’s Humorous Art Filters Indigeneity and Femininity into Sly Drawings Grounded in Centuries-Old Techniques
via artnews.comIn one of artist Rachel Martin’s earliest memories, her mother had asked her to draw the face of a bug. “I was about three years old, and I remember her saying to me, ‘Show me how it feels to look at it,’ rather than how it looks, and I think that’s how I make art now,” Martin recently told ARTnews.Related ArticlesIndigenous Art History Gets a Rewrite, With an Emphasis on Performance, in a Standout Show UpstateHow the Gochman Family Collection Aims to Sup -
It Sure Seems Like AI Is Not Living Up To The Hype
via artsjournal.com“It feels like another sign that A.I. is not even close to living up to its hype. In my eyes, it’s looking less like an all-powerful being and more like a bad intern whose work is so unreliable that it’s often easier to do the task yourself.” – The New York Times -
L.A. Opera Revives David Hockney’s Celebrated Sets For “Turandot”
via yahoo.com“‘We’ve been trying to program Hockney’s Turandot for 30 years,’ said Rupert Hemmings, vice president of artistic planning for L.A. Opera, which … has spent $80,000 to rent the production assets … from San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, which commissioned (them) 34 years ago.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!) -
Hayv Kahraman Paints Resistance Against the Classification of Migrants and Refugees
via artnews.comHayv Kahraman is an Iraqi–born refugee who escaped with her family and became a Swedish citizen. Informed by her experience with migration and assimilation, her solo exhibition “Look Me in the Eyes”—on view at ICA San Francisco through May 19—explores the connection between botanical classification and human subjugation.In her work—including the painting Loves Me, Loves Me Not (2023), pictured above—Kahraman draws on a personal interest in binomial nomen -
Billionaire Calls for Removal of ‘Unflattering’ Portrait from National Gallery of Australia
via artnews.comGina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia, has reportedly called on Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia to take down a painting of her by Aboriginal artist Vincent Namatjira.It wasn’t immediately clear what had moved Rinehart, a donor to the National Gallery of Australia, to make the request, but it was clear, at least, that Namatjira’s portrait was viewed as being not the kindest representation of her. Both the Guardian and the Sydney Morning Herald used the word &ld -
These Indie Filmmakers Couldn’t Find Distributors Who’d Promise A Theatrical Release. So They’re Distributing To Cinemas Themselves.
via yahoo.com“It’s a rough road, one that requires creative and focused marketing strategies and the willingness to do all the work a studio would normally do. But at a time when the once-buzzy acquisition market at Sundance and other festivals has slowed down, it’s an option more filmmakers find worth taking.” – TheWrap (Yahoo!) -
King Charles III’s First Portrait Since Coronation Is Getting Panned
via artnews.comThe first official portrait of King Charles III since his coronation last year was unveiled at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the King, the media, and the artist unveiled the work by British artist Jonathan Yeo, which has since been panned online.The seven-and-a half-foot-tall painting shows Charles facing the viewer head-on, wearing the uniform of the Welsh Guards with a sword in hand. He’s pictured against a backdrop of mottled reds and pinks, so that the K -
Christie’s Holds Auction After Cyberattack, CalArts Joins Divestment Wave, Chicago Museum Rebrands in Kenneth Griffin’s Name, and More: Morning Links for May 15, 2024
via artnews.comTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESCURTAINS UP. Despite still reeling from a cyberattack, Christie’s held two major sales that totaled $114.7 million on Tuesday night. That number failed to surpass the $267.3 million made by rival Sotheby’s the night prior, but it was an admirable showing given the tense circumstances. Just hours before the auction commenced, Christie’s we
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