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Ghanaian Photographer Gerald Annan-Forson Comes Into Focus with a US Retrospective
via artnews.comWhen Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Ghana in 1999 on an official visit, the British High Commission called Gerald Annan-Forson about photographing the monarch in a private session. Years beforehand, Annan-Forson had developed a habit of standing before Buckingham Palace with the dream of taking images of the queen or the royal family someday. The Commission’s request came as a surprise.“I said, ‘Well, wait a minute. She’s coming with all these pressmen. Why me?’ -
From Challengers to Pet Shop Boys: the complete guide to this week’s entertainment
via theguardian.comZendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist find themselves in a love triangle on centre court in Luca Guadagnino’s tennis romance, while the synthpop veterans return with album number 15Challengers
Out now
Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist star in this sporting romance that sees off-court tensions played out through the medium of tennis, as a grand slam champion competes against his wife’s former lover. From Luca Guadagnino, director of Call Me By -
Potential Legal Heir Emerges to Claim Long-lost Klimt Portrait Auctioned in Vienna
via artnews.comA potential heir to the legal successor of Adolf Lieser has emerged and claimed ownership of the Gustav Klimt portrait sold for $32 million in a buzzy auction in Vienna, per Der Standard. The individual, a Munich-based architect, is not a relative of the Leiser family, but lodged a claim after learning last week that the painting missing for a century had resurfaced at im Kinksy auction house.Titled Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917), the work was purchased by an anonymous Hong Kong de -
Dani Levinas, Art Enthusiast Who ‘Collected Collectors,’ Dies at 75
via artnews.comDani Levinas, an art collector who gained a following for interviewing other collectors, has died at 75. The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., where he formerly served as board chair, announced his death on Wednesday.“Dani Levinas’s passion and enthusiasm for art by living artists will have an enduring impact on The Phillips Collection,” said current board chair John Despres in a statement. “We will truly miss his inspiration and guidance.”With his wife Mirel -
Postwar and Contemporary Art from Iowa Business Leaders to Be Sold at Christie’s Spring Sales
via artnews.comWorks from the art collection of Iowa business leader and philanthropist John Pappajohn and his wife Mary will be offered as a group of highlights during Christie’s Spring sales in New York next month, the auction house announced Friday. The Pappajohns were a mainstay of ARTnews’s Top 200 collector list from 1998 to 2014. John passed away last year on April 26 at 94. Mary, aged 88, died in 2022.The collection, which is comprised of works by post-war and contemporary luminaries i -
Post-War and Contemporary Art From Iowa Business Leaders To Be Sold at Christie’s Spring Sales
via artnews.comWorks from the art collection of Iowa business leader and philanthropist John Pappajohn and his wife Mary will be offered as a group of highlights during Christie’s Spring sales in New York next month, the auction house announced Friday. The Pappajohns were a mainstay of ARTnews’s Top 200 collector list from 1998 to 2014. John passed away last year on April 26 at 94. Mary, aged 88, died in 2022.The collection, which is comprised of works by post-war and contemporary luminaries i -
Moscow’s Garage Museum Is Reportedly Searched by Police Amid Crackdown on LGBTQ+ Literature
via artnews.comVarious Russian publications reported on Friday that Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art was being searched by local police, potentially in connection to LGBTQ+ literature that is thought to be housed at the institution.On the social media platform Telegram, Ostorozhno Novosti, a local news channel, said that police officers were at a building that holds the Garage Museum’s archives. The museum’s leaders and curators were reportedly being kept from using their phones and -
Surrealism in the Age of AI
via artnews.comIn 1924 the French poet and critic André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto. The 4,000-word document marked both the birth of the eponymous movement and the moment when its dogmas were codified, effectively laying the groundwork for the countless derivations of the form that would follow—in the 15 years before World War II, certainly, but also after, up to, and including today. The Surrealist movement may have waned, but its ideas have not.Now, exactly one century removed fro -
At Americas Society, Artists Look at the Myth That Started Natural Resource Extraction in Latin America
via artnews.comIn Colombian artist Carlos Motta’s 2013 video, Nefandus, an indigenous man and a Spanish man travel down Colombia’s Don Diego River telling stories of the violent sodomization against natives by the Spanish during the conquest in Latin America. “The landscape does not confess what it has witnessed; the images are out of time and veil the actions that have taken place there,” the narrator explains.This question of colonial violence against the land and the passage of time -
Getty Returns Bronze to Turkey, Man Claims Ownership of Buzzy Klimt Portrait, ‘Britain’s Pompeii’ Exhibit to Open, and More: Morning Links for April 26, 2024
via artnews.comTo receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESNEW KLIMT CLAIM. A potential heir to the legal successor of Adolf Lieser came forward with a claim they own the Gustav Klimt portrait of Fraulein Lieser, right before it sold at auction for a low estimate of $32 million, according to Der Standard. The potential heir, a Munich-based architect who is not a relative of the Lieser family, learned last week abo -
‘Massive and exciting impact’: show celebrates Spain’s first abstract art museum
via theguardian.comExhibition explores how a Spanish-Filipino artist in 1966 opened a trailblazing cultural outpost in Cuenca’s ‘hanging houses’In July 1966, as the Beatles were preparing to release Revolver and Spain was approaching the 30th anniversary of the coup that birthed the Franco dictatorship, a Spanish-Filipino artist called Fernando Zóbel threw open the doors of an improbable but visionary cultural outpost.Based in a clutch of 15th-century houses overhanging a precipitous gorge -
Hairy paint, boozy sculpture and Michelangelo’s final years – the week in art
via theguardian.comThe Renaissance master dazzles, Rasheed Araeen goes for drinks and Peppi Botrop really mixes media – all in your weekly dispatchMichelangelo: The Last Decades
Passionate and confessional drawings by one of the greatest artists of all time.
• British Museum, London, from 2 May until 28 July Continue reading... -
In the Early 20th Century, Jean Cocteau’s Queer Art Was Notably Cocksure
via artnews.comThis essay originally appeared in Reframed, the Art in America newsletter about art that surprises us and works that get us worked up. Sign up here to receive it every Thursday.The French polymath Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) was never content to work in one mode—and was ostracized for it. His retrospective at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is titled “The Juggler’s Revenge”: it makes a case for this versatility, showing a cohesive spi -
Experience: I’m making a lifesize replica of the Bayeux tapestry
via theguardian.comIt’s been eight years since I started, and I’m now 44 metres in. It’s taken its tollI first set eyes on the Bayeux tapestry thanks to a wrong turn. My husband was driving us across France, missed an exit, and we accidentally ended up in the town of Bayeux.I live in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, but having grown up in Sweden, I’d only been vaguely aware of the tapestry. I knew 1066 was a significant date for the English, but history lessons had bored me at school. I’d alw -
The Recycle Wars: When Literature Begets Literature
via nytimes.comThe rewriting of old books is hardly a new practice, though it’s one that critics often like to complain about. Doesn’t anyone have an original idea? Can’t we just leave the classics alone? – The New York Times -
Behind San Francisco Conservatory’s Big Bets On The Future
via sfcv.org“At Curtis, it’s just the music, but [at SFCM] we tell you [that] you’ll know something about how the music business works and we think you should know something about risk-taking. … And now we’ve expanded to say you should think about how performance experiences will be successful in the future.” – San Francisco Classical Voice -
How Losing Non-Compete Clauses Will Affect Hollywood
“The new FTC rule shines a klieg light on how best to retain quality employees in the industry — noncompetes are on their way out, so companies need a better solution.” – Hollywood Reporter -
John Cage’s Frequently Misunderstood 4’33” Remains a Masterpiece
via artnews.comJohn Cage’s 1952 work 4′33″ has proven a touchstone for artists, composers, and thinkers of all kinds, spawning conceptual artworks, experimental gestures, and even an iPhone app. But even as almost everyone agrees on its importance, misunderstandings about the work proliferate. For one, 4′33″ is sometimes affectionally known as Cage’s “silent piece,” since the work calls for its enactor to stop using their instrument for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. -
Arts Council England Is Broken. Theatre Leaders Have Some Ideas To Fix It
via thestage.co.ukLeaders from across the theatre sector have outlined their vision for a reformed Arts Council England, warning that an unchanged funding body could stoke competition for cash in its current “binary system of extremes”. – The Stage -
Poet Leslie Sainz
via artsjournal.comWe’re celebrating National Poetry Month with 2021 NEA Literature Fellow andpoet Leslie Sainz who discusses her debut poetry collection, “Have You Been Long Enough at Table.” Sainz reads from her collection and talks about its major themes including the ambiguity, displacement, and impact of cultural heritage as a daughter of Cuban immigrants. She discusses the variety of poetic forms used in her collection, allowing form to be guided by the emotional and thematic de -
Study: New Zealanders’ Participation In The Arts
via thebigidea.nzAmong the encouraging stats, participation in the arts has reached its highest level since the survey began in 2005, up to 54%. Young people, deaf and disabled, Māori and Pacific peoples participate in the arts most frequently. Engagement in the arts has had a bump too, up three per cent from the last survey at 78%. – Big Idea -
Study: Our Perception Of Time Is Influenced By What We Experience
via nature.comWhen viewing larger or less-cluttered scenes, participants were more likely to experience time dilation; thinking that they had viewed the picture for longer than they actually did. The opposite effect — time constriction — occurred when viewing smaller-scale, more cluttered images. – Nature -
Standup Comedian Asks Mother With Fussy Baby To Leave Venue, Brouhaha Breaks Out
via theguardian.com“Comedian Arj Barker’s interaction with a mother who brought a seven-month-old baby to his comedy show in Melbourne on Saturday night has sparked outrage, sympathy and debate about the woman’s decision to bring her infant to the gig and his decision to ask her to leave.” – The Guardian -
No-Name Philadelphia Pops Orchestra Now Wants The Name
via msn.comThe self-organized group of musicians playing under the No Name Pops banner is negotiating with the family of late pianist and conductor Peter Nero to acquire the Philly Pops name. – Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN) -
Louvre Considers Moving Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber To End ‘Public Disappointment’
via artnews.comWhen I took my mother back to Paris for her first visit in nearly five decades, there was no question we would go to the Louvre. I was more surprised that she wanted to stand in the long line to see Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503) for the few seconds we would get to take pictures and selfies with the famous painting.This experience is often annoying and disappointing for tourists, with one recent analysis of 18,000 reviews deeming the Renaissance portrait “the world’s most -
Sotheby’s to Auction $30 M. Monet Painting in May Evening Sale
via artnews.comSotheby’s will auction Claude Monet’s Meules à Giverny (1893) in its modern art evening auction on May 15. The house has has estimated that the work sell for a sum “in excess of $30 million”.The sunny landscape painting features a haystack in a tree-filled field. It was brought to the United States in 1895 by its first owner, the American landscape painter Dwight Blaney. According to Sotheby’s, the painting was immediately lent to the Museum of Fine Arts in B -
Bringing Professional Ballet To Green Bay, Wisconsin
Pacific Northwest Ballet principals Kyle Davis and Sarah-Gabrielle Ryan had long wanted to bring fully professional dance to Davis’s hometown. After several years of preparation and (of course) delay because of the pandemic, the first Green Bay Ballet Festival is now underway. – Pointe Magazine -
How America Got Hooked On Credit Card Culture
via aeon.coBy the late 1960s, bankers increasingly saw credit cards, which combined innovative information technology with access to affluent consumer markets, as the road to the future – as the key to innovating around the restrictive financial rules. – Aeon -
Opera Philadelphia Picks A New General Director
via whyy.orgAnthony Roth Costanzo, 41, has a history with Philadelphia going back almost 30 years. His first appearance at the Academy of Music was in 1996 at the tender age of 14, performing the Shepherd Boy in Puccini’s “Tosca,” in a traveling production created by Luciano Pavarotti. – WHYY -
Washington National Opera Institutes New Award For Trans/Nonbinary Singers
via msn.com“On May 1, the Washington National Opera will recognize transgender singer Katherine Goforth as the inaugural recipient of” the True Voice Award, to be given triennially and “intended to help support the training of transgender and nonbinary opera singers, as well as increase their visibility in the industry.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
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