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As the year 2024 is almost over, we look back at the artists who have left a mark on the world of creativity. Among them, Bobbie Carlyle stands out with her ability to transform bronze into narratives of strength and perseverance. Her work, ranging from figurative expressions to wildlife and western themes, captures the raw essence of life’s highs and lows. The widely celebrated Self Made Man epitomizes her philosophy—an enduring depiction of carving one’s own path and purpose. Carlyle’s journey has been anything but ordinary. While earning a Fine Arts degree at Brigham Young University, she balanced the demands of raising…
Notre Dame Cathedral reopened on Saturday, December 7, for the first time since flames destroyed part of the building’s roof and spire in April 2019.World leaders including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron, Catholic clergy and donors to the 700 million euro ($739.2 million) restoration project , attended the cathedral’s reopening ceremony with 2,000 guests, officiated by Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich. During Saturday night’s service, clergy ceremoniously knocked on the cathedral’s doors, and attendees responded by reciting hymns and then awakening the 8,000-piece organ that had been dismantled and restored after the fire. A view of Notre…
In 1964, Jacques Demy did something extraordinary for the French New Wave – he made a romantic film musical. The director, who was just 33 at the time, added a twist: all dialogue, no matter how mediocre, would be sung by actors with pleasant but amateurish-sounding voices. Named after the umbrella shop where the film’s heroine Genevieve (played by Catherine Deneuve) and her mother (played by Anne Vernon) work, this Umbrellas in Cherbourg The global hit catapulted Deneuve to international stardom and gave Demy a popular reputation he would never experience again before his untimely death from AIDS-related illness in…
A lattice of contemporary design elements interweaves with features inspired by the building’s 154-year history to form Mexican architect Frida Escobedo’s vision for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new home for modern and contemporary art, such as Shown in the design renderings released today, December 10th. After being postponed in 2017, the five-story Tang Wing, now scheduled to open in 2030, will remain within the footprint of the existing museum building while expanding the Met’s exhibition space by nearly 50%, bringing the total area to 126,000 sq.m. The new wing is named for Oscar L. Tang and HM Agnes Hsu-Tang,…
Over the weekend, a group of anonymous activists staged a guerrilla action at New York’s Noguchi Museum to protest the institution’s recent ban on hijabs and the firing of related employees, posting mock text on the walls mocking the controversial policy.In a press release shared with allergic The group said it intended to use the museum’s space to directly criticize the Arab and Palestinian headscarf ban imposed last September, which the museum said was an “update” to its dress code. Rather than rewriting wall text for the exhibited work by Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi, the group developed new text for…
Every year I neglect to get my holiday shopping done early. Before I knew it, I was on the verge of collapse at the Bryant Park Holiday Market, waiting in a sea of tourists for overpriced scarves and day-old apple cider donuts. This is a Christmas tradition.But last weekend, I found a cure for my gift-related procrastination at Brooklyn’s cavernous Pioneer Works: Press Game Expo, a two-day gathering for independent publishers. Now in its fifth year, the event brings a wealth of remedies to the mind-numbing business holiday season in the form of zines, books and stickers — thoughts, ideas…
As the year 2024 is almost over, it’s an ideal time to reflect on the voices that have reshaped the cultural landscape. One such voice is Camille Ross, a photographer whose work captures the complexity of identity, heritage, and humanity. Born in 1964 in San Francisco, California, Ross’s life journey spans the countercultural energy of 1970s Berkeley and the stark traditions of rural Mississippi. These two contrasting environments profoundly influenced her artistic perspective and defined her approach to storytelling. Ross’s biracial heritage and Cherokee roots play a central role in her artistic identity. Growing up, she experienced the harsh realities…
I remember the first time I saw an ad for bananas; this is for Frozen 2it felt like the beginning of something and everything turned into advertising. I guess I ate that banana in 2019, and look how far we’ve come: This year’s blockbuster The Lego Movie is itself basically an ad for Lego and a biography of rapper Pharrell Williams film, he is also the creative director of Lego Louis Vuitton. Where does culture end and advertising begin? They don’t want you to know. when a freezing Or when a Pharrell-esque talent emerges, brands will struggle to find a…
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, art news Newsletter about the art market and beyond. Register here Receive it every Wednesday. At Sotheby’s Old Masters and 19th-Century Paintings evening sale last Thursday, British chairman Harry Dalmeny attracted bids from potential buyers with a slender silver crown and custom pinstripe tailoring. It’s no secret that the typical Old Master collector is both wealthy and approaching twilight years. Much has been written about how this corner of the market desperately needs to attract new, younger collectors. But that anxiety seemed to be further dispelled as the sale generated an…
This year, the art world went on a high fiber diet. Abstract weavings, knotted sculptures, expressive basketry, shaggy wall hangings: all are coming out of artist’s studios and museum storerooms, lending much-needed warmth and complexity to exhibition spaces. The moment has been a long time coming. Textile, of course, is among the most ancient of human endeavors; tapestry once outranked painting in the hierarchy of the arts. But modern fiber art has rarely gotten much respect. It’s one period of ascendancy came in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the Lausanne Tapestry Biennale was at its height, and the…