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Model, beauty entrepreneur and reality TV star Kendall Jenner recently uploaded photos to Instagram from her recent visit to the Louvre in Paris at midnight, when the museum is closed to the public. She was barefoot, a detail that many people highlighted on social media. Rich and famous stars Keeping Up With The Kardashians She has been in Paris for the past week. In addition to visiting the Louvre, she also rode a horse Fashion World performances and traveled around with her boyfriend, Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny. related articles The photo uploaded to Instagram on June 26…

Art MarketMaxwell RaabExterior view of Mira at Gathering Ibiza bar designed by Tai Shani, 2024. Image courtesy of Gathering. Located on Ibiza’s quieter north side, Gathering’s new space features a terrace with fluorescent pink bar stools and a breast-shaped chandelier designed by British artist Tai Shani as part of its in-house restaurant, named Mira after founder Alex Flick’s daughter, a fitting calling card for the London gallery’s experimental approach to projects. Just two years after Gathering opened in London in 2022, Flick has decided to expand to Ibiza, seeing the island’s potential as a hotspot for contemporary art, and the…

Although often introduced as a student of Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, Abstract Expressionist painter Lawrence Calcano was a master in his own right. He had a successful career at a time when homosexuality was illegal in the United States, not to mention a social taboo, and despite these prejudices, he had his first solo show at the Martha Jackson Gallery in 1955. Jackson was a champion of avant-garde art and had exhibited the work of Willem de Kooning, which was well known. Miss (1950–53) series. Calcagno’s shows were equally successful, attracting Time MagazineThe review noted that the San Francisco…

After months of uncertainty, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council reached an agreement on a new 2025 budget that would restore funding for libraries, parks, museums and cultural institutions that had been slated for cuts. The new budget announced Thursday by the mayor’s office will restore $58 million to the New York, Brooklyn and Queens library systems; $53 million to cultural institutions and museums; and add $15 million to the city’s parks department for maintenance and cleaning efforts. The deal was reached before a midnight deadline on June 30, but full terms have not yet been…

Julianne Moore will star and executive produce the 2021 documentary adaptation of the television series. The missing Da Vinci according to deadline. The play will dramatize the rediscovery and subsequent events surrounding Savior of the Worlda Renaissance painting now attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. The work, which depicts Christ, was sold at Christie’s in New York in 2017 for $450 million, making it the most expensive painting in the world. The final buyer has not yet been officially determined. However, several reports have stated that it was Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.The upcoming series will explore the numerous…

If you’ve been having trouble doing anything but basking in an air-conditioned room or cooling center this summer, let alone picking up a thick book, know that you’re not alone. Our editors and contributors have compiled a list of short, enjoyable books that will either pull you out of your reading slump this month or save for future reading. Our picks include photography from a Manhattan artist’s loft, fascinating essays by scholar Nell Irvin Painter that blend the historical and the personal, and even a how-to manual for aspiring cartoonists. Enjoy, and stay cool! —Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor Luis…

Kimiyo Mishima, the Japanese artist whose ceramic newspaper sculptures began to attract international attention, has died, The New York Times reports. Japanese NewsShe was 91 years old. Mishima, who originally trained as a painter, began creating newspaper sculptures in the 1970s. She later began making ceramic works that resemble wastebaskets, containing crumpled paper, boxes, etc., that are so realistic that they are not immediately distinguishable as elements of art. With these works, she says, she depicts “fragile printed materials,” effectively making permanent versions of items that can easily be recycled or thrown away. related articles “My work is a record…

This article comes from Allergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, interviewing queer and trans elders in the arts community throughout June. Carrie Yamaoka is something of an alchemist. Since the 1990s, she has been working at the intersection of photography, printmaking, painting, and sculpture, using her studio as a laboratory, as she puts it. But unlike traditional alchemists, Yamaoka’s goal isn’t to create a thing or achieve a goal. It’s the flow between states that destabilizes perception, refusing to settle, that fascinates her. It’s not that the artist doesn’t make things: She knows her materials intimately, including reflective polyester film and…

The Centre Pompidou’s planned Jersey City museum was put in jeopardy on Saturday after New Jersey politicians withdrew funding for the institution, citing financial unsustainability. The institution, one of several international satellites operated by the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, was originally scheduled to begin welcoming visitors in 2024, but its opening date was pushed back a few years. Officially called Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, the 58,000-square-foot museum will be the first Centre Pompidou branch to open in North America, following the opening of other branches in China and Belgium. related articles The total cost of the Jersey…

This is a selection of works by Portland-based artist Chris Lael Larson. Larson’s work blends painting, photography, and collage to create new perceptual experiences through the theme of “everyday absurdity.” That is, the strange, curious, and confusing ways we relate to each other—the things we consume and the environments we inhabit. Larson is inspired by contemporary artists such as Aimeé Beaubien and Lucas Blalock, whose hybrid approaches blur the lines between photography and other mediums. In his work, Larsen constructs temporary altar-like installations from found objects, recycled materials, natural elements, cheaply printed photographs, and paint to highlight their latent qualities…