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LOS ANGELES—The Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT) specializes in encyclopedic museum wonders from bygone eras, blending art and science, fact and fiction, history and fantasy. Since its founding in 1988, the museum has hosted exhibitions on a variety of topics, some of which have questionable authenticity, including Hagop Sandaldjian’s miniatures, Ricky Jay’s collection of rotting dice, Cameroon’s stinking ants, and Soviet space dogs. This September, as part of the upcoming PST ART initiative, which focuses on the intersection of art and science, the museum will undertake its most ambitious endeavor yet: an exploration of Islamic architectural forms created in Spain…

Audrey Flack, a photorealist artist whose work recreated baubles, trinkets, photographs and more in meticulous detail, died June 28 in Southampton, New York. She was 93, her New York gallery, Louis K. Meisel, said Monday. Wilfully flouting conventional standards of good taste, Fleck’s art blurs the lines between high and low, painting and photography, kitsch and the avant-garde. Although not always admired by critics, who sometimes deride her work as out of touch with artistic trends, her work has earned her a cult following that has grown in number in recent years. related articles “At 92, Flake is in his…

Fashion legend and activist Naomi Campbell is to be honoured with an exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. The “Naomi: Fashion” exhibition will be on display from June 22, 2024 to April 6, 2025, and will showcase the model’s 40-year career in the fashion industry. The first-of-its-kind exhibition, sponsored by BOSS, will trace Campbell’s beginnings in south London to her meteoric rise to global fame, charting her evolution as a cultural icon and style pioneer. The museum will feature around 100 of Campbell’s outfits, including a Thierry Mugler corset from 1989 and a pink Valentino ensemble from the 2019…

Seattle Art Fair returns to Lumen Field July 25-28, featuring exciting works from the Pacific Northwest’s top galleries and an exciting lineup of major global projects. Join Seattle Art Fair for its eighth edition, where diverse artistic conversations converge in an ideal environment for education, engagement, and collecting. National and international projects heading to Seattle Art Fair in 2024 include the Melrose Gallery in Johannesburg, which will present a solo exhibition of works by Dr. Esther Mahlangu, a globally renowned visual artist and beloved cultural ambassador of the Ndebele people; Lighthouses Called Kanata and YUKI-SIS in Tokyo; G-77 Gallery in…

Irish artist John Gerard’s generative art series is helping to restore Ireland’s temperate rainforests. Hosted by Feral File, an online digital art platform founded in 2020, the series is titled “Crystallized Works.” Dozens of collectible digital works will be available every day over the next 12 months. It will be available on June 18th. “This work is first and foremost an experiment,” Gerard told Art News“In a virtual world on an Arctic floating bridge, a robot—which I call the Prism Robot because its surface changes color every millisecond—is creating 24 works every day from the 2024 summer solstice to the…

ArtOlivia HorneMary Cassatt, Mother and Child (Mother’s Kiss)1896. Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.In a museum, this behavior might be inelegant, but it’s understandable if you want to get up close and personal with Mary Cassatt’s incredibly soft, textured paintings. Mother and Child (Mother’s Kiss)A particularly intriguing candidate, the 1896 work on paper shows the plump cheeks of the figures (probably a mother and daughter) gently squeezed together; strands of silky hair tied into bows and chignons; and wisps of pastel streaked across the paper like taffy.It is here, in one’s imagination, that Cassatt’s work begins and ends—in…

CHICAGO — In 1968, Christina Lamberg exhibited 16 small, strange, detailed paintings of women’s hairstyles. Each square painting depicted a white woman’s head, seen from behind, her black hair manipulated by a feminine-looking hand, against an acidic gray-green background. She is only 22 years old, but she already knows a lot about art. Christina Lamberg: A RetrospectiveThis is the first comprehensive presentation of the work of the Chicago Imagists, as they are often called but who, in my opinion, are the most exciting, in nearly thirty years. A similar exhibition is also underway in the museum’s prints and drawings galleries,…

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has announced it will host an exhibition featuring all things Taylor Swift, from dresses and cowboy boots to awards and never-before-seen footage from her personal archive. independent. The title of this free exhibition is Taylor Swift: Songbook Journey. According to the museum, the exhibition will focus on Swift’s childhood, recording career and rise to superstardom, with 13 different stops corresponding to a stage in Swift’s career, starting with her move to Nashville at age 14. related articles The most notable items in the collection include a pair of cowboy boots Swift wore during her…

Anton Van Dalen, a New York artist known for his dreamy cityscapes and depictions of the East Village, died on June 25 at the age of 86. His gallery, PPOW, confirmed his death in a statement, noting that he died in his sleep of natural causes at his East Village home. Born in 1938 in Amstelveen, the Netherlands, into a conservative Calvinist family, Van Dalen witnessed the turmoil of World War II when the Nazis seized his family’s property. After graduating from the former Amsterdam School of Graphic Design in Amsterdam in 1954, Van Dalen and his family immigrated to…

Jonathan Young, Sir David Attenborough (2024), oil on canvas, 51 1/2 x 39 3/5 inches (© Jonathan Young Studio, 2024; image courtesy of the artist) British portraitist Jonathan Yeo, who drew attention in May when he painted the crown red, has this year painted a portrait of Sir David Attenborough to mark the biologist’s 40th anniversary of his association with the Royal Society. Yeo replaced King Charles III’s fiery red uniform and background with a bright turquoise background to depict the scientist and broadcaster in his natural look. Attenborough, 98, is celebrated for decades of film and literary explorations of…