Author: Juddy Miller

Earlier this week, Bravo announced that all six actors had signed up for the reboot The Real Housewives of New York City he would return for the second season (the 15th of the franchise), as reported by him The varietyleading to rumors that the network would add two new members, including one with ties to the art world. Now the rumor is that that cast member could be Racquel Chevremont, the collector and curator who is the ex-partner of artist Mickalene Thomas. Chevremont is also friends with current cast member Jenna Lyons, the former creative director of J. Crew. (Bravo blog Bravo and Cocktails first…

California lawmakers have introduced a bill to give Holocaust survivors and their heirs a better chance to recover artwork stolen or forcibly sold during periods of political oppression. Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino), chairman of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, which chaired the legislative session, said. Los Angeles Times Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum was inspired by a ruling this January that decided it could keep a Camille Pissarro painting taken from its Jewish owner by the Nazi party. Related Articles “I immediately felt that this was a great opportunity for me to correct a historical injustice and prevent something like this from happening again,”…

Marian Zazeela, an artist whose abstract drawings and light installations depicted dreamlike states, died at her home in New York on Thursday at the age of 83. The MELA Foundation, the organization he founded with his partner, artist La Monte Young, announced his death on Friday, saying he died of natural causes while sleeping. Zazeela made works that did not fit neatly into the boundaries of any movement, although he flirted with the aesthetics of Minimalism. By his own admission, he produced “borderline art,” his favorite term for works that “challenged the usual distinction between ‘frontiers’ and fine art, using…

During the development of a fine arts museum in Vannes, Brittany, northwestern France, excavations revealed the remains of a medieval castle. Everyday Heritage Château Lagorce, which currently functions as a hotel, was built in the 18th century. The excavation began in the courtyard of a century palace. Researchers from the French National Institute for Archaeological Research found that the castle was built around 1380 by Jean IV, Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort from 1345, and 7th Earl of Richmond from 1372. The structure was known as the Château de l’. It was built to assert Hermine and Duke’s authority in…

To receive morning links in your inbox every weekday, sign up with us Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. TITLES MOROCCO PAVILION DOWN THERE. To the surprise of Moroccan exhibitors, after being replaced at the last minute in what would have been the country’s first Venice pavilion, Morocco has completely canceled its participation in the exhibition, which was due to open in April, and it is not clear why, according to reports. Art Newspaper . In January, the artists Safaa Erruas, Majida Khattari and Fatiha Zemmouri, and the curator Mahi Binebine, in what they called a “nightmare”, learned that the artworks they had donated for months…

The extensive collection of Cuban philanthropist and art collector Rosa de la Cruz will be sold in a series of auctions beginning this May at an evening sale in New York. De la Cruz, who died last month at age 81, was instrumental in Miami’s art scene. Together with her husband Carlos, she opened a 30,000-square-foot museum in Miami to display their contemporary art collection, which includes 1,000 works. Those responsible for these works range from blue-chippers like Wade Guyton and Albert Oehlen to younger artists like Su Su and Christina Quarles. Thanks to their collection, the de la Cruzes…

Banksy has struck again, this time painting a large black cat that sprawls across a vacant billboard in northeast London. However, a contractor who said he feared it would be stolen on Saturday morning removed it within hours of seeing it. The contractor named him Marc PA Avghe said the ad was scheduled to go down on August 12th, so he was taking it down in case someone “tear it down and put it at risk.” “We will keep that pit [the artwork] in our yard, see if anyone collects it, but if not, it will enter in a jump. I’ve…

BERLIN — Title Extreme Tension It perfectly represents the current cultural climate in Germany, as politicians censor artists’ freedom of expression and museums struggle to respond to ever-changing polycrises. In response, the Neue Nationalgalerie takes a critical view of its collection, recontextualizing the history of art told by the museum’s collection, from the point of view of colonialism and underrepresentation, re-examining the works of women artists, some of whom have not been seen for a long time. . During the 2023 exhibition Art and society 1900–1945 featured biographies of female models of modernist artists and biographies of some Western women painters such as Hilma…

“I didn’t want to be an artist,” Rose B. Simpson told me over the phone from her studio in Santa Clara Pueblo, an indigenous community outside Española, New Mexico. “I wanted to fly airplanes and helicopters. I only made art as a kind of priority.’ Working in large-scale ceramic sculpture, custom cars, fashion and performance, as well as music, the artist has appeared at the nation’s most prestigious institutions, including the Denver Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art and SITE. Santa Fe She recently had a solo exhibition at San Francisco’s Jessica Silverman Gallery, and is one of the Indigenous…

ELEFSINA, Greece – Every few minutes at the newly reopened Eleusis Archaeological Museum, visitors receive a divine revelation. In a darkened room, the seven-foot-tall “Great Eleusinian Relief” (440-30 Ka) is a monstrous depiction of the Greek goddesses Demeter and Persephone imparting the secrets of agriculture to mortals. Suddenly, a rising wave of brilliant white Light from an LED panel floods the room, a curatorial interpretation of Plato’s description of the visual revelation that once took place here – Ancient Greece Meets James Turrell. Eleusis, half an hour’s drive from Athens and now known as the city of Elefsina, was the heart…