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Toledo Museum of Art acquires landmark 19th-century photographic series (opens the original)
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The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) has purchased The Seven Words (1898), a groundbreaking photographic work by the American artist F. Holland Day (1864-1933). The piece, comprising seven close-up platinum prints in a wooden frame of the artist as Jesus Christ on the cross in his final moments, is the most expensive work of photography the museum has ever purchased. It is also the first by the artist to enter the Ohio museum’s collection. The Seven Words will go on view next year, when the museum reo
A friend's ode to Jean-Michel Basquiat privileges sound over sight (opens the original)
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In 1968, a seven-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat was hit by a car while playing in the street in Brooklyn. He had to get his spleen removed. The same year in Manhattan, a 39-year-old Andy Warhol was famously shot by the artist Valerie Solanas. Warhol also had his spleen removed. The two spleen-less artists would later become fast friends. This is just one of the many unusual—and 100% true—connections made by the actor Roger Guenveur Smith, a friend of Basquiat’s from the Los Angeles club scene, in
Moca Los Angeles picks longtime public media executive as next director (opens the original)
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Following a yearlong search, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) in Los Angeles has chosen a new leader: Jonathan Abbott, a former president and chief executive of the Boston public media broadcaster GBH. Abbott started his role Thursday (24 September), replacing interim director Ann Goldstein, who will stay on to assist with the transition through November. Abbott is the first person to hold the joint title of director and chief executive at Moca since 2010. “I want to help bring broader supp
Not all fun and games at the Spring Break art fair in New York (opens the original)
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This week’s most whimsical New York art fair has turned the ninth floor of the former CBS News office building at West 57th Street and 11th Avenue into a playground maze of creativity. This edition of the Spring Break Art Show (until 28 September) is organised around the theme of “Hide ’n Seek”. Having tried out the theme on a much smaller scale in Los Angeles in February, the game is fully on at the border of Hell’s Kitchen and the Upper West Side. As ever, dozens of curators have brought in ar
Metropolitan Museum breaks ground on long-awaited new wing for Modern and contemporary art (opens the original)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday (15 September) for its Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art, scheduled to open in 2030. The five-storey, 126,000-sq.-ft space is designed by the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, the first woman to create a wing for the museum in its 156-year history—a fact that came up often in the morning’s speeches. The Met has already raised $670m to fund building the wing and its operation; it is named for the financier Oscar Tang
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