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☆ Frank Stella, Towering Artist and Master of Reinvention, Dies at 87
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( William Grimes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Frank Stella, whose laconic pinstripe “black paintings” of the late 1950s closed the door on Abstract Expressionism and pointed the way to an era of cool minimalism, died on Saturday at his home in the West Village of Manhattan. Mr. Stella was a dominant figure in postwar American art, a restless, relentless innovator whose explorations of color and form made him an outsize presence, endlessly discussed and constantly on exhibit. Few American artists of the 20th century arrived with quite his éclat. He was in his early 20s when his large-scale black paintings — precisely delineated black stripes separated by thin lines of blank canvas — took the art world by storm. Writing in Art International magazine in 1960, the art historian William Rubin declared himself “almost mesmerized” by the “eerie, magical presence” of the paintings.

Persons: Frank Stella, Harriet E, McGurk, Stella, William Rubin, “ Organizations: of, Art International Locations: West, of Manhattan

☆ For Richard Serra, Art Was Not Something. It Was Everything.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Michael Kimmelman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Richard Serra died yesterday, I flashed back nearly 30 years to a morning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, looking with him and with his wife, the German-born art historian Clara Weyergraf, at Jackson Pollock’s splash and drip painting from 1950, “Autumn Rhythm.”We had decided to meet as soon as the museum opened, when the gallery, at the far end of the Met, would still be empty. Taking in the painting, Serra had the air of a caged lion, pacing back and forth, moving away, to see it whole, then back in to inspect some detail. “We evaluate artists by how much they are able to rid themselves of convention, to change history,” he said. For him, art was all or nothing. Of course he wasn’t alone in his thinking among American artists of his generation, the offspring of postwar American power and arrogance, of titans like Pollock.

Persons: Richard Serra, Clara Weyergraf, Jackson, Serra, ”, Pollock Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art Locations: German

☆ Married, Finally, After Six Cancellations
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ms. Blum and Dr. Flowers, then a resident in internal medicine at the University of Miami Hospital, had moved to Miami months earlier after receiving his M.D. Ms. Blum often traveled to Latin America for work. Dating apps were testing the fortitude of both: “I was kind of giving up hope,” Dr. Ms. Blum didn’t have much hope to begin with.

Persons: Daniela Llorente Blum, Robert Costigan Flowers, Blum, Flowers, . Flowers, “, Ms, ” Organizations: Biscayne, University of Miami Hospital, Tulane University Locations: Manhattan, hustled, Murray Hill, South Florida, Bogotá, Colombia, Latin America, Miami, America

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Regional Mexican music — a catchall term that encompasses mariachi, banda, corridos, norteño, sierreño and other genres — has become a global phenomenon, topping music charts and reaching new audiences as it crosses borders. Overall, regional Mexican music grew 60% in the U.S., accounting for a whopping 21.9 billion on-demand audio streams. On Spotify, Mexican music grew 400% worldwide over the last five years, according to Uriel Waizel, lead editor at Spotify Mexico. And I think that is exciting.”Waizel says that while Mexican music is centuries old, “current Mexican music is breaking because it is the music that young people listen to." Actor and singer Lucero, a veteran performer of regional Mexican music, also remembers those days.

Persons: Selena Quintanilla, Eslabon, Pluma’s “ Ella Baila Sola, ”, Eslabon Armado, Junior, Leila Cobo, Billboard’s, Uriel Waizel, Pluma, Taylor Swift, ” Cobo, Waizel, Édgar Barrera, Drake, Barrera, Carín León, Maluma, Don Juan, León, ” Maluma, Pedro Tovar, wasn't, Juan Gabriel, Vicente Fernández's, “, ’ ”, Gabriel Abaroa Jr, Lucero, Becky G, couldn't, it’s, I’m, ” ___ Sherman Organizations: MEXICO CITY, — Regional, Spotify, Grupo Frontera, U.S ., Fuerza Regida, Associated Press, Cobo, Spotify Mexico, YouTube, Fuerza, Premios Juventud, AP, Latin Recording Academy, Mexicans Locations: MEXICO, Mexican, “, U.S, Mexico, Frontera, Puerto Rico, ’, Mexican American, Los Angeles

☆ How unregulated radio stations out of Mexico fueled the country music boom in America
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Yoonji Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Known as "border radio," the unregulated American radio industry sprung up on Mexico's northern border in the 1930s. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesIn the years that followed, other border radio stations sprung up in Mexico. Hank Thompson, another country music star who grew up in Waco in the 30s, said border radio stations were the only stations where one could listen to country music most of the time. But the legacy of border radio stations continued to live on in the country music they helped popularize, as well as its cousin genres. According to American honky-tonk star Webb Pierce, country music "might not have survived if it hadn't been for border radio."

Persons: —, Bill Crawford, Crawford, weren't, Will Horwitz, Horwitz's, Jimmie Rodgers, Carter, Michael Ochs, Jesus Christ, Dallas Turner, John Romulus Brinkley, Brinkley, Pope Brock, Minerva, Minnie, Jones, Patsy Montana, Slim Rinehart, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Hank Thompson, Lydia Mendoza, Rosa Dominguez, Mexican Nightingale, Dominguez, Maybelle, Webb Pierce, It's Organizations: Service, Business, Amazing Broadcasters, American Airwaves, Keystone, Gamma, Getty Images, US, charlatans, Houston, Country, Michael Ochs Archives, Kansas he'd, The Kansas State Medical Board, Federal Radio Commission, Soibelman, Tejano, Getty, Thunderbirds, ZZ Locations: American, West, Mexico, Canada, United States, Mexican, France, Tamaulipas, KFKB, Kansas, New York, Waco, South Dakota

During Art Basel Miami next month, St. Fleur said that he intended to visit the art fairs with former N.B.A. players like Deron Williams, Courtney Lee and Amar’e Stoudemire, and that he was arranging a private dinner for some of his athlete clients at a collector’s home on Star Island. There are other signs that the influence of athletes who collect art has been growing in recent years. He served on the board of advisers of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and now serves on the board of the Hirshhorn in Washington. “I wanted to think outside the box and give our players #athletes an opportunity to engage with ART done by African American Artists and respond to the cultural richness of these artists, as well as draw their own interpretation of the works.”

Persons: Kevin Love, Cindy Sherman, Cy Twombly, Ernie Barnes, Fleur, Deron Williams, Courtney Lee, Amar’e Stoudemire, Keith Rivers, Kerry James Marshall, Sonia Gomes, Thaddeus Mosley, Elliot Perry, “, ” Organizations: Miami Heat, Art Basel Miami, Star, Art Foundation, Hammer Museum, Hirshhorn, Memphis Grizzlies, American Artists Locations: New York, Manhattan, Los Angeles, Washington

☆ Lawmakers want to know if China had anything to do with Apple's decision to cancel Jon Stewart's show
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Apple was asked by a House committee to explain its decision to cancel Jon Stewart's show. "The Problem with Jon Stewart," which streams on Apple TV+, was canceled last month. AdvertisementLawmakers have asked Apple to explain why "The Problem with Jon Stewart" was recently canceled. AdvertisementAfter being told he must be "aligned" with the company on topics, Stewart and Apple decided to go their separate ways. "If Jon Stewart can potentially be impeded from offering commentary on the CCP, what does this mean for less prominent personalities?".

Persons: Apple, Jon Stewart's, Jon Stewart, —, Tim Cook, Stewart, Ding Xuexiang Organizations: Apple, Chinese Communist Party, Service, New York Times, Communist Party, CCP, Getty, Business Locations: China, Beijing, Xinhua

☆ House lawmakers press Apple CEO on reports Jon Stewart’s show was canceled over China concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Liam Reilly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Did Apple and Jon Stewart part ways over China? The letter also asked Apple to make a public commitment that content potentially viewed as critical of the Chinese Communist Party would be welcome on the company’s services. “If these reports are accurate, it potentially speaks to broader concerns about indirect Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence over the creative expression of American artists and companies on CCP-related topics,” the committee said in the letter. Representatives for Apple and Stewart did not immediately respond to CNN requests for comment. China represents nearly a fifth of Apple’s sales and is by far the company’s fastest-growing region.

Persons: Jon Stewart, Tim Cook, Jon Stewart ”, —, Mike Gallagher, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Illinois —, Apple, Stewart Organizations: CNN, Chinese Communist Party, Wednesday, Apple, Wisconsin Republican, Communist Party, CCP, Xi Locations: China, Wisconsin, Illinois, People’s Republic of China

☆ Japanese American prisoner art depicts life in WWII detention camps
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Jessie Yeung | Emiko Jozuka | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Courtesy Japanese American National MuseumThe detention of Japanese Americans, most of whom were US citizens, was enacted by Franklin Roosevelt via executive order following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Courtesy Japanese American National MuseumThe artworks, some of which are now showing at the Museum of Modern Art in Wakayama, Japan, also serve to preserve disappearing first-hand memories of the camps. Courtesy Japanese American National MuseumYang added that the collection’s diversity reflects the varied experiences of detainees — perspectives that were overlooked by US officials at the time. The detention of Japanese Americans, Emanuel said, was a “shameful” chapter in American history. Courtesy Japanese American National MuseumSome juggled their art with more pressing responsibilities — like Hibi, who single-handedly raised her two children after her husband’s death by working in a garment factory, all while painting and attending art classes.

Persons: ”, Rahm Emanuel —, Kango Takamura, Franklin Roosevelt, Robert T, Fujioka, “, Alice Yang, Yang, Hisako Hibi, Hibi, ” Yang, Miné, ’, …, Jerome, Fred Korematsu, Henry Sugimoto's, Jerome Camp, Emiko Jozuka, Henry Sugimoto, Douglas MacArthur, Emperor Hirohito, Japan’s, Rahm Emanuel, Emanuel, Tokio, Ann Burroughs, Sugimoto, Sugimoto’s, Henry Fukuhara Organizations: Japan CNN, National Museum, American National Museum, CNN, National, Museum of Modern, University of California, Jerome War, National Museum JANM Locations: Tokyo, Japan, United States, California's Owens, Wakayama, University of California Santa Cruz, California, Utah, Arkansas, Fresno, America

☆ See inside the lavish reception rooms at the US State Department
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Piper Hudspeth Blackburn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

"America's Collection: The Art and Architecture of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the US Department of State." Durston Saylor/Courtesy Rizzoli The Thomas Jefferson State Reception Room. Durston Saylor/Courtesy Rizzoli The James Monroe State Reception Room, which was designed by Walter M. Macomber. Durston Saylor/Courtesy Rizzoli The James Monroe State Reception Room. Durston Saylor/Courtesy Rizzoli The design of diplomacy: See inside the lavish reception rooms at the US State Department Prev NextRooms that take you back in time“America’s Collection” gives those without diplomatic credentials a chance to experience that moment.

Persons: Harry S, John Kerry, Obama, Kerry, Truman, Oz, Durston Saylor, Benjamin Franklin, John Blatteau, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Walter M, John Quincy Adams, Childe Hassam, Edmund C, Martin Van Buren, Henry Clay, George Washington, , Francis Scott Key, Paul Revere, John Adams, Clement Conger, Edward Vason Jones, Benjamin West's, John Jay, Henry Laurens, William Temple Franklin, Bruce M, Jones, King George III, Mark Alan Hewitt, Adams, Louisa Catherine, Martha Washington, Alexandra Kirtley, ” Kirtley, Kirtley, ”, Betsy Kornhauser, Kornhauser, “, Joshua Shaw, Thomas Cole, Cole, Virginia Hart, ” —, Walter Thurston Gentlemen's, we’re, ” Hart Organizations: DC CNN, US, Truman, US Department of State, State Department, Benjamin, Thomas, James, James Madison, Henry, American, Department, Powel, York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winterthur Museum, Library, Philadelphia Museum of Art, CNN, Metropolitan Museum of Art, River School, “, ”, Department of State, Rizzoli Electa Locations: Washington, United States, Virginia, Mount Vernon, Paris, Great Britain, Philadelphia, British, Delaware, China, American, Europe

☆ You’ve Heard of K-Beauty. Now Try K-Perfume
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Miya Lee | More About Miya Lee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Inside Elorea, a sleek new Korean perfumery in Manhattan’s NoLIta neighborhood, whose name is a portmanteau of “elements” and “Korea,” you will find paintings and pottery by Korean and Korean American artists, a cafe offering a chocolate and perfume pairing and shop attendants dressed entirely in black, eager to explain the brand’s gender-neutral fragrance collections. “Even though I’ve never heard of a Korean perfume brand, I just figured it’s going to be on another level,” said Albert Chun, 36, a customer whose parents immigrated from Seoul to Oakland, Calif., in the mid-1980s. “We’re such proud people,” he added with a half-laugh. “In our heads, in everyone’s heads, Korea is the capital of the world in terms of beauty,” said Wonny Lee who, along with his wife, Su min Park, founded Elorea as an online perfumery business last year.

Persons: I’ve, ”, Albert Chun, “, Wonny Lee, Su Locations: Manhattan’s NoLIta, “ Korea, ”, Korean American, Korean, Seoul, Oakland, Calif, everyone’s, Korea

☆ Brice Marden, painter revered for his distinctive approach to abstraction, dies at 84
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Wallace Ludel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Brice Marden, the abstract painter known most widely for his long, winding calligraphic mark-making that stood out against monochromatic backgrounds, has died aged 84. His death was confirmed to CNN by Gagosian, the New York gallery that represented him, via email on Thursday. "Uphill with Center" (2012-15) by Brice Marden. It’s just been an extra thing to think about.”Marden was born October 15, 1938 in Westchester County, just north of New York City. "Cold Mountain 6 (Bridge)" (1989-91) by Brice Marden.

Persons: CNN — Brice Marden, Larry Gagosian, “ Brice Marden, Marden’s, Helen —, —, Brice Marden, Marden, “, ”, ” Marden, Alex Katz, Jon Schueler, Richard Serra, Chuck Close, Celmins, Nancy Graves, Pauline Baez, Joan Baez, Jasper Johns, Johns ’, Édouard Manet, Francisco Goya, Francisco de Zurbarán, Johns, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Nicholas, Helen Marden, Dorothea Rockburne, Robert Rauschenberg, Matthew Marks, Rosetta Stone Organizations: The Art, CNN, Gagosian, New York Times, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Boston University, Yale, Fine Arts, Rauschenberg Foundation, Jewish Museum, New Locations: New York, Tivoli , New York, Gagosian, Westchester County, New York City, American, Kansas City, Midtown Manhattan, Greece, Maryland

☆ Isabella Rossellini’s Mama Farm Introduces a Knitwear Collaboration
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Natalia Rachlin | Erik Morse | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This summer, the culture journalist turned art adviser Fiona Mackay launched Kombi, an online gallery and retailer that specializes in South African art, design and craft and caters to the American market. “Because of geography and logistics, so much of this work hasn’t been shown stateside, and I wanted to rectify that,” says Mackay, who was raised in Cape Town and now lives in Brooklyn. Kombi, named for the Volkswagen minibuses that were ubiquitous during Mackay’s childhood, will present work from both emerging and more established makers, offering readily buyable pieces, as well as made-to-order and limited-edition works. “I hope [Kombi] becomes both a cultural and commercial exchange,” says Mackay, who also plans to initiate residencies and collaborations, creating opportunities for American artists to produce work in South Africa and vice versa. Cele plans to show the work with Kombi at an exhibition this autumn in New York.

Persons: Fiona Mackay, hasn’t, ”, Mackay, Cameron, Mpho Vackier, She’s, Kombi Organizations: Volkswagen Locations: Cape Town, Brooklyn, Johannesburg, Namibia, South Africa, Zulu, New York

☆ Analysis: Country music is at a crossroads. Two of its most viral songs show why
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The struggle for the soul of country music is on full display now as two very different songs have been making headlines. Michael Loccisano/Getty ImagesThese two songs, so differently received yet recorded under the same big country umbrella, are an embodiment of the crossroads where country music currently stands. Like all musical traditions that fuse, evolve and splinter, country music and its legions of fans are engaged in a negotiation for the genre’s main identity. When the Dixie Chicks spoke out against the Iraq War in the early 2000s, their popularity in country music circles never fully recovered.. Small towns, fast cars and American values are as essential to country music as four chords and the truth.

Persons: Jason Aldean, Luke Combs, Tracy Chapman, Chapman, Combs, ”, Tracy, ” Chapman, “, Luke, Bryan Bedder, they’ve, Aldean, Little Richard, Otis Redding, ” Aldean, —, Holly G, Morgan Wallen, Michael Loccisano, foremothers, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, ” Combs, it’s Organizations: CNN, CMT, Billboard, Singer, Amarillo, Black Opry, Washington Post, Texas Democrat, country’s, Dixie, Grand Ole Opry Locations: Copenhagen, underrepresentation, Aldean, Macon , Georgia, Iraq

☆ Reimagining ‘Madame Butterfly,’ With Asian Creators at the Helm
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Javier C. Hernández | More About Javier C. Hernández | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The auditorium lights dimmed, and the cast and crew of Cincinnati Opera’s new production of Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” anxiously took their places. For months, the team, made up largely of Asian and Asian American artists, had worked to reimagine the classic opera, upending its stereotypes about women and Japanese culture. They gathered at the Cincinnati Music Hall one evening last week to fine-tune their creation before its opening last Saturday. “It feels a little like a grand experiment,” said the production’s director, Matthew Ozawa, whose father is Japanese and mother is white. The opera has long been criticized for its portrait of Asian women as exotic and submissive, and the use of exaggerated makeup and stereotypical costumes in some productions has drawn fire.

Persons: Butterfly ”, ”, Matthew Ozawa, Madame Organizations: Cincinnati Music, American Navy Locations: Cincinnati, American, Nagasaki

☆ The Vietnamese American Artists Searching for Identity
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Joshua Glass | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

An-My Lê can barely recall the Hawaiian shirt that the blond American wore when he put her into a black cargo van. When dawn broke, she took one last glance at the landscape through the windows of the American C-130 aircraft as it disappeared into the clouds. Complicated emotions of uncertainty and anger, guilt and abandonment all intersect for artists from Lê’s generation; those who are not fully Vietnamese in Vietnam nor American in America. Shrouded in war, these Vietnam-born American artists use their memories not so much as a political protest as an emotional inquiry, through the generational traumas that have plagued their families since the day they left home. And only now are Western institutions finally giving these displaced artists room to engage with these traumas.

Persons: Nam, Lê Organizations: Communist, Western Bloc, Air Base Locations: Saigon, South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Việt Nam, United States, Republic of Vietnam, Vietnam, America

☆ Latin American Artists Reinvent Their Histories
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Holland Cotter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The land of the brave and home of the free has always been bearish about borders, about who gets in, who stays out. And it’s always been evident culturally in, for example, the kind of art our museums have brought through the door. The Museum of Modern Art’s long but sporadic pattern of collecting 20th century Latin American art offers a constructive gauge. Art markets went bust. And in the confusion, walls began to come down as the permission-giving shake-up called multiculturalism — pro-diversity, anti-essentialist — arrived.

Persons: essentialist — Organizations: MoMA

☆ Tate Modern Finds Its New Director in Norway
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Alex Marshall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Karin Hindsbo, the director of Norway’s recently opened National Museum, was on Friday named the new director of Tate Modern in London, one of the world’s most popular museums. Hindsbo, a Danish-born art historian, will take on the role in September, replacing Frances Morris, who has led Tate Modern since 2016. Last October, Morris announced she was leaving to focus on curatorial projects, and to work on addressing the art world’s climate impacts. The directorship of Tate Modern is one of the European art world’s highest-profile roles, with the museum expected to regularly stage blockbuster exhibitions of contemporary and modern art. Under Morris’s leadership, it’s hosted acclaimed shows including a sold-out Cézanne retrospective, a career-spanning exhibition of the British artist Steve McQueen’s video pieces and an exploration of work by African American artists during the civil rights era.

☆ How representation of Black artists in galleries, museums is changing
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"There's a lot more support for Black artists that kind of came out of George Floyd's murder and institutions realizing that they need to do more," Peterson said. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty ImagesThe market for work by Black American artists grew by nearly 400% between 2008 and 2021, according to a recent report from art market website ArtNet. Acquisitions of work by Black American artists peaked in 2015, two years after the start of the Black Lives Matter movement. "My impression is there are vastly increased number of solo shows and group shows dedicated to Black artists in London, in Paris, in New York, across the United States," Elliott said. Works from established artists like Kerry James Marshall that depict Black figures are influencing the work of new artists and creating a lineage, Elliott noted.

☆ Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés dies at 79
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

“The culture in Cuba is in mourning for the death of Pablo Milanes,” Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz tweeted Monday night. Milanés and Rodríguez in particular became close, touring the world’s stages as cultural ambassadors for the Cuban Revolution, and bonding during boozy sessions. “If Silvio Rodríguez and I got together, the rum was always there,” Milanés told El Pais in 2003. Cuba’s aging leaders “are stuck in time,” Milanés told Spanish newspaper El Mundo. “These freedoms have been seen in small doses, and we hope that with time they will grow,” Milanés told The Associated Press.

☆ New contemporary art event boosts Paris scene
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Elizabeth Pineau | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A visitor walks past the "Buste de Diego" (1961) by artist Alberto Giacometti as Paris+ par Art Basel international contemporary art fair opens in Paris, France, October 19, 2022. The event, "Paris+ par Art Basel", was awarded to Art Basel, one of the giants in the art world, which hosts fairs in Switzerland as well as Miami and Hong Kong. Contemporary art, dating roughly from 1945 onwards, made up 23% of the art market in 2020-2021, compared with 3% in 2000-2001, according to the Artprice data bank. The Paris event replaces the International Contemporary Art Fair (Fiac) and follows the high-profile Frieze fair in London. Paris is the only big city in the continent, the only important city for contemporary art, so it was an obvious choice," Kilchmann told Reuters.

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