NYC Pride Events 2024: Where to Celebrate - Arts news - NewsLocker (2024)

It’s a month of dance parties, film festivals, drag shows and street fairs ahead of the city’s official march on June 30.

Mummy Dismembered During Museum Renovations inMexico

The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Mexico’s governing body for archeological studies on the federal level, is up in arms after the mummified corpse of a body that was buried in the early 1800s was dismembered during renovations to a museum in the city of Guanajuato, according toCBS.The INAH places the blame squarely in the hands of Guanajuato’s conservative government, which it says lacks the “knowledge about proper protocols and the lack of traini

Two More ‘Succession’ Actors Are Broadway Bound, in ‘Job’

Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon will star in the two-hander, a psychological thriller that previously found success downtown.

Art Basel Subtracts a Plus Sign for Its French Fair, Now Titled Art BaselParis

Art Basel’s Paris fair will have several notable changes when it opens its third edition this coming October.The first is the fair’s expected relocation to the Grand Palais, which had closed for renovations ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics; the first two editions were staged at the Grand Palais Éphémère in the Champ de Mars. That relocation has made it possible for the fair to expand, growing from 154 galleries last year to 194 this year. (The new site means the

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Florentina Holzinger Brings Roller-Skating Nuns to the Opera House

The choreographer Florentina Holzinger’s shows feature circus performers and abundant nudity. Now, she’s bringing her experimental approach to opera.

Hackers Demand Ransom from Christie’s, Seattle Museum Staff Walk Out, Artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz Dies, and More: Morning Links for May 28,2024

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter.THE HEADLINESLIST OF DEMANDS. In a dramatic twist many had feared, on Monday a group of cyber-extortionists called RansomHub said they were responsible for hacking Christie’s earlier this month and threatened to release “sensitive personal information” for about 500,000 clients, reports Daniel Cassady for ARTnews. Exactly what kind of personal informa

Pace Gallery Takes on Jiro Takamatsu, a Giant of Postwar Japanese ArtHistory

Pace Gallery will now represent the estate of Jiro Takamatsu, a key figure within postwar Japanese art history. The gallery will feature a painting by the artist in its booth at Art Basel in Switzerland next month and mount a solo show of his work in September at its flagship New York space.As part of the representation deal, Pace Gallery will work with Takamatsu’s current dealers, Yumiko Chiba Associates in Tokyo and Stephen Friedman Gallery in London and New York.Takamatsu, who was born

Ahead of Her Turbine Hall Commission, Mire Lee Joins SprüthMagers

Sprüth Magers, a gallery with locations in Berlin, London, Los Angeles, and New York, now represents Mire Lee, the artist tapped to do this fall’s Turbine Hall commission for Tate Modern.Lee will continue to be represented by Tina Kim Gallery in New York and Antenna Space in Shanghai. She is currently featured in Sprüth Magers’s group exhibition “territory,” which opened during Berlin Gallery Weekend.Based between Berlin and Seoul, where she was born, Lee has re

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The Man Behind the Effortless, Viral Grooves

Shay Latukolan, who has worked with Jungle and Childish Gambino, creates choreography so infectious that everyone thinks they can dance along.

Jaap van Zweden’s Brief, Fraught Time Atop the New York Philharmonic

He arrived on a mission to reshape the ensemble as its music director. Now, as he departs, he’s still making sense of his pandemic-interrupted tenure.

Excavating Jerry Garcia’s Crucial Bluegrass Roots

In 1964, the guitarist took a road trip, hoping to become Bill Monroe’s banjo player. The journey, and his longtime love of the genre, shaped the Grateful Dead.

Want to Succeed as an Artist? We’ve Got a Coach For You.

With a rising number of artists vying for a limited number of galleries and grants, arts professionals are pivoting to careers as coaches. But can they help people profit from their talents?

A Manhattan Apartment Full of Salvaged Finds

A hands-on renovation during the early part of the pandemic produced a place to call home that doubles as a home office.

Hacker Outfit RansomHub Claims Credit for Christie’s Auction Week ‘Technology SecurityIssue’

RansomHub, a group of cyber-extortionists who hacked the UnitedHealth subsidiaryChange Healthcarein February, has claimed responsibility for hacking Christie’s website earlier this month on the eve of the season’s marquee auction sales in New York. As a result of the attack, the auction house shut down its web site forten days, including the entirety of the critical sales week.According to sources on Twitter, including@DarkWebInformerand a threat analyst

Ransomware Group Claims Responsibility for Christie’s Hack

The hacking group RansomHub is threatening to release “sensitive personal information” about the auction house’s clients.

Performance Artwork Featuring Live Dogs Generates Outcry and Sparks Environmental Rights Inquiry in MexicoCity

A Nina Beier performance featuring live dogs was met with allegations of animal abuse this weekend after footage of it went viral on social media.The piece, titled Tragedy (2011), was staged as part of a Beier show at the Museo Tamayo, one of the top art museums in Mexico City. For the performance, a group of dogs lie atop rugs, playing dead for a short duration before a trainer signals them to leave. While the dogs are neither dead nor distressed, the animals appear that way because the trainer

Museum Workers Walk Out, Describing Exhibit as Aligned With Zionism

The Wing Luke Museum in Seattle temporarily closed after employees criticized an exhibition, saying it wrongly conflated anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

Voices Carry at La MaMa, but Only a Few Rise Above the Din

The La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival 2024 featured a high ratio of talking to dancing.

‘Bluets’ Review: This Maggie Nelson Adaptation Is All About the Vibes

How do you bring an almost plotless book of elliptical fragments to the stage? The director Katie Mitchell has tried with three actors, four screens and three bottles of whiskey.

Memo to Orchestras: Do More Opera

The Cleveland Orchestra’s staging of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” was a reminder that ensembles can help fill the gap as opera grows harder to find.

Michelle Buteau Takes the Lead in ‘Babes’ and on Netflix

Once relegated to supporting roles, this comedian is a star of the film “Babes” and is moving to a bigger stage, Radio City Music Hall, for her new special.

Onstage, Witches and Cossacks Strike a Chord With Ukrainians

A play based on an 18th-century literary classic is a smash hit among Ukrainians who see in the story cultural and historical echoes of what they face after two years of war.

Wayne Brady and Nichelle Lewis of ‘The Wiz’ Are Striving for Excellence

The veteran and the newcomer each had their own fears as they joined the Broadway revival of the beloved all-Black musical.

Carin León Is Bringing Música Mexicana and Country Ever Closer

“There are no limits for music,” the Mexican singer-songwriter said.“There’s just good music and bad music.”

Across New York City, Building Young Dancers On and Off the Stage

As Ballet Tech, a tuition-free public school, prepares for its Joyce season, Dionne Figgins teaches the students to see the big picture of their art form.

Soccer Was Out, So He Became a Novelist Instead

Chigozie Obioma, the fifth of 12 children in a Nigerian family, dreamed of following in Maradona’s footsteps. Bouts of malaria drove him to books — and changed his life.

She Landed One of Music’s Great Gigs, but First Came Boot Camp

Premier military bands offer rare stability for classical musicians, who consider them a strong alternative to traditional orchestras. But signing up means shipping out.

‘Furiosa’ Is a Memorial Day Weekend Box Office Dud

Memorial Day weekend ticket sales in North America are expected to total $125 million, down 40 percent from last year.

‘Furiosa’ Is a Box Office Dud, Adding to Hollywood Woes

Memorial Day weekend ticket sales in North America are expected to total $125 million, down 40 percent from last year.

Sanford L. Smith, Creator of Prestigious Art Fairs, Dies at 84

Over four decades, he produced more than 150 events. Some dealers reported selling more in a weekend at a Smith fair than in a year in their galleries.