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New York (AFP) - New York's prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art wants to offer its millions of visitors a less Western-centered view of the world, a shift that will highlight works from Africa and the continent's 3,000 years of cultural history. That shift in perspective will also help the world's fourth most-visited museum -- behind the Louvre, the British Museum and the museums of the Vatican -- attract more African American and diaspora visitors, Met CEO and executive director Max Hollein told AFP in an interview. The iconic museum, situated on Fifth Avenue across from Central Park since...
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New York (AFP) - A diamond-covered edition of Truman Capote's seminal novel "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is on sale for $1.5 million to mark the centenary of the author's birth. The one-of-a-kind volume, on display at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, is signed by the author and decorated with almost 30 carats of diamonds and a sapphire. "The streets of London are paved with gold... the streets in New York are paved with platinum and diamonds," said British artist Kate Holland who is behind the special edition of the 1958 novella. Three years in the making, British jewelers Bentley...
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New York (AFP) - Billed as the place where art meets technology, New York's latest museum is promising to reinvent the format with an "immersive and sensory" experience. The Mercer Labs Museum of Art and Technology features works by Roy Nachum, a painter, sculptor and sound and light designer. Open since January in Manhattan's financial district, Nachum and investor Michael Cayre told AFP they hope to turn a profit from the $35 million they spent on the space, a former shopping mall that has its formal grand opening on March 28. Even for a city as expensive as the US financial capital, which ...
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New York (AFP) - One of Pablo Picasso's masterpieces, "Woman with a Watch," was sold at auction Wednesday night for $139.3 million by Sotheby's in New York, the second-highest price ever achieved for the artist. In a jam-packed room at the venerable auction house, it only took a few minutes of telephone bidding for the 1932 painting depicting one of the Spanish artist's companions and muses, the French painter Marie-Therese Walter, to be sold. "Femme a la montre" had been valued at over $120 million before going on the block, according to Sotheby's. It was part of the house's special sale this...
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New York (AFP) - Days after New York marked the 22nd anniversary of the September 11 attacks, it opened a new arts center Wednesday in the last area of Ground Zero that had not yet been redeveloped. New York's state governor, the city's mayor and other local officials came together to open the Perelman Performing Arts Center, a project decades in the making intended to provide a space of healing and celebration of life at the site of the 2001 destruction. It's the final piece of a project intended for the once-devastated area in Lower Manhattan where reflecting pools indicate an area of memori...
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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine on Friday issued postage stamps featuring US F-16 fighter jets, which it says it urgently needs Western allies to deliver to protect it from Russian attacks. Hundreds of people queued up in Kyiv's main post office to buy the newly designed stamp with a matching envelope. Ukraine's Ukrposhta post office service said it was releasing the design, called "Exterminators of Evil", to stress "the urgent need for this type of aviation". "While we are all waiting for the arrival of the F-16s, we have decided to launch our new stamp," said Ukrposhta director general Igor S...
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San Francisco (AFP) - For artist Karla Ortiz, the explosion in artificial intelligence that can stand in for flesh-and-blood artists is nothing more than identity theft. A native of Puerto Rico, Ortiz is a California-based designer, a concept artist and painter who has worked for videogaming giant Ubisoft, Marvel Studios, the Wizards of the Coast fantasy game publisher and has exhibited her work in galleries. But now her profession could be completely disrupted by generative AI, the technology behind apps such as Dall-E and ChatGPT, which in seconds can crank out original content -- illustrati...
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New York (AFP) - With his nimble fingers and child-like enthusiasm, Danny Cortes re-creates in miniature the hip-hop-infused street scenes of a gritty New York. But what began as a hobby has since brought him fame in the rap community and profitable sales even at Sotheby's prestigious auction house. "We are adults, but we never stopped being kids," the 42-year-old artist tells AFP. "Who doesn't like toys? Who doesn't like miniatures?" As he spoke from his workshop in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, he sat among recycled objects found on the streets. On his table was a current project, t...
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Washington (AFP) - Hollywood's finest joined politicos including President Joe Biden for a rare night of Washington glitz Sunday, celebrating the newest Kennedy Center honorees, including George Clooney and U2. Soul legend Gladys Knight, along with Cuban-born American composer Tania Leon and contemporary Christian pop artist Amy Grant rounded out the 45th annual class receiving the highest US arts honor, after the elite group of stars enjoyed a special weekend in the American capital honoring their illustrious careers. During the glamorous main event at the Kennedy Center -- Washington's perfo...
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New York (AFP) - Art lovers in New York can now enjoy an immersive digital experience with works by Gustav Klimt projected onto the walls and floors of a building that used to be a bank. The goal, its creators say, is to bring young people and others into a 21st-century museum. The exhibit, called "Hall des Lumières," opens Wednesday in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood. It follows similar shows called "Atelier des Lumières" in Paris and "Infinity des Lumières" in Dubai. The shows are the work of a French company called Culturespaces, which is partnering in New York with events company IMG. Cul...
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