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An empty frame remains where Rembrandt s
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee was once displayed. Picture provided by the FBI showing the empty frames for missing paintings after the theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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Lonnie Holleyâs Life of Perseverance, and Art of Transformation
The Alabama artist and musician has arrived at a career milestone, with two exhibitions in the Hamptons and a gallery to map his future.
The self-taught artist Lonnie Holley at the South Etna Montauk Foundation with his “Untitled Wall Painting,” 2021, and a growing collection of scavenged finds worn on his wrists.Credit.Kendall Bessent for The New York Times
By Yinka Elujoba
May 6, 2021Updated 4:08 p.m. ET
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. â Lonnie Holleyâs life began at an impossible place: 1950, seventh among his motherâs 27 children, in Jim Crow-era Birmingham, Ala., the air thick with violent racism toward him and everyone he loved. Things got even worse as he grew up. At four years old, he said, he was traded for a bottle of whiskey by a nurse who had stolen him away from his mother. Later, as the story goes, he was in coma for several months and pronounced brain-dead after being hit by a car that drag
Frieze Los Angeles at Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood. Photograph by Casey Kelbaugh.
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After a year in which fairs got cancelled across the country,
Frieze looks like the lone survivor. Come May, the fair company owned by
Hollywood behemoth
Shed, the fancy glass box at
Hudson Yards with a terrifyingly expensive retractable door thing. Rules for entry are super strict vaccine passport or PCR test required for entry but for those who get in, the highlights are voluminous, as the big galleries are not holding back.