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Baring It All: Breasts Take Center Stage At This Major Exhibition

— By Jacqui Palumbo | Monday April 22, 2024

"Breasts" runs from April to November at the 60th Venice Biennale international art exhibition. Eva Herzog

(CNN) — What is one of the earliest and enduring subjects in art and media — as well as one of the most censored? Breasts. First carved large onto small “Venus” figurines some 25,000 years ago as totems of fertility, they’re now seen (or hidden) as a potent symbol of desire, motherhood, feminism, sexism, beauty ideals, defiance, controversy or illness, depending on context.

And these are all themes explored broadly in the exhibition “Breasts,” a robust survey on display at the 60th Venice Bienniale. Hosted at the Palazzo Franchetti, the show includes artworks by household names such as Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe and Salvador Dalí, as well as early-career artists including Anna Weyant, Chloe Wise and Lakin Ogunbanwo. Divided into five rooms against the building’s art deco designs, the artworks are meant to be in conversation with one another — and with exhibition-goers — according to the show’s curator Carolina Pasti.

“It’s very intimate, so it’s perfect for international artists to develop a dialogue with each other,” she said in a video call.

One of the first juxtapositions visitors encounter is between the exhibition’s earliest work, an early 16th-century Madonna and child by Bernardino del Signoraccio, and a self-portrait by Sherman which depicts the artist draped in prosthetic breasts and a pregnant belly. Both images of motherhood feature exaggerated anatomy — the baby Jesus in Del Signoraccio’s panel painting exposing his mother’s rigid bosom, while Sherman displays a hyperreal silicone torso in her riff on the Raphael painting “La Fornarina” — and sets the stage by showing how Renaissance artists have continued to influence our attitudes around breasts today.

Left: Bernardino del Signoraccio, "Madonna dell' Umiltà," ca. 1460-1540 Courtesy Flavio Gianassi/FG Fine Arts Ltd. Right: Cindy Sherman, "Untitled 205," 1989 Cindy Sherman

From there, the show winds through painting, sculpture and design, photography, commercial advertising and video art, exploring the ways that breasts have been seen and represented through both the male and female gazes.

“It goes back to cave paintings — we’ve always been fascinated with the human form, and particularly the female form, which has this incredible allure and mystery,” said the artist Teniqua Crawford, who is exhibiting a delicate rendering of the breast as landscape. “Artists keep going back to it.”

“It’s been a wonderful moment to contemplate my own relationship with the meaning of breasts,” she added of the show.

“Breasts” was staged, in part, to promote breast cancer awareness, and marks a partnership with the medical research non-profit Fondazione IEO-MONZINO, which will receive a portion of its catalog sales. It’s a theme apparent throughout the show, with a vivid pink staging and backdrops inspired by the color of the cause. That includes a passageway designed by Buchanan Studio, “Booby Trap” which is draped in pink fabric and features 35 anatomical lights from above.

And the opening night treats? All according to the theme, of course, with suggestively shaped chocolate bon bons and burrata.

Lakin Ogunbanwo "Untitled (2 girls)," 2013 Courtesy Whatiftheworld

Top: Teniqua Crawford, "Fragment Horizon," 2024 Todd White Bottom: Anna Weyant, "Chest," 2020 Courtesy private collection, Europe

Left: Allen Jones, "Cover Story," 2015 Courtesy the artist/Galleria d'Arte Maggiore Right: Allen Jones, "Cover Story," 2015 Courtesy the artist/Galleria d'Arte Maggiore

Top: Laura Panno, "Alfabeto del corpo (Ceramica Blu)," 1990 Courtesy the Artist Bottom: Christopher Bucklow "Tetrarch (Claudia-Schiffer)", 2010 Christopher Bucklow

Giorgio de Chirico "Nudo di donna," 1930 Courtesy private collection, Turin

Louise Bourgeois "The-Reticent Child," 2005 Courtesy private collection, Italy

Masami Teraoka, "Breast on Hollywood Hills Installation Project," 1970 Courtesy Catherine Clark Gallery

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Look, I've never been a fan of crop tops on my own personal body, but the idea that you should give up any particular style at any particular arbitrary age is just a tool designed to make you feel bad so you will therefore go and spend your money on clothes you don't like. It's one of those weird Patriarchy Things that are actually far more enforced by women (usually Western culture's arbiters of fashion) than by men. Jacqui Palumbo here gets it competely right:

"I also believed that my window to wear more skin-baring styles was limited — after all, women’s desirability abruptly ends in our thirties, right? I felt as if I was quickly running out of time."

The only desirability that ends in a woman's thirties is her desirability to the sort of douchebags who think that a woman over 35 cannot possibly be desirable.

If you are 36, or 46, or 56, or 66, or or or, there is only one appropriate time when you must give up your crop tops, and that is when you start growing icicles on your abs. Then maybe put the crop tops away until spring. But until then . . . go for it!

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How Yves Klein Tricked the World with This Iconic Photograph

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Leap into the Void, Yves Klein with Harry Shunk and János Kender, 1960

"The keyword: void, can be interpreted as the abyss between his horizontal body and the floor, or between the performance and the lens. It is the action that is salient, not necessarily the technique. The action is manifested in the objectification of the subject." x

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At Burning Man, a 26-foot tall box sculpture paid fiery tribute to Ukraine

CNN By Jacqui Palumbo and Oscar Holland, CNN Updated 2:32 PM EDT, Thu August 31, 2023 In the early hours of Thursday, in the middle of the ephemeral city that rises in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert each summer, a 26-foot-tall, 13-foot-wide box was set ablaze. The flames formed a column in the sky, engulfing the wooden tower for over 20 minutes before it collapsed to reveal a secret monument hidden…

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[ad_1] Participants Jacqui Palumbo, CNNA miniature unpublished manuscript written through Charlotte Brontë when she was once 13 years outdated will cross on sale for $1.25 million at a New York Town guide honest later this month. The paintings titled "A Ebook of Ryhmes through Charlotte Brontë, Offered through No one, and Published through Herself" is smaller than a enjoying card -- but it holds a literary treasure of 10 poems through the "Jane Eyre" writer. The manuscript, dated December 1829, has no longer been observed publicly because it was once bought in New York in 1916, in step with Henry Wessells, an affiliate at James Cummins Bookseller. It was once not too long ago present in a personal assortment, he mentioned.Stitched in combination in its unique brown paper covers, the 15 pages inform stories involving the "subtle imaginary global" of Brontë and her siblings, in step with a press free up from the sellers."They wrote journey tales, dramas, and verse in hand-made manuscript books stuffed with tiny handwriting meant to resemble print," the discharge says.Charlotte Brontë Credit score: ReutersCummins in conjunction with Maggs Bros are the 2 sellers promoting the paintings on the New York World Antiquarian Ebook Truthful on April 21 on the Park Road Armory. "The manuscript was once remaining within the public eye in 1916, and all of us love the tale of an sudden survival," Wessells informed CNN in an e mail. "Now the landlord needs to be sure that it's preserved for long term generations, and, in the end, made to be had to scholarship." Wessells described the manuscript as "an attractive little factor" that was once in moderation put in combination from family scraps of paper and sewn with the unique thread. "The next are makes an attempt at rhyming of an inferior nature it should be stated however they're nonetheless my preferrred," Bronte writes at the manuscript's name web page. And on the finish of the guide, she asserts inventive keep watch over over the imaginary global created through herself and siblings.A shot of the "Ebook of Ryhmes," which comprises a 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë's spelling of the phrase "rhymes." Credit score: Courtesy of James Cummins Bookseller"Simply call to mind the Brontë kids telling and writing tales amongst themselves, studying at house in a far off village, after which blossoming, in short, to write down the books which have been learn through thousands and thousands ever since, and in addition leaving at the back of hand-made issues corresponding to this manuscript," mentioned Wessells, who marveled at how the guide survived during the last century. Brontë and her sisters Emily and Anne wrote one of the vital best-loved novels within the English language, together with "Jane Eyre" (1847), "Wuthering Heights" (1847) and "The Tenant of Wildfell Corridor" (1948).In 2011, any other certainly one of Brontë's tiny handwritten manuscripts bought for $1.07 million. Rival museums introduced a bidding struggle over the object -- which was once penned in 1830 when she was once 14. [ad_2] #miniature #manuscript #written #Charlotte #Brontë #sale #million

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Michael Jordan's 1998 NBA Finals sneakers sell for a record $2.2 million

Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN This story was updated with the final sale price and other details following the auction. In 1998, Michael Jordan laced up a pair of his iconic black and red Air Jordan 13s to bring home a Bulls victory during Game 2 of his final NBA championship — and now they are the most expensive sneakers ever to sell at auction. The game-winning sneakers sold for $2.2 million…

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New York returns 'extraordinarily rare' gold coin to Greece — after it set auction record for $3.5 million

Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN New York officials have returned more than $20 million worth of ancient artifacts to Greece, including an “extraordinarily rare” gold coin commemorating the assassination of Julius Caesar which set auction records in 2020 as the most expensive coin ever sold. The repatriation ceremony took place on Tuesday at the Greek Consulate in New York City and included 29…

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Wonder Is Everywhere: Civil War Gold, a New Moai, and More From Around the Web Every other week, Atlas Obscura drags you down some of the rabbit holes we encounter as we search for our unusual stories. We highlight surprising finds, great writing, and inspiring stories from some of our favorite publications. The Mystery of Salvador Dalí's "Visions" by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN.com As curators at the Art Institute of Chicago prepared for an exhibit on Salvador Dalí, they began to worry that one of the paintings in the museum's collection had been incorrectly attributed to the celebrated Surrealist. Their search for the truth led to the discovery of a hidden portrait and a forgotten mural. The Turkish and Syrian Heritage Lost in the Recent Earthquakes by Arie Amaya-Akkermans, The Art Newspaper In the aftermath of two of the largest earthquakes ever to hit the Eastern Mediterranean, as Turkey and Syria struggle to house survivors, recover those still missing, and mourn the dead, the full scope of the the damage to the region's heritage sites is also becoming clear. Among the hardest hit sites: Gaziantep Castle, built in the second millennium B.C. Inside the FBI’s Secretive Search for Civil War–Era Gold in Pennsylvania by Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press In March 2018, the FBI went digging for Union gold believed to have been lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia in 1863. A federal judge has now ordered the public release of records pertaining to the treasure hunt. The secret is that it isn't over—the FBI says it never found the booty. Did a Giant Ancient Fish Unearthed in South Africa Prey on Human Ancestors? by Sascha Pare, LiveScience Researchers have identified a new species of giant tristichopterid: Hyneria udlezinye, a name derived from "one who consumes" in IsiXhosa, an Indigenous language in South Africa. The voracious predator fish, which lived about 350 million years ago, measured up to nine feet long, and had both fangs and an appetite for tetrapods. "The tristichopterids evolved into monsters that, in all likelihood, ate [our ancestors]," one scientist said. Two Antlers in a Vietnamese Museum Are Actually Ancient Musical Instruments Artnet When they were found in the 1990s, these two 2,000-year-old antlers were consider simply well-preserved specimens from a long-dead Sambar deer or an Indian hog deer. Now researchers have determined they are also the earliest-known stringed instruments from the region. They were perhaps played like a k’ný, a modern single-string Vietnamese instrument known as a "mouth violin." This 500-Year-Old Nordic Shipwreck Still Has a Fully-Stocked Pantry by Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine When Gribshunden sank in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden in 1495, it was carrying coveted foods and spices, meant as a diplomatic offering from King Hans of Denmark and Norway to the people of Sweden, whom he hoped would make him king of that country as well. Archaeologists have found evidence of 40 different types of fruits, vegetables, spices, nuts, and cereals in the wreck—including 13 ounces of saffron, which has, remarkably, retained its distinctive aroma for 527 years. A New Moai Statue Was Discovered on Rapa Nui by Angeline Jane Bernabe, Erin Brady, Faryn Shiro, and Robyn Weil, Good Morning America Nearly 1,000 moai—human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people centuries ago—have been found on the Polynesian island that shares the name of the people (also known as Easter Island). The newest find, the smallest known, was discovered in a now-dry lake bed on the island, which is dealing with the effects of climate change. The Two Brothers Who Made Helped Preserve Scores of Black Landmarks by Nick Tabor, Washington Post The Washington, D.C., home of Charlotte Forten Grimké—educator, abolitionist, activist, and poet—is just one of 67 Black history sites that became National Historic Landmarks in the 1970s thanks to the research and advocacy of Vincent deForest and his late brother Robert DeForrest, who founded the Afro-American Bicentennial Corp. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wonder-is-everywhere-march-1

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Lily Allen and David Harbour show off their eccentric Brooklyn townhouse

Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Two and a half years after Lily Allen and David Harbour tied the knot in Las Vegas in 2020 — complete with an Elvis impersonator — the couple is opening the doors to their dream home in the tree-lined Brooklyn neighborhood of Carroll Gardens. Their eccentric abode has made the cover of Architectural Digest’s March issue, featuring the singer and “Stranger Things”…

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These feats of architecture have been named the best of the year

Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The world’s newest architectural showstoppers include a birdhouse-covered hotel suite suspended in the woods of Harads, Sweden; Sydney’s $230-million transformation of a naval bunker into an arts complex; and a futuristic sports stadium in China’s Zhejiang Province designed to mimic nearby mountainous terrain, according to Architectural Digest (AD). These designs…

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These feats of architecture have been named the best of the year

Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The world’s newest architectural showstoppers include a birdhouse-covered hotel suite suspended in the woods of Harads, Sweden; Sydney’s $230-million transformation of a naval bunker into an arts complex; and a futuristic sports stadium in China’s Zhejiang Province designed to mimic nearby mountainous terrain, according to Architectural Digest (AD). These designs…

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These feats of architecture have been named the best of the year

Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The world’s newest architectural showstoppers include a birdhouse-covered hotel suite suspended in the woods of Harads, Sweden; Sydney’s $230-million transformation of a naval bunker into an arts complex; and a futuristic sports stadium in China’s Zhejiang Province designed to mimic nearby mountainous terrain, according to Architectural Digest (AD). These designs…

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These feats of architecture have been named the best of the year

Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The world’s newest architectural showstoppers include a birdhouse-covered hotel suite suspended in the woods of Harads, Sweden; Sydney’s $230-million transformation of a naval bunker into an arts complex; and a futuristic sports stadium in China’s Zhejiang Province designed to mimic nearby mountainous terrain, according to Architectural Digest (AD). These designs…

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These feats of architecture have been named the best of the year

Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The world’s newest architectural showstoppers include a birdhouse-covered hotel suite suspended in the woods of Harads, Sweden; Sydney’s $230-million transformation of a naval bunker into an arts complex; and a futuristic sports stadium in China’s Zhejiang Province designed to mimic nearby mountainous terrain, according to Architectural Digest (AD). These designs…

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These feats of architecture have been named the best of the year

Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The world’s newest architectural showstoppers include a birdhouse-covered hotel suite suspended in the woods of Harads, Sweden; Sydney’s $230-million transformation of a naval bunker into an arts complex; and a futuristic sports stadium in China’s Zhejiang Province designed to mimic nearby mountainous terrain, according to Architectural Digest (AD). These designs…

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Kim Kardashian's Skims taps 'White Lotus' breakout stars for new campaign : Inside US

Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Scheming “White Lotus” besties Mia and Lucia have moved onto their next gig: a Skims fashion campaign. Kim Kardashian’s shapewear and apparel brand has tapped Italian actors and real-life friends Simona Tabasco and Bea Grannò to model limited-edition bras and underwear from its forthcoming Valentine’s Day Shop. Kardashian shared the news on January 23, posting to…