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Through Bone and Marrow, the most sensitive and discomforting exhibition yet in BRUTUS
ROTTERDAM.- Since 2 April to 25 June, BRUTUS, the Rotterdam artist-driven playground, presents the most sensitive and uncomfortable exhibition to date: Through Bone and Marrow. On an area of approximately 6000 m2, twenty renowned artists show new and alternative connections between mankind, nature and technology. Through Bone and Marrow acts as a subtle wake-up call: the exhibition showcases a new aesthetic with room for discomfort, imperfection and the beauty of decay. Curator is 'atmosphere collector' and stylist Maarten Spruyt. In search of a representation of the zeitgeist, he succeeds in creating unity in diversity. Through Bone and Marrow feels like a single large organism. Visitors are admitted to the exhibition circuit one at a time and are given heartfelt advice: forget your phone, forget your agenda, ... More

Review: Kyle Abraham takes on Cunningham and, as always, love
NEW YORK, NY.- Kyle Abraham has a mission and its bigger than himself. He likes to spread the love with his company, A.I.M, and, in doing so, broaden the viewers experience of what a dance concert by a choreographer-led company can be. The A.I.M season at the Joyce Theater expands on that idea in multigenerational ways, too, with a resonant performance of Rain (1989), a solo by Bebe Miller, who began her choreographic career in 1978. She means much to Abraham, who, in his program note, writes: Her work speaks so much to the dance-maker I hope to be. Although brief, Rain, performed Tuesday by Tamisha A. Guy, has a scorching power. To music by Villa-Lobos and Hearn Gadbois, Guy stands in front of a patch of grass, moving her rounded arms and fluid fingers unhurriedly as if theyre some sort of protective barrier ... More

Finding freedom and feminism in ballet. (It's possible.)
NEW YORK, NY.- Ballet requires no, demands devotion. But what is the price of that devotion, especially for women? Ballet these days is under fire in some quarters, and the very idea of devotion to it has become suspect. A myth has grown around it: That its price is physical and mental abuse, eating disorders, bloody toes, suffering, pain and blind subservience to patriarchal leaders. And its not just ballet, but George Balanchines vision of ballet, which seems to be, again, causing controversy as familiar stereotypes are revived, including the idea that he preferred extremely thin dancers with tiny heads and long legs. With the recent release of a biography about Balanchine, a memoir by a former ballet student who failed to advance at the School of American Ballet which Balanchine co-founded, along with New York City Ballet ... More

John Kander's major chord, undiminished
NEW YORK, NY.- Its not that John Kander wasnt touched by John Kander Day. The composer of the song New York, New York played at every New York Yankees home game and known worldwide from its first five notes was obviously moved when the citys mayor handed him a framed proclamation in front of St. James Theater in midtown Manhattan. Nor was he jaded, he later said, about having that block of West 44th Street, from Broadway to Eighth Avenue, christened Kander & Ebb Way in recognition of his work and that of Fred Ebb, his longtime lyricist, who died in 2004. Still, of Kanders thousands of songs, seven movie scores and 20 major musicals, including Chicago and Cabaret, not one bar was written with the idea of getting a piece of pavement named for him. If Ebb, with his brasher, needier personality, would have eaten up ... More

'Mamie Tinkler: A Troubling' opens today at Ulterior Gallery
NEW YORK, NY .- Ulterior Gallery presents A Troubling, its second solo exhibition of paintings by Mamie Tinkler. For this exhibition opening on April 7, Tinkler debuts eight paintings in watercolor and gouache. In these new works, Tinkler draws on narratives of magic and witchcraft, conjuring an atmosphere of subtle danger and ecstatic transcendence. The title A Troubling refers to a collective noun for goldfinches, but also a troubling, or disrupting, of narratives, structures, or surfaces. The objects depicted in Tinklers paintings seem poised for action, ripe with possibility, anything but still. While she deploys still life and photorealism as processes, her paintings do not fit neatly into either genre. The artist stages and photographs scenes using found and collected objects, theatrical lighting, mirrors, and painted backdrops. ... More

Forever divided over Picasso: Part 1, why I love him
NEW YORK, NY.- When I was a teenager, Pablo Picassos Guernica, that colossal anti-war painting rendered in newspaper tones of black and gray, was on loan to the Museum of Modern Art. The artist had sent it to New York before World War II to safeguard it from Francisco Franco, the dictator who ended democracy in Picassos native Spain. Guernica stayed at MoMA for more than four decades, and growing up under its spell enlarged my sense of what art could be. Art, it seemed, was not about the pursuit of refinement and social polish but an encounter with the kind of raw, screaming emotion adolescents have no trouble grasping. I remained a Picasso worshipper, even as friends decorated their dorm rooms with posters by Matisse blankly elegant images of all-blue nudes scrubbed of any detail. They enchanted but they lacked ... More

Neal Boenzi, top New York Times photographer for four decades, dies at 97
NEW YORK, NY.- Neal Boenzi, a photographer who for more than 40 years at The New York Times deftly captured aspects of city life from firefighters fleeing a falling wall to a man walking a goose, died Monday at an elder care facility in Newhall, California. He was 97. His daughter, Jeanette Boenzi, confirmed the death. Boenzis photographs usually accompanied breaking news coverage and longer articles. But they also included many so-called day shots: photographs he took when he was told to be creative and find pictures that brightened readers days. Theres an aspect of Weegee in his photographs, that grittiness of New York, but with a lighter touch, less macabre, Fred Ritchin, dean emeritus of the International Center of Photography, said in a phone interview, referring to the celebrated New York City tabloid photographer of the 1930s ... More

In 'Thanksgiving Play,' the pageantry of 'well-meaning' white people
NEW YORK, NY.- As Larissa FastHorse worked with the Broadway cast of The Thanksgiving Play, which centers on four white people trying to put on a culturally sensitive holiday production, one of the actors, Katie Finneran, spoke up in a rehearsal with a suggestion: Perhaps she could drop a swear word during one of her more exasperated lines? Im the drama teacher! Finnerans character exclaims as her plan to make a socially progressive elementary school play begins to fall apart. FastHorse politely declined. From the works conception in 2015, she had intended it to be curse-free, in the hopes of finally having a widely produced play. Her other work including the play What Would Crazy Horse Do? involved Native American characters, leading producers to call them uncastable. So, FastHorse wrote one with white ... More