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After 122 years, a lost Edith Wharton play gets its debut
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE.- Edith Whartons 1934 autobiography, A Backward Glance, glances a bit more carefully at some things than others. She gives her close friend and fellow literary lion Henry James a chapter, but names her husband of 28 years exactly once. (And thats only because she quotes James referring to him.) One subject Wharton doesnt mention at all? The Shadow of a Doubt, a full-length 1901 play that got close to a Broadway opening before foundering under murky circumstances. It was all but forgotten which is perhaps what Wharton had intended until two scholars unearthed a script in 2016. Mary Chinery, of Georgian Court University in New Jersey, and Laura Rattray, of the University of Glasgow, found the script in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. (Crucially, the play was filed not under ... More

Flying high at the beach: Birds, dancers, Merce and Michelson
NEW YORK, NY.- With outstretched arms, dancers skimmed across the sand like gliding birds, soundless against the pressing wind and somehow soaring without actual wings. They tipped forward from their hips, leaning their torsos ever so slightly forward. They stood still while holding up a quivering, bent leg. Sometimes, as they lingered in a position, gradually lowering an arm or bending to the side, a sea gull flew past the glinting sun, dipping and then rising before disappearing into the horizon. The glittering scene seemed like a dream. Surveying the shoreline of Rockaway Beach on a recent morning, Patricia Lent, from the Merce Cunningham Trust, was elated. This is a dream come true, she said, adding: Its someone elses dream but it is a dream come true. Cunninghams Beach Birds has finally made its way to the beach. ... More

Famed conductor accused of striking singer at performance
NEW YORK, NY.- The appearance by conductor John Eliot Gardiner leading the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre RÃ©volutionnaire et Romantique in southeastern France this week was supposed to be a celebration: the start of a tour across Europe by one of classical musics most revered maestros and his esteemed ensembles. Instead, Gardiner, 80, provoked an outcry when, on Tuesday evening, he was accused of hitting a singer in the face backstage after a concert performance of the first two acts of Berliozs opera Les Troyens at the Festival Berlioz in La CÃ´te-Saint-AndrÃ©. Gardiner struck the singer, William Thomas, because he had headed the wrong way off the podium at the concert, according to a person who was granted anonymity to describe the incident because the person was not authorized to discuss it publicly. Thomas, ... More

Johaar Mosaval, who broke free of apartheid for ballet, dies at 95
NEW YORK, NY.- Johaar Mosaval, a charismatic South African ballet dancer who left the racial barriers of apartheid behind to become a celebrated principal with Londons Royal Ballet, and who is believed to be the first South African man of color to have done so, died on Aug. 16 in Cape Town. He was 95. His death, in a hospital after a fall a few months earlier, was announced by his family. Mosaval was a magnetic performer whose solo roles and the pyrotechnics he brought to them were praised by critics and beloved by audiences for the many years he performed in England. A diminutive man, he was the prankster Puck in The Dream, Frederick Ashtons one-act ballet drawn from Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream; the puppet Petrushka in Michel Fokines ballet of the same name, set to music by Igor Stravinsky; and the Blue ... More

'Freie Bahn ins Glück' by Michaela Eichwald now opening at Neue Galerie Gladbeck
GLADBECK.- Neue Galerie Gladbeck is opening the solo exhibition Freie Bahn ins GlÃ¼ck by the artist MICHAELA EICHWALD at Neue Galerie Gladbeck. The opening will take place on today at 6:30 pm and will be introduced with a summer party. The new works in the exhibition Freie Bahn ins GlÃ¼ck are created on site in Gladbeck and are made especially for the gallerys premises. With an open mind, Michaela Eichwald embarks on a frank work process to leave us standing in front of her paintings, perhaps overwhelmed, perhaps amazed. You only see what you know? Oh, dear Goethe! Michaela Eichwald also tries to see what she doesnt know. At least thats what I (also) claim now. Her painting does not affirm a provocation against the picture as such. The artist does not rest on her defiance. She negotiates an image, consistently until its liberation. Concentrated, ... More

Patron's Harold Mendez is now exhibiting at the Wexner Center for the Arts
CHICAGO, IL.- Spanning two galleries, 'one way to transform and two and three' at the Wexner Center for the Arts represents Harold Mendezs largest exhibition to date, bringing together over thirty recent works that focus on historical and personal narratives. Mendezs exhibition offers a collection of new sculptures, large-scale mixed-media works, and assemblages. The title, from a poem by Canisia Lubrin, emphasizes states of flux, like the continuous process of becoming and the fluidity of transformation. As a first-generation American of Mexican-Colombian descent, Mendezs experience of being raised in multiple places informs his carefully researched works. He deepens his ongoing exploration of the historical narratives that have shaped the Americas by reflecting on familial memories and personal stories. ... More

Château La Coste is featuring the new sculpture and painting work by Irish artist Guggi
LE PUY-SAINTE-RÃPARADE.- ChÃ¢teau La Coste has opened an exhibition of new sculpture and painting by Irish artist Guggi (b. 1959, Dublin) exploring the complexities of the human experience and the artists personal memories through interpretations of the humble vessel. Titled Memory to Form, and curated by Dr. Jon Wood, the show is a continuation of Guggis exhibition Broken, which was previously presented in ChÃ¢teau La Costes Renzo Piano Pavilion. Guggis practice is characterised by its introspective and contemplative style, drawing on the spiritual and the transcendental through the depiction of everyday objects in their simplest forms. The vessel is one of the artists signature motifs and in its repetition, he has created a language of these precious objects, giving form to memories. In this exhibition, the artist continues working with canvas, ... More

She outgrew the wish to be perfect
NEW YORK, NY.- Last month, author and podcast host Elise Loehnen joined Taryn Toomey, founder of the mind-body workout the Class, at a Womens Intuition workshop in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City. Loehnen spoke about her bestselling book, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good, which argues that women have long been culturally programmed to fear being bad and to suppress their emotions, their needs and their voices. The premise of todays workshop is to reconnect to that voice, she said. To deepen it, to channel it, to find everything weve been taught to repress in our bodies and bring it to the surface. As Loehnen read aloud a series of prompts (channel a fear of gluttony into a celebration of appetite, for instance), Toomey led the class through a series of exercises ... More

Scientist, technologist, inventor, author, and food photographer Nathan Mhyrvold blends intellect with creativity
NEW YORK, NY.- Nathan Myhrvold is founder of Modernist Cuisine and lead author and photographer of Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, Modernist Cuisine at Home, The Photography of Modernist Cuisine, Modernist Bread, Modernist Pizza, and Food & Drink: Modernist Cuisine Photography. He routinely pushes the boundaries of culinary science as a chef, photographer, scientist, and writer. At a young age he consumed cooking books and invested in new cameras and lenseseven while doing postdoctoral cosmology work with Stephen Hawking. While working as the chief technology officer of Microsoft, he took a leave of absence to earn his culinary diploma from Ãcole de Cuisine ... More

Scripps College's Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery announces exhibition 'Gettin' It Done'
CLAREMONT, CA.- On August 26th, Scripps Colleges Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery will present Gettin It Done: A Selection of Work by Elizabeth Catlett, Samella Lewis, Betye Saar, Emma Amos, Alison Saar, Letitia Huckaby, LaToya Hobbs and Kenturah Davis. The exhibition will be featuring 48 works by celebrated Black artists from the 20th and 21st centuries. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 16, from 6 to 9 p.m. In particular, Gettin It Done will highlight pieces from the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection at Scripps, which focuses on works by women and artists of color. The collection, which honors the legacy of Scripps College Professor Emerita of Art History Samella Lewis, was created in 2007 by former Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Mary MacNaughton, ... More

To seize the fleeting: Making Clarice Lispector dance
NEW YORK, NY.- Theyve been at it for hours. Jodi Melnick and Maya Lee-Parritz, both dancers, both choreographers, are in an airy dance studio in downtown New York City, feeling their way through a dance passage. Moving close together, they enter and exit each others orbit. They keep track of each other in the mirror, communicating every so often in short bursts: Ill link up with you here, or, Theres a fling-the-arm-thing here. They are in the final weeks of preparing Ãgua Viva, a dance loosely influenced by a 1973 novel by Brazilian experimental writer Clarice Lispector. The piece will premiere Saturday at Hudson Hall, in Hudson, New York. The dance is both a duet and a layering of solos. Now the two women are independent but complementary entities, now they move in near-unison, now in canon. They also move differently Lee-Parritz ... More