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Most recent paintings by Canadian artist Corran Brownlee being presented in first solo exhibition at GR gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- GR gallery is opening FORGE, the first solo presentation of Canadian artist Corran Brownlee in New York and with the gallery. The exhibition showcases 15 recently completed paintings, including 5 from last year which provided the genesis of the new pieces. Ranging from medium to large-scale, and using oil, acrylic and inks, Brownlee is investigating moments of profound change internal and external, private or public that affect all of us. This event marks a new departure for Brownlee, as is always the case with his practice: growth is an essential part of his process. Until now, he has used only black and ... More

Michael Blakemore, single-season double Tony winner for directing, dies at 95
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Blakemore, an acclaimed stage director in Britain and the only one in Broadway history to win Tony Awards for both best play and best musical in the same season, died Sunday. He was 95. His death was announced by his agents Tuesday. It did not say where he died. Blakemore was nominated seven times for Tonys, notably for his productions of Peter Nichols A Day in the Death of Joe Egg in 1968 and Michael Frayns Noises Off in 1983. But it was the flair and care he brought to a revival of Kiss Me, Kate, the Cole Porter show about a troupe of players presenting a musical version of Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew, and to a later Frayn play, Copenhagen, that won him the unique double of best direction of a musical and best direction of a play in 2000. (Kiss Me, Kate garnered five Tonys ... More

Hettie Inniss joins GRIMM
AMSTERDAM.- GRIMM announced the international representation of British Caribbean artist Hettie Inniss (b. 1999, Hackney, London, UK), whose work responds to multi-sensory influences and bodily experiences, capturing and preserving a moment inflected by scent, light, sound and memory. A recent graduate from the Painting MA course at the Royal College of Art, London (UK), Inniss was awarded the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship in 2022. GRIMM will host Inniss first solo exhibition at the London gallery in May 2024. Inniss is an artist whose practice questions the stability of self. Her distinctive canvases seek to create spaces with their own physics, their own truths and their own multidimensional perspectives. Inniss vibrant colour palette allows her to articulate memory and the act of remembering capturing the afterburn ... More

Second-finest Charles II 'Petition' Crown makes its case at Heritage's NYINC Platinum World & Ancient Coins Event
DALLAS, TX.- A rare coins beauty sometimes can overshadow its significance in numismatic history. But a magnificent 17th-century British coin that will be available January 8 in Heritages NYINC Platinum Session World & Ancient Coins SignatureÂ® Auction - New York stands among the elite in both criteria. The second-highest graded Petition Crown by Thomas Simon can be traced back to one of Britains most tumultuous eras, was struck just after the English Civil War and is among the most coveted types in silver. The Charles II silver Pattern Petition Crown 1663 MS62 NGC was engraved by Thomas Simon, one of the most celebrated medalists and engravers of 17th-century England. The Petition ... More

'Buena Vista Social Club' review: Bringing a classic record to life
NEW YORK, NY.- The boleros, sons, danzÃ³ns and other popular Cuban song forms captured on the hit 1997 album Buena Vista Social Club and in a 1999 Wim Wenders documentary about the musicians who made it are a marvel: diabolically catchy, lively yet poetic, mesmerizingly complex beneath their seeming simplicity. Those are qualities that few jukebox musicals have going for them. Usually, if the borrowed tunes are catchy, theyre prosaic. Or if poetic then dreary. Or if complex then irrelevant. But the full-of-riches jukebox musical Buena Vista Social Club, which opened on Tuesday at the Atlantic Theater, avoids all those problems. Particularly in its rendition of the Buena Vista songbook including eight numbers from the original album and seven from later iterations the production, directed by Saheem Ali, enhances ... More

Mort Engelberg, producer of hit films and presidential campaigns, dies at 86
NEW YORK, NY.- Mort Engelberg, a movie producer behind such hits as Smokey and the Bandit and The Big Easy, who drew on his Hollywood expertise to stage-manage appearances for politicians, notably a bus tour for Bill Clinton and Al Gore following the 1992 Democratic convention, died Saturday at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 86. His brother, Steven Engelberg, said the cause was lung cancer. Mort Engelberg toggled between film and political advance work, setting up campaign trips meant to produce photo-ready moments and drawing on the tropes of road movies to help invent the modern presidential bus tour. It featured the gregarious Clinton and his sidekick Gore on a journey through Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky and other heartland states. Mort came in with basically the same formulation as the Hollywood buddy ... More

A lost Raymond Chandler work is found. It's a poem.
NEW YORK, NY.- He was famous for his cynical, hard-drinking gumshoe, Philip Marlowe, and lines like: It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. But detective novelist Raymond Chandler also tried his hand at the more refined art of poetry, and one of his previously unpublished poems will appear this week in The Strand, a crime and mystery magazine. The poem, titled Requiem, was written around 1955, and it reveals a more sentimental, more mystical Raymond Chandler than were used to, said Andrew Gulli, managing editor of The Strand. We know the wisecracking Philip Marlowe, but Chandler is more complex than we expected. The poem had been kept in a shoe box before the Chandler family donated it, along with other papers, to the Bodleian Library at the University ... More

Guillaume Bresson's new series of eight paintings subjects of exhibition at Galerie Nathalie Obadia
PARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is currently hosting Guillaume Bressons new series of eight paintings. This is his fifth exhibition at the gallery since 2010. Considered one of the leading figures in figurative painting, the artist who now lives in New York, is known for his resolutely contemporary scenes, reinvesting a mode of representation derived from classical painting, which had been cast aside until the beginning of the 21st century. The artist thus paints a contemporary history painting leveraging a mode of reconstruction of reality through the prism of his own time. An architect of choreographed mises en scÃ¨nes, Guillaume Bresson uses body language and movement as keys to reading his paintings. Guillaume Bressons system for making his works remains unchanged: he begins with preparatory photography sessions with models ... More

Who or what is the enigmatic 'girlchild'?
LONDON.- Sarah Kravitz is now showing girlchild, a solo exhibition by Warsaw-based painter Helena Stiasny curated by Elaine ML Tam. Who or what is the enigmatic 'girlchild? She is an issue of feminism, the victim of misogyny, an instance of culture, the fiction of women, the dysphoria of gender. However, she eludes a fixed archetype or recognizable identity, as the girlchild defies definition, expressing herself through an infinite array of forms and emotions.What is unequivocal is her impossible youth, a defining characteristic that accentuates the term's excessiveness and redundancy. Transformed into consumable fantasy, the girlchild serves as a poignant reflection of insatiable desire and unfulfilled yearning, wherein her innocence becomes a twisted manifestation of perversion. ... More