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McEvoy Foundation for the Arts opening What are words worth?, last exhibition before permanently closing
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- McEvoy Foundation for the Arts announces What are words worth? (June 16 September 2, 2023), a survey of the expansive holdings of artworks in the McEvoy Family Collection that engage language, journalism, literature, and typography. The exhibition is McEvoy Arts closing program and the last of over a dozen innovative exhibitions presented since its founding in 2017. The exhibitions title, What are words worth?, is a lyric borrowed from the Tom Tom Club's 1981 song Wordy Rappinghood that references the poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Susan Miller, Executive Director at McEvoy Arts, states The play on words of this lyric, and the songs study of words as both form and subject, are reflective of the multi-layered way in which language is represented in this exhibition. The playful nod to Wordsworth ... More

Kelly Akashi: Formations now opening at the Frye Art Museum
SEATTLE, WA.- Kelly Akashi's exhibition Formations at the Frye Art Museum is the largest of the artists work to date. It spans nearly ten years of practice, from graduate school to recent research into the inherited impact of Japanese Americans incarceration during World War II. Originally trained in analog photography, Kelly Akashi (born 1983, Los Angeles) is drawn to materials like glass, wax, and bronze for their alchemical potential to change states. The artist blows and sculpts these fluid materials into forms bearing the literal imprint of her bodys breath and touch. She regularly makes unique life casts of her hands, subtly marking time as fingernails grow and lifelines deepen. This pervasive interest in time is embedded in many of Akashis processes and led her to studies in botany, paleontology, and biologyfields that locate the human ... More

New exhibition explores the meaning of gifts and the stories we tell about them
OXFORD.- The Bodleian Libraries presents Gifts and Books, a new exhibition exploring the importance of giving and receiving books. The exhibition asks what this apparently simple act, practised for centuries, reveals about human relationships and beliefs. Opening at the Weston Library on 16 June 2023, the exhibition will display items from the Bodleians rich collections, encompassing everything from ancient myth to contemporary stories, illustrating how gift-giving and writing have always been intertwined. Curated by Dr Nicholas Perkins, Associate Professor in Medieval English literature at Oxford University, Gifts and Books investigates the power of gifts and the stories we tell about them. Visitors can explore peoples motivations for giving books across the ages, including as a religious offering, a mark of friendship, or a way to strengthen political alliances. ... More

Portuguese curator brings Japanese ALT group exhibition to Shoreditch
LONDON.- Martim Barroso, London-based Curator and Director of TOKYO PARK, will exhibit never-before-seen Japanese Ultra-contemporary artworks from Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka Post-Superflat Artists at Spiral Galleries in Shoreditch, from June 16th to June 25th, 2023 in the exhibition Onna No Ko. Women a collective that has been Humanitys favourite source of Culture, Beauty, and Artistic Inspiration. For millennia, Femininity has morphed into depictions of goddesses, heroines and pioneers strong figures that enchant and entrap its viewers in galleries and museums. Even after the apparent disuse of academic dogmas in Art, the representation of the Female Sitter and Artist, has changed its context and symbolism to modern standards, but maintained its imponent popularity - Martim Barroso from TOKYO PARK claims. ... More

New works by Maliza Kiasuwa create totems of mixed meaning out of everyday objects
WASHINGTON, DC .- Morton Fine Art will be opening Art as a weapon, an exhibition of mixed-media collage and sculpture by artist Maliza Kiasuwa. Based between Brussels, Belgium and Naivasha, Kenya, Kiasuwas collage practice blends locally available materials with cultural referents. At once reﬂecting contemporary globalization and reinvesting in traditional object-based animism, Kiasuwas practice continues to expand in the years following her decisive move into paper-based collage. The artists second solo exhibition with the gallery, Art as a weapon will be on view from June 17 to July 18, 2023 at Morton Fine Arts Washington, D.C. location. An artist with a longstanding practice rooted in found objects and the histories that inscribe them, Kiasuwa uses thread to stitch disparate materials into an interlacing dialogue. Her works often ... More

Glenda Jackson, Oscar-winning actor turned politician, dies at 87
NEW YORK, NY.- Glenda Jackson, the two-time Oscar winner who renounced a successful film and stage career in her 50s to become a member of the British Parliament, then returned to the stage at 80 as the title character in King Lear, died Thursday at her home in Blackheath, London. She was 87. Her death was confirmed by Lionel Larner, her longtime agent, who said that she died after a brief illness. On both stage and screen, Jackson demonstrated that passion, pain, humor, anger, affection and much else were within her range. I like to take risks, she told The New York Times in 1971, and I want those risks to be larger than the confines of a structure thats simply meant to entertain. By then she had won both acclaim and notoriety for performances in which she had bared herself physically and emotionally, notably as a ferocious Charlotte ... More

Neue Auctions' online-only sale to feature marble bust by Hiram Powers as well as Renoir prints
BEACHWOOD, OHIO.- A marble Bust of the Greek Slave by the renowned American sculptor Hiram Powers (1805-1873), plus three classic Chevrolet Corvette cars from the collection of Charlie Oakes a 1957, a 1960 and a best-in-show 1962 winner will headline an online-only Fine Art & Antiques auction on Saturday, June 24th, by Neue Auctions, at 10 am Eastern time. The Hiram Powers marble bust is the auctions expected top lot, with an estimate of $50,000-$80,000. It comes from an estate out of Hudson, Ohio, as do more than 100 other lots in the sale. The full-length nude bust, 24 inches tall including socle, is artist signed and was at the time of its debut the most famous sculpture in the world. Perhaps 80 or so of the life-size busts were made. The auction will also feature a collection of 11 Renoir prints, all from the same collector; early ... More

In San Francisco, a week of destination opera
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- For a week this month, San Francisco was the countrys opera capital. Nowhere else in the United States could you see, as I did, three destination operas all worth the effort in four days. I started on Saturday with Richard Strauss immense Die Frau Ohne Schatten at San Francisco Opera, and continued across the street on Sunday with Kaija Saariahos contemporary Adriana Mater at the San Francisco Symphony, staged just days after her death at 70. Then, on Tuesday, came the local premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruzs El Ãltimo SueÃ±o de Frida y Diego San Francisco Operas first Spanish-language work, unveiled last fall in San Diego. (It heads next to Los Angeles, and eventually the Metropolitan Opera.) That was just the latest opening in the companys often ambitious centennial ... More

John Romita Sr., creative force at Marvel Comics, is dead at 93
NEW YORK, NY.- John Romita Sr., an influential comic book artist who helped define the look of Spider-Man and his alter ego, Peter Parker, and who helped create some of Marvels most beloved characters, including Mary Jane Watson and Wolverine, died Monday at his home in Floral Park, New York, on Long Island. He was 93. His death was announced by his son, John Romita Jr., who is also a comic book artist. Millions came to know Marvel through his art, and millions more came to know Peter Parker through the unmistakable bold brushwork Romita brought to his pages, Marvel said in a statement. Romita took over artistic duties on Spider-Man, written by Stan Lee, in 1966, after Steve Ditko, the original artist and the characters co-creator, left Marvel. Within a year, the title had become Marvels top seller. That year, Romita drew the memorable ... More

Beautiful evening of music emerged from a New York City sewer
NEW YORK, NY.- Larry Desgaines sat on a piece of cardboard atop a damp rock near the mouth of a large sewer drain in Queens on a recent Friday evening. Its a privilege to be here, he said, without irony. It was just before sunset, and he was among a concert audience of about 50 people who were also perched on rocks, facing the waters of New York City Combined Sewer Outfall #BB 029, where the buried Sunswick Creek flows into the East River. In the water, which, improbably, did not stink of sewage, two men in a canoe sat very still. The boats bow pointed toward land. As the sun dipped behind Roosevelt Island, another man sitting by the entrance of the tunnel banged on a metal pipe with a stick. The resulting sound was that of a ringing bell. The canoes frontman, wearing a Tyrolean hat, yodeled: Willkommen! He drew out the final syllable, ... More