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Moncrieff-Bray Gallery presenting works of 40 artists and sculptors from Land's End to Ullapool in summer exhibition
The Moncrieff-Bray Gallery presents it's Summer Exhibition in a converted barn and landscaped gardens with stunning views over the Rother Valley. Over 40 artists and sculptors are drawn from all corners of the British Isles. The work is selected with a commitment to quality, integrity and originality from established and emerging artists alike. This is a wonderful opportunity to see a range of outstanding contemporary British sculpture in the heart of the South Downs National Park. There are small-scale intimate works for interiors as well as stunning large pieces for the garden. Established 18 years ago, the Summer Exhibition has become a highlight in the West Sussex art calendar. ... More

Exhibition by Behjat Sadr, curated by Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani, to be opened at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Art
NEW YORK, NY.- The Institute of Arab and Islamic Art will be opening the first institutional solo exhibition of Behjat Sadr (19242009) in the United States on May 15th, which will be preceeded by a press preview on the 12th. This exhibition unveils Sadrs diverse practice, which spanned painting, photography, photomontage and kinetics. Born in Arāk, Iran, Behjat broke through the male-dominated pre-Revolutionary Iranian art world, establishing herself as one of the foremost artists of the 20th century with her biomorphic gestural abstractions that defied the status-quo. This exhibition explores Sadr's engagement with painting by unearthing the deep and inherent relatio ... More

'Orion Martin: Faboo' now opening at Derosia in New York City
NEW YORK, NY.- Orion Martins paintings mine histories of visual culture to engineer wild hybridizations, often employing the human figure as a site at which varying optical and perceptual models coincide. For Faboo, Martin continues his investigation of the entanglement between gender, costume, and performance. In headstands and high kicks, arranged alone or in pairs, the figures in Martins new works interface with a multitude of references, organized with the defiance of spatial and physical causality that has become a signature feature of the artists work. Martins source material traffics in contradiction and anachronism, as he examines the paradoxical flamboyance of military costume, the vestigial futurism of Y2K aesthetics, the awkward perspectival efforts of the early Renaissance, and more. Stag ... More

Catherine Anholt 'Love, Life, Loss', Curated by Tom Anholt, now on view at CHOI&CHOI Gallery
SEOUL.- On Friday 12 May 2023, 6 - 9 pm, with Catherine Anholt in attendance, CHOI&CHOI Gallery will host an opening reception to open 'Catherine Anholt. You cant Fake the Funk'. Im biased of course, but Id say that my mother, Catherine Anholt, is the most generous person I know. Love, shelter, food, support - she can never give enough. I think it comes from the Irish tradition: We might not have much, but what we have, we share. As soon as she sent the first photos, I could tell that these were generous paintings but my god, when you see them in the flesh! These images are like thick, warm pudding, with plenty to go around. Delicious daubs of paint which describe deeply personal journeys and meaningful moments. You have to be a very generous person - a very generous painter, to give this much to the viewer. ... More

Review: Absences, s-curves and wonderful asymmetries
NEW YORK, NY.- A little over 10 years ago, the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, a superlative exemplar of the classical Indian dance form Odissi, teamed up with the Chitrasena Dance Company, the foremost group specializing in the Kandyan tradition of Sri Lanka. The all-female pairing was delightfully successful in revealing shared roots and contrasting flavors. It also had an intriguing sibling dynamic, with Nrityagram in charge and more mature-seeming even though Chitrasena was founded nearly a half-century before Nrityagram. Now the two companies have returned with a new show, Ahuti, which had its New York premiere at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday. This one promised a twist: men. But, because of injury, only one man from Chitrasena performed, not two. Its hard to say what difference this made ... More

In 'Some Like It Hot,' J. Harrison Ghee brings their whole self
NEW YORK, NY.- No, J. Harrison Ghee did not grow up to be a Missionary Baptist pastor like their father, though they sang in church as a child in North Carolina and earned the nickname Little Reverend Ghee. Nevertheless, eight shows a week, onstage at the Shubert Theater in the Broadway musical Some Like It Hot, Ghee who uses they/them pronouns is giving their own form of testimony. Adapted from the classic 1959 Billy Wilder film, Some Like It Hot follows two musicians who, while fleeing the mob, disguise themselves as women. In a twist on the original, Ghees character, Jerry, not only becomes increasingly comfortable living as Daphne, but starts to feel more like his true self. Having struggled to acknowledge a nonbinary identity, Ghee now regularly has queer people gathered at t ... More

For Broadway dance, high kicks and low comedy in a season of change
NEW YORK, NY.- This years Tony nominees for best choreographer reflect a variety of theatrical dance styles. Theres the director-choreographer, exemplified by Susan Stroman (New York, New York) and Casey Nicholaw (Some Like It Hot). But also the choreographers who reflect other backgrounds, like Steven Hoggett (Sweeney Todd) and Jennifer Weber (& Juliet, KPOP). Jesse Green, chief theater critic, was joined by dance critic Brian Seibert and contributor Elisabeth Vincentelli in a discussion about some of the choreographic shifts theyve noticed in musical theater. Here are edited excerpts from the conversation. JESSE GREEN: There was an almost bewildering variety of movement on Broadway this season. In New York, New York, Susan Stroman seemed to channel the great movie cho ... More

5 Tony-nominated Broadway shows, 5 stagecraft secrets
NEW YORK, NY.- Theater, at its best, is a form of magic it enchants us, transforms us and often makes us wonder, How do they do that? On Broadway, where craft is polished and spectacle is heightened, there is much at which to marvel. So this spring, now that all the 2022-23 plays and musicals have opened, we have once again asked a few of the Tony-nominated shows to let us peek behind the metaphorical curtain, exploring how they came up with, and pulled off, some of the sensational stagecraft that caught our attention this season. The show begins before it begins. Twenty minutes ahead of each performance of A Dolls House, as ticket holders are taking their seats at the Hudson Theater, a curtain rises to reveal the plays star, Jessica Chastain, slumped in an ash Ercol stacking chair, slowly revolving around ... More

Chris Strachwitz, who dug up the roots of American music, dies at 91
NEW YORK, NY.- Chris Strachwitz, who traveled in search of the roots of American music with the eagerness of a pilgrim, discovered traditional musicians with the skill of a detective, promoted their careers with the zeal of an ideologue and guarded their work with the care of a historian, died on Friday at an assisted-living facility in San Rafael, California. He was 91. The cause was congestive heart failure, his brother, Hubert, said. Strachwitz specialized in music passed down over generations cotton-field music, orange-orchard music, mountain music, bayou music, barroom music, porch music. The songs came not only from before the era of the music industry but even from before the existence of mass culture itself. Like other leading musical folklorists of the modern recording era among them M ... More

Missouri Botanical Garden hosts works of Chihuly in 'Garden 2023'
ST. LOUIS, MISS.- The work of world-renowned artist Dale Chihuly is on view at the Missouri Botanical Garden in a stunning exhibition uniting art and nature. With thousands of pieces of blown glass forms in 18 dramatic installations throughout the Gardens grounds, Chihuly in the Garden 2023 presents these artworks on a grand scale. The Garden is hosting Chihuly in the Garden 2023 daytime viewing through October 15, 2023. Garden President, Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson, noted Chihuly in the Garden 2023 is our most ambitious exhibition to date. We are pleased to host the work of the legendary Dale Chihuly. His art, designed specifically for the botanical garden setting, captures the imagination. As these works are especially mesmerizing at night, were delighted to offer our Chihuly Nights experience. ... More