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'Tick, Tick ... Boom!': A musical based on a musical about writing a musical. We explain.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lin-Manuel Mirandas new film adaptation of Tick, Tick Boom! is the musical version of Rent creator Jonathan Larsons musical about writing a musical. To clarify, that musical is not Rent. (Yes, our brains hurt, too.) Tick, Tick ... Boom!, which premieres Nov. 12 in theaters and Nov. 19 on Netflix, portrays Larson (Andrew Garfield) and his efforts to find success in his late 20s. The audience watches him struggle to write Superbia, a retro-futuristic musical, while he frets about whether he should choose a more conventional career. To help you keep Superbia (Larsons never-produced musical) straight from Tick, Tick ... Boom! (Larsons autobiographical show about writing Superbia) straight from Tick, Tick Boom! (the new film that tells Larsons story), weve created this guide: Who was Jonathan Larson? The composer and playwright is best ... More

Alexis Assam named VMFA's Regenia A. Perry Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced the appointment of Alexis Assam to the position of Regenia A. Perry Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art. Assam comes to VMFA from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she worked as the Constance E. Clayton Curatorial Fellow in the Contemporary Art department. It gives me tremendous pleasure to welcome Alexis to the department of Modern and Contemporary Art, said Valerie Cassel Oliver, VMFAs Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. She will be an invaluable asset in upcoming acquisitions, exhibition developments and future projects for the museum. Alexis will have an important role in continuing to build the museums inclusive collections and in developing relevant, meaningful exhibitions that will resonate with our visitors, ... More

Nara Roesler New York opens a solo exhibition by artist Tomie Ohtake
NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler New York opened Visible Persistence: Tomie Ohtake (1957-2014) a solo exhibition by artist Tomie Ohtake (b. 1913, in Kyoto, Japan-d. 2015, in SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil), curated by Luis PÃ©rez-Oramas. The show proposes a selection of key works, embracing over 50 years of production, which together punctuate the defining phases in the artist's career, offering a succinct retrospective of her oeuvre. With works pertaining to each of these fundamental periods, Visible Persistence: Tomie Ohtake (1957-2014) foregrounds the marked phases of the artist's career, celebrating every stage in its distinction, but also stressing Ohtake's drive to capture the density of space, color as a generative field, and the corporal experience of form. A paramount figure in Brazilian art during the second half of the 20th and the first decades ... More

Private collection of contemporary artists' books at Swann November 9
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, November 9 Swann Galleries will hold Contemporary Artists Books: The Property of a Texas Collectoran astonishing single owner auction of works, many known only via institutional copies. The sale includes an abundance of deluxe issues produced in small limitations often out of reach of even the most determined collector. Featured throughout the sale are considerable runs from artists including Kiki Smith, Sophie Calle, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Tuttle, Ed Ruscha and Sol LeWitt. Highlights include Ruschas Stains, Hollywood, 1969, which leads the sale at $50,000 to $70,000. Also by Ruscha is S, a unique found-object book sculpture from 1999 that utilizes Paul Hervieus Flirt ($20,000-25,000). From Kiki Smith is Touch, a complete group of six prints and a letterpress poem by Henri Cole ... More

North Carolina Museum of Art to unveil reimagined presentation of museum collection in fall 2022
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art announces a major reinstallation of the Peoples Collection. The reimagined presentation, the first complete reorganization since the opening of West Building in 2010, will showcase new thematic and interpretive galleries across East and West buildings. This exciting reinstallation of artworks connects the collection across place and time; features major loans from North Carolina and national and international museums; and showcases new, site-specific commissioned works, providing a more dynamic and accessible experience of the arts. 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of the North Carolina legislatures setting aside state funds to start the Peoples Collection, which belongs to the citizens of our state, said Valerie Hillings, Museum director. This transformative reinstallation expands upon ... More

ICA/Boston and MoMA PS1 co-organize first museum survey of Deana Lawson
BOSTON, MASS.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and MoMA PS1 have co-organized the first museum survey dedicated to the work of Deana Lawson (b. 1979, Rochester, NY), a singular voice in photography today. Drawing on a wide spectrum of photographic languages, including the family album, studio portraiture, staged tableaux, and appropriated images, Lawsons posed photographs channel broader ideas about personal and social histories, sexuality, and spiritual beliefs. Featuring a selection of over fifty photographs from 2004 to the present, this exhibition features the full range of Lawsons career to date and establishes for the first time a narrative arc of her expansive vision. This nationally touring exhibition will be on view November 4, 2021February 27, 2022 at the ICA; April 14September 5, 2022 at MoMA PS1; and ... More

She was an organist for the ages
NEW YORK, NY.- Few musicians have faced a debut more intense than did organist Jeanne Demessieux. For years before her first concert one of six she gave at the Salle Pleyel in Paris early in 1946 her teacher Marcel DuprÃ© had stoked rumors of her outlandish talent. Jeanne Demessieux is the greatest organist of all generations, DuprÃ©, then practically the god of the French organ world, had declared in 1944. She would be, he predicted, one of the greatest glories of France. There was tremendous pressure, then, on this shy, workaholic, perfectionist prodigy, who had lived under what DuprÃ© said was his artistic protection since 1936 winning first prize in his class at the Paris Conservatory in 1941 and remaining his student and assistant after that. Pressure, too, from the imposing program of the first of her six historic ... More

Reimagined Gibney Company makes a long-winded debut
NEW YORK, NY.- Just before the pandemic, in January 2020, Gina Gibney, a choreographer and entrepreneur, announced that she was reinventing her dance company. Why, she wondered at the time, did New York City not have a company on the same level as a Nederlands Dans Theater or a Ballet BC? To be honest, that never really struck me as a problem. The aesthetic direction of those groups choreography with slippery swirls and hollow gestures wasnt something I pined for. But Gibney has accomplished what she set out to do: She has established a contemporary repertory company of 12 dancers that made its debut at the Joyce Theater exactly when she planned for it to happen: now. On Tuesday, the Gibney Company presented three premieres, by Sonya Tayeh, the Tony Award-winning choreographer of Moulin Rouge! ... More

Edie Falco shines as an everywoman in 'Morning Sun'
NEW YORK, NY.- Making the best of the little youve got may or may not be the theme of Morning Sun, the pianissimo new play by Simon Stephens that opened off-Broadway on Wednesday. But its certainly the problem. Not for Stephens is the big statement. His characters, linked in a maternal chain, are everywomen or anywomen positioned equidistantly along a conveyor belt between birth and death. Claudette is the tough one in her 70s, Charley the practical one in her 50s, Tessa the disillusioned one in her 30s. That they are identified by number in the script suggests their merely prototypical status. But unlike the lettered characters (A, B and C) in Edward Albees Three Tall Women, of which Morning Sun sometimes seems a less glittering variation, 1, 2 and 3 have self-consciously ordinary lives. Instead of Albees Park Avenue-ish boudoir, ... More

Eiffel Tower visitor numbers climb to pre-Covid levels
PARIS.- The Eiffel Tower is clocking up visitor numbers not seen since Covid-19 kept most tourists away and ripped a deep hole in its finances, the attraction's operator said Thursday. A major paint job on the "Iron Lady" has resumed after an interruption during the pandemic due to high lead levels, it said, with the aim of having the landmark look its best in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Eiffel Tower had "a good month of October", operator Sete told AFP, thanks to tourists returning to Paris, a top destination. It received an average of more than 20,000 visitors per day in October, up from 13,000 during the summer when curbs kept down numbers allowed into the tower's lifts. October weekend numbers were better than in 2019, Sete said. One big factor was the return of American tourists, who accounted for 10 percent of overall visits, as well as tourists from nearby European countries. ... More

Art of trash: Feting South Africa's overlooked waste pickers
JOHANNESBURG.- To many they are just filthy-looking jumbo bags bursting at the seams with recyclable waste wheeled along the streets of South Africa's largest city. But now graffiti artists are giving them a makeover, spray-painting them with bold and bright designs to encourage bystanders to look up and notice the unsung work of the impoverished workers who pull them. "One of the biggest challenges is just for residents to make eye contact, to build some sort of relationship," said Tamzyn Botha, one of the artists behind the initiative. Painting the bags is a "fun way to create some sort dialogue," said the coordinator at Shade, a Johannesburg centre where artists buy recyclable material from the waste pickers. Across South Africa, thousands of "reclaimers" are helping the country recycle. Largely unemployed, they eke out a living by picking ... More