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"Orhan Pamuk: The Consolation of Objects" in the Semper-Kabinett, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
DRESDEN.- In collaboration with the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Orhan Pamuk (*1952), the Dresden State Art Collections (SKD) are opening the exhibition "Orhan Pamuk. The Consolation of Objects" in the Semper-Kabinett of the GemÃ¤ldegalerie Alte Meister. At the same time, the presentation marks the start of a multi-year programme on Turkish art and culture at the SKD. In 2012, Orhan Pamuk set up the so-called "Museum of Innocence" in Istanbul, which was inspired by and designed with the novel of the same name, which was published in 2008. On three floors, the writer tells the story of the lives of the protagonists Kemal and FÃ¼sun through everyday objects that he arranges in a multitude of showcases. Now, part of the presentation is travelling outside Istanbul for the first time in such scale. For the project, Orhan ... More

Debbie Fleming Caffery receives first career retrospective at New Orleans Museum of Art
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art is opening the first major retrospective of photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery, with black-and-white prints ranging from the 1970s to the present. Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything is the first exhibition to include examples representative of her entire body of work, including photographs taken throughout Louisiana and Mississippi, Mexico, and France over six decades. The exhibition includes Cafferys renowned documentary images of people working in Louisianas sugar cane fields, as well as her most recent project creating exquisitely humanized portraits of birds around the world, some of which live in rescue and rehabilitation centers. Caffery is recognized as one of the foremost contemporary photographers from the American South, with a career that both grows from and stretches beyond her work in her ... More

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts opens 'Determined To Be: The Sculpture of John Rhoden'
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts celebrates 20th century African American sculptor John Rhoden (1916-2001) with the exhibition, Determined To Be: The Sculpture of John Rhoden, the first comprehensive retrospective of the artists work. The exhibition, curated by Dr. Brittany Webb, the Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at PAFA, opened October 5, 2023 and is on view through April 7, 2024. In 2017 PAFA was selected by the John Rhoden Estate to assume the responsibility of preserving and promoting John Rhoden's artistic legacy. The Rhoden Collection includes over 300 works of art and 22 linear feet of archival materials. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Rhoden discovered a talent and passion for sculpting during his youth, was mentored ... More

Almine Rech opens new U.S flagship in Tribeca with a solo exhibition by Vaughn Spann
NEW YORK, NY.- As part of its expansion, Almine Rech announced the opening of its new U.S Flagship in Tribeca, New York, with a solo exhibition by the American artist Vaughn Spann, October 5, 2023. The recently renovated 10,000 square foot gallery is situated at 361 Broadway (at Franklin St.) and opened with an exhibition by Vaughn Spann. For the occasion, which also marks Vaughns first solo presentation in New York since 2020, the artist has prepared a body of new abstract paintings. Its been a few years since we began looking for a space in NY that would allow our artists to create and present works without constraints. We visited quite a few options, but none elicited a love at first sight which I believe is important when one looks for a place to show art. When I first visited the building I immediately knew it was the ... More

Stephen Friedman Gallery opens its new London location
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery opened its new gallery at 5-6 Cork Street in Mayfair, London, designed by David Kohn Architects. A relocation from its original site of 28 years at Old Burlington Street, Mayfair, and a significant expansion, the gallerys new building features three bespoke exhibition spaces, a new mezzanine level, a library and several private viewing rooms. A new landscaped sculpture garden designed by Tod Longstaffe-Gowen is accessible via the gallery and Cork Street Mews; an enchanting oasis in Mayfair with large scale sculptures by the gallerys artists. British artist David Shrigley has collaborated with the architects to create a garden gate and a kiosk which invites the visitor to linger in the space. Commissioned sculptures by Stephen Friedman Gallery artists: Ugandan artist Leilah Babirye lives and works in New York, United States. Japanese artist Izu ... More

Garry Hynes brings Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy to life
NEW YORK, NY.- In the back room of a hotel cafe in lower Manhattan, Irish director Garry Hynes was talking about Sean OCasey, the laborer turned playwright whose frequently funny, sometimes blood-chilling, canonical 1920s tragicomedies are set amid the tenements of Dublin. Mostly, Hynes called him OCasey, but a few times she called him Sean, and the warmth of that familiarity melted away any sepia encrustation that has accumulated around his name. Hynes, 70, the artistic director and a co-founder of the Druid theater company in Galway, Ireland, imagines OCasey was a bit of a joker, grumpy and given to provoking people just for the sake of provoking. Not easy, in other words, but playful. She has long believed OCasey, who died at 84 in 1964, in his adopted England, to be miscategorized as a playwright ... More

Kate Soper returns to opera with a story medieval and modern
NEW YORK, NY.- On a recent summer morning in New York, three sopranos, a director and a small crew gathered for a rehearsal of The Hunt, a new opera by Kate Soper. One soprano had a ukulele stored offstage. Another had a violin close at hand. And a third, placed center stage at the Miller Theater at Columbia University, mimed speaking into a smartphone as the days blocking work began. While that character, Fleur, primped and preened for an imagined camera as if on a livestream, she bragged about her social media fluency on an address to a royal hiring academy. All three sopranos were creating separate, self-taped auditions, for a show within the show. And yet: They were clearly doing so in some bygone era. The King seeks spotless maidens for the hunt of the unicorn, the sopranos recited ... More

Jon Fosse, Norwegian author, receives the Nobel Prize in Literature
NEW YORK, NY.- Norwegian novelist, poet and playwright Jon Fosse who has found a growing audience in the English-speaking world for novels that grapple with themes of aging, mortality, love and art was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday, for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable. A prolific writer who has published some 40 plays, as well as novels, poetry, essays, childrens books and works of translation, Fosse has long been revered for his spare, transcendent language and formal experimentation. In a news conference Thursday, Anders Olsson, the chair of the Nobel literature committee, praised Fosses sensitive language, which probes the limits of words. Fosses work has been translated into around 50 languages, and he is among the worlds most widely performed ... More

Review: This dance about refugees has flow and a groove
NEW YORK, NY.- Not long ago, choreographer and musician Olivier Tarpaga, who teaches at Princeton University, wanted to visit the city of his birth and his fathers grave in the north of Burkina Faso. But the region had been overrun by violent jihadis, and he learned that his hometown was now home to a refugee camp for women and children. Instead of visiting, he made a dance theater work about refugees: Once the dust settles, flowers bloom. At the start of the piece, which had its New York premiere at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday as part of the Crossing the Line festival, men enter carrying what looks like a jihadi flag and dozens of objects that turn out to be flip-flops. They move together with tiny, quick steps that could be menacing or comic. One man removes a hood from a womans head and manipulates her limp body in a way that ... More