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Confessions of a drag legend: Charles Busch's memoir is here, darling
NEW YORK, NY.- Charles Busch, a celebrated male actress, Tony-nominated playwright and, most recently, exuberant memoirist, has been thinking that his bed might make a good stage. At his Greenwich Village duplex last month, he noted how the arched entrance to his blindingly white boudoir resembles a proscenium. The room is in the style of 1940s-vintage Dorothy Draper, an interior decorator known for her modern baroque sensibility. It is the sort of place, Busch observed, that you could imagine Gene Tierney bedding down as the chic advertising executive (and presumed murder victim) in the glamorous 1944 film noir Laura. The show that Busch would like to perform here, though, would be a production of Lucille Fletchers radio play Sorry, Wrong Number, in which a high-strung, bedridden rich woman overhears her own murder being ... More

Hammer Museum appoints Naoko Takahatake and Paulina Pobocha to key curatorial positions
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum at UCLA announced the appointment of Naoko Takahatake as the new Director and Chief Curator of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts; and Paulina Pobocha as the museums new Robert Soros Senior Curator. Additionally, Aram Moshayedi, who has been with museum since 2013, will serve as the museums Interim Chief Curator, following the recent announcement that current Chief Curator Connie Butler will become the Director of MoMA PS1 this fall. Takahatake is currently Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, where she has overseen and expanded their extensive holdings of works on paper from the 15th to the 21st centuries. She has held previous positions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. ... More

Jack Hanley Project Space opens an exhibition of works by Sofia Sinibaldi
NEW YORK, NY.- Sofi recently moved to the East Village where she shares an apartment with a man and a cat. She goes out every day on random walks with her camera and a scanner. The devices are small and discreet, although Sofi has no reason to be. She likes to confuse her mind with too many signals, sensing that some of them will be addressed to her. Yesterday, she read a text on a vitrine that said: Youre so in your head and thought it could make a good title. She recently learned how to print her picture collection on tissue wrapping paper. Covered with skillfully mixed chemicals, she turns those unorthodox negatives into coated draperies she nails to the walls of her studio like dried skins. They could be pictures of a brain struggling with a blurred thought, a memory about to be remembered, the hazy feeling of dÃ©jÃ -vu, drunk synapses. ... More

Duo exhibition by Daniel NÃºÃ±ez and Jason Pulgarin addresses artist struggles through paintings and sculptures
GR gallery reveals Gatekeeper, a distinctive duo exhibition of new works by Daniel NÃºÃ±ez and Jason Pulgarin. For their first show together, after previous individual presentations with the gallery, they have engaged in a close dialogue inspired by the complexity, the hypocrisy and the aberrations of the contemporary art world, and market in particular, ruled by an elusive protector. A specific focus is directed towards the struggle of the artist in finding inspiration, overcoming doubts, fighting against procrastination and nervousness and identifying a balance in between style and concept. The distinctive styles of NÃºÃ±ez and Pulgarin, which accidentally already shared few spontaneous hints inspired by a complementary background, ... More

Mumbai gets its first ever art fair: Art Mumbai will take place at the Mahalaxmi Race Course in November
MUMBAI.- Indias financial capital gears up to unveil its first art fair with Art Mumbai. Showcasing a vast and finely curated selection of modern and contemporary art from India and South Asia, Art Mumbai will take place from November 16 to 19 at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse Members Enclosure. With a strong line-up of galleries, and participation by foundations and prominent art institutions, Art Mumbai will blend the old world charms of its iconic location with original and innovative art in its many forms. With the presence of landmark galleries from Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata as well as eminent international galleries from USA and the Middle East, the Fair will present paintings as well as a special section for craft based art and antiquities from across the globe. While distinct styles and narratives will be on view, they will unite on a common platform ... More

Chapter NY presents Willa Nasatir & Stella Zhong starting today
NEW YORK, NY.- Chapter NY is now presenting Willa Nasatirs third solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring a new selection of paintings and photographs. Nasatirs practice investigates varied approaches to imaging. In both her paintings and photographs the artist transforms everyday objects to the point of the surreal, collecting and accumulating her subjects before distorting and abstracting their forms through various analog, drawing, and painting processes. Her work dislodges bodies and objects from ingrained associations and preexisting meaning, allowing them to merge into hybrid forms with porous edges. Fragmented compositions suggest both psychoanalytic and psychedelic perspectives, engaging Nasatirs own subconscious associations. Through abstracted form, she plays with dualities of meaning and proposes ... More

Berry Campbell Gallery now opening 'Complexed Squares' featuring work by late-artist Yvonne Thomas
NEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell is now opening Complexed Squares, its third exhibition with Yvonne Thomas (1913-2009). With seventeen paintings from 1963 to 1976, Complexed Squares highlights a decisive phase in the French-born painters career, as she moved beyond Abstract Expressionism to develop a distinctive personal style that resonated with artistic currents of the 60s. A regular on New Yorks art scene, Thomas was best known for her lyrical, gestural abstractions that followed the teachings of her professors and mentors, principally Robert Motherwell and Hans Hofmann. In Complexed Squares, we see her exploring a new painterly vocabularyusing systems to determine her series of repeating geometric forms, switching from oil to acrylic, deploying her intensive hues to stage playful optical illusions. When Berry Campbell exhibited the artists paintings from 1963-65 in 2019, New York Times cochief art critic R ... More

Angela Heisch's 'As above, so below' now on view at GRIMM, NY
NEW YORK, NY.- Today, GRIMM is opening As above, so below, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Angela Heisch from. This is the artists second solo show at GRIMM and the first at the New York gallery. A catalogue with a new essay by Cassie Packard will be published on the occasion of this exhibition. Building upon interests in natural patterns and elemental forces, Angela Heischs recent abstractions encapsulate a celestial expansiveness and a harmonious order through the use of a luminous, baroque color palette with swift, fluid movement or, alternatively, a dense stillness. This is the largest exhibition of Heischs work to date, allowing the artist to work on a grander scale to explore motion and landscape in unprecedented fashion. Several new works on view employ an architectural language and hard-edged, mechanical style ... More

Terence Blanchard, pushing jazz forward from a new perch
NEW YORK, NY.- Two big announcements came down recently about trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard both monumental, neither one a surprise. In June, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Blanchard, 61, would receive a 2024 Jazz Masters fellowship, the highest lifetime-achievement honor available to a U.S.-based improviser. Then, a month later, as if a reminder that this lifetime still has a few major chapters ahead, the nonprofit organization and performance center SFJazz named Blanchard its executive artistic director. Hardly any other musician has so solid a grasp on the scope of whats going on in jazz today and no institution is as committed to reflecting, even goading, its growth. A six-time Grammy winner, Blanchard possesses one of the most commanding and slippery trumpet styles in jazz, and for almost ... More

Gary Wright, who had a '70s hit with 'Dream Weaver,' dies at 80
NEW YORK, NY.- Gary Wright, a spiritually minded singer-songwriter who helped modernize the sound of pop music with his pioneering use of synthesizers while crafting infectious and seemingly inescapable hits of the 1970s like Dream Weaver and Love Is Alive, died Monday at his home in Palos Verdes Estates, California. He was 80. The cause was complications of Parkinsons disease and Lewy body dementia, said his son Justin. The New Jersey-bred Wright rose to prominence in the late 1960s after relocating to London and helping to form the bluesy British progressive rock band Spooky Tooth. He soon befriended George Harrison, with whom he would collaborate frequently over the years, including playing keyboards on that former Beatles magnum opus triple album, All Things Must Pass, released in 1970. Their long ... More

Jessica Lange leads starry cast of new Paula Vogel play on Broadway
NEW YORK, NY.- Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger will return to Broadway in the spring to star in a new family drama by acclaimed playwright Paula Vogel. The show, called Mother Play, begins outside Washington in 1962 and is about a strong-willed mother raising two children as the family relocates. Lange, 74, will play the mother. She is a two-time Oscar winner (for Tootsie and Blue Sky) who won a Tony Award in 2016 for playing another difficult mother Mary Tyrone in a revival of Long Days Journey Into Night. Keenan-Bolger, 45, is a four-time Tony nominee who won the prize in 2019 for To Kill a Mockingbird; she will play the daughter. Parsons, 50, who last appeared on Broadway in a 2018 production of The Boys in the Band, will play the son. Vogel, who is considered one of the nations leading teachers of playwriting ... More