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Elizabeth Xi Bauer presents: It's all in your vivid imagination
LONDON.- Elizabeth Xi Bauer announces a survey of works by Cătălin Marius Petrișor Hereșanu, encompassing ten years of his artistic production. In this exhibition, seminal pieces are displayed with works from across the artists career, as well as newly created paintings, as a way of exploring the artists reinvention of style and practice. Cătălin Marius Petrișor Hereșanu is a multidisciplinary artist whose preference for the field of painting is evident in this show. Upon entering the gallery space, the viewer is faced with a wall containing twelve compositions dating from 2019 to the present. These are hung in an organic manner, establishing aesthetic affinities rather than telling a chronological story. Though the restlessness of his vivid imagination is felt through the variety of formats and motifs on display, a few common denominators can be noted, most prominently in terms of ... More

Richard Deacon presents sculptures and drawings from three groups of works at Thaddaeus Ropac
PARIS.- In his new exhibition in Paris, Richard Deacon presents sculptures and drawings from three groups of works, each characterised by the distinct use of a different material, spanning glazed ceramic, stainless steel and pencil on synthetic vellum. The artists work is invariably marked by his experiments with diverse materials and his deep-rooted interest in their specific consistencies and qualities. He remains faithful to the principles of craftsmanship that have driven his practice since the beginning of his career and constitute an integral part of his aesthetic. Deacon explains: The work in this show, which has several different materials, is all about colour, surface and shape. Among his most recent works are a group of sculptures in ceramic, a medium Deacon has been associated with for over 20 years. Marked by their shiny, ... More

Beverly Johnson, 'the Model With the Big Mouth'
NEW YORK, NY.- She was 18, new to New York, a tenderfoot in an industry said to eat its young. But Beverly Johnson was not short on brass. She had been quick in the early 1970s to sign with the formidable model agent Eileen Ford and just as swift, at 19, to inform her, I want to be on the cover of American Vogue. When Ford asked her curtly, Who do you think you are, Cleopatra?, Johnson was as curt with a comeback, murmuring, audibly enough, Thats exactly who I think I am. Johnson revisits that moment in In Vogue, her one-woman show set to open in Manhattan on Sunday. The play, largely derived from her 2015 memoir, Beverly Johnson: The Face That Changed It All, and written with playwright Josh Ravetch, is by turns an upbeat and cautionary account of her adventures and hairy misadventures in ... More

Leon Wildes, immigration lawyer who defended John Lennon, dies at 90
NEW YORK, NY.- Leon Wildes, a New York immigration lawyer who successfully fought the U.S. governments attempt to deport John Lennon, died Monday in Manhattan. He was 90. His death, at Lenox Hill Hospital, was confirmed by his son Michael. For more than three years, from early 1972 to the fall of 1975, Wildes doggedly battled the targeting by the Nixon administration and immigration officials of Lennon, a former Beatle, and his wife, Yoko Ono, marshaling a series of legal arguments that exposed both political chicanery and a hidden U.S. immigration policy. Uncovering secret records through the Freedom of Information Act, he showed that immigration officials, in practice, can exercise wide discretion in whom they choose to deport, a revelation that continues to resonate in immigration law. And he revealed that Lennon, ... More

The Art Institute of Chicago announces 2024 exhibition schedule
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced its exhibition schedule for the first half of 2024. This exciting lineup will spotlight works across mediumsfrom textiles to photography to paintingacross geographiesfrom iconic Chicago artists to emerging global namesand across time periodsfrom ancient practices to contemporary art. These presentations will culminate in a fresh take on artist Georgia OKeeffes lesser-known urban landscapes to kick off the summer. This presentation focuses on the explosion of innovative and technically ambitious compositions by Japanese women artists since 1970a body of work which they developed in parallel with, but often separately from, traditional, male-dominated Japanese practice and its countermovements. The Art Institute is the first U.S. museum showing the work of Hungarian sculptor ... More

Ronin Gallery presents 'Birds of Winter: Keinen Imao'
NEW YORK, NY.- This January, Ronin Gallery invites you to start the year with Keinen Imaos winter volume of Keinens Flower-and-Bird Painting Manual (1891-1892). Between plush pine needles and snow-covered plum boughs, this Meiji-period master of kacho-ga (bird-and-flower pictures) captures the quiet beauty of the season through its flora and fauna. Against the pale backdrop of the winter, Keinens compositions bristle with life as nimble feet curl around branches and delicate feathers rustle in myriad colors. Blending painterly lines and naturalistic representation, Keinens woodblock prints invite you to experience the life stirring beneath winters chill. Keinen Imao (1845-1923) was a preeminent artist of kacho-ga at the end of the 19th century. Born in Kyoto in 1845, Keinen began his artistic training in painting and calligraphy ... More

Peter Crombie, actor known for 'Seinfeld' appearances, dies at 71
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Crombie, the actor who was probably best known for playing the role of Crazy Joe Davola on five episodes of Seinfeld, died Wednesday in a health care facility in Palm Springs, California. He was 71. Crombie had been recovering from unspecified surgery, said his ex-wife, Nadine Kijner, who confirmed his death. In his role as Davola, Crombie played a temperamental character who stalks Jerry the hit television sitcoms semi-fictionalized version of comedian Jerry Seinfeld and develops a deep hatred of him. Tall and lanky, Crombies character had a flat, borderline menacing affect and an unblinking 1,000-yard stare. In the series, he also stalked the tough New Yorker character Elaine, in one case plastering a wall of his apartment with black-and-white surveillance photos of her. Aside from his part in Seinfeld, ... More

Over 100 works by Asian American artists acquired in 2023 to support the Asian American Art Initiative
STANFORD, CALIF.- The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announced the acquisition of over 100 works in 2023 by celebrated, underrecognized, and emerging Asian American artistsincluding Pacita Abad, Mel Chin, Ben Sakoguchi, Sasha Gordon, Hesoo Kwon, Kenneth Tam, Miljohn Ruperto, Stephanie Syjuco, and Benjamen Chinnin support of the Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI). As a long-term commitment and investment on the part of the Cantor Arts Center and Stanford University to presenting and acquiring art made by Asian American and diasporic Asian artists, the AAAI, with the help of community supporters, has invested great resources into collection-building. The recent addition of over 100 works establishes the Cantor as home to one of the largest and most significant collections of Asian American art ... More

Mendes Wood DM Paris presents 'Lamp black on sack cloth (love for fucksake)' by Michael Dean
PARIS.- Mendes Wood DM Paris is presenting a solo exhibition of new sculpture works by Michael Dean, Lamp black on sack cloth (love for fucksake). The show is the second to take place at the new Paris gallery, and marks a decade since Dean first started exhibiting at Mendes Wood DM. Michael Dean's sculptures are capable of transforming an exhibition space into a theater, into an action. They remind us of characters performing a scene. A group of works, which almost seem as if they are about to climb a set of stairs, shows how characters and language are central to his work. The sculptures in the room and on the walls interact with the space, forming a perfect triangle with the observer. The organic development of the alphabets trapped in concrete forms is further exalted in this exhibition. Dean's work always strikes a balance between ... More