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Art Basel reveals line-up of 285 of the world's leading galleries for its 2023 edition in Basel
BASEL.- For its 2023 edition in Basel, Art Basel will bring together 285 leading international galleries to present the highest quality artworks across all media from painting and sculpture to photography and digital works by artists ranging from early-twentieth-century Modern pioneers to contemporary practitioners. A strong line-up of galleries from across Europe will be joined by new and returning exhibitors from around the world. The 2023 edition of Art Basel in Basel will feature 21 first-time participants, including three galleries entering directly into the main Galleries sector of the show: blank projects from Cape Town, Empty Gallery from Hong Kong and Offer Waterman from London. 18 galleries will join the fair for the first time in the Feature and Statements sectors. First-time exhibitors in Feature: acb (Budapest) David Castillo (Miami) Thomas ... More

Forget about jazz hands, this Fosse show is about dancin'
NEW YORK, NY.- Karli Dinardo never imagined that, at 5 feet, 5 inches, she was tall enough to be a Bob Fosse dancer. Broadway veteran Dylis Croman was introduced to the Fosse style by Ann Reinking, one of his most influential dancers, when she was just 14 at a summer dance program in Florida; she thought, Where has this been all my life? Kolton Krouse, originally trained in ballet, left Juilliard before graduating to perform as Tumblebrutus in the revival of Cats. And Yeman Brown, who performed in Jagged Little Pill, has also danced with Reggie Wilson, a contemporary choreographer who has slyly referenced Fosse in his work for years. The cast of Bob Fosses Dancin isnt cookie cutter, and neither is Fosses choreography. Theres more to it than fishnet tights, bowler hats and thrusting hips. Fosses dance language subtle ... More

On Broadway, 'Bad Cinderella' is a rebel with a Brooklyn accent
NEW YORK, NY.- Linedy Genao vividly remembers the first time she saw herself represented on Broadway: In the first couple of lyrics, Usnavi says, Dominican Republic! I love it! Jesus, Im jealous of it and I almost jumped out of my seat in tears, Genao said of seeing In the Heights as a high school student in 2009. I was like: They said Dominican Republic on Broadway! I didnt know that was allowed! Fast forward 14 years, and Genao, 31, a Dominican American born in Brooklyn and raised in Hamden, Connecticut, is now in her first lead role on Broadway, starring in Andrew Lloyd Webbers Bad Cinderella, a contemporary musical adaptation of the classic fairy tale. I just hope to pave the way for so many other little Cinderellas who hopefully can see themselves represented onstage now, Genao, whose first name is pronounced ... More

The busy furniture hustlers of Silicon Valley
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brandi Susewitz touched the curved stitching on a pair of bright red Arne Jacobsen Egg Chairs and announced they were worth around $5,000 each. The chairs were in pristine condition, perched in the reception area of the software company Sitecores office in downtown San Francisco. Trisha Murcia, Sitecores workplace manager, said she was most likely the only person who ever sat on them. Its really sad, she said. They opened this office in 2018 and then COVID happened. Murcia led Susewitz around Sitecores office, pointing out bar stools that had never been used, 90-inch flat screens, shiny conference room tables and accent chairs from the retailer Blu Dot. The whiteboard walls, outfitted with markers and erasers, were spotless. And rows upon rows of 30-by-60-inch height-adjustable Knoll desks ... More

Joshua Bell's London
LONDON.- The first time I came to London, I was 17, violinist Joshua Bell, now 54, told me. We were at dinner together following a recent performance of his at Wigmore Hall, a small but renowned concert hall. I came with my parents to make my first album, he continued. This was in the 80s, and I remember thinking there wasnt a lot of variety in food. Now, of course, its great. Bell estimates hes been to London around 70 times since then. So no, the virtuoso and onetime child prodigy doesnt live in London. But you could say hes a professional visitor. His London is one of exquisite taste, uncommonly good food and a handful of tiny places youd breeze right by if you didnt know they were there with, of course, a measure of music. Bell tends to favor lesser-known places, with one very notable exception: the Royal ... More

French documentary 'On the Adamant' wins top prize at Berlin Film Festival
BERLIN.- The top prize at this years Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Bear, was awarded to On the Adamant, a French documentary about a floating barge in central Paris that offers care to people with mental disorders. The immersive feature, filmed by documentarian Nicolas Philibert over several months, follows the patients of the facility as they create music and artwork that often reflect their personal stories. The festivals top award is rarely given to a documentary, and in his acceptance speech, a clearly surprised Philibert asked the jury members if they were crazy. He said that he had made the film in part to reverse the stigmatizing views many have of people with mental health issues, and that his film aimed to erase the distinction between patients and caregivers. What unites us is a feeling of common humanity, he said. ... More

Fashioning a future in the face of war
NEW YORK, NY.- It has been 12 months since Russia began a brutal invasion of Ukraine, forcing millions to flee the country and devastating the local economy, including the budding fashion scene in Ukraines capital of Kyiv. The war is the reason that Ukraine Fashion Week came to London this season, with three designers Ivan Frolov, Ksenia Schnaider and Julie Paskal presenting new fall collections Feb. 21, the final day of shows at London Fashion Week. All of Ukraines fashion brand founders have faced numerous difficulties: deciding whether to leave their country or stay behind while under near constant attack; keeping their businesses afloat from a new city; and creating beauty in the face of such uncertainty. Here, four Ukrainian fashion designers share their stories of Feb. 24, 2022, and the months that followed. For them, continuing ... More

Ricardo DarÃn: Argentina's lucky charm at the Oscars
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.- Fortune has long favored Ricardo DarÃn. More than the subjective concept of talent, it is providence, manifested as other peoples unwavering confidence in his abilities, that the actor credits for his storied career as Argentinas most celebrated film star internationally. Ive had all the luck that my parents didnt have as actors, he said in Spanish during a recent interview at the Sunset Tower Hotel. Many times people have valued me far more than I value myself, and I often think, Do I deserve all that? The latest example of his relationship with Lady Luck is his turn as real-life prosecutor Julio Strassera in Argentina, 1985, a historical courtroom drama about the Trial of the Juntas, when military leaders were tried for human rights violations during the former dictatorship. Directed by Santiago Mitre, it earned ... More

Meet Vincent van Gogh Experience travels to Argentina
AMSTERDAM.- Following the successful edition of the Meet Vincent van Gogh Experience in Santiago de Chile, the Van Gogh Museum's only official Experience next travels to Buenos Aires. From 24 February 2023, visitors to the Argentinian capital can immerse themselves in Vincent van Goghs life story and iconic works as they experience interactive installations and lifelike decor. The Van Gogh Museum's mission is to inspire a diverse audience with the work and life story of Van Gogh and his time, at the museum in Amsterdam and beyond. The Meet Vincent van Gogh Experience is a journey through Vincent's life in six chapters, based on the knowledge and expertise of the Van Gogh Museums curators and Education Department. After visiting Beijing, Barcelona, London, Lisbon, Madrid and Santiago de Chile, and having sold ... More

Tom Luddy, a behind-the-scenes force in cinema, dies at 79
NEW YORK, NY.- Tom Luddy, a quietly influential film archivist and movie producer who was also a founder of the idiosyncratic Telluride Film Festival, died Feb. 13 at his home in Berkeley, California. He was 79. The cause was complications of Parkinsons disease, said Julie Huntsinger, executive director of the Telluride festival, a half-century-old gathering of cinephiles held in a tiny former mining town in Colorado. A transplant from the East Coast, Luddy landed in Berkeley in the 1960s, just in time to join the radical political activity that was afoot there, notably the Free Speech Movement that dominated the University of California campus in 1964. He worked at the Berkeley Cinema Guild, a two-screen art house that had once been managed by film critic Pauline Kael, after which he ran the Telegraph Repertory Cinema, another art-house theater, and joined the Pacific Film ... More